DOGS

That was a bit extreme.

yeah sorry i regretted that right away
i don't actually dislike cats and def don't wanna make light of animal cruelty
apologies

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My boys are like: 🎵we can beat them🎵

Wait is that a Samoyed?? How do you keep them so clean? I like those buddies.

He's a late write-in vote for the overlooked Japanese Spitz

Stuff mostly just brushes off him tbh!

Aw, Spitzy! My grandparents had one of those when I was a kid. Lots of brushing.

aww look interspecies harmony

Dogs are capable of emitting farts that put us humans to shame.

This is true, but smell aside it’s comical when my dog farts because he startles and keeps looking back at his hindquarters like he can’t figure out what happened.

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I couldn't possibly get a pic of this lad with a cat unless he was chasing one

what a good boy

One of the last construction projects I did was building a screened in porch/room for a woman’s twelve cats.

I love cats but opening the door to that house would make you retch if you weren’t prepared.

it is interesting to note (and i do so without prejudice, of course) that when a person is called a dog, the connotations are purely negative: the person so called is understood to be low down, dirty, or perhaps mindlessly obedient.

on the other hand, when someone is called a cat it means that they are hep and cool and "with it" and accomplished at jazz.

i just thought that was an interesting socio-linguistic phenomenon 🤔

don't you have an ac/dc thread to whimsically castigate hard rock in?

No one ever got praised for having that cat in them.

So I thought this was a bit, but maybe not?

it is interesting to note (and i do so without prejudice, of course) that when a person is called a dog, the connotations are purely negative: the person so called is understood to be low down, dirty, or perhaps mindlessly obedient.

on the other hand, when someone is called a cat it means that they are hep and cool and "with it" and accomplished at jazz.

i just thought that was an interesting socio-linguistic phenomenon 🤔

― what followed the axes was just the beginning (cat), Friday, 9 February 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Interesting. Also correct.

But if you're in a dogfight you're a brave heroic pilot, whereas if you're in a catfight you're a low-class tramp.

despite being the greatest talent, Thelonious Monk had to struggle to make a career for himself through dogged persistence, not catted persistence.

Charles Mingus taught his cat to shit in the toilet, though - attempts to get his Labrador to do so ended in failure.

Bird battled an addiction to horse

I heard he had a heroin problem as well

The joy of 'dog' as word is its complexity - messy, disgusting, an outcast, fawning and violent by turns, loyal, protective, shit-eating, hungry and fuck-hungry, both game and cowardly - and we've put the mess of ourselves into the words for these live-for-the-moment edge-of-camp always-social think-with-your-nose-and-mouth co-evolved beasts.

Cats are cool though, I'm not anti-cat.

I couldn't possibly get a pic of this lad with a cat unless he was chasing one

He looks just like mine! I guess it's kind of a standard look lol

I just fucking love black labs, Jim!

I'm not really anti-cat. just don't want one in my house or shitting in my garden. Can admire them from a distance, but I would prefer to have a rotting corpse in my house rather than a litter tray.

I caught a cat in the act of taking a dump less than a handful of times in my life.
One dog walk and the dog easily lapped that number.
But I've never tried to take a cat on a walk...

xp I had never lived with one before this one, and we took him in because my mother in law couldn't take care of herself any more, let alone him. It was a rocky period of adjustment, but I've come around and we are buddies now.

X-post Please. I'm now trying to think if I've ever seen one mid act. I don't want to be thinking about this!

(I don't think I ever have.)

Pretty good piece on how Dante deployed dogs as an insult (I've linked this essay on here once before)

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2015/03/10/dantes-dogs/

Watching Doonie find the correct spot to poo is one of the times I feel closest to and furthest from dogworld. He's so involved in locating the exact right spot, you know you're watching a creature operating in its own universe with its own complete logic. You can almost touch it but never go inside it - yes it's about scent, space, territory, distance but why there exactly?

I love watching them dig their "den" before having a little lie-down.

my dog even performatively *digs* the screeded kitchen floor before lying down on a spot, it's very funny.

I saw a cat shit at the back of my house just last week. Thankfully I've given up on the back of my house for now - it's zone rouge. If ever I go back there I'll have to do a sweep of this minefield of hard cat turds.

I am not sure what the issue is really. Animals shit and piss on grass. Worst is how I see dog poo on the pavement all the time. The owners neglect their duties.

At least cats go somewhere by themselves to poo out of the way.

I'm in the habit of cleaning up other people's dogshit when I'm walking Nora. Why not? I have the bags for it, I'm already on duty. 1 in 100 dog owners will shit-and-split, looks bad on the rest of us. If the other 99 were to be diligent about cleaning as we go, the sidewalks would be spotless.

My least favourite thing in the world is when Nora pees and then we continue on our way and some asshole starts screaming after me to "clean up after your dog". She's a girl, she squats to pee, do you see any shit there? that's because there is none. Go scream at the moon

Dog shit bothers me far less than people's used gum on the sidewalk.

I'm in the habit of cleaning up other people's dogshit when I'm walking Nora. Why not? I have the bags for it, I'm already on duty. 1 in 100 dog owners will shit-and-split, looks bad on the rest of us. If the other 99 were to be diligent about cleaning as we go, the sidewalks would be spotless.

The righteous truth

heard u talkin shit pic.twitter.com/jk3XciZR3d

— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) February 11, 2024

we have a cat who i love deeply, he's a very good buddy BUT 50% of the time he's also a whiny grumpy bitch lol.

i secretly long to go full "dog dude", which to me means living somewhere semi-rural with a large yard that isn't exactly lawn if you know what i mean.

it warms my heart that we have such a good & long dogs vs cats revive with so many good stories....

Cat/dog posting is truly the heart of ilxor

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"we have a cat who i love deeply, he's a very good buddy BUT 50% of the time he's also a whiny grumpy bitch lol"

Better being grumpy than actually killing people, which is what dogs have done.

TS: killing people vs. Killing the vibe of the dog thread with blatant anti-dog propaganda

Cat gets a pass because you know, she's a cat

Dogs have killed people! Do you know what propaganda is?

"The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines propaganda as: The manipulation of information to influence public opinion."

There must be a few people who've broken their necks after their cat decided to run in front of them while they were trying to go down some stairs

My dog loves to go on walks and sit on the sofa chewing his plastic bone in the company of his owners, he's never killed anyone

counterpoint: dogs don't kill enough people

Ah hold up sorry I forgot the stint he did for vehicular homicide in the 2010s

Ah, sounds like a ruff day