http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/214 communications from an eco-anarcha-feminist animal Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:09:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/214#comment-4262 Carnival Against Vivisection | SuperWeed Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:44:43 +0000 http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/214#comment-4262 [...] to my house last week for an extravaganza of examinations and vaccinations, in the course of which dog Madeline became very afraid. Soothing her so that the vet could draw blood, assuring her that this was to [...] [...] to my house last week for an extravaganza of examinations and vaccinations, in the course of which dog Madeline became very afraid. Soothing her so that the vet could draw blood, assuring her that this was to [...]

]]> http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/214#comment-2190 storytime Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:16:25 +0000 http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/214#comment-2190 I watched a PBS documentary about the origins of dogs and this one suggested a new theory , presumably gaining ground, that argues against the older idea about people kidnapping wolf babies and nursing them into subjagation. The doc argued that the wolf-to-dog leap happened when early human civilizations started producing trash piles--- in doing so, they opened up a new niche. Wolves with a long flight distance, the ones who would run really far when they spot a human,-- those wolves stayed wolves and stuck to hunting. But the wolves with traits that allowed them to be comfy enough around humans to survive through eating trash-- they mated and created the proto-dog. Its an interesting idea, suggesting that the human dog-makers were not so much slavers but that trash production had immediate consequences for other animals, creating dependency relationships soon to be molded into outright domination, coercion, and all of the other atocities of how things were coming together. . . I watched a PBS documentary about the origins of dogs and this one suggested a new theory , presumably gaining ground, that argues against the older idea about people kidnapping wolf babies and nursing them into subjagation. The doc argued that the wolf-to-dog leap happened when early human civilizations started producing trash piles— in doing so, they opened up a new niche. Wolves with a long flight distance, the ones who would run really far when they spot a human,– those wolves stayed wolves and stuck to hunting. But the wolves with traits that allowed them to be comfy enough around humans to survive through eating trash– they mated and created the proto-dog. Its an interesting idea, suggesting that the human dog-makers were not so much slavers but that trash production had immediate consequences for other animals, creating dependency relationships soon to be molded into outright domination, coercion, and all of the other atocities of how things were coming together. . .

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