Animal Crackers

When is that Chinese dog eating festival. That usually gets people fired up.

 

Agreed, it's no coincidence that all dogs are either bitches or sons of bitches.

 

Boxer Day ?

 

Argentina's Canine Cabinet

Javier Milei, Argentina's President has revealed to whom he turns for advice: Conan, Murray, Milton, Robert, and Lucas.

They were the first people he thanked when he finished first in the country’s presidential primaries in August—except they’re not really people.

“Who else?” he said. “My four-legged children,” referring to his five dogs whom he has called “the best strategists.”

It all started when Milei adopted an English mastiff named Conan, a reference to the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian, in 2004.

The pet became, in Milei’s words, his “true and greatest love” and “literally his son.”

Milei, who is never-married and childless, has credited the 200-pound dog with being his closest friend and confidante and sticking by his side through difficult and lonely times.

When Conan died in 2017, Milei reportedly visited a medium to communicate with his late beloved pet. It was in that telepathic conversation, Milei has said, that Conan relayed God’s mission for him to become President of Argentina.

According to Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper, Milei believes that he and Conan first met in a previous life more than 2,000 years ago as a gladiator and lion in the Roman Colosseum and that the pair did not fight because they were destined to join forces in the future (which he believes was a prophecy of his animal-influenced presidential campaign).

In 2018, Milei went on to pay about $50,000, according to Reuters and the New York Times, to U.S. company PerPETuate to clone Conan using his DNA, something Milei had reportedly been planning to do for some time. The procedure resulted in five puppies, whom Milei named after the original Conan and the economists Murray Rothbard, Milton Friedman, and Robert Lucas. Milei regularly refers to the current clone Conan as his son—and doesn’t distinguish him from the original Conan—and the other four dogs as his “grandchildren.”

González and other Argentine news outlets have reported that Milei seeks counsel from his dogs on matters of his campaign, policy, and more. In an August interview with Spanish newspaper 20minutos, González said that Milei “is convinced that the dogs advise him in different areas: one in politics, another in economics, another gives him general advice.”

González added that he is worried about such an “unstable leader” in an already “unstable” Argentina: “This man who would command the fate of the country wakes up each day, does medium sessions with the dogs, and then makes a decree based on that. It’s very shocking.”

 

I thought this was a thread about how only the British were potty about animals?

 

Ha, sent this to my dad’s other half on Saturday after she was complaining about how much the fireworks upset the dog. Zero regrets.

 

Exactly. We don't want any of those forrun weirdos coming over here stealing our way of life.

 

Yes exactly. Wouldn't be surprised if they try to claim the Isle of Wight as their own and overrun it with their weird llama animals. Argentina looks a long way away, but they could easily come over in their boats going the secret shorter route (off the bottom of the map and then sneak down to the left of Norway, the route we should have taken to The Falklands).

 

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

 

This one might be fair enough, I don't know.

 

I thought Chinese lanterns are banned in this country, the factory mage ones have an X wire in the base to hold the candle, the left over metal would often land in fields with livestock, which caused injury. The one in the picture looks homemade, which could case a fire.

 

Yeah, like I said, I do think I've seen incidents where horses have been killed or maimed by buring fireballs falling from the sky after one of these lanterns has caught aflame. I'm not convinced about the birds dropping dead from fireworks or being caught in fake webbing as yet though.

I do remember letting out Chinese Lanterns in Thailand at New Year and it being a cool sight as thousands sail out to sea. If a few seagulls got killed, then **** it. Shouldn't of stole my chips in Southend.

 

You'd better hope @miked2006 doesn't see this.

 

Well he bloody will now, won't he - Snitch!

 

Animal crackers ?
My favourite flavour is "hamster", though I hear the spaniel flavour crackers are also very good.

 

have.

 

*stealed

 

*steeled

 

When it was dogs and cats, I didn't really give a ****, tbh, but if red pandas are getting killed now then fireworks need banning. End have.

BBC News - Baby red panda died from firework stress, says zoo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6k9wg03e8o

 

Hmmmmm....


