I've been studying the dog owners since
1990 till now. The country I live in, does not have the laws that
regulate a lot more important areas of life, let a lone the pet
ownership. So I think that this setting creates the unique
opportunity to study this relationship, when it is not being governed
by the outside force aka the law and the state. When it is not being
conditioned and when it is left to be as it is. When it is
almost...natural and untamed. When it is in its original form.
What I've found out is devastating.
Since 1990 till 2012 the dogcravers
never, and I mean never, did any attempt to regulate and organise
their dog ownership. They didn't formed any group or sent their
representatives to the city council. They never felt the need to
limit the space that is available for their dogs. Although they had
the money, they never attempted to protect the children's playground
from the dog fesses contamination or dog attacks. They never cleaned
after their dogs in or around the playground.
They never tackle the stray dogs and
cats issues. They never helped the strays if they were injured by
their dogs. Not only that they didn't care for the injured, they
never cared about the corpses of the dead animals that were killed by
their pet dogs. They never cared about the pain and the traumas that
they inflicted on to other people whom took care of the strays. In
the most cases they never trained their dogs and when they did they
used the public spaces for that. For 22 years, our public spaces were
and are constantly filled with dog shit and mangled up stray cat
corpses. Attacks on humans got the miserable attention and were
exclusively placed in the well known context that dog is good and
that it doesn't attack unless it is provoked. Thus the dog and the
owner were never guilty yet presented as innocent victims.
As soon as the dog became an
economic burden, it would be thrown out to the streets, creating the stray dog population. Over time that population exploded, leading
of massive packs of dogs with unpredictable behaviour that roam
everywhere. Not ever was this issue brought up under the public spot
light. Yet it became the part of the “reality”. Anyone, like
myself, whom wanted to raise the voice about this was automatically
labelled as the animal abuser and animal hater. As the insane person
that does not accept the reality.
With this, I am ending the basic
psychological profiling of the dog owner and moving towards the
social realm, where the society and the dogcravers meet.
Dr Sam Vaknin declares that dog love is essentially an owner's craving to return to infancy.
ReplyDeleteThis fits with the usual evaluation that a dog has the mental age of a 2-3 year old child.
There's more here:
http://www.pebri.net/index_19.htm
Among other things, yes. Returning to infancy means in essence running away from the responsibility or not accepting the responsibility for your actions. However, since as we grow old we don't get younger, meaning that our life is the path of progression (as we go old, the older we get the more years we have) wishing to return to infancy is a process of regression. So you have the reality that is progression and the abstract (the non material psychological reality) that wants regression. Since we all know that the life ends with death, craving for infancy can also be interpreted as the fear from death, thus triggering the very basic urge, the urge for survival. So one way or another, you get the fear that you can't confront with and you want to avoid it.
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