Dogs were not born on the surface of this earth to do silly tricks

Firstly, Most people have pets with a selfish motive..

The pet persay really doesn't benefit at all.

People have pets coz they want to feel validated.

People have pets coz they want to constantly have beings around them that have to beg them for food..People want to feel better and feel important..That the reason they have pets.

They want unconditional love. as in what they percieve as unconditional love..And somehow they think that all the tail wagging that the dogs does is love.. and well,, that love is not unconditional after all , is it?

People do feed the dog and it is only after the dog gets used to the fact that this the person that feeds them that all the tail wagging and face licking happens..So, well, People essentially are bribing the dog with food for the pretend unconditional love..

Come on ! People have to find other non cruel methods to boost their own self esteem instead of holding another living being hostage at their home.. an environment which prolly might be great for humans to live in , but for animals genetically designed to run really fast and hunt, these small houses work as prison..

I mean, you forcibly breed a dog,, then sell the puppies at stores and then someone else buys these puppies from there.. then you get this dog home and then toilet train it .I mean, why are you punishing animals of the wild with toilet training?huh?Just so that they can fit in your home environment? Isn't that a selfish motive?Dogs do not belong at home...Wild dogs belong in the wild and domestic dogs do not exist in nature at all .

Either ways.. some people go a step further and teach their dogs tricks like fetchign a ball..

Now, My question is,,"Why exactly must a dog repeatedly fetch a ball that you throw at them?" For your entertainment , which you cleverly state as "OH my dog enjoys fetching the ball, I do it for the dog"

yeah right,, really?

I mean..did not you use food treats as bribe for the dog in the first place to make it learn this stupid ball fetching?

No really..ARe you telling lies to yourself ?Did the dog tell you that it likes to be toilet trained? Did the dog tell you that it likes a belt around its neck? Did the dog tell you that it likes being locked up inside small confined spaces of human dwelling?

It didn't..You just invent reason and lies, to satisfy your conscience , so that you can get away with doing things, that ultimately benefit in you as a human being ending up feeling important and loved by the dog...

So, yeah, there is absolutely no need to teach the dog silly tricks..There is absolutely no need for pets...absolutely not.

Dogs are designed to run fast in the open free world...let them be children of the wild..Dont domesticate them, don't force breed them, Don't sell them in pet shops(they are not things..they are not anybody's property) Don't teach them tricks...

Try other methods to raise your own self esteem....

Dogs are not here for your security...get an alarm system .

Dogs are not here for your entertainment,,go play some video games or play some sport yourself..I mean..why don't you go fetch some balls yourself..huh?After you seem to think that doing silly tricks is amusing..

BTw, Dogs are far more instintive and talented that you think they are ...They are smarter than just being that stupid thing that gets happy with repeatedly fetching a ball..hmmm

Have you heard of the WATER FOOTPRINT?How vegetarianism can help in dealing with foodshortage

