“One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.”

— Ingrid Newkirk, The Chicago Daily Herald, Mar 1990



I know this is preaching to the choir here but does this lady even have a clue about dogs. Dogs are not natural at all they are seriously inbred wolves (I'm not speaking ill of dogs, I love dogs, I'm just saying.). Most of them would not even survive in the wild and the ones that did would merely end up pets again anyway. They have had way too close of a relationship with humans. I am pretty sure that their relationship with humans goes back further than any other domesticated animal. It is much less common these days due to leash laws but outside dogs that are free to roam wherever they want still come home to their humans. I had one like this when I was a kid it never knew what a leash was almost never saw the inside of our house and yet not only did it stay at our house but it followed me everywhere. So much for her "be free" concept.

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