How Electronic Harassment and Wireless Electronic Assault Torture May Be Effecting Our Cat
The amazing thing about animals is they have extra-sensory perception. Minutes before an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or tsunami animals will move to “higher ground.” Birds flee their perches in trees and wild herds will flee together in unison away from the “danger.” If you have an animal, you may have observed how environmental phenomena effect pets.
Recently, I have been experiencing increasing remote wireless electronic assault torture. This past weekend was a fairly significant episode. I am mostly targeted in my living room at home, but I am also targeted at other locations around my property including the public sphere as well. My living room is a common room where my whole family would watch TV, eat meals, read, use the computer, cell and land-line phone, and perform exercise!
Over the weekend, I was staying at a relative’s house overnight. My relatives were going away for an overnight stay, so I stayed overnight at their house to be available if anything should go wrong. I noticed that when I would “house sit” and “cat sit” for them, an increase in remote wireless electronic assault torture begins. This past weekend, my son pointed out a “behavioral change” that he noticed in the cat. Usually, Jasper will sit peacefully on the couch and watch TV with her humans and her humans will sit and watch CatTV with her. It’s all about “strokes” in human-cat relationships. But lately, she has been fleeing to the side foyer and laying on the floor rug in front of the side porch entrance. Since, I too have noticed an increase in remote wireless electronic assault torture while staying there, I can make an observation that the technology being used to harass certain people, and torture them may also be effecting their pet’s behavior.
It’s not hard to understand why violence is present in human relationships. Human aggression is what allows people to survive. We are all born in a helpless state screaming for our survival. When we are wet, hungry, or tired infants scream for comfort. And people who are abused, tortured, and/or neglected grow up to inflict the same abuse and torture onto others in a re-enactment of what was done to them. People also possess distinct personalities traits and sometimes these personality constellations clash with others. In fact, we are all born of the human condition, and we all suffer from the flawed inadequacies tied to being human. We all lie. We are all susceptible to disease. We sometimes go past the speed limit when nobody is looking. Nobody is perfect. Navigating human relationships can be difficult and our flawed human condition demands we stay vigilant and defend against the periodic psychic splitting that affects us all. Psychic splitting is ever present in our interactions with other humans on a daily basis and it presents a constant roadblock to successful human relationship outcomes.
What I can’t understand, is why this technology would be used on house pets, animals who represent a form of dependency on their owners for proper care, to be feed, to be cleaned, to be taken to the vet. Similar to how femininity was once dependent upon the ruling male patriarch of the Victorian era home. Why would a human, who is in an obvious superior position, inflict pain and suffering onto an animal?
I also want to mention, that over this weekend I have been trying to train Jasper to respond to verbal requests with positive re-enforcement: her favorite cat food treat (one single shrimp pellet) followed with a lavish petting and vocal appraisal. I want to compare this approach to training young children with positive reinforcement techniques as compared to the adverse repercussions of spanking and slapping children. I consider the use of remote wireless electronic assault torture to be a form of “slapping/spanking” (ie: physical assault).
There have been many studies done on the effects of physical punishment on children and its attendant outcomes. Studies have concluded that lifetime consistent spanking and slapping of young children leads to adverse mental health outcomes, adverse physical health outcomes as well as adverse behavioral outcomes such as defiant behavior in adolescence. These adverse outcomes can persist into adulthood. A common misconception among parents who use physical punishment on their children is an approval for its perceived “effectiveness” in preventing amoral behavior. These parents believe that physical punishment promotes the development of a “moral compass” in helping a child to decern right from wrong. However, research indicates that a lifetime spanking/slapping of children does not prevent delinquency, aggression, as well as other adverse behavioral outcomes.
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