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Originally Posted by Andestine  I often wonder how many people went through similar emotional conflicts during the war, and what we’d go through now if faced with having to slaughter our pets or starve? The past shows that when faced with extreme circumstances we can all behave quite differently. |
I suppose we'd revert to what we used to keep dogs and cats for: dogs to help us hunt, kill vermin and to deter intruders, and cats to keep the rats and mice at bay. Our relationship with animals was probably a lot more practical than now.
In Finland they say that if the farmer's wife dies, he shrugs it off, but if his horse dies, he mourns
Maybe the only animal people really bonded with was the horse, as he worked alongside us?