I cannot imagine an animal caring whether he or she is in the city or the country. Just look at the happy dogs in New York City play groups, they are not yearning for the primal woods, they are happy to be with their people, to go to the same place every day, find the same tree every day, see other dogs and get fed and given attention. Can one imagine anybody telling the dog owners of New York that they must give their dogs away and sell them only to people in the country who must promise not to let them work? That only this would make them “happy?” The emotional lives of animals are not complex, it does not take a lot to please them, they do not envy other animals the lives they have.
Our vet has been very successful treating depressed dogs and livestock. He recommends the owner seek the services of a skilled psychiatrist.
Great piece,Kate. I still blame Walt Disney though. Save a feral dog. Feed it a juicy PETA snack!!They are low fat/brains.
You have to wonder if the people the author refers to do not themselves have a deep seated, perhaps unrecognized, desire to live a more pastoral lifestyle themselves; an inner disdain for their urban lifestyles (most are likely denizens of larger cities) leading them to project upon animals what they long for themselves.
I think the author confuses “domestication” (human-controlled breeding) with “taming”. Dogs revert to their feral state within days of the onset of hunger. Packs of wild dogs are common, as is inter-breeding with coyotes, to create a much more dangerous predator.
I keep telling Ol’ Jerome, my Greater Glengarry Moosehound, how lucky he is that I rescued him from a life linguistic servility in Quebec.
“Jerome” I says, “here you are, lying around with a belly full of venison scraps and freshly “harvested” squirrel, with a hundred and twenty acres of trees to call your own, and ya don’t show an ounce of gratitude! I got half a mind to take you back to Chomedy-Laval – where they’d take ya to the vet and make a Liberal out of ya, rename ya Patrice, and feed ya asperges aux gratin and tofu a fi-fi”.
Man! Does he ever start looking alert (and a bit scared) when he hears that.
She mentions the New York City carriage horses. That’s an interesting case. The new mayor is making big political hay out of “freeing” those horses from the “drudgery” of pulling a cart around the park.
The important point that nobody is making in the New York media, predictably, is that those horses are not going to be relocated to nice farms with green grass where they can run free. They will be getting a needle and a trip to the rendering plant in the dead stock man’s dump truck.
Yet another tissue of lies from our friends on the Left.
She mentions the New York City carriage horses. That’s an interesting case. The new mayor is making big political hay out of “freeing” those horses from the “drudgery” of pulling a cart around the park.
The important point that nobody is making in the New York media, predictably, is that those horses are not going to be relocated to nice farms with green grass where they can run free. They will be getting a needle and a trip to the rendering plant in the dead stock man’s dump truck.
Yet another tissue of lies from our friends on the Left.
“…..the New York City carriage horses……..that those horses are not going to be relocated to nice farms with green grass where they can run free. They will be getting a needle and a trip to the rendering plant in the dead stock man’s dump truck….”
Or a bolt gun in a slaughter house.
At risk of disagreeing with a really, really smart person who sees things others don’t, it’s unlikely fleshy horses would be sent to a rendering plant. More likely sent to a kill plant to be butchered and sold as meat in France and Belgium.
Just read a very good article about a “tree-hugger” who became a fur trapper and came to realize how valuable trappers are for “sustainability”.
Emily the Trapper is 26, smart, loves animals, and thinks your ideas about fur trapping are all wrong
I always get a kick out of these people who pretend they’re managing wild animals. Who do they imagine managed them for the hundreds and thousands of years prior?
This person has just as an inflated sense of self-importance as the enviro-wackos.
We should let nature & wildlife run our world, we’d be better off for it!!
How wolves changed the course of a river. http://youtu.be/ysa5OBhXz-Q
It wouldn’t be because Yellowstone is a park and no hunting is allowed?
Heh, nothing like making up a feel good story about wolves, when, oddly enough, only the park experienced those problems.
The video is full of nonsense feel goodism.
Well, to do nothing as you suggest would inexorably lead to many extinctions and the general collapse of myriad species. Or do you — like the eco-nuts — propose humans be culled instead so as to reduce the demand for food, even though conservation and cultivation has been increasingly proving hugely successful? Actually, never mind. I am too tired to play your rhetorical games right now. Another time perhaps.
perhaps our eco-expurt can direct us to the videos he’s made, and we can determine for ourselves whose videos are full of nonsense, or not.
Just show us the links, we’ll decide.
Who are you, another of the gov’t ‘conservation’ parasites? And how do you suppose wildlife survived in the thousands of years before your ‘conservation’ efforts?
Looks to me Emily is being led by the ring in her nose. Bushman Inc. is just another outfit that supplements their income through being a parasite on the taxpayer.
There are those who just come here to insult others and add nothing worthwhile to the discussion. Some people call them trolls, others call them master baiters. It’s probably best to not take the bait, and just leave them blowing in the wind, talking to themselves.
You two are priceless. I tried to engage you guys respectfully but you guys can’t help yourselves it seems, so adios muchachos. Your just noise now.