Just truly a piece of shit. The most powerful man in the world can't even bother to get a fucking dog trainer and a dog walker so his large dangerous dog isn't a menace to everyone around it.
Like, there's a lot of important and systemic reasons to hate biden, or to have no respect for biden, but this is an intensely personal distaste of mine. Fucking pathetic.
Also, if this is just Fox making shit up don't tell me because I am savoring this.
Counterpoint, biting members of the secret service is good, so this probably ranks among one of the best things that Biden has done. Critical support for Major :xok-og:
I mean it’s also based to have a dog in the White House that attacks the praetorian guard
Also we can’t expect biden to control his dog, I’m not confident he can control his own bowel movements
They're not the praetorian guard, they've only killed their ruler once.
CW: sexual assault
The praetorian guard never assasinated an emperor until Caligula made a point of making them watch as he raped their wives. Which also killed the tradition of not murdering the emperor
Why would he have control of the dog? it's just a prop that he owns to appease voters.
Brandon is of course a piece of shit
But uncritical support to Major in his protracted canines' war against the bodyguards of the amerikkkan ruling class
Death to America
Full support to the goodest maoist sleeper cell in waging his protracted puppers war from within the White House
Wagging pawtracted puppers war against the borkgeoisie :comrade-doggo:
I love that when cool people on this site troll, it's actually from a fun place instead of just being mean. It's more friendly I think.
Pawitical pawer grows from da barrel of a gun :comrade-doggo:
Democrats used to basically advertise that "Biden will have a dog" as a return to normalcy from Trump's dogless administration, and then the Biden admin absolutely failed to take care of it
So fucked up
his inability to control his dog
WTF when did this site become authoritarian?
I guess Major is sort of a :lmayo: version of Negro Matapacos now.
well as an animal can''t be responsible for their actions the animals owner is responsible for teaching the dog not to bite people
To be a bit contrarian, you can't just hire a "dog trainer" to train any behavior in an animal in any environment. Clearly this is at the very least a reactive animal, though typically any dog that bites someone more than a nip on multiple occasions is considered aggressive and dangerous. (In my area, attacking a person and causing bodily injury without provocation is enough for the state to declare the dog "dangerous") It's very clear that this dog cannot live safely in an environment where it must be around so many different people, even with very attentive therapeutic training I really doubt that it would be safe to have around most people in general at this point. This dog should be brought to an environment with a very low amount of aggravating factors (someone who could specialize in taking these kinds of dogs in), the likely alternative though is that they will load it up with tranquilizers until they eventually put it down because of "health issues" because it is just a prop for democrats to sell plushy dolls of.
Apparently Major was the first rescue dog in the White House, which seems nice before you realize that dogs like that need extra care and attention, not to be put in a chaotic place full of strangers like the White House
That is probably the worst part, you take this incredibly fragile animal and put them in this very high stress environment, it has more or less sealed their fate. I can only imagine that the dog is suffering a lot.
I mean, that's some rich people shit. Everyone I knew growing up had mutts from the pound and they didn't bite people constantly. An ill-trained dog from a breeder can be just as much of a nightmare.
Putting the dog continuously into stressful situations where it is reacting in fear is animal abuse.
secret service
Can't keep their mouths shut about their dangerous work environment
:biden: Hey now, Jack! You know, its tough being the president of these United States. Just because you voted for me doesn't mean I have the power to train a dog I adopted just for public relations purposes. You gotta grow up and understand how the world works, stop being a kid!
I hate dogs. I wish they weren't marketed so hard as something eVErY fAmiLy MuSt OwN and "man's best friend"
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Dogs suck for a lot of people and it's okay to dislike them
I agree with the last sentence. Dogs should only live in certain conditions, not be cooped in houses/apartments which is what most people do.
Outdoor dogs decimate local outdoor cat populations.
