DOGS

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

https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Saint_christopher_cynocephalus.gif

"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

tbf someone had asked the dog to fetch the designated driver

It's almost as if the t-bone was unavoidable

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

― H.P, Monday, 12 February 2024 bookmarkflaglink

So dogs have killed people, are you telling me this is a lie?

shut up, cat lover ;)

Just putting facts on the table.

you clearly don't understand this revive

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.

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

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.

The brackets meant to say cats do the same bar exercise

There are some days where it feels like at least half of my total steps were getting up to let the cat in or out every five minutes or sprinting across the room to stop him yeeting a full glass of water into oblivion

Not that I would recommend this course of action but one time I accidentally split a bag of cat litter because I was thinking about Pedro Martinez pushing Don Zimmer over and it took me ages to clean up (and it was a 20kg bag too, no bueno).

I mean that and all the hoovering you have to do to keep their fur from taking over your house.

xp btw we did have a cat fountain for their hydration but after they would routinely come and drink from cold water glasses set down for dinner, we replaced it with a regularly refreshed glass for this purpose and I’d say they prefer it

We had a fountain for Richie and he would just monomaniacally dismantle it and then tip it over the second he saw it, I've rarely seen any mammal more obsessively committed to a single task, it was just destroy on sight

Regular human drinks are a relatively simple paw in the glass and hoik it to wherever its fate takes it for him. He just wants liquids to be free

the battle against fur can never be truly won. If I don't vac up at least twice a day it's a hair pit with doghair managing to get into everything including dinner. At least I won the battle against fleas. I had a recurring problem with them during the mad heatwave summer, fleabombed their asses out of my home.

a good brush twice a week withone of them metal toothed brushes can do a ot of good during the worst of the season ime

Nora sheds copiously, even with brushing. I brung her over to a friend's last week and even two hours in the space meant a sweep-up as we left.

looking at the Real England thread posts from last week this morning tells me there is a dark side to dogs.

All that news event showed to me is that there is a dark side to humans, that guy should never have been allowed to own a dog let alone several