Dog daze (was Re: Stalin quote)

[Mike Weaver]

>> > Dogs learned, as a matter of survival among men, to be like men (or to at
>> least be those things that men like about themselves)so as not to be eaten
>> by men. 
>> >  It is not a pleasant view of dogs...somewhat more cynical and
>> manipulating than we want to believe of our "best friend".
>
>Evolutionary biologists have in fact suggested that this is how the modern
>dog came into existence...from wolves who found a niche as hangers-on around
>the camps of Homo sapiens.
>
>Max
>

Seems to me that dogs by and large exist only as an aspect of human beings,  in
a way no other animal does.  They are often a receptacle for a part of their
owner's personality,  maybe with urban feral packs a collective version,
conveying an
aspect of a citypsyche.

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