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This is why I think it’s entirely plausible that women had the primary role in domesticating animals. Women are generally much less aggressive and more nurturing than men. Intelligent, social animals can sense that.
ETA This is not to say that women single-handedly domesticated sheep, horses, cows, pigs, etc. I just think it’s more likely that women took it upon themselves to feed, protect, and socialize wild animals.
I can't remember what the study was, but I've read about hypotheses that it was women who domesticated dogs first, and then men noticed the dogs might have utility for them.
The fact that so many dogs (and other animals) prefer women to men suggests not only that women are inherently more appealing, but that dogs have actually evolved to have an affinity with women. Dogs are "hard wired" to prefer women because women have from an evolutionary perspective been the ones to provide shelter/food/companionship for them.
Thinking of all the ancient goddesses depicted with (sometimes as) animals. My mother always likened me to Artemis with her wild beasts.
I love that 🥲
I would say cattle are so strong, the difference between men and women is negligible.
My dad was working on something but had his head near a cow. She just flicked her head because of a fly. She wasn’t mad ot anything. She broke his glasses and knocked him out.
My guess is that they would have adopted orphaned calves, possibly just out of curiosity or for fun. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond talks about people in remote villages adopting exotic animals as pets, not for any particular reason, but because it seems like a fun, interesting thing to do.
Yeah! I remember reading a few years ago that a lot of scientific studies are confounded because lab mice are afraid of men but not women. https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/28/5661118/lab-mice-fear-men-not-women-big-problem-for-science
Except my dad. They ALL love my dad. My dogs used to get so excited when he would come home from work. "Why? He doesn't do anything for them."
ANY animal. Parrots, horses, cats and dogs, even a walrus one time. I'm not kidding. A fucking walrus.
It's a pleasure to meet you, Bindi Irwin.
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Literal animal magnetism 😹
My late brother was like that. Animals adored him.
How do you bond with a walrus? Only my dad could.
He didn’t do anything for them, huh? Sounds like a real Dr. Doolittle!
Wish I could find it but there was specifically a study done that concluded male dogs preferred women. The study did not clarify whether it was the same for female dogs but my money is on that it's the same.
Found this related article https://www.rsvplive.ie/life/family/study-finds-dogs-prefer-women-13078024
But not the study name.
It was a study carried out at Washington State University.
Here's the WSU press release for the study:
https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2021/01/25/women-influenced-coevolution-dogs-humans/
And here's the study itself:
https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-40/issue-4/0278-0771-40.4.414/Dog-Human-Coevolution-Cross-Cultural-Analysis-of-Multiple-Hypotheses/10.2993/0278-0771-40.4.414.full
Including female humans and also a lot of male humans. Let the males talk long enough and eventually they’ll start confessing how much they hate other men. It’s really weird especially in the context of a lot of their other behavior. Sometimes I observe them in groups for fun to see how miserable they are together. Looks terrible.
someone tell my cat. She adores my husband. She likes me, but she looooovvvvess him.
Which is great, but damn, I want some kitty love too! When we're both around, it's pretty clear that I'm her second choice, hahah
Cats love whoever likes them least. Except my cat, who wants snuggles all the time and do not stop. Stop stopping.
My elder cat loves any woman who comes into the house and will be up on her lap as soon as she sits down. I have to warn visitors that they will go away with grey fur all over their trousers - and warn homecare providers that they are not to send anyone nervous of or hostile to cats to my house. There is nowhere I can lock my cats away (and it’s their home) and I have banned one worker from the house for her reaction.
I do wonder what it is with all those terfy dogs. Or rather, with all those misandrist dogs. It is clear that dogs would be able to tell women and men apart by smell.
But men must be abusing dogs about as much as women for so many dogs to hate them.
Grim. I guess part of me still thought men would treat "man's best friend" a bit better than they treat women.
Side tangent but this right fucking here is what pisses me off when people start saying men treat women badly purely because we’re more physically vulnerable. If that were the reason then animal abuse rates would be equal and child abuse rates would significantly be higher among women since we’re the only ones who spend significant amounts of time with kids. But NO. Nothing natural about it. The problem is males making evil decisions, consciously, for hundreds of years.
Thousands of years.
Cats, too. My younger cat will say hello to female visitors. The rare occasion we have a male one, she’s under the bed.
My cats are very cautious of men. One was horrifically abused by one (the shelter told me that the owners boyfriend broke several of his bones and fucking stabbed/slashed him) and the other also comes from a shelter, but I don't know his backstory. If a man comes into my house, they run and hide.
