Training a dog doesn’t need to be a painful or frustrat…
Our Duty - shepherds in the future
walking the path of acceleration means sticking together
Our Duty - shepherds in the future - sneptech writings
walking the path of acceleration means sticking together
On the virtues of eating dog food - in limited quantities
I've been fairly clear at various points that a big part of the reason I wrote Jacquard in the first place was because I was trying to write something else, ...
An Open Letter to the Female Hat-Wearing Dog From “Go Dog, Go” – The Ugly Volvo
I bought your book to help my son learn prepositions and adjectives and was, from the first read, inexorably drawn in by your heart-wrenching struggle for approval. Momentarily distracted by the humdrum parade of big dogs, little dogs, black and white dogs, I watched as you walked in, brimming with joy and confidence, and looked on as some total nobody, indistinguishable from most of the other dogs in this book, crushed you with his subtle rejection.
教官 中つ国Wiki & 野良犬の塒 (@drillmaster.bsky.social)
押井守ファンサイト『野良犬の塒』管理人にして『指輪物語』などのJ.R.R.トールキン作品を扱う中つ国Wiki管理人。退役したアニメ書籍系ライター。『ぼっち・ざ・ろっく！』とか『青ブタ』とか好き。軍事ネタとか宇宙物理学その他色々雑食。試験運用中
On Friday Deploys: Sometimes that Puppy Needs Murdering (xpost)
(Cross posted from its original source) ‘Tis the season that one of my favorite blog posts gets pulled out and put in rotation, much like “White Christmas” on the radio station. I’m speaking, of co…
教官 押井守情報サイト管理人 (@straydogs_roost) on X
趣味で非公式・押井守監督情報サイト『野良犬の塒』運営。サイト更新情報のほか軍事、天文宇宙物理学など個人的趣味についていい加減にツイート。元アニメ・ゲーム関係のライター。 note https://t.co/xUVY7jNm5K note質問箱 https://t.co/o0KkT69yk4
Shaggy dog story
In its original sense, a shaggy-dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax. In other words, it is a long story that is intended to be amusing and that has an intentionally silly or meaningless ending.[1]
The Indian street dog crisis and multispecies coexistence in tropical urban futures
Cities in the Global South struggle with human–animal coexistence conundrums. For example, in South Asia, old and new collide: people raise livestock informally and feed free-ranging animals within heterogeneously developed, juxtaposed patches, while digital economies boom amid threats from waste piles linked with zoonotic diseases and conflicts. This is exemplified by the free-ranging dog crises in India. Humanity’s oldest companion now suffers between compassion and rising conflicts. Dogs still scavenge, guard, breed, disperse and die on streets shaped by traffic, garbage, ritual feeding and uneven care. Indian courts, attempting to address the problems, have overlooked the root cause—food subsidies. Sterilization, shelters, fencing or removals cannot succeed when urban landscapes provide food subsidies to animals without corresponding responsibility. Episodes of reactive management must yield to urban planning, acknowledging that multispecies communities in shared living spaces are complex and interconnected. Here, I suggest making compassion accountable to public health, animal well-being and urban ecology.
Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets
A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we’re providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there’s another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as powerful: guilt. When we see our cats gazing wistfully out the window, or watch a goldfish swim lazy circles in a bowl, we can’t help but wonder: are we doing the right thing, keeping these independent beings locked up, subject to our control? Is keeping pets actually good for the pets themselves? That’s the question that animates Jessica Pierce’s powerful Run, Spot, Run. A lover of pets herself (including, over the years, dogs, cats, fish, rats, hermit crabs, and more), Pierce understands the joys that pets bring us. But she also refuses to deny the ambiguous ethics at the heart of the relationship, and through a mix of personal stories, philosophical reflections, and scientifically informed analyses of animal behavior and natural history, she puts pet-keeping to the test. Is it ethical to keep pets at all? Are some species more suited to the relationship than others? Are there species one should never attempt to own? And are there ways that we can improve our pets’ lives, so that we can be confident that we are giving them as much as they give us? Deeply empathetic, yet rigorous and unflinching in her thinking, Pierce has written a book that is sure to help any pet owner, unsettling assumptions but also giving them the knowledge to build deeper, better relationships with the animals with whom they’ve chosen to share their lives.
Convention leaders find out that lying to cover up a PR problem makes a bigger PR problem. #MephitZooGate dogpatch.press/2026/06/29/anthroverse-resign…
Anthroverse Vice Chair forced to resign, retract false claims in Mephit Furmeet zoophile coverup.
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