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   From: ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   In article , Jim Elbrecht   
    wrote:   
   >GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred) wrote:   
   >-snip-   
   >>   
   >>I haven't seen anything from PBS (whatever that is :-) but I read a   
   >>paper recently on the domestication of animals in general in which it   
   >>was suggested dogs may have domesticated us, rather than the other way   
   >>around.   
   >   
   >I don't know about 'domesticating' - but my pug has certainly   
   >*trained* our family well.   
      
   :-)   
      
   >>That said, I've often maintained that I couldn't eat an animal with   
   >>such noxious shit as a dog!   
   >   
   >Never been around chickens or pigs, eh?   
      
   When I was a kid my grandmother had chooks -- but a couple of dozen   
   spread over an acre of lawn wasn't too bad (though I admit to the   
   occasional "squelsh" between the toes of bare feet :-).   
      
   Pigs?  Well, yeah, the pong downwind of a pig farm is indeed very   
   nasty.  But I've only once had pig shit on my shoes (in India of all   
   places) whereas dog shit was hard to avoid here until the local   
   Council got serious about bylaws a couple of decades ago.   
      
   >I've eaten dog, and raised pigs.    I think I'll stick with our [US]   
   >customary practices of pigs for food & dogs for pets.   
      
   Pigs were put on earth for us to eat!   
      
   Cheers, Phred.   
      
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