• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Dogs have been both domesticated, and domesticating us for over 150,000 years. Horses are one of the “Johnny come Lately” species that we domesticated in the last 12,000-15,000 years. Then there are cats, who never domesticated, they just tamed us.

    Dogs are man’s best friend, not only because we MADE THEM, but because they made us better right back, and have been there for the longest of hauls.

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      12 hours ago

      made us better:

      neighbour’s dog bites girl delivering newspaper and they just drag the dog in, lock the door, and don’t respond. police say they can’t do anything.

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works
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        11 hours ago

        There’s a difference between generalisations and single specific examples. You can’t really compare between the two even within the same context

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          This literally happened 2 houses down from my childhood home. And I’m the moron…

          I expected the dog worshippers/owner apologists though. People defended the dog and the owners at the time too, but the school parents association led to them being shunned by the whole neighborhood until facebook had existed long enough to be a maga/conspiracy/etc echo chamber then they became full of themselves but the dog died by then and the friends of the girl that got bitten tp’d and silly stringed their house for years.