People who care more for their pets than fellow humans

nails1

A friend of mine claims that she loves her dog more than any human being, I've also heard of people valuing their pet's life more than that of a human's life. Is it not bad sign for mankind that we have such little trust or faith in one another that we need to turn to another species to find comfort and acceptance? Don't get me wrong I love my pet goldfish but wouldn't grieve its death like a human loss.

berger89

Ah, but a goldfish is different to say, a dog! I love my dogs, so much! And yes, I would definitely rate my dogs above many human beings. they are family, without a doubt. if the house was burning down around me they would be the first thing i would save…feck the photographs and phones etc etc.

Animals don;t judge. Actually, maybe cats do! But animals can offer to silent support. they just "know".

Starscream25

I can understand it, most people to me are annoying and idiots:), that why I use boards to communicate so much as opposed to in the real world if I didn't have my brothers sisters and parents, I'd definitly up the ante with surrounding myself with animals.

Magico Gonzalez

I care about my dog more than any of ya.

Ken.

My cat is a better human than most humans I know.

The Backwards Man

I've never felt the urge to throw my internet enabled device out the window as a result of something my dog wrote.

The Bould Rabbit

berger89 wrote: »

Ah, but a goldfish is different to say, a dog! I love my dogs, so much! And yes, I would definitely rate my dogs above many human beings. they are family, without a doubt. if the house was burning down around me they would be the first thing i would save…feck the photographs and phones etc etc.

Animals don;t judge. Actually, maybe cats do! But animals can offer to silent support. they just "know".

I'd like to think so too. the dog is a living creature after all.

However if the house was ablaze and your choice is rescue your dog or your neighbour's child, whats it to be?

david75

I love my dog more than anyone I know.
That includes my other half.

Zak Flaps

I love my dog more than most humans. A dog becomes a member of the family. Most humans I don't know and will never know.

Zak Flaps

The Bould Rabbit wrote: »

I'd like to think so too. the dog is a living creature after all.

However if the house was ablaze and your choice is rescue your dog or your neighbour's child, whats it to be?

Is the neighbour's child an annoying prick?

K4t

Do I value my cat's life more than the lives of my fellow humans? Of course not.

Would I rather spend time with my cat than the vast majority of my fellow human beings? Of course.

berger89

The Bould Rabbit wrote: »

I'd like to think so too. the dog is a living creature after all.

However if the house was ablaze and your choice is rescue your dog or your neighbour's child, whats it to be?

Aw jeez, you can't do that to me! It'd be the child for sure but jeez, if I lost my dogs KNOWING that I COULD have saved them….I could never forgive myself.

I'd grab the two of them under my arms!

DoYouEvenLift

I'd honestly probably save my dog before I'd save a random person if it came to it, zero fuks given because I'm pretty much a misanthropist nowadays. The only people I care for are family and close friends, everyone else can get fuked

Topper Harley

A dog is the only creature that that loves you more than he loves himself.

berger89 wrote: »

Animals don;t judge. Actually, maybe cats do! But animals can offer to silent support. they just "know".

"Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Give me a pig any day. He looks you square in the eye as his equal." - Winston Churchill

Starscream25

I'll put it this way, if dogs ruled the world, we'd all be better off..........

Iranoutofideas

A certain local business in my area were offering to donate a sum of money to a local charity and asked for suggestions as to who to donate to on their facebook page

One of the first suggestions was the local search and rescue who have saved countless people who have tried to end their lives in the nearby river.

This was then followed by countless suggestions of some local charity for feral cats. Every single one of these suggestions came from women.

I just couldn't ****ing believe my eyes. Feral ****ing cats.

Karl Stein

If I was dying of hunger I'd eat all y'alls pets.

The Bould Rabbit

Zak Flaps wrote: »

Is the neighbour's child an annoying prick?

Have you ever known one that wasn't?

berger89 wrote: »

Aw jeez, you can't do that to me! It'd be the child for sure but jeez, if I lost my dogs KNOWING that I COULD have saved them….I could never forgive myself.

I'd grab the two of them under my arms!

Well I wouldn't be able to live with myself knowing that I saved one of them over the other.

So I'd let them both burn and save the goldfish in the knowledge that it would find a loving home with the OP.

A year later I'd have a new dog and a newly built house in a quieter neighbourhood. :pac:

nails1

Yes it's all too do with a lack of trust, if we were all 100% comfortable in our skin and more loving of one another, we wouldn't near to turn to our furry friends. I feel sorry for animals as many people use them as backup when they're feeling insecure or have attachment issues. Roy Keane is a classic example of this. A dog or cat will not judge if you've cheated on your wife or murdered someone. Theyre just used as a comforting, reassuring ball of fur.

Topper Harley

DoYouEvenLift wrote: »

I'd honestly probably save my dog before I'd save a random person if it came to it, zero fuks given because I'm pretty much a misanthropist nowadays. The only people I care for are family and close friends, everyone else can get fuked

I'm not having a go at you here, but this is why dogs are so much better than people. It's self-fulfilling behaviour of people being @ssholes to others because they think everyone else is an @sshole. You just don't get this with dogs. They don't judge or discriminate, they are loyal to a fault and love unconditionally.

