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This video restores my faith in humanity.

Interesting, I don't have the same response. That dog was tossed aside by humanity, and eventually after a lot of suffering, got taken care of. I'm glad that the people were there to take care of her, but angry at whoever let it happen.

Overall impact on my outlook on humanity? Negative.
 
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Interesting, I don't have the same response. That dog was tossed aside by humanity, and eventually after a lot of suffering, got taken care of. I'm glad that the people were there to take care of her, but angry at whoever let it happen.
I don't know enough from that video to determine that she was tossed aside. I feel as if you know more than I do or are assuming she was more than a dog born on the streets, or who got lost, and was never considered anything more than a stray by the few who did see her. The only thing that tells me she might have had human interaction was that she did not look as malnourished as some cases I have seen. But that still doesn't mean she didn't go chasing a squirrel and got lost.
 
I don't know enough from that video to determine that she was tossed aside. I feel as if you know more than I do or are assuming she was more than a dog born on the streets, or who got lost, and was never considered anything more than a stray by the few who did see her. The only thing that tells me she might have had human interaction was that she did not look as malnourished as some cases I have seen. But that still doesn't mean she didn't go chasing a squirrel and got lost.

A puppy of that breed isn't born in the streets. But let's say for the sake of argument that she was. She was still the product of parents who had a home, or parents parents who had a home. Dogs are domesticated animals, created by humans in part to be dependent on humans. To irresponsibly allow your dog to have too many puppies and cast them out into the streets to fend for themselves, or to cast your own dog into the streets to have puppies... either one is being cast aside by humanity (as well as future pups that are born in that circumstance).

There is only one way this dog ends up in the streets fending for itself without being intentionally thrown aside, and that's if it got lost. But there STILL had to be a thousand people that saw her and kept walking.
 
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There is only one way this dog ends up in the streets fending for itself without being intentionally thrown aside, and that's if it got lost. But there STILL had to be a thousand people that saw her and kept walking.
Circumstances may be different between places like LA and Kentucky. A lost dog is common and we have no ASCPA group. The best you can do outside of larger cities with a Humane Society presence (euthanized after a few weeks if not adopted) is call the local sheriff and hope it doesn't become aggressive and get shot in the process.

On top of that most places have no leash or licensing laws (and they are rarely enforced if they do), so a dog wandering around might just be a neighbor's dog, like the one that keeps crapping on my deck. If I called animal control on every dirty dog I saw I'd likely be responsible in the deaths of dozens of pets.
 
Sorry if this is a repost, but I just saw Channel4's promo of the paralympics and thought it was way cool:

 
The Chinesse shovel, although amazing, was made in China and therefore will probably break after a couple of uses.

The bird fishing though is awesome. Is the species known for that, or is it something he's learned though?
 
Circumstances may be different between places like LA and Kentucky.

Yea, I think that's the key. What is that a Bichon Frise? Very popular dog in LA, but some dog owners get dogs for the wrong reasons and decide to abandon their dogs. Lost dogs in a city environment like LA ought to get reported every time - there's no wilderness for a lost dog to romp through, just a street for it to get killed by a car.

Lost dog = dead dog in a city
 
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