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Uncle Enzo posted:My wife and I picked out shelter dog almost entirely on the basis of temperament. We wanted a medium size dog with short fur that would be happy and chill with everyone and do what it was told. Hee hee hee  e: god loving dammit i've sniped the last three pages i'm sick of this My (24f) ex (25m) who dumped me pretended to cry when he dropped off my stuff? quote:[new] Sisal Two-Step fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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My favourite ever dog was a 9 year old miniature dachshund who I foster-failed with. Prior to her I would never have considered buying a breed (as opposed to adopting a shelter mutt), but I loved that little old lady so much that I maybe would consider it, should I be in a position to have a dog again. She was the smartest, snuggliest, most personality-filled wee thing. She came with a beagle sister and while I loved the beagle too, I wouldn’t have another one.
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Cythereal posted:I don't think it was saved and I don't have archives. IIRC it was just a post in one of the dog threads a few months later. There was this similar thread posted to an Aussie dog forum a few weeks later. Maybe the reception in PI wasn’t as warm as she expected. From digging around in the archives I’d guess any further drama went down on IRC.
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Eh, if you can afford a good breeder who cares about the health of their breed and is on top of all the medical visits and early socialization stuff I'm sure it's very practical. Getting a rescue dog probably makes you a better person but so does a lot of other consumer choices few people make.
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I've got a phobia of dogs. It's getting better as I get older, but I'm still generally anxious around even the sweetest boy. But once in a parking lot someone came the other way with a husky who was SO happy to see me! He was bouncing up and down at the end of his lead. Wasn't until afterward that I realized my anxieties hadn't gone off in the slightest. There's a massive dog jumping seven feet in the air trying to get at me (seriously, well above my head height), but huskies have so much puppy in their faces that I wasn't scared at all. Anyway that's my doggo story.
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thotsky posted:Eh, if you can afford a good breeder who cares about the health of their breed and is on top of all the medical visits and early socialization stuff I'm sure it's very practical. Getting a rescue dog probably makes you a better person but so does a lot of other consumer choices few people make. Mild objection to "rescue dog", as that implies that all the dogs at the shelter have been mistreated or have behavior problems or something wrong with them. Lots of dogs are pets that people couldn't take care of anymore, or just plain strays. Just because a dog is at the shelter doesn't mean that it will take more work than a dog from a breeder- very possibly less since you can skip the puppy stage. Right in the meeting room at the shelter we were able to touch her paws and individually touch her toes and rub our fingers in the web between her toes. We could pull her lips up and look at her teeth as well as flip her ears around and look in her ear canal. About the only behavior we had to train out was that she originally hated and feared cars. Didn't like behind around them, did NOT like the idea of riding in one. Fixed that by getting her used to being around cars with positive reinforcement, then luring her into the backseat of my car with increasingly high-value treats the closer she got until she got in the car and I was hand-feeding her wet dog food from the can and exclaiming what a good girl she was.
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Booooooo dog chat sucks cat chat rules AITA for refusing to pay an HOA "ticket" while cat sitting quote:A friend asked me to watch her cat for her while she was on vacation. When I went over to feed the cat, I parked in the driveway, fed the cat, and left. One day, I went to feed the cat and there was a $25 "ticket" on my car for parking in the driveway. It was from the HOA not the police or parking enforcement. There was nothing illegal about where I parked nor have I ever been told not to park in a driveway by anyone. AITA for not moving my cat off the washing machine when my mom tried to wash clothes? quote:I have a cat named Princess who i love to death, she's a big baby. She's also a little large for a cat but still plays like a kitten. My mom is afraid of her. You see, my cat sometimes doesn't know her own strength. She was playing with her and pet her while she was chasing a toy and my cat just bit mom. Since then, she won't pet her, she won't even sit next to her or go anywhere near her. AITA? I tried to warn my friend about becoming a Lions fan and he broke his coffee table. quote:My friend that I moved in next to was never a sports guy besides Michigan football (God bless your soul). He asked me which NFL team I rooted for so I told him the Lions, he then asked if he could watch a few games with me and got loving jacked up excited after the Lions won vs Washington last week last second. He then said OK I'm a Lions fan for life.
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Theophany posted:I'm always reluctant to bring it up because dog people get weird about it but breeders loving suck, they're eugenicists for a different species. Nobody who actually cares about animals gives a hot gay gently caress about your dog's bloodline or provenance. Closed studbooks are the worst idea in the world, based on stupid 18th-century ideas of "pure blood", and are genetic funnels that throw away lots of useful things, like the ability to process purines so that they don't get gallstones. And when people actually bread in a teensy weensy amount of non-Dalmatian into Dalmatians to create gallstone-proof dogs, the breeders absolutely refused to register them because not pure.
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betaraywil posted:] This man learned what all us Lions fans learn eventually: there is no hope. There is only heartache and misery. 
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from a few pages back butArsenic Lupin posted:Late to the party, but I am the next-best thing to face blind. ...
