[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas]Indian dogs
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:38:31 -0700
A FAQ from the Stray Dog Welfare Society:
http://www.wsdindia.org/FAQs/faqs.htm
Of all the links, this one matches what I saw.
Before I went to India, I got vaccinations for a number of things. The doctor, who is a
professor at Stanford and a world expert on tropical medicine, told me about rabies. I told
him that I was going camping in India (a group of us spent three days in a national park)
and he said that rabies was widespread, so avoid contact with animals, incl. dogs.
Thus when I arrived, I noticed all of the dogs (how can you miss them?) but I stayed away
from them for several days. But eventually, I noticed the dogs simply minded their own
business. I asked friends about the dogs, and they just shrugged their shoulders. Nobody
bothered the dogs and the dogs bothered nobody.
One night, I was walking back to the hotel. Crossing the hotel's park, I saw a dog curled up
asleep in the middle of the tennis court. I walked over to the dog. He looked up. I held out
my hand to let him sniff it. He did, and then licked my hand once. Then he sat down again.
He didn't particularly care one way or the other that I was there. I walked off. He didn't
follow me. Just went back to sleep on the tennis court.
I couldn't imagine a dog in the USA would act this way. It'd run, it would approach, it
would bark or growl, it would follow... but it wouldn't act like the dogs in India.
Certainly there are some people who demand the removal of dogs. And there are some people
who demand the removal of all sorts of things.
But the fact remains that there are tens of thousands of street dogs in India, and they
don't behave at all like Lawrence and others think dogs should behave.
Thus I can grant Lawrence his argument and postulate that every single US dog expert agrees
that dogs must be mastered. But the simple fact of the sleeping dogs in India proves them
wrong.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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