Pointing to something by a dog

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Of course anybody who keeps a dog knows how much the dog can communicate with us. I have never kept dogs before the last months, when I often have with me a little dog. Of course she communicates in many ways as every other dog: licking you, wagging his tail, barking etc. But with this little dog I have experienced something I deem extraordinary. I spend much of my time lying on my bed, reading, writing, using the laptop. The little dog sleeps (or rests, as with cats it’s not very clear if they sleep or rest) on a pillow on the other angle of the bed. Sometimes I raise and go in another room to do something (in the kitchen to eat or drink something). I hear her gently barking from the bed and I see her pointing in her fashion with her paws to the place where I usually lye: she would like me to go back to my usual place on the bed to continue the coexistence with her on the bed. I am reading now Joe, the story of an autistic child who is not able to understand what his father means when he points with his finger to something. He doesn’t connect the finger to the thing pointed.

When someone is pointing something out to you, and his language is strange, his body is in a strange posture, he is emotionally agitated, and quite possibly pretty drunk, it might be quite difficult to understand what he is pointing at.