Do you suggest we should have an intellectal conversation with the dogs to find out the very good reasons that make the bark ?!!!....i thought they bark because they are dogs...it's in their nature to bark.
thanks for the question maro.
Dogs bark for many reasons. For example, they bark because they are bored, they bark because another dog is barking, they bark because they feel threatened, they bark to warn the pack an intruder is nearby, they bark to scare off another animal, they bark at the birds - but I don't know why LOL, my dog even barked just tonight at a subway wrapper, but again I don't know why. lol.
Of course I cannot have an intellectual conversation with the dog, if it is the canine you speak of here, but I can observe why the dog is barking, can use my intellect in that fashion - and that's the point.
So for my examples above, I can provide the dog other forms of interesting things to do - to minimize its bored barking. I cannot effect someone's dog barking, unless I know the owner. I can ensure that the dog is not threatened by having a safe house and yard and that I spend time with the dog for it to feel comfortable in that place - to minimize it's feeling of being threatened. I can acknowledge that there is an intruder nearby and not react in the same fashion as the dog, hence revealing that being quiet is the appropriate response to an intruder - who will more likely be a guest. I can seek to make sure no other animals enter the yard, so that the dog need not bark at them. I haven't yet thought of a way to remove the birds, but nor do i want to! As for the subway wrapper, well that was just a laugh for a bit, and I put the wrapper in the bin.
But if you mean the mockers who are the barking dogs - well you'll have to use your intellect to question them on why they mock, rather than assume you know, for that assumption may itself be the reason why they mock.
So question them, with an open heart, seeking truth, don't be taken in by their mocking, find a reason for their mocking and address it, if you have the will... if not do as you say, and ignore them.
It's a challenge, to address the reasons for a mockers mocking, have no doubt of this. You will fail often, but occasionally you'll succeed. And when you fail, that may hurt yourself or indeed them because your faith, reasoning and open heart and gift of love is denied and rejected, but those times you succeed, ah well is this not the ultimate expression of humanity, to turn an enemy into a friend, a "barking dog" into a human.
And that term, barking dog for a human, it stands in your way to achieving a friendship with that person who mocks you, very rare are the people who would accept being considered a barking dog, and even rarer are those who will listen to someone who holds that view point of them. In truth when we think "they are a barking dog" this makes us a barking dog also.
As for me, I love dogs, of the 4 legged kind that is. They have a genuineness that some humans have lost, but no dog has ever not been genuine, they will never lie to you... and perhaps right there is a path to feeling the love for the metaphorical barking dog, that they speak their truth to you... and this is only what we can ask of each other, to speak the truth as we see it.
or so it seems to me.
