The Picard ManeuverJust another normal day
☂️-do regular dogs go all like ‘o shit its the cops’ when they see a police dog?
steboDon’t do anything illegal don’t do anything illegal don’t do anything illegal SQUIRREL!! Ah crap I did it again…
cm0002Violations of the Dog-Squirrel treaty of 2014 is no laughing matter
edgemaster72That treaty is a sham and everyone knows it. The squirrels had no right to annex Caninea.
That treaty ended a hundred year war! So what if the Squirrels took Caninea, nobody thought they’d even come to the negotiating table after the Canines glassed Squirrelandia
look, its complicated. RATO presence in the region keeps tensions high, everybody knows squirrel borders are pretty hard to defend.
toynbeeYou messed with the squirrels, Morty!
SuperNovaStarI don’t expect dogs have much of a conception of “cops.” They might see them as generic authority figures though.
Protest dogs are pretty good at recognizing cops vs protesters. Better than people sometimes.
Long live the memory of Negro Matapacos, greatest of allies.
TropicalDingdongBrother, I don’t understand elevators.
Box goes up and down, takes you with.
should be an insane clown posse lyric
Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work?
jqubedMy dog definitely knows it’s moving and she hates it.
grysbokSame. He shivers. I think he hates glass elevators more than standard elevators.
The only acceptable elevator was in our old apartment. It meant he didn’t have to do stairs. Nowadays, his old bones get carried up stairs anyways.
I don’t think we’ve ever had her in a glass elevator. I’m not sure if she’d hate it more or less. What she hates the most is in Canada a lot of the hotels have a kind of grate/rug thing at the main entrance. I’ve seen them in America too but I think the Canadian ones are deeper, probably with an actual drain to better handle snow coming off shoes in the winter. They often move when you walk on them and she will not walk on them anymore. She’ll either try to go around or fully leap over it in desperation. It’s like she thinks it’s a trapdoor.
I hate the elevator at work. The building has two elevators from the 70s and at last one of them is usually broken. Once it’s repaired the other one breaks. Both of them make strange noises and vibrations if you ride them…
I’ve seen pretty a dump dog understand elevators well enough to run down the stairs to follow someone that had just gotten into an evelator.
CatoblepasThey can probably hear much more clearly than we can that it’s a box moving around on rails in a giant echo tube.
Dogs do have a concept of gravity, they can feel the movement of the floor.
Sidenote, but most elevators don’t use a rail to move (although might use one for stability plus something to apply emergency brakes against), it’s usually wires lifting them
do dogs ever get anything?
Treats and pets.
wait wait, they’re called pets because you pet them?
Idk man, pick one.
Some animals are truly more equal than others. Years ago we had a really smart horse. (And those of you who have been around horses much do know what an oxymoron that is.)
So this cat moves in. She was one of those that just moved in, no chip and no other luck finding her home. And she was pregnant and made a little nest and had her kittens.
And the smart cookie of a mare that I began this with made sure that we knew where the kittens were.
Then there’s the normal horse experience where there’s been a rock close to road for years. Then on one random occasion the rock is an apex predator.
I didn’t understand that last paragraph.
What did the horse do to let you know about the kittens?
On the last paragraph: it is quite common for a horse to be perfectly comfortable on a particular route. Be it from stable to field or on regular riding track. And after half a decade something that has always been there is just unbearably scary for them. A rock, a fence post, a post box, literally anything.
And on those kittens - horses are quite elaborate on their body language. That cat had made her nest behind the wall of said horses stall. Behind that stall was an area mostly relegated to tools - wheelbarrows and shovels and such. Said mare was also extremely interested in food, when something is more important than evening meal it raises eyebrows. First thing that comes in mind on situation like that is illness.
But that time she was clearly healthy and happy. Every time we’d get close by she was neighing and pointing with with her head. And sure enough, there was a nest behind the wall and sure enough the cat and those kittens needed a bit of help.
I know there is dogs that understand how to use the subway, which is basically a horizontal elevator.
