Yeah I bet an intelligent being would rather not be cold and wet and the contorted dwarfism we cursed it with limits it's lifestyle and ability to walk far
Dachshund boar hunting concept is that the boar doesn t get killed by the pack of dachshund, it is because the dachshund have exceptionally high endurance and can run fast for very long time while being agile in the forest, exhausting the boar, waiting for the hunter to shoot the bullet
Would my dachshund be happier hunting boars in the forest than being on the couch all day ... I can't tell
Well it depends on the type of dog and the city to which degree it's unethical. And the person's individual ability to care for their dog properly.
I have lived on a farm with many dogs, I have lived in an apartment in the city with no dog while others in my building had dogs, and I have lived in a house that was technically "in the city" but had a large parklands with a river running through it at the end of my street.
I might be biased here but my experience of seeing far too many people with dogs in their apartment did not sit right with me.
I didn't raise the breeding ethics btw. The guy you replied to did.
My dog is, so far at least, not suffering of back problems and hope it will stay like this. My previous dachshund happily lived with no back problems for around 14years ...
Was he happy dog ?
Would he have been happier hunting boars or staying hot and comfy on my legs watching television ? I don't know ...
I love malinois, I love shepherds, I d love to have one, but he d be unhappy as I could not provide him a life suited to him.
As far as I am concerned, I don't see anything done bad to my small dachshund
The smaller ones have initial been bred to hunt smaller prays to enter their terrier, such as rabbits and the boar hunt has still be practiced with today dachshund so really you are just being petulant
Making a dog wiener shaped gives them spine and joint pain and the inbreeding necessary to keep such exaggerated features give them a whole host of other problems
why do we get dogs in the first place? for companionship? For entertainment? For meaning? All selfish reasons.
It's just one of those less thought about things that goes on the long list of things humans do but won't stop that causes immeasurable suffering. I for instance have a lot of trouble not eating meat even though I know better.
Just having dogs in general. in the gray time between wolves domesticating themselves and humans domesticating dogs I'm sure the saddest looking least happy wolfdogs were the first ones to get eaten when times got tough. I don't trust any emotional state read by us anthropomorphizing them. They literally bred themselves into looking content and compliant for their survival when we first started our partnership.
What can I say, we evolved together and there have been many studies done around the strong link that exists between civilisation advance and animals breeding
Dogs are part of it, like the cow and the horse, the mutton etc
Civilisations with no possibility to have symbiotic relations with animals could not evolve at same pace. Some didn't even have the wheel because of it while they obviously aren't dumber than Eurasian civilisations, but because there was no need to
We evolved with the dog, they protected us, they hunted with us, they helped us with the herds like in the video ... The cows and horses helped us labor our soil, transport goods, make roads ... It is an entire relationship between man and animals that you are here discussing and this goes far beyond the simple consideration of "dog in city is unethical"
And dogs have lived with all humans everywhere, as well. From the Arctic to Australia.
Fun fact - even people who have never had a dog as a pet can read the dog’s emotional state from a series of photos. Its more than just a relationship between them and us - we’ve co-evolved. And it may well be that its because dogs have learnt to pull human faces, in much the same way that cat’s use kitten-speak on us; to make communication with us easier for them. But we’ve also learnt to understand those attempts at communication to a far higher degree,( in the case of dogs, at least) than we had previously predicted.
And for what its worth, I honestly think “people in city” is unethical. We’ve lived for most of our time on this planet in savannah and forest and coastlines, in small groups of 70-90 people. Living with 20 million other people in a landscape of concrete and tarmac makes us fat and neurotic in the same way it does dogs. Its enormously stressful.
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I don't know ... My dachshund hates rain, loves short walks and like to be in the couch
Not a sad dog I believe