re: OT, why do ya'll care more about dogs than humans?

Heck of a question.

These dog people on this board are certified beta weirdos.

Somebody posted one day theor dog died and they had the mutt cremated and had a little ceremony.
I laughed so hard my insides starting hurting.

Maybe they're just dog supremacists

Maybe you're just lonely and lacking human connection

don't ask me

I'm observing the phenomenon too....

I know that is not the case for me, however with that being said I do get pretty pissed off when these dog deaths keep occurring. The reason is that it seems to be that the police officers action is to back away, tell the dog to move away then fire. I don't feel like a dog knows any better. I can assure you that my lab would chase you if you were running backwards and telling him to go away so I guess he would get shot with his tail wagging.

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Why do people lavish so much care on a member of an alien species? A short answer is that on an emotional plane, families do not see the dog as alien. According to John Archer (1) of the University of Central Lancashire, who has conducted a detailed study of dog-human relations from an evolutionary perspective, about 40% of owners identify their dog as a family member reflecting social compatibility between our two species.

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Dogs are extraordinarily attentive and have an uncanny ability to predict what their owners will do, whether getting the dog a meal or preparing to go on a walk. Experiments show that dogs and wolves can be astute readers of human body language using the direction of our gaze to locate hidden food (2) a problem that is beyond chimps.

Dogs also seem attuned to the emotional state of their masters and express contrition when the owner is annoyed, for example. Otherwise, the capacity to express affection -unconditionally - makes the dog a valued "family member."

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According to Groves: "The human-dog relationship amounts to a very long lasting symbiosis. Dogs acted as human's alarm systems, trackers, and hunting aides, garbage disposal facilities, hot water bottles, and children's guardians and playmates. Humans provided dogs with food and security. The relationship was stable over 100,000 years or so, and intensified in the Holocene into mutual domestication. Humans domesticated dogs and dogs domesticated humans."

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Man and dog evolved socially together. It's natural.

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settlement for Cop shooting dog in car with window cracked

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I'm not clicking that link, but that cop deserves nothing less than a firing squad. I'm gonna go ahead and forget I read that now.

Bc if you give a dog a house and food they won't bitch that it isn't as nice as another dogs

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I've met just as many shitty dogs as shitty humans. Just wondering where I need to draw the line

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Because humans have far more freedom to choose their paths, which makes it more heinous when they choose a path of destruction that burdens others. Dogs are completely dependent on humans to feed them, and help them survive, because if humans didnt tend to their base needs, they wouldnt survive and would likely go extinct. (How many wild dogs do you find surviving in the continental US?) Humans can be far far more "self-sufficient" than dogs can. Dogs are also far more easily conditioned to act in a particular way...usually a result of HUMAN choice, again, if the dog is a shitty dog, that is likely a result of being taught shitty by a shitty human. How is this concept hard to understand? Free will my friend, free will indeed. Also, dogs dont live as long to begin with, so their time on earth is like a blink of an eye.


Also, the most evil dog in the world still can't decide to pick up a gun and shoot people, and can't convince an entire network of humans that by killing, their purpose in life is somehow fulfilled.