My dog told me: “Us dogs just want to be trained into the perfect animal with love.”

Primo. (Yes, he’s a field spaniel, for those now gasping.)

My dog, Primo, died several years ago, but he’s been in my spirit company on and off ever since then. He appears in my dreams and sleeps in my bed sometimes as a ghost. This morning, he was in his semi-human form and told us that dogs don’t want to be thought to have been born perfect; they want to be trained and molded into perfection by their human owner with love.

I objected. “But you were born perfect.” I exaggerated a little. He was a beautiful dog, but could be prettier. I wondered. “But there’s this thing; there are things we can’t do; you need to be born perfect in physical ways; we can train your behavior and manners, but you’ll need to build us a perfect body to work with.” Then I gave him instructions on what was “perfection” in his breed.

If you want to breed dogs…

I haven’t tested this but hey, it won’t hurt: You have to aim for several years worth of litters. It’s a lifetime job, right? You have to tell each of your favorite dogs before they pass, what they can improve on in the next litter.

Don’t tell them too soon, especially in breeds that are very eager to please, because they may throw out their current body just to get you a better one; they might die too young just to please you. HOWEVER, if your favorite dog is currently across the rainbow bridge, and you have a little psychic in you, you could tell them the perfect breed definition (by your individual preferences, too) and when and where to be reborn. Pick the breeder, and perhaps the sire or the bitch, depending on your preferences, and tell your favorite dog: “that litter.”

To be honest, you may not need the perfect breeding stock to breed perfect dogs if your vision is strong enough and you give your puppies a clear enough image of what you expect. I believe we pick our favorite genes out of the available options in vitro, and a clear visual of what you want to look like is of the essence.

Training dogs

If you are a perfectionist and love dogs for their beauty in addition to their nature, you cannot go shopping for ugly mutts. Leave them to people who love ugly mutts naturally. As lovers of physical beauty, you can train your dogs into hedonism if you want. The service dog type is for people who love obedient creatures. You choose your breed from the lazy and hedonistic (spaniels) to hard-working and eager to high performance from the breeds made for the job you want them for. We don’t all have the same energy levels, and someone like me for example paired with a border collie… Uh! Disaster waiting to happen!

But. You always need to know exactly what you want from your animal. Do you want them to chill and bring you a relaxed home atmosphere or do you want them to watch your house while you work? Do you want them to watch your children or your other animals? Do you want them to just obey and follow – and wait for orders?

Dogs are perfectionists, too.

the Timeless’s idea of perfectionism is different: we dictate for ourselves what we go for and then train ourselves to it. We absolutely loathe outside ideas of what we should be, because our own ideal is usually higher, involving moral, intellectual, spiritual, and artistic goals that the Modern doesn’t really appreciate any more than dogs do. Therefore, we also stop ourselves from pushing others into “an unnatural” direction, because we don’t want to interfere with their processes, and that may also include dogs.

However, dogs are pleasers, namely people pleasers. To them, perfection comes in the form of fitting into a pre-set achievable mould to perfection. (This should include a very specific instruction the construction of the physical body. And yes, you may have to let them die for perfection, too, as I mentioned before in the contrary, but don’t kill them.)

Your love is not enough, they also need your guidance as to what is the perfect creature they’re expected to be.

Idea.

Now, Gen Z, please make this happen: We need emotional service humans for upset dogs that need to wait for their owner outside grocery stores. Your shop needs a bell to call for the emotional service human when someone comes in with their dog. They’ll also need to watch the dog in case of dognapping which is a problem in some areas.

We need more places to take our beloved animals with us when we get out of the house. Cafes and restaurants for dog and cat people, and basically anything you can think of so that a well-behaved dog can come along their well-behaved human to wherever they NEED TO go.

While some dogs learn quite easily to stay home alone, there are breeds – and owners – who hate the separation. And this kind of stuff is Gen Z- kind of stuff to fix, isn’t it? Please make this world a better place for our doggies. 😀

Now, training the Modern must be done the same way.

the Modern are quite literally reincarnated dogs. When you treat them accordingly, you can get the most out of them, but you’ll have to be just as certain and clear of what you expect of them that you give them no wiggle room for inventing ways to test you and your patience.

“Don’t let your children do anything that would make you dislike them.” Said Jordan Peterson once, and I agree it’s a great rule for raising and training the Modern. However, a Timeless would ask: “Is that how little you are capable of as a parent? What, indeed, makes you think your approval of them is the most important thing for your child, when there are so many cooler people than you in this world?” That’s beside the point, but indeed, with the Modern, the trick is to never let them do anything that would make you dislike them.

Ironically, however, a Timeless typically hates nothing more than a human-conformist… Except people who do crazy shit just to not conform. Which is why I suggest you don’t make friends with imperfect people. We love our dogs, but when the same creature is born in a human form, we will find them too submissive and boring… Or infuriating and troublesome – not worth their shit, in a manner of speaking.

Mind you: you can only despise a Timeless by loving him or her in this way.

the Modern try to love their Baseline Hating loved ones the same way as you’re supposed to love a dog. This, however, shows to a Timeless nothing more than that you feel superior to them and that you have no respect for their true character. You don’t trust their judgment, nor share their life values or goals. Therefore, the only thing you can prove to a Timeless in this way is that you disapprove of them for the way they are; and the way a Timeless is, IS the way they are always going to be and try to find the freedom to be, they’re like a balloon: you can push them into a shape temporarily, but if you apply too much pressure they burst – or they slip your grasp and disappear from you forever. They are best held with a light hold to the string, and allow them to flutter in the wind as they must. Anything else is somewhat misuse of a Timeless.

And yes, the Modern find this boring, just as boring as a Timeless considers a person they can mould into anything they like. (Where’s the surprise in that?)

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