[J. Stew]

Dogs are better manifestations of nature/life/god than humans are most of the time. Dogs are dumb and don't know to be anything different than dogs. Humans are smart and try to get famous so others will verify their existence. In this sense, dogs are true to themselves whereas people conjure up all sorts of ideas in their heads about who they are which is actually separate from reality and is not truth.

Dogs are balls of consciousness with hair and waggy tails. People are balls of consciousness with balding heads and clothes from the Gap. The only way dogs, or humans for that matter, get away from their natural selves is if they are abused or if they desire things apart from that which they already are. Dogs don't want anything but life and that which sustains it i.e. food, shelter . . . People eat, drink, want, in excess of what they need to sustain life.

If three dogs are tortured then there is a probability that one or all of the dogs will be scarred mentally for life which may separate them from their true selves that they are most likely in tune with already, granted no previous abuse and a generally normal life up till torture time. An example would be that the dog or dogs feels so much pain while being 'racked' that he/they remain in a state of fear for the rest of their lives. This would have reprocussions (sp?) not only in their own departure from their natural selves but exponentially in society when considering they will interact with many dogs for the rest of their lives and which their own negative mental state could prove infectious. Of course not to the same degree but low energy breeds low energy, that sort of thing. . . Anyways the negative effect on the dog or dogs' state of mind and the spread of hatred from that dog to other dogs, which would stem from the fear that the torturer instilled in said dog/dogs through torture, would outweigh the six hours of extra life the random human would get considering that the current average human state of mind is off in la la thought land and not here in the present moment where life is happening and dogs are pooping on their front lawns.