a dog is not befitting of the title man's best friend.

A best friend by definition is by definition a person's closest friend. In the context of outside's man realm, the saying that A dog is man's best friend is a term coined by dog lovers who will not accept anything short of attributing to a dog this status, as perhaps a reward for the loyalty or companionship or usefulness that a dog may or may not show to man. I contend that this notion is ridiculous and shows the lengths to which (western man especially and specifically the dog owning man) has gone to justify his oppression of another creature. It is tantamount to saying that because man finds so much use in dogs, (mind you dogs can be used for companionship, for protection, for food, for abuse as seen with Dog fighting) he has chosen to reward the dog for his humiliation of it. I contend that man's best friend if taken from an animal point of view would be a cow or buffalo or horses or chicken. Despite the lack of loyalty skills, these animals particularly cows have been fundamental to man's well being, they were with man when he had no tractors nor tanks, carried his burdens to places where dogs could only bark, and it was the horses on which man begun his conquest of other men and by extension the earth, dogs had no say in the matter. For man to reach this point where he feeling self sufficient rewards a dog with a reward that does not befit it is a form of injustice. Dogs as a species are not known for there hygiene unlike cats, many are the dogs that have attacked passersby and there owners. I am not saying that dogs are useless but to be attributed the title man's best friend should call for a more objective analysis. If one human death is caused because of one dog's aggression, this is enough to disqualify dogs from this honor that they have been granted arbitrarily . And a dog is not like a cow or horse , all perform functions that the other may never be able to do naturally, a dog can be trained to kill white/black people on sight , a horse or cow can not. Is this the reason a dog is considered man's best friend? Rather it is a title that some dog loving far from reality elitist coined out of his or her unjustified emotional attachment to their dog. it is for this reason that people make movies solely praising dogs, an emotional reaction that has no firm basis in logic. if it was not for man's training would any dog be able to sniff bombs or do the things that man so diligently praises about dogs, dogs are what man makes them, is this the reason why this creatures have been termed as man's best friend? is this not the worst form of domination? Dogs are eaten in some parts of the world, including China and are treated as mere beasts in many other parts of the world, is it that you eat your best friend or abuse him further as you desire? Granted cows are eaten to, but from them cows milk, clothing, farming help, peace and serenity, they are a source of wealth, have you seen a man that has acres of land filled with dogs that would find that as wealth? I certainly have not seen any. another gift of dogs is rabies and many like diseases, yes many animals spread disease, but rabies is spread by a dog bite, and mad cow disease by consumption not cow bite, why would my best friend bite me? I have read many a story of dogs doing many things worth mentioning and many not worth even mentioning, but for man to fool himself into calling his domination of another species friendship is Ludacris and deserves condemnation. If dogs are man's best friend, why then have dogs killed men or eaten faces of others when hungry or killed babies in cribs where intentionally or unintentionally ( I don't know)? Why are not chicken, harmless animals that man consumes with great pleasure considered his best friend, they sacrifice their young( egg form) to man without question and serve as his meat whenever he desires, they do not attack nor protect him, is the condition of being a best friend that one should be able to protect you? Why not cows and there incomparable uses compared to dogs? We have wild dogs but not wild cows, are wild dogs not man's best friend yet they too are just dogs? or is it that because man failed to tame them he considers them wild and as such they are not his best friends? Rather a dog should be considered man's useful creature and not his best friend, indeed one human life was lost since the beginning of time to one dog( which has happened), then we can not consider a dog as man's best friend, unless of course we refuse to acknowledge the human life lost, and this lack of empathy explains why many a man treat their dogs better than other human beings and as such have the audacity to call a dog man's best friend.