I'm pretty sure people in Japan treat pets the same as, if not better than, Westerners or other Asians. They're not cannibals.
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Eh number one, accessories? Just because of the mechanized gas chambers you're already generalizing Japanese people treating pets as accessories? Lol no bro, it's a solution that they have no choice but to follow because it's the law.
It's not buying pets that's the problem, it's the number of animals living as pets in the cities or towns. You sound like PETA too much, when they're not doing anything illegal with the animals. They love their dogs and cats as much as you do, heck maybe even more. Also, reducing the number of people buying pets won't do a single thing. You can't control the animals' mating season. You can't go and castrate every pet in Japan to solve that. Adding the strays in the mix, and there's a situation with too many variables which the government cannot solve.
The problem is directly related to food, to survival. It's not about their own selfish interests, as you so put it. I mean, what would they gain out of gassing animals? Fur? Oil? Having that huge number of animals in their country takes a toll in food supplies you know, and Japan isn't exactly the number one country to buy cheap rice from. Heck meat by the kilo is much more expensive than a PSP there.
I think you've misunderstood yet again. Also, I hope I didn't come off as trying to insinuate these people being cannibals, that'd be a gruesome mistake on my end, I apologize.
I agree with your point about Japanese people treating pets similarly to people of other nationality, it is not something I have argued before, but I think it is to generalize to say that Japanese treat pets better than people of other nationalities, I have a friend who's family owns dogs, they treat them very kindly, although their chihuahua is subject to a wee bit animosity, she has been horribly spoiledU_U. I have also seen people hit their dogs, which means that every country has their good and bad owners, I think.:shrug:
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I don't think I'm generalizing, I said so in my opening post, but may have expressed myself as if I was later on, which wasn't intended, my apologies.
And, it isn't because of these chambers that I say they are being treated as accessories, but because people buy the pets with such intentions. That is, because they fill the role of playing a part of their life-style etc.
Also, you're right in saying that they have not much choice in the matter, since it has come to this point now, or since a while ago, but nonetheless, don't you think that having people realize the responsibility of owning a pet, will scare some people away from buying them for their own shallow convenience?
I'm not saying you can control their mating season with greater success, since they can mate more or less whenever, like us humans. BUT, they are breeding them, and they do it a lot, judging by how many dogs they have to execute, dogs which are still of young age for goodness sake! Though keeping animals as pets, I think you have slight control over their mating sessions, as you may decide whether they are to do it or not, but normally there are breeders for that, professionals more or less, whom people buy the dogs from. And as I said before, the problem has progressed so far that the variables, as you say, have become many.
Yes, the more pets, the more food there is needed to keep them alive, but the issue I'm trying to address is how come it even got this far? Does not trends and popular belief play part in it? I also don't doubt the price of their rice, as it is high-quality rice
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