I saw this ad in my junk mail that offended me tonight. It's for a device that's supposed to train "noisy dogs" to stop barking. I know that one of my neighbors has such a dog, and I do realize that it can get on people's nerves sometimes, but I look at it through the dog's point of view. The dog is trying to tell its owner something, and barking is one of the ways it communicates with its caretaker (some will say master, and that's probably closer to the truth in most cases, but such terminology suggests that dogs are inferior to humans and are therefore supposed to be tamed by humans, which I feel is completely wrong. The only reason to train an animal is to try to socialize it, not to make it submissive. Dogs are loyal enough anyway if you treat them right.) So, people respond by buying these devices? Do we just buy these things to just train a dog to "shut up" when it's told to? And I'm not even sure how the dog would feel about it, I mean, it's supposed to emit a sound that is out of range which humans can hear. But even if it WAS as painless as they claim, I think it is immoral. If the dog wants to bark, it has every right to. Give the dogs freedom of speech.
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