The historic “soccer is soccer” that Rajoy branded himself in his little articles in The Debate for the World Cup now comes to relieve another heartfelt phrase no less lapidary. This: “A dog is a dog.”
I will try to explain myself. Imagine that it is Wednesday, ten in the morning, Barcelona. A lady in her fifties comes out of a doorway pushing a kind of stroller with a poodle inside it. The dog is tied. He’s not sick or anything. He has perfectly healthy front and hind limbs, something this journalist verifies after following their trail for a couple of streets. At one point, the woman unties the poodle, takes it by the torso and, after kissing it on the nose, she leaves it on the ground so that the animal can pee on the banana tree. The return to the stroller is carried out quickly, with the same ritual, without time for the dog to get its paws dirty.
Animalism (outrageous) urbanite.
You have to feel a lot of disdain for the poor mutt to take him out for a walk like that. It is not that I say so, I have already mourned the death of three dogs in my life. It is what experts in animal psychology say (there are some), who warn that this type of behavior harms the development of the little beasties. We could laugh at the situation of the woman with the cart if it weren’t for the fact that she is pitiful. What will be next to the stroller? A birthday party, complete with cake?
It is one thing to respect a dog and quite another to attribute human traits to it to the point of confusing it with a baby. Which leads me to write that, to do what some of my kin practice on Earth with animals, it would have been better for the planet to have stopped the evolution of species.
Things like this are not very impressive. We were warned: in Spain there are already more dogs than children. The era of the dogs. A dog does not take away your sleep, it does not rebel in adolescence, it does not drink or entrench itself at home until it is 35. Noble, loyal, affectionate, tender, kind. Dogs are usually better than many people, so we are obliged to treat them as they deserve, not to mistreat them as what they are not.
A dog is a dog.
