By Nora Simone
The following article is posted here with permission of the author and Transliving International, the world’s leading magazine celebrating gender diversity.
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Nora,
First of all your pictures in your article are lovely , you make a very natural woman .
The first point to consider is we are the only being on the planet that openly exhibits transgender issues , I’ve never considered the reason why but it must be a complex question to understand .
Personally I can only relate to my three labradors over the last 35 years , my fist one called Bess would bark at me when she saw me dressed which I considered flattering as she didn’t recognise me . It never appeared to be a problem with my second one called Molly or my last one Lucy , as long as they had a good walk and were then fed they didn’t care much how I was dressed . I did find it useful to have a dog to walk as I used it to experiment with underdressing and waiting for a quite spot to remove male clothes to walk in a skirt and top , I did have some very amusing moments when I did get caught out .
I’ve never had a problem with dogs as I’m a dog lover , my weakness being black Labradors , no they can’t talk but they know how to put the message across .
It feels quite natural to talk to animals , they learn how to repond to us whether we are being kind or cruel , knowing who or what to trust is all about survival to them . We mustn’t forget in our eveolution we couldn’t express ourselves in words so we had to rely on the same animal instincts . I never cease to marvel at the way in which humans can communicate , we take so much for granted in our modern World .
We can Communicate with annimals in many ways, talking, singing and cuddling are a few. Annimals are curious wich is an invitation to comunicate further. I have had several dogs in my life experience and all were friendly and loving, however one experience I found unique was with a herd of Black Anjus cows/steers. For a few years I lived adjacent to a “fatting pasture” of the neigborning farm. It was a new herd of about 40 head every spring. i had a horse pasture adjacent to the cattle field. Often I would out to commune with the three horses who after a while would wander off the find a juicier spot of grass and I would walkover to the fence separating the two fields and stand there and start talking –Very soon the entire herd would migrate to where I was standing and start joslting among themselves to get close to where I was carrying on a conversation with the 3-4 that were in the front. Very quickly one of the back of the herd would nuzzel – shoulder his/her way to the fence and emain there as long as I continued my two-way dialogue. Once I had stopped chatting and began to walk away, something like a “Moo” could be head as they slowly turned away from me. the fence and began munching the grass/hay. It was aways a pleasant experience. I have done the same with birds and squerriles and I can tell they listen with a cock of heir heads. TRY it some time. Marie Anne.
That is a wonderful article and so true. I’ve been fortunate growing up around animals most my life. When I was a small child we had a horse that I had been abused by someone when it was young. When it got loose, my father or brothers could never even get close to it but it had no problem with my mother approaching it. And I have seen many times how sensitive animals are to the spirit and attitude of people around them.