Dogs do NOT eat their own kind, so why do people say its a dog eat dog world?
Six answers:
luditess
2010-05-10 02:46:34 UTC
Maybe it's a reference to dog fighting where they fight to the death. Implies vicious competition where there can only be one winner.
anonymous
2010-05-10 02:49:54 UTC
definition In a dog eat dog world, there is intense competition and rivalry, where everybody thinks only of himself or herself.
Ruthless acquisition or competition, as in With shrinking markets, it's dog eat dog for every company in this field. This contradicts a Latin proverb which maintains that dog does not eat dog, first recorded in English in 1543. Nevertheless, by 1732 it was put as "Dogs are hard drove when they eat dogs"
anonymous
2010-05-10 02:38:41 UTC
No doubt dogs did eat dog at some stage of evolution, and no doubt still would if the circumstances demanded it.
?
2010-05-10 05:36:19 UTC
Hmmm I'm not sure
In today fierce competition perhaps like two dogs fighting to the death?
How about this one....Fighting like tooth and nail???
anonymous
2010-05-10 03:15:42 UTC
because dogs fight to survive,and lot of people do,my selfgiven up yrs ago,just go with flow
anonymous
2010-05-10 02:46:59 UTC
exactly! they don't. which is why it indicates extremes. like a real bad world.