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[โ€“] FuglyDuck 93 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Dogs.

They're the kind of people people should be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 71 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I do my best, but people always get upset when I greet them by sniffing their butt. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] FuglyDuck 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] blanketswithsmallpox 3 points 5 days ago

I get it, I'm bleeding. Why you gotta call me out every time?

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Not just dogs. A lot apes and primates can be the same. I remember Robert Sapolsky, a primatolgist and a neuroscientist say that if you live with gorillas in their natural habitat for a few years, you might become calm as a zen buddhist monk. Personally, I find elephants to be amazing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

On the other hand I once watched a group of juvenile chimpanzees in a zoo enclosure hanging out near a pair of double doors sunk into the hillside like an old-fashioned wine cellar, which I assume was the keeper's entrance. One of them, running laps around the door up and down the hill in a style I can only describe as zoomies was yelling like mad until when coming around, down the slope, he reached into the lap of another fellow who was sitting one leg over the side wall on the concrete. At the same moment he pivoted, lept over the wall and swung the way a child might around the end of a hand-rail, from a fistful of cock and balls. In the process, he sent the poor bastard he had ahold of head over ass into the void only to faceplant howling in the dirt while the onlookers guffawed as though it was a scene straight out of Jackass.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago
[โ€“] FooBarrington 1 points 4 days ago

The duality of monke

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

These two look like someone's sweet old grandparents doting on a kid.

[โ€“] foggy 3 points 6 days ago

"because chickens are decent people."

[โ€“] P00ptart 39 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Awww! With my dog it's the opposite. He's always crawling on top of us to lay down.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] P00ptart 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's a 9 month, 57 lb lab. Sometimes it's cute. Sometimes not as much lol.

[โ€“] FuglyDuck 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

lemme guess. when he steps on the balls.

[โ€“] P00ptart 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bingo! Both me and my kid have fallen victim!

[โ€“] FuglyDuck 7 points 6 days ago

I think it's their way of checking if we still love them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Well, he just wants to be your heavy blanket

[โ€“] blanketswithsmallpox 3 points 5 days ago

The gf has always had issues with letting myself be the dogs and kids jungle gym. She doesn't see the irony in letting the cat on her lap, how gross hair balls weekly are, why the bed is gross when you let the cat on it... So much.

But oh the moment something approaches twenty pounds is off limits? Nah, fuck that. Just...

STOP! You just not hop on pop!

[โ€“] eatthecake 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In their world the little girl is the cat.

[โ€“] TriflingToad 2 points 5 days ago

WAIT THATS ACTUALLY SO TRUE WHAT??

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)