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In reply to the discussion: This winter, my wife and I got a shelter dog. [View all]justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)42. Please, please, please do a search on Google images for "chained dog photos"
And tell me some of those dogs wouldn't like some freedom.
And to your other point, just because people and animals can survive in caged environments, doesn't mean that it's in their nature to do so and that has nothing to do with anthropomorphisation, that's just common sense. As for great apes, if the only environ they know is that cage, if they're born into captivity, then, sure, they're going to do "okay" but I bet they'd be "happier" in the wild.
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I suspect that gorillas care about interesting, whereas lions care about large.
Donald Ian Rankin
Apr 2013
#12
Please, please, please do a search on Google images for "chained dog photos"
justiceischeap
Apr 2013
#42
Probably not typical, but tethering dogs is illegal where I live (Chapel Hill, NC)
mnhtnbb
Apr 2013
#10
Unattended here means not outside WITH the dog...or basically...having the dog on a long leash.
mnhtnbb
Apr 2013
#13