Why loving a dog is sometimes safer than loving your partner?

BarcelonaThe program called Beastly date which now broadcasts on TV3 every Wednesday explains more than just the need for abandoned dogs to be adopted by people who want one. Visitors to the corresponding establishments do a great favor to the animals themselves and, in the process, to the animal shelters. The program goes beyond what, years ago, Pol Izquierdo had directed, which was called Beasts, which showcased the care that dog lovers have for these animals—surely the most perfect creation of all those featured in Genesis, even though it doesn't expressly speak to them.

In this current program, families, women and men, visit a shelter, "get acquainted" with two or three dogs, and, after a few days or weeks, they decide on the dog that suits them best or that best matches the characteristics of the adopters. But there's something new: we see that the human protagonists pour a degree of affection, even love, into the animals, which is reciprocated by the dogs in a way not always found in loving relationships between humans. Of course, although dogs understand—they say—up to 200 messages, they are not capable of responding to their owners' questions or declarations of love with the same language that we humans possess.

Thus we come to the end of the argument: communication between "human beings" is not as effective as it seems. Many couples, of whatever type, establish a cohabitation without possessing the capacity for thorough reasoning, that is, for reasoning; and for this (lack of) reason, couples fall apart as easily as they were made. It's like saying that humanity seems to have given up on an eloquent love, based more on language or dialogue than on sensations or pleasure.

Given, in many cases, the uselessness of language in human relationships, it's not surprising that more and more people want to have a dog at home: they have a noble, invariable behavior; they know the sophrosyne Greek women better than men; and they respond to our love with an enduring, solid, unwavering fidelity, virtues rarely found in us. They don't speak, it's true. But since it seems that language now only serves to create misunderstandings and disputes between speaking beings, many people have decided that, since words no longer provide the service they could, it's better to have a secure love in life, even if it's silent and on all fours.