>The phrase “Man’s best friend” is most often credited to Frederick Edwin (F.E.) Weatherly, an American lawyer, during a courtroom argument in Missouri in 1870.>In the trial, where a farmer was suing over the killing of his dog, Weatherly said: “The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.”>This speech reportedly moved the jury, and newspapers picked it up, spreading the phrase widely.
>>5052019It was a nice speech but the claim an american lawyer created "Man's best friend" in the late 19th century is typical american bullshit. Voltaire wrote it in his 1764 dictionary and record of the concept goes all the way back to Homer's Odyssey with Argos.
>>5052039next you will tell me a spiteful chef didnt invent potato chips
>>5052044STOP RUINING MY CHILDHOOD ARSEHOLE
>>5052019Dogs have been domesticated longer than any other animal (20-40k years depending on where you draw the line between dogs and cavemen taming wolves) and never abandoned for a lack of utility like horses. Hence the phrase. The only animal that receives even half as much unearned praise is the cat, which famously does not control rodent infestations and just makes pests hide more. They are famously the only two animals that consistently leave the menu and are rarely on it as a matter of fact, but rather for degeneracy, desperation or ritual. A rare property they share with manflesh
>>5052059>cats don't kill rodentsWhat
>>5054158cats kill a few rodents but not enough to work as lest control. long term they cause pest rodent populations to increase slightly be clearing out habitat for them to infest. the pests are adapted to cats, the wild animals are not.
>>5054158Nearly every popular idea of cats are wrong, hence why most cat owners are shit. E.G.>Cats should be outdoors.lol no>Cats are good for pest control.They're not.>Can't can't be trained.They can and should be.>They're low maintenance.They're high maintenance, and if you consider them low maintenance it's because you're shit and don't give your cat enough attention, hence why they're so fucking neurotic.>They're cleanThey're not. No pet is 100% clean and cats in particular aren't even on the more cleanly side.
>>5054170On the other hand a catio litterbox is less work than training a dog to keep their shits in the sand corner.
>>5054158You responded to the anti cat schizo who lets cats live rent free in his head so hard that he MUST bring them up in a negative light every single time he posts. He has a legit mental illness and should confined to a mental hospital.
>>5054184>guys its poopbutt fagCats don’t control pests, schizo. Please separate your girly headcanon drama from reality.
>>5054158People have being using cats to attempt to control grain eating pest rodents for 8-10,000 years, and they are only marginally successful at it. Good farm hygiene (don’t give the rodents junk piles to live in and seal up your graineries) is always a much better controller of pest rodents than any number of cats.What cats do well is make rodents hide in the places inaccessible to cats (which means humans see them less). But since rodent populations aren’t controlled by space availability, but rather food availability, this doesn’t reduce the number of rodents in your home/at your farm, unless you prevent rodent access to your graineries and remove all their places to hide.You see, 1,000 adult rats eat as much grain per year as a single adult milk cow eats in a week, so a rodent problem has to be very bad for you to notice that your grainery is infested, unless you see the rodents.
>>5054158An entire dog-type(terrier) was created because cats fail at vermin control. Dogs beat cats at their own job.
>>5054184Lmao and the schizo count resist replying with more off topic nonsense. Typical.
>>5054158cats increase rodent populations because they learn to hide better and reproduce faster
>>5054184>the animals and nature board doesn’t like the manmade creature that kills animals and harms nature while its owners defend and encourage its activity? no way. this is definitely all one guy. A catfag spammed actual fucking child porn because /an/ likes dogs more. A lot of people dislike cats and dislike catfaggots far more. Now take a look at thishttps://desuarchive.org/an/search/deleted/deleted (do not click at work)No way could more than one person shit on cats after that right?
>>5054158On the net, they actually increase and attract rodents
>>5054252If you see illegal content there please report it to the administrators they have a button for it. Otherwise it just become a haven for patient pedophiles.
>>5054158Rodents are adapted to surviving DESPITE the presence of cats, competitors to rodents like birds, reptiles and whatnot are not adapted to handle cats. So cats basically clear out the competition for them by taking out these animals and lets Rodents monopolize more resources.
>>5054252That freak basically recycled old cat threads from years ago to flood the catalog and then embedded cp into half of them. What a psycho.
>>5054471I delved into this while trying to get the feds to shut down the proxy site he used, and that was actually the other proxy users getting back at him for getting half the IP pool bannedAlso all those sites are now 99% fbi owned
