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TV Programmers Seek the Elusive Dog Market
HonorPoncaCityDotCom writes "Stanley Coren reports that a number of new television stations are providing programming specifically designed for dogs and while many people report that their dogs completely ignore what is visible on television, with modern resolution and quicker imaging, more dogs have become potential television viewers. The increase in dog viewership is primarily attributed to the way the dog's eye works. The image on a standard television screen is updated 60 times per second and since a human's flicker fusion frequency is only 55 Hz, the image appears continuous and the gradually changing images give us the illusion of movement. However dogs can discern flickers at up to 80 Hz so with the increased availability of high-resolution digital screens that are refreshed at a much higher rate, the images are less likely to appear to be flickering to the canine eye. Presentation factors are also an issue. Dogs are most likely to respond to images that have been captured at the eye level of a dog with a low camera angle where there are moving things like animals or birds. But even if that requirement is fulfilled, most dogs do not watch television because the TV is normally placed at a comfortable eye level for human beings and dogs do tend not to scan upward, and therefore do not notice the TV images. All of which brings us to DogTV, the first cable network to deliver 24-hour programming for dogs that lets you flip on the channel while you go out for the day as your pet is stimulated, entertained and relaxed. 'If the dog wasn't enjoying it, he would find something else to do, like nibble on the end of a sofa,' says veterinarian Ann E. Hohenhaus."
I hope there are a lot of bitches on TV.
they dont have any money and cant ell their owner buy me this
well.. maybe the dog is compelled to keep an eye on the evil trans dimensional window so that no baddies come in through it.
otoh, maybe that's good times for a dog..
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
My dog always liked the Aquarium Chanel on satellite. It would keep him occupied for hours if I was going out - he'd still be sitting there watching the fish going back and forth, occasionally looking around behind the TV to try and find them.
Okay, I'm curious as to how the business model for this works. Aren't most TV networks ad-supported? If the human isn't really paying attention to the TV then the human isn't going to really pay attention to the ads, and obviously the pet doesn't have the ability to make financial transactions on their own, and unlike kids' TV programming, can't nag the human into buying things for them...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
...except my dog barks at any animal seen on the screen...i don't need more ads targeted to her.
The reasons given sound reasonable, but there's a reason people don't mount TVs on the floor with dogs around. One show with a cat or squirrel, and that TV is toast.
monthly cost varies by cable provider and is between $5.99/month - $9.99/month (or $9.99 for the online streaming service and Roku)
Directv will have it for $5.99
"The image on a standard television screen is updated 60 times per second"
I'm fairly certain that all US broadcast TV is around 27 FPS and non-HD cable is the same and there's no way satellite wastes bandwidth on high FPS. I think only HD is 60FPS. Just because an LCD is refreshing at 60 or 120Hz doesn't mean that's what the tower or cable company is sending.
Also, dog TV is a stupid idea. The last thing I want is my dog ramming and clawing to death my expensive television.
Fill disclosure: I don't actually have a dog or a TV. I'm allergic and live in an apartment and I use a tuner card on my PC.
Any time a bear , dog, elephant or dear shows, my dog is right there growling and barking.
Started happening after our last cable update.
No interest in Housewives however.
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Cats demand the Laser Pointer Channel!
Give us bread and circuses, and make sure our animals are distracted so they can't alert us to the downfall of civilization.
This truly is the decline of the American Empire.
Good evening. Here is the news for dogs. No dogs were involved in an accident on the M1 today when a lorry carrying high-octane fuel was in collision with a bollard. That's a bollard and not a dog. A spokesman for dogs said he was glad no dogs were involved. The Minister of Technology today met the three Russian leaders to discuss a £4 million airliner deal. None of them lay in their crates, chased their own tails, or ate any of the nice raw beef yum, yum. That's the end of the news, now our program for dogs continues with part three of 'A Tale of Two Cities', specially adapted for dogs by Joey.
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The flicker fusion amount isn't a number. A DLP projector at 120Hz will drive me crazy but 240Hz is less noticeable. A CRT set to 60Hz will just about make my eyes bleed but 75Hz won't. An LCD set to 60Hz looks like a smooth motion to me. DLP merges RGB with a noticeable dark gap between them. CRTs have a high amount of luminosity difference between the frames so it's more noticeable. LCDs are very subtle and can get away with a lower Hz without humans noticing it. So not only is it different between people but it's different depending on how different color or brightness-wise the frames actually are.
yes, I have love and compassion for human life over anything else. but apparently you don't think the risk of stressed animal in fear of its life in cockpit of helicopter to human life is any issue, because some animals are so cute and cuddly. How about my neighbor's six foot python and rattlesnake, can he bring them in rescue chopper?
