RE: emotional comfort animals / therapy dogs....
aleshanee > 06-10-2019, 11:55 AM
so..... one might ask..... how could a dog that helps hunters kill coyotes possibly qualify as a therapy dog or comfort animal? .....and how could the comfort such a dog provides possibly be transfered down to the rest of us?..... ... well........ let me explain.......
when the numbers of these target of opportunity predators..(aka coyotes).. are reduced across the ranchlands........ cows are comforted knowing their newborn calves are less likely to be attacked and eaten by coyotes as soon as they touch the ground..... ...ranchers are comforted knowing they won;t lose money through excessive predation of their herd....... cattle buyers are comforted knowing they will be able to purchase some of those cattle for the market...... and the markets are comforted knowing they will able to provide beef at a reasonable price to the consumers.. ..... ...consumers... (aka grocery shoppers).. .. are then comforted being able to purchase that beef at an affordable price and feed their families..... .... which leads to people like me being comforted knowing i can sit down to a tasty steak dinner i didn;t have to trade my inheritance for.... ....
so in the end dogs like spot are doing us all a favor.... ..and providing far more real and lasting comfort than any fuzzy little mongrel, wearing an orange vest, that gets carried into a restaurant, grocery store, or on board an airliner, against both industry and u.s. health and safety regulations, in the name of being a glorified therapy or ptsd dog......... ...
yeah.... ..i know..... those are just my opinions..... based on my own personal beliefs........ . ... just like the continually repeated and often tearful comments of my friends and aquantances who think "emotional comfort" dogs...with or without official papers.... should be allowed to go anywhere people go, without restriction.... that eating meat will destroy the planet.... that coyotes are simply dogs yet to be domesticated..... ... and that any kind of hunting at all is evil........ are also just opinions based on their own personal beliefs...... ........
but anyway...... .... what do you think?...... ....do real working dogs like spot still have value in the world?....... is hunting evil?...... does eating meat threaten to destroy the planet?....... has the "therapy" and "emotional comfort" dog idea gone way out to lunch?...... and will all this leftist nonsense end up eating all our lunches in the future?...... .....