Poemranker [Replying] Thu Nov 21 13:19:38 PST 2024

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science (Free verse) by whispern_smoke_wisp

I read an article a few years back. It explained how dogs don't really love us humans. They just evolved this way so that, like a parasite, they could take advantage of us, to get food. (shaking my head) God damn it, says I why does science always have to explain away the magic of all the simple pleasures.

zodiac

9-Apr-05/10:51 PM

You're wrong. Dogs do love humans. They've evolved to love humans. They evolved that way because the pack-behavior and imprinting that help them find food and fend off predators in the wild reacts well to a different-species dominant male (i.e., a human owner).

Jared Diamond writes extensively on the topic in Guns, Germs, and Steel, before going on to discuss how zebras, though pack-oriented, have never been successfully domesticated. Nor even very well tamed, except by the eccentric Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, who once rode a zebra-driven cart into Buckingham Palace (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/museum/tring/history/history.html)

PS-I propose you think dogs don't really love humans because they have reasons for loving us, while you expect love to be somehow, I don't know, unconditional and profitless for the lover. That's just crazy.

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