Patty O Furniture

Starscream25 wrote: »

I'll put it this way, if dogs ruled the world, we'd all be better off..........

Didn't they make a film of that? no doubt a happy tail at the end :P

Topper Harley

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

A certain local business in my area were offering to donate a sum of money to a local charity and asked for suggestions as to who to donate to on their facebook page

One of the first suggestions was the local search and rescue who have saved countless people who have tried to end their lives in the nearby river.

This was then followed by countless suggestions of some local charity for feral cats. Every single one of these suggestions came from women.

I just couldn't ****ing believe my eyes. Feral ****ing cats.

I saw something similar in a Tesco where they give you a token after you buy your groceries and you put the token in one of three boxes for a charity and (as far as I understand) at the end of the week Tesco donate €1000 between the three charities and the amount each gets depends on how many tokens each charity have gotten. That's all fair enough but what I don't understand is how so many people felt that Lucan and Leixlip Tidy Towns were more deserving of donations than Enable Ireland. I'd say it was split 45% for Lucan Tidy Towns, 40% for Leixlip Tidy Towns and 15% for Enable Ireland. What the actual fuck people?

Sorry for going off topic but I've wanted to get the off my chest for quite a while.

strobe

nails1 wrote: »

Yes it's all too do with a lack of trust, if we were all 100% comfortable in our skin and more loving of one another, we wouldn't near to turn to our furry friends. I feel sorry for animals as many people use them as backup when they're feeling insecure or have attachment issues. Roy Keane is a classic example of this. A dog or cat will not judge if you've cheated on your wife or murdered someone. Theyre just used as a comforting, reassuring ball of fur.

Roy Keane has a wife and five children... But you saw him walking his dogs on the news one time, yeah? So therefore he cares more about dogs than people? Rather than you know, he's a guy that cares about his wife, and his kids, and his family, and his friends, AND cares for his dogs and takes them for walks so they don't have to sh1t where they sleep? And everyone else that likes their pet is the same? Through some bizarre nonsensical feat of twisted magic this means they have no humans around them, feel insecure, and are worried about being judged so use the pets as comfort and don't really care about them either?

You're an imbecile.*

*Unless you were being delightfully sarcastic and satirical (it's often hard to tell), in which case, nicely played.

Starscream25

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

Didn't they make a film of that? no doubt a happy tail at the end :P

Woof woof woof

berger89

Topper Harley wrote: »

I saw something similar in a Tesco where they give you a token after you buy your groceries and you put the token in one of three boxes for a charity and (as far as I understand) at the end of the week Tesco donate €1000 between the three charities and the amount each gets depends on how many tokens each charity have gotten. That's all fair enough but what I don't understand is how so many people felt that Lucan and Leixlip Tidy Towns were more deserving of donations than Enable Ireland. I'd say it was split 45% for Lucan Tidy Towns, 40% for Leixlip Tidy Towns and 15% for Enable Ireland. What the actual fuck people?

Sorry for going off topic but I've wanted to get the off my chest for quite a while.

Bloody hell..that's shocking.
But how come they didn't have 3 different organisations? I know in our local one, one time they had the local ISPCA, the local boxing club, and then the care home for old folks-3 really different groups. Strange that firstly they have Tidy Towns groups but to have 2 the same time, thats just stupid. Countless other more worthy groups out there

whatdoicare

A person I work with has loads of dogs and two babies - four hundred million feckin' pictures of dogs, her dogs, other peoples dogs, sad dogs, rescue dogs, happy dogs...
and maybe two pictures of her own children and the stupid dogs are in the photo too.

I just feel lousy for her kids, they obviously play second fiddle to her beloved dogs - I actually wonder if one of them took a bite out of one of her kids would she blame the kid for the dog having to be put down or would she give the kids up for adoption instead!

Boggles my mind how humans could do that top their own offspring.

Topper Harley

berger89 wrote: »

Bloody hell..that's shocking.
But how come they didn't have 3 different organisations? I know in our local one, one time they had the local ISPCA, the local boxing club, and then the care home for old folks-3 really different groups. Strange that firstly they have Tidy Towns groups but to have 2 the same time, thats just stupid. Countless other more worthy groups out there

But clearly (and unfortunately) there was demand to provide resources to these causes over ones that you and I consider more worthy.

nails1 wrote: »

Yes it's all too do with a lack of trust, if we were all 100% comfortable in our skin and more loving of one another, we wouldn't near to turn to our furry friends. I feel sorry for animals as many people use them as backup when they're feeling insecure or have attachment issues. Roy Keane is a classic example of this. A dog or cat will not judge if you've cheated on your wife or murdered someone. Theyre just used as a comforting, reassuring ball of fur.

Another great quality in dogs that makes them much more likeable than people, is that they wag their tales and not their tongues.

hfallada

Most people are more concerned with their dogs than humans. Take a certain dog shelter in North county Dublins. Its really large, modern and clean. Yet a ton of homeless problem are sleeping on the streets of Dublin. Those that are fortunate to spend a night in a shelter, are sleeping in worse conditions than the dogs. But most people dont give a ****.

