See Spot Surf

theodp writes "Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. Spike from the East Bay just wants to kiss pretty girls. Two months after computer and canine geeks in San Francisco launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves."

Comments

Watch Out for Asians

[Anonymous Coward]

They might use the site to look for their next dinner!!

Sad, but true.

MOD PARENT D O W N

[jrockway]

This has to be the dumbest post ever. MOD PARENT DOWN.

Lameness fileter encoutered. Fuck you.

HAHAHA, YOU FAIRY!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

teehee, what's the matter, got no more bullets in that pea shooter of yours??

FAG!!!

Re:My Family.

[Anonymous Coward]

Freak

and what about cats?

[Anonymous Coward]

dogs shit on your lawn and drool everywhere. they bite the neighbors (can be a good thing sometimes). they also smell like my overflowing pugged up shower drain. i likes cats better. i grew up with cats. loving wonderful furballs they cuddle up and sleep at the edge of my bed everynight and keep my feet warm. the only problem with cats is that some of them like to pee outside the litter box, and cat urine is horrible compared to dog urine, which is very watery. some cats shed, but not all. siamese cats are wonderful. they often barely shed at all, and tend to not pee outside the little box at all if not never.

Re:and what about cats?

[Anonymous Coward]

What about cats? Well, first of all, there's the vomiting. I bet you LOVE waking up to a nice puddle of regurgitated furballs. Also, cats will rip up the furniture sharpening their claws, unless you get them declawed, in which case they are defenseless little rats who will hate you for the rest of their life. Also, I've never heard of a "police cat" or a "firehouse cat" or a "seeing-eye cat" or a "drug-sniffing cat," have you? Pretty useless animals, they don't give anything back to their human servants (and believe me, cat people ARE like servants to their pets.) I've never heard of an obedient cat, they always have a mind of their own, they eat the fish out of the fishtank, snub their food, you can't train a cat worth shit. Medical expenses for cats are higher, with all the distemper shots and worm shots and. Dogs just need a regular rabies shot and worm pills. All cats do is eat, sleep, and vomit. Dogs will eat, sleep, vomit, play, romp in the backyard, tug-o-war, swim, let 2-year-olds ride them, rescue people from burning buildings, take down dangerous criminals, lead the disabled, sniff drugs at the airport, etc, etc, etc. Yeah, I'd rather have a dog, they may be "high maintenence" (in your opinion) but they give you so much back, whereas cats are just useless balls of fur.

Re:and what about cats?

[Anonymous Coward]

i am not blind, so i don't give a fuck about leader dogs. i'd rather vacuum hairballs than scoop up smelly shit on my lawn. the war on drugs is a terrible waste of money and misleading government propaganda. i had gold fish for more than a decade and my three cats did nothing more than stare. if a cat vomits, it's often because you are either leaving food out on the table which both cats and dogs can be guilty of eating. secondly, you have the option of declawing only the front claws, and you only declaw them if they are INSIDE cats, in which they'd most likely not encounter harmful predators. sorry, but dogs cough up hair too, and the the poorly untrained ones will chew up all of your stuff, including shoes, books, side paneling, screen doors, you name it. cats can be trained to stay off furniture. give them one quick spray with a water bottle sprayer thingy (harmless) and they'll stay off. i have seen this work very effectively. and lastly, i'd rather have a pet with a mind of it's own than some dumb clumsy dog that has to imitate what humans do. do you think anyone cares if your dog can shake your hand? my cat has a mind of it's own but it is also very loyal to me. it sleeps at the edge of my bed cuddles with my when i am relaxing in my easy chair using my laptop and doing homework. when i am cooking or something it keeps me company. i don't have to worry about putting it on a god damn leesh or it running away or attempting to eat my neighbor's kids. maybe a cat can't find a crminal in an airport, but it enjoys traveling abroad in the baggage compartments sometimes :) plus, who enjoys waking up to some god damn dog barking at tree at 7am in the morning on a nice summer day? i certainly don't.

Re:The market has decided...

[DarkHelmet]

Yes, I completely sound like a kid that's whining. Because that's how I feel at the moment.

I'm comparing Linux to this in the fact that it's Open, and it's free. My project is not novel in its function, it's novel in that it's Open Source where all the other implmentations are not. It's also novel in that you can clone it if you so desire.

The site itself is not original. The fact that "Catster", "Birdster" or even "Hamster" could be running off this codebase, is.

I know you'll probably see me as entirely wrong in these points, but I thought I'd put that out as food for thought.