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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
This is part of what bothers me. You take a thing with thoughts, feelings and desires and remove its freewill and break its spirit until all interactions and behaviours are optimized for you.
I LOVE animals, and will probably keep adopting them while there are a bunch suffering alone in small cages at the shelter because we insist on breeding more of them. That said, I think the concept of pet ownership is totally messed up.
I still haven't heard a compelling reason as to why the life of a dog or cat is worth more than the factory farm chicken or cow that lives a dreadful life only to be slaughtered and keep the cuter dogs and cats alive to serve their largely one way relationships with us.
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That's an uncomfortable subject no one wants to talk about.
But I will say that any highly trained dog I have known seems to lead a very happy life, so I'd submit it's a two-way street between dog and it's master.
They both get something out of the relationship.