In 2020, my son acquired his long awaited first pet, a six-week-old puppy. He wanted to bring it over to our house. We were horrified. My husband figured if we ever wanted to see our son, we would have to let him bring the dog.
I don’t like dogs.
I am afraid of dogs.
I know nothing about dogs.
I awaited the arrival of this creature called “Mochi” with a tinge of excitement but mostly fear and horror.
When “she” arrived, she was cute enough, but what a fireball of energy!!! Jumping, running, wanting to play and bite. Everything was new and exciting. She was an exhausting furry whirlwind. I was fearing for my life!
Along with Mochi came two huge bags of dog “necessities” such as toys, blankets, food, a potty training bell, which I didn’t even know existed. It was just like when I had to lug my infant triplets over to someone’s house with all their paraphernalia. And when my youngest arrived on the scene we had to drag along her green plastic rocking horse, or let’s just say, we would not have had a pleasant time.
This dog was just like a baby, or even worse! More work than three babies at once! It required CONSTANT attention until luckily it took a BRIEF nap under my laundry basket, which momentarily confined it.
The puppy also needed to be trained. To go potty OUTSIDE (when she pressed the bell with her paw), to sit, stay, lie down and most importantly, not to bite! As I observed my son initiating the training process, I was struck by the simplicity of it. Do this, in other words obey, and you are rewarded. It didn’t take much thought. Just please the guy in charge and life is good.
Since it was 2020, it was during the scamdemic and I noticed training the dog was a lot like people in those days (and unfortunately some still in 2025). People behaved just like dogs! How many didn’t think at all and just obeyed? Do this or that and you will be rewarded. Hey you get to live!
Maybe.
It was pretty scary to watch humans give up their freedom, thoughts and opinions for “free stuff” or for a perceived reward. Living to please whoever they thought was in charge. Conditioned, just like a dog. (Remember good old Pavlov’s dogs? The basis for the theory of classical conditioning in psychology.)
Even with the dog we sometimes say the word “treat” to manipulate its behavior and don’t pan out with the treat. During the scam people were lied to and manipulated.
Apparently it was so much easier for most people to be told to “sit”. Just sit in your house and don’t leave. “Stay” 6 feet apart. “Lie down” all your freedoms and opinions. Then you might get a treat. Pathetic.
The dog also has a crate (aka “cage”) for times when it needs to chill, be punished or be confined when the humans leave so it doesn’t get into trouble. When you say “go home” to the dog, it knows to go inside there. It obeys, because after all that is what the owner wants. I have observed that dogs like it in the cage and feel safe and secure in there. Kind of like how people are told to swaddle their infants in a blanket for security.
This is not unlike people during the scamdemic. They willingly stayed in their cages, oops, homes, during the scam and felt secure there. Seeming to think death would pass them over because they were obedient.
Humans are lucky. We have the gift of knowledge, a brain and higher thought processes than an animal. Yet we so often waste this gift.
I watched in horror as most people just shut down their brains and lives during the scamdemic. No one had to comply with that insanity or lock themselves up. If no one had, things would have turned out quite differently.
Humans have choices and opportunities. A dog has no choice, he is basically a slave, at the mercy of his owner. During the scamdemic, people became slaves to the government and evil tyrants by their own choice or inaction.
We have FREEDOM. We should not take this for granted and preserve it at all costs, even unto death!
I observed a lot of people acquired dogs or other new pets during the scamdemic. (Perhaps they got so much government handout money they were able to afford it.) The people across the street got two dogs. My son later obtained a second dog as well.
This is how people entertained and pacified themselves instead of fighting for freedom? And since their kids were stuck home from school, a new pet was a great way to occupy them. Perks like this made staying home seem more desirable, covering up the tyranny and evil that it actually was.
I am glad my son has his dogs. He always wanted one as a child and loves them dearly and they bring him immeasurable joy. It teaches him how to take care of something and be responsible.
Now, five years later, the dogs have even stolen my heart, which I never thought possible. Life is full of surprises.
But dogs should remain dogs and people should act like free thinking humans, not obedient dogs, no matter what is going on in the world around us.