Here are his comments:
Bow wow. Bow wow. Woof-woof-woof. Grrrr. Bow wow! Bow wow! Grrrrrrrrrr... Bark! Bark! Bark! Bow wow! Bow wow! Woof! Bow wow. Bow wow. Woof-woof-woof. Grrrr. Bow wow! Bow wow! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bow wow! Grrrrrr! Bark! Bow wow! Bow wow! Woof! Bow wow. Bow wow. Woof-woof-woof. Grrrr. Bow wow! Bow wow! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bow wow!
you are the sociopath, valuing some animal you judge as "cute" over humans safety. rescue chopper is no place for loose animals, disaster rescue is no time to be wasting time on beasts. you have no perspective on reality
it becomes DogTV - "After Dark"... featuring the Humping Things Show and Hot Bitches in Heat.
The only flicker in modern TFT displays (note: NOT Plasma screens) comes from the back-light, but otherwise, TFT screens have been essentially flicker free as long as they exist. Unless they can deliver programs that deliver at least 80 frames per second, the whole argument about "fluid motion" is one big pile of bullshit.
The sole exception might be TVs that have some kind of motion enhancement, that interpolates the "missing" frames and produces a higher frame rate that way. In almost all cases I've seen it, it sucks, but maybe dogs take this for real...
7pm - How I met your Rover (CBS)
8pm - CSI: Cat Scene Investigation (NBC)
9pm - Bitch Swap (LifeTime)
10pm - WooWoo Scooby Doo (Hustler HD)
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My pooch will stare at our 42" LED screen. He goes crazy when a talking head appears and stares back at him. The dog doesn't like strangers staring at him. He also reacts to other animals on the screen and cartoon characters. Sometimes he'll run around to the other side of the wall on which the TV is mounted as if he is looking for something behind the TV/wall as if the TV were a window to the other side of the wall. And no, the dog is not on drugs (neither am I).
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Correction: The stations are specifically designed for dog owners, just like bacon-flavored chews. See also TV shows to educate babies.
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Because, of course, helicopters are cat-allergic, right? The rotor sneezes and disintegrates as soon as a cat comes anywhere near.
In other words, get a grip. Not all emergencies are alike. If you have a small pet in your arms, there's no reason at all for the rescuers to tell you to forgo it. Heck, what you're arguing is pretty much life over quality of life. Yeah, we'll rescue you at any cost, but $DEITY forbid the rescuee has a living thing with them to comfort them. Being displaced in an emergency is obviously no biggie for you and you will stomach it like a big boy, right? You should have rotten for a couple of weeks at the superdome with all the other "ingrates" to get a humanistic perspective.
If it was an emergency where the rest of my immediate family would be already dead, and I had a choice of being rescued with our cat or perishing with him, I'd probably choose the latter. Say what you will, but our cat always knows when there's something wrong with one of us, and he sometimes works quite hard at comforting us. When my wife got back from a C-section, the cat would walk directly across her scar, massaging it. He kept at it for weeks. Nobody prompted it, it didn't see the scar directly, and so on. He just knew what to do. I have plenty of other examples like that. Just because it's not human doesn't mean it's life is worthless. Just to preempt what might be coming: no, I'm not freeing any lab monkeys, thank you very much, it'd be a retarded thing to do. Neither is our cat a "member" of our family. He's our cat. He gets his food and water, his vet check-ups, has a few small toys, and is kept indoors. He treats us with care, and we do the same, but we don't go overboard. He scratches a couple of designated dining room chairs, we don't have any pet furniture.
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Well done getting all the kneejerk reactions.
I checked, it's not April 1st.
I don't know what to say about dog TV.
Oh give it up, I think you might have some issues along these lines.
Even the Coast Guard figured it out a while back. It used to be they wouldn't rescue animals off boats. Then people stayed with the animals and the CG got some bad press. Now they'll winch off dogs and cats along with people.
Funny, more people would rather rescue animals than fellow humans. Just what does that say about our species?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I guess the dogs are too smart to watch the crapfest channels like TLC, so we need better channels to cater to them.
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Humans can easily discern 200hz or more.
discord5 reports that slashdot is attempting to provide articles specifically designed for geek and while many people report that their geeks completely ignore what is visible on slashdot, with modern HTML5 and AJAX, more geeks have become potential slashdot readers.
