Stay!

My daughter was telling our dog "Stay!" as she walked past me tonight. I jokingly said, "I'm staying, I swear I'm staying."

It occurred to me that my joke hints at the gulf between animals and people: Our dog is perfectly capable of getting the idea of "Stay!" but I have never heard of any animal that could grasp the concept of "promising to stay."

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  1. Anonymous8:33 AM

    Who knows. It's possible various animal species are as intelligent as we are, but have taken a vow silence and poverty or something.

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  2. Then how do you explain this, Charno?

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