Dogs are not necessarily stupid. If it can't be eaten or fucked then piss on it. In dog world it doesn't get complicated.
I can't help but wonder how you treat the dogs you've kept in your life to make such a statement.
My dogs don't eat me, fuck me (not even a humped leg in 25+ years) or piss on me, but two weeks ago when I was sitting by the fire pit with my cousin around 10pm, my 38lb border collie took off after a significantly larger coyote that entered the edge of the yard and which she saw before we did and before I could grab her collar (she always sits close by me). She normally almost never barks, but for the next ~2 minutes we heard from the adjacent woods a cacophony of snarling, barking, and growling that I was sure was evidence my beloved dog was being killed. I screamed her name repeatedly and she eventually ran back out of the woods to me - not a wound on her and no blood on her muzzle. Clearly she engaged in a dominance display with that coyote and at very least it was a draw. Her motivation I'm certain was hundreds of years of genetic manipulation to instill in her a profound determination to protect her flock at any cost - and we are her only sheeple. I'll have her on long lead next time we go out at night, but I suspect we won't see much in yard coyote activity this year as in years past.
Dogs ARE more complicated; I'm sorry if you've never experienced that kind of devotion from yours.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
"A big white rabbit six feet high, or is it six feet, three and a half?"
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Dogs are not necessarily stupid. If it can't be eaten or fucked then piss on it. In dog world it doesn't get complicated.
I can't help but wonder how you treat the dogs you've kept in your life to make such a statement.
My dogs don't eat me, fuck me (not even a humped leg in 25+ years) or piss on me, but two weeks ago when I was sitting by the fire pit with my cousin around 10pm, my 38lb border collie took off after a significantly larger coyote that entered the edge of the yard and which she saw before we did and before I could grab her collar (she always sits close by me). She normally almost never barks, but for the next ~2 minutes we heard from the adjacent woods a cacophony of snarling, barking, and growling that I was sure was evidence my beloved dog was being killed. I screamed her name repeatedly and she eventually ran back out of the woods to me - not a wound on her and no blood on her muzzle. Clearly she engaged in a dominance display with that coyote and at very least it was a draw. Her motivation I'm certain was hundreds of years of genetic manipulation to instill in her a profound determination to protect her flock at any cost - and we are her only sheeple. I'll have her on long lead next time we go out at night, but I suspect we won't see much in yard coyote activity this year as in years past.
Dogs ARE more complicated; I'm sorry if you've never experienced that kind of devotion from yours.
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For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
