Post 659833 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #659653 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T17:42:57Z
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4.5 million people are bitten annually by dogs, according to the CDC. And occasionally, one mauls your wife to death in 15 minutes:https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article220087415.html(stats: https://dogbitelaw.com/dog-bite-statistics/all-dog-bite-statistics )
(DIR) Post #659833 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-20T18:01:07Z
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@jeremiah The breed that leads in fatal bites I am convinced is bought by people who passively want to kill off their babies and grandparents.
(DIR) Post #659872 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T18:06:04Z
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@cosullivan I maintain that, for the most part, dogs are inflicted onto other people by narcissists. I wish they'd treat people whose dogs injure others the same way they treat firearm owners whose guns injure others.
(DIR) Post #659907 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-20T18:07:46Z
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@jeremiah the US is so litigious you'd think that would happen. If people want devotion without the lawsuits, to own an animal easy to manage by young and old, they should have a cat. Owning an animal one can't control when it's attacking telegraphs that one is too stupid to live.
(DIR) Post #659956 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T18:11:08Z
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@cosullivan I fully concur. I see "pets" as what a psychologist would call a "transitional object" -- like a teddy bear or other toy.I understand a dog in the country, but in the city, when giant dogs are confined to 120m^2 apartments except for the 2-3 hours a day someone is home and awake just seems to be the height of both cruelty, selfishness, and a screaming klaxon of arrested emotional development.
(DIR) Post #659989 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-20T18:11:59Z
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@jeremiah Right, like taking a 80lb animal into a cafe that fits five people comfortably, letting it sit where it obstructs customers from ordering, or letting it sprawl on a waiting area seat for customers. I have the inverse -- a cat who likes to jump on people, and activates allergies, so nobody comes to visit us. As a recluse, this thrills me.
(DIR) Post #660026 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-20T18:13:44Z
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@jeremiah I was driven insane by large dogs who had idiots for owners: 'let's coop up a Great Dane and NEVER walk it!' 'let's have two dogs who bark all the goddamn time at our neighbours, leave them alone for weekends so they bark 16 hours a day, including the night!' i can't tell the differences sometimes among narcissism, misanthropy and stupidity.
(DIR) Post #660036 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T18:15:26Z
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@cosullivan The dogs in public that's bad -- but when they're in a church, restaurant, or grocery shop -- we have a problem.I had an... event... involving someone who brought his dog to a cafe, wouldn't move it for patrons (including an old woman with a walker,) and when I kicked it for trying to eat food off of my table, the guy flipped out.I try very hard not to be the punching type, but things like this test my patience severely.
(DIR) Post #660082 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T18:18:08Z
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@cosullivan For years, I've worked at home; office in the front of the apartment kind of thing. For most of the last 15 years, I've had neighbors with dogs that have made concentrating at home virtually impossible.I responded by developing an ultrasonic noisemaker that would drive the dogs nuts all night so that I wouldn't be lonely in my suffering.When that particular (last) one was evicted, she'd not paid rent (at all), and her (now 3) "emotional support" dogs had destroyed the unit.
(DIR) Post #665495 by sailor_andy@roughseas.xyz
2018-10-20T20:52:30Z
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@jeremiah @cosullivan Some people are jerks. That guy just happens to be a jerk with a dog.As for the incident in Charlotte, that is tragic.
(DIR) Post #665496 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T22:26:31Z
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@sailor_andy @cosullivan The correlation between dog ownership and jerk, in my experience, has been very high. Of course there are exceptions, I don't want to indict all dog owners...When they're in a cafe, grocery, church, lives in a tiny apartment, or someone uses the term "fur-baby" or "dog-mom" (or dog step-dad, or dog grandma) -- red alert.
(DIR) Post #665497 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-21T01:19:17Z
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@jeremiah @sailor_andy 90% of dog owners are responsible and they scorn the jerk owners more than nonowners do.
(DIR) Post #665629 by jeremiah@noagendasocial.com
2018-10-20T18:21:01Z
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@cosullivan And there was a punchline I nearly forgot: she was the person who managed complaints about dog behavior at the animal shelter...... Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?Needless to say, there was no official help (or acknowledgement) with that situation.
(DIR) Post #665630 by cosullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
2018-10-21T01:27:24Z
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@jeremiah I get it. My car lost a side mirror when some yutz slammed into us without shoulderchecking. She was trying to get into the HOV lane and guessed her 2 large dogs who would not sit and thus blocked her view counted as passengers.