Polls go in IMHO.
Well, yeah. Why else would you kill them? “Bad dog!” <BANG!> “No more piddling on the carpet for you!”
I prefer dead baby seals.
The worst thing about dead puppies is no more puppy breath. Unless, of course, you work their lungs back and forth with your fingers.
What’s worse than 10 dead puppies in a tree?
1 living puppy.
Hey, guys. The OP is serious. I can’t believe you’re mocking him. Why don’t you just go home and kick your dog.
Let my puppies go.
Not on my lawn!
Puh-leeeze tell me I just heard a whooshing sound.
To far too many people—and many here on the Dope, I’m sorry to say—there are no shades of gray. They see the world with blinders on, and if you don’t toe the line of their particular monomaniacal ideology, you are totally wrong, Wrong, WRONG! This applies to opinions from all along the spectrum of politics, religion or whatever.
Like you, I wish we (both here online and in real life) could appreciate the nuanced gradations of “truth” in others’ viewpoints, before blindly slamming anyone who does not immediately fall in line and agree, without reservation or qualification, with our narrow perspective.
Me too. But only if you bash in their heads with an oar.
Deader is better.
Hey! That girl was working. I paid her good money to kill those puppies.
If you throw them at just the right angle, can you can make them skip across the surface?
Sure, just flatten 'em out a little bit first.
Why did the puppy cross the river?
Because it was dead.
I burning your puppy!
Speaking of that…link. <–Thread needs more pictures!
In response to the OP, I know you’re trying to make a rhetorical point, but it hits close to home. Yes, it’s theoretically “good” to end a seriously suffering animal’s ordeal. But far too many animals are killed under the rubric of “euthanasia” when it’s really expense, or inconvenience, that drives the decision.
Similarly, there are still a few appropriate places for feral dogs in the world. And with work, it is sometimes possible to socialize a feral or semi-feral animal.
I realize the dead puppies are just a metaphor, and in general I agree that the Manichean worldview causes us a lot of trouble.
But the metaphor hits a sore point of mine, because too often people expand that “gray area” to suit their own selfish purposes. While I agree that sometimes a dead puppy is a better alternative, all too often it’s just an easier alternative. The line between “I’m doing this for their own good” and “I can’t be bothered to do what’s best” is itself a gray area, and a moving target, for some people.
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You were paying her? Were you upset with how things worked out? I know I would be, if I paid somebody to kill some puppies then she had better make damn sure they are dead, and throwing them in a river just isn’t sure enough. What if some of the pups had an aptitude for swimming, and had managed to stay afloat before coming ashore downriver? They would still be alive, and I would have been ripped off! Hell, what about the fat puppies? I bet at least one of the fat puppies lived by just floating along till some do-gooder fucking lifted it back out from the river.
Goddammit, now I am pissed off. I wasn’t before, but now I am pissed. That girl took your money and then did a piss poor job of killing your puppies. What a bitch.
*Firefly *reference.
She was also supposed to make sure they suffered and that passers-by were filled with horror and dread. Killing them was just a bonus.