Intelligent Collusion Among The Species Poem by Erhard Hans Josef Lang

Already by the way how at the gate to another' s property
The dog is barking at the stranger who had approached the vicinity
One may conclude about the intelligence of the dog' s master and of
All the ones who live there along with their protective family dog.

Only, one has to learn first
How to interpret a dog's attitude in barking properly.

A dog may be reckoned to bark up a new face on the block of those
Among his master's visitors to the home
Up to a thirteenth time of the newcomer' s strangely odoured wave of intrusion
Until he'd take its presence for granted.
As far goes a dog's loyalty to his master
And his suspicious distrust as chief protector of family
Towards any untoward figure unrecollected.

Dogs matters go long ways.
Human matters are outstanding.

If a human thinks it good that
Animals are stupid beings or else
One of them might one day die
With envy over not having been born likewise a human
That human is the ignorant one among the two beings,
For it is him who doesn't realize
That the animal individual rather felt that it were
His privilege and Best of fates
Exactly to have come into this world
As what it had come,
A simple-woven being in a neat body package, with
No great fuzzing over matters.

'Humans are by all their means no better beings than ourselves.
All their rumbling and battling,
Grumbling and fretting,
And flaunting of teeth and
Stretching the face muscle
In the face of others
Over matters in which we keep silent
Still makes them no better eaters of foods,
No better drinkers, minglers, decorators.
Nor are they better than us in falling asleep and in waking up.

We, the animals are the easier-going dream-timers in this world, It's only
Good I haven't come into this world
As him who always barks indefinably ever varyingly,
Incomprehensively,
And yet only eats the same old bread.'

There's no better or worse in the world of animals.
Humans are the distinctive ones.