That’s a wonderful article, Merneith. Thank you for linking it.
Now that we’re in the Pit, I can call the OP an idiot, right?
Seriously, I don’t really get the notion that every dead person is a saint, nor that every soldier or first responder is a hero, nor that every dog is a noble beast. But the misapprehensions about K9s, their training, their duties, and their roles as partners are legion.
These dogs have been known to save lives. One of my favorite stories is that of Rags, the mascot of the 1st Infantry Division during WWI. He was inadvertantly trained to detect incoming explosions, ran messages through the trenches, and survived a gas attack.
I’d like to see you try that, dumbass.
Guess I’m heartless too. I don’t get the desire to attend the funeral of a dog you don’t even know. Not everyone looks at dogs and sees four legged humans. My own, I suppose. I’d never hold a funeral for one of my own though, much less expect strangers to attend. And my dogs are pretty damned cool. They may not dig people out of the rubble but they’re really good at burrowing in the blankets.
Uh, the ‘inspired by’ was one operative phrase in my post.
Now, unless they changed the words in the dictionary while I wasn’t looking, I didn’t know that ‘inspired by’ meant “this is a direct cut and paste from the cited link”.
Believe my, I’m *extremely *baffled…how one can transmogrify the vagueness of the phrase ‘inspired by’ by some heretofore unheard of alchemical process into, well, WTF you think is meant by ‘inspired by’…it not only baffles, it inspires (oops, sorry to use that word again) WONDER and AMAZEMENT!
**handsomeharry **is AMAZED!
Here are some guidelines for the Pit:
aha! A fellow reader of English! I was getting lonely!
Thank you, cochrane.
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OP’s a moron. Forget about him.
Right… Dogs are mindless. They can never be what we would call “brave” unless a human shows them how. Nope.
Look to YOU for validation of anything??? My mind boggles, again.
Thanks for pointing it out, Inner Stickler.
In fact, neither she, or any of the group had any ties with the local PD or K-9 units.
“Inadvertently trained”? Wow, these dogs must be smarter than I thought!:rolleyes:
Why are you insulting me? I haven’t insulted you, and I haven’t even insulted one of your world-famous dogs.
I think that we can learn much from your behaviour.
BTW, if you can teach me the skills to surviving a gas attack that the dog had, inadvertently or no, I think that I could at least equal the dog’s performance.
I’m having a hard time believing that Harry actually believes what he said in the OP. No need to go through it all again, it’s been said.
Were the carrier pigeons of WWI also brave?
I’d like to see **you **fly over bombs and shrapnel and machinegun fire, carrying messages to save whole regiments!!! And, without question! Can you do that???
Carrier Pigeons aren’t dogs. See post #50
Asking that is fucking stupid, but I’m not going to belabor that, and intentionally ignore Bozuit to talk about handsomeharry instead. The thing is, even though I am a dog lover, I kinda get his OP. There is a little of WTF when it comes to dogs dying and the human reactions to that.
The dog handsomeharry talked about died of natural causes. It just got old and died. That happens. It could be that harry is just remarking on the excessive grief people expressed when a dog dies. Shoot, it’s a trope. Old Yeller brought many grown ass men to tears, but it’s even more than that. In Independence Day there’s a scene where the characters are trapped in a tunnel and everything blows up, because of course it does, but the dog jumps through the explosion and lives! Yay! The movie just depicted millions of humans dying, but all we as viewers cared about at that moment was the dog.
As I said, I’m a dog lover, but even I have to admit that that’s a touch odd.
I’m not a dog lover, and I perceive certain responses as dubious at best and cheap sentiment at worst.
Except… well the human / dog partnership is pretty damn symbiotic, evolutionarily wise. It has affected both species at a profound level. Humans outsourced much of their olfactory senses to our canine friends and apparently used the excess brain cycles for better analytic capabilities. Dogs can pass tests that chimpanzees can’t, specifically the point test. They even read human facial expressions to take into account human left/right brain asymmetry.
On the homo sapien side, humans are pretty good at interpreting dog barks and whistles, even when the are listening to a recording of a dog they don’t know from an entirely different country.
Anyway it’s a deep and rather successful partnership. So I’ll raise a toast to our furry 4 legged bow-wows.
I think there’s a good chance our friend harry is trolling at this point. And doing a pretty shitty job of it, too.
I’ll bet he’s not even that handsome.