Digest Number 2244

[Guest guest]

(this is what i wrote to the owners of that flexpetz.com website)

 

Hi. I am an animal lover and i couldn't help feeling a major pang of disdain

while looking at your website. Renting out dogs in my opinion, is just

cruel. This is not taking into account the needs of the animal at all, and

is profiting off of and propelling our consumerist culture's selfish pattern

of taking whatever we want and disposing of it as soon as we are finished

with little regard for the repercussions. Dogs are extremely loyal animals

that can recognize their " owners " from over 500 feet away, and can learn to

communicate quite well with the people they are closest to. They are quite

sensitive beings, and can become easily damaged psychologically from abuse,

or neglect or jealousy over another animal or child joining their home. This

is testament to their ability to grow attached to their environment, and the

other humans and animals they share it with. In the wild, dogs travel in

packs and defend one another. One of the most basic behaviors of dogs, the

way that they urinate on things surrounding their home, is part of their

desire by instinct to mark their territory. One of the cruelest things you

can do to a dog, is move it from place to place never allowing it to form a

" pack " or have a " territory " . I hope you realize what a bad idea this is

and decide to run some other kind of, less exploitative, industry, and if

not, i hope you have some good doggy psychologists on hand ready to

counteract what you are about to create.

Sincerely yours,

joelle