Well seeing as I am about as newby as they come making his first proper post on what seems to be a 'Veterans thread' (Note: No offense meant to veterans, I'm way to newby to start making enemies) I think i shall just stick to the facts as I know them mixed with my opinions with the goal of not sounding abrasive or questionable.
Hurting dogs is bad and in my opinion much worse than hurting any number of cats, snakes, fish or indeed humans. We took a wolf and bred it almost entirely for the purposes of physical endearment and labor. Cats are hunters by nature, humans have always needed cats hunting capabilities this is why they still do it and why it is almost impossible to completely tame a cat unless you have had it from when it was a very young kitten at which point it will see its owner as its mother and this works with most big animals however dogs work differently because of breeding and if you will bear with me this does get to some kind of logical point eventually

Seeing as a dog is in essence a creation of humanity I believe it to be totally unjustified to take advantage of this and hurt it. I have a dog myself (Yes I'm unique i know) which makes me more prone to view this as abhorrent but if I didn't have a dog I would still have to condemn this action as being vile, detestable and downright human. Yay go us¬¬ destroying manipulators of a rather vain and arrogant race who ceaselessly take from the planet we should be protecting......Ok that went a little off-topic at the end but on the whole i think i did quite well

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