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What's the good reason for not extending it to cow, dog, cat etc...? Where do you draw the line?
by gingabriska 7y ago
What's the good reason for not extending it to cow, dog, cat etc...? Where do you draw the line?
- xutopia 7y agoTaste
- corndoge 7y agoEach of the animals you listed are domesticated.
- maxxxxx 7y agoIt’s hard to draw a line. I would however support better treatment of farm animals and also make it more difficult for people to get pets. We foster dogs and I find it hard to understand how people can get a puppy for the kids for Christmas and then dump it a year later at a shelter it just at the roadside. As a society we should be much more respectful of animals but this raises a few very inconvenient questions that are hard to answer.
- Reedx 7y agoThat's a fair question. Just think about how many cats and dogs are stuck inside small apartments most of their lives.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoOr on a roof/balcony. Living in Guadalajara, I've wanted to put many dogs out of their misery. Left on the roof as thief-deterrent to go completely crazy. Our treatment of animals (pets, meat) is one of the indicators of how primitive we still are as a civilization... or, god forbid, species.
- Millennium 7y agoTo some extent that's a matter of perspective and context. Keeping a Great Dane or even a Border Collie in a small apartment is a very different thing from keeping a Chihuahua in one.
- maxxxxx 7y agoFor most people getting a Border Collie is really bad and just mean to the dog. These dogs are very smart and active and they lose their mind if they have nothing to do. They are working dogs, not pets.
- 0xcafecafe 7y agoWhy just getting stuck in apartment or home? Most of the pet dogs here (in the US) are spayed/neutered so they have no reproductive purpose left. They are basically just living toys for the amusement of the owners.
- dlivingston 7y agoHow asinine. Humans and dogs have evolved (literally) a wonderful co-dependency over the last 10,000 years - it is not a one way street.