Another brilliant human idea. I just read about a device that you attach to a dog’s tail – to
see how he is feeling. I kid you
not. It’s an emotion detector. You attach it to your dog’s tail and you will
be able to follow a plot on a graph on your mobile device that tells you how
your dog is feeling at any point in time.
Reportedly, when we dogs wag our tails to
the left, we are feeling scared or anxious or angry, and when we wag to the
right, we are feeling happy or excited or content. I’m not sure what it means when we wag back
and forth…
The device is supposed to come out next
year – assuming the company can raise lots of funds for the production.
Now the idea of GPS tracking devices I can
see – particularly given my recent disappearing act during that off-leash
run. I might add, that I have NOT been
off leash since then. So if one wanted
to spend money on dog technology, I can see the benefits of a tracking
device. But an emotion monitor?! Really?
Look at my tail. Look at my
ears. Do I LOOK happy? And if you really want to know how I’m
feeling when you’re not there – get a video camera, with a feed to your
smartphone. My human knows that if she
were to talk to us remotely, we probably wouldn’t listen after the first
time. We’re intelligent beings – we’ll
KNOW you are not there. Heck, we don’t
even listen when we’re doing something bad and you’re IN the room!
So good luck with the tail monitor. I wonder if it will show up in Xrays when
another dog eats it?
© Linda Wozniak
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