#(but i also think attack dogs are bad)

[kangals]

one of the houses I walk past on my evening dog walk route has 3 (possibly 4) Bernese mountain dogs and 1 golden retriever. All of them are insanely dog reactive and lose their minds scream-barking and slamming themselves into the windows whenever we walk past. And the people ARE HOME while they do it, like lights on, tv on, cars in the driveway. damn bitch you live like this

[jellypawss]

I hate that I’m becoming antipitbull…THREEE of my family/friends in the past few months have been attacked by pitbulls and my cousin had half her face ripped off by one.

I get that it’s an owner issue but also I think your average person shouldn’t be able to own one. They can become dangerous so damn quick.

Also! I used to foster them and their prey drive is insane, even as puppies.

They were bred for aggression and they should be be owned by people who have licenses and proper training ONLY.

[orcelito]

Shino raising his dead friends and friend's dog from the dead with the power of bugs as one friend's cousin watches [not clickbait]

[zebrafiz]

my face after looking at all the dog breeds in cas and seeing 5758493748593 doodles but no belgian malinois

[fragglerockopinions]

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[general-george-washington]

I understand defensively, like personal protection dogs and such but I do think that breeding a dog to be human aggressive is a very very bad idea

[mintaikk]

I love how everyone has that defining moment in their childhood when they first realized/saw that the opposite sex has different looking genitals. I never had that moment because no one in my preschool knew how to shut the God damn doors when pissing

[danceintheskies]

darkest dungeon is sooooo fun I'm so bad at it but it's so fun

[vamptastic]

two different times in middle school a (undiagnosed autistic) guy gave me a stuffed animal to profess his undying love and my friends were all like ew no he's weird don't take it but i had such a weakness for stuffed animals that i didn't care if it smelled like cigarette smoke and came with a guy following me to class for two months. in hindsight i do not regret these decisions.

[bunny-ears-and-bearpaws]

So my piece of shit racist, transphobic homophobic, abelist, abusive ass mother got married. And she thinks she's a viking. Please make fun of her

Like, its giving:

[windrunner]

head in my hands. i am 23 i should not be like this i need to be hit in the head with a shovel

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

vent post. There are two stories i was told in my teenage years that even before i had a real concept of trans issues made me uninterested in discussing the supposed sacredness and safety of separated sex-based spaces.

First, when i was like 13 or 14 my PE teacher told us about a time she went to a women's public restroom, some guy was hanging out outside the bathrooms, she didn't think anything of it, went to the bathroom, and he walked in after her and like, creeped on her over the top of the stall. She was ok, she wasn't telling us this to scare us, just telling us what to do in situations like that (and iirc she was telling the whole co-ed class this, not just girls, bc it's useful for everyone), but this taught me immediately and forever that there's nothing actually keeping these spaces separate really, that anyone can be a creep in any space, and that establishing a space like that as for women only isn't actually particularly useful for safety.

Second, when i was 16 i was at an anime convention, a friendly acquaintance of mine and i ended up in conversation outside, and he showed me his bare wrist and told me he'd been kicked out. A female friend of his had stepped in dog poop outside, and between that and the stress of the convention she'd had a bit of an emotional breakdown, so being her friend, he started comforting her and ushered her into the women's restroom so they could wash the poop off her shoe together. And because he was a man who went into the women's bathroom, he got kicked out, no matter that he was doing something that was actually beneficial to a woman. Punishing a woman's friend for supporting her was supposed to... protect her somehow? This made it clear to me that a no-exceptions rule separating the sexes like that wasn't actually inherently good for everyone.

And this isn't even getting into me as a child needing to accompany my younger sister to the restroom when we were out with just my dad because she had certain support needs past the age he felt comfortable bringing her into the men's room with him. And what if I'd been born a boy, or she'd been the first born? Who's helping her then?

And of course even putting all this aside, we should always prioritize compassion and support anyway. But i never even needed to meet a trans person to know that "keeping men out of women's bathrooms" is silly nonsense. But trans people also need to pee anyway and as humans they have that right, so leave them the fuck alone. your precious women's restroom is just a fucking room with a door, holy shit give it a fucking rest, if someone is attacking you in the bathroom that's bad and if someone is in there to pee that's good and it doesn't fucking matter what their junk is or was when they were born.

a woman could have done the exact same thing to my PE teacher and it would have also been bad no matter how "supposed" to be in the restroom she was, and no one should ever be punished for helping a crying friend wash their shoe.

Anyway i know I'm speaking to like-minded folks here, i just think about those two stories literally every time bathroom gender shit comes up and it pisses me off.

[awkward-teabag]

I've seen so many people say a dog they don't like is a pit bull or pit mix. I've also seen shelters straight up lie about what breed a dog is if it has any pit bull in it because there's such a stigma about them.

People also cherry pick bite statistics to fit their view of dog breeds. I used to work with reactive dogs and dogs with a bite history and it was golden retrievers and similar family dogs that were the ones to be most wary of. They're much more common, people think they're fine, and leave children alone with them because "they wouldn't hurt them!"

Throw in how reporting that the family dog attacked someone and you have people lying about the dog and circumstances so they don't have to deal with the fact they own a dangerous dog or are forced to euthanize the family dog.

Small dogs bit a lot, too, but because small dog bites don't typically land people in hospital and small dogs' fear and aggression gets laughed off, it's not recorded.

Not that pit bulls can't bite, but any dog can do that. Instead of relying on breed, look at the behavior, the owner, and the circumstances. Also do some basic learning on dog behavior 'cause dogs are really good at communicating how they're feeling and give copious warnings before they resort to breaking skin. Typically the only time they don't is when they've been abused, were weaned way too young, or punished for giving any sort of warning. It has nothing to do with breed and everything to do with their experiences and owner(s).

It's also a major risk to leave an infant/toddler/small child alone with any dog regardless of breed. Don't do that. Ever.

re: the pit bull post: I've found that the Great Pit Bull Debate is an excellent way to find out who understands the limitations of statistics and who doesn't. Like oh, you found a stat saying pitties bite more? And how did they verify the breed of each dog hmmm? How did they account for mixes? Oh I see they just went off of untrained visual IDs with zero genetic confirmation and then failed to mention that other studies have shown that even with training people are really bad at visually IDing dog breeds? Interesting....

and most importantly: a lot of those statistics are originally recorded by cops responding to the bite incident

[ex-furry]

hiiii i don't think i've seen you on my dash in a long time but wanted to say i hope you're doing well

hiiiiii ty this is so sweet 💓 i've been doing pretty well, just focusing on getting my new cat acclimated to our house and the dog (queen has conjunctivitis though 💔). for some reason i stopped scrolling tumblr around the time i was having panic attacks that felt like heart attacks and didn't even start again once i was put on propranolol. ptsd brain has been bad recently too but we push through 💪

i haven't been online though and i want to be included and say. you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum(s) where they raised me

[waywardsalt]

mmmmm

[the-travelling-witch]

OH MY GOD HOLLY UR KITTEN WHISKERS IS ADORABLE!! Rest in peace I’m sorry she passed, but my goodness I love those cats with the folded short ears

She was truly adorable

she really was adorable!! also she wasn’t actually a folder short ear (hence no folded ears) but a british shorthair!!

i’m not a fan of pets being bred in a way that borders animal abuse and i’d never get a pet like that; so no cats with pushed in noses or pugs that can’t breathe