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@Dashrender Yes. Pets don't like to be left alone for extended periods of time.... (Read: My house is like an episode of Tom & Jerry while we are gone).

Dashrender

@dafyre said:

@Dashrender Yes. Pets don't like to be left alone for extended periods of time.... (Read: My house is like an episode of Tom & Jerry while we are gone).

And what did we do for 1000's of years before this invention?

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

@dafyre said:

@Dashrender Yes. Pets don't like to be left alone for extended periods of time.... (Read: My house is like an episode of Tom & Jerry while we are gone).

And what did we do for 1000's of years before this invention?

Tortured pets like prisoners who didn't know what their crime was.

coliver

@Dashrender said:

@dafyre said:

@Dashrender Yes. Pets don't like to be left alone for extended periods of time.... (Read: My house is like an episode of Tom & Jerry while we are gone).

And what did we do for 1000's of years before this invention?

1000's of years ago many pets were used for labor and hunting... so that really doesn't apply. We have to keep our small dog in a cage during the day because her separation anxiety is at epic levels.

scottalanmiller

You can say that about any new invention. What did we do before figuring out clothes, toilet paper or fire. Humans survived. But it doesn't change the fact that life improved afterwards. Just because something is new and wasn't required for survival before doesn't imply that it isn't good or improves life.

JaredBusch

@Dashrender said:

And what did we do for 1000's of years before this invention?

For 1000's of years we did not leave the animals locked up alone in a small house for hours at a time.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

And what did we do for 1000's of years before this invention?

For 1000's of years we did not leave the animals locked up alone in a small house for hours at a time.

Only recently (last hundred and fifty years or so) did kids start going to school all day. And only in the last generation did the concept of dual income families become popular. It is a very new thing that pets face being left alone.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

You can say that about any new invention. What did we do before figuring out clothes, toilet paper or fire. Humans survived. But it doesn't change the fact that life improved afterwards. Just because something is new and wasn't required for survival before doesn't imply that it isn't good or improves life.

I understand what you are saying.. but like Facebook and all of the other social media things of today, it seems like just one more way to spend your time doing anything but work, when you're at work.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

And what did we do for 1000's of years before this invention?

For 1000's of years we did not leave the animals locked up alone in a small house for hours at a time.

Only recently (last hundred and fifty years or so) did kids start going to school all day. And only in the last generation did the concept of dual income families become popular. It is a very new thing that pets face being left alone.

If by new you mean 30 years, OK it's new, but your point is taken.

scottalanmiller

Even here in Spain, pets are not kept at home. Cats and dogs roam the streets. A dog came to our ROOF this morning! They can follow their owners to work, hang out with other animals or visit other people. But there is basically no traffic here.

Where in the US could you do that today without endangering the animal? In cities animals now have to be locked up and people don't stay home during the day.

scottalanmiller

@Dashrender said:

I understand what you are saying.. but like Facebook and all of the other social media things of today, it seems like just one more way to spend your time doing anything but work, when you're at work.

Or, like many things today, it allows you to work instead of needing to go home to deal with things that need to be dealt with. Life is not about work, work is just one aspect of what we need to do.