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5. I just told my kids, "It is the nature of the dog to be a pack animal."

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 28, 2012, 04:52 PM

Aug 2012

They looked at our dogs, read your reply, and laughed.

Here's a lesson for you. Your own, extremely limited experience, despite your guinea pigs, tortoise and fish, does not establish truth.

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Keeping the faith at home [View all] rug Aug 2012 OP

My kids went to schools with very high levels of diversity - cbayer Aug 2012 #1

Odd. Our relationships to other living things are MineralMan Aug 2012 #2

The relationship of a toddler and a dog are not based on scientific knowledge. rug Aug 2012 #3

Nonsense. MineralMan Aug 2012 #4

I just told my kids, "It is the nature of the dog to be a pack animal." rug Aug 2012 #5

Wait a second, he made a very basic statement of fact, and you laugh at it? Humanist_Activist Aug 2012 #6

Yes. It was very basic, as in, dogs are carbon life forms. rug Aug 2012 #7

Also, do you tell your kids that their dog isn't going to heaven, that its "soul" isn't... Humanist_Activist Aug 2012 #8

I tell my kids to question everything and to suffer fools gladly. rug Aug 2012 #9

Just repeating what I was told by my parish priest... Humanist_Activist Aug 2012 #10

There is some truth to that. rug Aug 2012 #11

For me it wasn't a dog, but a cat... Humanist_Activist Aug 2012 #12

Thanks for telling that. rug Aug 2012 #13

You don't think that your dogs consider your family to be their "pack"? cleanhippie Aug 2012 #14

I think making fun of me was more important than MineralMan Aug 2012 #15

That is simply a baseline. rug Aug 2012 #16