• SplashJackson
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    11 hours ago

    Animal slavery? You know, just the other day I heard about humans using dogs to hunt coyotes, it seems a lot of humans use these dogs as a slave species…no bueno

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 hours ago

      The cooperative relationship between humans and dogs has always been a working one (that is, centered around the collaboration of productive tasks), so I have less concern with dogs on duty. In this case, dogs are being used not for their keen sense of smell, but as dousing rods on the pretense of their keen sense of smell.

      I did not mention dogs used as attack dogs, which absolutely abuses the dog. Not only that, but the dog is regarded as an officer if a victim fights back, what has only become a controversy when an attack dog was used on a fellow officer.

      As for dogs used to hunt, that’s the first thing we collaborated in doing, and we seem to have developed our relationship with dogs at the same time we developed agriculture, so they’d definitely be used to hunt vermin including foxes and coyotes.