Kenya and Olive were outside playing and then Kenya began that high pitched insistent barking that means "I need in NOW". When I got to the door, Kenya threw herself at Olive giving her that bossy "Don't do that" snarly bark and then immediately left Olive alone and raced back to a freshly dug hole in the dirt and gravel and looked from me to Olive and back again. And just in case I didn't get the message, she pawed at the hole a couple of times and ran back to Olive giving her hell again.
She is a very smart dog, my Kenya, and I am glad she is using her words better than she used to.
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It's one thing for dogs to "talk" but they need their human friends to understand what they are saying, like you obviously do.
We were at our framer Debbie's in the outskirts of country Greely last Tuesday and their dog barked (to us just a bark) but to Debbie it was "come quick, something is amiss"
-- and sure enough there was a man in his car down in their front culvert. He had driven off the narrow road, having blacked out for a second, we later learned.
She ran to him expecting she might have to give CPR but didn't. She got on 911 and within 5 minutes there were 9 emergency services. Who knows how long the man would have sat there without Artie raising the call...
The longer we live with our animals, the better we understand them ... but I think that animals improve their communicative skills by living with people, particularly if the people talk to them rather than simply barking out one or two word orders to them.
At Debbie's yesterday, we were on the porch drinking tea when I heard her dog Arty bark twice, then sort of wimper. He's kept on a very long wire/chain at the side of the house. I said, "His chain is caught, isn't it? He can't come and visit us."
I went to investigate and sure enough, it was wound around the water barrel. Am I a dog listener now?
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