Park Soo-mee of JoongAng Ilbo writes about adopting abandoned pets and why summer is the worst season for unwanted pets. Even Lee Hyo-ri wants more people to save the dogs (see article).
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I think that a lot of first time dog owners have no idea how much time and responsibility it takes to have one.
Yes, a goat is much cheaper.
A marmot is also good, but I can’t stress how important it is to tie that string on tight to its tail, otherwise youll never sit down again.
Elgin, I’m with you on the Bush-bashing, completely neutral regarding your complaints about development of tidal flats or whatever, but now that you want to take up the cause of a bunch of useless toy dogs that have no place in creation - that’s too much for me. Not enough touchy-feely cells in my gray matter for that. Kill ‘em all. Eat ‘em if you want. Just keep ‘em away from my trash bags. Mangy cretins.
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Did swlee break the record for introducing disgusting sexist diatribes into an otherwise innocuous entry, or is there somebody out there he’s trying to compete with?
Its a competition, which, like your mom says, is thick and hard.
Linkd,
What about killing goldfish, hamsters, pet birds, and all the other pets in the world that give people pleasure? That is all I am going to say because I do not want to waste any more of my time responding to your goofball comment.
swlee, the great Christian hypocrite who judges other Christians writing in a non-Christian way!? Nice…
@5: according to Robert, swlee is just responding to our offensive comments and “kyopo bashing”.
That is ?!
May be swlee was abandoned as a young pup and he’s lashing out.
Whoa, she has a boyfriend? I didn’t know that.
The animal control and care center of Maricopa county has vans that they use to round up strays with a paint design full of… happy puppies and kittens. I paused a moment and contemplated just how awesomely contradictory the image was to the reality.
um, I am not Christian, so I will probably go to starbucks or hell or whatever it is that christians believe in for my above comment, which admittedly could percieveable be construed in a possibly vulgar way by some people. And to those people, I apologize with all of my heart. If only you could hold my hand and know that I have been deeply changed by my experience here, and that I stand in utter and complete abhorance of my actions here.
Let us pray.
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OK. Not too much
I am waiting for someone to deliver the punchline to this article. I mean it is not like there is NOT a massive elephant in the living room about the issue of dogs.
I have no clue what your talking about #14. ~^^
I also feel that I should act in some way to repair any harm done, and offer an edited version of the aforementioned comment which can in no way be construed as offensive. It goes without saying that I would appreciate it if R. Elgin would be so kind as to delete the contentious comment in #4.
Thankyou
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Animals have played a key part in the rise of Lee Hyolee and it is only fair that she is giving back. From early beginning of her career when she was a middle school student her ***** was a deal breaker in getting her first contract with Finkle. Growing awareness of the natural ecosystem led to her becoming Korean representative of the Korean ***** which was largely limited to the peninsula but which she has since helped to spread all around the world.
Clinical studies into animal behaviour have since started to have an influence on her management practices, and she is well known for being able to take it like a *** in just 10 minutes, etc, etc.
OK, swlee, you’ve finally succeeded.
Commenter banned.
I think we have our punchline, Shakuhachi
“When Kim Young-im dreamed about picking a fresh green apple in an orchard last fall, everyone around her said it symbolized childbirth. Instead, Kim thought the dream meant she should adopt an abandoned shih tzu that she had read about online.”
I think this was posted more in the means of taking the piss out of the article. This paragraph cracked me up…apples, orchards, dreams.
Christ! What a load of shite.
Why do korean writers of English so often try to make up poetic bullshite?
Certainly my online practices (women) and dreams (women) are much more aligned than apples, orchards and shitzu’s.
I was thinking they would be toy dogs, but in the top photo of the article, I believe I saw at least one, if not two, miniature Schnauzers. Those are not toy dogs. (The other three were.)
Anyway, more power to all the people mentioned in the article for trying to make a dog’s life in Korea a little bit better.
Touchy-feely boy: if they’re not digging skiers out of avalanches, guiding the blind or sniffing bombs, they have no place in human society. ‘cept maybe on the menu, if that’s your thing. If I can say that about dogs, do you think I have a soft spot for birds and fish? Or hamsters that give people pleasure? Gimme a fuckin break.
having a nice li’l cute “toy dog” is a great way to hook up with girls during the summer.
i wonder how profitable a business model would be to gather up those abandoned dawgs and rent’em out to single guys @ 한강고수부지 for an hourly charge.
it sure beats having to dress up like a li’l faggotous korean boy band member.
ahh…the things guys have to do in this country to get some quality punani….
Actually, many scientists/anthropologists now think that dogs and humans interacted so much in the past that they two have influenced each other’s evolution. And that we did not tame dogs; rather, dogs evolved to fill needs in human society.
Quite so. Loveless, friendless losers die alone in their apartments, and their dogs eat them….
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I’m sure dogs influenced human evolution, but probably not as much as cows (much of humanity grew a lactose tolerating gene just because of them after all). That doesn’t mean we need to have useless toy cows that’s not even good for eating, like we do with dogs.
And of course dogs evolved to fill needs in human society, through intensive selective breeding. People got rid of dogs that weren’t useful for their purposes, if they weren’t cute. Now we have dogs that perform all sorts of useful functions along with useless cutesy rat dogs.
Just like pandas, the only reason those rat dogs didn’t go extinct years ago is that some crazy folks get the idea that they are cute.
I always wondered what we’d get if we put humans through same the intensive breeding program that gave us both Great Danes and Chihuahuas from wolves. Can you imagine, someone who could pick his teeth with Yao Ming and another who could hide in Mini-Me’s shirt pocket? Neato!
Also, some food for thoughts on the evolution of the dog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDb27ZP9zEE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tame_silver_fox
That sort of result in only 50 years gives me hope that perhaps Koreans can shed their shameful habit of eating dogs soon, and instead, chow down on dog-like foxes. Better go register I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Boshintang.com, maybe I’ll make some money off cybersquatting.
And in other news, the price of kaegogi this summer has dropped significantly…
#14 - you asked for it ^^
and to swlee: ding, dong the witch is dead!! Your prayer at lucky #13 was answered.
Anybody who wants English info on adopting a pet in Korea should head here.
http://www.animalrescuekorea.org/