A) Us humans are responsible for a certain species overpopulationing areas. What should be naturally happening is a perfect food chain, where no one animal overpopulates. The Earth did have this, but our killing for animal for food, clothing or destroying their habitats has messed up a food chain that the world needs to work properly. We are messing with nature too much.

B) I get what you mean about having a close relationship with your dog, I do too with mine, and how we don’t have a connection with these coyotes. But this shouldn’t matter when deciding about whether you should wear them or not. That is called speciesism and it’s a problem. Now I know that saying why would you eat a cow but not a cat, but it makes people think. Hindu people don’t eat cows (beef) because the cow is sacred but us Westerners have lived in a culture where cow products can be in nearly every meal we eat. While in some countries they eat duck tongue or cow brains, this to a lot of us, is horrible.
Speciesism occurs because of culture. But in the end, all animals should be treated with respect and let them live. We’re a very evolved race and by this stage I would like to think that we have the ability to feed animal free products for everything that won’t destroy the planet.

Bravo, this is so well said. We are ultimately responsible for all these population shifts within the species that attempt to live in our overpopulated, human world. I live outside of Boston, and there are coy-wolves everywhere here. I’m happy to say so, since they eat deer (lime disease), and Canadian Geese. (golf courses…kidding!) Shift the apex predators and the entire thing gets mucked up. Leave nature alone.

I think your comment was already answered in point #5.

By no fault of her own, this woman raised a coyote in her home https://www.dailycoyote.net. Can you look at her photos and read her blog and see any difference between the bond she has with this animal and her other pets? Absolutely not! Like I pointed out, it’s ‘knowing’ the animal that is the difference.

Ironically, you do the same thing with all your rants against PETA. It’s easy to hate a big group of animal rights activists because you don’t know them. You see nothing of individuals who care about the rights of animals because that might actually trigger something in you. But make no mistake, there are many people that suffer every day having to live in a world where so many people are missing a moral compass. After all, what kind of person thinks it’s ok to steal someone’s coat?!!!

It is, indeed, a tricky subject and we gave it our best shot. The reality is that everyone in society has multiple attitudes towards animals, valuing them (or not) for food, clothing, companionship, beauty, etc. Do you perhaps think it is unjustifiable to differentiate between any two animals under any circumstances? Should a pet dog be given the same considerations as a rat in the barn? Or is it just when it comes to fur that you have a problem?

1) In some countries, they still eat dogs. There are countries and religions where eating pork is seen as bad. Both animals are very smart. To be honest, I have nothing against eating meat, even though I do not eat it myself, and I don’t care what it is. At the end it is part of nature. But I do have a problem when that animal is rare, gets abused, suffered and killed for only one small part(like horns, fur, fins, etc).

2) The parts you mention about wolf packs are outdated and got debunked by its creator David Mech. If wolves behaved like you mention in the article, they would be extinct by now. A pack is actually a family union, that has the breeding pair and its offspring. There are no battles within the pack to get a “higher rank”. Wolves are rather peaceful. But if a strange wolf invades the pack, then a fight most likely happens.
The alpha theory came to be when they observed randomly put together wolves in captivity. Mech later on studied wolves in the wild and their behavior was much different than the wolves in captivity.
And humans cannot be the leader of a completely different species. Calling yourself a “packleader” is silly. Ever heard someone saying “I’m the leader of a school of fish”?

3. Main problem is human overpopulation. We keep reproducing without thinking too deeply. More houses need to be build and there is more and more demand on food, energy, land, etc. Which reduces the habitats for other species and those animals often have no were to go. And then people are surprised when they show up in the backyard.
Human overpopulation has a huge negative impact to the planet and also to us(unemployment rate growing, pollution, not enough places to live, more diseases, etc).
That’s why I think that the greenest thing anyone can do is not reproducing, or having only one biological child, and/or adopting children.

4) Kind of agree with that. But that can be avoided.
I’m happy to hear that you chose adoption instead adding more pets to the population!

@ the last/added part: It is true what you say about being the food provider for the pets. And sadly, most people humanize dogs too much that it becomes unhealthy. One of the most common mistakes is to believe that dogs feel guilt. Sadly, its not true, since guilt is rather a choice. The feeling of guilt has no room in nature. People like to have Disney-animals as pets. And expect too much of them.
Doesn’t mean that they won’t love us.

However, the whole article feels rather like an excuse to make yourself feel better. But the thing is that in today’s time and vast majority parts of the world, wearing real fur is useless, outdated and unnecessary. It looks pretty, but that’s all. It is just for fashion and to fill the pockets of the producers, nothing more.

One more thing; please don’t lump all animal activists with PETA-supporters or SJWs. Not a fan of them either, since they often complain about nonsense(like fictional characters) and put things to the extreme.