"fireworks can cause stress to other animals in the zoo and we cannot rule out that they may have contributed to the untimely death"

Lots of maybes and possiblies in that report.

This is the first year we've heard about blasted animals moving from "not liking much" the noise of fireworks to dropping dead. Funny how there's so many animals still around, considering people have been letting off fireworks for centuries. Horses, dogs, pigeons, elephants, mules and other animals somehow managed to work in countless wars under shelling and mortar fire many times louder and more scary than a couple of rockets, without keeling over brown bread from the fright. Funny that.

What is needed is proper regulated safety fireworks like we have in the Parrandas in Cuba each year. And all proper homemade ones too, not yer shop bought rubbish....

 

Point taken. I'm sure it's just another example of the Wokerati trying to ban something fun, but if there can be a link evidenced to the death of these fluffy little teddy bear things, then I'd see 10,000 cats and dogs skinned alive before I'd see a fluffy wuffy panda die.

 

It’s hardly beyond the realms of possibility. I’ve seen some dogs get in horrendous states with stress over fireworks, let’s put it this way, at the very least it won’t have exactly helped the poor thing, will it?

Notoriously shy and solitary animal overly stressed by thunderous bangs and flashing lights, hardly a 9/11 conspiracy is it.

 

Funny how there’s so many humans around when people have been using guns, bombs, poisons and knives for centuries. Funny that.

 

Well the red panda comes from South Western China apparently. The country where they invented fireworks and have been letting them off regularly since 200 BC.

Surely such sensitive animals would have all died of fright and been extinct centuries ago, if not from fireworks, then from much louder thunder and lightning or crashes from trees falling over or humans letting off bombs and guns etc over the years.

It reminds me of the fishermen who curse the boats when they go past on the river because they 'scare the fish'. Since boats are going up and down all the time, they must live in a permanent state of terror.

 

Yeah, it probably wanders the streets rummaging through bins.

 

Pandas are a bit weird anyway, I'm surprised they didn't go extinct ages ago, and it's nothing to do with scariness of humans, those fellas are scared of female pandas.

 

Yes, this is true. Mind you, I’m pretty scared of most females.

 

These are red pandas, which, despite the name, are not closely related to their chaste, black and white namesakes.

 

Yes, I’m sure they’re regularly letting off rockets and Catherine wheels halfway up the Himalayas

Red pandas live in high-altitude, temperate forests with bamboo understories in the Himalayas and other high mountains. They range from northern Myanmar (Burma) to the west Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces of China. They are also found in suitable habitat in Nepal, India and Tibet.

 

Yes, but I expect there will have been some thunder and lightning, no? And earthquakes. And landslides.

The hyping of the fact that *some* animals *temporarily* a bit jumpy because of the bangers round bonfire night, has led to the ludicrous clamour amongst dog lovers this year to BAN the centuries old tradition of families and kids enjoying fireworks (or make them silent) for the convenience of their bloody pet.

This silly panda report is part of that same campaign.

Perhaps we should have a vote amongst the approximately 58,000 people savaged and killed each year by dogs, including 32 Brits in recent years - babies amongst them.

Have your pet, sure. But YOU look after it. Don't expect the rest of the world to go out of our way to accommodate all of its whims, fancies, likes and dislikes.

 

The picture @UEA_Hornet posted at the top of this page, says it all. We have to put up with a lot with dog owners, even considerate ones have yapping bastards, for a week or so in the evenings they have to lock them away each year is a small price to pay.

 

We have to put up with a lot with parents, too. How about a deal, if we lock our dogs up for a week, they lock their children up for a week each year too. Autumn half-term might be a good time...

 

If it helps, I'm hoping to see them in Sichuan Province in China next October - I will be sure ask them and assess the prevalence of fireworks generally in the remote forests.

 

You know I hate animals as much as you Clive, but I dare say, comparing fireworks night to an earthquake as a 'safe' environment for red pandas is probably not our strongest argument.