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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (108055)	9/3/2005 1:11:52 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I have a little tiny book about cats with a poem from medieval times which is about an Irish monk and his cat. When I find the book again I will share it here. What I like about it is that it is about a thousand years old, and yet the poet obviously has the same relationship with his cat that we have now with ours. I think it is sad to think of a dog having a master, but I suspect that the way people and pets fill each other's hearts has not really changed that much through time, because it is an intuitive natural relationship for most people. In the Jeffers poem, of course, the dog and his person are friends. At the same time, I cannot imagine how dogs were used in western industrial societies as beasts of burden and living engines in mills and such, tethered on treadmills, until the middle of the 1800's. I don't know how many people are aware of this history, but that is what motivated the creation of the Humane Society in America, to stop that cruelty. Of course, children were used in much the same way. Life was very hard for most. I wonder if the luxury of comparative wealth, education and financial security is what allowed people to love their pets more in the way that we do today.