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[quote=Anonymous]I find a lot of this discussion a little overdone, and I think the commenters who consider how you were raised or to what you are accustomed to be the most accurate.  For example, my husband wasn't raised with dogs.  He also has a fairly real view that taking pets is a disservice to the pet's ability to be a being with freedom in the world.  You deprive a being of freedom in the natural world for your own joy.  He also points out that for those of us in the modern, consumer driven world, who drive cars, and pave roads, and frequent strip malls, and eat meat, and pollute, and buy stuff at stores, etc, you are harming very many animals.  So, he doesn't really want to be in charge of a dog, and thinks dogs should live on farms if they will be pets at all, with owners who interact with them all day in the fields (think shepherd and sheep dog), otherwise they can remain wild in Africa.  And he thinks terminating the freedom of animals as an industry (pet industry) is not a moral good.

Anyway, he is a very lovely person.  He just didn't grow up with a big smelly slobbery annoying crapping dog, and has no interest in devoting his time to one.  He's not at all mean to them.  He feels badly for their lot in life, and wishes to not exacerbate the whole pet-having situation in humanity.  He wishes them freedom, and he is a great husband, and very warm and kind to everyone, and while he doesn't really "Relate" to other people's dogs, he truly feels for them.[/quote]

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