Dogs are the first animals domesticated by humans, earlier than pigs and sheep.

This is why dogs are the closest to humans and are called “man’s most loyal friends.”

1. The cultural reason is also humans. Why do Western countries have relatively unified views on dogs, while China’s “dog culture” is more complicated?

For example, the vast majority of foreigners (except South Korea) will not eat dog meat. They think it is cruel to treat human beings' loyal friends in this way.

Many people in China are not averse to dog meat, and there is also a famous "Dog Meat Festival" in a certain place.

This shows that Chinese people treat dogs culturally, and not everyone regards dogs as human beings’ friends and loyal partners.

However, dogs have become highly trusting and extremely obedient to humans during the evolutionary process of living together with humans for tens of thousands of years.

Dogs, like humans, are social animals. They obey authority, become omnivorous, no longer lie down at night, get used to people's routines, etc.

In the West, people generally believe that the ancestors of dogs have the same bloodline as wolves, especially hounds. They are slender, ferocious in temperament, resourceful, like to chase in groups, and obey the leadership of authorities. This nature

Making them an excellent helper for people in hunting and fighting.

The reason behind this may be that the Chinese civilization is largely a farming nation and lacks the nomadic people’s habit of hunting with dogs. The main functions of farmers’ dogs are to guard homes and courtyards, and to catch mice and weasels, so they are basically

Tethered to a post instead of following people around.

It was not until the nomads penetrated the Central Plains culture that the Chinese had a new understanding of dogs.

Fu Xuan of the Jin Dynasty once wrote in "Ode to the Running Dog": "No one is as light and swift as an eagle, and no one is as fierce and agile as a tiger. Only the nature of a good dog is combined with the strength of two heroes." Mongolians also have the culture of "Wolf Totem".

In the Qing Dynasty, dogs often hunted with the Eight Banners disciples.

Even in the relatively weak Song Dynasty, Su Shi left a good story when he was hunting in Mizhou, "I talked about being a young man, holding the yellow on the left, holding the blue on the right, wearing a brocade hat and mink fur, and riding thousands of horses to roll around a flat hill."

In modern times, dogs in China have become pet dogs kept in captivity in cities and "running dogs" that guard homes and protect their owners in rural areas.

Many Chinese proverbs related to dogs have derogatory connotations, such as "dog-legged", "running dog", "dog meddling in other people's business", etc.

In contrast, in Western countries it is all about the “faithful dog” story.

This shows that the cultural symbol of dogs is complex and diverse in China.

2. Social reasons Logically speaking, whether you like dogs or not, as long as you do not affect or endanger others, it is your personal freedom. But why are there so many people who keep dogs and those who do not keep dogs in China?

contradiction?

1. It shows that our society is not inclusive enough.

As some dog owners said: Dog owners are good to dogs. Most of them are kind people and people who honor their parents. It is our freedom to feed our dogs and how to raise them. We can give them as long as we have the conditions.

Dogs eat better, but they eat worse if they have no conditions, but we treat them as friends, what's wrong with that?

Why do some trolls say that when they see a dog owner, they have so little money that they should respect their parents?

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You even envy dogs and can't tolerate them, which shows how miserable your life is!

To put it bluntly, there are some people in society who don’t hate dogs, but essentially don’t want others to live well.

On a smaller scale, this is a matter of personal mentality. On a larger scale, it is the extreme psychological imbalance of some people caused by the widening gap between the rich and the poor in society.

2. Some “dog lovers” don’t know how to keep dogs.

After years of domestication, dogs have become biologically docile, obedient, and easy to train.

Except for a few ferocious dogs, most domestic dogs are not aggressive towards humans.

Some dog owners only care about their own psychological feelings and do not know how to discipline their dogs, which leads some dogs to develop "bad habits", such as barking to disturb people, defecating everywhere, vicious dogs hurting people and dogs, etc., which leads to undesirable problems.

Less right and wrong.

3. Profit-driven dogs “take the blame” for bad people.

With the popularity of dog breeding, the pet economy has formed an industrial chain. In order to obtain financial benefits, many people engage in fraudulent donations and rescues, catch stray dogs and sell them to dog meat restaurants, dog dealers discard sick and weak dogs at will, etc., artificially caused

There are many "dog diseases".

In urban management, the purpose of some urban management and picket teams in beating dogs is to make a profit, rather than to manage stray dogs and vicious dogs.

"Fighting and ignoring" will cause negative effects.

The development of the pet economy brought about by pet gourmet food, pet grooming, pet clinics, pet hospitals, pet parks, etc. has also allowed many people to make a lot of profits and do a lot of evil. It has also triggered social controversy, and these problems are all attributed to dog breeding.

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