Unpopular opinion but true fact: people act like dogs are super smart, but literally everything they can be taught to do can be taught just as easily to rats. A creature with a brain the size of a walnut is of equal intelligence to dogs.

Furthermore, people claim to have taken a vicious predator - wolves - and bred them to be sooo much smarter than ( Read more... )

I think I've finally narrowed down why I don't like dogs. Because I like wolves, but not dogs. Except huskies I don't seem to mind. I think what it is, is that humans took the proud and noble wolf and turned it into a mentally deficient inbred mutant bred to be a living tool. And the fact that I get squicked by saliva, and a lot of these inbred ( Read more... )

So there was this news item where this guy's dog died from bone splinters from being given a bone, and the guy is suing the company because of it. Which is utterly stupid, because DUH, don't you know that's exactly why you DON'T give dogs real bones? Bones splinter, that's what they do; unless you've boiled the bone until it's like a limp noodle, ( Read more... )

An outdoor adventure company recently slaughtered 100 dogs after not seeing the amount of business they expected. Why is that most people are appalled by the actions that this company took, but don't give a second thought to the number of cows, chickens or sheep that are killed every year on farms? Why do most people have different reactions ( Read more... )