Does the dog die?

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Apr 2023

This question gets asked about pretty much every movie that has a dog in it. Nobody cares if the human dies. Kill all the people you want, but if you kill that dog, I can't watch. Not just dogs either, pretty much any animal. Or any mammal, anyway. I can't remember anybody complaining about the death of a fish or a reptile off hand.

Seems weird, doesn't it? I mean, we are humans. It feels like the death of a fellow human should upset us more, but it doesn't. Maybe it's not that way for everybody, but it certainly is for me. I get upset just seeing an animal in a horror movie, because I know there is a 95% chance it will die. I have to keep telling myself "it's just a movie" to get through it. The people though? Fuck 'em.

Why is that? In the past I may have tried to come up with excuses. But let's be real here. The reason is obviously because I like animals a lot better than people. I'm not going to deny it anymore. Now I'm not saying I hate people across the board. There are some good ones. But no animal has ever done anything to hurt me the way a human has.

Yet for some reason, I eat animals, but not humans....🤔

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Box_a_Hair says:

Apr 2023

I find it annoying. One reason is that the audience can watch a man get mutilated and not give a fuck, but they can't separate the real/fake for a dog? But whatever. If you can get more of an emotional reaction from a dog dying, then go for it.

I do remember a segment from V/H/S/2 where the dog had a camera on it during an alien attack and I felt pretty awful when that story ended. I guess it may also depend on how relatable the animal is, and since that was a small dog and I have a small dog, it hit harder. It also may have to do with how cute the thing is. Like in Pet Sematary, Gage's death packs a punch, but in Halloween Ends, that kid's death is more of a fuck-yeah moment since he was an asshole. Innocence factors into it a lot.

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Box_a_Hair says:

Apr 2023

What lousy fucking luck. My cat gave birth over a month ago. The sweetest cat ever. Completely tame and docile for a stray. She came up to me one day out of nowhere and made me her owner. The cutest little thing. Slept next to me, on top of me, even pissed on me once to mark me as her territory. She trusted me and I made the dumb mistake of getting her spayed.

I understand why people don't like pets dying onscreen. Not everyone has experienced a fellow human's death, but most people have probably experienced a pet's death, and they hit hard. I'm gonna go curl up under a rock and die. Rest in peace, Winnie.

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Box_a_Hair says:

#8, Reply to #7

Apr 2023

Paragraph 1 is correct. She was healthy before the spay, but rapidly declined and died 2 days later. The vet says she hasn't seen anything like that in all her 30 years on the job. They still don't know what caused it, but I think she was perhaps too young and too, idk... exotic? Unique?

I've lived at this address for only 2 years and I've experienced 4 animal losses here and had buried 2 in the backyard. I already have my own pet sematary and I feel like a bad pet owner. Of course, I never asked for any of these pets, only taking care of them after they strolled up to me out of the blue, but you are right about it. They each had their own quirks and personalities that nobody will ever know or appreciate like one's owner would. The guilt is immense.

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Box_a_Hair says:

#14, Reply to #9

Apr 2023

I lost another cat about a month ago. Not one I particularly cared for like my Winnie, who was only about 9 or 10 months old apparently. I keep beating myself up over this, because she was perfectly healthy and happy until I ruined everything by trying to be a responsible pet owner. She trusted me since day one, and I let her down. I feel like she thought I was out to get her in the end, since after every visit to the vet, she was getting worse. I hate myself for killing my best friend.

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Box_a_Hair says:

#16, Reply to #15

Apr 2023

I'd like to think of it like that, but it was my decision that led to her getting ill. If I was the lazy son of a bitch I normally was, this wouldn't have happened and she would be purring next to me. Guilt is only natural in this awful situation.

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Box_a_Hair says:

#18, Reply to #17

Apr 2023

There were a lot of strays around our house. We had one that was striped, so we called it Tiger. Tiger/Tigger, so Winnie was what we came up with.

I saw something online about two images, one being a rounded blobby type of circle and the other a kind of spikey circle, and the whole thing was to figure out which image was "kiki" and which was "bouba". Most people intuitively know which is which, so I named her two kittens Kiki and Bouba. If you were to see a picture of them, you'd know which is which.

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