[kahljorn]

there's a funny thing about food chains.
Want to know what it is?
It's a chain.
A food chain is a chain.
When one element is taken out, another falls.
When there is no Elk, the tiger dies from lack of food.
When there is no tiger, the elk over breeds and eventually runs out of food(when the elk overbreeds the tigers will increase in numbers as well, thus balancing the equation).
When the elk overbreeds it eats up all the grass and other animals die off as well.

It eventually all comes down to plants growing out of dirt.
The dirt is what allows the plant to survive.
The plant is what allows the elk to survive.
The Elk is what allows the tiger to survive.
Without eachother they would die off.

Dirt is probably the bottom of the food chain, though it is not "Biological" as per claims of scientific fun (and I will not argue the "Life" of a rock now)
Our survival, is then, based on dirt.
Like a domesticated animals is based upon us.
We are better than the animal because it needs us to survive
We can't survive without dirt.
Ergo, is dirt better than us?

Thank you for playing 3rd grade ecology. I would tend to mention, there are technicalities of that, many many, but I would prefer to keep it to a simple chain. I'm sure you have the wonderful squishy superior human brain to analyze it!


On with the show..
"So what"

You said animals can't do complicated things, those are certainly "Complicated".

" But just because dogs are capable of living amongst humans doesn't mean they're incapable of any actions that they're ancestors were."
So are you agreeing that animals are capable of living in the wild like there ancestors? Wow, what a stern genius we have here...

"Did you even read my post? I don't think you did. Sure dogs like to "run outside free". But they also like to be with their families, which happen to be human. They aren't dumb."
So, when I let the dog go free I was giving it an aspect of it's life it loves, if it loves it's family it would come back, wouldnt it?
So again, what is the relevance of the argument against me releasing an animal, if they know what they like they will come back... Sure, they can't think complicated; but in the wild packs may seperate to hunt, but they always come back together, kind of how pigeons know to fly "Home". The same would go in the instance, were it the instance.