Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Pet behaviourists have claimed that dogs and horses are becoming bored and depressed, because global warming induced weather is stopping their owners from taking them out for exercise.
Leading pet behaviourists say the number of depressed and unsettled dogs they have seen in recent months is unprecedented
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And they suggested that the spate of wet winters could be at the root of the problem, as owners cut down on the daily walks that are crucial to keeping dogs’ spirits up.
“I’ve been working with dogs for more than 20 years and I can’t remember a time when they’ve been this bored. I tend to see boredom in bursts but I’m seeing it chronically this winter,” said Carolyn Menteith, a dog behaviourist who was named Britain’s Instructor of the Year in 2015.
“They are just really, really, bored. People are quite happy to get their dogs out in frosty, hard weather but not when it’s muddy and horrible.”
“But we have over 200 breeds of dog in this country and an awful lot of them – especially family dogs like Labradors, retrievers and spaniels – were bred to do a job. So they are hardwired to work and need a lot of exercise.”
The lack of physical exercise – and mental stimulation that comes with it – is having noticeable consequences on the nation’s nine million dogs, she added.
Even the IPCC doesn’t think climate change has any verifiable connection to extreme weather.
This winter, at least the early part of the winter was unusually wet – but lots of rain and mud is something you just get used to, or should get used to, if you live in Britain; particularly if you are a pet owner.
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From the department of 0.8 degrees of global warming in 150 years causes everything and anything….
Be afraid. Very afraid.
Maybe the sad dogs are the ones who lost the poker game.
You may be right about that, Steve.
http://www.artwallpaper.info/Dogs-Playing-Poker/Dogs-Playing-Poker-Painting-19201080.jpg
Oh. Ouch…..laughing my butt off…but…ouch Steve!
It is not the dog’s fault. The AGW (97%) owners are spending too much time in front of the TV or computer and not exercising the dogs. Us skeptics have no problem, we are out enjoying the cool, fresh air.
the lizards like it.
It’s 8.30pm on a cold, windy rainy night, My 2 dogs are REFUSING to go out for their evening sniff, poo. pee and run session – NOT.
What a load of BS.
Anybody ever stop and think of other distractions such as TV, and the Internet that just might be having the same effect as so-called warming?
” because global warming induced weather is stopping their owners from taking them out for exercise.”
Who knew? And silly me thought it was the 4 ft drifts and the fact that the park where people take their dogs and horses is closed because of snow. Ohhhh, the snow which is caused by global warming!
And its not just dogs…. its chickens as well !!!!! 🙂 🙂
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/article/2016/02/04/chickens-latest-animals-be-threatened-climate-change
should be:
Leading pet behaviourists behaviourists say the number of depressed and unsettled pet behaviourists they have seen in recent months is unprecedented.
You do realise that Global Cooling causes Russians and Finns to become vodka-addicted alcoholics during those desperately dark, cold nights of winter, don’t you?
it’s sure time to engineer a change in the earth’s tilt in NH winters to cure this terrible consequence of planetary reality……
Somebody just came up with a new excuse to let lazy, irresponsible couch potato dog owners off the hook – global warming is preventing them from getting off their backsides and dragging them away from the telly to give their pooches a good walk (or two) each day. Fair weather dog walkers are a familiar sight in the UK on those rare occasions when we get ‘novelty’ weather, e.g. crisp, cold, dry and very sunny in winter or very warm, sunny and settled in summer. On such days, you can’t get away from them (and often their kids) shouting and screaming at their dogs who are running around excitedly enjoying the fresh air and new smells, thinking Christmas has come early (or late, or whatever). But, when it’s cold, wet, windy and not so pleasant, you’re virtually on your own – just you and your own dogs to enjoy the great outdoors whatever it throws at you weather wise. Pet behaviourists are to genuine pet behaviour what alarmist climate scientists are to climate change.
Just to clarify – dogs are not upset by the actual weather, which remains consistently changeable with no overall trend.
Dogs are primarily upset by the model predictions of an increase in extreme rainfall.
