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Talk to animals like they're not inferior dipshits and you find out how much you've been making them into them.
If you treat animals as though they have agency and intelligence, they really do learn a lot and have unique personalities.
100%. My old dog got to go on special night time walks with me, without a leash. It started with just hanging out on the front porch, where she proved she wouldn't chase anything or anyone. Then we moved onto walking around the front yard, with her continuing to follow directions and return to me whenever I called her back.
Eventually it turned into full-on walks where she had learned to stop still in her tracks whenever headlights appeared down the road. As a result, she got to enjoy really sniffing out the bushes and posts around the neighborhood without any pressure to hurry along. I know it meant a lot to her. Whenever we returned home, she would give me so many kisses and snuggles, as if to say, "Thank you, dear friend."
I got a bunch of hens. A few of them like to break out of their enclosed space and wander around the yard. Normally, I'm not too upset with it, but we are trying to grow grass and get the garden started, and they don't really help with either.
But when I see them out the window, I call them out by name and they start walking back towards their enclosure and wait for me to open the gate.
I refuse to believe my chickens have that level of awareness
We have about 35 hens on our farm. Some of them are far more intelligent than others.
There's also a reason we free-roam our birds. They have cultivated a network with the our two pigs and the resident crows. The chickens will find a spot that might have bugs or something. They will make a fuss and the pigs will come over and dig it up. Then the chickens will pick away at what gets dug up. Then the crows come in after for what's left.
In return, the crows watch over the chickens in the early mornings and will make a ruckus if there's a threat nearby, which sends the chickens back into the coop. We will throw out dog kibble for the crows or buy old pumpkins/squash from our local market and toss it outside at 5am for the crows to have their own snack.
All this started because our chickens could manipulate the pigs to come dig up a particular spot they wanted dug up.
They are fascinating if you just get stoned and watch them for a while. Like watching a telenovela about dinosaurs and not understanding a word of Spanish. They're all so expressive that you really don't need to know the dialogue, you can just figure it out. They've all got personalities and attitudes and a whole social structure.
Friend of mine always said he liked "watching chicken TV". He retired and #1 was looking forward to doing that all day + scotch.
We have chickens. "Chicken TV" is a real thing. We'll just hand on the deck and watch the chickens just "chicken" and they're fascinating to watch.
I love just chilling and watching chickens do their thing. They are a combination of toddlers and dinosaurs lol.
Yours don't
So true