On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 11:17 GMT, Klaus Imgrund penned: > On Sunday 07 December 2003 05:23 am, Tom wrote: > > >> Have you ever seen a dog play with a mouse by torturing it? > > Animals don't have a concept of torture. Most pets rarely kill > anything and are almost as clueless how to go about it as I am with > fixing my box. They are merely what appears to be cruel at times to > the human bystander. Actually I don't care how my dogs send beings on > to the next world as long as they do - all in a days work. > > Klaus >
Actually, I normally see this behavior in cats, not dogs. Anyway, Klaus, your description of animals seems to fit my observation of small children -- there are plenty of stories of kids doing horrific things because they are innocent in the sense of the pre-apple days: they have no knowledge of right and wrong. Anyway, I have definitely had dogs who had a sense of torture -- lock them outside for a few hours and they would whine, and whine, and whine about being tortured by not being allowed inside! (This matches up with kids nicely, too, I think -- kids are generally keenly aware of anything that negatively affects them, while being completely unaware of how their behavior affects others.) -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
