04-24-2008, 03:22 PM
MAN BITES DOG!
I really don't have a problem with people eating dogs, Damon, if that's normal in their culture. Not far from here, up in Fresno, there's a large Hmong population, who eat lots of critters that you and I might think were vermin, besides dogs and cats. There was a small to-do in their paper about missing pets several years back.
Kind of a Darwinian solution to the stray dog problem in Puna, but I'm not repulsed by somebody eating a dog. I'd have a legitimate beef (ha!) if somebody eats my dog without my permission, though. *edit* If I let my dog run loose, then I've by default given permission for you to shoot it, or eat it, or whatever, because obviously I don't care enough for the animal's well-being to take care of it and protect it. */edit*
Bad dog! Bad dog!
Aloha! ;-)
I really don't have a problem with people eating dogs, Damon, if that's normal in their culture. Not far from here, up in Fresno, there's a large Hmong population, who eat lots of critters that you and I might think were vermin, besides dogs and cats. There was a small to-do in their paper about missing pets several years back.
Kind of a Darwinian solution to the stray dog problem in Puna, but I'm not repulsed by somebody eating a dog. I'd have a legitimate beef (ha!) if somebody eats my dog without my permission, though. *edit* If I let my dog run loose, then I've by default given permission for you to shoot it, or eat it, or whatever, because obviously I don't care enough for the animal's well-being to take care of it and protect it. */edit*
Bad dog! Bad dog!
Aloha! ;-)
Aloha! ;-)