Dogs Understand People

          So many people have a little puppy or a perhaps a big dog as a pet, whether it stays in the house or outside. According to Dr. Juliane Kaminski, of the University of Portsmouth’s Department of Psychology in the article, 'Can dogs understand a human point of view?' "..it implies dogs understand the human can’t see them, meaning they might understand the human perspective.” Though it seems weird, I believe that dogs can somehow understand what we say and how we think. I have a little puppy who amazes me when he actually understands things I say like "go to bed" or "you need a bath." He reacts to those words like a human would and goes to bed or goes to the bathroom for his bath. Dogs are just incredibly smart animals. The article from Fox news states that, "Dogs were four times more likely to steal food from a dark room." This just shows how smart they are. They know that they are more likely to not get caught if they are in a dark room instead of a light one.

           Although our dogs do listen to what we say, they may not understand exactly what we're thinking, they may have just caught on to the words and learned what to do. According to Fox, "She understands the human perspective, but only because I gave her the words." Dogs catch on to what people say, which is really smart if you think about it. They get used to you saying those words over and over and eventually know what they mean and what you are asking them to do. The article also says, "We may wonder what’s going on in our dog’s brain, and you can sure as heck know they wonder what’s going on in ours." You know your dog has to think you're crazy because of some of the stuff you do. I always want to know what my dog is thinking, and I'm sure if he could talk, he would say the same about me.


Women need Recognition

 

 

             We live in a world today full of sports and athletics. When you have a life like mine, where your life revolves around sports, it gets kind of rough when every men’s sport gets more recognition than a woman’s. An article from CNN, ‘Women’s athletics a battle for respect,’ states, “Top player Tina Charles says there is an unfair attitude toward women's sports in the United States.” I agree with this statement, and it has become obvious throughout the years. When you turn on ESPN or any other sports network to watch a game, 9 times out of 10, it will be some sort of men’s sport on. The article also says, “Leslie says the women's league is growing, "but it would be nice to get more fans supporting the WNBA and more women supporting women in sports." Not only women, but kids and men need to support women in their sports as well. They just need more people supporting them to get them out there and known.

                Like I said before, men’s sports cover the TV channels, whether it’s college or professional. In the article Tina Charles says, “I don't think we get a lot of media coverage the way that I wish we could.” This is so true. Women’s athletics deserve just enough air-time as the men’s games do. Women work just as hard, if not harder at what they do than the men do. Charles also states, “...how hard we play, how competitive we are, just to show that there is another avenue for girls, another outlet for girls." Girls and women need to be recognized for what they do in the athletic world. A lot of people assume girls to be non-athletic and all into shopping and things like that. Although, there are millions of women athletes out there that want to show the world what they can do.