tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post27052730195353411..comments2024-03-26T22:16:26.572-04:00Comments on Terrierman's Daily Dose: What is the Work of Dogs in this Country?PBurnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05781540805883519064noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-73853672126789951832010-04-06T21:44:25.184-04:002010-04-06T21:44:25.184-04:00Powerful, Patrick.Powerful, Patrick.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08128026551333547591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-86549696311240924372010-04-04T15:08:19.077-04:002010-04-04T15:08:19.077-04:00Reminds me of The Travel Channel program "Mee...Reminds me of The Travel Channel program "Meet the Natives" which was beyond wonderful. I laughed, I cried and it opened my eyes. They had pretty much the same scenario as you told with regards to people of other cultures response to being in a pet store in the usa.Conniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682223635807853860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684843.post-42457850792774546092009-01-10T20:16:00.000-05:002009-01-10T20:16:00.000-05:00In a post-modern and supposedly post-materialist c...In a post-modern and supposedly post-materialist country, a dog's purpose is to be something that no organism should ever be asked to be. We ask our dogs to live in our artificial cities, which are devoid of most interesting smells, to walk on leashes, which inhibits their strong instincts to explore and travle, and to ignore whatever other instincts they have in order to live with us. It's quite remarkable that any species, let alone a carnivore, would ever be able to do this. But dogs do it. Some don't cope, and then we call in the behaviorists or send them to the pound, where they are executed. But most dogs, by in large cope.<BR/><BR/>But when you think of the poorest countries in the world, where food and clean water are out of reach for so many people, you have to wonder if our priorities are straight.<BR/><BR/>Just as humanizing the dog messes up the priorities for that bond, refusing to recognize that such a large percentage of the world's population lives in grinding misery really shows how little we actual think about how privileged and how inflated our standards of living are. The only good thing about this economic crisis is it forces us to take stock about what a decent society should be and to really pay attention to these issues.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing this story. It really puts it all into perspective.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com