When they meet a new woman though, they're over the moon and generally surround their new best friend (looking for treats and/or additional attention).
What kind of monster could hurt/abuse a defenceless animal :( your poor little cat! I think animal abuse is amongst the most evil thing a human can do.
I wonder when we will hear the first complaints of TIMs that misandrist animals don't respect their gender identity ...
When the first TIM gets mauled by a misandrist dog males were explicitly warned to stay away from, and demands that the dog be put down, we will see how animal friendly all those TRAs who claim to loooove animals really are.
Your poor cat! These crimes should get the perpetrators life in prison as a minimum sentence.
My two are shelter cats, and all I know is they were street rescues. The elder regards every woman who comes in as there to provide attention, entertainment and scritches. She’d probably do the same with the man who comes here if he was sitting down, but he’s a physiotherapist, so she doesn’t get the opportunity. My younger takes a little while to be sure, but I bet she won’t be coming out for the physio bloke.
I had a male house sitter for the first time last month. My cat disappeared for a week. Thank god he came back, but what a stressful week. No more male house sitters.
Bloody hell!
This is why I wouldn’t have a house sitter (of either sex, tbh). I’d board my cats if I had to go away.
Blessings to your precious terven cat <3
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Wow, what a brilliant dog! How did it figure out human sex constructs that are actually not biological because reasons?
Ah yes, those completely made up sex constructs that only white humans invented and with which indigenous cultures never came up before the white man taught them there's two sexes ... how did a dog figure it out? It's a mystery!
Good dog!
My cat loooooooves all men. I don’t know why. I just want her to love me 🥺 I’m the one who gives you treats and wants to cuddle you, you ungrateful wretch! Yet there you are, smarmed up to the male vet like no one has ever offered you as much as a pat.
I once heard a woman jokingly complain that female cats were “such tarts” with women’s husbands 😂
I think the only reasonable solution in your case is to keep getting cats until you find one that’s exclisively enamored with you.
I like your style.
My cat is a pick-me with men too 🤣 my husband is her man, it's hilarious. I also love how much he loves her too, when I met him he didn't like cats and now that's his baby.
I'm glad I'm not the only one haha. My cat tolerates and maybe even likes me, but if my husband's home, I'm nobody. And idk why, we both feed her (I might even feed her more often) and give her attention
Nature is transphobic.
I love when animals are terfs. Warms the heart. 🥰🥰🥰
Wolf dogs are something else aswell, there’s a few men who work with them but mostly I’ve seen women who work with wolves. It’s also men I more often see get cocky with them and end up bit
I knew a woman who had a "pet" wolf and a pet wolfdog (the son of the wolf). They both looked equally wolfy, but the wolfdog was very "doggy" in personality while the full wolf just had an intensity and an intelligence in her demeaner that almost instinctively commanded a certain level of respect (and caution) in how you interacted with her. And I think ultimately the wolfdog was more dangerous, because with him you could forget that he wasn't a normal dog, think of him like he was a husky, while you'd never forget the wolf was a wolf because she wouldn't let you. Something in the way she made eye contact with you that dogs just don't do; none of that begging for approval.
There’s a certain class of men who are drawn to wolf dogs because they think they’re a badass accessory. Setting aside the fact that individual wolf dogs differ wildly in temperament, these aren’t the type of men to put in the time or effort to train and exercise a part dog-part wild animal mix; nor to provide the type of outdoor shelter it would prefer.
Plus, a lot of men are weirdly competitive or aggressive with animals. I have no respect for these men.
I very rarely come across men who work well with them (they sure claim to be an expert). I know a few women personally who work with very powerful dogs, German shepards, Belgian malinos, gorgeous dogs but not quite my bag. One thing I notice about them is how much respect they have for those dogs and what they’re capable of. They never take for granted the animal that they have and make sure they spend a lot of time and effort to get a well bred animal that’s trained properly that has a happy life.
Men can’t not see these animals as possessions, I think that’s where their competitiveness comes in because they want to have this dangerous animal submit to them. Their methods are always far more aggressive and in turn they end up fear bitten.
Personal experience, I love guardian breed dogs, I've had Cane Corsos all of my adult life. And let me tell you, it's a working relationship with lots of negotiation. My dogs do what they do for me because they love me (and I feed them), not because I force them to it.
I prefer rescue, and it's 99% women in rescue work as well. Who would've thought?
They say after his surgeries - wonder what surgeries he had?
You can watch the full video here https://youtu.be/AnxaeBfIlRQ
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