griffinmcelroyspisskink:

[image description: a screenshot of a tweet by Julia Galef @.juliagalef that reads, β€œI love overhearing dog owners talking to their dogs

eg, I was petting this dog who seemed happy but then auddwnly growled at me, so I left

As I turned the corner I could hear his owner saying to him reproachfully, β€˜You always do this, Oscar, you drive away all your friends’”]

aresnakesreal:

like imagine if you’d never seen a dog and you saw a saint bernard and you were like, what’s that and then someone was like, thats a dog. and then you saw a chihuahua and you were like ok whats that and they were like, that’s a dog. wouldn’t you feel lied to? wouldn’t you sense that something was amiss