For the record, the Stephen ‘RedSteeze’ Miller referenced below is not the Trump admin one — he’s just another extremely right-wing creep who’s been unable to leverage his notoriety beyond a podcast and op-eds at the usual Wingnut Wurlitzer outlets. The Matt Walsh referenced further down writes for Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire, which got its own Wikipedia entry. It’s a**holes all the way down, folks!
"the people who care deeply about these animals and want the best for them didn't like me as much as the people who breed them for profit" is one fucking hell of a self-own.
— professional cancellation arbitration machine (@golikehellmachi) March 17, 2021
"people who spent thirty minutes alone in a room with me and a dog decided that they were not comfortable with me having a dog, so i bought one instead from someone who didn't care" is just, like, jesus christ, dude
— professional cancellation arbitration machine (@golikehellmachi) March 17, 2021
i can never tell if these guys talk like this because they crave to use this kind of language but get banned from using it in the contexts they really want, or if they are genuinely this off puttingly weird about everything https://t.co/9fbN4HRIWP
— meme based in-joke (@MenshevikM) March 18, 2021
ahahahahahahahaha joe biden has just snapped these people in half like toothpicks in under 60 days https://t.co/9QK5OQXjzv
— kilgore trout, ted’s travel agent (@KT_So_It_Goes) March 18, 2021
it's going to be four years of these fucking losers yelling into webcams about how joe biden's an evil communist america hater because he gave you money and loves dogs and ice cream and the fourth of july https://t.co/bupEOdYkH7
— professional cancellation arbitration machine (@golikehellmachi) March 18, 2021
JOE KNOWS BETTER!
I’m really fucking glad the media is focused on the important issues. ?? https://t.co/TRvt5jrWCo
— Villain of the Highest Order ???????? (@SJGrunewald) March 17, 2021
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Eljai
I just want to say that I stand with Major. He is a very good boy.
AJ
got the vax today, so freakin grateful
Mary G
I love how honest he is – 85% of the WH people like Major. Can you imagine how ballistic TFG would’ve gone if one of his people said that about anything of his?
Also:
Omnes Omnibus
What are the odds that the Frenchie eats Miller’s shoes? One of each. Dogs know.
Martin
Dogs are tricky. Our old dog loved everyone and everything. We tried a rescue a few months back that would pretty violently attack me if I got within 6 feet of my wife – we just couldn’t make it work.
I have to assume the WH would be a very challenging environment for a dog to adapt to. Takes time.
Martin
@AJ: I’ve been eligible for a few weeks but was holding off as there really are people who need it more than I do, but my HMO contacted me today for an appt, so I didn’t say no. First shot 3/30.
Alison Rose
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m hoping more for “poops in his shoes and he doesn’t notice till he puts one on”
Omnes Omnibus
@Alison Rose: I understand and sympathize with your view, but it seems more cat-like than a French bulldog is attempt.
Major Major Major Major
I gotta say, I love dogs, but it wasn’t until I got a cat that I realized just how much dogs smell.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Litter boxes. Just saying.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am not sure where my grammar went.
Emma
From what I understand, French bulldogs also have quite a problem with lung and spine issues. The odds that a creep like this would dump their dog rather than treat them are quite high. Grrrr.
Starboard Tack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I hope the bulldog doesn’t get his fleas.
Poe Larity
Major could always have pups and we could have Major Major.
What happened to our local Major Major?
oh, see he showed up
HumboldtBlue
I think we all stand with Major.
Geoduck
@Martin: I was borderline with my state’s eligibility, but went ahead and got my first shot because I looked at the schedule at the local mass drive-in site, and there was a slot open in half an hour. I figured everyone had had their chance.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: Madame has her apt on Tuesday for the J&J jab.
For me, “You’ll just have to wait.”
Ruckus
@Mary G:
That is freaking hilarious.
Starboard Tack
@Major Major Major Major:
And worse when they’re wet!!
Eljai
@Major Major Major Major: I used to house sit for my friend who had a dog and a cat who both liked to sleep in bed with me. There is a big difference between a 10 lb cat and an 85 lb dog and this is me agreeing with you.
Matt McIrvin
I’m old enough to remember when people were claiming that Republicans were the dog loving party and Democrats all had cats and this was somehow psychologically significant in ways that made Republicans superior.
Also the GWB-era slurs about how there was something wrong with people in certain countries because they didn’t like dogs.
JoyceH
@Major Major Major Major:
Not the northern breeds. I was walking my Samoyed once and some guy stopped to pet her, and said, “NO dog odor! None at all!” They will pick up odors, like dead leaves and mud and something awful to roll in, but they don’t generate their own odor.
The hound breeds are the stinkiest. Just sayin’.
karen marie
@JoyceH: I don’t know about hounds but spaniels get rank pretty quick. Mine needs a bath every two weeks.
