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Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by akimbostrawman »

imp0cat wrote: post #91
joezydeco wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this how the whole "Bill Gates is putting 5G chips in the Covid vaccine" meme got started?

Yeah, this explains a lot! Crazy times we are living in! First all the conspiracy theories about a huge pedo-ring controlling the world's government come true and then this?!

>huge pedo-ring controlling the world's government

Just wait until you realize these pedos are just getting blackmailed into submission and aren't controlling anything but most here probably never will because of the wrong think programming.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by fractallyte »

bsder wrote: post #56
thelastgallon wrote: post #8

> her beloved pit bull, Forty-Cal, had been missing for 11 years. > He's super docile and friendly. Always has been. Are pit bulls known for being docile?

> Are pit bulls known for being docile? Not really. Even "old school" working catch dogs in this breed may require a break stick to get the dog to release game. In addition, the dogs are strong . And that's really the crux of the problem. Dogs will be dogs. They can be the nicest animal on the planet, but at some point a dog will bite you--maybe you did something stupid, maybe the dog accidentally got underfoot and g…

My dog bit me accidentally while playing, a few times. Every time, he apologized. (That is: he stopped playing, made a characteristic sound, and licked me to make sure I was OK.)

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by akerl_ »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #51
akerl_ wrote: post #48

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> The risks come with the territory To be clear here, the “territory” here is letting your pet free roam off of your property and expecting everybody else to be cool with that?

Yes. Believe it or not, that's fine for cats. "Everybody else" is by far the biggest risk. Not cars, not animals. It's always so frustrating when you've been doing something for 15 years, speak from experience, and then someone comes along and says "Well, that's bad!" Sure. Meanwhile, my cat comes home happy and healthy each night, unless "everybody else" decides to steal him in the guise of doing him a favor. Verifi…

It’s not fine for the cat. Or for the outdoors. There’s the whole parallel thread about that. But also keep your cat inside so they’re not roaming into my yard. It’s wild that outdoor cat “owners” are so willing to co-opt everybody else’s property as part of the cat’s habitat.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by thebruce87m »

zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #5
arjie wrote: post #3

I wear one of these chips on my wristwatch since the 125 kHz RFID lets me open doors and use the elevator in my building without needing to pull out my keys. It’s entirely passive so I’m guessing that the chip in question carries an ID that is read by a reader and points to an ID on some pet identification database. So she was “updating the chip” less and “keeping the database up to date” more. Ubiquitous microchips…

I've had one in my hand for 12 years. It has my contact card on it.

What would happen if you needed an MRI?

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by akerl_ »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #87
kelnos wrote: post #80

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> I'm looking after for my cat's wellbeing, not some bird's What a selfish way to look at things. So you think it's fine to bring invasive species into a new environment and let them damage the local ecosystem? Cool cool cool. If you were truly looking after your cat's well-being, you'd keep them inside in the first place. Their attachment to roaming about is not as strong or essential as you seem to think it is.

Suppose someone were arguing that you should imprison your own child for their entire life, because every time they go outside, they kill ants. Would you still consider it selfish to disagree?

If your child routinely wandered into my yard and messed with the animals there, I would also have a problem with that, yes.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by anal_reactor »

grantith wrote: post #65
hinkley wrote: post #42

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The dumbest thing I’ve done in the last ten years was stick my hands in the mouth of a “docile and friendly” pitty to extract a screaming puppy. Only afterward did I realized I almost destroyed my livelihood. My partner Google stalked the owner and discovered that he’d been force to surrender another pit bull two years earlier.

The lucky ones learn about the finger in the butt and hind leg wheel barrow maneuvers before they have to use them.

> finger in the butt

What

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by aa-jv »

ViktorRay wrote: post #2

These microchips are amazing technology. I highly highly encourage all you pet lovers to obtain one for your little homie. You never know when you’ll need it.

I had moved into a new place, and it had a little garden, which attracted stray city cats. A kitten found my garden and adopted it, just moving in and living there. I invited her inside, fed her, took her to the vet, made sure she was okay. She had no chip, was definitely a stray.

So I adopted her, got her chipped per the law, and she grew into a fine cat who loved her place with me - she was great.

One time she got out, and I got the call. But it wasn't to get her back, it was to come get her corpse from under the car that had flattened her some distance from our home.

In many ways, I wish I'd not gotten the chip, that was a really traumatic event which I'd probably have avoided, at least not knowing what had happened.

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by imtringued »

47282847 wrote: post #88
crooked-v wrote: post #63

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There are plenty of statistical studies out there that pit bulls specifically cause both a significant plurality of dog bites and significantly worse injuries than other dog breeds. For example: https://blog.dogsbite.org/2016/10/table-retrospective-level-... https://www.dogsbite.org/dog-bite-statistics-studies-level-1...

Correlation/causation

The word "pit" in "pit bull" refers specifically to a dog fighting arena where dogs are supposed to aggressively fight each other in a duel, possibly until one of them dies.

"pit bull" refers to a dog breed that was optimized for its performance (=more aggressive and dangerous) in the "pit".

Re: Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y

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Post by piva00 »

macintux wrote: post #36
thelastgallon wrote: post #8

> her beloved pit bull, Forty-Cal, had been missing for 11 years. > He's super docile and friendly. Always has been. Are pit bulls known for being docile?

I took a few pit mixes out of the local humane society last summer for "Doggy Day Out", basically an opportunity for dogs who need new homes to get exposure to the community and get away from the kennel for a few hours, and they were universally friendly, sweet dogs. There's some selection bias, obviously, but their reputation is definitely overblown.

They are very sweet dogs, until they're not.

I was at a friend's place with some others from school, we were about 14-15 years old, his family had this seemingly sweet pitbull, always wanting to be pet, super playful but kind. That day it attacked one of our classmates, out of the blue, we were sitting on the backyard, the dog playing with some rope toys, brought it to us sitting, this guy picked up the toy to throw it and before he could even started the motion this pitbull jumped on his face and started attacking.

It was so jarring, unexpected, and brutal that I got traumatised for life from pitbulls, I don't like to be close to them, don't like when I'm biking and there's one without a muzzle being walked around, and I don't want to pet one as much as it can look super friendly and calm. Seeing how fast it could turn into a murder machine even when growing up in a loving family that never trained it to be a guard/attack dog, and probably never treated the dog badly, made me very anti-pitbulls.

Most dog attacks in the country I grew up in are from pitbulls, including a few kids killed every year, the statistics don't lie. The breed requires people who aren't assholes so it doesn't become dangerous, I don't trust owners to do that, even more when it's a breed for "macho" guys to show off at the same time.

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