The increase in geek readership is primarily attributed to the way the geek's eye works. The buildup of a standard webpage is updated once per click and since a human's maximum clicking frequency is only 55 Hz, the webpage appears continuous and the gradually changing webpages give us the illusion of content. However geeks can discern content at up to 80 Hz so with the increased availability of highly dynamic AJAX webpages that are refreshed at a much higher rate, the content is less likely to appear to be interesting to the geeks eye.
Presentation factors are also an issue. Geeks are most likely to respond to images that have been captured at the eye level of a geek with a low camera angle from the basement where there are moving things like das Blinkenlichte. But even if that requirement is fulfilled, most geeks do not read slashdot because the website has become devoid of actual content despite it's high rate AJAX updates and rounded corners.
And now, an article about the Dog Network, as irrelevant to geeks as sharks are to the Fonz... Eyyyyyy.
Now if you'll excuse me, my compiling is done, and I'm not even going to bother reading the article which at best can only be described as interesting... no wait, the other one... TEDIOUS
At least watching this probably won't make you stupider, as most programming for humans seems to do.
Like I said, give it up. Helicopter pilots have winched off many a 'wild, stressed animal'. You put it in a cage, you put a muzzle on it, you strap it down somewhere.
Exactly what you would do with the stressed, out of control human that you've just winched off the tree.
And no, if you want to take your snakes, you're on your own. We're in it for the cutes.
Humans can be rational at times, but it certainly isn't their default condition.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Wont work - dogs don't see color in terms of red, green, and blue like how people see (and thus how we encode color).
Dogs aren't interested in what's on tv because it's just blobs to them.
Fuck you too.
But even if that requirement is fulfilled, most dogs do not watch television
I say their reasoning is wishful thinking. There are a lot of dogs who are too intelligent to get drawn into watching TV.
What next? News for dogs, stuff that is edible?
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
So you're mentally ill and take that out on others. Big deal.
Years ago my wife bought a VHS tape that was intended to entertain cats. It was all videos of squirrels, birds, and other prey moving around and making sounds. One of our two cats ignored it, but the other was fascinated. He could watch the entire one-hour tape without getting bored. He would occasionally try to move around behind the TV to get a better vantage point. At first he would often swat at the images on the screen, but he learned fairly quickly that he couldn't catch them that way.
No sig? Sigh...
..."Dancing with Cats"?
Table-ized A.I.
The deal with screens seeming "flickery" to animals has not been relevant for years. For a long time we have adopted LCD technology or other similar flat means of displaying images, which do not flicker physically by nature as a CRT television does, when this research was done. Perhaps an LCD backlit with pulse-width-modulated LEDs may produce some flicker, but animals (including dogs) have been able to see our televisions for years.
If I'd just smelled the latest rumor that there are birds in my neighborhood which are NOT animals, I'd be on the lookout for them, too!
That's rubbish. If human flicker fusion was 55 hz you couldn't watch movies, frame rate 24 hz.
Investigative journalism is dead, just report any bs you see on twitter or facebook.
Next up, Is Your Dog Psychic?
Talk about life imitating art.
"If only I could fire that poor son of a bitch" -- Frank Cross (Bill Murray), in response to exec Robert Mitchum's "suggestion" to create programs appealing to dogs and cats.
It has been known for a long time that some people would rather die with their pet than give them up. And they realize that... now ? Woot. Next time they spy on us, they should try to ask the NSA to download copy of sociologic study on people and pet. maybe they'll then learn something of importance for once.
Instead of the next moar-pixelz video standard, I'd like to see the frame rate kicked up a notch. The 60fps game streams are wonderfully fluid to watch at twitch.tv, for example.
Quick, hold up your hand if you laughed when your puppy first encountered a mirror! It's hilarious: "OMG there's another dog in the room". Depending on the dog, they will be fooled once, twice, maybe three times - that's it. Afterwards they realize that there's nothing there, and ignore it. It's the same for television. We have a herding dog, and the first time he saw animals on television (I think it was sheep), "OMG, I gotta go herd". Second time, he looked and then yawned. He didn't look a third time. Anyone who pays attention to their animals will have seen this. They know what's real and what's not. Things that are not real are not interesting.
