Who does not remember a great dog known as a child. I remember. A dog who could do everything and say everything, we loved that track cycling, lying next to us, wait until we get home from school, who could protect us or leave us to believe and consider . This dog often recovered mutt, who is told that his troubles and we responded with a loud sigh with a look that spoke volumes, her head resting on our knees.

At that time, no one talked about relationship with a dog, no! They preferred to remember that dog out of the ordinary that we had the chance to meet this dog who only lacked speech, which included children.

But this dog, one does not really tried to educate, he did not know much, however, he followed, watched, waited, sat and rested along with his buddies children.

If the children called him, he arrived at full gallop without reservation, if the child asked to get in the car, even if he did not feel fear, he climbed anyway. The child did not scold him, he said: "Monte", squatted beside him, caressed him and kept repeating in a low voice: "Come, it's for your own good". Children are sure that the dogs understand when it is told with the heart, perhaps they are right, dogs are the heart of those they love.

Why this dog, whom no one could make do anything, rising when the child asked him? Perhaps because the child had given the dog to want to be with him.

The child loved the contact with the dog and the dog touch the child, and it was not uncommon for parents moved even allow this dog to sleep in the same room as the child and that even very famous dog smart to wait until the room light goes out and closes the door to jump on the bed.

He would not have crossed the minds of parents that such dog to attack or hurt their child. And he would not have crossed the mind of the child to do anything that can physically reach or émotionnement his dog, at most a little sulk because he was not there waiting when he came home from school because busy with a female neighbor.

Any child who has been marked by such a level of relationship with a dog in his childhood dream and tries to adulthood to find another dog with the same relational quality. Often, and without making too many generalizations, research this new dog is fixed on some visual memories: the same size, same color, or race or even the shelter where they had recovered the dog. A common point.

Unfortunately, it is much easier to approach in terms of visual morphological resemblance of the famous dog from childhood, have both art and how to build a strong relationship with a dog, without sounding like some children know so well done, it can not be improvised.

But what do children have that adults do not?

Children love the game play and have fun at what they do: throw the ball, kick a ball, laughing, rolling on the floor, running in the meadows, making huts, cycling, is walk, take a snack, have some company. And what a dog likes to do: walk, play, catch a ball, run, sniff, be in good company and share a snack.

The child and the dog share the same life skills.

This is what children and adults have lost. The taste of social relations.

So if the current relationship to speak of lack of education, when we remember, kids, we burst out laughing because our dog to sit when we said "Sit". Because at our level of child, it was already a circus and magical enough to open wide your eyes wide.

For those who have not had the chance to know this extraordinary dog ​​met in childhood, it does not matter, start now because there is no age to enjoy the same mistakes that his dog and to tell him his troubles.

Dogs understand when it's told from the heart. After all, the secret of a good relationship, is it not simply a spontaneous left with a very strong desire to share the same joys and the education of a dog history of relationship.

Catherine Collignon

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