Animal Languages

Animal Languages! I believe! We've had a dee-oh-gee for a couple years now and it's been a wonderment. If you had asked me a few years back "do animals have anything resembling language?" I would've recited what I've read and heard from scientific types who operate in mostly literal worlds of measurement, which is 'no, animals don't have the ability to communicate complex or abstract ideas or feelings; therefore they do not have what humans call language.' At this point it's really tough to qualify what language is but I can tell you that when I come home or into a room and Lou is sitting in the sun he gives me a lazy 'what's up' nod, I'm positive.

If you watch enough of those animals clips on you tube you can also see a pattern emerge especially among mama and baby animals where it's obvious they are not only communicating but transferring authentic and relatively complicated feelings or thoughts. Just the other day Michelina taught a young pup how to get down some stairs and it worked despite the fact that the little fuzz ball couldn't even see beyond the horizon of the step she was on. It gives me courage and hope that this kind of conveyance between animals is not completely measurable in terms we can plot and chart to the millionth decimal, these are some of the natural connections that exist because they can.