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Morituri:
I saw that bit about the rat.
And I couldn't help thinking how the rat would have fared in various American cities.
San Francisco: Animal Rescue comes and frees the rat, but then nobody will allow them to release it anywhere near their homes and they are forced to take it a hundred miles north to set it loose in a forest it has no idea how to survive in.
Kansas City: some kids poke it with a stick. Eventually an adult notices what they're doing and tells them to go wash their hands.
Chicago: The first person who notices it stomps on its head and keeps walking.
New York: The first person who notices it doesn't want to mess up her shoe, so she pays some street kid to stomp on its head instead.
Boston: Someone driving past in a car notices it, stops, rummages in the trunk, and comes back wearing a grin and carrying a #3 golf club.
Houston: (summer) Somebody cracks an egg on the manhole cover, then makes a youtube video of the egg frying while the rat struggles.
Houston: (January) The manhole cover is underwater anyway.
....
Case:
Make no mistake: We have no dearth of sick bastards who set cats on fire for ze lulz, either.
What we do have is a rather old animal welfare tradition and a federal criminal code that declares cruelty to animals a felony, punishable by up to three years imprisonment.
The guys in the video are from a volunteer fire brigade who worked pro-bono, and the 'Berufstierrettung Rhein-Neckar' - apparently Germany’s first professional animal rescue service. Didn't know we had those ...
But the same country that clucks & D'Awwws over the rescue of the 'Moppelratte' (chubbyrat) will feel zero qualms about dumping poison into the sewers it calls home.
We're weird like that.
cesium133:
Yep, the description of Chicago sounds about right.
pwhodges:
How to chase a ball;
Penny's version:
https://cassland.org/videos/Dogs/Penny-Ball.mp4
Dizzy's version:
https://cassland.org/videos/Dogs/Dizzy-Ball.mp4
Corvid:
My special girl Claudia! She's 12, totally deaf, has problems controlling her bladder and is literally the dumbest animal I've ever owned. We had to throw out a cat tree of hers a couple weeks ago because it was soaked in cat piss and the smell wouldn't come out and she's still looking for it. But she's a real sweetheart!! loves belly rubs and drools with happiness whenever you pet her. My roommates and I adopted her because she was the least adoptable cat at the shelter and we're a bunch of bleeding hearts <3
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