Care in the Community strikes again...
- 28 April 2011 12:57103851Care in the Community has struck again, well this is so insane those suggesting it can only be free because of this mistaken policy and need to be locked up for their own good.
Oxford professors in a new journal have said that it is insulting to call our pets, well pets....
He says they should be called 'animal companions'
His madness does not stop there. Pet owners should be called 'human carers'; we should stiop referring to 'wild animals' and call them 'free-roaming'. What is more expressions such as 'sly as a fox' and 'drunk as a skunk' should be banned and woe betide you if you call a rat a 'pest' or 'vermin'.....
Someone really should assess whether Professor Andrew Linzey and Professor Prscilla Cohn should be locked up for their own safety. Anyone who can come out with this rubbish certainly cannot be trusted with sharp instruments. - Keith Sansum1
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28 April 2011 13:09103852i agree with you barryw
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 28 April 2011 13:10103853Well. "A dog is not just for Christmas" cannot be the be-all and end-all of the subject, can it?
Should this issue be only discussed in terms that we see here on the forum with the incessant moaning about dog mess, chipping etc.
As right and proper as it is to bring such issues to the fore must we be left to complain and have nothing else said or done about these issues?
Somewhere between these two extremes, only moaning and talking hog-wash (with apologies, to the hog), lies an appropriate position.
Very good of you Barry to bring this up.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Jan Higgins
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28 April 2011 14:31103855I also agree with Barry, I bet the two professors were highly paid to produce such rubbish.
Tom, what has the above got to do with bad pet owners, unless you were being sarcastic of cause.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------- - 28 April 2011 15:11103857i wonder if i should let my animal companion in, she is sitting on the window sill looking in at me hoping that i will be kind enough not to leave her out in the biting wind.
- 28 April 2011 15:19103860I have to call them animal companions now Barry, I called one of my Patterdales a four legged little git last week.
I'm due to appear in court next month.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet. - 28 April 2011 15:50103864Jan, who is this that owns a bad pet?
Is not what these professors say part and parcel of an over due reappraisal of 'mans' relationship with beasts of all sorts?
Is not the attitude of 'ownership' rather than 'companionship' also partly responsible for much that is wrong with the human and animal relationship?
People that treat animals badly, train them to be aggressive and allow them to befoul the neighbourhood do so, partly or in the main, because the animal is their property and "Who are you to tell me how to behave vis-a-vis MY property..." .
"A dog is for life, not just for Christmas" may simply be not good enough to rectify the all too common ills that the current attitude 'we' have to those creatures with whom we share our lives.
If, for instance, dogs were seen and appreciated as living things with a socialising behaviour all of their own and not treated as mere extensions of the human ego;snoochums and/or Tyson. Would not much improvement be seen all round, in health and behavioural terms?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Jan Higgins
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28 April 2011 18:22103871I will not repeat what I call my old cat when he comes indoors from the garden during the day to use his night-time only litter tray.
Bad owner personified, large dog equals large mess bang in the middle of the pavement outside Corals in the High Street.
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