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.
Sad dogs.
I can think of no better reason to dismantle Western prosperity.
It’s not fair if all the dogs aren’t equally sad! Social ‘equality’ and ‘climate justice’ is for the dogs, doggone it!
In other words climate science has gone to the dogs… now every day under ‘global warming’ is like a dog day in August… and those climate dogs can’t learn any new tricks either, so no wonder they’re bored, especially after spending most of their lives chasing their tails and howling in unison at every perceived hobgoblin…
Why was the original headline “Global warming might be causing..” changed to “Global Warming Is Causing..”? Could it be to exaggerate the position so that it will be easier to ridicule? I am reminded of Cook’s exaggeration of his original finding when he changed “is partially causing global warming” to “is the main cause of global warming”.
Dogs have been depressed since the Middle Ages when they were excluded from sainthood. Read here, the sad account of Saint Guinefort:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Guinefort
Banned by the Church from canonization, and fated to eke out their sickly existence in that warm Medieval miasma, the nadir of canine depression clearly was reached in the middle of the 13th Century.
The High Middle Ages, to be precise.
Re: “…excluded from sainthood…”
= NOT a fate awaiting le scientists du climat, who: lead a “model” life; display evidences of miracles almost daily; (and) are martyrs to their cause
“Ms Menteith spends much of her time outside walking dogs and has noticed a significant change in the weather in the past five years or so – as cold, crisp winters gradually give way to “constant wet dreariness”.
She – like many scientists and meteorologists – puts this down to climate change and expects to see more bored dogs in the future as global warming unleashes increasingly frequent and intense bouts of winter rainfall.”
That really takes the biscuit, “climate change” didn’t predict the LIA type cold we had both ends of 2010, early Feb 2012, and March 2013. There have been two milder-wetter winters since then, this winter is not over yet.
This is God yet once again. And, as I’ve explained before, since I exist in the spiritual realm I have to enter a human’s body so as to come down from the heavens and physically communicate with you people. Since I’m on a tight schedule (you have no idea how much work it is, managing a universe) and I’m familiar with it I, once again, chose TomJ’s decrepid body.
Now, do you have any idea how goddamed (oops) annoying that is? No; not entering TomJ’s lice infested, intestinal worm devoured body (although having to do that’s pretty annoying too). No; I’m talking about having to come down and talk to you saps about global warming, climate change, dirty weather, or whatever some goddam (there I go again) charlatan calls this scam.
Now, I’ve gotta’ admit, being in TomJ’s body makes my skin crawl. Ick. It’s annoying alright. Jesus (I like to use his name that way ’cause he hates it – what’s a parent for?); anyway Jeez, TomJ’s really gotta’ be annoyed by that body too – and he’s been in it for 60 years.
Anyway, you’ve all probably heard that ‘dog’ is ‘God’ spelled backward. I INTENDED IT THAT WAY. I didn’t give you all a ‘best friend’ so that some goddamed (no oops this time – I meant that) con artist could use it to dupe you people. Got it!
And, if somebody thinks they’re seeing increased storms; well, anybody who uses man’s (and woman’s) best friend for ulterior purposes is gonna’ be seein’ storms alright, but they ain’t comin’ from climate, those bolts of lightning and sheets of hail are gonna’ be comin’ right outta’ my fists!
Oh, and one more thing: I promise never ever again to give a child an older sister; a younger sister, yes, but not an older one.
Dog stories;
There are suburban dogs that come on mean, but really just want to play.
Then there are city dogs that are mean, but eventually come around after you have proven yourself to not be a threat.
I’ve had to work around all these types, you can kinda tell by their barks if they are serious or not.
Which leads me to the time I was walking down a busy Chicago street, I walked next to a K-9 police car, the window was down but there was a wire cage inside.
The bark that that german shepard let out, moved me 2 feet sideways, there was no doubt about its seriousness.
Canines? And all this time I though women and minorities would be hardest hit
They are running low on effect stories and victims. We have reached Peak Effect Mania. They will now need to make a push for quantum computing excuse generator engines to overcome the decline at the margin.
Makes so much more sense when you replace the literal definition of “dogs” with “GW alarmists” … the depression is understandable given the extreme cognitive dissonance they would be experiencing!
SNL Puppy Uppers?
This is one of the funniest videos of a dog I have seen.
That one cracks me up every time.
Jumped the shark.
The St Bernard of 1919 was a healthier specimen:
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Once a noble working dog, the modern St. Bernard has been oversized, had its faced squished in, and bred for abundant skin. You will not see this type of dog working, they can’t handle it as they quickly overheat. The diseases include entropion, ectropion, Stockard’s paralysis, hemophilia, osteosarcoma, aphakia, fibrinogen deficiency.
https://dogbehaviorscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/100-years-of-breed-improvement/
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Some dogs are specifically bred to be miserable and aggressive – similar to police or military families in human societies.
Well, my empirical evidence is quite to the contrary: here in Toronto we have had a very, very mild winter. We’ve had just under 14 cm of snow, and that was in four or five “snowfalls”, as we used to call them. It was 16C on Feb 3rd. Etc.
We have been owned by a (now) six-month old jackabee (beagle/Jack Russel mix) for a month now, and I can’t imagine a better winter to have met his high-energy acquaintance. Those 4am trips to the backyard are a paradise compared to the last few winters, where there was almost a meter of snow piled from my driveway. Trust me, he is getting way, way more outdoor exercise than he would have in “traditional” Toronto winters.
I guess we can put “pet behaviourist” in the “softest of soft science” category…
I couldn’t resist:
https://www.facebook.com/897356146965373/photos/a.993043780729942.1073741829.897356146965373/1123518921015760/?type=3