It sounds like your answer to my question is yes, you are in favor of or OK with purebreds dying out. There are some people who only care about purebreds, like one breed usually, and they would consider it an extreme position that is alright with losing say the dachshund. But if you are against people making a profit breeding dogs, there is little chance the dachshund or any other breed of dog or cat can continue, unless it is done for free by a wealthy person.
I do not agree with spay/neuter or with any other mutilation to dogs' or cats' bodies, such as declawing. I think that sentient beings should be allowed to keep their reproductive organs and have normal sex and family lives, with offspring. This is how wolves and African wildcats live. A long time ago, some of these messed up and started hanging around humans, so now we have to alter their descendants.
I only think about individual sentient beings and don't care about species, and cats and dogs themselves don't care about species or even know what they are. Two hundred species go extinct every single day and some of those are probably due to our kitty litter waste, manufacturing of cat toys, manufacturing of kennels, etc. Since September, I have been volunteering at an animal shelter weekly, one that does cruelty investigations and seizes animals, but most of the animals there are just surrendered by people. The animals there are the saddest beings you will ever encounter, living in little cages waiting month after month for someone to adopt them but noone ever does. Some of the cats only have one eye because the FIV they catch in the cat hoarders' houses gives them eye infections that makes them lose one. The violence and cruelty against cats and dogs is so extreme, that I would press the button that sterilized all cats and dogs to save non-existent dogs and cats the horror of being born into this system. Extreme problems need extreme solutions and this is an extreme problem.
If human enjoyment, companionship or even health weighs in on it in any way, I think that's wrong, is pro human to the detriment of the animals. No cat is better off than an African wildcat living in the wild, and no dog is better off than a wolf living naturally in the wild, so that's all I need to know to make the decision about pressing the button. I don't think it's an anti-pet position and I have 5 animals in the house right now with 2 more at the shelter awaiting castration (yippee for them).
As far as dogs and cats giving people a connection to animals, leading to more veganism...I don't think you're making the connection that dogs and cats being in the world means dogs and cats are being farmed for meat and leather. You're making it sound like all people think of them as pets when to many people they are docile species, eager to please humans, in a convenient size, who make very good livestock, whereas wolves and African wildcats don't. Is the possibility that having a dog or cat leads people to go vegan worth them dying by the millions daily from slaughter, euthanasia, cars, disease, cruelty etc., and worth them living in kennels or tied up outside in the snow?
I do not agree with spay/neuter or with any other mutilation to dogs' or cats' bodies, such as declawing. I think that sentient beings should be allowed to keep their reproductive organs and have normal sex and family lives, with offspring. This is how wolves and African wildcats live. A long time ago, some of these messed up and started hanging around humans, so now we have to alter their descendants.
I only think about individual sentient beings and don't care about species, and cats and dogs themselves don't care about species or even know what they are. Two hundred species go extinct every single day and some of those are probably due to our kitty litter waste, manufacturing of cat toys, manufacturing of kennels, etc. Since September, I have been volunteering at an animal shelter weekly, one that does cruelty investigations and seizes animals, but most of the animals there are just surrendered by people. The animals there are the saddest beings you will ever encounter, living in little cages waiting month after month for someone to adopt them but noone ever does. Some of the cats only have one eye because the FIV they catch in the cat hoarders' houses gives them eye infections that makes them lose one. The violence and cruelty against cats and dogs is so extreme, that I would press the button that sterilized all cats and dogs to save non-existent dogs and cats the horror of being born into this system. Extreme problems need extreme solutions and this is an extreme problem.
If human enjoyment, companionship or even health weighs in on it in any way, I think that's wrong, is pro human to the detriment of the animals. No cat is better off than an African wildcat living in the wild, and no dog is better off than a wolf living naturally in the wild, so that's all I need to know to make the decision about pressing the button. I don't think it's an anti-pet position and I have 5 animals in the house right now with 2 more at the shelter awaiting castration (yippee for them).
As far as dogs and cats giving people a connection to animals, leading to more veganism...I don't think you're making the connection that dogs and cats being in the world means dogs and cats are being farmed for meat and leather. You're making it sound like all people think of them as pets when to many people they are docile species, eager to please humans, in a convenient size, who make very good livestock, whereas wolves and African wildcats don't. Is the possibility that having a dog or cat leads people to go vegan worth them dying by the millions daily from slaughter, euthanasia, cars, disease, cruelty etc., and worth them living in kennels or tied up outside in the snow?
