What makes us so "special"?

mantori.suzuki
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:56:49 +0000

Isn’t that cool! My dog, a cocker spaniel, understands, among many other things, any form of “get down”, meaning off the furniture. Sometimes just to irritate my wife, I will walk up to the dog as he is laying on the couch, and I will calmly say in a low voice, “Excuse me, but if you don’t mind, I’d like to use the couch for my own relaxation now. Would you be so kind as to get down so that I may be seated?” And he does! I try not to put any special emphasis on the word “down”, but he always gets it.