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'Pet' an insult to animals, academics say
Herald Sun ^ | 4-29 | Fiona MacRae

Posted on 04/28/2011 11:07:30 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

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To: WOBBLY BOB

idiots and imbeciles


41 posted on 04/28/2011 11:40:29 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: reegs

“Don’t call that dog ‘Life Saver’, call him ‘S—t Head.’”


42 posted on 04/28/2011 11:40:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nevergore

Bums.


43 posted on 04/28/2011 11:42:14 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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To: winkadink

I had asked my cats if they objected to being called “pets”. They just looked at me as if I were daft. However that’s how they usually look at me.


44 posted on 04/28/2011 11:43:42 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Maybe she does more “things” with her pets that the rest of us, which prompts her to call them “companions”. Could it be some “heavy companioning” going on? Hummmmmmmmmmmmm?


45 posted on 04/28/2011 11:44:33 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I always insist that my dog refers to me as her “human carer”. I am insulted each time she forgets.


46 posted on 04/28/2011 11:45:42 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: jess35
My dogs really don’t care what I call them as long as I continue to feed them, buy them toys, play with them and generally cater to their every whim.

so you're not a pet owneR, you're pet owneD?
47 posted on 04/28/2011 11:47:47 AM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Calling liberals “human” is an insult to humans.


48 posted on 04/28/2011 11:49:13 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: FrankR

it could also be her “life partner”.


49 posted on 04/28/2011 11:49:22 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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50 posted on 04/28/2011 11:50:55 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Fiona “FUBAR” MaCrae is batty, nutty as s squirrel, a braying jackass of journalism, crazy as a loon, dumber than dog$%*!, worthless as teats on a boar hog, and as clueless as an ostrich with its head stuck in a hole. Her theories make about as much sense as a dog chasing his tail, a chicken running with its head cut off, or a flip-flopping fish out of water. Just one more stupid animal rights story will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back! If she were wise as an owl she’d clam up.


51 posted on 04/28/2011 11:52:19 AM PDT by CharlesThe Hammer
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Is it OK if I call my dog “My Sweet Snookery Sweetums”?

Or would that be an insult also?

52 posted on 04/28/2011 11:52:36 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

RRIIIIIGGHT.

AND FISH ARE SEA KITTENS!


53 posted on 04/28/2011 11:55:29 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (2012 CAN'T COME SOON ENOUGH FOR ME. HOW ABOUT YOU?)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Let me get this straight. China is expected to overtake the US by 2016, we’re printing and borrowing money like there’s no mañana, 0bama was willing to shut down the government rather than defund Planned Parenthood, outsourcing of US jobs continues at a steady rate, we’re now involved in 3 middle eastern wars, while our civil liberties at home are eroding, and this woman’s chief concern is what pets and pet owners are called.

Proof that some people have WAY too much time and money on their hands.


54 posted on 04/28/2011 11:57:29 AM PDT by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

These “academics” can go Eff themselves.


55 posted on 04/28/2011 11:59:49 AM PDT by Levante
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To: LauraJean
I had asked my cats if they objected to being called “pets”. They just looked at me as if I were daft. However that’s how they usually look at me.

Consider yourself fortunate....both of mine look down at me as staff!

And yes I mean look down. They usually hang out on the rail of my indoor balcony. Ocassionaly they saunter down demanding food or belly rubs.

56 posted on 04/28/2011 11:59:53 AM PDT by Focault's Pendulum
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To: WOBBLY BOB

How long before they want to call work animals “non-human slaves”?


57 posted on 04/28/2011 12:00:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: WOBBLY BOB

I tried to count the levels of stupidity this reveals, and lost count.


58 posted on 04/28/2011 12:05:28 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: winkadink

If the bimbo only new what my cat’s names are after he pukes on the rug.....


59 posted on 04/28/2011 12:08:04 PM PDT by geege
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To: winkadink
I asked my cats if they objected to being called pets, and both of them said no.

My cats said I could call them anything I wanted to except "late for dinner."

60 posted on 04/28/2011 12:08:06 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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