but that just reinforces the debate the pet owners hold animals captive , all you did was give the cause pet owners capture animals as slave property. if hell exist pet owners are going to get payback for all this. those animals all belong in the wild not some back yard or living room. dont be surprised if your pet is set free some day with a new law.
Yeah, domestic animals are meant to be captive. They don’t think like wild animals do nor do they long to be free. Ever notice how even when a dog gets loose, it always tries to come back home? Dogs may have decended from wolves, but thousands of years of domestication have ensured that they no longer behave or think exactly as wolves do. If you set a pet wolf free, it would probably die due to having no experience with the wild, but it’s wild genes at least give it a chance. If you set a domestic dog loose it would almost certainly die. A lot of dogs don’t even have a drive to chase or hunt anymore, and the ones that do are nowhere near as adept at hunting as wild wolves.
Goldfish have not been selectively bred for thousands of years. Dogs have. People dump their dogs all the time in my area and they usually end up getting hit by cars or disappearing.
Maybe if someone selectively bred dogs to be more independent and learn to hunt for themselves that could work.
But most dogs like your every day pit or lab don’t stand a chance on their own in the wild.
IIN that I think having pets was one of humanity’s worst ideas?
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but that just reinforces the debate the pet owners hold animals captive , all you did was give the cause pet owners capture animals as slave property. if hell exist pet owners are going to get payback for all this. those animals all belong in the wild not some back yard or living room. dont be surprised if your pet is set free some day with a new law.
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Yeah, domestic animals are meant to be captive. They don’t think like wild animals do nor do they long to be free. Ever notice how even when a dog gets loose, it always tries to come back home? Dogs may have decended from wolves, but thousands of years of domestication have ensured that they no longer behave or think exactly as wolves do. If you set a pet wolf free, it would probably die due to having no experience with the wild, but it’s wild genes at least give it a chance. If you set a domestic dog loose it would almost certainly die. A lot of dogs don’t even have a drive to chase or hunt anymore, and the ones that do are nowhere near as adept at hunting as wild wolves.
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they are domesticated not genetically modified , they would seek their ecological niche , that why goldfish do just fine released.
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Goldfish have not been selectively bred for thousands of years. Dogs have. People dump their dogs all the time in my area and they usually end up getting hit by cars or disappearing.
Maybe if someone selectively bred dogs to be more independent and learn to hunt for themselves that could work.
But most dogs like your every day pit or lab don’t stand a chance on their own in the wild.
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dogs released into the wild die of the same things wolves die of. starvation , predation and disease.
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But wolves can survive for years. Most dogs die in a few weeks.