Quote Originally Posted by Adam Strange View Post
Lol. You are so IEI.

You look a bit like my favorite IEI cousin. She loves dogs and they love her. In fact, she makes her living by dog-sitting for rich people. She is in great demand.

I know this isn’t the most PC or flattering thing to say, but I think that the skills required to get along with dogs overlap those required to get along with SLE’s. Both live in the real world, both are very immediate, and both crave love and understanding and appreciate faithfulness and loyalty.
Re. living in the real world, I think that depends on the dog. They’re pretty diverse in personality.

You know, I’m not sure if they quite have Socionics types, since their personalities are childish; domesticated animals are bred to retain personality traits characteristic of immaturity (and this sometimes affects physical traits as well) to make them more docile. Dogs have been subject to an especially long history of breeding and selective pressure in many areas, but a large reason they’re so playful and immediate is because they’re bred to have the personality of a cub/child with little concept of moderation or the future. If you ever interact with a wolf, or in some cases a wolf-dog mix, you can notice they’re far more careful, calculating, and “mature”. For instance, wolves will bury food since they know (even instinctually) it can be hard to come by; in contrast, most dogs will eat until they literally burst open, and most have no concept of moderation. Most breeds of dogs also have difficulty surviving long without humans, the exceptions being generally the most aggressive, or else ones living in densely populated cities where they can scavenge human waste. So anyway, that’s where the immediacy and need for affection comes from. But, again, as far as personality traits not related to childish instincts, I think there are plenty of dogs who live in a more abstract/not-Se-like world.

Dunno why I said all this.