This research essay is about what puppy mills are and what they do, what a dog knows in its mind, and what it’s like when you first meet a dog and what it’s like for the dog when they first meet you. Puppy Mills are a large dog breeding facility where profit is cared more about than the puppy’s health. Puppy Mills are horrific, and they sell the dogs to unsuspecting families; the facility only cares about increasing their profit, and not about the dog’s health.
According to “DoSomething. rg,” after female breeding dogs can no longer reproduce, they are often killed. Plus, breeding dogs in Puppy Mills have no real quality of life, ften only living in small wire cages with no attention, exercise, or veterinary care. This proves that the Puppy Mills do not care about the dogs inside of their building and all they care about is making money off of the dogs. They would kill dogs just because they don’t have anymore room, or because the dogs can no longer reproduce. This proves that they do not care about their health.
The Humane Society of the United States, HSUS, has helped close down illegal Puppy Mills. They are still trying to get all of the illegal Puppy Mills to shut down for good, and stop the cruelty. ProQuest says, the HSUS has created a campaign gainst Puppy Mills. They are trying to get lawmakers and law enforcement officials to support laws that will crack down on the cruelty dogs are receiving in Puppy Mills.
This proves that there are people trying to stop cruelty dogs are receiving. In recent years the HSUS has assisted in rescuing nearly 10,000 dogs from more than 50 different Puppy Mills across the country churning out more than two million puppies per year for the pet trade(Targeted News Service). ” They have gotten lawmakers to crack down on the cruelty in Puppy Mills. Even with all the help from the HSUS, there are still states that have a lot of running Puppy Mills, that are not healthy for the dogs. According to the HSUS’s research, Missouri is the state that has the highest number of Puppy Mills, with twenty-four open.
The USDA sent an official warning about the dogs not getting proper veterinary treatment. The warning didn’t help, it just made things worse. There is also another Puppy Mills in Missouri that has more than 400 dogs. They also have an official warning from the USDA for violations of the Animal Welfare Act regulation. This proves that the owners of the Puppy Mills do not care about what warnings the USDA gives them. Which is why Missouri is the state that has he most unhealthy Puppy Mills open. Nobody knows what goes through a dog’s mind.
Some people think that dogs have ethics, rationality, a metaphysics. An ancient philosopher maintained that dogs understand disjunctive syllogisms. The book, Inside of a dog says, “the ancient philosopher gave the observation that in tracking an animal to a branching path, dogs can deduce that if the animal is neither down the first or second of three trails, they realize that it must be down the third(Alexandra Horowitz). “This means that the ancient philosopher was correct that dogs could have ethics, rationality, and metaphysics.
The evidence means that dogs could track down an unfamiliar animal or toy without using his scent. “The best scientific tool proposed to determine if dogs think about themselves-if they have a sense of self-is a simple one: a mirror(Alexandra Horowitz). “The book also says, a primatologist, Gordon Gallup, has a theory that dogs, or any animals, would look at themselves in the mirror. First, he tested the theory on chimpanzees. He discovered that the chimpanzees did look at themselves in the mirror.
He than tested the theory on dogs. They have not been shown to pass the test. They didn’t examine hemselves in the mirror. They would sometimes look in a mirror, but they thought it was another animal, unlike the chimpanzees. This could mean that dogs may not have any sense of self. It could also mean that dogs’ behavior is that the other lack cues coming from the mirror image leads dogs to lose interest in investigating it. A dog isn’t curious why the tip of their black tail is white, or what the color of their new leash is.
What people always wonder is what it’s like to be a dog. What the dog’s experience in the world is like. “Thirty-five years ago, the philosopher Thomas Nagel began a long-running conversation n science and philosophy about the subjective experience of animals when he asked, What is it like to be a bat? (Alexandra Horowitz)” He did a whole bunch of research about a bat and found out what it really is like to be a bat. He then used his research about what it’s like to be a bat for finding out what it’s like to be a dog.
What they got for information was they found out about their nervous systems, their sensory systems, evolutionary heritage, developmental path from birth to adults, and a growing corpus of work about their behavior. In sum, they found out that what it’s like to be a dog is smelly, they are well eopled with people, they’re close to the ground, lickable, lives in the moment, full of details, fast, and is nothing like what being human is like. When people meet dogs, they bond instantly. Humans don’t need to be herded, nor are humans a natural pack.
So why do people bond with dogs? There are a lot of characteristics of dogs that make them good candidates for humans to choose to bond with. Their characteristics include that dogs are diurnal, ready to be awake when people can take them out and asleep when people can’t. Another characteristic is that dogs are a good size, with enough variation between breeds to suit different details. Small enough to pick up, yet big enough to take seriously as an individual. All of those characteristics are relevant in attracting humans to dogs, but they don’t fully explain why people bond.
The bond is formed over time, and how dogs’ and people interact together. So how dogs and humans bond is just with time, interaction together, and sometimes it depends on how the human or the dog looks. When a dog’s owner leaves during the day, the dog would start whimpering, shadowing their owners wherever they walk, than they would eventually vomit. So the owners would call a trainer, who told them to reduce their stress at separation, and to no itualize the departure between the owner and dog, don’t celebrate the reunion.
Lorenz called the greeting between animals after being apart a ‘redirected appeasement ceremony’. That nervous excitement one might feel on suddenly seeing someone else in one’s den or territory could lead to two different results: an attack of the potential stranger, or a redirection of the excitement into a greeting(Alexandra Horowitz)”. The idea was that there is very little difference between the attack and the greeting, besides a few subtle alterations or additions. Dogs, even though they don’t hunt cooperatively, are cooperative.
Despite small diversions, the dogs are dancing in a masterful synchrony, traveling together. It helps that dogs live at people speed. A puppy initially balks at a leash, pulling at it or simply failing to grasp that the dog is attached to the leash. Puppies do eventually learn to cooperate while walking with their owners. They learn by mimicking their owners while they walk. This is called allelomimetic behavior, and is implicated in the development and maintenance of good social relationships among animals. Because of allelomimetic behavior, the puppy has learned about the sequence of behaviors.