• SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    Is this a regional thing? People don’t really use she or he for animals here. I live in Europe for reference

    Probably doesn’t help that ‘she’ and ‘dog’ sound very similar in my language

    • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      Might be a midwest america thing. I have been thinking about this since posting it, and I think i see this the most prominently with hunters talking about “how pretty she is” when drscribing the deer they just killed.