Those model predictions have upset their owners and dogs can smell fear…
yesterday I walked over to see a friend.I saw two doggies.Usually I only see one! I conclude therefore that increased CO2 makes happier doggies
I will expect to be nominated for a Nobel Prize.
The continuation of this silly sort of nonsense about CO2 induced global warming effects from Pet behaviourists, with claims about dogs and talking horses, is beginning to depress and bore me too.
*as per article’s suggestion, Aphan tosses ntesdorf a ball to play with and hides a sandwich somewhere in ntesdorf’s home for him to find and thus feel a sense of accomplishment and happiness.*
The reason is because that more than half the population of Adults in the United States are Obese. Updated September 21, 2015: According to the most recent data, rates of obesity now exceed 35 percent in three state. and diabetics type 2 is now out of control . PS including dogs and cats all sick. Thanks to the USDA and UN’s world health organization food guidelines.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwX8Ip_RAq0 Please Watch
Russell,
The article is about dogs and horses in Britain, not the US. And in order to blame the USDA and the UN’s WHO food guidelines for the obesity/diabetic problem, you’d have to FIRST prove that more than half of the adults in the US were actually FOLLOWING those food guidelines. And you can’t.
FFS. As any fule kno, if you have a dog, then you go out whatever the weather. One of the reasons for having a dog, indeed. Don’t these cretins have anything better to do with their time. Horses too – granny up the road and her grandson just rode past our house in pouring rain and wild wind.
They’ve misinterpreted the results.
What they actually discovered was that dogs owned by people who believe in Global Warming are depressed because their owners are depressed by their belief in Global Warming.
Wake up, people!
http://www.truthrevolt.org/sites/default/files/styles/content_full_width/public/field/image/articles/dumb.jpg?itok=wkcf_3NE
Hmm. The image linked above didn’t work. Try, try again…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5-9ZxamXc parallels are incredible CLIMATE AND HIGH CARB Diet. Please Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5-9ZxamXc parallels are incredible CLIMATE AND HIGH CARB Diet. Please Watch
This sort of nonsense is not surprising to me. The modern profession seems to have swallowed the CAGW propaganda hook, line and sinker!
Below is my letter to the Veterinary Record responding to an Editorial ’28-11-15′, in which the profession was urged to ‘raise awareness’ of their clients to the dangers of AGW caused by CO2 and CH4 emissions from agricultural processes; adding that we should eat less meat. My letter was censored, a good example of the modern scientific method by a science-based journal.
The Editor
Veterinary Record
30 November 15
Dear Sir
Are we a Science-based Profession?
I feel bound to ask this question after reading the VR Editorial Comment (28th November). This stated, in effect, that the profession was in a good position to support the IPCC’s dogma on catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW), due to man’s emission of so-called greenhouse gases (mainly CO2 and CH4). There was a similar editorial (VR 5th October 2013) entitled “Curbing Emissions”, which was a response to the IPCC AR5 report. My letter was published (9th November 2013), in which I commented that “there was no published empirical data or verifiable experiments that suggested either of the gasses (CO2 and CH4) had ever caused or driven global warming”. I also suggested that curbing these emissions will have no measurable effect on global temperatures and the ‘economic effects’ are dubious. Recently Dr Patrick Moore, Ecologist (2015) gave a lecture in which he produced robust evidence which suggested that, far from causing CAGW, more CO2 would be highly beneficial to the biosphere and agricultural crops.
In order to clarify the scientific method, I need to refer to Dr Craig Idso and others (2013), quote, “The hypothesis implicit in all IPCC writings is that dangerous global warming is resulting, or will result, from human-related greenhouse gas emissions. In considering any such hypothesis, an alternative and null hypothesis must be entertained, which is the simplest hypothesis consistent with the known facts. The null hypothesis is that the currently observed changes in global climate indices and the physical environment, as well as current changes in animal and plant characteristics, are the result of natural variability. To invalidate this null hypothesis requires, at a minimum, direct evidence of human causation of specific changes that lie outside usual, natural variability. Unless and until such evidence is adduced, the null hypothesis is assumed to be correct”. I respectfully suggest, therefore, that the 28th November Leader does not follow the scientific method which was well defined by Popper (1965). If we are a science-based profession, it would make no sense to support the IPCC’s pseudo-scientific political dogma.
