Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by ashtonkem on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:14AM (#30086458)

“Dogs are pets” is one of those cultural background assumptions that can be pretty jarring when you realize it’s not a universally held belief. There are pretty large chunks of the planet where dogs are mostly unwanted pests at best.

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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by EugeneOZ on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:17PM (#30091127)

Muslims use dogs as pets, so it's not argument here.

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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by ashtonkem on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:46AM (#30096658)

It’s not a religious thing, it’s a geographic thing. Wild dogs are a serious problem in some areas, and whether or not dogs are viewed as common pets varies wildly. To pick one example, a mere 16 million homes in India have a dog, and that is up a lot over the past decade. Compare that to the 63 million homes with dogs in the US, a much smaller country by population.

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