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Why I Prefer Dogs Open Thread

Hattip to Dale Price. The usual Open Thread rules apply:  be concise, be charitable and, above all, be amusing!

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David WS
David WS
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 6:21am

Lord Help me become the person my dog thinks I am.
(and not food for the cat-)

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 6:46am

Roy Horn will tell you. “Zee cats are beautiful zen de could never never hurt zou. Zay our family zembers und ve do everything vith dem.”

Los Vegas. The Mirage.

Our short hair, Sarah, could not muster the energy to carry me off the sofa. Her fangs are just too small. However she does have a look about her when her plate is kibble free.

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Scary.

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 2:37pm

But cats, like honey badger, don’t give a damn!

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 2:55pm

I like dogs. But I prefer cats. Always have. Always will.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 3:16pm

The dog hands down – unconditional love – even though I need to walk him when it’s ten degrees and 25 mph winds. With a cat (we’ve had two) it’s always on its terms. Two redeeming social values of a cat: easy to keep and it may keep down the rodent population.

Foxfier
Admin
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 3:34pm

Much prefer cats.

They give you feedback– “hey, you’re alright” up through “DIE DIE DIE”– while dogs are more like an on/off switch. You’re either God, or lunch.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 3:47pm

My oldest’s accelerated (AP track) English class has been assignedThis piece of teenage melodrama:

At first, Jude and her twin brother Noah, are inseparable. Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude wears red-red lipstick, cliff-dives, and does all the talking for both of them. Years later, they are barely speaking. Something has happened to change the twins in different yet equally devastating ways . . . but then Jude meets an intriguing, irresistible boy and a mysterious new mentor. The early years are Noah’s to tell; the later years are Jude’s. But they each have only half the story, and if they can only find their way back to one another, they’ll have a chance to remake their world.

Lucky us.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 4:07pm

If anybody’s encountered that book, or another like it, and has any advice on how I can help my kid “process” this book, and successfully navigate the classroom discussion, unit test, etc. without selling out to The World, kindly share.

Also, God made me allergic to cats so I wouldn’t be tempted to dip them in kerosene and then strike a match.

Don Beckett
Don Beckett
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 4:21pm

You own a dog.
A cat owns you.

Foxfier
Admin
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 4:36pm

Ernst-
nothing constructive, garbage like that is reason umpty-squat why we homeschool.

I’m sorry.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 6:22pm

There are times I’m tempted to join you in homeschooling. But I suppose somebody has to be a missionary to the pagans.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Thursday, November 14, AD 2019 6:33pm

On the bright side, we’re also doing Confirmation this winter, so it’s an excuse to talk about our Catholic understanding of the human person, natural law, virtue ethics, etc. And it’s given me an excuse to reread Edward Sri’s Who am I to Judge?, which I bought for just such an occasion.

Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Friday, November 15, AD 2019 5:25am

“…has any advice on how I can help my kid “process” this book, and successfully navigate the classroom discussion,…”

I haven’t read the book, however I do have advice for our missionary.

Go full Saint Boniface on the instructor.
Take your axe to the culture’s sacred homosexual oak tree. Chop that tree down ES.

Then…
Follow Foxfier’s lead.
Homeschool.

Many families share in the task or financially help the parents that teach the children. Great antidote to the sickness of political correctness and it’s perverse effects.

[Boys wearing lipstick and having feelings for each other? Time to act. Time to leave the cat alone and dip that book in kerosene and then strike the match.]

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