Every day, the straight heterosexist hegemony manages to find new ways to assert its dominance over all who do not share its presumptions.
Today, hangers on the back of an hotel room door.
Every day something different.
Yes, the first one is a little too well produced.
Such sweet doggies in the second!!!
I’m imagining the cat version: disdainful look; “have you been away? my food bowl’s empty” miaow; walks off.
Having enjoyed the doggie reunions video very much, Opal the Cat wishes to say that he hasn’t looked at his food dish once since I got back here tonight, nose rubbing, tummy tickling, head butting and general joyous ‘glad to see you’ stuff for a couple of hours, then an interesting video, followed by a companionable sleep on the table – on my hand ….
I know someone who ,when he was young, used to get a similar reception from a boxer dog called Tess
Yes, the first one is neatly packaged, but it appears to be a commercial, not home videos.
Sorry, but it doesn’t take returning from a tour of duty for dogs to act this way, just go to the grocery store for 30 minutes and dogs will behave the same over-the-top way!
Some of the dogs are bigger than the humans
In case no one saw it, here’s video number one in real life;
http://lgbtweekly.com/2012/04/26/gay-marine-says-i-do-on-base-a-first/
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