ishyB
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Greetings all, Well for me hearing ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ is not a normal event. That is not however, because Master does not have manners. I’ve never known him to be anything but respectful and polite when addressing a request at Mistress, but that’s the whole, difference, to her he is making a request, to me it is an order. He wouldn’t say please to me anymore than he would say please one of his dogs. When he orders me to do something, it’s always very clear that it’s an order, not a question. Now that doesn’t mean that he is rude to me on purpose, or that he yells or anything like that; it more that when he commands me he like a military leader would give orders to his troops. Can you imagine a drill-sergeant training troops say: “now please troops, would you go run 20 miles for me?”, or tell them: “thank you so much”, when they get back? The fact that he doesn’t use those terms has nothing to do with manners and everything with the hierarchy in which they relate to each other. Then fact that Master doesn’t thank me for my efforts also does not mean he doesn’t notice them. While a ‘thank you’ is not something that I will ever expect to hear from him, he does often give me a pad on the butt while saying ‘good girl’, if I did something that really pleased him. This is not something he’ll do with every task I’ve completed for him. I don’t serve him from the need to be rewarded for every little thing I do. But he still seems to use positive reinforcement of his commands much more frequently than negative ones. I wish you well, ishy
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