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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

  • America@sh.itjust.works
    42·
    1 month ago

    If you had the level of self control necessary to avoid hurting either yourself or me, we wouldn’t be having this conversation, Rex

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Actually there’s a behavioral issue that comes up with this, I think-- the idea that dogs amongst themselves will use ‘holding’ and similar behaviors to establish dominance over another dog.

    Some owners have gotten bitten from trying to go too fast with that stuff, I’ve heard. Moreso adopting older dogs, much less with puppies.

    • otacon239@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      Yeah a lot of people equate human behaviors to dogs which can lead to some really neurotic tendencies. Gotta respect their boundaries as much as you expect them to respect yours.

  • Stolas@lemmy.ca
    14·
    1 month ago

    My cat will occasionally attempt to reach out and pet my hair. Sometimes he’ll sit there and bat at my fringe, but that just might be a cat being a cat.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 month ago

    Fair is fair. When my cat enter the bathroom and stare me while i pop, i always be carefull to stare him back during his litter time. 👁👁

    • Rednax@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      He probably likes that. Knowing someone is watching over him, means it is safe to do his business.

  • ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zipEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    My dog has a special way where she makes me feel like an asshole. She’ll be chewing on a toy all by herself and I’ll grab it and throw it and she just… Looks at me. Like I stole a childhood memory from her. She doesn’t have any drive to go get it half the time so I go grab it, give it back, and apologize. Prissy little shit, I love her to death.

  • dropdrip@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 month ago

    Pet owners are mentally deranged power tripping abusers. Animals can be your friends and you can form symbiotic relationships with them, but “owning” and controlling them via mechanical restraints is immoral and is in fact an abusive relationship. It’s sick. The owners need to be rehabilitated and shown it’s safe to form friendships with other people who can reciprocate their human emotions. Their need to enslave animals for emotional support should be treated as the problem it is.

      • dropdrip@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 month ago

        Would you care to elaborate?

        The pet industry sustains genetic-mutations that would naturally die out. Lineages are kept alive in a state of suffering for people’s narcissistic needs–oh that looks cute! I want that! What’s the wrong reason here: it’s not narcissism? It stems from something else?

        You can quibble with some of the language. Maybe they don’t see themselves as power tripping abusers, but “lovers” with so much love to share that they enslave another sentient creature to be a proxy for a human-baby, a lover or a friend. I’m disgusted with pet owners. They’ve taken another sentient creature and they keep it in bondage–mechanical restraints and then rationalize it with them as the center of the universe. “Oh, he needs a lead or he’ll just run off and injure himself.” No. These are sentient animals that need to be with their own kind. Keep a dog locked up, alone inside a human-dwelling whilst the owners are at work. It’s purely for the owner’s narcissism that this situation even exists. “I want something to love! I want something to love me!” It’s barbaric and brutal for the other sentient creature.

        I can’t even begin to make a rational argument for keeping birds in tiny cages. There’s none. The same goes for fish and I’m sure a large number of other animals I haven’t even considered. Life’s magic. Seeing fish in a tiny fish-tank attached to mechanical equipment that vibrates incessantly… it’s nothing but depressing. They don’t belong here.

        The majority of ‘funny’ pet videos are videos of distressed animals.

        Then you have the lamest defenses: “oh, I didn’t enslave them.” “I want to improve their lives.” “I adopted them from a shelter.” “I’m doing good!” “I’m a good person; I would be the best owner!” Yea, yea… absolve yourself from the situation. It’s not at all honest. It’s slavery of another species to satiate human-needs. Most often done by the ‘mentally-ill’.

        I need to expand on that last part. It’s more accurate to say it’s done by people who feel (real or not) that their needs are not met. An elderly person might buy an animal to soothe their isolation. They’re not ‘mentally-ill’, but I would put such an individual in that category.

        It’s something I despise Christianity for as it very clearly states that animals are for us, humans. Every time I’ve expressed this opinion people always react negatively. Their culture is an entitlement to other beings and I think the largest backlash is cultural. I think it’s a true and accurate perception of the relationship between humans and pets though.

  • luciferofastora@feddit.org
    2·
    1 month ago

    Scratching our horse has a tendency to prompt her to scratch back. We’ve more or less taught her to just do that with her lip (seriously, horse lips are flexible and strong enough to do that just fine) rather than her teeth like she would with other horses, but sometimes, those habits slip back in…

    So she sometimes wonders why we tell her off when she just wants to return the favour. I always feel bad, but I’d rather not have her rip holes in my clothes (nor skin, for that matter).