Since I am into the storyteller line of business I suppose it's a good idea I get a better grip on how to express my arguments in my story. Up till now I have mostly been focusing on the skeleton of the visual novel project (organizing the scenes, the minute details, final character designs, studying sighthounds and other desert animals, Ancient Egyptian culture the best I can, etc).
But what I am arguing about is how dogs and people interact, PETA stands against coexistence between animals and people but they're highly necessary! But people need to know how a dog thinks and acts and while some know better than to adopt a pet for 'just because I want a pretty Pomeranian' there are those who treat dogs like humans and the animals miss out on valuable lessons like DON'T JUMP ON THE PERSON WHO RANG THE DOORBELL. There is also some morality issues I wanted to bring up on breeding. Stray animals, like Zahra, breed because 1) they are not fixed and I can't find evidence spaying/neutering existed some thousand years ago. 2) They are feral and do it populate their species. This is a problem since feral domesticated dogs threaten the ecosystem and take food that jackals, snakes, and other predators need. Dogs such as Ori, Sazul, etc are the ancestors of the pedigrees we know of today, but those breeds were pretty well founded back then according to mummy evidence. So certain breeds were put together to increase performance, for the sighthound it was speed and sight. Naturally the most agile and the fastest with the best eyesight were paired together to create better quality dogs. This may seem unnatural, but selective breeding can help get rid of diseases and genetic ailments.
I have never felt a dog needs to be 'useful' in terms of working, since a dog is our companion animal. Cats are popular too, but most cats don't greet you at the door when you return from work and dogs wag their tails at you no matter how tired you are of them for the day. Dogs love unconditionally while the cat thinks of you as the staff. I am tired of always seeing how 'badly' humans treat animals when there is just as many positive things happened between them as there are negative. It's a special relationship that teaches a dog tricks beyond the basics (sit, stand, stay) and there comes a point in time you understand one another through a conscious level even if we don't speak the same language.
I want to express how uncomprehensive human speech is to dogs and how people should understand how the view of a dog works (body language, pitch, rewarding, etc).
Mythology has always played a big part in my stories no matter how fictional or nonfictional the tale is. I want there to be a balance as Ancient Egyptians relied heavily on magic and what power was invested in words. Yet the food they left for the ka of the bodies they embalmed and left in tombs was actually eaten by animals overnight, so when the priests would return the next day they believed it was the Ka that ate the food. Animals have a higher sense that can see/smell the dark monsters of Ancient Egypt and those monsters can symbolize anything I want them to. Perhaps incorporate powers that can separate the dogs from their beloved masters?
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