CopernicusSnail

The animal shelter world is full of people who love non-human animals and hate humans. And while I understand that this often comes from a place of trauma and pain, I need you to understand that domesticated animals come with people attached. They are surrendered by people, they're adopted by people, they're taken care of by people. I need you to understand that homelessness and poverty are HUGE drivers of animals being surrendered, and care about that too. I need you to understand that when you lie about an aggressive dog to get them adopted, and you don't care when they hurt someone because you only care about the dog, you are causing that person (and their friends and neighbors) to never adopt again. I need you to question why you can raise thousands of dollars for cancer treatment for a dog who will only live 2 more months, or a new waiting room, or shade covers for the outdoor runs, but you can't raise money for your employees - you know, the ones taking care of the animals, without whom the shelter would shut down - to have health insurance. I need you to question why your shelter is a revolving door of employees who stay for a season, burn out, and leave, and what you can be doing to make the quality of life better for the people who work in the shelter. Humans are the ones taking care of domesticated animals. If they can't take care of themselves, they can't take care of their pets. What harms humans, harms pets. You cannot simply remove humans from the equation. It does not work.

So my dog does this thing when she wants attention and to be pet that's like, almost a whine but it's under her breath so it just ends up being *breathing noises* and she did that to my SIL (who does not have pets nor grew up with them) once and she was like "She jumped up on the bed and she was making these weird noises! Like she couldn't breathe or something. Is she okay?" And that will never cease to amuse me.

Winnie does that too! She’s sort of whistles and grumble at you if you’re not looking at her when she wants you to be. Collie behavior

Tucker Carlson leaving the Republican Party is a tragedy. Charlie Kirk is dead, Ben Shapiro has fallen off the face of the earth, who will explain woke M&Ms to us?