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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 February 2024 20:23 (two months ago) link
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 22:18 (two months ago) link
don't you have an ac/dc thread to whimsically castigate hard rock in?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:19 (two months ago) link
No one ever got praised for having that cat in them.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:23 (two months ago) link
So I thought this was a bit, but maybe not?
― Selune Gomez (Leee), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:33 (two months ago) link
― what followed the axes was just the beginning (cat), Friday, 9 February 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Interesting. Also correct.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 February 2024 22:40 (two months ago) link
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.
― Josefa, Friday, 9 February 2024 22:55 (two months ago) link
despite being the greatest talent, Thelonious Monk had to struggle to make a career for himself through dogged persistence, not catted persistence.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 9 February 2024 22:59 (two months ago) link
Charles Mingus taught his cat to shit in the toilet, though - attempts to get his Labrador to do so ended in failure.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:02 (two months ago) link
Bird battled an addiction to horse
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:05 (two months ago) link
I heard he had a heroin problem as well
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:14 (two months ago) link
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.
― woof, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:18 (two months ago) link
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
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:19 (two months ago) link
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.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:24 (two months ago) link
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...
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:29 (two months ago) link
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.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:30 (two months ago) link
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!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:31 (two months ago) link
(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/
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:32 (two months ago) link
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?
― woof, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link
I love watching them dig their "den" before having a little lie-down.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:39 (two months ago) link
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.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:44 (two months ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:47 (two months ago) link
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
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:54 (two months ago) link
Dog shit bothers me far less than people's used gum on the sidewalk.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 February 2024 23:56 (two months ago) link
The righteous truth
― woof, Friday, 9 February 2024 23:58 (two months ago) link
heard u talkin shit pic.twitter.com/jk3XciZR3d— cats being weird little guys (@weirdlilguys) February 11, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 February 2024 14:43 (two months ago) link
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....
― ꙮ (map), Sunday, 11 February 2024 17:47 (two months ago) link
Cat/dog posting is truly the heart of ilxor
― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 01:10 (two months ago) link
https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Saint_christopher_cynocephalus.gif
― what followed the axes was just the beginning (cat), Monday, 12 February 2024 01:17 (two months ago) link
"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.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 February 2024 12:38 (two months ago) link
TS: killing people vs. Killing the vibe of the dog thread with blatant anti-dog propaganda
― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 12:55 (two months ago) link
Cat gets a pass because you know, she's a cat
Dogs have killed people! Do you know what propaganda is?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 February 2024 12:59 (two months ago) link
"The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines propaganda as: The manipulation of information to influence public opinion."
― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:01 (two months ago) link
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
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 12 February 2024 13:06 (two months ago) link
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
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 12 February 2024 13:08 (two months ago) link
counterpoint: dogs don't kill enough people
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 12 February 2024 13:08 (two months ago) link
Ah hold up sorry I forgot the stint he did for vehicular homicide in the 2010s
Ah, sounds like a ruff day
― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:17 (two months ago) link
tbf someone had asked the dog to fetch the designated driver
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 12 February 2024 13:33 (two months ago) link
It's almost as if the t-bone was unavoidable
― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:37 (two months ago) link
― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 bookmarkflaglink
So dogs have killed people, are you telling me this is a lie?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:04 (two months ago) link
shut up, cat lover ;)
― Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:06 (two months ago) link
Just putting facts on the table.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 February 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
you clearly don't understand this revive
― Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:08 (two months ago) link
Studies show that dogs reduce stress, anxiety and depression, ease loneliness, encourage exercise and improve your all-around health.
^^
It might be some boilerplate spiel quoted from a Big Canine propaganda site, but this is all basically true. I didn't properly realise how crucial my dog was to me keeping together until my last one passed away. They don't do statistics on how many people are saved from bad mental health predicaments by dogs. The number of unlucky fuckers killed by them is statistically negligible. It's 40 odd a year in the US.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:42 (two months ago) link
really been feeling this as I take care of the house while my wife is gallivanting around being retired, if the dog wasn't here I would be a mess
― Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Monday, 12 February 2024 15:50 (two months ago) link
Pets in general do good things for your wellbeing (I would say they do the above bar encouraging exercise) but looking at the Real England thread posts from last week this morning tells me there is a dark side to dogs.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:04 (two months ago) link
The brackets meant to say cats do the same bar exercise
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 February 2024 16:05 (two months ago) link