MarcosZeitola wrote: ↑November 4th, 2022, 5:56 am
Pets are the most perverse things about human culture. People buy a dog, they make a big deal how the dog is "their best friend" then have the dog castrated by a vet so he won't jump around and bark as much or hump a leg. Way to treat your best friend... with friends like that, who needs enemies?
Good point? I wonder if they have dog vasectomies. That way your male dog can have some fun with the female dogs in the neighborhood without fear of infecting the neighbor's $7000 French bulldog with a mutt. Does mating knock the females out of commission.
Girls will push little tiny dogs around in strollers or carry them around if if they are babies. Some people refer to their dogs, or cats, as their "furbabies". It's sickening.
This is weird. If I were dating, and a dating profile had 'fur baby' it, that would be a negative. Even mentioning a pet in a dating profile would be. I wouldn't want to live in a house full of dog or cat hair.
We have ducks. I feed them and give them water. I take their eggs. My youngest goes out there, holds them, tells them they are cute. The older kids do that on occasion. But they leave eggs behind, not just poop. Their poop is also great fertilizer for the garden, they say.
I like a dog, a guard dog. He ought to stay outside. No excessive petting, no kissing the damn creature. Just let him be an "outside dog". With cats, do not even feed them... don't get them litter boxes and turn them into living stuffer toys; let them catch mice and kill their own food. Pets should only be held if one doesn't live in a city, in a more rural area, and they can roam around freely.
I'm not a child. Kids like pets. But I don't need to have my social needs met by an animal. I agree about dogs. I'd want one for a utilitarian function if I had one-- and outside or maybe in a dog house. I don't want him shedding on my furniture. And definitely no cats inside. If you have a barn full of grain, cats (or black snakes) can keep the rate population down. Some farmers feed the cats in the winter time so the tom cats won't kill each other off.
Also what's up with the overpriced pet food? Dogs and cats don't need to eat expensive fancy meats... just let them eat leftover human food. That's what they give pets in the Philippines and some of them live very long lives. People seem to forget an animal is an animal... they treat them as if they're one's offspring, which is a ridiculous notion and one of the biggest issues in modern culture. A pet can never replace an actual human child. To delude yourself into this is a preposterous feminist idea that needs to die already.
My grandmother used to feed the dog the table scraps and the rest was compost. We have a compost bucket. Since we started doing that, our big trash can by the road is rarely full.
I buy feed for the ducks because I get eggs every day and for the value of the eggs, it works out. But we dump compost outside and they can eat that if they want. I cut some bad-looking junk off some broccoli, had some old baked beans in the fridge and some left over apple wedges someone brought for a get-together. I put that out for the ducks last night. I had to chop the apples for them. But I eat their eggs, so it makes sense.
If I lived in a good place for it, I might not mind having goats, since I could eat their meat. We are supposed to pay a sheep farmer to own some sheep and to feed them. After we have a few of them, we could eat the one-year-olds. The problem is if the kids play with them, it makes it hard to eat them. My kids wouldn't want to eat our ducks.
with taxidermy I suppose the owner feels like in a way their deceased pet is still with them in a sense. But having them turned into an ornamental rug says to me that they just saw their pet as something nice to look at every now and again. Maybe it's just me, but I think this is very strange.
