When it comes to dog and cat predation, the more objective stance’s that they’re capable of doing both good and bad depending on the situation where if they hunt vermin, they’re good or that’s good but if they hunt wildlife then that’s bad. But that involves putting aside biases and to be more open about it, that’s what I learnt when it comes to my attitudes to dogs.
Like cats, they could do a lot of good whenever they hunt vermin in farms and houses where canine and feline predation might be a good thing in those cases. Like cats, it would be bad if they hunt wildlife and livestock, which’s already a problem in some cases. But that involves knowledge on both sides of the party to see the wider picture of things.
You might as well shoot yourself in the foot when your knowledge of animals is almost one-sided when it comes to animal predation that I think it does serve both good and bad depending on the circumstance. But that involves being actually objective about it, where it can’t always be contaminated by biases but openness to it.
One needs to be equally open about the good and bad cats and dogs do, where some cases they do bad if they hurt wild animals but good if they hunt down vermin.
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