Finn is going to the groomer tomorrow

[conuly]

He will look like a poodle instead of an undifferentiated mass of fur.

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Comments

[alatefeline]

If he comes back looking like some other breed instead you can pretend I'm psychic.

[conuly]

Thought you said "bread", pictured my doggie looking like a hapless loaf.

[alatefeline]

*giggleschnort*

[author_by_night]

Wait, so I'm not a Debbie Downer for side-eyeing those stories? I can never get over the bare facts.

This is a bit off topic, sorry, but still related: I watched Undercover Boss for a while a a study, and it amazed me how an employee would be struggling to make any money, so the CEO would pay for her son's college tuition and send the family to Disney World. Instead of raising wages. This was done with uplifting music. One time it was a married couple that was struggling. I'm sitting there thinking: "BOTH of your employees are living below the poverty line. They're literally making twice the amount of money, and still can't pay for the bare basics." But the real message was that they got a reward, right? /S It's appalling.

[conuly]

And by doing it this way, it makes the employee inappropriately grateful. Can you easily switch jobs now that the CEO is paying for your son to go to college outright?

[thewayne]

https://www.sadanduseless.com/crazy-dog-haircuts/

[conuly]

The comments suggest that these grooming jobs are very short term - on for the competition, shaved off afterwards. Gosh, I hope so.

[thewayne]

Yeah, I can't imagine they'd last too long.  Overall I think they're pretty awesome, though!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It's more like "The Women Who Nod At Cruelty To Animals And Say Let's Go". Fuck rodeo; it epitomizes a lot of what is grieviously wrong with this nation. I am not glad when people get hurt, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for those who get hurt by animals that they were hurting for profit.

People who say bronc riding isn't cruel are totally full of shit. Maybe it's true that physical pain is not being inflicted on the horse (and maybe it's not) but it's certainly SOME kind of rage/panic that's causing the horse to behave as it naturally would if a mountain lion was on its back, and how is it NOT cruelty to deliberately and repeatedly incite that?

Rodeo should be banned. It never will be, because this is America, where we can't even restrict handguns, and for the same reason: the sweet, sweet profit to be made by pandering to the base urges of the hoi polloi.