I keep reminding myself one can be a VICTIM and a PERPETRATOR.

“You can’t pick and choose who you’re going to make fun of.”

OH YES YOU FUCKING CAN.

I absolutely was this person too; I funded two surgeries at 8k each for my rescue dog (I’m child-free so I don’t feel bad dropping that type of cash because this is my companion and pet insurance covered about 1/3 of it), treated her Cushing’s Disease, her allergies, and whatever else she needed.

The real question is how Sigourney Weaver would have fared on Designing Women.

Your parenthetical spoke to my soul. My slightly loser slow marching to the grave soul.

She’s a badass legal genius, yes, but I do love that Wapner doesn’t like her.

I agree with you 100%. I don’t blame dogs for doing bad things, but I also think it’s dangerous and pointless to blame a toddler for being bitten by a dog. What is needed is better supervision and parenting. These influencers are monsters and putting their dog to sleep because they were too lazy and self obsessed to…

Someone I went to high school with had 2 dogs before she had a baby. Once the baby was toddler age, she claimed one of the dogs was too aggressive so they gave up the dog, but kept the other one. Same breed, from the same litter. Just seemed to me that their daughter would terrorize the fuck out of both dogs and they…

We didn’t have a dog growing up, but a series of gerbils, and eventually, guinea pigs.

my childhood dog nipped me a few times. My parents considered a nip as the dog training me how to act around animals, but the 80s were a looser time...

Same, only it was a Cairn Terrier (I think... a Toto dog. It was a rescue and I was a kid) who bit my older brother. The first thing my grandparents said was “were you rough-housing with her”?

When I adopted my dog, the shelter told us she was “aggressive.” I’ve had her for four years now, and she’s never bit anyone on my watch (I can’t speak to her life before us, but it must not have been good, given her scars and deep anxiety and trust issues). To help her, we trained with a behaviorist for a year, and…

The two times I’ve been injured significantly by an animal have all been times where I definitely deserved what came next to me and not the animal’s fault. One was as a kindergartner trying to pet a cat I didn’t know that just shit in my outoor sandbox. Said cat was probably giving body language that indicated “back…

The training of an animal and a child in how to treat eachother takes more time and energy than this ‘influencer’ could deal with. That’s my take anyway.

This. Children can be so awful and rough with dogs. I’m constantly defending my 2 doggies from the claws of my 2 monster children!

I wondered too--nice of you to take the extra step and find out what happened to her!!

Interesting from an outsider perspective. Clearly you have to be of the era and the right age range to be drawn to this type of program and I don’t think it will hold up at all over the years, as the cracks are pretty evident. The manufactured drama smacks of a very small and specific writing pool. No matter who is…

Bet he drives a pickup.

Age of Ultron is like a “greatest” hits of Whedonisms. There’s the specially gifted yet sexy and aloof girl (Wanda), people with lost parents (both Maximoffs), death of a main character (Pietro), a joke directly after a dramatic event (Bruce falling onto Natasha’s chest after Ultron 1 attacks, “you didn’t see that…

Gotta disagree here. They are incompletely different places. Carpenter’s complaints come 20 years later after theraputic treatment and with the support of a movement. Ray Fisher is in the here and now and had to do it alone knowing he was fighting Warner Brothers and billion dollars. I can’t fault him for not knowing…