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Whether or not you wear fake eye lashes is not up to me 
However, very cool that you keep your cats indoors. I wish more folks would acknowledge the facts about song bird extinction and either keep their house cats indoors or get the declawed.
snack if small enough. The dog wouldn't torture you before disemboweling you, though, which is a slight benefit there. 
My dog loves trying to eat mice, squirrels, rabbits, birds, etc.
But I've always said that the problem with religious extremism isn't the religion, it's the extremism.
rocktivity
hopefully with plenty of Rottweilers, German shepherds, and of course, pit bulls.
Who doesn't like dogs? 
Even kitties like dogs.
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Not enough. Can't sharia law do better?
Arabs have always had a bad view of dogs, mostly because Dogs and Jackals are often interchangeable in much of the Arab World.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackal
Mostly this has to do with the Golden Jackel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_jackal
Like Coyotes, Jackals have been expanding into areas cleared of Wolves:
There is a group who believe the dog is descendant from the Jackal (Wolf to Jackal to dog, as opposed Wolf to Dog) do to several features that jackals and dogs have and wolves do not, these include (Charles Darwin was one such advocate):
1. lack of a tail scent gland
2. Round eyes
3. except when breed to be bigger or smaller, dogs tend to go to the 50 pound rage, the same as the Jackal.
One report indicate dogs and Wolfs separated about 135,000 years ago, about the time man shows up (Through some people have attacked that report, it is still considered within the range of the separation of Dog form Wolf). This does NOT mean man domesticated the dog 135,000 years ago, but that dogs somehow separated themselves from wolves, most likely by learning how to live around man. Actual domestication and breeding did not occur till either about 9000 years ago (Through one questionable report from the 1880s says 13,500 years ago).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog
Paper on dogs separating from wolves 100,000 years ago:
http://anthropology.tamu.edu/papers/Raisor-PhD2004.pdf
This would be compatible with the separation of Jackals from Wolves. DNA studies have indicated dogs are closer to Wolves then Jackals, but if you look at those studies you see a presumption in favor of wolves which may explain the findings. Furthermore it involves certain presumptions that may NOT be correct (Which is also the reason people attack the 135,000 years ago DNA report).
I bring this up, for it is the Arabs (and people of India) that are the most anti-dog, and this anti-dog attitude is more cultural then religious. It predates Islam, Buddhism and even much of Hinduism. It goes to the tradition of leaving Jackals and dogs eat scraps off the street. The Golden Jackal is the Jackal that did that in most ancient Mid-East to India cities. Thus Jackals (and thus also dogs) are viewed as animals of the gutter and thus "unclean" in those regions.
Now, you must understand the term "unclean". "Unclean" does not mean an animal is dirty or filthy, but something to avoid. "Clean" animals was a term related to domesticated animals. Thus any wild animal would be unclean, and when it came to Jackals a lot of ancient people viewed them NOT as domesticated pets but animals that cleaned up the trash left over from dinner.
Once you get away from the area where the Jackal lives, this hatred of dogs tend to disappear. South of the Golden Jackal area you are in Sub Sahara Africa and they appear to have imported the Dog only in the last 2000 years (with some tribes in Southern Africa only getting dogs in the last 500 years). North of the area where the Jackal lives, it is to cold to keep dogs outside in winter. You have to give them cover for them to survive, Furthermore dogs could and have been used as objects to warm people up. Thus the tendency to have dogs in homes outside of the Middle East, North Africa and India.
Jackals, like Coyotes in the Great Plains, evolved in an area where food was scarce, so being large was a disadvantage. In the Great Plains, the wolves would follow the bison herd, thus the coyotes had to avoid such herds, but left the rest of the Great Plains to them. It appears Jackals did the same as the Coyote, evolved in the dry desert area which could NOT support large animals, but could support much smaller animals. Thus the Jackal territory tends to be in areas without wolves (Or on areas where the Wolf travels through but does NOT stay).
In urban areas of the Ancient World, the Jackal and wild dogs thrived by eating what people threw away. Thus jackals and dogs became to be known as "Unclean" beasts and disliked by people in that part of the world.
Please note, Muhammad is believed to keep some hunting dogs and shepherds always had dogs.
Thus the "Ban" on dogs was NOT that dogs were "bad" just "unclean" and should be kept out of one's home. Again tied in with the habits of the Jackal.
Furthermore, in the Koran, dogs are treated with respect. For example a dog protects some men while they sleep when they hide in a cave during the persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian (The Wikipedia says Emperor Decius). The Koran retells a story that was at least 100 years old at the time the Koran was written:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sleepers#Qur.27anic_version
Now, in the Hadiths, which are considered LESS reliable than the Koran itself, do repeat anti-dog tracks, but you have to be careful, some Hadiths are respected by both Sunni and Shiites, some by Sunni only, other by Shiites only.
Since we are discussing Iran, which is Shiite, only the Shiite Hadiths are a factor in this case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Shia_books
There are 25,000 Hadiths and some conflict with one another (which is NOT unexpected, for each one is to be read as a whole NOT a word or line by itself). It is in the Hadiths you see the anti-dog rules, and in most cases reflect traditional Arab/Iranian/Indian hostilities to dog do to the existence in those areas of the Golden Jackal.
- It's become quite boring.
K&R
