[yorkietalkjilly]

I'd just assumed the question would not include people who had a history of a fearful or painful experience with a dog or dogs or living with fears or phobias they developed for whatever reason. I thought the question would be just about a person's preferences unrelated to traumatic experience or fears/phobias. Aside from those people who don't like dogs due to those issues, a person who just dislikes or feels disgusted by the amazing dog, I'll never be able to fully appreciate that person's good qualities to the fullest for wondering why they can't appreciate an animal who has helped further and better our existence on this earth so very much. By simply just helping us hunt more easily with less wear and tear and expense of energy, injury and time - and find, kill more meat and have the skins to wear, dogs did man a HUGE favor that helped us grow stronger, healthier and larger and explore farther, expand our boundaries, meet other tribes, co-mingle and go on from there and prosper intellectually due to more challenges. And that's aside from the companionship/protection of an early, lonely hunter cut off from his people except for his dog or the woman and kids back at camp with a dog for protection and entertainment for the children. That's just a tiny part of what dogs have done for us in growing and branching out as a species. How someone can look down or discount that lovely and noble creature as dumb and dirty, gross, unworthy - I'll never understand.