A
dog is utterly sincere. It cannot pretend, it cannot act in any way
patronizing no matter how physically or emotionally incapacitated the
human participant is. The fact that people do not have to suspicious of
a dogs reactions to them is in itself an enormous measure of potential
mental health. You may question almost all or perhaps all of the people
in your life, but you do not question your dog. People use you and
pretend that they don't, while dogs use you in complete honesty because
they have no other choice. They have not an ounce of deceit in their
souls, or self consciousness about any of this.
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