Yes, you’ve all been to a museum and seen a painting of a Pointer showing it’s owner/handler the location of the prey so that it can be flushed out by the Retriever. I think that’s how hunting goes, but failed riflery at age 12.
This is actually about pointing. While preparing dinner I heard the audio and missed the video of a science show that was talking about pointing.
It said that children learn it early, dogs understand it but primates do not.
The key to this is that they say pointing is essential to teamwork, and we’re all about that. I point, you look at me, look at the direction to which I am pointing and voila, we just saw the bear or lion that’s come to kill us. Teamwork.
Think about it. Laser pointers, Kanban boards. It’s all about pointing. If I throw a ball for my dog and she’s busy meeting a new dog, I just point at it and she goes and gets it. For my old dog, she didn’t like balls at first so I had to start out by tossing her favorite stuffed animal. As she got older she knew every car in the neighborhood so when my sister visited she heard the diesel engine and had a basket full of stuffed animals and would go crazy finding the right one with which to greet her!
I adopted another flawed (had to take out her hips) dog for the past ten years and she loves chasing a ball but nothing like a tennis ball or stuffed animal can be left anywhere near her at home because she’ll tear it apart in seconds.
Primates cannot point? I find that unusual and must look it up further. I do get the teamwork philosophy. Write back and I’ll look at what you want me to….. Point taken, Dee
Cooking with Dee 