Davis Aurini - On Dogs and Wolves
Aired: 2012-12-14
Duration: 04:04


=== Wolves Among Dogs (04:01) ===

[00:00:03]  Dogs and wolves.
[00:00:07]  On the surface, the dogs sound like a better bet.
[00:00:11]  Dogs are friendlier.
[00:00:14]  It's easier to teach them tricks.
[00:00:16]  They're more predictable.
[00:00:19]  Well, the wolf, even the friendly wolf, always has an edge of wild nature in him.
[00:00:29]  You can't quite predict the wolf as well as you can the dog.
[00:00:35]  But have you ever seen a group of dogs left to their own devices without a human master to take care of them?
[00:00:45]  I have.
[00:00:47]  And they are the most sad, pathetic, desperate, and lonely creatures you've ever seen.
[00:00:54]  They start acting out.
[00:00:55]  The company of other dogs, while exciting at first, over the long run, just doesn't satisfy the poor beasts.
[00:01:05]  They crave a master.
[00:01:08]  While the wolf, you take a group of wolves and put them in the same place, what do you get?
[00:01:17]  Civilization.
[00:01:22]  Furthermore, you take a group of wolves and you give one of those wolves rabies.
[00:01:32]  The rest of the wolf will put that wolf down.
[00:01:36]  Well, the dogs, they'll panic.
[00:01:41]  They won't do anything about it whatsoever.
[00:01:47]  The wolf craves freedom.
[00:01:51]  He's built for the wilderness.
[00:01:53]  He is a wild animal.
[00:01:57]  And if you try and tell a dog about freedom, about pitting your skill and your strength against the wild elements, come what may, the dog doesn't understand.
[00:02:11]  The dog thinks that freedom is a biscuit from the hand of his master.
[00:02:19]  A world of endless biscuits is what the dog imagines freedom to be.
[00:02:27]  See, when you get right down to it, the dog is a degenerate slave race.
[00:02:37]  So what happens if you put a wolf into a pack of dogs?
[00:02:44]  Now one wolf, one dog, one wolf, three dogs.
[00:02:49]  The wolf's probably going to come out on top, create a pack of its own, maybe a degenerate pack.
[00:02:56]  Not as powerful as a true wolf pack, but the wolf is going to come out on top.
[00:03:02]  The dogs know that they don't have the strength to fight the wolf.
[00:03:07]  But when you put a wolf into a society of dogs, that wolf is smart enough to know that a hundred dogs will chew him to pieces.
[00:03:21]  And so you have a wolf skulking as if they're a dog, trying to blend in to this degenerate dog society and not draw attention.
[00:03:34]  Sometimes the wolf will internalize this rage at this submission, at having to be submissive to these vile, incompetent mutts.
[00:03:47]  Other times it will acquire mental disorder.
[00:03:50]  It'll start behaving erratically.
[00:03:53]  It'll start suffering from depression.
[00:03:58]  Because dogs are dogs, and wolves are not meant to fit in with them.