Why dogs are the greatest: yet another example

[canadianhitman]

Dog saves 11-year-old from cougar attack

No other pet (ahem...useless house cat) is gonna lay its life on the line for you.

 

[trex74]

I agree, dogs are the best. Love those Labs!
But those nasty little pugs are another story...

True Story: Pugs Eat Owner, Now Up For Adoption | Field & Stream

 

[bakemeacookie]

How do we know a useless cat wouldn't have gone all ninja on it?

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[jnevin]

And here we go...

 

[binö]

Dog saves 11-year-old from cougar attack

No other pet (ahem...useless house cat) is gonna lay its life on the line for you.

bro you are gonna rile up the crazy cat ladies here

 

[trex74]

Not only that, but they can talk!

 

[bakemeacookie]

Not only that, but they can talk!

9 million views for a talking dog. I'm in the wrong biz.

c

 

[musclemom]

Dog saves 11-year-old from cougar attack

No other pet (ahem...useless house cat) is gonna lay its life on the line for you.

You don't own a pet merely because it will protect you, or not.

And honestly, if a cougar attacked a human the poor frigging cougar must have been starving. With viable options, N. American big cats generally will not attack people, we smell/taste less than appetizing to them, well, at least compared to a deer.

Of course, with people destroying prey and continually encroaching into hunting grounds, what do you expect? We won't be happy until everything is used up, or caged up, concreted over, or just plain extinct.

 

[bakemeacookie]

Of course, with people destroying prey and continually encroaching into hunting grounds, what do you expect? We won't be happy until everything is used up, or caged up, concreted over, or just plain extinct.

Wow way to show happiness that a little boy didn't get killed!

c

 

[musclemom]

Wow way to show happiness that a little boy didn't get killed!

c

You're point? 18,000 to 25,000 children die EVERY DAY of easily preventable causes. What are you doing to save them? Today, over 25,000 children died around the world — Global Issues

Let's be realistic, there are already too damned many people wasting too many resources, and despite the fact people try otherwise, the population continues to grow (too fucking many yellow labs, too). On the other hand, Northern cougars are an endangered species:

Nature Canada Preservation Conservation Endangered Species Canada

BTW, while I wrote this response something like 63 children just died.

 

[bakemeacookie]

You're point? 18,000 to 25,000 children die EVERY DAY of easily preventable causes. What are you doing to save them? Today, over 25,000 children died around the world — Global Issues

Let's be realistic, there are already too damned many people wasting too many resources, and despite the fact people try otherwise, the population continues to grow (too fucking many yellow labs, too). On the other hand, Northern cougars are an endangered species:

Nature Canada Preservation Conservation Endangered Species Canada

BTW, while I wrote this response something like 63 children just died.

If your child died from a mauling and I started a diatribe about poor cougars in rseponse - i have a weird feeling you'd call me an asshole. Then probably run to the mods and demand I get banned.

So basically your comments are only because you're sitting behind a computer and don't know the kid's family. I got it - thanks for playing!

c

 

[musclemom]

If your child died from a mauling and I started a diatribe about poor cougars in rseponse - i have a weird feeling you'd call me an asshole. Then probably run to the mods and demand I get banned.

So basically your comments are only because you're sitting behind a computer and don't know the kid's family. I got it - thanks for playing!

c

Again, tens of thousands of children die, every day, horribly. Mauled by bombs, mutilated with blades, ravaged by disease.

Stalin said it first, "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

 

[bakemeacookie]

Again, tens of thousands of children die, every day, horribly. Mauled by bombs, mutilated with blades, ravaged by disease.

Stalin said it first, "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic."

Thanks for ignoring what i said lol

c

 

[musclemom]

If your child died from a mauling and I started a diatribe about poor cougars in rseponse - i have a weird feeling you'd call me an asshole. Then probably run to the mods and demand I get banned.

So basically your comments are only because you're sitting behind a computer and don't know the kid's family. I got it - thanks for playing!

c

You're presenting me with a hypothetical situation, i.e., if my child were to die by cougar mauling how would I feel if someone were to make the apparently callous comments I made?

Honestly, I probably have a very, very different view of the natural world than you do, a very different relationship to wild animals. I've been confronted with "dangerous" wild animals (bears, wild horses, poisonous snakes, extremely large snapping turtles, skunks) and neither myself nor my kids have ever been harmed. Many injuries to humans comes from their own absolute lack of common sense about how to act around/treat wild animals. Hell, most injuries from domestic animals are because people have NO idea how to treat animals, no sense of reading their body language or understanding their psychology.

