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Posted by freebeezy]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:23:36 -0800 The Stranger
Cat owners don't care where their animals shit.

For years, neighborhood cats have been climbing my backyard fence to take a dump in my garden beds, leaving their disease-ridden, worm-studded, flea-egg laden feces where I am trying to grow vegetables. Dogs don't do this.

Thanks for this confession, Charles.
Posted by Pack Member]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:12:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mudede fucks animals]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:19:04 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mudede]]> Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:15:58 -0800 The Stranger
@ 52 - Fair enough. I'm-a remember you said that ("I'm not even really writer") and I might even, you know, remind you of this post of yours... from time to time... in the future.......



Posted by merry]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:36:57 -0800 The Stranger
And BTW, picking up dog shit is much less gross than when my cat peed on my bed. That was disgusting.
Posted by Julie in Chicago]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:37:52 -0800 The Stranger This isnt a measure of love or canine dominance but of the need to obey the law. A law that is enforced/enacted by people who dont/do love their dog. A law that is a reinforcment of the need to somehow find a way to get along with all the other animals in the urban jungle. A need to simplify existance while still allowing others to simply exist with or without their desired choice of existential egos aka progeny, pets or hobbies. A simple demonstration of nothing but the human need to leave something of themselves; in order to dominate time and its fleeting memory of all things urbane.
Posted by drone5969]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:53:28 -0800 The Stranger Posted by mudede]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:28:38 -0800 The Stranger
Do not blame philosophy! I have a degree in philosophy! I've met a bunch of people with degrees in philosophy! I've known very, very few who take themselves as seriously as Mudede. And I hated them. And everybody else hated them.

I have noticed that self-educated philosophers lean more towards douchebaggery, because they haven't been forced to consider viewpoints they find uninteresting. By self-selecting the phil that interests them, they end up thinking that their own ideas are somehow new or valuable. When really, somebody already beat their idea into a pulp about 200 years ago.

Put down the books and get a damned dog!

And I say this as a cat owner! With a phil degree! LOL
Posted by violet_dagrinder]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:20:57 -0800 The Stranger Posted by NaFun]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:58:02 -0800 The Stranger Posted by meg]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:26:44 -0800 The Stranger
Charles - there's a fine line between clever and stupid.

wait - no, the line isn't fine at all. But you're still on the wrong side.

Have fun cleaning up your litter box.

Oh, and #47 - backed. I commented about that item on this twit's anti-dog post yesterday.
Posted by Ken]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:07:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Vince]]> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:28:16 -0800 The Stranger Cats take every bit as much work but have fewer pay offs. Do cat owners have a slave fetish? Do you enjoy being dominated by a creature that could care less for you unless it happens to be hungry? One that will watch impartially as an intruder enters your house and begins hacking at you?
I'm happy to pick up poop OUTSIDE of my house and take my dog for walks, those are the only two additional requirements of dog ownership over cats. The pay off of having a creature follow me around the house inquisitively when I vacuum, kick his dog dish and toss it in the air when he is hungry, and entertain me and my friends with his antics is well worth the trouble. There is also the benefit that dogs are less prone to parasites than cats so they are more appropriate for households with children.
Posted by dogs win]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:57:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by d-o-g is G-O-D backwards]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:05:19 -0800 The Stranger
(OK. To you oversensitive types, that was a joke I love dogs and cats and have been pining for my old dog, who dies 35 years ago this week. His name was Taco and he was a black long-haired chihuahua. I miss him.)
Posted by elswinger]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:07:10 -0800 The Stranger
No, Charles, you are wrong, yet again. (Is anyone paying attention to the damage caused by studying too much philosophy? Mr. Mudede is a text-book case [pun intended].) Dog owners in the city pick up dog poop because they are In The City! This is what socially-conscious urban canine-owning humans do. They also do it because it is The Law to pick up your dog's poop in The City. That is why it is done, not so that everyone can see them doing it, not to display how basely they are "owned" by their dogs.

I can assure you that (horrors) rural dog owners do not pick up their dog's poop. There goes your theory, shot down by a meagre handful of easily discernable facts.

Maybe you might wanna stick to these "facts" for a while there, big fella... Hhmmm? Maybe?



Posted by merry]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:05:59 -0800 The Stranger
If not liking dogs makes me a sociopath, who'll be my Squeaky Fromme?
Posted by Chris B]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:38:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Khalid]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:30:27 -0800 The Stranger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=669rlqvXG…
Posted by MC Be Lahar]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:16:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by you SUCK]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:49:23 -0800 The Stranger
Hitler had a dog, you know!!!!
Posted by ams]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:44:33 -0800 The Stranger
Wow, as a non believer and a dog owner...this is a serious litter box full of smelly cat shit. Time to change the litter Charlie.

Again, try to simplify your thoughts: You Don't Like Dogs.

Period.

The End.
Posted by Sally Struthers Lawnchair]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:43:47 -0800 The Stranger
I like to think of this in a cost/reward trade-off kind of way. Dogs requires a bigger investment in time/resources than cats, but there is a bigger payoff (I say this as someone who's owned 4 cats, and whose parents currently have the smartest Maine Coon cat in existence). Kids require the most investment, for (presumably) the most payoff.
Posted by Julie in Chicago]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:13:57 -0800 The Stranger
That emotionally crippled occupant of the White House has two dogs he reportedly adores.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:30:16 -0800 The Stranger