re: If you’re not bringing your dogs inside, or making arrangements for them in this cold,

Growing up in central Alabama in the 90's, we had dogs my whole life. We never had an inside dog until I was in my mid teens. We had a dog house outside and regularly changed the cedar shavings and none of those dogs ever had issues with the cold or the heat. Husky, Beagle, and Collie all lived a healthy outdoor life.

Labs are the most popular breed in America and they are bred to jump into frigid water for hours on end retrieving ducks.

Yea, leaving your yorkie or pomerian outside when it's 20 degrees is fricked up, but it's hard for me to get my Australian Shepherd to come in when the temps are below 30. He loves the cold

I'd argue it's much tougher on a dog when the temps are 90+ and they have no means to cool off. Dogs have a hotter body temp than us as is, and turns out most of them are covered snout to arse in fur.

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There it is. That’s the pussy gene I was curious about. What kind of wolf breed did that gene intended to give comfort to pussies come from? Those are gateway breeds that unfortunately could lead to cat ownership.

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That’s a pussy human gene right there, a good barn cat has been quite the effective pest control long before you needed pussy chemicals.

We have barn cats and had to lie to the shelter. They wouldn't give us a cat unless we promised to leave it inside. It was obvious some of those cats were feral and well suited as barn cats. They enjoy their life and we enjoy them.

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Barn cat? What the hell kind of justification for cat ownership is that?

How about you just clean your fricking house and keep it that way?

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What kind of pussy shite is this that you don't own your own farm?

Dog psychos are so weird.