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tandempiower, your complete unwillingness to think of any other being on that being's terms was astonishing, the first several times you displayed it. Not it is boring.
Your complete unwillingness to hear, accept, or honor Anyone else's point of view is the same.
Every single person who chooses not to won a car, or cannot own a car despite wanting to, has his or her own "paradigm." The limited way in which you view the world is Yours, and yours alone. You have no ability to understand anyone else;'s "paradigm," simply because you refuse to.
And as of right now, the OP Is justifying owning a car to care for the dogs, and is putting treating the dogs with due honor and respect as living beings, higher than not owning a car. Those are the facts.
Also, the fact that humans and dogs lived together for millennia witho0ut cars has no bearing on this situation. Humans and animals have lived together literally for as long as there have been humans .... and through that whole time conditions have been changing. Maybe it has escaped you but originally dogs Hunted humans. Things change in the real world. Maybe you should update your paradigm.
You would willingly sacrifice the health and happiness of the dogs to promote your vision of personal car-free Utopia---because you do not really respect and honor the right to live of Any other living being--except trees, and that is probably only in the abstract.
It is not even necessary to love an animal, or a pair of animals to realize that you have been entrusted with their care and well-being, that they are totally dependent upon you, and that you are responsible for their quality of life.
I believe it was Gandhi who said one could tell the quality of a civilization by the way they it treated its animals.
Oh, but Gandhi wasn't a tree, so you probably don't care.