Comments on: Talking to the animals

By: Rae Roadley

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:52:36 +0000

Hi Ajit, Thanks for visiting – and love your story about talking to cats. Yes, I’m sure animals know what we’re saying – and suspect they understand more than we realise including our feelings and attitudes. Thanks for reading my book. In it I mention Louis D’Souza who was pressganged in the Azores in the late 1800s and jumped ship in Mangongui, along with several others including a young man DeSilva. Any relation?

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By: Ajit De Silva

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:31:35 +0000

I think animals have some sense in them and they could “relate” to someone who they see every day. Is it not that dogs become closely attached to people who are always with them to become “one master dog”.

Every Sunday morning, I am the only living/breathing animal on the road, for many Cats. I meet them on my paper run and I make it a point to talk to them. They communicate with me with wide eyes; some have allowed me to stroke their backs. Once I met a Persian Cat, perched on the bonnet of a car that had come from a night out. I could have taken it and drove around but then thought of the distraught I would create for its friends

Even though the farmer has mentioned that speaking to his animals is inconsequential, I think those animals would appreciate a kind word of two. The only problem is talking to hundreds of them. The farmer could become another cow and lose the forest for trees.

(I read your book and “lived” your life in the “world of yours” that I created in my mind)

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By: Rae Roadley

Fri, 10 May 2013 21:08:26 +0000

Mmmm – a thesis on the finer points of farmer speak and bloke speak might be a bestseller. Thanks for dropping in.

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By: Lynley

Fri, 10 May 2013 04:55:01 +0000

LOL! My daughter is currently writing a university assignment on communication…..perhaps she could suggest to the tutor that “farmer communciation” could be added as a genre to write about in future!

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