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@honestly-mendacious-me
I Won’t Say I’m in Love: *Plays*
Me: *AGGRESSIVELY TRIES TO SING THE PART OF THE MUSES AND MEGARA AT THE SAME TIME*
#wwwoooaaaaah no chance no way i won’t say it oh no–YOUSWOONYOUSIGH WHY DENY IT UHOH–#IT'STOOCLICHE I WON’T SAY I’M IN LOOOOVE (x)
No they love it
Do you know if they love or hate them, @why-animals-do-the-thing?
As a dog trainer, I can tell you that probably 50% of dogs really don’t like hugs and at least another 48% pretty much just tolerate them. Very few dogs I know genuinely like hugs the way humans tend to give them. What’s funny is that the picture that Fox used with this headline is one of the more common ways dogs do enjoy contact that humans would consider a hug.
Stanley Coren - the dude who wrote the article that is pissing everyone off about this - really does know what he’s talking about. He wrote one o my favorite books, called how to speak dog, which has some absolutely beautiful diagrams of dog behavior and body language along the gamut of extreme situations.
The way humans hug dogs is often really uncomfortable for them. We lean over them and trap them (think how many dogs we already know are spooky when you loom over them, but are fine if you get down to their level), and then we restrict their ability to move and shove our faces close to theirs. That’s not fun. Keep in mind that most dogs have personal space bubbles that are larger than we tend to think, and now you’re not only invading it, you’re making it so they can’t move or defend themselves if something happens.
Look at this photo from a couple years ago. Avalanche is probably the most tolerant dog I know of things that press his physical boundaries - he lets little kids do things to him that make me cringe and doesn’t even seem to notice half the time. This was right before I had to head back to college and I knew I wouldn’t see him for another 6 months, so I hugged him because sappy human emotions. I have an amazing relationship with this dog, and look at his body language. He’s kinda stiff, his face is a little tense, and the corners of his mouth are pulled back a little. All in all, he’s supremely un-enthused but he’s letting me do it. After about five seconds, he huffed out the sigh he uses to let me know when he’s done with the hug, and then pulled back and shook off.
Most dogs learn to tolerate hugs because we do it to them so often. It’s pretty much a kind of learned helplessness, plus, they like us and so they put up with our stupid human behavior. When you hug most dogs, you’ll notice they get kinda stiff, they look away or at other humans for help, you’ll see side-eyes or look-aways (not whale eye). Often they’ll distract you by doing something else like pawing at you, or licking your face as an appeasement signal. They’re all signs of discomfort that we already routinely ignore when we deal with our dogs, so it makes sense that people think their dogs are fine with it - they’re just still not listening.
More often, you’ll get dogs that will crawl up your chest when you sit and put their paws on your shoulders. Sometimes their face is close to yours, sometimes it’s on your shoulder. In that position - which they often initiate - they ca easily withdraw and get away if necessary and they’re not trapped or being leaned over. It’s not really a hug, just close contact, but I think it’s about as close as humans are going to get to one that a dog will enjoy.
@tealviola
This is why it’s so important not to anthropomorphize your pets and actually take the time to learn THEIR body language and natural behaviors.
And if y'all take the time to learn this, you’ll find most dogs have their own ways of showing affection that are equivalent to hugs. My dog doesn’t like to be held tight but she does come up beside you and press her head against your body and lean against you and that’s basically her version of a hug. She’s nervous and doesn’t like to be forced into any interaction but she will sometimes come and snuggle her head in my lap just because she wants to. And if you force interactions and hugs and cuddling with your pet, you’ll miss out on those particular shows of affection that they offer on their own which are way way more special than a forced hug.
Our love is God, let’s go get a slushie.
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ALRIGHT SO I went ahead and googled “unsolved historical mysteries” for Vampire humor, but I ended up getting too deep into historical conspiracy sites, as you do.
Anyway, I found out about this event called “The Devil’s Footprints.” Apparently, in 1855, a bunch of people in Devon woke up to discover 40 miles of “hoof-like” footprints in a single line made in the snow.
It was reported that “some strange and mysterious animal endowed with the power of ubiquity” had apparently made them in the night.
