While a dog calls a man 'monkey', is it wrong to call that dog 'a dog'?
It is not to insult the dog when a man responds loudly to its barking near his compound gate in the early mornings of the cold January. When a man takes his well-disciplined dog by its leash for a walk, the other stray dogs bark awkwardly at the master’s slave lest he may intrude into their territory and steal the biscuits and bread crumbs a stranger throws at them. However, the pleasant sleep of the residents in the quiet, crimson dawn gets disturbed by the obnoxious growls of the stray dogs. The city corporation hardly takes any measures to eradicate the dog menace. Nor do the animal rights activists. This is the civic scene of everyday life on the streets of Coimbatore.
It is the dog’s freedom to bark at its tribe and humans have no right to interfere in the dog’s matter. But in a street, where an unruly dog keeps barking every day and sometimes trespasses into someone’s home, the landlord or the tenant has no other option but to ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’. The dog feeds on the leftover food given at home. But it displays an excess of power and demands its master even to rename the house. It began to bark at the family members and was driven out one day.
Though dogs of different breeds join together and work on new strategies to intrude into their dream home, they are unable to do so, for a wise, old man plucked the hair from his grey beard, sewed them together, and set up an electric fence around the home to keep them at bay. The old man proved that his hair, like a copper wire, could transform electric current. Still, the dogs dream to deactivate the power and enter the peaceful land by any means.
The dogs created four divisions of the breed. A dog that was designated to write laws to divide the breeds, provided them with rights and privileges based on their birth. Later on, an eminent researcher who wanted to protect his people from dogs, discovered that there had been just three divisions once, and not four.
Of the three, the members of the second division, the ruling class, had an age-long feud with the dogs that wore a belt about their necks. Since the belt was believed to be a symbol of nobility, members of the second division coveted it and claimed a right to wear it around their necks too. As a result, the diplomatic dogs atop created a fourth division and placed the ruling class in it, and made them serve the above three divisions.
This system originated in the land of dogs and not in the land of humans.
It is the dog’s freedom to bark at its tribe and humans have no right to interfere in the dog’s matter. But in a street, where an unruly dog keeps barking every day and sometimes trespasses into someone’s home, the landlord or the tenant has no other option but to ‘spare the rod and spoil the child’. The dog feeds on the leftover food given at home. But it displays an excess of power and demands its master even to rename the house. It began to bark at the family members and was driven out one day.
Though dogs of different breeds join together and work on new strategies to intrude into their dream home, they are unable to do so, for a wise, old man plucked the hair from his grey beard, sewed them together, and set up an electric fence around the home to keep them at bay. The old man proved that his hair, like a copper wire, could transform electric current. Still, the dogs dream to deactivate the power and enter the peaceful land by any means.
The dogs created four divisions of the breed. A dog that was designated to write laws to divide the breeds, provided them with rights and privileges based on their birth. Later on, an eminent researcher who wanted to protect his people from dogs, discovered that there had been just three divisions once, and not four.
Of the three, the members of the second division, the ruling class, had an age-long feud with the dogs that wore a belt about their necks. Since the belt was believed to be a symbol of nobility, members of the second division coveted it and claimed a right to wear it around their necks too. As a result, the diplomatic dogs atop created a fourth division and placed the ruling class in it, and made them serve the above three divisions.
This system originated in the land of dogs and not in the land of humans.