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JR Ewing's avatar

Last week in a podcast, Adam Carolla called this stuff "crate training".

As in, you can't get an adult dog to be subservient and go in the crate when commanded, but if you start them as puppies, they can be conditioned to do whatever you want for the rest of their lives. I thought it was a very good (and frightening) analogy.

FWIW, Lenin and the Bolsheviks totally knew this and totally did it themselves.

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el gato malo's avatar

long ago, 2 roads diverged in the animal kingdom.

and cats chose the road less domesticated.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/domestication

and today, that is why dogs have "owners" and cats have "staff."

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

Anyone who's had a dog knows they have staff too. It's why we follow behind and pick up their shit.

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Holly Champaign's avatar

One of many advantages of living in the country with dogs, they are free to fertilize the fields. Now if I can only solve the the litter box task (but must say raw food has improved THAT task immensely).

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cmpalmer75's avatar

So did Hitler.

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