I've never lost a child, I don't know how it would make me feel, but I still doubt if I'd blame an animal for doing what comes natural to it, I'd more likely blame myself for not teaching my child how better to handle himself in such a situation, or damn myself for choosing to live where I did. But, again, I grew up around animals and I respect and revere nature, I don't think it should be subjugated and controlled.

 

[bakemeacookie]

You're presenting me with a hypothetical situation, i.e., if my child were to die by cougar mauling how would I feel if someone were to make the apparently callous comments I made?

Honestly, I probably have a very, very different view of the natural world than you do, a very different relationship to wild animals. I've been confronted with "dangerous" wild animals (bears, wild horses, poisonous snakes, extremely large snapping turtles, skunks) and neither myself nor my kids have ever been harmed. Many injuries to humans comes from their own absolute lack of common sense about how to act around/treat wild animals. Hell, most injuries from domestic animals are because people have NO idea how to treat animals, no sense of reading their body language or understanding their psychology.

I've never lost a child, I don't know how it would make me feel, but I still doubt if I'd blame an animal for doing what comes natural to it, I'd more likely blame myself for not teaching my child how better to handle himself in such a situation, or damn myself for choosing to live where I did. But, again, I grew up around animals and I respect and revere nature, I don't think it should be subjugated and controlled.

So basically I'm correct. If the shoe was on the other foot - you'd call me an asshole and demand I get banned. Like I said, thanks for playing.

c

 

[musclemom]

So basically I'm correct. If the shoe was on the other foot - you'd call me an asshole and demand I get banned. Like I said, thanks for playing.

c

Excuse me, where did I say that? I don't like it when people put words in my mouth, particularly if they put the wrong one's in.

 

[chris302001]

Excuse me, where did I say that? I don't like it when people put words in my mouth, particularly if they put the wrong one's in.

theres a joke in there somewhere about sticking things in your mouth.

 

[musclemom]

So basically I'm correct. If the shoe was on the other foot - you'd call me an asshole and demand I get banned. Like I said, thanks for playing.

c

Oh, BTW, every time people have mouthed off to me and gotten banned it wasn't because I've ever complained about them. I've never complained to admin about anything any poster has ever said to me. I fight my own battles.

People who have been banned for mouthing off to me got banned because they broached TOS and admin made an executive decision without any input from me.

 

[musclemom]

theres a joke in there somewhere about sticking things in your mouth.

Probably, but BakeMeARazor's snarky attitude totally killed any fun I was having.

 

[Lambruh]

i'd let a 30yo coug attack me anyday

 

[-SD-]

i'd let a 30yo coug attack me anyday

you need to kick that shit up to 40 rob, thats where the real maulings happen.

 

[javaguru]

you need to kick that shit up to 40 rob, thats where the real maulings happen.

I was also thinking that a cougar has to be at least 40 to be defined as a cougar.

 

[jnevin]

you need to kick that shit up to 40 rob, thats where the real maulings happen.

I can vouch for this.

 

[trex74]

I was also thinking that a cougar has to be at least 40 to be defined as a cougar.

Isn't the term "cougar" so over? Makes me want to yak.
Re: the argument about cougar life vs baby life...
Suffice it to say that the loss of a child is a tragedy that I wish no parent had to ever experience.

 

[canadianhitman]

You don't own a pet merely because it will protect you, or not.

And honestly, if a cougar attacked a human the poor frigging cougar must have been starving. With viable options, N. American big cats generally will not attack people, we smell/taste less than appetizing to them, well, at least compared to a deer.

Of course, with people destroying prey and continually encroaching into hunting grounds, what do you expect? We won't be happy until everything is used up, or caged up, concreted over, or just plain extinct.

Quite the spirited defense of the cougar...you are certainly one of those aforementioned crazy cat ladies!!!

 

[musclemom]

Quite the spirited defense of the cougar...you are certainly one of those aforementioned crazy cat ladies!!!

Maybe I'm a bit of a crazy cat lady, but really, it's about big picture. Humans move into a balanced ecosystem and then get pissed because wildlife acts the way it always has, it just adapts to the new food supply. We have a bigger brain, we have frontal lobes, but does that give us the right to move in, roll over, bully and generally abuse the creatures that share this planet with us? Some people say yes. Personally, I think it's disgusting. We treat the other living things on this planet the way Europeans treated the Native Americans and its shameful. The basic philosophy is "do what I tell you to do, or die." But even if you're a christian the Bible says we were placed in "stewardship" of this place. Stewardship does not mean to use up resources and destroy habitates and entire species.