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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: choose him or your cats??????
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- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:58:13 GMT
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- Steve Pope (spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu) wrote:
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- : > I'm new to this group, so I don't know if this is a Never-
- : > ending Topic, but I'd like to take issue with the dog-people/
- : > cat-people dichotomy. In my experience it's rare to begin
- : > with and people with such strong species-preferences are
- : > usually narrowminded and intolerant.
- :
- : I agree. I am not narrowminded or intolerant, and therefore
- : despite my preference for cats I also like dogs. Up to
- : a point. I don't like stupid, neurotic dogs that bark
- : nonstop. I also don't like snivelling little rug-rats.
- : And I despise spindly, overbred show-dogs as well as the types
- : that breed them.
- :
- : But give me a good dog, a real dog, and I like it just
- : fine. See? I'm not intolerant.
-
- I agree! Give me a golden retriever any day for the Gang of Four to play
- with! ;)
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- Ed Carp erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com 801/538-0177
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- "It is your resistance to 'what is' that causes your suffering." -- Buddha
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