You can learn or notice all kinds of things by watching pets, especially new ones.
Early in the summer, we brought my brother's corgi to live with my parents. The corgi couldn't do the stairs at my brother's house anymore.
The corgi had always lived in areas with numerous lawns. We stopped in New Mexico for the night. Corgi got out of the car and looked up at me like, "Where's the grass?". I pointed to a weed and told him that was his option. After looking at the weed, he looked up at me like, "You have GOT to be kidding!" He has since adjusted to Arizona and using a weed no longer bothers him. It had never occurred to me how our lack of vegetation might seem unusual.
There are some great authors who write from the perspective of an animal. C.A. Goody is one of these. Charlie and the Rodent Queen is a prime example of the world from animals views. In this book, you get to see a hamster from a cat's view and a cat from a hamster's view. You even get to see what is happening from the dog's view. Unfortunately, she is busy doing her own thing and doesn't even realize this discovery is happening. She is like most of us. How often do we miss what is going on around us because we are busy doing our own thing?
If you are up to a challenge, put yourself in the place of an animal and at least think about something from the animal's perspective.
I have found that this exercise has provided me insight to my world. It has also calmed me down when I was furious at a cat for doing something he shouldn't. "But, Mommy, I was just trying to help. You said your plants needed watered."
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