Cats don't belong outside either, they are horrific little murder machines
no they really don't cats hold dogs attempts to hunt them in absolute contempt. My dog always makes a big thing of chasing cats the one time he was within a metre of a cat the cat hissed at him and he backed down
all predators are cowards it's ingrained in them that an injury means starvation (obviously that's not true for my dog but these are old instincts)
yeah maybe I've been less around cats as they hunt as they hide while they do it
Outdoor cat populations decimate local bird populations.
The cats don't even eat them. They just kill for pleasure. Like white male hunters in the Deep South.
I hate dogs
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EDIT: unless you have a personal reason. I thought about this for a while, and truth be told, I was actually afraid of dogs for 95% of my life until recently.
Every "anti-dog" person who I've ever met has done things like go up to people with dogs and say "I'm not really a dog person" entirely unprompted lmao
EDIT: unless you have a personal reason.
why else would I fucking say it?
Nah I get it. There are bad pet owners of all stripes, but dogs are the only common pet that's actually dangerous to able-bodied adult humans if the owner doesn't train it or actively fucks it up somehow. There is no regulation requiring dog training and no state-sponsored programs to help owners. If someone has a dangerous dog it won't be taken away until after it hurts someone. (If you're the president it'll keep going forever.)
Also, dogs need to be walked. Because of this they have more contact with strange humans than an indoor cat, bird, hamster, etc. A lot of people let their dogs hang out in the backyard; when I was a toddler I was nearly mauled when my neighbor's dog jumped the fence to get at me.
There are bad pet owners of all stripes, but dogs are the only common pet that’s actually dangerous to able-bodied adult humans if the owner doesn’t train it or actively fucks it up somehow.
There is also an unfortunate correlation where the people who seek out the most dangerous and aggressive dogs do so for the intimidation factor and don't train those dogs properly.
there's a strong correlation between wanting a dog because it's scary and being a dumbass who shouldn't be trusted to be responsible for a potentially dangerous animal
Right there with you, even well trained dogs are a loud smelly drooly sensory nightmare, and very few are well trained.
It's not the dog's fault that they're badly socialized but on the other hand I don't like being charged by a hundred pound territorial animal while taking out the trash.
Plus their affection isn't really earned it's just something you get by occasionally feeding them. Getting a dog's endorsement means virtually nothing, but if a cat likes you it means you understand consent and withdrawal of consent. Probably why all my chud neighbors have dogs, they like being the boss of something that will tolerate abuse
Not true at all. Some dogs are drooly and smelly, but most dogs are only smelly if you don’t wash them. Most dog breeds aren’t massive droolers.
The feeding thing is also not true. Studies have shown time and time again that with most animals the primary feeder is not necessarily their favourite. The bonding time matters.
What I’m about to say is of course anecdotal, but when I go home for Christmas I see my childhood dogs. They choose to sleep in my room over anyone else’s when I’m there even though I’m not the one that feeds them most of the time. I’m the one that rolls around in the grass with them and takes them on the longest walks.
You are right about chuds liking dogs because they handle abuse better than cats though. Partially it’s because most dogs can’t fend themselves in the wild as well as a cat, so they can’t have as much independence. They’re also pack animals, so they just accept that their pack leader is a brute.
Every dog I've ever met has smelled terrible. Even if they're not drooly they're always a little slimy and damp and bad at personal space, whether that's jumping or sticking their noses in my crotch. They're also prone to sudden bursts of ear splitting noises in addition to the horrible smells. Dog people don't usually notice how bad they and their home and their belongings smell because they're used to the dog smell, but let me assure you that I can tell if a dog lives inside a house the second someone opens the door.
I'm sure dogs pick favorites based on quality time like that but they will still like you even if you neglect them, as evidenced by all the dogs kept in outdoor cages in my neighborhood not maiming their owners when they're finally released from dog jail, so it's really not an endorsement of character to have a dog like you. I really don't care for dogs and I've met so many that love me almost instantly anyway.
