I feel for you. I don’t talk to my siblings at all. It’s not like I decided to stop, it’s just that now that our parents are dead, if I don’t do all the work there is no relationship,so there is no relationship, because I refuse to keep doing all the work. I have a sister that I grew up with and an older brother…

My best, first bully was my mother. Her disregard for me emotionally, her neglect of my physical needs, all served to turn me into a well-tenderized slab of meat ripe and ready for public school. It didn’t help that I had both a high IQ and a learning maladaption.

I just got back from hearing Connie Willis (!!!!) speak at the Seattle Library and got to read this. You guys, as long as we have writers and libraries and people who rescue dogs we cannot perish.

Yes. Heaven forbid we say truthful things like some animals cannot be trained out of aggression or trauma. Better to let people adopt potentially dangerous animals than assume they can figure out that this trainer was talking about a situation that can happen SOMETIMES. What. A. Dick.

I dunno, I keep seeing people using the fact that Dunham took the dog everywhere, including work engagements, as proof the dog was fine, but isn’t it more likely that part of the problem was that she could never leave him home alone (or with any other person)?

But maybe the fact that she kept him for four years means that she tried a bunch of things and didn’t give up on him easily? There is a charitable interpretation of this.

Or she did look at those things, and through consulting several dog trainers she decided that an offer for a better home for her dog was a good idea. Some dogs are fine living a jet-setting lifestyle, some are not; and often two is better than one because they entertain each other a bit when owners are busy.

I have all rescues myself. Difficult dogs are not for everybody. And it looks like she wasn’t fit for that dog as much as it wasn’t fit for her. These things happen. And she took the care to re-home it. That’s not irresponsible, in fact quite the opposite.

A lot of dogs get turned into the humane society for behavioral problems. If this dog was more than Dunham could handle, then she did the right thing by getting him to the people who could. Lamby is now with an owner that can manage his problems and loves him. That’s the best outcome for the dog.

I have had a foster dog for 3 years. He can’t leave, and I can’t formally adopt him yet because of his behavioral issues. He was gentle and friendly in the shelter— because he’s an extremely sensitive dog, and when you separate him from me, he shuts right down. The rescue and I have worked with 3 dog trainers, and…

My ma adopted a shitzhu who was a baby machine for the first 7 years of her life. My mother is undiagnosed bipolar and focused all of her mania on this dog. Her demeanor and body language encouraged anxiety and neuroticism in the dog, which is expressed in aggressive and and nervous behaviour around other dogs and…

But... you still don’t know her dog.

Sorry but this story is shit-stirring and mean.

Eh. My mom got the sweetest dog at the shelter about a year and a half ago, and eventually he turned into a growler and a biter and a dog with food aggression. Through multiple trainers and boardings, she’s finally looking to re-home him. It really does happen.

I was once a boy in middle school. A girl that I liked could have been wearing a NASA spacesuit made out of my grandma’s couch cushions and I would have sported wood.

True story: One of my friends from college told me one of his most vivid memories of middle school was the time he got a raging boner because of the way the girl he had a crush on was breathing. It was making her boobs go up and down.

My question back would be, “Would you say this to a man?” Because confidence, and pride in your progress, and trying to relate to others are generally seen as positive traits...at least in men. So....is your supervisor a man or a kick-other-women-back-down kinda woman? Because this sounds like a crap comment from a…

“I don’t hallucinate or see things, unless you count stars crackling or trees breathing too loud.”

We started both times in a large park. Once we got the feel for the shrooms, we took off exploring.

I’ve had two experiences with shrooms. I had so much fun the first time, that I repeated the same experience with the same friend 5 years later.