.. or possibly culture and dogs. The key word is culture – in the sense we use of a country's culture, the culture in a workplace or in a family. And it is the culture of a home where there is a dog that is interesting in this particular post.
I already have forgot, even though it's only been a couple of days, what I saw or read that made me think of that particular word culture and that I should start using it when it comes to dogs.
My thoughts too it is to have a word that fills out and broadens the word approach, precisely in the question of how to have (and obviously – relates to) dog. Attitude is one thing, culture is how you live out your approach. That's kind of the idea.
If anyone has missed it, my brain is quite theoretical and philosophical. Words are important – how to use them and perhaps more importantly, how to interpret the words of others. When I started this blog, it took me a while to find the language for what I wanted to convey. Now I seem to be in some kind of change again. Not when it comes to my opinions or how I myself relate to dogs, the culture I have here at home and so on. But just when it comes to how I express myself about it, something seems to be happening in my head.
One thing I like about the concept of culture is that there is always room for change. I have said many times that I am far from perfect, although I have very firm opinions. But within my own culture I can and want to take the freedom to develop, learn new things, find new ways to how I am with the dogs I have the privilege of spending time with. And that's just the thing how to be with dogs, which is somehow the dog culture, or the culture surrounding the relationships you have with dogs.
One of the reasons to the fact that I like the word culture in this context is precisely that of change. It's just that I don't buy any truth outright, regardless of context. For example, it would never occur to me to buy a religion as a whole, finished concept. I really don't buy politics without questioning. Not even research (no matter what) goes to my house without skepticism.
I belong to it group of people who pick pieces here and there and shape into my own truth, that works for me. And that is what the word culture means to me – amalgamation of ideas which then turn into development and change.
Unfortunately it does here that I can sometimes find it a little difficult to take the one who buys truths without thinking and questioning, seriously. I stand for that.
And speaking about what man (read; I) learning and how to develop – something I already knew, but had not put into practice when I brought Boyo home, was that two dogs of the same breed are never the same dog. Namely; Ella and Boyo are both shepherds, but so extremely different that it is not possible to treat them in the same way.
I have been forced think and learn a lot about Boyo and the other dogs I've spent time with since Ella left me. Which incidentally makes me realize, like this in retrospect, that the fodder host consultant who said that the Armed Forces' dogs are elite dogs, certainly was no exaggeration. And Ella needed a culture of a completely different kind than Boyo does.