Singles who are "in love" with their pet(s)... good "relationship material" (or not)? (kissing, child)
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Originally Posted by GeorgeLucasLongLostChin
I said 'often'. It's not an universal rule. I'm talking about people who put animals at the same levels as human just because they're cute, while deliberatly ignoring how the meat they're eating is treated.
When you measure worth based on cutiness, you have the emotional integrity of a child and don't know much about life.
That's the sense I get, that the animal "loooovers" just can't "do" normal adult human relationships. So a relationship with an animal is really about as "demanding" as they're capable of. And I'm not so sure they're actually all that in love with the critter anyway, as with the way it makes them feel. After all, they can project and fantasize just about anything they want onto the pet, and the animal can't ever disagree (unlike a human).
Ah, but if animals could talk, wouldn't that be interesting?! "Man, you wouldn't believe what that crazy bit¢h tries to do with me..!!"
I love animals, and have one cat who is well cared for.
I'm not sure I'm going to say this right....
I don't find people appealing who have what seems like an emotional involvement with there pets. The ones who talk like they are people, all the time. It seems sad to me.
I have a friend who got a purse dog when her children all left home. She freely states that why she got it. It's too cute. It comes with her most places. I have no problem with that. It makes her happy. And there is some emotion involved because she had a need to nurture something. BUT, she doesn't talk about it like a person, or make you talk to it, or any of the things I find somewhat disturbing.
Are you saying that people shouldn't have an emotional involvement with their pets? I dare say that most pet owners DO have some sort of bond with their pet.
He could have humans killed by the millions without blinking an eye, but if he ever caught someone abusing an animal, it was curtains!
Exactly! And he was the one who started the smoking witch hunt most recently in modern times before the US! The model society is quite clear! Of course, it's not like the Nazi "doctors" died in jail, either - they continued their "productive" work here!
Btw, I wonder if another reason for the major increase of all kinds of diseases is not the filthy animals in people's houses... Animals have never been inside or sleeping with their owners before both trends started.
Btw, I wonder if another reason for the major increase of all kinds of diseases is not the filthy animals in people's houses... Animals have never been inside or sleeping with their owners before both trends started.
Wow. I don't consider my pets filthy or germ-ridden. So what if they play and tumble around on my lawn. And I would consider them cleaner and much more appealing to have inside my house and bedroom than any cigarette smoking human being... l take some garden dirt tracked on my kitchen floor over their nicotine stained teeth and their tobacco stench embedded in my fabrics.
Wow. I don't consider my pets filthy or germ-ridden. So what if they play and tumble around on my lawn. And I would consider them cleaner and much more appealing to have inside my house and bedroom than any cigarette smoking human being... l take some garden dirt tracked on my kitchen floor over their nicotine stained teeth and their tobacco stench embedded in my fabrics.
I was going to say...humans ARE the filthy animals in their own houses!
Exactly! And he was the one who started the smoking witch hunt most recently in modern times before the US! The model society is quite clear! Of course, it's not like the Nazi "doctors" died in jail, either - they continued their "productive" work here!
Btw, I wonder if another reason for the major increase of all kinds of diseases is not the filthy animals in people's houses... Animals have never been inside or sleeping with their owners before both trends started.
The "Hitler loved his dog" example can be countered by the fact that many serial killers get their start torturing animals. It is no point at all. Animals have traditionally shared living quarters with people - everything from chickens, to cows to pigs, and still do in many less industrialized parts of the world. So that is not true either.
I said 'often'. It's not an universal rule. I'm talking about people who put animals at the same levels as human just because they're cute, while deliberatly ignoring how the meat they're eating is treated.
When you measure worth based on cutiness, you have the emotional integrity of a child and don't know much about life.
For me, it's not about cute. I am a vegetarian/pesci cusp, so any charged hypocrisy does't come into play. I won't deny that I love my dog more than most people, to state the obvious, since I work to pay for her food, daycare, and pet insurance. The only creatures I bust my hump for are family and a few friends. She falls into that camp.
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The model society is quite clear! Of course, it's not like the Nazi "doctors" died in jail, either - they continued their "productive" work here!
The only creatures I bust my hump for are family and a few friends. She falls into that camp.