Spiteful
All that money spent on "research," and still they're wrong:
Wanna bet your next grant check on that, boys? Chimps may be incapable of it, but I can assure you from personal experience that spite is very much a part of the emotional repertoire of dogs.
If Wilson, our basset hound, feels he has not received his fair share of attention, or if we go somewhere without him and he felt he should have been allowed to go along, he will quite deliberately take a dump right in the middle of the patio -- knowing full well that it is unacceptable behavior and that he will receive an ass-whooping when we discover it.
If that's not spite, I've never seen it.
Spite is a uniquely human emotion
It used to be easy to separate man from beast. Then we realised animals, too, can experience sophisticated emotions and communicate through language. But there is one thing that is beyond even our closest relatives, chimpanzees. And that is the ability to be spiteful.
Wanna bet your next grant check on that, boys? Chimps may be incapable of it, but I can assure you from personal experience that spite is very much a part of the emotional repertoire of dogs.
If Wilson, our basset hound, feels he has not received his fair share of attention, or if we go somewhere without him and he felt he should have been allowed to go along, he will quite deliberately take a dump right in the middle of the patio -- knowing full well that it is unacceptable behavior and that he will receive an ass-whooping when we discover it.
If that's not spite, I've never seen it.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 07:55
4 Comments:
Your comments about ass-whooping your beloved Wilson have been forwarded to your local PETA office. :-P
You and Michael Vick must be brothers or something. Beating your pets and teaching them to fight and be spiteful. Call the invaluable pet police and have these people arrested I say. Alternatively, you can earn your salvation by sacrificing 10 house cats per offense. That will earn you great credit in the religion of Cat Hating Animal Lovers. PS - Check Monday's Wall Street Journal for an article on the new new atheism.
Bah! Liberal pansies, the lot o' ya.
I had a friend with a Terrier and every time he gave the dog a bath and only when he gave the dog a bath that dog would crap on the mat in front of the kitchen sink. Don't even tell me they can't be spiteful
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