[lit-ideas] Re: Can't have a gun? Get a dog
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:48:26 -0700
Dogs in packs damage, kill, eat other dogs.
Not true.
Everyone knows there are cows in the streets in India. Yes, I saw quite a few cows wandering
around.
But what I didn't expect was the dogs. There are thousands of dogs in the streets. They're
everywhere. I'd guess there are several hundred thousand street dogs in Bangalore. Nobody
owns them, they just live on the streets. In every block, there were maybe two or three
dogs, sometimes five. They live totally free, doing whatever they please, walking around in
traffic, sleeping on the sidewalk, whatever.
Nobody vaccinates them, nobody does anything about them. It's just dogs on the
streets.
I also noticed that the dogs didn't howl at night. There was no endless barking. The dogs
mostly just slept. Laziest things I ever saw.
So, it's not true that dogs form packs and attack each other. The dogs in India don't.
They're very docile. I went up to a few. They let themselves be petted on the head. They
didn't mind at all.
Look, this "doggie dog world" and "gotta show 'em who's boss" and "Leader of the Pack" and
"Call of the Wild" stuff is some sort of American projection. A few weeks ago, Lawrence
wanted to bomb the rest of the planet. Last week, he wanted to shoot everyone. This week, he
beats his dogs into submission. Do you see a pattern here?
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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