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In reply to the discussion: What's a subject where you have a point of view but can see the other side of it too? [View all]hunter
(40,885 posts)No way will I force my dogs to be vegetarians or scold them whenever they kill gophers or rats.
One of my kids used to have pet rats and our dogs then saw all rats as members of their pack. But only one of those dogs remains, our old lady dog, and kid has grown up and moved away.
Two of our dogs now see rats as food, and they are willing to share with us, usually when we are least expecting them to drop a dead rat at our feet, or worse, on our bed as we are reading or napping. They are so excited to bring us food because usually it's us bringing them food.
I'm an occasional carnivore, but my wife is not. No I don't eat rats, especially not the rats our dogs catch, but I did eat a bit of lamb yesterday, which I suspect was more mutton. If you wear wool, you've no cause to complain. Those wool sheep generally end up as some kind of meat, just like egg laying chickens, or milk producing cows.