Don’t Whisper To My Dog
I’ve become concerned about the growing number of people who like to whisper to animals. It started with the horse whisperer and now the dog whisperer is all over TV. The recent arrest of a dog whisperer in Chicago has increased my concern. After some careful research(aka googling) I found that this problem is much larger than we (read as “normal people”) in society have realized. There are (and I’m not kidding) whisperers for: cats, ferrets, gerbils, hamsters, llamas, elephants, alligators, even bacteria. First of all, how do you whisper to bacteria?
But more importantly what are people finding in common with these animals? How can you find something to talk about, much less whisper about with something that can’t talk? Let me put it this way, if someone came to my house, knocked on my front door and said, “I’d like to whisper to your li’l doggy.” I’d tell him that he’s crazy and needs to leave. If he told me not to worry because he whispered to little doggies all the time I’d call the cops.
I’m a loud person by nature, I like to be loud and I like to yell, particularly at my dog! That’s what dogs are for, they teach you how thankful you are to have obedient children (whom I try to not yell at). Dogs’ don’t need to be whispered to, they can’t understand us anyway!
I don’t understand a lot of things about dogs, like why they lick themselves, or why they bark at the air, or why they chase cars. I understand my dog, she likes long evening walks, a nice casual dinner, to lay out in the sun, naps several times a day. All things I could probably put on her personal ad if I wasn’t afraid of the “Dog Whisperers.”
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