I found it mildly ****ed up that people protest outside a fur shop in Dublin every weekend. But no ever protests outside the embassies of oppressive governments

PucaMama

whatdoicare wrote: »

A person I work with has loads of dogs and two babies - four hundred million feckin' pictures of dogs, her dogs, other peoples dogs, sad dogs, rescue dogs, happy dogs...
and maybe two pictures of her own children and the stupid dogs are in the photo too.

I just feel lousy for her kids, they obviously play second fiddle to her beloved dogs - I actually wonder if one of them took a bite out of one of her kids would she blame the kid for the dog having to be put down or would she give the kids up for adoption instead!

Boggles my mind how humans could do that top their own offspring.

have you any genuine reason to think any of that

Btw I'd gladly spend hours in the company of my dogs, but there's few humans I'd feel the same about

whatdoicare

PucaMama wrote: »

have you any genuine reason to think any of that

Btw I'd gladly spend hours in the company of my dogs, but there's few humans I'd feel the same about

Even your own children?? That's kind of messed up.

scwazrh

I think that if someone was driving a car and had to either drive over a baby or an animal , most people would steer towards the animal .

This would be a "worst case" kinda thing . But if you asked a number of people would you prefer to spend 24 hrs locked in a room with a person or a puppy ?? The majority would choose a puppy ..

Sam Mac

My pets have much better personalities than the majority of humans I have come across.

scwazrh

Sam Mac wrote: »

My pets have much better personalities than the majority of humans I have come across.

My parrot can hold a much better conversation than most people!!!

PucaMama

whatdoicare wrote: »

Even your own children?? That's kind of messed up.

I don't have children

KungPao

My two tortoises mean the world to me.

**** you Homopsapiens.

jimboblep

In the wise words of Ogri " The more I see of people the more I like my dog "

Patty O Furniture

When you come home every day, not everyone runs to greet you or jump in your arms :P

AndonHandon

I'd rather my dog survived than hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people in the world purely because I will never see them or have any contact with them so their impact on my life is negligible whether they exist or not.

Reading back over what I just said has given me an uneasy feeling actually.

whatdoicare

PucaMama wrote: »

I don't have children

So why did you reply to my post that was about a mother who showed signs that she loved her dogs more than her children??

Katgurl

Ah but my cat never talks back to me , he has the most beautiful furry face and the sound of him purring makes my heart swell with joy...

PucaMama

whatdoicare wrote: »

So why did you reply to my post that was about a mother who showed signs that she loved her dogs more than her children??

Because you decided she loves her "stupid dogs" more than her children. I asked how could you be so sure?

berger89

Patty O Furniture wrote: »

When you come home every day, not everyone runs to greet you or jump in your arms :P

This. Exactly.!!!!!!!
As much as I want to disbelieve my parents, apparently my dogs look at the clock when I'm due home from work. If I'm late, they whine and sit at the door.

ANd when I do get home, its not the folks that come running to greet me…its the dogs!!!

Topper Harley

PucaMama wrote: »

have you any genuine reason to think any of that

Btw I'd gladly spend hours in the company of my dogs, but there's few humans I'd feel the same about

whatdoicare wrote: »

Even your own children?? That's kind of messed up.

Few ≠ all.

whatdoicare

PucaMama wrote: »

Because you decided she loves her "stupid dogs" more than her children. I asked how could you be so sure?

...perhaps when I wrote about the many, many pictures of her dogs on facebook and hardly none of her own children? no?

PucaMama

whatdoicare wrote: »

...perhaps when I wrote about the many, many pictures of her dogs on facebook and hardly none of her own children? no?

Maybe she doesn't want her children's pictures all over Facebook?

Topper Harley

Katgurl wrote: »

Ah but my cat never talks back to me , he has the most beautiful furry face and the sound of him purring makes my heart swell with joy...

Your cat is plotting to kill you.

How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You

Champ

I've thought about this somewhat and it's probably because humanity as a species when taken as a whole is utterly.... disappointing.

In contrast animals are neither inherently "good" or "evil" and so have a quality of existence that humans can never hope to obtain, that of true innocence.

Topper Harley

PucaMama wrote: »

Maybe she doesn't want her children's pictures all over Facebook?

That's either very responsible of her... or she hates her kids.

scwazrh

KungPao wrote: »

My two tortoises mean the world to me.

**** you Homopsapiens.

I would love a tortoise but am put off by people saying they stink !!!


Do they smell bad???

PucaMama

Topper Harley wrote: »

That's either very responsible of her... or she hates her kids.

I'd say it's very responsible. Plus I'd enjoy seeing her dogs more than snotty babies if I was her fb friend

whatdoicare

PucaMama wrote: »

Maybe she doesn't want her children's pictures all over Facebook?

Nope, that's not it - I've met her in real life. She doesn't talk about her kids at all. She mostly talks about her dogs. She forgot to tell me she'd even had her second child until I asked about it. I thought I'd gotten it wrong and she hadn't been pregnant or I'd confused her being pregnant for her doggie being pregnant.

Yeah, it's weird that humans could do that.