Conversation with Dog

You are about to have an extraordinary experience. 

You are about to have a conversation with Dog. Yes, yes. I know… that’s not possible. You probably think (or have been thought) that’s not possible. One can talk to Dog, sure, but not with Dog. I mean, Dog is not going to talk back, right? 

At least not in the form of a regular, everyday kind of conversation!

That’s what I thought, too. Then this post happened to me. And I mean that literally.

This post was not written by me, it happened to me. And in your reading of it, it will happen to you, for we are all led to the truth for which we are ready.

In the spring of 2016 – it was around 15 February, as I recall – an extraordinary phenomenon occurred in my life. Dog began talking with you through me. Let me explain.

I was very unhappy during that period. It was almost deadline for taxes and I couldn’t figure out my medical deduction. Leaned over the keyboard, staring at the computer screen I almost spaced out, when I heard this voice behind me:

- Hey, you! Are you going to take me out, or what?

I turned around just to see Dog starring up at me. I thought it was only my overworked imagination playing tricks on me, so I turned back to the computer when the voice continued.

- Come on, you ungrateful human being, take me out and I’d let you pick up and carry my poop!

I turned to the Dog and asked in disbelief:

- Are you… talking to me?

- Yes of course! What do you think I’m talking to myself?

- But, dogs can’t really talk – I replied

- Of course, we can, we talk all the time… go ahead, ask me something.

- Sure, can you explain to me the unified theory of physics or how hydrogen cold fusion works? - I asked all excited.

- Nope!

- What about a cure for cancer or AIDS?

- Oh, come on man, what do you think, you are talking to God? I’m just a dog, what do I know?

I was really disappointed. All of my life I dreamed of talking to God. I dreamed of

finding out the answers to the most profound questions facing the human kind.

I dreamed of changing the course of history with my revelations, but talking to my dog?

What the hell do you ask a dog? Mmm… let me think.

- OK. I got one.

You know, when my wife and I are making love, why do you always have to come to the bed and stare at us? It is totally creepy and frankly, it ruins our mood each time.

- Because you guys are ab-so-lut-ely hilarious making love. Oh, oh, baby, who’s your daddy, oh, oh…

- And oh yeah, another thing! Why do you have to touch my butt?

Do you have any idea how wet and cold your nose is?

- Sorry man! It’s a dog thing. I can’t help it.

- And why are you talking with a Mexican accent?

- Well, I’m half Chihuahua, what do you expect a French poodle?

I thought to myself: OK, this is not happening to me. I am talking to Dog; maybe I should take a break after all. So I picked up the leash and said:

- OK, Dog lets go!

As we stepped into the cold refreshing air of the evening I found myself talking out loud.

- You know, I hope one day God will do the same thing and talk to me.

- No, he won’t. - Dog replied

- Why not?

- Because he can’t.

- Of course, he can. He is like, a million times more intelligent than you and I, and he can do whatever he wants.

- Oh really? Do you see that ant over there?

- Yeah, what about it?

- Well, you are about a million times more intelligent than it, why don’t you talk to it; maybe it can help you with your tax deductions. He, he, he…

- Well, I don’t think an ant can understand a human.

- Bingo! A human can’t understand God either. You see, to have a communication between two entities, you must first have a common ground of understanding, a common language. The least common the ground the more unlikely the communication would be.

You can understand when I am hungry, or scared or happy. I can understand about 1-2 hundred human words and a lot of your emotions and moods. You will have an even better communication with an animal closer to your level of intelligence but certainly, that communication would be worse if you would try to communicate with a more primitive form of life.

- I see… That explains a lot.

At that moment Dog saw a cat across the street and almost bolted out of its leash.

- The pussy man, the pussy! Let’s go get her, let me go!

- Hold it there, Rambo! You can’t go across the street.

- Why not, man? I’m a dog I’m supposed to chase the cats, don’t you know that?

- Yes, I know that but there is a truck coming and I don’t want you to get hurt.

- Oh, man, she’s gone now! What a waste… How would you like if your God would pull on your leash like that?

- Well actually, he does pull on my leash and yes, I don’t like it either.

- You mean you chase after pussy too?

- Well, I used to, before I got married.

- And God pulled your leash?

- Yep, but I was too stupid to understand.

- So what happened?

- Well, I got hit by the truck… a couple of times.

- That sounds really painful.

- Yep. It was, but that is what happens when you don’t understand why God is pulling your leash.

- Man, I’m glad you are keeping me on the leash. I wouldn’t like to be hit like that.

- No problem Dog. I do it because I love you.

- I love you too man!

- I knew that even before you started talking human. – I confessed

- And another thing, before we get back into the house. – I said.

- What?

- Can we, like, keep this conversation private and don’t tell anybody I’m actually talking to you?

- Arf, arf!

- That’s my Dog, good boy!