FuglyDuck

Just because we understand their emotions only on a basic level doesn’t mean they’re not more complicated.

There is a lot we don’t understand and can’t understand.

Emotions? Sure.

Like us?

I dunno. Does irate fury at being woken up mid nap count as “like us”?

A face like that, you tried to rock a bowtie and failed, and pooch is just being a good wingdoggo and letting you know.

Not everyone can rock a bow tie… I can’t and it makes me sad.

When life gives you cats…

make cat memes.

HAI!!!

I dunno. Better do an experiment. Scritches and snacks.

(Oh they deserve all the scritches!)

So, my parents had this dachshund. Dachshunds are dumb, and will literally pick a fight with anything (and then run and hide behind you.)

One time I was dog sitting- Tootsie was just a puppy, it was wonderful weather for late spring so I went camping, taking her with.

Gonna go fly fishing and catch breakfast, was waiting for the sun to come up with my coffee and this bear comes up the opposite side of the creek.

Tootsie being the dumbass, starts yapping.

The bear looks at her. Its expression is “you know you’re not even a snack, right?”,

It looks at me. “You know she’s not even a snack?”

My expression is “I know, I know. Shut up tootsie. Yer a snack!”

The bear gives this sort of shrug I took as, “Okay. Just do you know.” And moved off down the stream.

Pretty sure it was actually food scraps that got ‘em. Scritches came later.

Oh… that’s definitely a dragon.

Better drop your grilled fish and all your gold.

I thought OP liquified their toebeans for second…

(Pretty sure that’s pastey-snack stuff)(or it’s brain barf)

Gravy… and catnip sauce??!

You like hitting the sauce, huh? :)

I’m a DM and I’ll allow it. This time.

I have a timeshare cat (I watch him when his family goes out of town,) whose ordinary as standoffish as they come.

Unless you happen to be one of like 3 people. It’s fun watching him figure out which one to harass with his aggressive affection,

Do I need to click? (Nope), Congrats OP!

For the record, if you go to carpet stores you can frequently get discounts by getting discards, or like, broken packs of the tiles.

The trouble is, the scraps aren’t always what you’re looking for.

I feel like Archie needs an orange ascott. Just saying.

A very dapper fellow.

Char is totally judging your choice in games and movies. totally.

Don’t feel too bad. I built my first beowulf cluster out of my dad’s cave of obsolescence in the mid-90’s… pentium II’s and older. nobody noticed the giant networked-cabled-monstrosity with cables going all over the basement until he got home and wondered why his network was being weird.

(I may have also borrowed his network switch.)

“Oh. that’s cool but. uhm. WHY!!!?!?!”

“PiMark” (i think that’s what it was called, anyhow. It was a benchmarking tool that would time your systems’ time to calculate Pi to x digits. Or you could donate cycles to calculate… more pi.)

“uh. okay.”… “clean up when your done.”

I dunno. I shudder at the thought of certain individuals trying a standup comedy routine. If the karaoke happy hour was anything to go by… there’s not enough booze in the world to make that painless; and they frown on drinking at these team building things anyhow.

Personally, comedy routines shouldn’t start before happy hour, at the earliest.

And I’m not entirely sold on the team building…

Okay. This pupper is priceless.