Just when I had great plans to rant on in misogynistic fashion about some sharp-eyed bitch stealing the silver but not before she'd barfed on her man's shoes, pissed on the rug right in front of him, allowed herself to get shagged by both her neighbours, as well as sinking her teeth into the milkman's buttocks before she left home to get herself shagged again up some dark alley and then perform in front of thousands, nay, millions of people, a bloody Australian Sheep DOG wins Crufts and screws up my plans. Ah well. Maybe he was a son-of-a-bitch... almost certainly, and cocked his leg in a few awkward places, shagged a couple of bitches - by arrangement of course - and took a dump in front of one of the judges. We can but hope.


Crufts, you might say, is the annual festival of the dog. They probably market it in Korea as the Masterchef equivalent. A Smörgåsbord of the tastiest varieties to grace any pot. A lip smacking treat for dog lovers... wishing to try something different in their diet. Actually, maybe they should hold Crufts in Korea one year, to help them appreciate that dog is man's best friend and not just a main course dish. In Korea bumper stickers on their cars read "A dog is not just for Christmas... try one at Easter too." Of course we in the west get very emotional about the way others treat animals, but then we aren't starving as so many of them are. That's why bush meat - monkeys etc. - are also eaten, though to my way of thinking, it's almost a form of cannibalism.


Rather than educate them about how wonderful and varied these animals are, perhaps we should help them by teaching them intensive animal husbandry techniques. Of course, that would lead to other abuses - for sure - as we have seen happens here, even with all the protective legislations there are. Man is generally cruel and insensitive to the pain of others unless kept in check by those who have the ability to imagine how unpleasant pain is. Clearly in some societies, they have little regard for the others in pain and to some it is even a form of recreation to see others suffer. Presumeably on the basis that if it isn't happening to them, it's something to enjoy. You only have to look at how some people treat their own children to know they have little regard for the well being of others. But if you grow up in a cruel world, you become cruel yourself, to survive. If your father is a bully, chances are you'll become one too. If you see others butchering terrified dogs without a moment's hesitation, you believe that is the norm.


Personally, I'd like to see the bear baters and monkey keepers who drug them and torture them to make them perform in the streets for coppers, taken, put into cages not much bigger than they are, drug them and prod them with sharp sticks, electrocute them and see how long it takes before they are begging for mercy. Then I'd like to see them stay imprisoned and humiliated for another few months. It would drive them insane too. Don't get me wrong, I don't support the Animal rights cretins who are just barking insane and nothing more than a bunch of violence loving hypocrites anymore than I would support people who hurt animals and their own, just because they can. We just have to keep on educating them.


Who knows, one day, maybe life will be more like Star Trek. We'll be better educated about the suffering of others. There will be no racisim or religion to screw up our heads. Pain will be easily conquered by more sophistcated drugs and there will be a food synthesiser in every home. Of course, chickens, cows, pigs - and dogs, will no longer be in demand and may well become extinct. And of course, the synthesisers will be made in... Korea.