I have to admit that this essay was very enjoyable to read. It kept my attention throughout the whole story and the encounters Cesar goes through were very interesting. It's had to imagine that someone who understood dogs so well, couldn't even understand his own wife. Cesar fully understood how to have a healthy relationship with dogs, through "exercise, discipline, and affection", but was blind when it came to having a healthy relationship with his wife. Cesar also talks about how presence is everything when trying to train a dog.
Posture, tone, attitude are all parts of making your presence know to the canine. However, can't these same concepts be applied to human-human relations? When someone is in a bad mood, you can see it in their body language and hear it in the tone of their voice. Not only do our words have meanings, but our actions and body language do too.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
This essay was also very easy for me to read. I found it very interesting how he could make even the most dangerous dogs nice. I found it very weird how he never noticed that those same things could be applied to humans. I agree that you can tell things about a human by body language too.
ReplyDeleteThis article definitely kept me interested the whole way through. It was such a relief to read considering that this was our first assignment after we had to read Shelley Jackson's article. I also thought it was interesting about how he was so capable of communicating with dogs, yet he had such a hard time with his wife. I think mostly it was because he was so obsessed with helping the dogs that he forgot who is more important in his life. Also, his views on marriage were explained as basically his wife serving him and those ideals are most likely going to make any marriage have issues.
ReplyDeleteAs for his use of presence, I think that he is incredible for being able to understand the dogs so well and how they read us and our actions. But he can not use those actions towards his wife because he is merely training he dogs, he can't train his wife. I think that those three ideals that he mentioned are the keys to fixing his marriage. There has to be authority and compassion but to a level where they can both get along and have an understanding of each others needs. I think that Cesar must leave the dogs alone for a while and worry more about his marriage than anything else.