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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
1. Post any good stories you have of someone minding your business, when they should have kept their noses out of it.
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Whenever I go anywhere with the Displaced Dog, people come up to us and ask questions/comment. We're used to it, because he's so unusual looking and because dogs are great at making introductions. In general, people will talk to dogs when they ordinarily wouldn't talk to the person the dog is with. I absolutely do not mind answering the same questions over and over again, because generally people are just curious about him. (I have thought about printing up a card with the answers, though, because most people aren't particularly original in their line of questioning.)
Once, the Displaced Dog and I were hanging out at a coffee shop and this guy, without asking a single question about him, told me that he was going to call the SPCA and report me for animal abuse. Apparently, he knew better than I did that the Displaced Dog's dreadlocks were torture. (The Displaced Dog ignored him. He was too busy enduring the agony of eating a scone.) I explained that the dreads are natural, that I don't have anything to do with their development, that it hurts him more to have them brushed out, and the one time he was shaved/clipped, he hid under the bed for six months. I further explained that I regularly bathe the DD, that he gets better healthcare than I do, that his skin is fine and he's never shown a single iota of discomfort in his life, except the time he cut a paw trying to get into someplace he shouldn't have been going. Several other people around me piped in that they'd seen pulis on the dog shows and on the Odelay album cover and other places (this was before the Budweiser commercial). The guy kept on insisting that I was doing terrible things to my dog. Eventually, he left in a huff, and all of the other people around came up to tell me what an asshole he was and how awesome the DD was. The DD got another scone.
(Incidently, I trimmed the DD's fur a few inches two nights ago because it was dragging the ground. To hear the DD tell it, THAT was torture.)
