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Why does this place lose it over censoring of curse words every damn time lol. It’s a f*cking word and the writer has a right to do whatever the fuck they choose when they write.
Heck half the time they look like they’re censored in a way to avoid being banned from uploading due to curse words.
To be abundantly clear, you freaks overreact on this topic every damn time. If I was into rage bait this place would be a damn gold mine. Y’all must have blessed lives if this is what you get your kn*ckers in a twist over.
Sent from my Windows Phone. 😉
Because OP (not here) wants to get the post exposed and swear words are not advertiser friendly which will get it deprioritized from the algorithm
Fuck shit
Self censorship makes me feel like this is a made up, BS story posted by someone for internet clout.
Self censorship?
Did I not read Fuck and Shit in the dog tag?
Total BS
I see a bright future ahead when people try to censor dog tags.
Advertisers are a bitch
Weird way to say sacrifice fodder.
Didn’t think dogs would carry cellphones.
How would you call a dog?
…whistle?
Am I the only one who finds it really weird when people refer to themselves as mom or dad of their pets? Yikes
It is weird for the traditional view of pets as property, beasts of labour, ornaments, or other living in-person. However recent decades has seen a popular shift towards treating select sentient animals (experience emotions) with some degree of sapience (reasoning/higher cognition), like cats and dogs, as people. Humans treat them as individual persons with their own subjective experience, desires, and lives worth living.
So when a human adopts a non-human animal under this view, they are also taking on the responsibility to care for the animal’s needs and we’ll-being, not just for what the animal provides the human (as would be the case of a beast of burden) but primarily for the sake of the animal’s own worthwhile life–the human takes on a guardianship/parental role. This is why people are more and more being referred to as mom/dad/parent of their pet. More and more people are adopting animals as non-human children. Vets like to enforce it because it reduces animal cruelty and makes people more likely to do basic care.
This isn’t to say many farmers don’t try to give their animals a good life or recognize them as feeling beings with their own personality. They do, but not to the same degree as treating a pet as a non-human child.
I prefer it to “owner”
I like “human”. I’ll ask strange dogs at the dog park “where is your human?”
I do similar to strange children that look lost at the grocery store–“where is your grown-up?” (I don’t want to assume their family structure, and an adult talking to them usually causes them to dash back to their adult. Doesn’t work the same way with dogs, tbh.)
I like Human as well. I think I’d use that over mum/dad/owner
First off, it’s “Lord of the House, first in his name”.
I adopted my cat in her old age. She’s…someteen years old. I don’t actually know, her known history starts when she, an adult cat, followed my cousin’s dog in through the dog door and demanded tuna. Like 13 years later my cousin passed away and I had room for her now ownerless cat.
I did no parenting to this cat. I am more a pillow than a parent to Izzy. I am her caretaker, she is dependent on me for her food, water and safety, but she isn’t a child, and I didn’t raise her.
Fun fact: every dog have, in fact, a real mom that’s actually a dog and their separation was most likely non consensual.
What a bitch.
It’s also off-putting when veterinary staff do it. I get that it’s easier than remembering the human client’s name, but I’m not my dog’s mom, for several reasons:
- I’m not a woman. Y’all are just misgendering me.
- He’s a son of a bitch, not a human
- If he was the son of a human, that human was my grandma. I took him in after her death. That makes him my half-uncle.
I know vet techs who would love it if you introduced yourself as your dogs’s half nephew. That’s hilarious.
Vet tech got real pissy because I said my cat was more of a lazy roommate.
I’m not the father. It did not come out of me.
My dogs were not siblings of each other. They were roommates forced together by circumstances.
well okay that one time she decided to put her head in my mouth doesn’t count
“Hi, I’m here with Elvis. He’s my half-uncle on my mom’s side.”
Do you also feel uncomfortable when people use the words adopt and foster when it comes to pets? They’re also child-related words but I feel like those aren’t as controversial to people.
Because those words are not just for children.
Like early-adopters is about new technology. And fostering can be about pride.
But mom and dad is only in relation to a child in a family. Never a pet.
Never a pet.
It is about a pet quite often, hence this discussion…
Never a pet? Isn’t the thing that they were annoyed about, that it always happens with pets?
Father of invention
Mother of dragons
Freud is regarded as the “father of psychiatry” and Aristotle as the “father of biology.” Plenty of people who invented or had significant contributions to their field are considered “father/mother”
Good point. What if the word was mother or father instead of mom and dad? There are definitely more generalized uses of that, like fatherland or mother nature.
Yes
No…
I have pets and I find it weird.
I always find it really off-putting.
No, it’s weird.
Extremely.
I just suspect they have about the same IQ as their pet if they say stuff like that.
I’m envious of OOP, they found a fun-looking randomly-generated side quest with a cute magical creature.
And they lie for fake points. Weird.
This is !dogs＠lemmy.world, not !detectives＠lemmy.world. Don’t worry about it.
Also quite a quest to learn to speak a dog to make that call.
I can speak a little dog but it doesn’t work very well over the phone. Once I know a pup well enough (i.e. at least a hand-sniff and some petting/belly-rubs so we each have some indication that the other is friendly), it’s fun to imitate the “play bow” and see how they respond. I figure if they can go to the trouble of learning to understand their human-assigned names and the typical assortment of dog-words, the least I can do is try to invite them to play in their own body language.
