Canis lupus familiaris only exists through millennia of domestication. They literally would not exist if not for "pet ownership."

That's the point.

Without this cruel industry you wouldn't have genetic freaks living shortened often painful lives.

I am the dog owner you are talking to. So I have to ask: do you think being owned by me is terrible for my dogs?

See, I can't do anything about "pet ownership", whatever that is. I can't do anything about over-breeding. I can't do anything about the thousands of dogs killed or living in pounds.

Oh wait! Yes I can! I rescued three of them. They have happy lives with us and our friends and each other now. A big safe yard with squirrels to chase, good food (not the squirrels!), soft beds (they're all on my bed right now), laps to sit on, baths and teeth brushed, no fleas (usually), and not getting eaten by raccoons or caged and killed in a pound.

Fucking terrible, isn't it?

Yes, it is terrible.

Pet owners help perpetuate a cruel and inhumane industry.

The fact that you own rescue dogs, and are thus aware of the surplus, but can't accept that this cruelty is caused by the industry that you support is just run of the mill cognitive dissonance.

I don't think it is safe to say. I think pet ownership is tremendously good for dogs overall.

Now that opinions are out of the way, I would love to see unbiased information on the percentage of dogs that live under unkind ownership vs kind ownership.

Tens of thousands of dogs out of tens of millions, isn't a persuasive argument. That's like claiming humans should stop having children - in which for 18 years those children essentially belong to the parents as a form of property - all because some percentage of children get abused very terribly or even abandoned.

Pet ownership has created mutant breeds that would be unable to live without human owners.

Pet ownership creates vast numbers of dogs - many many more than can be supported by human owners.

Even the animal loving UK was killing a thousand dogs a day.

This US animal charity says that in the US one dog or cat is killed every eleven seconds.

Pet owners deliberately blind themselves to the vast amounts of cruelty their choice has created.

Edit: here's the link!! http://m.humanesociety.org/issues/pet_overpopulation/

As one of the pet owners you're talking about, am I deliberately blinding myself to the vast amounts of cruelty my choice has created?

The only possible response is WTF?

I saved my dogs from all the fates you describe. And yet you accuse me and other pet rescuers of the most false and outrageous things.

Sir, what gives you that right?

Are these insults and accusations a good way to win people over to your point of view?

Enough for now, my dogs are waiting for their chicken and collard greens. It's such a cruel life here, poor things.