Thine name is stupidity
I really need to stop listening to people’s conversations and start using my headphones more, because one day I won’t be able to control myself. One day, I’m going to turn around and look at someone and say, “Are you REALLY that freaking DUMB?” I feel my patience waning. I do. Especially in incidents like this, where the person isn’t just a complete idiot or drunken slob. No, in this case, these people were harming animals.
So let’s set up the scenario. I’m on the bus trying to get to the other end of campus because walking in the freezing weather isn’t appealing. Two girls get on, and they sit right across from me, so I kind of can’t help but look directly at them. Luckily, I had my sunglasses on, so they couldn’t see the fury in my eyes as they continued to spew such absurdity.
Girl One: “God, I left my phone on the floor the last night, and I came back and I saw my puppy chewing it! I smacked her across the room, I swear I did.”
Girl Two: “God, I know what you mean. My dog is such a bitch. She pees everywhere and I’m like, ‘you can’t do that.’ She just doesn’t get it!”
Girl One: “She just doesn’t ever listen to me.”
Girl Two: “I know. Sometimes I really hate mine.”
Am I the only one whose head is spinning here? A girl ABUSES her dog because SHE left her phone on the ground and hasn’t bothered to train the dog at all? Smacking the dog doesn’t do anything — she has no idea what your blows on the side of her head mean. And the other one, calling her dog a bitch? Sorry, dogs just AREN’T bitches. Their behavior is as good as you teach them to be. She obviously never housebroke her puppy, and it’s that girl’s fault now. It all lies on her. If you cannot handle the responsibility of having a dog, then you shouldn’t have one. Get a stuffed animal. They make them for idiots like you.
Dogs and any other animals are not decorations or toys. They are living beings that require love, attention and work when it comes to teaching them correct, domestic behavior. There are better ways to do it than smacking them across the room.
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WTF at people sometimes. I hate it when people try to compare animals to humans, like thinking they should somehow KNOW the right/wrong thing to do. I also hate it when people who are not specialists try to diagnose animals’ health…if your pet is really sick you can’t just go “oh he has a cold” TAKE HIM TO THE VET, he’s not a freakin’ human!!! GRRR!! *fumes*
(Well, SOME dogs ARE bitches… heehee, sorry. Couldn’t resist. :P)
I wouldn’t blame you if you’d reached over and smacked those girls’ fool heads together; of course, they wouldn’t understand the punishment any more than the dogs can understand theirs. Some people should stick to cellphone charms and avoid the responsibility of live pets.
And don’t get me started on the people who buy animals for holidays or birthdays. Easter’s coming up, which means lots of chicks and baby bunnies will go to morons unprepared to care for them… grrr.
Actually, female dogs are bitches. :P
I never thought people would treat dogs as grown-up, mature humans… especially when they don’t seem to be mature themselves. Yes, the physical difference means there’s a intellectual difference between our species as well! Have I ever mentioned that I wanted to go to the best school I could get into because of stories like your last few ones?