I’m white, but I too was super disappointed by Meet the Patels when he ended up with his white ex-girlfriend. I wasn’t watching a show on Indian-American dating just to see him go back to his white ex, what is the point of that??? I’m sure he was probably just still hung up on his ex and that’s why nothing worked out…

Yes, that’s what an adoption advocate means, and my point is that it is not a good policy to assume that adoption is the best dog choice for everyone. Lena Dunham might not have had what it takes to own a dog with behavioral issues. That doesn’t make her a bad person. It might just make her a victim of adoption…

That may be true, but good dog owners can’t always fix dogs that were bad before they got them. That’s what we’re talking about here, and that doesn’t make the rescue vs. shop discussion moot at all. That’s the whole point of this thread.

It’s an unpopular opinion, but I would rather see a dog euthanized than spend its life in a cage in a shelter without a home.

Absolutely. I bought my dogs as puppies in large part because I wanted them to grow up accustomed to my lifestyle, which is going on off leash trail hikes and being around the other dogs in my family (parents’ and sister’s dogs). It’s worked. I don’t know WHAT I’d do if I had a dog that couldn’t do either of those…

I didn’t mean to imply that all dogs from shelters have unknown pasts. I know that’s not true. But many do, and adoption advocates do expect people to choose that option over getting a puppy from a breeder.

I don’t know how to feel about this. The dog did bite her and her partner repeatedly. And shelters lie about dogs’ histories all the time in order to get them adopted. I’m not saying Dunham didn’t do anything wrong, but I’m not prepared to blast her for it. If the dog had issues that she couldn’t deal with (after…

My friend had a benign brain tumor, and the surgery to remove it left her permanently cognitively impaired and disabled. (My dad is a nurse anesthetist, and he theorizes that something must have gone wrong with the anesthesia, which can happen in any surgery, but still. Benign brain tumors can fuck you up.)

I just posted on another thread that I don’t get Zillow. I always go to my local broker’s website, never Zillow, for active listings.

I have lived in fairly small towns the past seven years, so maybe that’s part of it, but I don’t understand the role of Zillow. Or see how it’s cornered the market. I look on local real estate brokerage’s website and find those must more helpful when looking for active real estate listings. To me, Zillow is only…

I don’t think any of us can tell you whether you should be worried because we don’t know you! It sounds like you’re not drinking large quantities, and if you were getting out of control, you’d know. I remember once telling my friend that she didn’t need me to tell her that she had a problem, and she readily agreed.

My good friend is a 33 year-old alcoholic whose drink of choice is white wine. So I am also uncomfortable with the casual references to wine addiction.

YIKES

Martha is still cuter than every single pug that has ever lived. #comeatmebro

We still tease my childhood best friend about looking like Taylor Hanson!

YES. Sadly it is not illegal to ride on the sidewalks in my city.

I hesitate to praise her husband just for being a decent human being, but I’m so happy for her that she was married to such a wonderful, supportive man for so long. I think I cried when they disclosed his death, even though I knew it was coming based on the lack of interviews from him. When she told Jane Roe that he…

This is beautiful

That shark eats multiple people and still wants to eat her! I watched that with my sister and was like, “There is no way this shark would still be trying to eat, it just ate two people!” My sister said, “It’s mad.” OH OKAY, THAT CHECKS OUT.

She has never apologized. She claims she didn’t say it and she doesn’t remember it. Which frankly is infuriating since the things she said permanently crippled my confidence and body acceptance, but they were so innocuous to her that she doesn’t even remember.