A big "thank you" to dog expert Clarissa von Reinhardt for this story - more information's, as always, www.animal-learn.de.
Of course it's not good to look at the dog with human morality, or in his only reason to seek a social partner, because we with our own kind, that is, other people do not get along. This inevitably means that the dog will be overloaded with expectations that can not manage it. It must not be more dog, but will accompany us as a better person on four paws. This will entail problems of Problems.
But to me it often appears as if we in our continuing effort to humanize the dog only not to have become inhuman. whenever it is to explain the behavior of a dog with his feelings or calls you a man to put himself in the situation of his dog, is the charge of anthropomorphism. This is from the comparative behavioral biology known that at least all mammals feel (and probably many others!), Similar feelings. Joy, joy of motherhood, care, love, sorrow, rivalry, loneliness, feeling anxious but not just us humans.
But what would be the consequence to admit if we were dogs that animals think in general, quite similar and feel like ourselves? Then would have far-reaching consequences follow. Animal testing, factory farming, the ongoing oppression and exploitation of living things entrusted to us, would not be morally justified. We had no authorization to imprison more animals in zoos. We all would of course immediately vegans, because it would be absurd to kill animals to eat, to wear their skin, or to accept only products to be derived from its industrial exploitation. It would be the most sweeping change in our society that one can imagine. It would be a never Revolution have been through all walks of life. It would be ... the eternal human dream of paradise. Perfect peace with all beings.
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