'Panic and upheaval can bring out the best in people as well as the worst. This is especially true in relation to our dogs.'
,” just doesn’t work for dogs. Being with us makes them calm and happy—just as being with them makes us calm and happy.
I’m asking because now the shoe is on the other paw, and humans are suffering, in large numbers, from. We are separated from our friends, our social networks, and in many cases our parents or children. Maybe now we will get a taste of what millions of dogs are experiencing: the profound distress of being alone when we don’t want to be.” is itself an example of the way we pathologize dogs’ behavior, which prevents us from understanding and empathizing with their experiences.
These people will have given dogs in need a beautiful gift by sharing their homes. But the sad thing is that the spark of hope and security that might be kindled in these open-hearted dogs will be dimmed when they must go back to the shelter. And although the home environment is, on average, going to be lessfor a dog than the shelter environment, the transition from one to another can be very hard for dogs emotionally. Dogs shouldn’t be in shelters in the first place.
Though this crisis is an opportunity for dogs to get more attention from humans, it is also a time of great risk for them. Reports out of China include heartbreaking details of dogs and cats who were abandoned during the lockdown and who are now starving to death. Here in the U.S., there already are reports of dogs being chained up outside, thrown out to the curb or being dropped off at shelters—all because of unfounded fears that dogs can be infected by Covid-19 virus.
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