I know why they hate dogs. To them dogs are unnatural.

Every critter on the planet (even us) has particular talents related to the acquisition of that which is necessary to fill basic needs. Basic needs meaning Food, Shelter, Defense. As a funny side note, you’ll notice a lot of “nature” shows tend to leave out that last one unless they’re referring to defense against the always evil MANKIND in which they always say that the critter HAS NO DEFENSE AGAINST THE “GREATEST PREDATOR …. (there’s always a pause) MAN“. I’ve always thought that was pretty retarded.

I’ve strayed.

Birds generally have exceptional eyesight that aids them in capturing Food. They have an inborn talent for building little houses out of whatever materials they can find for Shelter (odd, when we do the very same thing, we’re somehow raping the planet). In terms of Defense .. well, they fly. Aside from other birds they pretty well have a near-perfect escape mechanism.

My intent here is not to go through each critter giving examples of how it manages to provide for its basic needs. I’m here to talk about dogs.

To the wacko-green-jerkoff dogs are wrong. Here’s why…

A dogs inborn talent for providing for its basic needs is … to please a human being. No shit. There’s a reason dogs attach to people and that reason is that the attachment is the dogs means of providing itself Food, Shelter and Defense. Keep in mind here, I’m talking about domesticated modern dogs. Pets.

The proper course is that a loved and cared for dog will attach itself to a person. Generally just one person. It’ll maybe be sociable and polite to others, but usually will only be attached to the one person although there are exceptions. The young dog (puppy) figures out pretty quick which person it has to please to get the Needs fulfilled and they act accordingly. Generally, the “training” of a dog is not to teach the dog that he needs to please you, but to teach him what he needs to do to please you. The dog naturally wants to please you just as a bird naturally wants to build a nest or catch food.

This “pleasing a human” behavior is not to be taken lightly. The dog works damned hard to fulfill his end of the bargain. I mean damned hard. Did you know a dog can identify his owners walk just by the sound ? Did you know a dog can pick out the sound of his owner’s car amidst the normal traffic sounds ? A dog is one of the only animals on Earth that can understand gesturing. I shit you not. Try pointing, nodding, shaking your head to any animal but a dog. I saw a documentary once that showed that a dog was one of the few animals that can identify a human’s eyes and where they were looking.

The point is that a dog’s life is dog’s life centers around his person. The “naturist” generally views this as an abomination and generally wrong as it relates to their view of how nature should work. The flaw in their belief is that the don’t (as usual) realize that humans are actually part of nature. Humans and dogs are not the only inter-species symbiotic relationships out there.

This is why I think the wacko enviros hate dogs. If anyone is interested, I’ve actually studied this quite a bit can could write longer on dog psychology.

As a side note, the preceding is also why it’s so important to never abandon a dog that has attached to you. A dog is a decade-long (give or take) commitment and must be taken as seriously as your marriage. A dog’s whole sense of reality is based on the attachment with their human and if you fuck that up the dog will never recover. In some cases he may be salvageable, but he’ll never be the sort of dog he was capable of. I’m not a bunny-hugger, I don’t believe animals have rights. If you own a dog, he is your property. That said, mistreating a dog is worse than mistreating a person as a person has the mental/psychological capability of realizing that bad treatment is an anomaly and not either a reflection on him or a belief that his inborn ideals are wrong.

I seem to have ranted. I’ll stop now.