Here's a newsflash. animals aren't human. They can't reason. They can be taught certain behaviours that resemble the ability to reason, but its really just repetition on the animal trainers part and spending time with the animal.
I would never advocate cruelty to animals, but I would also never put the well being of an animal over a human. I absolutely love dogs...and to a lesser extent, cats. I have rescued both from horrible situations....so don't go giving me some "holier than thou" rant.
BUT,
I am so sick of these new age weirdos that assign human character traits to animals, out of some misguided sense of caring about animals more than YOU do. Their thought process is something like this.... if I can convince you that animals think and act like humans, it proves I am more civilized and refined than you and that I love animals more than you.
The absolute worst of this type is the childless young couple with a small dog. They dress the dog up like a baby, take it to "doggy day care", tell people about the dog's behaviour (as if the dog can talk to them and they understand) and get very offended if you don't address the dog as if it were a small child. If the dog were to viciously attack a human, they would blame the human and demand they go to counselling, or dog sensitivity training.
C'mon, we all have met this type of person(s) at least once in our lives. Their dog does its business on your lawn and they tell you that they will "talk to" the dog about it. Huh? They are twisted..they think they can reason with the dog.
God bless pet dogs and cats, they actually lower your heart rate. God bless beasts of burden, they have helped humans over the millenia lessen the load.
Animals are amazing. Animals should never be abused.
But they sure as hell should never be given priority over humans. That's just common sense.
Throw me a bone on this one.
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