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InediblePenguin posted:from a few pages back but The most informative analogy I've heard is that it's like looking at cars when you're not a car person. You can tell what color it is, and if it's a sedan or a coupe or a crossover, but you can't just automatically go "Oh that's a Honda Civic" or "Oh, that's a Ford Focus" despite everyone around you being able to classify them instantly.
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betaraywil posted:AITA? I tried to warn my friend about becoming a Lions fan and he broke his coffee table. Die hard Lions and Blue fan loving lol Dude isn't going to have a house left after this season Ches Neckbeard fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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Haschel Cedricson posted:The most informative analogy I've heard is that it's like looking at cars when you're not a car person. You can tell what color it is, and if it's a sedan or a coupe or a crossover, but you can't just automatically go "Oh that's a Honda Civic" or "Oh, that's a Ford Focus" despite everyone around you being able to classify them instantly. Every time I go shopping with my husband I try to get in somebody else's car. As long as it's black and vaguely Japanese-shaped, it looks like our car to me. I've had to train myself to look for the water bottle in the cupholder. e: I'm saying I'm not completely faceblind because I do recognize members of my family or people I work with every day.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Every time I go shopping with my husband I try to get in somebody else's car. As long as it's black and vaguely Japanese-shaped, it looks like our car to me. I've had to train myself to look for the water bottle in the cupholder. Memorise the number plate, that's what I do for my car-blindness.
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I recognize people I see every day but I'm doing it with their voices, usually, and a combination of hairstyles and simple context. If I'm not expecting to see them it throws off my compensating poo poo, though; I got diagnosed after failing to recognize my mother when we met unexpectedly in a town where I had no reason to think I'd see her, which she found upsetting enough to urge me to see a doctor lol, but like I can keep track of my coworkers Not looking forward to everybody taking off their masks though. I'm already so used to having to learn to recognize people without seeing their faces, the pandemic actually put me on equal or better footing with the rest of society, and soon everyone else will be back to seeing faces and I'll have lost the easy excuse when I don't recognize somebody  Haschel Cedricson posted:The most informative analogy I've heard is that it's like looking at cars when you're not a car person. You can tell what color it is, and if it's a sedan or a coupe or a crossover, but you can't just automatically go "Oh that's a Honda Civic" or "Oh, that's a Ford Focus" despite everyone around you being able to classify them instantly. yeah, i like this, i think it expresses it understandably
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Every time I go shopping with my husband I try to get in somebody else's car. As long as it's black and vaguely Japanese-shaped, it looks like our car to me. I've had to train myself to look for the water bottle in the cupholder. I'm at about the same level as you, Arsenic, and it sucks. If someone shaves their beard, wears contacts, or dyes their hair, I'll say "Nice to meet you!" begore they look at me puzzled and say "Betazoid, you've known me for three years." When I was a little kid, maybe 10 or so, I took communion at mass and got back in "my" pew. I didn't know I was in the wrong seat until the nice man in the blue sports coat walked me over to MY DAD in the blue sports coat after mass ended. (Sorry, dad; I love you.) 99% of the time, if someone looks HOW I expect them to and is WHERE I expect them, I'm good. If it's a work friend at a baseball game or a real friend randomly in the same bar as me, there's no chance. Edit: InediblePenguin posted:If I'm not expecting to see them it throws off my compensating poo poo, though; I got diagnosed after failing to recognize my mother when we met unexpectedly in a town where I had no reason to think I'd see her, which she found upsetting enough to urge me to see a doctor lol, but like I can keep track of my coworkers Huh. I've never felt like I needed a diagnosis, and I passed the popular online "are you faceblind" test (i.e., "no, you are not faceblind") but now I'm wondering. I guess I have good enough coping skills that it hasn't mattered yet. Betazoid fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jun 10, 2021 |
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I suck. Quote is not edit.
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Betazoid posted:I suck. Quote is not edit. being buttonblind sucks
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Every time I go shopping with my husband I try to get in somebody else's car. As long as it's black and vaguely Japanese-shaped, it looks like our car to me. I've had to train myself to look for the water bottle in the cupholder. We've owned our current car since 2017, and I still always double-check the license plate as I approach it; I've definitely headed towards strangers' cars before. I blame it on the car being a late-model beige Elantra, the least interesting car on Earth
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If someone I know starts wearing a hat I freak out and attack them, like a mynah bird
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a pale ghost posted:the person who wouldn't move their cat is a butthead lol This entirely. I have a lot of animals, and the best way to get your rear end kicked out of my house is to ask to see a snake, then try to walk off with said ball python to show another guest who is terrified of snakes. AITA for still not talking to my parents much, for this weird religious "Lion's Den" thing they made me do as a teenager? quote:I grew up in a religious household. At 17, I dated some girl that my parents didn't approve of. They said that God was testing me through her, etc. There is a "zoo" around here that would probably do this, or has. They used to be on tribal land but had to move in 2000 when word got out they believed the biblical apocalype was coming, so they were gonna release all the animals at midnight.
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Cowslips Warren posted:AITA for still not talking to my parents much, for this weird religious "Lion's Den" thing they made me do as a teenager? 
