The Philosophy

The dog, from the beginning

At the heart of the philosophy on which Inside the Dog’s Mind was built lies the understanding that within us there is a part that holds the key to genuine communication with the dog.

Modern people seem to be losing this part of themselves more and more. They therefore try to relate and communicate through another part: the one that represents knowledge.

Everyday life and our relationships increasingly resemble a device that needs a manual in order to work. Getting to know your dog is a wonderful way to realise this.

You cannot communicate with your dog simply because you have read hundreds of articles online. Nor, of course, is it enough to know terms such as dominance, aggression, pack, or anything else that merely sounds scientific.

Before these terms were invented, there were people who, without such “knowledge”, communicated genuinely with dogs. Today, their stories become films or inspire many people to search for meaning through their relationship with a member of another species.

What made their communication with the dog so spontaneous, and why does modern society find it so difficult to achieve the same thing?

To answer this, we must understand that human “thought” is still far too young and too slow to replace instinct — the “dog” within us. The “dog”, by contrast, is extraordinarily fast; when necessary, it acts before “thought” can even begin to utter a syllable.

For thousands of years, “thought” has tried to make these inner “dogs” disappear and to prove that they are unnecessary. If it succeeds, humanity’s future will be without emotion and without communication. A person may still have a dog by their side, but they will never truly understand it.

Getting to know the dog

Today, the goal is not simply dog training. It is also to understand that the dog represents something within us that is being lost day by day.

I promise you that if you rediscover the instinct that guided you as a child — if you get to know that inner “dog” again — your relationship with the real dog beside you will become a wonderful lifelong journey. Perhaps it will be the next story to move us to tears in a cinema.