There are already far too many dog owners who think that dogs are like furniture: there when you want them, and otherwise they can be ignored. Dogs need activity, they need interaction with their owners, they need a job to do (especially the working breeds). This stupid idea is going to make bad dog owners even worse: They will think they've done something to keep their dog busy, and will feel even less obligated to actually take proper care of their animals.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Being able to discern flickers at 80hz probably makes fluorescent lighting annoying as fuck.
Is there a cheaper plan with just audio? My dog doesn't pay any attention to the images, but if he hears a dog bark on the show, he cocks his head to figure out where it is coming from. In reality I would never buy a channel specifically for him. I think it is far better to actually walk him once or twice a day getting both of us some exercise and let him wander the yard whenever he wants. For him and I imagine many other canines, its almost all about smell. He can smell a rat in a tree at night, smell. At first when he would be barking at 10 at night, I'd be thinking, what. Then I get a flashlight and sure enough a pair of beady eyes would look back at me 10 feet up in the tree. Its nothing short of amazing.
Funny, more people would rather rescue animals than fellow humans. Just what does that say about our species?
I think it's a combination of beliefs. People can rescue themselves, especially from human-created problems, and the people who can't rescue themselves are often "broken" in a way that other people can't help (or don't know how). Animals can't rescue themselves from human-created problems (from invading their habitats to not spaying and neutering pets) and often respond very well to human help.
I mean not in all situations (wouldn't apply to your Coast Guard example, or natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina) but it explains why some people might donate to a "save the whales" fund but not donate to "save the starving children" funds. There usually is a large volunteer/donation response to natural disasters that affect humans.
He scratches a couple of designated dining room chairs, we don't have any pet furniture.
I bet he's the one who designated those chairs though :)
I've been wondering how I could get more use out of my old CRT television sets... Now I can sit a whole bunch of dogs in front of them with this 'programing' on! I always wanted to be a dog baby sitter but it's so hot outside and it's hard for me to talk since the foot surgery I had from my diabetes. But now I don't have to walk them and I can sit around and watch my soaps on my new HD flatscreen! And the best part is, It will be my new high tech dog sitting service! People are going to pay me!
My choice would be to save the cat or dog and shoot you, flinging your worthless carcass away. The cat or dog has probably led a more worthwhile life and made a more positive contribution (in fact some viruses are probably more useful than you).
...will probably be better than most network / basic-cable shows.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Forget the video, dogs have an acute sense of smell. Ripe road kill will have them clustered around the TV all day long.
I'm sure it's a lovely idea until you come back home and your TV has become an interactive chewing tool...
This is probably bundled in with other important stuff like MTV and Ice Road Truckers 35. Exactly the reason I decided to cut the cable (or the satellite etc.)
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....and I really, really DO NOT want him to react to animals on the television. It's bad enough when he reacts to some dogs out the window, I'm afraid he'd destroy my television if he saw a squirrel, duck or rabbit on TV.
When my wife got back from a C-section, the cat would walk directly across her scar, massaging it. He kept at it for weeks. Nobody prompted it, it didn't see the scar directly, and so on. He just knew what to do.
Your cat sensed that your wife was weakened and was going for the most vulnerable spot. It was trying to kill your wife but, like most cats, didn't do a very good job of it.
Don't get me wrong; I love cats, but I can't help but notice that many of them seem to be competing for the title of "World's Most Incompetent Villain."
he doesn't watch the TV in the living room, which is an older 60hz model. It might as well be a piece of stone, he doesn't acknowledge its existence.
However in the bedroom is a new 240hz LG LED with "tru motion". He frequently runs up to it and barks at it whenever he sees other dogs or people wearing dark-colored clothing.
He's a 1 year old chihuahua btw
So, you're saying you want our dogs to be as zoned out and slack jawed as our kids?
No, it says you and some other people have a very childish and immature notion of reality that becomes a hazard to human life in an emergency. Beasts that in any way hamper a rescue effort need to be disposed of
No time nor space for that nonsense of caging, muzzling, strapping animal in dire emergency such as getting people off roofs in hurricane katrina
It's been done.From Scrooged with Bill Murray and Robert Mitchum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oa5yEq2qvM
cat in open aircraft? your cat will panic. you can't guarantee that cat won't jump free and cause disaster. no, you absolutely should not be allowed to bring any clawed fanged animal into cockpit.
...but last time I looked, my dog, cute as she is, has no disposable income.
In a dogs world, smells are more important to them then vision. To make TV appealing to dogs, it would also have to include smell. Considering the smells dogs like include other dogs rear ends and roadkill, incorporating dog smell-o-vision won't likely to be popular.
