Was Susannah right about dogs?

She's pretty isolated, so I don't think she has neighbors. She had a point, but she should have fed them or at least took them hunting.

"And she acted like I was teaching her about everything."

Wild dogs, maybe. But there is the little matter of domestication than does make them more dependent on their humans.

Cats are more natural hunters and will hunt to eat (they're responsible for billions of small animal deaths every year). Domesticated dogs tend not to hunt for food and can be rather dependent on their owners.


If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.

No, Susannah was wrong about her pet dogs. The type of dogs she had, sight hounds, were bred to see prey across large open areas, then chase them. Not exactly the same as the woods of New Jersey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sighthound

If people decide to have pets, they should plan to feed them.

No two persons ever watch the same movie.

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Looks like she owned two greyhounds. Most greyhounds look too skinny, but that is how they are supposed to look. You shouldn't see every bone in their bodies, but seeing their ribs is common.

We have a greyhound, and she is very well fed and very skinny. Her weight is healthy according to our vet, and even though she has gained weight since we adopted her a few years ago, you can still see her ribs.


Watch Veronica Mars!

No, she was not. We domesticated them and took over their evolution by breeding them for silly traits, so now it's our damn responsibility to keep them fed and sheltered and in a lot of cases, groomed, because they can't do it themselves anymore. Thirty two thousand years of artificial selection will do that. I would seriously like to do bodily harm to people who get dogs and then don't even feed them properly.

The whole point of that scene was to show that Suzanna (sp?) was a little too obsessed with self-sufficiency.