Literally ANYTHING can be blamed on global warming aka climate change. It’s like in ancient and medieval times, when bad weather was blamed on displeasure of the gods, and later, witches.
Get a load of this load of codswallop from Tom Bawden at the Independent:
Global warming might be causing dogs to become depressed, say pet behaviourists
Leading pet behaviourists say the number of depressed and unsettled dogs they have seen in recent months is unprecedented
A boredom epidemic is sweeping through Britain’s dog population – and global warming could be to blame.
Across the country, there are reports of down-in-the-mouth mutts, and under-the-weather canines.
Leading pet behaviourists told The Independentthat the number of depressed and unsettled dogs they have seen in recent months is unprecedented.
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.
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Sarah Fisher, an animal behaviour counsellor with around two decades experience, has also noticed a level of canine unrest that is unprecedented in her career. Ms Fisher works with horses as well as dogs and has noticed that the boredom is not confined to household pets.
“I’ve never seen our dogs or horses this bored before in 20 years. Horses that have lived happily outside before are saying ‘I actually can’t cope with this mud and wet anymore’,” she said.
“We’re turning them out of their stables and they’re saying ‘Get me back in straight away’.
“They can’t settle, they look bored, but actually it’s to do with physical stress and mental boredom, they can’t go off quietly and graze because they keep sliding around the field,” Ms Fisher added.
If only dogs and horses could talk, let alone comprehend such abstract concepts like “global warming”.
In other news, Kenji, our resident member of the Union of Concerned Scientists is not depressed, despite having a wet spring in California.
Who am I to judge, I am just a plain normal dog and sheep owner. My fist thought, reading this article: Dogs has a tendency to sense their owner’s mental state. If the dog owners would stop worrying about a bit extra CO₂ (plant food), enjoy the rain, snow and sunshine with their dogs, the owners would be happier and the dogs would be happier. However, not much sensation in that.
It doesn’t help if your owner is a nutter.
More likely the “behaviourist” is a nutter.
Exactly what I was thinking. What percentage of those dogs with issues ahve owners with similar issues?
Dogs certainly do reflect the behavior of their respective human families. It is in their nature to reflect their surrounding influences.
A dog that is constantly kicked by its owner learns to bite.
A dog that is constantly neglected by its owner has no social skills.
It only stands to reason, a dog that is constantly exposed to an environmant of climate fear expressed by their owners will display actions appropriate for that exposure
Or you have an owner projecting.
Did my post regarding doggie disposition mirroring owner habits get modded out or just vanished?
The joys of the English language.
“I am just a plain normal dog and sheep owner”
Amazing! A plain normal dog that owns sheep.
Even more amazing that you can also type, unless you have voice recognition on your device and it understands woofery.
Thanks for the chuckle
Sorry John In Oz if my English writing is so disturbing to you.
Apart from that, I am not sure I had the correct assumption in the first place. Why? Because of this:
A 2013 Canadian paper reported, “People who live or work in close proximity to IWTs have experienced symptoms that include decreased quality of life, annoyance, stress, sleep disturbance, headache, anxiety, depression and cognitive dysfunction.”
Taken from: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/22/costly-wind-power-menaces-man-and-nature/
The depressed dogs may have residence near IWTs. I find it very likely that dogs would often suffer from the infra-sound as some humans do.
In that case one could conclude that the depression syndrome is a result of the solving of the non existing climate problem.
No way, just doesn’t make sense for animals that originated on the steppes of Eurasia known for extremes.
We live in Florida. We have an Airedale Terrier. He is our third Airedale. All of them preferred very cold weather but had no problem with warm weather long as they got enough water. Not sure what would depress an Airedale but global warming ain’t one. I am certain that whatever comes our Airedale will not bat an eye and somehow turn it into a new game.
1.5 degrees C. since 1850. Yup. Riiiight. Roger!
BTW, MOST “animal behaviorists” are nutters. Some of them claim to be clairvoyant and will “diagnose” your horse over the phone from Colorado at $50.00 a call. I am not making this up!
6 inches of snow overnight here in Boulder, Colorado and the dogs don’t look too sad as they bask in the heat of the wood stove. I won’t tell them that carbon dioxide is spewing out the chimney, that would certainly make them morose.
A wood stove in Boulder? Where are the air pollution police?
I’m glad to hear Kenji is OK. I guess he’s too intelligent to read The Independent or The Guardian.
Cute dog. Global warming is indeed the new witch scare.
‘I actually can’t cope with this mud and wet anymore’???
I don’t know about you but I always take seriously people who inform me as to what animals are saying. I would suggest that Sarah Fisher has lost her mind but as yet I haven’t seen any evidence to support the hypothesis that she ever had one. The fact that she is an animal behaviour counsellor isn’t working in her favor.
Climate alarmist leftists are some of the most depressed, and now they are projecting their malaise on to their pets, another hilarious facet of their dementia.
Dog day afternoon?
It’s a dogs life?
Just horsing around?
In the doghouse?
Horse liniment?
The telling sign is, of course, are the horse fly’s fed up?
Neiighhhhh.
(Sorry, utterly ridiculous response to utterly ridiculous people).
Should have been Udderly Ridiculous … no time to Cow around now
Bryan A
I was fishing for compliments so I could crow about them instead of parroting the usual BS. 🙂
Are the horse fly’s what fed up?
Jeff Alberts
Obesity, also a consequence of global warming doncha know. 🙂
“If only dogs and horses could talk, let alone comprehend such abstract concepts like “global warming”.”
