The title & the pic … ROTFL!

POOR DOG

It’s why you and Manju are two peas in a pod.

I sure would miss HMF if he were to be banned. I don’t know the entire history, but as far as I can tell, his comments are OK in my books, even if I may not agree with him, or if some discussions come back to the recurrent theme, as Camille said.

The ‘more urban area’ I referenced before was actually NYC, though I think it applies to Hyderabad too. See, my experience of Hyderabad is completely different from yours. I also don’t know as much about animals, so I’ll just leave it at saying that we probably won’t be able to make larger generalizations without some studies to back us up.

Probably a lot. Hell, sometimes, I wonder the same question. I have been banned before, but then re-instated, with a reason never given (not that I care, I understand you folks dont have the time to go around answering everyone’s little quibbles, but just stating it)

If you think those askers have merit, by all means don’t hold back.

Everyone is a darling here,

Cmon Anna, You know that is never true, in any setting. Each class has a teacher’s pet, each work group has the “favored employee” , hell I’m sure the even guards at Guantanamo have their fav. detainee, that they abuse the least.

Actually, it was RTC who ignored the intern first and went right back to religion, not you.

but since razib is a little darling around here,

If your comment deserved to be deleted for anything, it was that stupid potshot. And from you of all people. Do you know how many times I’ve been asked about why you haven’t been banned? Darling? Everyone is a darling here, as long as they’re not an asshole.

Since you’re entering the business of calling out others for their assumptions, while making callous one’s on your own…

Growing up, I had actually been a part of a Bible study group for maybe 6 months, when I say study, I mean for study for kids, so we’d memorize certain biblical passages and sing the christian songs, etc… (my folks and our extended family believed in a global view of understanding religion, and wanted us to learn about others in a more substantive way) the funny thing is, when we left the program, the church was surprised, as they thought we were there to “learn the true gospel” instead of our heathen backward monkey worshipping, we calmly explained our goal was to simply broaden our vision.

SM Intern, sorry for continued off topic discussion, but since razib is a little darling around here, I figured responding to his ‘ 4 am ejaculation’ would be alright, but delete if thou willest.

Nala, I grew up in an urban area too (Hyderabad) but it’s not unusual for people to have yards big enough to leave their dogs outside even in the middle of the city. (or they let them wander around in the street with the stray dogs and they get rabies, which happened to a friend of mine, or to her dog, she didn’t get rabies herself). Some of my relatives with dogs lived in apartments and walked their own dogs every day. Some of these people had a lot of money, but some were just standard middle class people. I don’t think treating a dog like a human is a luxury requiring a lot of money; it’s an attitude towards the dog and the value you place on its life. In the United States, some of the best-loved, and best-trained dogs, belong to homeless people, because dogs thrive more on human companionship than they do on fancy food or grooming. (They also thrive on having a job so hunting/farm dogs can be happy even if they have less direct contact with their humans).

But it probably is true that the dogs owned per capita are fewer in India than in the US…anyone have a statistic for this?