Defenders Of Humans And The Natural World

Another snippet from my book which I'm making great progress on!

People often excuse the dog’s behaviour by calling it instinct, but that's a reasoning error that confuses predatory behaviour with ecological belonging. Predation happens in nature, but subsidized predation is a human invention. We breed, feed, and shelter animals which we then let loose in ecosystems that didn't evolve alongside them. Every kill, therefore, creates an imbalance we are responsible for. Our dogs and cats are an extension of human impact. They are not acting separately from it. This has led to documented extinctions of dozens of species and ongoing threats to hundreds more, especially in places where prey never evolved defenses against mammalian predators. Dogs alone have contributed to 11 vertebrate extinctions, and they threaten an additional 188 species worldwide.

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Another excerpt from my book:

"When dogs appear in the news, the coverage is skewed and one-sided. The only stories that get the spotlight are heartwarming “rescues,” tearful reunions, amazing service dogs, or celebrities adopting. Reports are sometimes delivered with humour, even if what happened really isn’t funny. For example, a dog running at large on a Canadian highway created a dangerous situation for motorists, but news reports instead described a “paw-sitive outcome" after police “paw-sued” a “furry four-legged fugitive.” Dog attacks, environmental damage, disease risks, occupational injuries, or the economic costs of dog ownership get treated as freak accidents, or they get dismissed altogether, and we never hear about them. It's not hard to see why. News outlets rely on advertising money from pet industry sponsors. Criticism won’t pay the bills."

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Hey guys, I thought I'd make an announcement. There's something I'm very excited to share with you. I've made it my goal to write a book!

I've been working very hard on it for a couple of months now. I am not sure when it will be finished, but I am hoping to have it published this year.

The book explores how dog culture disguises domination, risk, and harm as compassion. It covers many of the things I've talked about on this channel over the years. It's not an attack on dogs or dog owners. It's a careful analysis of dog culture. The arguments in it are based on evidence, not emotion. It analyzes the things we are not allowed to say about dogs, and importantly, why we aren't allowed to say them.

I might post here from time to time and share quotes from the book as I write. Here is a passage I just wrote, that I wanted to share with you:

"The responsibility falls on the people who allow and encourage this behavior, not on the animal itself. We can’t blame the dog. We know that dogs cannot be held morally accountable because they have no sense of morality. The question is, why are dogs only presented as having moral agency when their actions can be interpreted as good? Why can an interpretation of the dog’s behaviour render the animal loyal, loving, kind, selfless, caring, brave, heroic, etc.? Why does its capacity to act willfully, to distinguish right from wrong, and to be held accountable for its actions, disappear entirely when those actions can be interpreted as bad?"

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I saw this on social media. Imagine if it was an image of a child doing something their parents repeatedly told them not to do. It would not be endearing. But somehow, with dogs, it is. All of the comments were positive and expressed adoration for dogs.

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"Dog food can have greater impact than human diets.
Premium pet feeds can have a carbon footprint in excess of food consumed by people, a study shows."
Publication date
07 Jan, 2026

vet.ed.ac.uk/global-agriculture-food-systems/news/…

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Kudos to Wolf Ruck for standing his ground and showing the city they have no evidence to back up their claims. Imagine how great it would be for wildlife if everyone quit mowing their lawns. We stopped mowing ours a long, long time ago. It's something everyone can do personally "in order to address the problem of biodiversity decline and global warming."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mississauga-superio…

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A 13-year-old boy in Nova Scotia was killed by three dogs while riding his bicycle.

The article calls this a “tragedy.” A tragedy suggests inevitability, like a storm or an earthquake. Dog attacks are avoidable and preventable and therefore not tragedies.

Children are dying because the system allows dangerous animals to exist in our communities.

This boy was doing something ordinary. The dogs were doing something entirely predictable. The failure happened long before the attack. The failure happened in the decisions that normalized keeping high-risk animals in public spaces. The failure happened when warnings were dismissed as overreactions.

My son is the same age. No parent should have to wonder whether letting their child ride a bike could end this way.

Calling this a tragedy softens the truth. This was a policy failure, a cultural failure, and an adult failure. Until we are willing to name that clearly, children will keep paying the price.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/rcmp-dog-attack…

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Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season. Thanks so much for your support. ❤️🎉🎄🧑‍🎄

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I love this.

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Often, people say things like,
“How many animals have HUMANS driven to extinction?”
“HUMANS kill more people than dogs do!”

Invoking human-caused extinctions or injuries/fatalities as if they are a separate category from the harm caused by cats and dogs is a classic case of relative privation, which is the idea that “because humans cause greater damage, the harms caused through our domesticated animals don’t count.” But dogs and cats are not independent actors in human society or the ecological system. They are extensions of human agency.

Every humanitarian or ecological impact from cats and dogs exists because humans created, proliferated, protected, and subsidized these species far beyond anything a natural predator could sustain. Their attacks, predation pressure, population density, geographic spread, and survival rates are all artificial constructs of human domestication and human infrastructure.

So when cats and dogs attack humans or drive native birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians to collapse, the causal chain is still human. The animal is the mechanism; the human is the architect.

To frame it another way: if a human introduces an invasive species, the damage caused by that species is still attributed to human action. Domesticated predators are no different. Treating them as separate actors is simply a way of isolating the harm in order to excuse it.

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