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4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: a guy pets his dog. rub rub

The dog thinks: Thank you for putting your hands on me

Panel 2: the dog stands on its hind legs and rubs his paws on the guy rub

Dog thinking: Let me return the favor

Guy: “No! Get down! Bad”

Panel 3: the guy is upset at the dog. The dog is just confused

Dog: The fuck, dude

Panel 4: the guy resumes petting the dog rub rub

Dog: Wow what the fuck dude

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    131·
    3 days ago

    Yeah, it gets worse in abused dogs too. How do I know? I hugged my aunts rescue as a young child, then got blamed for “doing something” that made the dog attack me.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 days ago

      Also I think every dog is different, and Ive dealt with many. When someone says you shouldnt play fight with a dog, and another says it’s fine… They both can be right. It’s about the personality of the dog not a 1 stop shop answer that will properly raise a dog. So just like a cat, needs to learn how to play with withdrawn claws while play fighting, a dog needs to know similar. Does that mean every dog can learn that? Possibly not. I always hope so and want to think the owners are at fault but I don’t know that is always true. Some animals (people are animals) make decisions that we won’t appreciate no matter how they were raised.

      No one tells Fred to shoot someone, yet Fred does. There will be dogs that are like Fred just like there are dogs that are like Damian who is a pacifist and will emotionally hurt for someone because he saw them slip on ice.

      Are all cats and dogs safe to keep infants around, no. (Same with people). Are most cats dogs and humans decent around each other when treated correctly… Yes.

      We need to be fluid in our understanding of one anothers needs to be able to trust and communicate properly. Cats and dogs communicate. They don’t need to speak your language, but if they speak… we should listen just like any person. Else we are surprised

          • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            Essentially your arguing a black man is more likely to kill someone…

            I find that an absolutely batshit take based on what I mentioned. In reality, dog breeds are a considerably different situation, with centuries of rudimentary-level genetic engineering involved in order to create a range of dogs with specialized characteristics and behaviors.

            Of course not every dog in that breed is going to have exactly the same personality, but the point is that different breeds will have considerably different temperaments exactly due to what what humans wanted from that line of dogs.

          • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
            8·
            3 days ago

            Nah fuck that. Some are bred to be killers, some are bed to be fucking miserable genetic abominations. This isn’t fucking dog racism. It’s us breeding them like that. And some breeds should be made illegal and die out completey. Still in the end that means I blame humans, the breeders and the idiots getting these dogs.