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DEMONS
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Irena Sehner
ASIAN
DEMONS
Copyright © 1995, 1999, 2000 by Ph.D. Irena Sehner. All rights reserved. Prague. Czech Republic.
Copyright © 1995, 1999, 2000 by Editor Ph.D. Jan Hollauer. All rights reserved. Prague. Czech Republic.
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Irena Sehner
ASIAN
DEMONS
IRMA Publishing
2000
CONTENTS
says never saw! Why do I tell you this? Maybe because he is also
a passionate dog lover. In a weak moment he confided to us that he
has a weak spot for bitches! Oh well, Vaclav will never change.
However, let us concentrate on the basic formula:
Instincts
– strength and power of Central Asians
Every human whelp must learn about the world step by step.
However, each puppy is a world of its own.
Every human whelp learns wisdom from books. Each puppy
carries its wisdom in its blood. People gave a special name to dog
wisdom – instinct!
Instincts are complicated in born forms of behavior that are
particular to animals of this or that kind. They are elemental in the
ongoing changes in the nervous and hormonal systems controlled
by hypothalamus. The most important are instincts ensuring the
physical survival of the animal to which the instinct of self-preser-
vation comes first.
Dogs of natural breeds do not take well or directly hate
being in a place that they deem as unsafe and that they have not
chosen as the safest themselves. If they are touched or someone
comes too close to them, with or without the agreement of their
master, the acceptable limits of security for the dog may be broken.
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body followed by the entertained look of the dog miss from which
warmth and good humor was shining.
She spent only a minimal amount of time in the apartment
because it was overheated for her taste. She manifested summer
dog behavior in an exemplary way – she was breathing quickly and
was feverishly evaporating. She was lying flat on her belly or was
spread out on her back, which is something that properly brought
up dog girls do not do, and she was outright ostentatiously show-
ing us that she suffers like a dog thanks to the fact that we did
not acquire very thick warm downy hair. So that we would not
look like sissies and outcasts in her eyes we heated the apartment
minimally and with strong colds, slowed down body functions and
totally frozen mental processes we survived to see the spring come.
My husband acquired a beard for this winter. I do not know really
if he succeed because this is unfortunately only snout under fur!
The instinct to deal with the heat economically and maintain
a consistent inner body temperature is a significant feature espe-
cially of natural breeds.
Also belonging to the group of instincts ensuring the phys-
ical survival of an animal are the hunting instinct, the nutrient
instinct and the protective instinct.
The second group of instincts consists of zoo-social instincts,
which help the animal become a rightful member of an animal
group similar to itself. These instincts can be implemented only by
living and working together with other individuals of the same kind.
In the collective appeal of the pack the animal first finds itself in the
roll of a whelp. During this period the mechanism of imprinting is
initiated. This is a way of learning in which the whelp at a signifi-
cantly sensitive age (4th–7th week of life) creates the conception
of mother for the rest of its life. This learning takes place on the
basic sense level of sight, sound, touch and smell. Thus imprinting
is an inborn instinct through which the animal whelp very quickly,
almost at lightning speed, remembers the image of mother, if it is in
touch with her on a natural daily basis. Then it concentrates its zoo-
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believing that she did not hear me. I was confused because of our
eighty-year-old hard of hearing grandfather. I even waited for a
little while that maybe I would hear from the corner of the garden:
“Did you say something my love? TANGIER? What happened with
Tangier? One of you is going to Tangier? If you sat home on your
ass you would be much better off!”
She did not even move.
“Ma’am what are you doing there!” I asked with respect in
my voice.
She registered the formal way and change of tone and turned
her head towards me. I could see how confused she was from the
very bottom of her soul – she did not know whether she should cry
or laugh at the fiddling of the German shepherd!
Instincts are clearly set for each kind of animal. They evolve
only extremely slowly during the lives of hundreds of sequential
generations and only with great difficulty do they adapt to the natu-
ral environment going though gradual evolution. Natural selection
187 Character of the dog
is strict and does not allow animals with malfunctions in their inher-
ited programs of instincts to survive in nature.
Animals are not born with highly developed instincts.
Instincts, like every born in (unconditional) reflex, must proceed
throughout these stages: maturing, fixation and decline.
The group of instincts directed at the future is natural espe-
cially to young animals. Older animals more or less suppress these
instincts. These instincts depend very closely on and work under
the influence of the function and activity of glands with internal
secretion producing hormones. Just as the intensity and time with
which and during which these glands work are individual, so are
the influence of instincts for each animal.
So that you ladies would understand it better I will explain
it in another way but read it only quietly for yourself! Or you know
what? I will put it into brackets for you. (It works the same way
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push them on it. In principle, we pull the animal down to the level
of human by which we hurt it because not every human is up to the
level that every dog is!
We see in our dog a close person that is missing from our
lives. It’s a partner in dialog , a loyal discreet friend, which we
are missing. It is the only one who does not tell us that we blab
nonsense and that we are dreamers removed from reality. The oppo-
site is true. It listens to us carefully and its admiring look means
only one thing: “By God you are right as usual! You are simply a
genius!” And because it is used to watching TV with its master it
barks out: “It must be great to be great, my little clever screen, isn’t
it?”
When our child does not like to learn it is a delight to have a
dog that likes to learn! When your husband is hideous (huge beak,
fatty gut, crooked angora toothpicks for legs), how ennobling it is
to have a well built champion dog at home! If you come home from
work and you ask: “Mother where are the kids?” and she replies,
“I am weeding the linen!” how comforting it is to have a dog intel-
lectual at home. When the entire family is afraid of burglars, mur-
derers and mice, how encouraging it is to have a dog protector at
home! All these requirements laid on a dog are fulfilled to the very
last point by the Central Asian kept with love!
Ph.D. Irena SEHNER, Austrian Baroness
Publishing editor, journalist, writer.
Breeder of Siberian cats, Scottish Folds,
An owner of pasture dogs from Central Asia
Irena Sehner was born in Sobeslav 9 February 1952 and
graduated from Charles University in Prague, College of
Journalism (field of film and television), and after her
graduate studies in International Politics, received her Ph.D.
She is the author of a charming story book about cats
and dogs called, About Transmigration of People and
Animals, a humorous novel about an unconventional
middle-aged woman, So What?, and a successful monographs about Central
Asian and Caucasian dogs titled, Asian Demons and Sharks in Dog’s Skin.
Currently being printed are two books which are written in a very witty way –
the continuation of her first book about the Central Asian dog, Asian Demons
– Things That You Have Not Learned About Them Yet and How To Feed Dogs
– the dog equivalent to How To Feed Cats.
The sequel to the novel, So What?, is ready for publication and is called What
is the Matter?
She is currently working on a monograph about British, Siberian and Scottish
Fold cats.
A gift-style monograph about Persian cats, Persians – Cotton Candy Pussyfoots,
is being prepared for printing.
Lovers of German s;hepherds will be pleased by a humorous yet serious mono-
graph about the breed – My Youth with a German Shepherd. More books about
other dog breeds are being prepared.