DoggieStyle

What is a dog? Guys, have women ever told you that you were too much of a dog to settle down? Ladies, have guys ever referred to you as that bitch who cheated on them? Perhaps sometimes you weren't even the subject of these derogatory comments. Perhaps you may have only been an innocent by stander when you heard these statements being made by a friend, a relative, or a co-worker. Or maybe the person you most recently heard say these things was you. Have you ever really wondered what in fact calling someone a dog really means? Well, let's define a few terms. If you're one of those people who think that a dog is one of any large group of domesticated, four-legged animals that people choose as pets, you're wrong. Somebody must have slipped you the wrong dictionary. Everybody knows that a dog is a disparaging word used in reference to the opposite sex whenever they are found guilty of committing one love crime or another. For our purposes, the word dog is defined as that part, or that element within all of us totally motivated by the gratification of our own selfish desires. It habitually goes into effect without any moral or ethical considerations towards the feelings of others. The "dog" represents that part of us that only concerns itself with satisfying our basic physical, sensual, or sexual appetites. It usually asserts itself separately from intellectual or spiritual influence. It's the animal influence in every human being, male or female. Psychiatrists call it the ID. The Bible calls it the manifestation of the fallen state of all humanity apart from God because of the sin committed in the Garden of Eden. In other words, it is human nature running wild when it has broken free from the nature of the Divine. However, if you find these definitions too deep or long-winded, you can always call it exactly what it is --- Pure Animal Instinct. Or, as George Clinton used to call it in the Eighties." It's Just The Dog In You!"

Beware of Dog

Accept it. The reality of The Dog is all around us. But just like AA or any other twelve step program, our first steps to taming the Dog in us all is to first admit we have a problem. Although the hope of living in a world where people choose to be servants to their ideals rather then slaves to their desires is what gives us sweet dreams at night, the reality of how people seek to inconsiderately force their will upon us is the nightmare we live most often. We all have this in common. No one is exempt from the impulse that makes us strive for the things we want with an aggression that has no regard for the feelings of others. The Dog in you can be your best friend sometimes, or it can turn on you and bite you like your worst enemy. The trick to taming your Dog is knowing when to leash it and unleash it. There are times in life when letting the Dog out is good and proper. Those times occur when you need that extra amount of assertiveness that it takes to find and keep a mate. But, there are also times that letting the Dog out is tantamount to self-sabotage. These times occur when you have already found someone with whom you can build a lasting relationship, but you feel strangely dissatisfied. The Dog in you becomes restless. Your eyes start roving. You miss the challenge that was so much a part of your courtship dance. So rather than putting your energies and creative juices into keeping your relationship fresh, you choose the opposite path. Instead, you recklessly throw away your mental, physical, and emotional involvement with your special person like a dog discards his old chew-toy. You get rid of who you've got to go hunt for someone new. Does this behavior sound familiar? If you're guilty of having done this to someone, congratulations! The Dog in you definitely got the best of you. You've been tricked into entering a vicious cycle of self-sabotage that is the main characteristic of being a Hunting Dog ( more on that in the next chapter). However, if someone has done this to you and you want to take steps to never let it happen again, hold on because help is on the way!

It's A Dog Eat Dog World

You've heard the saying that it's a dog eat dog world, but do you realize just how true a statement that really is? We live in a Dogmatic society. But before we can manage to learn the art of throwing and fetching equally, let's first expand the picture of the anatomy of a Dog. We do this by primarily recognizing the way in which the Dog in each of us manifests.

Doggietales: Stan, 28

Look, I'm sorry. I gotta have it! I've been with my girl Janice for almost three years now. I know she wants to get married, but hey, I ain't ready yet. I mean, I thought I was ready until I got this new job as a courier. On one of my routes everyday I deliver to this office just full of women. Whenever I bring them their packages, they all line up to flirt with me. It's not anything that I encourage. I guess they can't help it. I may be getting a little older but I keep in shape. I hit the gym five days a week. So I can't really blame them, you know. Whenever one of them compliments me on how good I look, or how muscular my legs are in the uniform that I wear, I take it as an invitation. Even if they're bluffing I feel like I've got to call them on it. I'm a man, you know. If they're with it just for the sex of it, then I'm down with it too! I mean, I love Janice and all, but I gots to get mine! I keep telling her I will marry her someday, but right now it's all about me. I'm having fun. What she doesn't know won't hurt her.

Stan is the classic, almost quintessential, dog that we hear so much about from the ladies that are involved with men like him. For Stan, a one on one relationship is much too boring. His massive ego can only be stroked by the hands of many different women, not just one. Nevertheless, the Doggietales don't just begin and end with Stan, or any other man for that matter. Doggietales are not gender specific. In all fairness, I must remind you that there is a name for female dogs, you know.