But to be fair, it can't be *much* worse than the crap shown on British TV, these days.
Glad to see you agree with the rest of us that you should be put out of your misery if you're ever present in an emergency situation. Immature assholes like you who want to make themselves look all tough and important by denigrating others and making crude, insensitive demands that make the panicking and upset people even more panicking and upset hamper rescue efforts far more than someone who's worried about their dog. The first time you shot someone's dog and insulted them in that sort of situation, the owner of the dog would probably do everything in their power to rip your throat out, and not only would you deserve it, they probably wouldn't even face any jail time for it due to your stupidly exacerbating an already stressful situation.
What? If you really like your dog you won't be plopping them in front of the goddam TV like you do your kids! You will give them attention, take them for walks, and spend time with them. There is absolutely no "good" reason to do this, let alone trying to figure out how to monetize it. Worried about your dog being alone? Spend time with them! Worried about your dog's fashion sense? Dogs hate clothes you dumbass, so don't put them on the dog! Worried about their toy collection? Buy the dog a bone and they will be happy for days! Worried about their diet? Stop feeding them McDonald's!
The only reason something like this should happen is that people have become so lazy and socially retarded that they now feel the need to treat their dogs just like their children, or maybe they didn't have any kids to screw up so feel left out.
>human's flicker fusion frequency is only 55 Hz
No it is not, guess what is the frame rate of PAL. Nice touch linking to wikipedia as if linked article corroborates your bullshit (it doesnt).
Modern LCD TVs DO NOT FLICKER. Picture stays on the screen until next frame comes, there is no fade out and sudden flash.
Who logs in to gdm? Not I, said the duck.
Tell us more about how you know about rescue operations than the people who actually perform them.
Has anyone noticed there is NOTHING ON this summer? What the hell !!??!!
I hope the shows that are unsuitable for family oriented viewing, are left until after prime time. I don't want my Stella to be influenced by dog gangs and dog violence.
What about your compassion for that crying five year old who just lost all her belongings and is about to lose the doggie she's had all her life? Your attitude is heartless towards people, not animals.
What was comedy in 1988 is reality today...
This is going to really take off once they figure out how to make advertisements that target a dog audience.
You know, because dogs have such a lot of disposable income.
Nope, he gets the message if we get upset about something he has done. He's quite good about remembering it as well. Maybe we are just lucky.
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A bird once flew into the house through an open window - perhaps because there was another window open on the other side of the room, so it looked like there was clear way through. The cat happened to be in the room at the time, and the bird never made it to the opposite window. We couldn't react in time to prevent the poor bird from getting his neck broken as soon as the cat brought it down, nay, slammed it down on the floor.
If our cat wanted to maim us, he certainly could. If he's in a rogue mood, he'll chase and kill occasional insects that make it into the house. Mostly he's too lazy too bother, so he just observes them and sometimes uses his paws like flipper paddles in a pinball machine.
The massaging walk was done right at the edge of pain. It was painful, but any time it got too painful, the walk was over, and it wasn't my wife telling the cat to sod off. If I get a headache and lay down, the cat wraps around my head. That's the only time he does it.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Like most internet 12-year-olds, he knows everything about everything! He learned it by playing a lot of 3d shooters, where you solve all of your problems with a gun, which clearly can be applied to the rest of the world's problems, and any poopyhead who tries to claim otherwise is wrong wrong wrong! Even if they actually do that stuff in the real world, whereas he's only ever fantasized about how awesome he'd be at it, telling everyone what to do and shooting them when they don't do it his way, 'cause he's just the bestest evar.
OK, so I'm a dog owner, and I spoil the hell out of my dogs. So much so that I spend my lunch break at home, walking them, then wolf down food. I buy super-premium dog food (hint: they need less, so there's less mess and it lasts longer). I have shelves of my pantry dedicated to treats. There's more room for the dogs on the sofa than for me and my wife. And I'd never even think that having my dogs watch TV is a good idea. Besides, they're constantly entertained laying on the ottoman by the window, barking at anything and everything that passes the house...
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I doubt dogs can tell gender. To thread hijack - my cat watches my LCD TV often. He gets confused by panning shots, loves birds and sort of recognizes cartoon animals if they have realistic animal noises. He is scared of any doorbell like noises as he is shy, but seems curious about dogs more than scared. Unless it is birds he doesn't really stand under the TV tranced. He loves watching duck or goose hunting and I think understands most of what is going on now, kind of freaky. He also has a word for birds sort of an 'ack ack' that he has taught our other cat and will run in to our room in the morning talking about them when he sees them.