, as evidenced by all the dogs kept in outdoor cages in my neighborhood not maiming their owners when they’re finally released from dog jail
a dog not attacking someone and a dog liking them are different things altogether
You speak of them as if they’re some alien breed. I hear cats fighting in the streets all the time at night. I don’t mind it. Animals just being animals. Dogs barking is their way of communicating and they have just as much of a right to do so as us, even if sometimes theirs seems a bit aimless. Yeah, shush your dog if it’s barking incessantly, but we make way more noise than them on the daily with our cars, loud music, or even just shouting ‘DINNER!!!!’ to the household. They’re bad at personal space if someone doesn’t train them to respect it. They’re fast learners. The ones that do jump keep jumping in peoples laps because it’s usually met with people fawning over them. It’s the same as a naughty child who has parents who don’t discipline them. Pretty simple classical conditioning can alter a dogs behaviour most of the time unless said behaviour has been learnt through trauma.
When it comes to abuse - many people put up with and love their abusers. How could you expect a dog to know of independence from its owner when it’s never experienced or even seen the possibilities of what goes on between dogs and their owners in other homes. I wouldn’t rag on an abused person for not stabbing their abuser, and I wouldn’t rag on a dog for not biting theirs. Cycles of abuse are incredibly complex.
Yeah I get why they bark and why they behave the way that they do, but those behaviors are super annoying and dog people always act like you're a monster for not loving those loud, smelly, personal space invaders. Rather than trying to understand that sudden barking and horrible smells are not for everyone they just make excuses about it, often while implying that it's the fault of the person who feels that way for having problems with those behaviors.
I have less than zero interest in having kids in part for the same reasons — they're loud, smelly balls of sensory overload that don't understand boundaries, and I'm too autistic to deal with that.
I really don’t care for dogs and I’ve met so many that love me almost instantly anyway.
They knew you had a good heart :Care-Comrade:
I love cats but feel the same way about the smell as you do with dogs. As soon as I walk into a house with cats, it's like a sensory bomb of piss and dander. Like I said above, very few people who have dogs, like maybe 5%, should even be allowed to have them. I'd prefer similar strict requirements for all pets including cats. Also, outdoor cats, 100% banned lol. Hoarding pets is more common than a lot of people realize and always results in neglect and abuse.
Yeah those are all problems except the smell I don't get where you're coming from - cats are self cleaning (don't need to be washed regularly like dogs) and unless they're non-neutered male cats they don't piss outside their box. If you have a normal number of cats there really isn't a smell
Plus their affection isn’t really earned it’s just something you get by occasionally feeding them
that's not true a dog does respond to abuse they are complex social animals not machines that have a single input. Abuse is very bad for dogs psychologically I've owned dogs where I'm sure if anyone ever abused them they'd shut down forever because they're that soppy.
Also abusing a dangerous dog is immensely stupid as now you have a scared animal and nothing is more likely to attack someone than a scared animal.
I have a more positive view of them, but you aren't wrong at all and I hate how we view dogs as a culture. The prevelance of dogs that also just suck is super annoying. Oh cool you have a tiny dog that will yap super loud and jumps on your windows. It doesn't kill rats so why did you get it? Why do you think me cat is mean because she won't spend time with you, she hasn't attacked.
It doesn’t kill rats so why did you get it?
can't speak for everyone but
'cus I gots the 'ronna nose
Dogs have a good sense of smell. He's my smelling-nose-dog.
also i love himI can't really think of a scenario where I'd need a dog to smell something I couldn't, but if it works for you it works for you.
I love dogs, but most people shouldn't have them, and all puppy mills should have been shut down a long time ago. I think education, training, and certification should be required to have one. If someone isn't willing to go through those steps, they won't be able to take care of a large animal.
agreed. hate how they were marketed to the boomer generation as a stupid status symbol that every white picket fence family in the suburbs has to have.
I don't like how I can't walk by the neighborhood without dogs barking from within homes