They even found the tracks on top of houses and in people’s gardens.
As always, everyone freaked out, dismissed it, or tried to find an explanation.
As funny as it is to imagine an incredibly dedicated supernatural creature with a cloven-hoofed pogo-stick manifesting physically for a 40-mile trek to parts unknown, I have to say I love the theories from the time even more.
Mike Dash, now officially a hero in my book, suggested that “hopping mice” made the tracks. Apparently, the dashed tracks of jumping mice would resemble hoof-prints. I’m still waiting to hear why mice would have been jumping forty miles through deep snow overnight, but I think my window to ask good old Mike closed a century or two ago.
Well-meaning Reverend Musgrave made up a story about escaped Kangaroos to calm down the good people afraid of God and The Devil. He later confessed to having made it up. I’m sure everyone in Britain in February was SHOCKED to find out Kangaroos weren’t actually running marathons by light of the moon.
Someone suggested a badger. Other suggested mass-hysteria, and that forty miles of country folks had simply just imagined or extrapolated the whole thing.
But my ULTIMATE favorite explanation is that an “experimental” balloon simply escaped the Davenport Dockyard with two shackles dragging behind it on a rope. Apparently, it had destroyed some greenhouses and caused other damage on its vie for freedom, so it was all covered up. This theory was put forward by an author, who knew a guy, who had a grandpa who worked at the Dockyard. So that’s a pretty valuable source, if you ask me.
Anyway, it’s never been solved or explained in a way that makes any real sense, and I’m honestly enamored of the whole thing.
Who are you, mystery hooved British snow-cryptid? Where did you come from, where did you go?
I just want everyone to remember that after I made this post, Mike Dash made a tumblr specifically to message me and let me know that he wasn’t born 100 years ago and is in fact still Literally Alive
This haunts me
Some journalists really need to be fired
“McKellen applauded victims for coming forward about sexual harassment saying “it’s sometimes very difficult for victims to do that.” He added, “‘I hope we’re going through a period that will help to eradicate it altogether.””
“‘I assume *nothing but good* will come out of these revelations, even though some people get wrongly accused — there’s that side of it as well,” he said.”
“McKellen also addressed the allegations surrounding Kevin Spacey […] saying that the way he chose to come out was “reprehensible because it linked alleged underage sex with a declaration of sexuality.””
grocery store: *plays some funky 80s song*
my poor mother: please dont
me, immediately dancing in the middle of the aisle:
Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs
jesus that is good to know.
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS
this post just got so much better
THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST
God makes cheetas, god kills cheetas, god makes man, man makes dogs in order to live, man gives dog to cheeta in order for them to live, god is dog backwards
these are basically turning into my video diaries
this video made me laugh so hard I threw up. I woke up my 63 year old mother downstairs, she rushed up to make sure I was okay. it’s gone midnight. i want to watch it again but I’m scared I’ll shit myself next
This is why I love this Zoobe shit. It’s magical.
Issa mood
Sometimes those chip readers are just a little too aggressive.
imagine what victor hugo would say next time you say cosette is only in les mis because they needed a soprano
i made this post literally years ago but i still stand by that cosette is one of the most important characters in les mis and that will be the hill i die on
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you’re so fucking lucky, i keep getting ads about dental implants
i’m a simple lad. i see any post even mentioning karkalicious, i rb only to say some iteration of “shut up” or “fuck off” to op for making me remember it
shut up
wait fuck that’s me
fuck off
“average homosexual sleeps with more than 500 ppl in their life time” factoid actualy just statistical error. average homosexual sleeps with 3 people per year. Homosexuals Georg, who lives in cave & tops over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
wh
where’s the cave
Where’s the cave OP?
Where’s the cave
i love sitting on a sofa with one leg crossed over the other and my arms spread out across the headboard behind me like a young, reckless, 1920s gentleman of ambiguous sexuality, with more money than i know what to do with and an intense weariness of the shallow, hedonistic lifestyle enjoyed by my companions
HERE, HAVE A JOKE IN SPANISH:
“-sabe inglés?
-si
-como se dice ”un zapato” en inglés?
-a shoe
-salud
-gracias”