A lot of people have started using the word CARBON FOOTPRINT more and more in their conversations, just like , using the word , 'Going Green', or the word, ORGANIC, has become another fad.
The part of this whole repeated misuse or overuse of the word without actually ever really understanding the concept of it or without actually truly doing something about it, is what irritates me very much and each time some ill informed person just goes yada yada yada about green or organic or most recently carbon footprint, All i want to do is make them sit down and then proceed to ask them to explain the concept to me.
Anyways, let us come back to CARBON FOOTPRINT.This is a broad indicater of how much of the non renewable resources have each one of us as single entity used up .The larger the footprint , the larger the wastage that has been done by us.
Now, A waterfootprint is much the same, the amount of water that one wastes and the amount that one doesnt need to waste or the water that they could have prevented from getting wasted had they been careful .
For eg. you know we spend so much of water feeding a cow,, approximately 40L of water, just so that we could drink a Litre of milk.So, we have had to invest 40L of good to drink water for just a mere 1L of milk
I mean, really, it is absolutely wastage.Soymilk prepared from beans uses water to grow the plants but ofcourse that is all it needs besides soil minerals.
One pound of soybeans , Yield a lot of soymilk besides the byproducts thereof after the milk has been extracted which are absolutely edible and rich in minerals.
We could very well, skip the step of feeding the cow the soybeans and then drinking the meagre yield of cow's milk
The cow needs to be fed as well, besides being given water, to produce a Litre of cow's milk.
Get my point?
we could have saved that much of food and that much of water, had we decided to just go ahead and drink soymilk .While excluding a step in the foodchain we save a lot of resources.
We feed the cow, corn and soybeans ,peanuts and what not, which for a fact , could actually be useful as food to us ourselves.Thus, by eating that very corn and by eating soybeans and peanuts and not breeding more cows just to be slaugthered, we are actually countering the food shortage.A 40L of water would be enough for twenty people for a day.The amount of feed that a cow feeds per day would be enough as filling meals for five or six people.
Simply said, if we can eat wheat and carrots and soybeans and corn ourselves, why go ahead and feed pounds and pounds of that to a cow and finally kill the cow after having fed the cow for months this way?
Had we been a tiger or a lion or an alligator which cannot survive on carrots or soybeans , i would never have suggested this idea.
Afterall, our ancestoral primates were herbivores.We sure can go back to that and save the environment.

Animals do not belong in the Zoo !

The idea of confining animals in limited spaces is very inconsiderate indeed.
Taking your children to the zoo to help them learn about animals is hypocritical indeed.
It is almost like you are trying to teach them that confining animals in cages is a normal and right thing to do.
These children growing up thinking that a living being in a cage is NORMAL ! Well, it is NOT.

If at all you want your children to learn about animals , let them learn about animals by watching animal planet or by going on a jungle safari where we the humans are in confined spaces like a jeep or a van and watching the free animals which are free and moving around in their natural habitat , just like they were meant to be , in the wild.Just like nature intended for all us.

We have no right to confine animals in cages like we do in the zoos.

Not long ago, a tiger attacked a guy at the san francisco zoo ,coz the guy kept making faces at the animal.
I am sure this coward of a human would not even attempt at doing such a thing had the animal been out in the wild,free and front of him instead of being in a cage.It is SO EASY to make faces at caged animals,no?

I mean, it is so easy to sit and make faces at a caged animal..

Also Recently, a 300 pound orangutan, escaped the zoo--His name ,according to the zoo authorities was BRUNO
Funny habit of NAMING wild animals and then put them in zoo
All cutely romantically comical
I am not even sure if the orangutan himself likes that name or understands the concept of names ..but then we humans like committing cruel acts and then doing something superficial and "disney like" ,Like given them cute names, to make the whole affair look like a fairy tale

I mean , are you telling me that the orangutan is happy in a caged confined space as opposed to moving in the wild, all free and at it's  own will?

Let us look at it this way .
A human is going about his/her business each day, going wherever they want to go , eating whatever they want to eat and mating whomever they want to mate(provided the opposite person is equally willing) and doing whatever whenever.
Then, all of a sudden, someone comes and captures this human and takes them and keeps them in a room, The room is very limiting, this human cannot go out of the room ever.
And then someone comes and feeds them twice a day, And then millions of animals come and watch this human each day and perhaps throw trash at them and taunt them sometimes too...
would that be okay?

Now, I can almost immediately  hear some of your respond with , "Awwwwww, but we are humans and they are animals "
And, my answer to that would be,,"Well ,yeah,Humans are animals too. The fact that they are animals and are far more equipped to survive in the wild without clothing or tents,unlike humans, makes it even more cruel for us to confine them that way."
They are FREER children of nature than us humans.So ,cages are going to feel even more confining for them than us.
I am very glad that circuses have almost become very rare and I hope zooos are scrapped too ,very soon.

There are far better ways of teaching children about animals.Let them watch animal planet or discovery channel or national geographic channel for one.That way they really know and understand that animals are far more capable of surviving in the wild without any help than us humans.
If you can afford it, take them on a safari where you watch animals in their natural habitat.
Teach them to respect animals.Teach them to understand the concept of FREE WILL and FREEDOM.