Or nonsense like dog depression. Humans make animals their scapegoats and excuses for everything. A dog is “sad” when you don’t feed it, happy immediately after you do. They are NOT complicated. They do not care about rain, or mud and they are never bored. They lack the capacity. They may have nothing to do and improvise by eating your sofa, but that’s NOT boredom (or chewing on your hand and jumping in your face as in the case of my tiny yorkie). It’s what dogs do. It’s “who they are”.
(Kenji looks great! Very cute critter!)
“Sarah Fisher, an animal behaviour counsellor” which is equivalent to being a medium or a psychic. What drivel.
My dog certainly doesn’t care to go out when it’s raining. I have to seriously coax her.
So now, cold and wet is caused by global warming.
the amount of dogs being given ssri meds is huge and growing
left alone n bored they bark or ruin furniture etc
must be a behavioural issue here have some meds.
the pharmas are laughing all the way to the bank
and as humans have aggresion and suicidal issues with those meds imagine the poor dogs unable to say anything if they snap because of the meds theyre likely to be euthanased orr surrendered.
and that also means sudden withdrawal of meds cos rescues couldnt afford that, another big problem
I am old enough to remember when “Literally ANYTHING” was blamed on the H-bomb. All those air tests in the Pacific were causing floods, droughts, depleting fish stocks, depression, baldness, delinquency, whatever. The MSM was full of the pronouncements of “experts”.
Anyone else feel that the word “expert” is a tad overused these days in reports?
Global warming definitely makes some people dumber than dirt.
Global Warming? That is just soooo not cool these days. Didn’t you know its now Global Heating? It must be official cos like Dr Bob Brown, Australian uber Greeny and anti coal einzatsgruppenfuhrer used that term on the Oz ABC’s The Drum last night.
uhhh…
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Sarah Fisher, an animal behaviour counsellor with around two decades experience
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and global warming supposedly started 30+ years ago…
so her experience does not even apply to the before and after the bristlecone pine show (starring I.AM.Not.A.Mann) series we have been dealing with.
Here is Thor’s thought on this:
I blame it on evolution…
40,000 years ago, Late Pleistocene:
After 5:00 PM, Early Pomocene:
Is that a guard-pomo?
Very cute dog! The one with the bottle, I mean. 🙂
If the owner of such an afflicted dog could only read its mind: “This is so embarrassing, to seen in public with such an out-and-out moron.”
——BREAKING NEWS——
The Welsh village of Fairbourne is to be evacuated thanks to rising sea levels which will see it engulfed by Tuesday, 31st September 2045 at 14:36 hours and 29 seconds.
The fact the village was built on a salt marsh has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
WARNING!!!……..Guardian link! Those of anything but a stout disposition should refrain from clicking!
https://tinyurl.com/yxum6nrt
Powers that be don’t want to use any resources to protect the town, but they will use precious resources to remove the town, infrastructure, and all trace of people to return the area to a salt marsh …. And they will use regulatory resources to prevent others from trying to protect themselves.
whats the deal with that?
“whats the deal with that?”
Obviously, the world is short of salt marshes.
Yeah,
The Jeremey Vine Climate Change Program [BBC Radio 2, 1200-1400 today, Tuesday] apparently had a half-hour on this. [I turned off at 1203].
Even the Wiki-thing that we all can edit noted that Fairbourne is a part of Wales that the local council will not defend – they’ll let the waves roll into, and over, it. Eventually.
BBC very gung-ho and in full Project Fear mode. I assume Vine blamed Climate Change, Brexit – and – wait for it – Trump.
That is all the BC blames these days for anything [and often two of the three!].
Auto
They may be onto something. One of our cats likes to burrow under the quilt on the bed during the day. We suspect it’s because she’s trying to hide from climate change.
Horses.
The modern horse was brought to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico in the early 1500s.
Despite considerable climate changes since they thrived.
From an almost tropical climate and spreading northward survived in the semi-arid regions of the great plains to mountain valleys right up the cordillera.
Wild, and on their own.
Right up to central British Columbia where it can gets as cold as 50 below F.
They have learned to live in both hot and cold climate regions.
Animal “depression”–sensationalism.
That dog could take over from Grumpy Cat.
Oh no! It was probably global warming related.
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Internet sensation Grumpy Cat has died at age seven
The cat’s real name was Tarder Sauce and she rose to fame after her photos were posted online in 2012
https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/celebrity/internet-sensation-grumpy-cat-has-died-at-age-7
Stories like this in the media, and the independent is famous for publishing the worst of the nonsense doom claims, is good in my opinion, as stories like this really drive home the fact that all of these future doom claims are utter nonsense.
I mean for FS, they have quotes from a flipping dog whisperer about Global warming 😀 😀 😀
I say more of this type of thing from the media.
The Guardian STILL has up their story about human emissions of CO2 causing earthquakes and typhoons 😀
Oh please don’t stop Indo and Grauniad, you are waking the public up to the fact the scare stories come from rent seekers and unhinged loonies
Wilbuuurrrr.
Maybe the animals *are* aware of all the flapdoodle coming from the climate alarmists and other nonsense, and the depression is their reaction to being in a world run by such people. The doggies are just saying “I can’t believe it. I’m surrounded by idiots.”
Could we nominate Kenji for a leadership position within the Union of Concerned Scientists?
Here’s an idea, put down the smart phone and play with your bored dog.
https://youtu.be/x1hvg79wHAU