Dog Ownership:
© mike warre
Opinion - Is It Morally Wrong
To Give A Dog A Job?
Author: Derek Fry
An old lady who lives down the road For a few days I couldn’t work out whether
from myself was broken into over I agreed with the police offi cer’s idea
Christmas. Fortunately, she was asleep or not. On the one hand, dogs wouldn’t
and didn’t stir, so she never actually be the long time companion of man if it
witnessed the crime and experienced wasn’t for their capability to perform a job.
the trauma of seeing the intruder. She But have we come so far that it is now
awoke to see that her draws had been wrong to go and get a dog to do a job?
rifl ed through and her keys were gone. As I consider it, I just can’t reconcile my
I was chatting to her the other day argument with any gravitas, every avenue
and apparently the police offi cer who I pursue to prove to myself that I’m right
dealt with her case advised her to get turns out to be a dead-end. Sheep dogs,
a dog. She tells me that the offi cer said guide dogs, ratters - they’re all dogs with
“unless you’ve got something specifi c jobs; what’s my problem?
they want, if they see a dog they’ll
go next door.” I was surprised by my If I go blind tomorrow, I’d probably be
reaction to this. I was concerned and a given a dog and would be very grateful
little bit narked. too. Farmers have dogs to do jobs, they
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