Dog owners check your (AA) breakdown cover for exclusions

The message from "Dave Plowman (News)" contains these words:

That's not fair, Dave. We all know you'd lick your balls if you could. (insert smiley here)

But it *is* inhuman, it's a dog. This is the issue that I have with certain people owning pets, they don't quite realise that an animal is an animal.

If it was a child, then fair enough, but it's just a dog. You're too emotionally attached; just wait until it gets ran over or becomes brown bread through another method, then you'll be crying most likely. Jesus...

Whatdya mean 'if' ?

That's not a nice way to describe the recovery truck driver, however inhumanely he treated their pet.

So what if it's an animal? Most of them are probably better than a bunch of the trolls from here...

Why?

And?

Some recent news stories from there have been pretty diluted, or even mis-interpereted by western news agencies. It's interesting to see 'free speech news' in China, uncensored by the government. When I was there teaching Chinese/English to wee laddies and lassies, it was strange to hear the government output, and actual (more accurate) news.

Still, a human life is a human life, some people's brains are messed up, that's the issue. I'd like to lose a few myself, but needs must.

It's a very basic animal that learns to respond in certain ways to get what it wants. You either love dogs, or you hate them. Thus, I presume you own one...

In reality a dog will be 'fine' in a cold atmosphere for a period of time, but owners get pissy about it. Pissy in the same manner that you would be with a child - an entity that matters - but a dog? Sheesh.

I do not have any pets.

I'm sure it would, and I'm not really upset about a fit and healthy dog being towed home in an emergency in a cold car.

My contention is with your implied (or expressed?) opinion that "dogs don't matter".