Oh yeah, and what about the dog that wound up in a full-body cast in There’s Something About Mary?
Tell me that wasn’t funny.
I believe you’re right. Pretty silly, too, because it was a great stunt by the horse.
IIRC, the very same ruckus was raised about Schwartzenegger and the camel in “Conan the Barbarian.”
It’s not that I don’t have a sense of humor or that I protest. I just have this automatic CRINGE factor when I see an animal getting hurt-even when it’s fake. If it’s something silly like the faked dog stuck to the ass, that doesn’t bother me. But it just makes me kind of ill. I don’t know, I’m just a huge softy when it comes to animals. I couldn’t watch the 2nd Pet Sematary movie, not because it sucked, but because I had to leave the room crying at seeing some of the animals being maimed and killed.
ok first off, killing puppies is just wrong
now, as for the cat thing… i personally dont like cats because they dont do much, now dogs, they can fetch, kill things and they are definately more scary to a burglar than a cat (im talking bout the big dogs of course:)) cats are thought of as animals w/ nine lives, and i think thats part of the reason that people try to kill them in comic strips etc. one thing you gotta admit though, even if you dont like killing anything at all, when you see those comics with antifreeze and cats falling from 10 story buildings, it is funny.
Ok, first of all my cats can fetch.
Secondly, this is the very attitude that inspired me to start “Cats vs Dogs” in GD (which I think is going nowhere, maybe because I made my cat prejudice so apparent. Although that’s not what I intended. I wanted to hear from the dog people…)
I mean, you have a pet because you want them to “DO” something? This was exactly my GD question. Do they have to do something? I like animals because they are.
That said, I repeat, my cats fetch.
Has anyone seen my puppy stomping boots?
Major cat lover here, but I still laughed myself silly during Monty Python’s “Holy Grail” when the table the dancing knights were on collapsed and you heard a cat wail, same film saw a cat being used as a carpet beater…
and the Monty Python television sketch where a cat has been rammed through a wall and you yank on the tail to alert the “Most Disgusting Family In England” that someone is at the door… the sheer absurdity of these things makes me laugh. (Still on the Monty Python jag: I think I actually wet myself during the “mouse-o-phone” sketch [it was mice he was hammering, not hamsters]).
My reservations about this form of humour is the no-neck set who want to act out on what triggered their limited humour sense from the last video they rented.
This is going to make people unhappy but…
I live in the country and the nearby city folk think its a good idea to take their unwanted cats and kittens out to the country and dump them. That way they will be free and natural. Let me tell you there is nothing natural about bunches of wild cats around your house. They are skinny mangy and flea bitten. And they kill everything, not just songbirds. They kill all the birds, lizards, snakes, frogs, etc. Now once they go wild they won’t go into a trap, a pet will, but not a wild cat. On multiple occasions my uncle has had to go to my grandmother’s farm and shoot 35+ cats at a single time.
And just so you don’t think I’m picking on cats, we’ve also killed many dogs. How would you like it if roving packs of half starved wild dogs were comming into your yard with your children? FWIW, the dogs were trapped not shot.
I was about ready to kill Noel last night. At quarter after 2, she came into my room, crying. I ignored her, until she decided to sharpen her claws on my WICKER dresser. I yelled, “Stop it, No No!” she ran off. Little brat.