"Whoa!! A dog saved life of a drowning kid. What an extraordinary dog!!" These were my reactions while I watched the show on "Extraordinary Dogs" on National Geographic Channel.
A pleasant Sunday noon and I was browsing my television to watch something interesting. Unlike the weekdays, almost all the channels were devoted in showing movies; none of which caught my interest. Without giving any second thought I jumped to NGC. Sometimes Discovery Channel, NGC, Animal Planet...appear as a boon to the television sets. But what I saw held me rooted me to the place. A huge, furry dog dived in the lake to save the life of a drowning kid. Well, now I knew what I had to watch. I watched the show with intense curiosity and discovered about the dogs who helped a blind man in crossing a busy street, guarding homes as a part of a Security Service agency, dogs as mystery healers, helping police etc. Since earlier times, dogs were used as criminal investigators, but what they showed was truly commendable. The show also highlighted that how special breeds of dogs were trained in their very own special training centres. But, after the show was over, I found myself caught in between two different points of views.
First of the two pointed towards the mighty human brains and the skilled abilities of the man's most faithful pets, dogs. Dogs were first tamed by men during Neolithic age and since then, dogs served their masters. I recall an old proverb, "Necessity is the mother of invention." Of course, it is the man's unsatisfying quest to make his life more luxurious that made him a 'master'. He has always tried to find ways that would make things easier and simpler for him. I wondered about the brains where the idea sparked to train dogs in such useful ways. Training dogs to save the lives of people, using dogs as mystery healers, helping the needy was indeed a very distinguished idea and hence, I welcomed it. I was even more enthusiastic about the dogs who were brilliant learners. Also, they serve their masters well and their abilities gave them the award of 'most faithful pets'. But, at the same time, I winced at the thought, "Are they trained properly, given adequate diet and rest?" Well, we can't be sure of what goes behind the scenes. Anyways, show is a big hit.
Second thought was more dominant and was ironic to the first. I wondered about the dependent nature of the humans. Isn't it depressing that a poor animal was helping a blind man cross the road? Were the other men so busy that they couldn't help him? By training dogs to do so, we may be getting help but they are just the substitutes of other men. I remembered the time when a person felt honoured and blessed if he got a chance to serve the needy. It was considered as privilege. Now-a-days, we don't see this anymore. Moral ethics now find places in small corners of not many hearts. But, where have they all vanished? The answer is simple-money. The ethics lost their existence behind the currency notes.
Our present world is the place of cut-throat competition. Everybody is just running to make a life. Life of men is no more about family and other priorities, its just increasing the bank balance. Everybody demands for a better paid job so as to live life with leisure. Gone are those days, when family sat together to eat and share their joys and sorrows. It's not that people don't gather now-a-days. Even today, people gather but their gatherings happen in brightly lighted gardens or dim lighted discos, where people gather to show their status, not to share their joys or sorrows. Well, not everyone can be blamed for this scenario. Many of them are just the victims. This lifestyle was induced by few and in order to cope up with 'modern' world, it is followed by many. It has become a trend and it will continue for some unknown time. The world has indeed changed. But for now, I only wish that such a change shouldn't come when men would be so busy and engrossed in his own life to such a extent that dogs would be used to carry the dead to their graves!!!
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