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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	tree 2009-06-18 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder where this dog = male, cat = female comes from. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sepiamagpie 2009-06-18 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	man, I have no idea. Because our dog is a girly girl and the cats are both pretty butch, as cats go. Hell, the little girl cat likes to slap women on the ass as they go by. Not that I approve, but she doesn't seem to understand my lectures on sexual harassment. Usually as she's burrowing her way into some girl's bra. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2009-06-19 01:34 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know what it is about some cats and brassieres, but if one of mine is anywhere in Harley's field of view, she will leap on it and start snuggling it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

vzg
2009-06-28 09:02 pm UTC (link)

I dunno, but I had it in my head when I was little, even though I loved dogs to absolute bits and pieces (and still do). Somewhere around here I've got a drawing I did when I was six-ish of an anthropomorphic dog and cat couple with their canine son and feline daughter. Of course, seeing as how I was six I'm sure no one else would have been able to tell their genders. Maybe I'll just pass them off as a gay couple in the future.

And on the other side there was a skunk, a bee (in a cage, no less), and... something else. Possibly a worm. The animals I hated most back then. Now I like skunks and bees, at least to some extent.

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