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Jango’s thoughts at 1:02: “Did you know you have a mole on the back of your knee?”
Vids like that always make me wonder who’s getting played, the dog or the owner. Can almost see friend Muttley there thinking “All I have to do is this funny pose and you give me food? Score!”
Wow. What a well-trained Christian.
A little off topic. Last Sunday Richard Dawkins gave a talk at Duke university about his new book. The hall he was speaking at is right next door to the duke chapel and it got some good loughs when we learned that the reason the Q&A session has to be done by 3:30 is an event scheduled for 4pm which just happened to be the blessing of the pets. I didn’t stick around to see how many people came to have their dogs blessed by the priests but the Dawkins talk filled both the hall he was speaking in and the university movie theater were the talk was simulcasted and I know of people who couldn’t get in.
Ok, I might be an atheist, but as a dog-owner, that was freakin’ adorable. Especially the bit about asking God for strength to not chase the neighbor’s cat. Silly, but cute.
Also, the dog’s name is Jango, I wonder, does his backpack got jets?
Instead of training the dog to appear to be praying not to chase the neighbor’s cats, why not train the dog not to chase the neighbor’s cats? Sure, harmless, cute, adorable doggie pretending he’s people but I was mildly humiliated for the dog having to go through this meaningless ritual (even more meaningless to a dog) before he could eat. That’s not even counting that the man in the video probably thinks he taught his dog to actually pray and not just pose, and that prayer seems to take the place of training his dog to behave around the neighbors and their pets and property.
Viewing this as a piece of the puzzle that is the rest of this dog’s day and his master’s day took all the cuteness out of the dog’s trick for me.
I saw it as an apt metaphor for the authoritarian church leader and his obedient flock. The dog has no idea the meaning of the preachers words but knows how to perform the ritual.
While that makes it cute and funny, it’s also apparent his owner relies on prayer rather than proper training of his dog. Special prayer not to chase the neighbor’s cat, and to listen to his master whenever he wants him to do something… ???? Just because it’s a dog doesn’t mean there isn’t a practical context of behavior where prayer is used as a substitute for a sensible solution.
We don’t like it when the faith healers do the work of a doctor, or even when people credit Jesus instead of the surgeons or the medicine. An overweight person can pray to resist all the fattening foods they like, and can at least know what is expected of them if they are to achieve the results they wish (fitness, weight loss) with the help (crutch) of god’s strength; a dog can’t even do that much. They can perform tricks like “praying” and chase cats until they get yelled at again, and probably punished for it, obviously not a thought given to hiring an obedience instructor. But – doggie. lol.
God’s strength not god’s strength
Broken English is criticizing your capitalization. Another Stupid Awesome moment, and a data point for Ty’s Irony theory.
Correction: CAPS LOCK broken English is criticizing my capitalization.
I don’t know if it’s possible to train my dog not to chase the neighbor’s cat when he comes into our yard. That IS her territory after all. And he’s gotten into scraps with our cat, so our dog is just protecting her packmates.
But other than that, who cares? Most of my friends aren’t atheists, they’re more agnostics or “don’t-give-a-shitists”, but a few are Christian. They know I’m atheist, and we’ve had some conversations about religion, but that doesn’t mean we’re not friends. If my Christian friends showed me that they taught their dog to pray, I wouldn’t admonish them and talk about meaningless rituals and dog humiliation; I’d just laugh and say it was cute. Probably wouldn’t give it a second thought.
Y’know, there are a lot of people who are ready to consign other humans to hell for infractions of religious law, but who will become quite belligerent if you suggest that their pets won’t have an afterlife.
Yes, but I find that a minor religious sticking point. So far no anti-civil-rights legislation has been proposed over the issue of whether Fido has a soul.
Apparently the morons are now trying to question whether babies born through IVF are real humans, with a soul.
My answer: no they don’t have a soul, just like the rest of us.
You guys might not know this, but “goD,” actually is a doG, so says my dyslexia.
Poor brainwashed dog in the video!
Voice Actore: “Beggin’ Strips. Dog don’t know it’s not bacon.” Dog voice: “It’s baaaaaconnnnnn!”
This is why pitbulls should be banned. http://www.pitbullattacks.net
ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE !!!! YOU’RE A BLESSED PET JANGO TO HAVE AN OWNER WHO WAS WILLING TO TAKE THE TIME TO TEACH YOU TO PRAISE OUR LORD . I THINK THE LORD LOVES ALL THANKS AND PRAISES FROM EVERY CREATURE HE HAS MADE. AND TO THE FOLKS WHO THINK THIS WAS A WASTE OF TIME BEWARE !!! THE ANIMALS MIGHT JUST KNOW MORE THAN YOU THINK !!!!
He’d probably know enough to turn the caps lock off.
The Far Side by Gary Larson (dogs don’t know a whole lot):
http://www.modernpooch.com/archives/FarSideDogCartoon.jpg
Or (dogs know about as much as you’d expect):
http://www.philosophyofdog.com/blog/images/cat.jpg
Seriously, though, it’s the button to the left of the A on your keyboard.
I doubt it !!!! Also ,,,animals meaning more than one ,,,not a he, or a she !!!!!
Animals might know more than you know, and they probably think more than you think, but it’s not likely they think about the things you think about. I think Jango could probably beat you on the SATs or even Jaywalking.
“THE ANIMALS MIGHT JUST KNOW MORE THAN YOU THINK !!!!”
Then the dog wouldn’t have needed to trained to pray.
You are not understanding what I mean by the animals knowing more ,,,,, It really has nothing to do with being trained !!!!!!!!!
I know exactly what you mean. Right now you’re trying to tell me about your ridiculous idea of animals knowing more/being more in touch with this faerie tale you call “god”. Too bad the real word doesn’t back you up on that. Animals behave like animals.
I think the following page may have some information that you will find valuable:
http://grammar.about.com/od/punctuationandmechanics/a/punctrules.htm
You are absolutely correct, except for your implication that what they know about is god (with a lowercase g – suck it Darla). Animals behaving like animals are studied with great interest what they know, and why they behave as they do, but I can non-hazard a guess that you know absolutely nothing of that sort of thing about animals and what they know that scientists can only observe and study, and which has nothing to do, as you said, with being trained. I bet you think they get on their knees and pray at midnight on Christmas Eve and that’s the extent of all you think you need to know about animals. I would non-hazard a guess that you don’t know much more than how to assemble a sandwich, if that.
I posted a comment on this site about a dog that I thought was so adorable . I apparently had no idea I was going to be dealing with all this mess. Sorry for upsetting you . You started on me,so in return I aimed back. I don’t hurt anyone ,nor do I have a need to . I think I made a mistake . Sorry for anything I have said to upset you. I guess this site isn’t what I thought it was going to be .
When you’re done apologizing and playing the victim, you may want to read what people actually said.