Republicans openly admiring the Russian president, hating dogs. I am going to be surprised if next they don’t start condemning apple pie.
Amir Khalid
How on earth does a thing like this happen?
Martin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I would have continued to wait, but my entire motivation was to keep things moving smoothly, so if my insurer want to fill slots, I’ll fill slots.
Dan B
@JoyceH: When I lived in Tacoma we had a White Shepherd we bred with a Samoyed. The pups were amazing. They were all adopted out and a year later I ran into two of them who clearly remembered me and a friend. They were the most glorious dogs by every measure – personality, beauty, intelligence, and mild odor. I’m amazed there doesn’t seem to be a breeding program developed.
And did I mention they were calm and engaged in what was happening in their environment
And the White Shepherd, who belonged to my partner, a former Jesuit Priest, was named Honky. It was a different time.
Jay
@Starboard Tack:
Srry, love the wet dog smell,
Road trips, us kids in sleeping bags on a musty tick mattress, wet Lab, Vista Cruiser, mountains out the windows.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Omnes Omnibus: You didn’t ask for this, but I’ll put my 2 cents in any way: If you use Feline Pine litter, there is no cat box smell. The pine sawdust neutralizes the ammonia in the urine somehow. It’s amazing.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Emma: What creeps me out about French Bulldogs is they can’t give birth normally. Puppies have to be delivered via C-section.
ETA: I just Googled them and they also require artificial insemination! Poor things. They clearly have been ruined by breeders.
Jay
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
pine pellets for pellet stoves are exactly the same and about $4 cheaper.
Flushable, compostable, and have used them for the last 30 years.
If you can smell urine, you have left it to long.
Easy to transition cats to as well, half their old litter for a couple of boxes, the 1/4, then full pine pellets.
Don’t get the mesquite or hardwoods.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Major Major Major Major: Cats wash themselves :-) The only problem can be hairballs with long-haired cats.
Dan B
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan): Feline Pine has its limits. The litter box was my price for having two cats. My partner has no sense of smell, well, he imagines smells, but the big orange temple lion does. He demands to be let out when the box is a horror.
But it does do a better job by a logarithmic leap.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Jay: Isn’t it wonderful? And instead of ending up with “nuclear waste” as with normal (clay-based) cat litter, you have a mulch with nitrogen added you can put around trees etc.
Jay
@Dan B:
cats get used to “the standard”.
if it’s pristine every day, that will be what they expect,
they used to be Gods once upon a time,…….
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Dan B: You have to change it before all the pellets break down into sawdust. This disappoints my cats, who like the sawdust state better, but life is hard for everyone.
ETA: several years ago, FP was off the market for a few months while they were reworking the packaging. I had to use other litters and OMG the smell after just a day or so. I had mercifully forgotten.
Stuart Frasier
@Amir Khalid: Someone making bunk pills or the authorities mistaking fake drugs for real ones?
Jay
@A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):
Made the mistake of mulching raspberry bushes with it.
5 families and a dog that would pick them off the stem, couldn’t keep up.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Jay: :-)
JoyceH
Don’t know if this thread is still alive but need to contribute to the cat litter discussion. I’ve used Feline Pine for years, it’s awesome. But I inherited a cat that I knew had Issues with inappropriate peeing. Since I’ve had her, she’s peed on the bed several times, a room corner, the laundry room floor. Well, I know she particularly likes to pee on fabric, so I gave her her own litter box with an old towel in it. No litter, just the towel. She loves it! I change the towel every few days (these are towels that are now specifically for her litter box) and she hasn’t done a wrong pee since.
NorthLeft12
Got the AZ vaccine on Thursday, and yes, my arm is sore along with other parts of my body. But that is great news!
My wife organized and motivated us to receive the shots in Windsor [about a two hour drive from here] under an Ontario pilot program that is for sixty to sixty-four year olds. Injection given at a pharmacy.
It’s nice to finally have a government that appreciates the value of the people born between 1956 and 1960. j/k
Booger
@Jay: Aren’t the mesquite/hardwood ones just used for smoking…I mean, not smoking like tobacco, but like for smoking meats…I mean, not cat meat…nevermind.
Ned F.
I think Matt Walsh may be a smelly beast and belong outside, he’s just projecting.
The adoption refusal reminds me of the characters in the Andy Carpenter series of dog-themed books by David Rosenfelt. I’ve read them all, he can’t write them fast enough.
Mary Ellen Sandahl
Ditto on the Feline Pine – and thanks for the budget tip on nuggets for wood burning stoves.
On dog odor – I am mom to a puggle (half pug, half beagle) rescue who is invariably sweet-smelling, dry or wet.
