Animals don't feel guilt.
Penni -- if you say that, you have never owned a dog.
All I had to do was to look at Leo in a certain way, and he would crawl off the couch, back curved, tail under, a woeful, pitiful look of abject penitence all over his dogface...
I have to confess we even used to tease him, from time to time. Someone would walk into the room, and say "Leo!" in an reproving tone, and he would crawl out, in that same abject posture, begging for mercy. Then someone else would walk in, and say "Leo!" in that same tone, and then a third person....By this time the poor dog would be in such a frenzy of forgiveness-seeking -- and asking himself, no doubt: "Now what have I done? Now what have I done?" -- that we would break down, and give him as many reassurance hugs as we could.
I know it was all a leftover from puppy-potty-training, but still! Animals feel no guilt? Sez who?
Joan |