Yup, I've seen this as well.
We had a King Charles spaniel that used to jump up at the screen and bark whenever there was horse racing (flat racing) on the TV.
Even funnier, though, was that he was a *big* fan of "Walking With Dinosaurs" - he used to get very aggressive, bark, & try to face down the dinosaurs on the TV. I always thought that it was a real testament to the computer animation on that show that it could trick him into thinking they were realistically moving animals.
I swear when I looked it said "Stephen Colbert reports"....
...didn't turn out so well:
www.simonscat.com/Films/Screen-Grab/
Someone needs to make a Kinect/Eye Toy/Mobile game that engages pets and generates a bunch of bogus random data for NSA spend resources crunching.
n/t
A bird once flew into the house through an open window - perhaps because there was another window open on the other side of the room, so it looked like there was clear way through. The cat happened to be in the room at the time, and the bird never made it to the opposite window. We couldn't react in time to prevent the poor bird from getting his neck broken as soon as the cat brought it down, nay, slammed it down on the floor.
If our cat wanted to maim us, he certainly could. If he's in a rogue mood, he'll chase and kill occasional insects that make it into the house. Mostly he's too lazy too bother, so he just observes them and sometimes uses his paws like flipper paddles in a pinball machine.
How much do cats actually kill?
A bit off-topic, but I just thought I'd put that out there. I think the GP is being way to kind/naive in calling cats "incompetent" supervillains.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
My dogs occasionally rush at jump at the TV when they see other animals. Luckily the TV is far enough back on the TV stand that they haven't reached it, yet. This channel will not work in my household.
Life is full of loss and hardship evidenced by the fact that little Suzy has just lost all her posessions and had to be rescued from whatever. It sucks, it's hurtful but it is life. Sugar coating the world and trying to make it all rainbows and unicorns is one of the least compassionate things one can do for a child. They have to learn sometime.
I checked, it's not 1996.
I also don't know what to say about dog TV but I do know that your stupid Courier font makes me want to punch a baby.
Cats are completely out of the picture. But then I note our cat will occasionally watch action shows.
So, while we're running out of fossil fuels, and nuclear plants are closing due to told age (and new ones aren't getting built in the US), we're creating an excuse for people to leave their TVs on??
Nothing to see here; Move along.
One, and only one of the following statements is true:
1) The act of not forcibly pulling a beloved pet out of a crying child's arms and summarily executing it is "sugar coating the world".
2) You're a moron.
As people leave their televisions on for their fucking dogs.
A tiny island nation full of people who have less access to medicine than your dog, drowns.
This planet makes no damn sense.
I don't think you realise that people can have the same psychological attachment to pets as they can to children. Shooting it and throwing the carcass away is going to trigger the same response and resentment as shooting their child and throwing it away.
Don't be surprised if said individual goes on a shooting spree and kills a bunch of people shortly after because of your braindead plan.
A human is just as, if not more likely to freak out in a helicopter than an animal.
I don't know where you get this paranoid fantasy of pets going crazy in a helicopter, it's certainly not born out in reality.
I think given how many people have now explained why you're wrong you may want to just admit you're wrong, rather than continuing to pretend you're not as everyone else looks on at you wondering why you're insisting so badly on being wrong.
Sometimes an argument is so far lost that there's no point trying to salvage it and the only way to save face is to just admit you're wrong. You're at that point I'm afraid.
I think given the immature and juvenile people here who have never been in war or disaster, unlike me, we can see why disaster guidelines can't be taken from such.
Housecats can open arteries on people, dogs have killed people. they have claws and fangs and act out of instinct when they feel threatened.
Indeed, the argument is so very far lost on the clueless people with romantic notions and no common sense.
A tip to you, shut up and follow instructions in an emergency, you are ill equipped to use your brain.
Sounds like the biggest mistake they made was rescuing you not the animals as you apparently don't have anything valuable to contribute to society whilst pets at least provide their owners with comfort.
guess again, I was not being rescued
you are speaking of one boat and no time limit, I'm talking of regional disaster where there is group after group of people needing rescue.
Ah, I see, so you're just horrendously bad at your job then because anyone actually doing rescuing would need to be compassionate and would recognise the value of saving pets in keeping people calm and comfortable in a tragic situation.
That is all.