House bans eating of cats, dogs

[handmade34]

31. hmmm...

over the years I have raised, taken care of most all kinds of domestic animals... I don't eat meat (although I realize others do, so I raise healthy animals for others)… If people are going to eat meat, I see no reason not to eat any and all, including dogs and cats (as well as insects)

our obsession with domestic dogs and cats has created a nightmare for others with the number of wild dogs and feral cats in the U.S. and world.

"experts now estimate 70 million feral cats live in the United States"

"There are more than 200 million stray dogs worldwide... and millions in the U.S."

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/farm-animals-that-are-probably-smarter-than-your-dog/

Thinking that farm animals are in some way different than our cats and dogs is a cultural construction that allows us to rationalize mass-producing and slaughtering these animals for food.

If you knew that farm animals were as intelligent as your children or pets, would you stop eating meat? If you answered “yes,” then it might be time to do so.
From pigs to cows, sheep to chickens, farm animals are all much smarter than we’ve ever given them credit for. Pigs learn their names and can do tricks like a dog. Cows, goats, and chickens all have incredibly complex social constructs, and they have best friends just like we do.

People love their dogs and cats, most want to treat their pets with the kindness and respect the truly deserve. Farm animals, unfortunately, rarely get treated in this manner. Though they have proven to be just as smart, adorable and loving as their dog and cat counterparts, they are still categorized as a “commodity.” The more we learn about these farm animals and how similar they are to the animals we bring into our homes, the more we want to change the situation we place them in.
Once we acknowledge the how amazing these animals truly are, it becomes harder to justify they ways we abuse them. While it might be uncomfortable to challenge the idea that farm animals are food, when we know what we do about their intelligence and abilities, don’t we owe it them to share the truth?

Here's the dirt on pigs: They are perhaps the smartest, cleanest domestic animals known - more so than cats and dogs, according to some experts. But pigs don't have sweat glands, so they roll around in the mud to stay cool. A sign of their cleverness came from experiments in the 1990s. Pigs were trained to move a cursor on a video screen with their snouts and used the cursor to distinguish between scribbles they knew and those they were seeing for the first time. They learned the task as quickly as chimpanzees.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24628983/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/smartest-animals/#.W5p4qfZFw7Y

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/29/574598877/no-easy-answer-to-growing-number-of-stray-dogs-in-the-u-s-advocate-says

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2004/09/feral-cat-problem/