KARL D. writes:

A man who was lost in the Canadian wilderness for three months had to kill and consume his dog to stay alive. He was finally found barely alive and is now in critical condition. I came across this article about him in the The Daily Mail and have been disgusted by what I read in the comments section. The anti-human sentiment and lack of critical reasoning is breathtaking. Comment after comment is filled with “I would rather starve to death than kill my dog,” “What a horrible selfish man,” “He should have just let himself die,” and one even said, “If I found out my father killed one of my dogs to stay alive I would never speak to him again.” I can’t even begin to wrap my head around this. Its insane! Interestingly enough, a huge amount of these comments come from women. It is as if the natural inborn aspect of nurturing in these women has gone completely off the rails. I have said before that there is a modern phenomenon whereby large segments of the Western female population has replaced children with dogs, and this only seems to buttresses my argument. I am by no means putting this all on women, but when one takes a look at the state of our culture and the election of the Obamas of the world it is quite easy to see how these things happen. There is no logic. Just a pure emotional response. That this man may have a wife and children who depend on him is completely lost on them. Even if he is single, is he not more deserving of life than his dog? When dogs start paying taxes, talking, writing symphonies and erecting buildings then maybe we can talk. Until then, human life naturally takes precedence.

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Terry Morris writes:

Caninitarianism trumps humanitarianism almost every time.

A reader writes:

Western women have replaced children with dogs? Asian women are pushing their dogs in prams. It seems Japan has literally gone to the dogs.

Alex A. from England writes:

It’s no surprise to me that the comments in the Daily Mail are almost all filled with anti-human sentiment in the case of the man who ate his dog to in order to survive in the Canadian wilderness.

There are occasions every winter, in this country, when people die of exposure or drown after jumping into icy lakes trying to rescue dogs which happen to have fallen through the ice. Such people are seldom accused of throwing away their lives. On the contrary, they are extolled as “heroes” by the idiotic readers of this ridiculous newspaper.

Alissa writes:

Alissa writes:

Those dogs in the stories about Asia are all little. And I quote from this link offered in the comment above:

“Ruaraidh writes:

I’d love to see someone shoe-horn an Irish Wolf Hound or something like that in there. Those little dogs are just pathetic, I know you can’t keep a proper dog in the city, but if you live in the city you shouldn’t have a dog at all.”

I think he has a point. The dogs these women love are small, annoying and yappy. They’re superficial chihuahuas. They’re not big working dogs such as shepherds and hunting dogs. Or dogs who help and protect disabled people.

Even dog choices have gone bad.

Laura writes:

Small dogs can be wonderful companions, but the replacement of children with dogs is sick.

Jane S. writes:

Japan’s population has been a sub-replacement rate for quite a while. I believe this is historically unprecedented–a developed country going extinct, by choice.

I’ve wondered how it would manifest. According to the article:

“If Japan were a person instead of a country, we might find something psychologically unbalanced in this fixation on tiny toy-sized, or baby-sized, dogs. A whole industry has grown up around it — pet hotels, pet cafés, pet saunas, pet fur stylists, pet designer clothing, pet jewelry, pet massage parlors, gourmet pet food, pet insurance, pet sitters, vastly improved pet medicine, special care for aging pets going senile — even, when the time comes at last, pet funerals with full religious rites, not to mention counseling for pet loss syndrome.”

Pretty sad.

Nick writes:

In fairness, dogs make better company than a lot of people.

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