Pet intelligence wank
The Guardian: Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test.

You can imagine how well this goes with the readers. Besides the predictable flood of pet owner butthurt and anecdotes of clever / stupid cats / dogs / mice / owls, there are plenty of genuinely funny comments as well as a side wank on the validity of test methods and statistics, obligatory calls to talk about world hunger instead or discuss the intelligence of various nationalities, and, naturally, Hitler and his pets make a bonus appearance. I think one could play classical wank bingo in here, but some of the stories make it all worthwhile.

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etcetera_cat
2009-06-18 08:19 pm UTC (link)

Oh yes; it's definitely the pitch and tone rather than the volume that's the ear-breaking part most of the time. The absolute worst (or most amusing, depending on your perspective) are Staffordshire Bull Terriers; they can sound like anything ranging from a squeaky gate in high winds, to a constipated pig, right the way through to something very close to a WW2 air raid siren.

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evilsqueakers
2009-06-19 06:53 am UTC (link)

At least you don't have a Wirehaired Fox Terrier that barks any time not eating. Literally, I never heard Bo shut up when I was working in the vet kennel for 8 months.

They also fed a 20 lb dog 3/4th can of wet food a day, too. When I got there, I bitched and managed to get him at least to eat 3/4th wet and 1 cup dry twice because he expended so much energy. He was kenneled about 95% of the month because the owner didn't trust his family to actually take care (like wife and kids). His mom would come and take him out for an afternoon and tire him out once or twice a week.

We had a lot of those, actually. I wondered why these people had pets when they saw them about 6 days a month.

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