Also birds!
There was a Fraggle Rock sketch about this with the Explorer guy
Speaking of which can you watch fraggle rock anywhere today? No? Ok fuck Disney 🏴☠️
You make me want to watch Fraggle Rock again.
Apparently it’s on Apple TV+ and they made new seasons.
Or, you can find it the other way…
People have to stop acting like animals are the stupidest most thoughtless creatures.
Yeah, most dogs probably understand it perfectly fine because it isn’t a great mystery. They go in a room, they feel the acceleration, they feel the deceleration, they go out.
Sure, first time they are probably confused, but they are not completely oblivious to the world around them.
Also, yeah, this post is funny
Tbf people act like people are the stupidest creatures too. Especially historically speaking.
“How in the world could these complete and utter dumbasses figure out how to build giant piles of dirt in a specific shape? It must be aliens cause there is simply no way those idiots could figure that out on their own.”
Idk if it’s just a trope, but there are allegedly people so into the conspiracy wondering if they were built from the ground up or the tip down. 😅
They actually started from a corner
But which corner? Maybe it was the top corner 🤣
I think the idea the pyramids were build from the top is a joke playing of the things said by conspiracy theorists.
Oh, I saw it in a 4 hour long debunking documentary in potato quality on YT, but I do remember seeing the image.
They were built from the top down. From the top waaaay waay down.
Each one has two round chambers at its base nearly 2km below the surface.
Especially if these people had a skin color any shade darker than white
There is obviously a lot of questions on how but I think the more interesting angle is why? Yeah humans at any stage in life could probably figure out how to stack these massive stones to create a few hundred meter tall structure. But the effort involved to do so must have needed some extraordinary reason, especially when you learn that the quarry they mined the stones from was 100s of kilometers away.
For the same reasons humans have done things throughout history. Worship, art, glory, vanity
baltakateiIn a few centuries, provided we don’t nuke ourselves into squiggles in sandstone, I look forward to personhood being extended to our canine, feline, bovine, equine, avian, reptilian, marsupial slaves and neighbors. It seems absurd that homo Sapiens is the only species with interesting stories to tell.
Non-avian reptiles have very little going on in there with very few exceptions. Dogs, some corvids, some parrots, pigs, cetaceans, apes, maybe octopuses, and probably more but that’s the spread that comes to mind: I can see “personhood” being applied. I love animals but I’m drawing a line and the average cat isn’t on the same side as me and they’re well above average in terms of reasoning and emotional capacity. Something can have personality without being a person.
Dolohins are the only ones I’m nearly 100% certain they have some kind of sapients. Probably some octopodes too but that will likely be completely alien.
Ive seen dogs get scared of their own farts…
I’ve woken myself from deep sleep with my own farts?
Not really saying much, I’ve seen adults do the same
Considering how almost unbelievably stupid some adults can be I think my point still stands lol
All i’m saying is that dogs are not generally completely stupid, just like humans aren’t. Both groups have the extreme idiots
tetris11Dogs understand elevators.
I don’t believe any of the 3 dogs I’ve had were ever in an elevator. Never thought about that before.
But while vacationing on Maui for a few weeks, toward the end my 4-yo daughter asked, “When are we going back to the real world?”
I hope you told her that consensus reality is a social construct and the real world doesn’t exist outside of being an agreement by society to promote certain values and interpretations.
Well of course I did, whaddya think I am, some kinda idjit?
I was at a festival years ago. A couple was sat next to me with a dog that looked like a German Shepherd cross that was clearly on edge, looking around at the crowd walking by. Then a guy with a kid on his shoulders came near. All you could see at first was the guys shoulders and the kid’s head above his. You couldn’t see the kid’s legs because the guy had his arms wrapped around them. The dog jumped up and started barking its head off at them. Until they got to the point where you could see them side on. As soon as the dog realised what was going on it immediately stopped barking and sat back down. I’ve often wondered what that dog thought was going on at first.
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