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Collar for children, dog cot

"In the last week, so strongly marked by pain and by the Japanese attempts to avoid a nuclear disaster, a smallest news, at first sight without consequences, also moved me. In an article published in the Folha de S. Paul Mariana Versolato describes the newest wave among mothers of small children: putting children on leashes

A guide to children contain more than one invention is neurotic imported from the United States. She begins to gain devotees in the streets, shopping malls, in airports. The argument to use it, typically American, is the guarantee of comfort and safety. The collar is placed around his neck. It is an object of repression disguised as a cute accessory and child. A child places a backpack in the back (some models come with a pet plush attached). A cord out of the bag that holds a mother to prevent the child deviates too. As the dogs fuses, children tied to the leash drag mothers.

have not seen this scene, but I can imagine how much it is bizarre. A boy running through the mall requires the mother to give bucking as she screams in vain: "Stop. Do not run. Not here. I said stop. " If the mother can not control the child without a leash because he should obey it just in time when the situation seems to chase cartoon? I imagine that the child could only say: " again. Faster. Again. " And the mother's face when the entire mall to comment on the shame? As they say the girls of 20 years, this is very shame others. " Mico total.

Shame is the least interested in this story. What is implicit in the decision to buy a leash? Parents want convenience to look at other things without worrying if the kids are around? It is a resource for those who can not set limits? "The leash is an ideal instrument for those who can not say what can and can not," says psychotherapist Maria Teresa Lago. If they had built the authority they need to have, enough that parents would say 'not run', 'be quiet', 'this is no place for it. " This authority is challenged by children all the time, but it's kind of struggle which can not give up. It depends the formation of a citizen who learns what is acceptable and what is not.

Hold the hand of the child would not be simpler, cheaper and natural? "It took the children by hand just by picking up," says Maria Teresa. "Doing this is an attempt to have them with us in an affectionate sense of the thing." Security that the hand of the father or mother gives us is an emotional heritage that should not be overlooked. Who had a father and mother playing its proper role probably will remember, decades later, the hand that led to the ice cream parlor on a Sunday afternoon and that helped to cross the busy street in a gray day.

As contact between parents and children is replaced by the collar, dogs occupy the space that until recently was unique to children. The attempt to humanize the animal is stimulated by the launch of products - if they were not so small - could be sold in stores for baby products. There cradle and stroller for the pet name of a child who wins. The owner calls it, without the slightest embarrassment, the little boy. "The dog is a dish made for those who need a guarantee in the relationship." Says Maria Teresa. "The guarantee is full of affection: when the owner comes home the dog will always jump on her lap."

I see no problem in love for animals. But who likes them should love them for who they are. Dog has to be loved like a dog. Cat as cat. And not like the child that never existed or gone away. When trying to humanize the animals, the owners produce aberrations. I pity the dog when I see him dressed in baby clothes, head ornaments and other peruices that transforms a clumsy copy of the owner. I am even more upset when I realize that underwent radical interventions at the whim of the owners.

Not only that cutting the nails and plucking the eyebrows of the animals, reaching the height of punishing them by barking. I saw on the Internet antilatido a collar that left me scared. It works by classical Pavlovian conditioning. When the dog barks, the collar beeps. If he barks again within thirty seconds, the device beeps and the poor receive a mild shock. Each additional bark, the shock deepens until five times stronger than the first.

The dog is conditioned to be quiet, learn to exhibit no telltale sign of their nature. The well-behaved earn food and cuddles. And, depending on taste and showmanship of the owner, also won a Louis Vuitton collar. "I saw a mall in Leblon a dog who had breathed the perfume and brighter than the hair of the mistress. Was loose, lying beside her like a child, "says Maria Teresa. "The humanization of pets is pathological, but nobody seems to think about it."

The world amazes me, amazes me. Have a thing to observe and reflect on small signs that seem say nothing, but that can mean a lot. Role reversals intrigue me. As strange inventions that promise convenience and go meddling in our lives seem to absolutante normal. Something is out of place when we put the child on a leash and the dog in the cradle. "