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release poodles wild and i gurantee you that they will adapt in a generation or two.
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His point is not that poodles absolutely must have a Human companion, but rather that if you take a random animal from the wild and bring it into your house and start raising it, it will not be domesticated in one or two generations.
Some animals simply cannot be domesticated. For example, zebras.
It's called the Anna Karenina Principle. Look it up.
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again there is no way to prove this. Have you been a dog or cat? do you have experience of how it is to be a dog or cat? no.
All there is are "assumptions".
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Um, what? First, yes, there is a very easy way to prove this. Take a calf away from a cow, and five years later bring the calf back to the cow. If the grown up calf and cow recognize each other and act in a familiar way, then there is a good possibility that they recognize each other. If they do not recognize each other and treat each other like two cows would treat stranger cows that they have never met before, then there is a good chance that they do not recall each other.
Second, why is "assumptions" in quotation marks?
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it was an example of other "wild" animals that bond with people very easily.
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Just because they can bond with Humans does not make them domesticated. Look up Elephant domestication.
Anyway, on topic: I don't think it's morally wrong or anything. I've always wanted to try dog and cat meat personally, just to see what it's like. But would I kill and eat my own precious dog, Sparky? No, I have an emotional attachment to him. Same way that there are people who have pet pigs, but will still eat pork. Or kids who have pet chicks and will still eat chickens. (Chickens are frequently kept as pets, but most people do not form as strong of bonds with them as they do with more intelligent and emotional animals such as dogs, horses, cats and pigs.)