Allowing for the fact that people often have very individual smell reactions, I wonder if some of the doggy smell people complain of might be diet related? Our Benny gets Taste o’ the Wild grain-free kibble, pan-broiled poultry meat, and – I admit this is weird – side orders of (mostly grain-free) canned cat food. He won’t look at canned dog food of any type. Our cat Jingle is his much-revered mentor. If Jingle likes it, he feels, it’s got to be good. Plus crudite veg bits at dinner and a marrow bone for his teeth.
Spoiled? Never! Eccentric? definitely. Benny had a very rough puppyhood, and it’s taken a while to set him more or less comfy with the world. I’m very worried about that Miller guy’s Frenchie.
The Moar You Know
Dogs only smell if you’re not keeping up on your job as an owner; brushing daily or multiple times daily, washing, teeth brushing (never fun) keeping the environment clean. They are a lot of work. As a previous cat owner, this was the hardest part about becoming a dog owner.
As far as the rescue thing, well, I was turned down for a dog by a rescue from which we adopted from before. Sometimes they don’t think you’re a good fit for that dog. Sometimes they don’t think the dog will be a good fit for you. Sometimes the rescue people are wacko judgy dog hoarders. Rare but I know a couple locally. Sometimes…well, there’s people out there who just shouldn’t have dogs. Reads like Mr. Miller might fall into the latter category.
The asshole who says dogs should never be kept inside is a dog abuser. That’s literally akin to keeping your kids outside, making them sleep outside. Psychologically and physically devastating.
Leslie
Weird blog-behavior report: I couldn’t get this post to load fully by clicking the “show full post on front page” text. I tried several times, and the text … blinked? … I don’t know the proper technical term, obviously, but did whatever-you-call-it to indicate that it had registered my touch, but nothing else happened. Clicking on the “post + comments” button at the end worked. This is in the Safari browser on an iPad.
karen marie
@Leslie: Same thing happened to me with this post. I tapped the post title to finally see the whole thing.
ziggy
Yep, that’s it. My dog is fed totally raw, and he has only a very pleasant (like a baby!) smell if you put your head in his fur. He very rarely gets brushed, and only gets a bath when he rolls in something. Most dog food is garbage (cheap leftovers from manufacturing other foods).
billcinsd
@karen marie: This happened to me, too
Miss Bianca
@JoyceH: Yep – my Huskies never smelled like anything worse than, say, lanolin – unless they got skunked.
My little lab/pitbull mix, OTOH, can get seriously funky on occasion. Not sure what triggers it.
dopealope
I have to agree about a lot of these animal rescue services. When my beloved Thai Cat, Kaffir (who came from a local animal shelter), passed away, I decided to get another rescue Siamese. I contacted a boat load of rescue operations along the west coast and filled in half a dozen or so applications. I did at least four separate phone interviews. Each time, the volunteers treated me like I was trying to pull something over on them to get one of the cats. It was extremely frustrating. They seemed to want not to send their cats to new homes. After 6 months, I gave up and contacted a breeder. The same exact thing happened when our GSD passed away. Same drill and eventually bought from a breeder.
I don’t know how much more ideal our home could be for companion pets. Both my wife and I are home all day, we life on a large property that is totally fenced, the cat never goes outside, we take our companions to the Vet regularly and there are more pet toys around here than books, which is saying a lot.
Although I’ll probably get dinged for saying so, it’s my opinion that many of these so-called rescue operations are just fronts for animal hoarders. Not all, but many …
something fabulous
@Jay: Also if you have access to such a thing, it’s the same as horse bedding! Much cheaper that way, too.
something fabulous
My weird behavior report (not mine but the site’s!): tried to reply to Jay about pellets and– poof! into the ether! Wonder if a non-reply will post? testing testing…
ETA: huh, here it is but still no sign of the earlier reply one?
something fabulous
@dopealope:
Yes there are certainly weirdos in rescue, and since COVID is exacerbated by the rush of adoptions which have ensued with so many people being home so much more; there is suddenly way more demand than ever.
But! Also in my experience, people who are looking for a specific breed do often generally have to look longer, get “turned down” more: fewer choices, with more people asking for them. One can search for breed-specific cat and dog rescues (I have a friend who only gets Corgis for example, and only from rescues) but they often require expanding your geographic search base, sometimes by quite a lot! Just a note for others who might still be experiencing that issue.
Clarissa
@JoyceH: have you had your cat checked for crystals in her urine? Cats who have that health problem pee on soft cloth because they are in pain. Talk to your vet, you may need to give your cat special prescription food. My family is on our third cat with this problem.
WaterGirl
@something fabulous: Your other reply went into SPAM. I just released it.
joe
@Omnes Omnibus:
ding ding ding. and then tracking it all over your countertops and everywhere else they climb.