[candice81]

A bone is a bone!

[FavaBeans]

...Then they eat the dogs

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Originally Posted by Pigeon ↗

You're right; they also appear to have expressions on their faces indicating deep sadness, reluctance and regret.

Or, this "tentativeness" is nothing more than the action of ripping off small, bite-sized pieces because, well, how else would they eat? Honestly, even in the face of overwhelming photographic evidence, the lengths some will go to insist that animals (and therefore their pets) possess human cultural taboos—!

As for the notion that a dog would only eat human flesh when starving, I suggest reading my post earlier in this thread about a certain scientific paper:

Dogs eating human heads even when dog food is available

Sorry but I'm anything but anthropomorphic. I have much academic focus in the biological sciences and animal behavior, and was a special needs dog trainer for 12 years.

Dogs do have an inbred and socialized taboo against looking to humans for meat, ie they don't and have never hunted humans. If other actual meat was available, Im sure they would have eaten it. Don't read any sentiments - its just the way it is. Choosing dead human meat over crappy corn based kibble isn't a relevant litmus, junkies sent known to buy the best for their dogs. It says more about the dog food than a dogs love of head meat.

[Biishya]

Well, looks like I'm buying myself a fish tank instead.

[ousoonerchic]

Well that's disgusting

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Typo - Junkies aren't known for buying the best food for their dogs.

I saw watched a horde of fuckheads once, giggling uncontrollably as the boney puppy they kept to pimp for change, was lapping up human vomit. It took all I had in me not to kick their faces. They were hunched on the sidewalk - perfect level.

I still regret not taking the dog away.

[Pigeon]

Originally Posted by curvature ↗

Sorry but I'm anything but anthropomorphic. I have much academic focus in the biological sciences and animal behavior, and was a special needs dog trainer for 12 years.

Dogs do have an inbred and socialized taboo against looking to humans for meat, ie they don't and have never hunted humans. If other actual meat was available, Im sure they would have eaten it. Don't read any sentiments - its just the way it is. Choosing dead human meat over crappy corn based kibble isn't a relevant litmus, junkies sent known to buy the best for their dogs. It says more about the dog food than a dogs love of head meat.

First, dogs would only eat human flesh when starving; now they only eat human flesh when the dog food they've been living off is too "crappy". Keep shifting those goalposts.

I didn't say anything about hunting humans, only eating human flesh (here they are scavenging), but since you brought it up and claimed dogs and wolves "never" hunt humans, I presumably only need one case to refute it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...ia_Chamberlain.

But if you'd like more, in India the phenomenon of wolves hunting children is known as child lifting. That wolves and dogs tend to prey on children suggests that, rather than empathising with humans, they merely fear adults.

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Originally Posted by Pigeon ↗

First, dogs would only eat human flesh when starving; now they only eat human flesh when the dog food they've been living off is too "crappy". Keep shifting those goalposts.

I didn't say anything about hunting humans, only eating human flesh (here they are scavenging), but since you brought it up and claimed dogs and wolves "never" hunt humans, I presumably only need one case to refute it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...ia_Chamberlain.

But if you'd like more, in India the phenomenon of wolves hunting children is known as child lifting. That wolves and dogs tend to prey on children suggests that, rather than empathising with humans, they merely fear adults.

Fuck off you don't know shit about dogs, or probably anything beyond "wicki" you probably never even had a dog. Or a job.

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"Empathizing" the fact you use that term means you don't get it. In any system of depleted resource organisms become opportunistic.

It has little to do with propensities. Proximity and opportunity.

[copkiller1997]

Mans best friend