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Can dogs be materialistic

Updated: 4/28/2022
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Being materialistic, in the common sense, means being obsessed with and valuing material wealth and goods over other types of values, usually spiritual or social ones

You have to decide if dogs are smart enough to have a value system they can think about and place one value above another in order to be materialistic. While they are social animals and can learn their names and tricks there isn't sufficient evidence that they can think about themselves; and, hence what to value and what not to value. They aren't materialistic because they don't have the mental capacity for it, but, they aren't non-materialistic either for the same reason.

Dogs are most definitely NOT materialistic. They love a poor owner as well as a rich owner. The only thing they are interested in acquiring is food, and that's more instinctual than materialistic.

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