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betaraywil posted:Booooooo dog chat sucks cat chat rules betaraywil posted:
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Imagine living next to people who will tattle on you for the crime of parking in your own driveway. Think of the property values!!!!!
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My GF wants to peg me but I am worried she will tell our friends eventuallyquote:My (21M) GF(20F) and I have been dating for 9 months. She fell into the rabbit hole of pegging tiktoks. She told me shes really interested in pegging me. I asked her why, and she said that she would love to dominate me. I didn't really like her reason. If she said that it would make feel good I'd be way more interested. Here is the thing, I might enjoy that, I have watched some pegging videos alone and it did turn me on, but we share the same friendgroup, so I know the second we breakup shes gonna tell everyone that she pegs me and the guys would roast me in the group chat and irl for a long time. I know its gonna annoy me alot. She told me that she won't tell anyone, but I don't know if I can trust her after only 9 months. Is it worth the risk ?
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Smirking_Serpent posted:My GF wants to peg me but I am worried she will tell our friends eventually Girlfriend already bought Frankie
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Alice in Wonderland woulda gone so different if she'd fallen into the rabbit hole of pegging tiktoks.
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Haschel Cedricson posted:The most informative analogy I've heard is that it's like looking at cars when you're not a car person. You can tell what color it is, and if it's a sedan or a coupe or a crossover, but you can't just automatically go "Oh that's a Honda Civic" or "Oh, that's a Ford Focus" despite everyone around you being able to classify them instantly. I haven't owned a car in four years and wasn't a "car person" even when I had one, and boy, is this accurate. The number of times I've accidentally hopped into the wrong Lyft because I saw a silver sedan and decided that was close enough...
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Evil Willow posted:AITA for calling out my gf over her cat obsession Hooooly poo poo this guy is a piece of work! His updates on that post: OP posted:EDIT/UPDATE: I get it. I'm TA. The hugest loving A you have ever seen and possibly some kind of deviant who compares dicks with a cat. 10 is a senior cat, it's not perfectly safe for pets to fly under planes, and my girl is not crazy for loving her cat. I called her this morning and apologised. She said she needs time to think. At a kind person's suggestion, I sent her a link to this my public shaming and am now going to go hide under the bed in the hopes she notices my strange behaviour and still cares enough to call the vet on me. Then there's this gem: How can I (36M) overcome my gf (35M) friends drama mongering in our relationship? quote:My GF and I have been taking some space for a few months, her living in our apartment and me crashing with friends but still paying half the rent/bills. We've been together 3ish years, lived to together for 2. The entire separation I've been committed to her and getting our relationship back to a good place. The separation happened because of something I've since apologised for, long story short basically we disagreed about putting her cat under a plane which she refused to do and I stupidly implied it was about her anxiety and she needed to get help. Anyway, ever since then I've been trying to show her I love her and am willing to do whatever it takes to get her back, but her friends are cutting me off at every turn. They're literally telling her I'm going to kill her cat if she lets me come back because I "resent the cat so much" which is complete horseshit. The friends in question are all single, living paycheck to paycheck, generally unhappy with their own lives and I honestly think they just want to drag her down with them. How can I protect her without it seeming like I'm trying to isolate her (which I'm not, but if I point out their probable ulterior motives that's exactly what they say). And finally this! AITA for not breaking the lease and buying a bad present? quote:So my (36M) gf (35F) and I have been separated for a few months now. We still have 6mo on our lease, which I still pay half of even though she's been living there alone and I've been crashing with friends. Lately she's been pushing for us to break the lease and each find our own places, but I don't want to do that because I am still committed to her and getting our relationship back. I miss her so much and keep trying to show her that I know I hosed up and am going to work hard to make it up to her, but she just won't budge.
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Evil Willow posted:Hooooly poo poo this guy is a piece of work! His updates on that post: I'm glad he's suffering for that shittery.
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Reviving dog-chat for a moment: we always had shih-tzus when I was growing up, and they are great little dogs - friendly, funny and energetic enough to go on pretty long walks (10+ miles as long as it's not hot) but chill enough to lie around snoozing if nothing much is going on. A few years ago we adopted a rescue Lhasa apso, so superficially very like a shih tzu. Totally different personality though - smarter, weirder and a very very keen watchdog. Forget about the front door if you come into the drat room a bit too enthusiastically you can be sure Henry is going to kick up a big ol fuss. He's a good dog 
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Evil Willow posted:How can I (36M) overcome my gf (35M) friends drama mongering in our relationship? Uh, what?
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Uh, what? Read the original story, there's a bit about them talking about moving and the gf not wanting to move anywhere she'd have to put the cat in a plane's luggage area during the move Also that guy sucks so much more after those updates
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Smirking_Serpent posted:My GF wants to peg me but I am worried she will tell our friends eventually Just make it a reciprocal deal, if she wants backdoor action she's gotta give it up too. To the group chat, if you have a bunch of dude friends who are going to constantly trying and insult you for it then you either have to accept your friends are homophobic assholes or get new friends.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Uh, what? Had to google that too. From what I can tell it refers to transporting the pet in the cargo part of the plane.
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