Dogs the City Over

an essay by Roger B Rueda

Dogs, for our body and psyche, are enjoyable, pleasant, or interesting: they fire up our happiness and peace of mind. But look about, anyplace, drifting dogs are out of their owners’ residences. Thus, their muck is everyplace, reeking on the corner! They're a terrible nuisance!

Having dogs at home has this reason to a lot of us, dogs, principally to persons who are living alone, give security. The barking of a dog helps to keep unwelcome visitors away and puts off the coming up of feelings of lonesomeness and seclusion.

Dogs replace the contact to other human beings, but people do not become out-of-the-way but rather remain fascinated and full of zip and thus also are ready to establish contact to other people and to stay in contact with them.

Most senior citizens I meet give a lot of details that their dogs give them the feeling of being useful, of being able to look after somebody, of not being alone and isolated; their dogs help them overlook themselves and their problems and live their free time in a meaningful and interesting way. All this urging is of immense value for their reaching the later stages of their lives.

Dogs, to these older people, help to fight against droopiness and lack of concern. Having their dogs beside, they start to get interested once more to a greater degree in events in their neighbourhood and in their surroundings.

But it seems only a few of Ilonggos really love their dogs—and only those elderly folks. A lot of Ilonggos principally those slum-grown never think about their dogs. Hence, dogs scatter about, famished and dirty.

I know dogs have great roles in everyone’s life, they help to get over sad events by representing for instance a living role model to a dead person or by becoming a new point for fondness, they foil or cut forgetfulness or panic by communicating the sense of time and by maintaining a pace of the day—but I presume adopting dogs in our cities must be given a parameter. Mutt or rare breed, our city government must compel people who want to own dogs an agreement paper and to be liable if something bad happens to their pets.

People should be oriented of many things they can have for having pet dogs. And not everyone can own a dog. So that it will not come to pass that this city has to euthanise our canine population sometime as it is growing radically over the years.

For my part, having our dogs at home I am pushed to physical bustle. Be it by playing with them, cultivating cleanliness, or going on a stroll with them—or when we have them nosh. My dogs keep me amused, make me laugh, recover my moral. So I hope we should love our dogs and let’s end all rough treatment that our dogs go through from our horrific hands.