10,000 dogs and puppies to be eaten on Sunday in China

[Badger]

You are indeed correct. Taking, however, the point about leaving the dog at home, the other side of that coin is falling down type posts from @Badger about people who take their dogs to work. Unless you are retired or work at home, It's a difficult set of circumstances where it's fair to own a dog without upsetting your work colleagues or neighbours.

At my last office there was a dog in one of the gardens we backed on to that would BARK all DAY, I just can't escape.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Guide Dogs
War Dogs
Therapy dogs
Search & Rescue dogs (saved millions of lives)
Detection dogs
Bomb dogs
Cadaver dogs
Company for old people
Aiding rehab

Yeah, what shit things dogs are. Scum.

What's a 'war dog'?

I don't like the sound of them, one little bit.

 

[Nibble]

I told a dog to "Fck off" the other week. His owner went mental at me.

I'd just heard some really horrible news, so I was not in a good place, and I'd gone out for a bit of fresh air. I was walking across the park, hands in pockets, looking down at the ground, when I happened to glance up to see a dog - a decent sized red setter - five yards away, galloping straight at me at full pelt, ears back, tongue flapping. As it leapt up at me, I swayed out of the way, like a startled batsman, evading a huge furry bouncer, and shouted "Fck Off!". More an exclamation of surprise than an actually command, tbh, but the owner of the beast was FUMING.

How DARE I talk to his dog like that.

Reasoning with him, that it probably didn't understand, didn't seem to assage him, either.

It 'didn't mean any harm, and there was no reason to over-react'.

I asked him if it would be fair to 'over-react' if it had been one of my kids it had leapt at.

He told me I was a Tw4T, asked if I was 'from Portsmouth' (which made me laugh, making him even angrier).

Then he told me he'd bring his German Shepherd next time.

sound like the only one that wasn't acting like a wally in that scenario was the dog.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

sound like the only one that wasn't acting like a wally in that scenario was the dog.

Really, my thespian freind? I'm genuinely intrigued to know how, walking across a park, looking down at the ground, and letting out a single swear word in surprise at almost being knocked over by 6 stone of dog, makes me a 'wally'?

 

[Nibble]

What's a 'war dog'?

I don't like the sound of them, one little bit.

Well, War Dogs didn't/don't just have one role in war. They have been used to run messages in trenches, guard perimeters, run medical supplies across battlefields, attack dogs, Morale for troops, used as living bombs, and reluctantly, have been used as food for starving soldiers. They saved MANY lives in both world wars and countless other conflicts.

 

[Hillian1]

What's a 'war dog'?

I don't like the sound of them, one little bit.

I've just started reading a book called "War Dog"

Will report my findings back in due course.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Well, War Dogs didn't/don't just have one role in war. They have been used to run messages in trenches, guard perimeters, run medical supplies across battlefields, attack dogs, Morale for troops, used as living bombs, and reluctantly, have been used as food for starving soldiers. They saved MANY lives in both world wars and countless other conflicts.

A lot of those roles sound as though by design, they are to help TAKE lives, rather than save them.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Then he told me he'd bring his German Shepherd next time.

Hopefully, it's this one

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/18/ukcrime.martinwainwright

 

[Nibble]

I'm not going to address each one personally but this is very similar to the cycling threads. Same old lot mouthing off for a cheap laugh, and inevitably, missing the entire point.

 

[Nibble]

Same as anyone/thing in a theatre of war.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Hopefully, it's this one

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/oct/18/ukcrime.martinwainwright

Hopefully.

It was quite funny though, that this DOG KNOB was in one breath, lambasting me for daring to express anger at his dog, presumably on the grounds that no-one could possible consider its behaviour threatening, yet with his next issuing what was clearly meant as a THREAT, that I should be scared of his other one.

 

[glasfryn]

my problem with all of this is that its not so much the eating(to be fair the Chinese can eat what the **** they like) it's the abuse of the animal, the way its killed, it does seem like the more painful it is killed makes it all the better to eat.
its like the grinding of rare animal bones, supposedly to give the male Chinese a massive erection(and if that worked we would all be doing it).............the Chinese are very weird people.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Same as anyone/thing in a theatre of war.

Obviously Nibs.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

my problem with all of this is that its not so much the eating(to be fair the Chinese can eat what the **** they like) it's the abuse of the animal, the way its killed, it does seem like the more painful it is killed makes it all the better to eat.
its like the grinding of rare animal bones, supposedly to give the male Chinese a massive erection(and if that worked we would all be doing it).............the Chinese are very weird people.

To be fair I don't think any Chinese Man has ever had an massive erection, they struggle to manage 4 inches, so it makes it even more of a waste of time

 

[Nibble]

It's not so much the Chinese eating them, although it seems odd to us. Fine. It's the sniggering response " Fnarr, I don't like dogs, they're smelly and they poo, snigger". Very odd.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

If people weren't so ignorant about the role dogs have played in the advancement of humans in countless fields from theatres of war to scientific exploration to bringing solace to the loneliest of souls to saving countless lives they might be slightly less likely to dismiss them in the way some on here have. It shows the incurable ignorance of some people.

But no, a dog should not be in an office. Not least of all because it has a massively detrimental effect on a dog's mental wellbeing.

Great post Nibble

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I really wish the British would get as upset about child abuse as we do about animal abuse. Only last year, Bolivia reduced the legal age a child could work to 10. It's basically a sop to businesses that rely on child slavery. Where's the world-wide outrage?

Or we could talk about girls as young as five in Mauritania force-fed huge amounts of goat fat and camel milk and being forced to eat their vomit if they're sick. These girls are kept like veal calves as obesity is seen as desirable in a wife for that culture. The girls are then married off as young as 11 years old where some have been known to die on their wedding night having a grown man force himself upon them. Someone please point me to the celebrity-led campaign to stop these abuses.

Perfectly valid point (and utterly horrible stories both).

I'm willing to bet that if you started a thread about them, or something similar, you'd get a mix of mildly offensive/knuckle-draggy jokes, some down the nose sneering and, no doubt, people suggesting it's all good because it's their culture so should be allowed.

Edit; This isn't to say that people wouldn't also sign petitions to stop them or speak out about how bad they are, I just can't imagine it'd run this many pages or have the same emotional intensity, which I find a little sad.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

It's not so much the Chinese eating them, although it seems odd to us. Fine. It's the sniggering response " Fnarr, I don't like dogs, they're smelly and they poo, snigger". Very odd.

It isnt completely apparent that those posts are simple a response to "eating cows and rabbits is fine, but not dogs because dogs have big brown eyes, and wag their tails"?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

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[Nibble]

Perfectly valid point (and utterly horrible stories both).

I'm willing to bet that if you started a thread about them, or something similar, you'd get a mix of mildly offensive/knuckle-draggy jokes, some down the nose sneering and, no doubt, people suggesting it's all good because it's their culture so should be allowed.

Edit; This isn't to say that people wouldn't also sign petitions to stop them or speak out about how bad they are, I just can't imagine it'd run this many pages or have the same emotional intensity, which I find a little sad.

...what if there were people that cared about both animals and children? I know, I know. You may say I'm a dreamer.