Many western dogs have a better life than some of the 1 billion people starving throughout the world no doubt, its safe to say the animals consume alot of resources too. In addition they seem to yield a greater emotional response from people then poor human beings, for example the video of the American soldier throwing a puppy off a cliff, yeilded a greater outcry then pictures of dead Iraqis. That said, should they be banned and replaced with robots? Should owners be taxed for housing these methane producing runts? Or should we smash the industrial petro complex, stop all wars, make clean cars and each get two dogs? Hmmm....