[subroc]

Is this animal cruelty or a showcase of animal training?

When I see the words animal cruelty I wonder if it is agenda driven or really cruelty. As retriever trainers, in the simplest of terms, we are animal trainers as well.

Read the article?What do you think?

Joe

Here is a link to the story that was on the Drudge Report:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=407693&in_page_id=1770

 

[GregorMac]

Leave it to the Chicoms...

 

[goosebruce]

if Im an animal in a country with a billion hungry people and Im boxing instead of supper, I figger it aint a bad deal. travis

 

[mjh345]

china

If people want to look at animal cruelty in China they should focus on the **** sapien species

 

[birdy1646]

Re: china

If people want to look at animal cruelty in China they should focus on the **** sapien species

There seems to be a correlation between people who do mean things to animals .... that they would do them to people. It's a compassion thing.

I don't let my dislike of the *anti-s* interfere with my judgement about a situation.

For istance, while some practices may not be *cruelty*, I feel I can still judge the "gray areas", so I do.

I read and I watch, and then I determine when something feels distasteful, coercive, bad taste, or somewhat sadistic and unnecessary to me. It doesn't have to be branded "cruelty" for me to recoil sometimes.

As for kangaroo boxing, for instance....I'm thinking: Would I punch my dog in the face...to entertain my friends?

I've also seen instances in which dogs or animals were rather traumatized and stressed by certain practices...practices which are unnecessary.

One of the things I like about people who love animals is that they usually tend to be kind-hearted *in general*.

So yes, there are things I see which I find in very bad taste when it comes to the treatment of dogs and other animals, and I'm not going to run in the other direction just out of "knee-jerking against the anti-s".