"...yeah,mad scientist"
Of course they are. In fact, several dogs I know are nicer than some people I know.
My cat almost jumps out of his skin to see me after I come home after a long trip.
"...yeah,mad scientist"
This will morph into another Democrat voter registration drive.
And why not? Any Democrat will tell you animals already have more rights than an unborn child.
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/83324032/
click the arrow to see the differences...*smiles*
I’ve seen times when two of my dogs showed real compassion, once for my father when he wss really down and once for me in the same kind of situation. I’ve also seen jealousy, just like human jealousy. No real question about whether they have human emotions; they do.
Great just what we need more Liberal stupidity in animorphizing animals.
Animals are not humans and you can not give animals human rights without lowering the value of human life.
Once you raise the value of animals to equate their worth to that of humans you have lowered the value of human life to that of an animal.
There is no way around it. If a dog’s life is worth the same as a human’s then a human life is worth no more than that of a dog.
Months of intense training, to have a dog sit still, proves dogs are people too. Hmm...
I’m sensing a nut bag here. And I am a dog lover, a dog is a dog, is a dog.
Until my Yorkie writes a book as good as The Great Gatsby, she’s still a mutt to me!
The more I am around people the more I prefer to be around my dogs.
Some poor dog had to sit through months of MRI testing?
They discovered that dogs have emotions? Wow! modern science never ceases to amaze. /s
Which is also the reason, IHMO, that cultures that reject Dogs, are inhuman.
As goofy as this is (regarding their purpose), I admit to often wondering something like, “What is she (my dog) thinking?”
My dog tells on herself if she’s misbehaved while we were gone. How does she remember that she stole thawing meat out of the sink and ate it all after the fact. Why does she behave as she has been trained when we are around but is sneaky when we are not? She knows not to get on the furniture and never does while we are there. But she doesn’t realize that the warm spot and a bit of dog hair is evidence. She jumps off as soon as she hears us coming. She doesn’t beg and would never counter cruze while we were home, but knows when no-one is watching (like a 4 or 5 year old).
I’ve seen signs of problem solving and logic too. She moved a table once right in front of us to get her ball that was pinned next to the couch. I told her to move it back but she just looked at me. She is allowed to sleep on our kids beds (only). When the kids are sick, she hangs out pretty close and will stay in bed with them.
So, I would be interested in learning something truly scientific about their 1) memory 2) logic/problem solving ability 3) emotionality and how the three are connected. Just not with an angle to “get pets more rights”. She’s still a dog.
Exceptionally stupid people, mind you, but people nonetheless. :)
Amazing, scientists think they are so smart but consider, dogs have know this for centuries.
Here is a pic of our four legged "people"
Hurley likes to build pillow fortresses...
natural rights apply only to humans because only humans are rational animals and use reason as their means of survival.
If we treat dogs as we would humans, the dogs will be unhappy and unhealthy. I like dogs, but there are special ways to relate with dogs and take care of them. Dogs are dogs. Cattle are cattle, and so on. Each animal has its needs and genetic protections against having various feelings of people.
Human beings also have constitutional rights in the U.S.A., BTW. Animals don’t, although we shouldn’t be cruel to animals. In agriculture before the human decline began, we did best by giving the best care suited for the animals. The robberies have already begun against farmers and ranchers by way of new, un-American laws and pretenses about animal worship.
While traveling in Britain, I stayed at a bed-and-breakfast which was owned by a small dog (you know that’s how they think). But this little mutt was listless because 5 days prior he had been right beside his much larger dog buddy when the larger dog was hit and killed by a car. The dog’s human pets said that they had been unable to rally his spirits. He performed his meet-and-greet functions with disinterest. I showered him with affection but the most he could do was place his jaw in my outstretched hand and sigh while relaxing his weight. He seemed to ‘need’ to communicate with people (which used to cheer him up?) or perhaps by then he was confused and didn’t know why he felt so bad but it certainly seemed like grief. His human pets said he was ordinarily the life of the party...