• glimse@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    “I appreciate dogs BUT I’ve imagined the worst dog and an idealized cat for my examples”

    If I don’t wake up at 6 to let my dog out, he just…waits. If I’m stuck at work an extra couple hours, I don’t fear finding crap on the floor because dogs can hold it

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, they’re not birds. They don’t just go the instant they get the urge to lol

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      5 days ago

      Yeah, no. If you read my post, I was referencing dogs having an emergency (diarrhea, if I need to clarify further) and needing to go out. This isn’t an imaginary situation, and every dog owner I know has experienced having to clean up a mess because their well trained dog simply couldn’t hold it. It’s not a criticism, as anyone with stomach issues that doesn’t have access to a bathroom would have an accident, too. Cats rarely have this issue, because they have an indoor bathroom.

      I don’t know why you took my post as idealizing cats and criticizing dogs, but that’s absolutely not the point of what I said.