I do that with all my cats. It's hilarious to watch their facial expressions. They're like, "you want _me_ to go.. _out there_? But it's cold.. and wet.. nononono" as they begin to back paddle away lol
When it rains, or it is relatively humid outside, or when it's cold, my older dog refuses to go. She will literally smell the air and head back inside the apartment.
My dogs also adamantly refuse tap water. Somehow they know the difference, even if they did not see or hear me open the tap. They need mf spring water. They will mlerm the tap water once, sigh, and leave, even if it means they go thirsty. Somehow pond and puddle water is fine though.
I'll never understand how my dogs can be so discerning with their sophisticated palates and then eat their own poop. One of them thinks the litter box for the cats is a buffet as well. GFYS dogs
It's so annoying, they're meowing like "Hey Boss, lemme go outside", I finally relent and open the door, only for them to start rethinking their life choices for solid two minutes while I'm freezing, and I have to suffer this like five times a day
Robert Heinlein wrote a book about time travel called 'The Door Into Summer'. The protagonist used time travel to retrieve/save a cat, and Heinlein described this phenomenon as the cat looking for the door into summer.
Warning: the book (like most Heinlein) may not be to your liking if you're unwilling to wear your 1950s glasses.
Okay but to be fair, a lot of wild animals don't leave either. One of our turtles we ‘rescued' was because the bastard kept beaching himself. There was nothing wrong with him. But when we released him he refused to go. We tried for days and he was just like...nah. So now he lives at the zoo even though he should be just fine to live in the wild again. The other sea turtles either having missing limbs, cracked shells, or something else that would be too detrimental to let them survive in the wild... but not this guy.
My husky would gunn it for the outside, but I would have either the vet or cops calling me to go pick him up. So what should I do?
Go abandon him at another state? Just so someone else take him in to another house probably. Or worst be put down.
Ya the argument made sense until they said they don't care what type of pet you have. They really be out here thinking a dog that's been bred for tens of millennia to be obsessed with humans is the same thing as a wild eagle that needs miles of space to roam.
Hell there are even breeds that have been house dogs for so many centuries that they basically hate the outdoors and will only go outside for just long enough to pee.
The animals in the zoo are just left there and don't get to do anything other than sit in cages all day so people can look at them. However, domestic pets if they have good owners get good food, treats, toys, walks, trips, etc. Animals in the zoo are stuck there all of the time and they don't get to leave or play very much.
Alright. I'll open my front door and see if my dogs want to go live outside in the snow and find their own food ...
They opted to stay sleeping on the sofa. Must have Stockholm syndrome.
I mean they've become domesticated they've adapted to living at home
I guess it's okay since we altered their genes for generations.
Generational stockholm syndrome
I mean there's not really any going back now. Few thousand years too late
Cats domesticated themselves.
I do that with all my cats. It's hilarious to watch their facial expressions. They're like, "you want _me_ to go.. _out there_? But it's cold.. and wet.. nononono" as they begin to back paddle away lol
When it rains, or it is relatively humid outside, or when it's cold, my older dog refuses to go. She will literally smell the air and head back inside the apartment.
"I saw you fill my bowl from the sink instead of the filtered pitcher, so now I will not dirnk it."- my dog, who is apparently a desperate captive.
My dogs also adamantly refuse tap water. Somehow they know the difference, even if they did not see or hear me open the tap. They need mf spring water. They will mlerm the tap water once, sigh, and leave, even if it means they go thirsty. Somehow pond and puddle water is fine though.
I'll never understand how my dogs can be so discerning with their sophisticated palates and then eat their own poop. One of them thinks the litter box for the cats is a buffet as well. GFYS dogs
It's so annoying, they're meowing like "Hey Boss, lemme go outside", I finally relent and open the door, only for them to start rethinking their life choices for solid two minutes while I'm freezing, and I have to suffer this like five times a day
Robert Heinlein wrote a book about time travel called 'The Door Into Summer'. The protagonist used time travel to retrieve/save a cat, and Heinlein described this phenomenon as the cat looking for the door into summer.
Warning: the book (like most Heinlein) may not be to your liking if you're unwilling to wear your 1950s glasses.
Man, that sounds so interesting! I love the idea of "the door into summer" and the cat looking for it. So many implications to think about.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Same with my cat. She has a litterbox downstairs, but insists on going out at the peak of winter until she realizes it's -10 with a foot of snow.
Okay but to be fair, a lot of wild animals don't leave either. One of our turtles we ‘rescued' was because the bastard kept beaching himself. There was nothing wrong with him. But when we released him he refused to go. We tried for days and he was just like...nah. So now he lives at the zoo even though he should be just fine to live in the wild again. The other sea turtles either having missing limbs, cracked shells, or something else that would be too detrimental to let them survive in the wild... but not this guy.
My husky would gunn it for the outside, but I would have either the vet or cops calling me to go pick him up. So what should I do?
Go abandon him at another state? Just so someone else take him in to another house probably. Or worst be put down.
Different animals are different. Dogs and cats have evolved for 10,000 years to cohabitate with humans.
That is not the same as keeping an eagle or a bear as pet.
I gotta give props to the OP. this IS an unpopular opinion :D
Nah this isnt unpopular; just misinformed
Most opinions are completely uninformed.
I think there is a difference between not being able to comprehend why something is bad and having a different opinion than rest
Yeahhhhhh hit the nail on the head!
Ya the argument made sense until they said they don't care what type of pet you have. They really be out here thinking a dog that's been bred for tens of millennia to be obsessed with humans is the same thing as a wild eagle that needs miles of space to roam.
Hell there are even breeds that have been house dogs for so many centuries that they basically hate the outdoors and will only go outside for just long enough to pee.
The animals in the zoo are just left there and don't get to do anything other than sit in cages all day so people can look at them. However, domestic pets if they have good owners get good food, treats, toys, walks, trips, etc. Animals in the zoo are stuck there all of the time and they don't get to leave or play very much.