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Religion The Babe of Hounds
Posted by Charles Mudede on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM
The dirty and dumb stray dogs of Mumbai (panting, sticky tongue hanging, breath stinking) must thank heaven (Baywatch) for the arrival of a new saint: old Ms. Google Boobs.
Stray dogs in India's financial capital, Mumbai (Bombay) should be sterilised not killed, says former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.Animal lover Ms Anderson intervened on the dogs' behalf in a letter to the city authorities.
"Dogs cannot use condoms but... they can be 'fixed' painlessly," she wrote.
The star learnt of the dogs' plight after Mumbai's High Court recently said strays should be killed as they were a "permanent nuisance" to the public.
Dog love is limitless. No cat owner would go to some faraway city and tell the people how to treat their stray cats.
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never underestimate the arrogance of Hollywood, though i would tend to agree about the tendencies of the mindset of the various animal owners
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One thing I've noticed in some non-Western countries is that, while dogs are hated and reviled, cats are tolerated and often loved.
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oh Charles, how wrong you are. i just adopted a cat from some rescue agency and i had to initial no less than 30 clauses in the agreement about the cat not going outside, being fed wet food for urethral health, no access to balconies (they can jump!!) etc etc etc. cat lovers will absolutely travel the world and tell people how to treat their cats.
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Maybe Pamela Boob-Job should shut her fucking mouth about stuff she knows nothing about, eh what? Has she ever even been to Mumbai? Maybe Mumbai's High Court knows more about what's going on there than some fucking porn star from Malibu.
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Canadians always have more useful advice in regards to foreign nations than do agressive war-creating Americans like Fnarf.
Besides, think of all the lower caste Indians who will have jobs sterilizing the dogs and how that will create more jobs, now that India's tech sector is too expensive for the US to outsource to.
Heck, they could probably employ Fnarf to shave them.
Besides, think of all the lower caste Indians who will have jobs sterilizing the dogs and how that will create more jobs, now that India's tech sector is too expensive for the US to outsource to.
Heck, they could probably employ Fnarf to shave them.
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I have no comment on the pet angle, but I have to say that is one awesome use of the Google logo. And I'm saying that as a straight chick who thinks fake boobs are dumb. Just scroll up to hide her face and it makes it much better.
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It never ceases to amaze me how upset people get (or how much they like to act so) when celebrities speak their mind. "Shut up!" they say, "You are here to entertain me, not to have an opinion!" Agree, fine. Disagree, why do you give a fuck?
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@7, you misunderstand me. I don't want her to shut up. I want her to be hit by a speeding locomotive.
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@2: not true in Latin America. Cats are generally reviled there and, like many (most?) animals in the developing world, are subject to unspeakable cruelties.
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You say that Ms. Anderson is telling others "how to treat" dogs. But that seems like sloppy phrasing. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that she is telling them "how to avoid killing" dogs? Or at the very least "how to treat the dog problem"?
At any rate, pandering to the "cats vs. dogs" crowd for relevancy/comments seems silly. Perhaps I missed your post when Miley Cyrus tried to tell China "how to treat" dolphins, or your post on the topic of Jane Goodall's recommendations for "treating" gorilla populations in Africa? Or when animals rights' groups regularly object to the "treatment" of cougar and wolf populations (cats and dogs) through culling?
The sad truth--also at work in mass genocides and wars--is that death is the cheap, easy and clear solution for any living thing that is considered a "nuisance" by other living things with the power to kill it. This will remain the case until we are able to afford intrinsic value to all living things instead of merely assigning an extrinsic value--or no value at all--as wards, belongings or "nuisances."
At any rate, pandering to the "cats vs. dogs" crowd for relevancy/comments seems silly. Perhaps I missed your post when Miley Cyrus tried to tell China "how to treat" dolphins, or your post on the topic of Jane Goodall's recommendations for "treating" gorilla populations in Africa? Or when animals rights' groups regularly object to the "treatment" of cougar and wolf populations (cats and dogs) through culling?
The sad truth--also at work in mass genocides and wars--is that death is the cheap, easy and clear solution for any living thing that is considered a "nuisance" by other living things with the power to kill it. This will remain the case until we are able to afford intrinsic value to all living things instead of merely assigning an extrinsic value--or no value at all--as wards, belongings or "nuisances."
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Fruitcake @14: I've got this... uh, friend who has a rat infestation problem. Could you recommend a good cruelty-free rat poison I could use? One that hasn't been tested on animals?
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Charles, those dogs deserve no less compassion than your dumbass thug homies who seem to be unable to not get shot by police. Speaking of compassionate sterilization....
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Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia and home to over 1 million people, is located in Mumbai. Given the daily humanitarian crisis, it is amazing that anyone is concerned about the stray dogs.
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@17: Insisting that Mumbai spend government money on the fruitless endeavor of trying to capture and neuter its entire population of stray dogs (who will presumably then go on to live long, fulfilling lives while troubling no-one) while letting its people starve is par for the course for PETA spokesbots like Pamala Anderson. It is no coincidence that people like her who live in a vapid bubble of privilege value the lives of dogs far above the lives of poor people -- after all, she probably has daily interactions with real live dogs.
The beauty of PETA is that she can actually feel like some kind of role model for saying things like this.
The beauty of PETA is that she can actually feel like some kind of role model for saying things like this.
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I spent three weeks in Marrakech with a bunch of Swedes who insisted on bringing stray kittens home to our hotel. There are a lot of stray cats in Marrakech, and a lot of westerners trying to save them.
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Uuuuugh! Tits! Muh Dik! Muh Dik! Foucault! Narrative!!! Muh Dik!!!!! Muh Dik!!!!!!!!! White wimminez!!!! Marx! Muh Dik!!!!
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flamingbanjo @18 nailed it. remember, peta is the orgainization so out of touch with reality that the
once-president of peta had the nerve to compare the slaughter of broiler chickens to the holocaust. these people live in a bubble.
once-president of peta had the nerve to compare the slaughter of broiler chickens to the holocaust. these people live in a bubble.
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@4...What is happening in Mubai and elsewhere (say ALL OVER MEXICO ans South America) is really f-ed up. Stray dogs (sometimes abandoned when owners tire of them, others born strays) are rounded up and shot, drowned or poisoned.
This was common practice in Yelapa, MX where I used to vacay. The federales would storm the beach, round up the dogs and fire or do a mass poisoning. Too bad if your owned dog was caught in the mix.
While Fun Bags is not one of my favorite people, her heart and boobs are in the right place.
This was common practice in Yelapa, MX where I used to vacay. The federales would storm the beach, round up the dogs and fire or do a mass poisoning. Too bad if your owned dog was caught in the mix.
While Fun Bags is not one of my favorite people, her heart and boobs are in the right place.
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