(9aoy of 11)
As days accumulate in societies, more strange artificial things take place. In their cities and suburbs one area of strangeness is due to dogs and humans being more estranged from natural world context and contact. I had no tangible concept of a lost dog until I moved from the country to a city where lost dogs are a real concern which requires dog tags and rfid chips to put owners at ease. In cities and suburbs, I suspect the following reasons more dogs are lost:1. Most dogs are chained up or fenced in or housed in, most of the day, most of their doggone lives.
2. Like their owners, dogs have become domesticated to be dumbed down on how to navigate in concrete jungles.
3. There is too much noise. Thus there is a shorter distance for dogs to easily hear owners calling them.
4. Dogs have a reduced sense of direction due to not being able to become familiar with scent trails that lead back home.
5. Dogs are naturally curious. Once they get a chance to get out of lockdown, their sense of exploration kicks in, but they can't find their way back.
6. Dogs are too dependent on being led by a leash to even know how to cross the street.
Back in the days of the 1960s and 70s, in the country, most of us never chained up, fenced in or kept dogs in the same house we lived in. The dogs came and went as they pleased. Sometimes we wouldn't see the dog for days at a time. They almost always came back home.In the country it was foreign to have to walk a dog so the dog could get exercise or piss and poop. Our dogs roamed mountains, creeks, hollows and crossed roads and walked railroad tracks. Most of our dogs died of old age and most of them didn't even have dog houses outside. They lived under the house or porch.
