Re: [tied] Re: Woof

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From: Rick McCallister

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 10:55 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Woof

I have to admit that Pat may have a point on this. The New Guinean "singing dog", from the little I've read on it, seems to be a semi-domestic breed, and is possibly closely related to the ancestor of the dingo. It is possible that the modern "Asian" breeds may have been an innovation that caused people to abandon less tamer breeds, much as ferrets were abandoned for cats.

 

 

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Patrick:

 

As some of the derivatives suggest, Asian dogs were probably regarded as 'man's best meal' rather than 'man's best friend'.

 

A practice than remains today and extends also to cats, which are killed in the most inhumane fashion (boiled alive in oil and skinned while still half-alive) possible to satisfy Asian gourmands.

 

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