A piece in The Times yesterday asked the question is Britain falling out of Love with it’s dogs
Now depending on who you listen to, there are between 8 to 10 Million dogs in the UK
That’s an awful lot of dogs to fall out of love with
According to a UCD study in 2007 35.6% of households in Ireland had one or more dogs and at the same time 22% of UK households had dogs.
Owning a dog and loving a dog are two totally different things as per the blog linked HERE
I’m sure when people my age were growing up we all knew of some families dog or dogs that was kept chained out the back, with a barrel of straw for it’s kennel, that was fed milk and white bread from an old beat up sauce pan that was used as a bowl, and maybe even today we still know of dogs kept like this.
The point is, that if you treat a dog or know of dogs treated like the above, or worse, it’s obvious to everybody bar except the owner, that that dog is not loved, and if this is the case, then I fear that there are an awful lot of un loved dogs in Ireland, and maybe as a nation we fell out of love with dogs a long time ago.
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