The full moon pumped BTC and dogs everywhere I think. Our guardian was barking as if we were under constant attack from marauding barbarians. So the neighbours' dogs responded and nobody gets to relax...all the best to K9.
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i hate dogs
i had one local stray visit nearby, stood on top of a currently unoccupied little shack right outside my window yap yap yap yap yap yap yap at nothing, for no reason, it was almost like he was just yapping to say "i'm here on top of this high hting and i'm feeling super proud" i finally had enough, he just was yapping compulsively, got a broomstick and went down to see where it was, little fucker was at first like "noes" and then eventually spotted a gap and ran out past me and disappeared into the night
liek, what.
there wasn't even a cat to excuse this little turd
and that's the thing that i hate about dogs the most, they pretty much are barking at cats, or possums, or rats, or some little irrelevant animal, or they are just barking because the other dog is barking
complete barbarians, and like less than 1 in 100 of them are properly trained and cared for, the rest are basically abandoned in shitty little enclosures, tied to chains, and mostly are badly behaved because they aren't being exercised
whenever i've been taking care of dogs, i take them on a big walk every day, and never hear a peep out of them for the rest of the day
yapping dogs are a sign that you are neglecting them, and they are needy little bastards, you shouldn't take them on unless you can commit to att least an hour of doggy time every day or fuck you
I agree that neglected dogs don't do well. They are pack animals, need to be part of a social order also need a job. Anything from that list missing and they aren't happy.
Guardian dogs' job is to repel intruders before they intrude, so intimidating from their side of the fence and warning us by barking is what they do. For that reason I don't really mind if he's barking because 99% of the time there is something or someone on or coming to our property..
For sure I would be annoyed if an attack dog or a sheepdog was barking all night like your little fella. They are missing something to make them misbehave constantly. Hunters around here are so heartless how they chain up their dogs between hunts.
I would not have a dog if I needed to walk it specially every day just to keep it sufficiently exercised. There aren't enough hours in the day to artificially wear out this beast!
yeah, that's my point... they NEEED the exercise, or they are unhappy, and then they make everyone else unhappy, and the strays, the problem with them is they don't have a human leader, so they are constantly in a competition with other dogs to be the leader and they often are also provoking constant barking as they wander past
keeping a dog as a companion only is irresponsible and delinquent towards the animal... it needs to work every day, hard, until it's tuckered out or it will grate the nerves of everyone living in earshot
fine if you are so far away from neighbours that the dog's guarding behaviour actually counts for something but 99.9999% of urban dogs are simply bored, you can even see it with the ones that are super manic, those are for sure almost without social contact at all, as well as needing exercise, so you see them bouncing around like maniacs, doing tic-like behaviours, often barking for no reason at all
every time i see it, i'm like, goddammit, this dog just wants some luvs and some work to do
people treat dogs like they are some kind of pet but that's not what they are, they are team members, to the bone, and just like humans go crazy when they are starved of meaningful labor, they also go crazy and stir up trouble, and the owners are responsible, but that doesn't change the fact that i want to put the things out of their misery, for which reason i MUST live where there is none within 100m of me or i will become traumatised
i can't begin to explain how horrible it was for me living next door to a chihuahua kept in a nasty, concrete enclosure right where his voice bounces straight through my windows, where i'm trying to work and not think about how i would like to slap those people for not taking him out for a fucking walk
the problem is quite extreme here in Madeira, because so many people keep small dogs and they don't even let them in the house, the terrain is too tough for humans to walk and they are all soft and mushy, not like the people that built this place, to actually do ANYTHING, and then there's the strays, which nobody does anything about, running around, breeding up more strays, and roaming the streets and camihos stirring up the rest of the dogs behind the fences in their nasty little boxes
they called the Canary Islands after the way the people in this archaepelago are so fond of their dogs, but i doubt that 100 years ago those dogs were not working for their food, what we have now is like some kind of mindless ritual behaviour that has lost all meaning
i'm just glad i was finally able to get far enough away from them that i barely even think about how there is any dogs around, but every time i go up to the shops, some asshole who lives next door to the church on top of the hill lets their dog run around on the roof and it yells across the whole goddamn valley whenevery people come up from the other side to visit the commercial district, like, what the actual fuck, don't they feel even slightly concerned that their animal is making such a useless racket? doggo loves it of course, he's the king of the castle, and that's the reason why he is so vocal
bitcoin can even fix the doggy world!!
Get nomad bitcoiners to hit social media complaining about dog issue. Then lobby the town councils to flex their authority for the good of the island ie request an antisocial dog order with teeth under the guise "to protect (bitcoin) tourism" worth X/ year!
You can launch a national dog walking service as an alternative to owners exterminating their moggies.
Take a walk past the vet to neuter them...
Very true about the saying "hard times make strong people etc."
haha, that's funny!
yes, migration is having a big impact here, and bitcoiners are a large cohort among the ones that are not just here for holidays, i've had this confirmed by several people i have talked to who deal in real estate here
but the town councils are as disorganised af, barely can even repair and keep the roads clear of debris... i'd say that a quiet, private vigilante would have no problem scooping up all the strays and putting them in an out of the way area and neutering them though, it's just a matter of having the money and time to do that... probably need also some kind of license to use a tranq gun to get them because they are wary af, not easy to catch, the one that was yapping outside my window the other night i couldn't hear or see where it went after it got out of sight
also, yeah, with teh ongoing earth changes with the weather and magnetic fields and stuff... it is gonna get rough here in about 8 years real bad, i mean real bad, it's gonna be a bit rugged this next 2 years for sure, todays weather is an example, i'm sure it's gonna cause a lot of damage this warm wind from north africa