Dogmatic

   Really? I read where it is now illegal to leave your dog in a cold car, as well as a hot one, where they could most surely die. But how cold would it have to be for a dog to freeze to death if left in an unheated vehicle.  Well sure, if for an extended time period, like overnight or for days and days. But most dogs are very capable of coping with cold weather, and many enjoy and prefer it. Our dogs, all 3 consecutive collies, delighted in the snow. They were long-haired of course, and bred to be outdoor animals, so common sense should prevail.
   My high school science teacher often declared that the term common sense should be replaced by simple sense. There is nothing common about it.You can predict that on any chilly day, some good-intentioned person, lacking sense of either the common or simple variety, will break a car window to rescue a dog who is in danger of being subjected to the cold.
    Perhaps there should be a law mandating that  dogs unsuited to climate variations be kept in their native lands. Keep those Chihuahuas in Mexico, or wherever they originated.  As for dog clothes, dogs do not like wearing clothes, or booties either. That's why, unlike humans, they're covered with fur, and are able to lick their feet.
   It seems, kind of like the last days of Rome, our society is deteriorating to the point of a lack of distinction between humans and animals, particularly dogs. Though there was the recent case of a man, probably in Florida, having regular sex with his pony. That's against the law, I gather, though who knows what the pony would say.  It is now usual and accepted for people to take their dogs to bed, and it would be rare to confirm the crime of bestiality. Let sleeping dogs lie.  But people regularly, and publicly, kiss their dogs on the mouth, and allow dogs to put their mouths on the mouths of their babies and children. Dogs have no more germs than humans, they say. But dogs will willingly eat birdpoop, and even worse, catpoop. And did you ever see the ecstatic expression on the face of a dog who's rolling on his back over a dead and decaying animal carcass.  Almost any dog would remove his doggie sweater for that fetid opportunity.