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In an effort to assist readers in fully grasping the implications of the above article, and also understand the underlying facts which completely discredit the alleged research that supports it, I will take a moment to disclose a few of the basic behavioral parameters of dogs.

First of all, dogs are pack animals, which means that they must learn a hierarchy of behavior. This requires that they become increasingly adept at communicating with body language...for a great many reasons, from socialization to sanctuary. Furthermore, dogs experience the world with their mouth, and thus possess a "nose" for the corporeal that humans may never fully understand.

A dog can "see" a human pupil dialate from more than 20 yards. The senses of a dog can "smell" a cancer growing in the human body. The true implications of these facts are such that the inherent behavior of a dog is typically beyond the scope of average human acknowledgment and perception.

Certainly humans can study dogs in varying levels of cognizance and along varying degrees of aptitude, however, even in the current atmosphere of advanced technology the human species is inherently ignorant to the basic "world" of the dog.

The best thing people can do, both for themselves and all of the wonderfully amazing, veritable "four legged gods" that often accompany them along their journey through space, is to respect and honor them by learning to speak their language, and quit abusing them by forcing them to live under a human existence which is both foreign and brutal to their auspicous senses.

Stop pretending that dogs exist at the pleasure of man, and understand that it may be quite the opposite...