[apologia_pro_vita_sua]

Like I always tell my dog and cat obsessed friends, if your pet was bigger than you, he would eat you. Animals are incapable of Love, what they express to us is pure fear and submission. We misinterpret it as Love.


Just ask Roy Horn.

[Centurion2000]

Like I always tell my dog and cat obsessed friends, if your pet was bigger than you, he would eat you.

With cats, you are ABSOLUTELY correct (hate cats myself). Dogs are different. They actually do have a pack mentality, if you raise them with you and they were to get bigger, thye might just try and take your food.

Otherwise why do rottweiller owners not get eaten ?

[Ditter]

Cats, horses, etc, you are right, but you are wrong about dogs. Dogs do love their humans.

[archy]

Love, what they express to us is pure fear and submission. We misinterpret it as Love.

Just ask Roy Horn.

But like us, they develop habits, and their acceptance of a human as a partner can be realand include genuine affection, depending on the type of animal and its particular individual behaviour characteristics, not quite a *personality.*

But Mr. Horn has likely learned a new set of behaviors about striking very large and fast cats repeatedly with his microphone. That's also not a good idea with bears.

-archy-/-

[Gigantor]

"Animals are incapable of Love, what they express to us is pure fear and submission. We misinterpret it as Love."

Shaddap you animal.

[bat1816]

Interesting theory, but it holds no water.

1. You claim that if dogs were bigger than humans, they would eat them. Well dogs are bigger than some humans, chiefly infants and small children, and they aren't eaten. In fact, most dogs will go to great lengths to protect these weaker members of the pack. Sure there is the occasional story of a dog attacking and even killing a child family member, but I have yet to see a story of a dog actually eating that child.

2. About four years ago there was a story of a high school teenager who got pregnant and hid it from her family. It was a very poor family and they kept a pit bull in thier back yard. According to neighbors, the dog was fed only on an irregular basis. The teenager gave birth to the baby in her bedroom and tossed the baby out in the backyard for the pit bull to eat. The baby died of exposure, but the dog did not eat the baby.

3. Nearly everyone knows of some kooky old lady or man that lives down the street with two dozen dogs. That pack of dogs is far stronger and outnumber the owner, and yet they aren't attacked and eaten.

4. I work in search and rescue in a desert area that averages over 500 rescues per year, and over 150 death recoveries per year. The area also has one of the highest populations of coyotes in the country. Never have I seen any coyotes attempt to eat, nibble on, or any way sample the flesh of any human, dead or alive.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I agree with you to a point -- about cats. But I think most dogs are different, again, with the exception of Chows. (no flames, please.)

[Moonman62]

Like I always tell my dog and cat obsessed friends, if your pet was bigger than you, he would eat you. Animals are incapable of Love, what they express to us is pure fear and submission. We misinterpret it as Love.

I wonder what makes you say that. Is it personal experience or scientific studies?