Snow-lovin’ doggo, that is

This is Riker. When you ask my google home his full name, she says “Commander William Riker of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D”

This is Boady, the full blooded Elkhound. He loves the cold and the deeper the snow, the better. He’d happily romp all day through the backyard in any type of weather (except heat, he hates the heat). I’ve yet to see a cold temperature that phases him. That said, if it’s below freezing, he doesn’t get to stay out too…

Wasn’t there a law proposed recently that would make animal cruelty a felony nationwide?

I’ve tried 3 different kinds of booties. His terrier feet (designed to get into tight places) slip right out.

Same goes for the summers too. One of the most horrendous things when working as a vet tech was people bringing in dogs with heat stroke. Often the thermometer would read as “high” (upper limit of the thermometer was 110F). The sad part is that after hours of working with the patient they would pull through maybe 25%…

As a counterpoint to Marzipan, as I said, it was 4° in my backyard the other night. Marzipan can handle it without much difficulty. But Henri is a chihuahua-rat terrier from Oakland, CA. He’s simply not bred for this kind of cold.

This is Marzipan. She has a thick coat and is more than capable of spending hours on end frolicking in the snow. In fact, quite often, when it’s snowy, she’ll just lay down in a snow bank, as it’s one of the few times that she doesn’t have to pant to stay cool.

I love my pups and my cats. They have never spent a second outside in temperatures where I can’t stand/walk with them. They do not ever spend time outside without me or someone else there with them. (the world is a cruel place and the town is no place for them to roam) They live in the house, sleep in the same room,…

You didn’t steal it, you just found it wandering around lost and took care of it. It must have chewed off its leash.

That shit right there is the kind of thing i’d willingly go to jail and stand before a judge and say” yes your honor, i put that motherfucker in the hospital and i’d do it again too.”

Giving acknowledgement to the comments in this thread, I’d like to petition The Root to implement a “NOT THE ONION” tag for future stories such as this.

This is an interesting point.

But there kind of is a cure, maybe not for the ones who are already adults, but we can certainly prevent further damage. A lot of these guys are introverts, and as such, they probably don’t get much in the way of “social conditioning” I would know because I used to be the same way. So when all you do is consume media…

Entitlement is definitely a contributor to this. Men feel entitled to a woman. If life doesn’t hand them what they feel they are owed, they get angry. Women on the other hand....(at least this one)....so I’m not getting sex, not everyone gets to have the loving guy and awesome relationship and white picket fence or…

The follow up then becomes why do men get frustrated about lack of control? And that stems back to their ideas about masculinity. They believe to be a man they need to be in control. The solution to all of this is helping men understand that there is no one way to be a man or manly: skinny/fat , emotional/stoic,…

Part of it comes from the belief that the world is ever-changing, and behaviors that were once tolerated, aren’t anymore. That’s why you see the Mens’ Rights Activism bullshit. “Well, pinching her ass is a form of flattery!”. Some of the most insufferable fucking people on the planet.

I think it goes beyond sexual frustration - it’s frustration that they are not in control of a woman or women.

I also have an 11-year-old daughter and she is limited to Instagram, which I check CONSTANTLY. I’m constantly snooping in her stuff and I will continue to do so until she’s in college.

The incel ideology terrifies me. Because I’ve been that lonely guy, who was unable to date, who was a virgin until his 30s. I had terrible self esteem, and it took a lot of therapy and self improvement to get to a better place in my life. And believe me, there are so many people out there like me, who feel lonely and…