11/27/2025
Just one generation ago, if a dog growled while eating, people said,
“Hey! Don’t bother him while he’s eating.”
And that was it.
We respected the warning.
We understood the dog was simply communicating.
Today?
That same dog gets corrected, labeled, or, even worse…
euthanized.
Somewhere along the way, we stopped allowing dogs to say
“No.” We stopped giving them the space to express fear,
discomfort, or uncertainty.
We expect them to be perfectly happy, perfectly calm, and
perfectly tolerant 100% of the time.
But here’s the truth:
Dogs deserve the right to feel. They deserve the right to
communicate. And a growl is not an act of aggression, it’s a sentence. It’s information.
It’s a dog saying, “I’m not okay right now.”
We’ve lost all nuance. If a dog is anything other than silly, social, and sunshine-on four legs, we slap the label “AGGRESSIVE” on them.
People…please…listen to your dogs.
They are communicating with you in the only way they know how.
Honor that.
Learn from it.
And give them back the right to speak.