There are other disquieting aspects. Dr Tim Ball (2014) makes a compelling case that climate science has been, quote, “deliberately corrupted by deceptions, misinformation, manipulation of records and misapplying the scientific method and research”. Much of this is also revealed in the emails from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in November 2009, which have been fully recorded and analysed by Andrew Montford (2012). He shows, regrettably, evidence of international malpractice.
One of the main platforms of the IPCC hypothesis is its reliance on un-validated Global Climate Models (aka General Circulation Models) in projecting global temperatures about 100 years ahead. Global climate is far too complex and chaotic for GCMs ever to be programmed correctly. Furthermore many of the known natural factors affecting the global climate have been omitted from the GCMs. It is not surprising, therefore, that the projections made for the last 20 years differ wildly from the actual lower troposphere temperatures as shown by the RSS (Monckton 2015) and UAH (Spencer 2015) datasets. Both of these show there has been no statistical rise in global temperatures for nearly 20 years.
One is bound to wonder whether the Leader Comment exhorting us to “raise awareness of our clients to these issues” of a pseudo-scientific myth, will soon ask us to raise awareness of the importance of homoeopathy.
References
MOORE, P., (2015) GWPF Lecture http://www.thegwpf.org/gwpftv/
IDSO, C.D., CARTER, R.M., SINGER,S.F., (2013) Climate Change Reconsidered ll. Physical Science. http://www.nipccreport.org/reports/ccr2a/pdf/Summary-for-Policymakers.pdf
POPPER, K., (1965) Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge.2nd Edition: Harper and Row.
BALL, T., (2014) The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science. Stairway Press.
MONTFORD, A., (2012) Hiding the Decline. Anglosphere Books
MONCKTON, C., (2015) RSS Dataset http://www.climatedepot.com/2015/08/06/a-new-record-pause-length-no-global-warming-for-18-years-7-months-temperature-standstill-extends-to-233-months/
SPENCER, R., (2015) UAH Dataset http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/V6-vs-v5.6-LT-1979-Mar2015.gif
Yours sincerely
Michael Oxenham
the fairly recent trend is to dose the hapless pets with SSRI meds
thereby ensuring the pets and owners are on a lifetime of addictive meds,
nice extra bonus profit for big pharma!
ozspeaksup: the only reason I became interested in this Climate Change FRUD; was because I developed Type 2 Diabetics. I was on 6 different Meds rushed to hospital 4 times in 7 month my heart rate 3 of those times was 150/165 for 9 hours. The other time after a lung exam for pneumonia and told to report emergency room immediately. Meds were costing 2k per month that was 3 years ago. Today absolutely complete cured No meds, no health problems at all. All this on a high saturated fat diet No wheat, corn and rice and no sugar.Conclusion USDA/UN world health org., are behind this to make us all sick. Follow the Money does this sound familiar.
Who should know more about dog’s psychology than grandson of the great Sigmund Freud
https://youtu.be/W7n0uwxpEnI
They can detect a trend based on “recent months”? I can tell you when the fewest people take their dogs out around here–when it is cold and there is snow on the ground. Not when it is hot. Hot weather? Dogs all over the place. How about the number of owners over-indulging their pets is at a recent high? How about pets are bored because people are too lazy to take them outside? Idiots.
Michael Mann I’ve heard, is “depressed” about the rejection he’s been receiving in the last few years.
Does that mean that he’s no longer a “mann” but rather a “dog”?
Maybe the dog ate his emails.
These depressed dogs are Mann’s best friends….:)
You have to be @ur momisugly$!# kidding me.
Sad Dogs?
But aren’t ducks happier? or otters?