The dog...Pet or Accessory?
I saw 3 dogs on my 15 minute bus commute downtown this morning.
One looked like a fat, mangy squirrel, and was being carried by his owner. Ok maybe not quite as ugly as this dog!
One was a golden retriever, and was being towed on a bed with wheels behind a bike. He had a harness on and had 5 or 6 bungee cords strapping his harness to his chariot.
The last one was a mid size dog, which was also being carried by it's owner.
I thought that dogs like and NEED exercise. Most dogs are exuberant and full of energy. Yet the 3 dogs I saw today are being coddled, and making their owner do all the work for them. I know that there's probably a good reason why these dogs weren't doing any work, but it made me wonder...where do you draw the line between pet and accessory?
Curious.
posted by Nancy @ 12:40 PM
3 Comments:
Hi! I'm making a comment just because I can!
I have just one thing to say about dogs: People, clean up after your dogs! And, if you can't do that, please give your dog away to a person who will! This message comes from my shoes, who are tired of being scraped clean of the 'neers!!!!!
I'm not a dog person, at all.. but I think that a dogs are not meant to be picked up at all. That's what you do with cats.
So I'd say that a dog (that's not a puppy) that you can pick up in your arms, I'd consider an accessory, and a dog you can't lift (or wouldn't ever want to ie, and big german shepherd) is a pet.
But that's just my opinion, though.
Don't even get me started on dogs that are carried in purses with little plastic windows... SNAP!!
I'm a big dog lover myself. Though that picture makes me unsure of dogs in general. That's sick!
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