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Sadly, my husband is allergic to pet hair. Otherwise I would want a big, cuddly, energetic dog (either a Scottish deerhound or a borzoi).
Eventually, we are going to get a bunny rabbit and keep it in an outside hutch. Smaller animal=less hair=healthy husband 🙂
The ideal pet is furry, venomous, and creepy crawly.
nu, we have enough beheimos to deal with in the oilam without getting more. And since when does an ehrliche yid own a dog? it’s bittul torah anyway.
I’m sorry…how is that bittul torah, exactly?
Centipedes are not venomous. But anyway, I was thinking more of a tarantula.
JF— walking the beheimah, playing with it, cleaning up its drek, yelling at your siblings (or kids) not to torture it
BITTUL TORAH!!Popa: and the wife agreed to take care of it, on top of kids, cleaning, cooking, and everything else? you married a tzadekes! im yirtzeh hashem by me for someone like that haha
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Nope, not an oxymoron and you haven’t convinced me. Walking and playing with the dog is much-needed exercise, disciplining your children is good parenting (if they weren’t “torturing” the dog they’d get into some other mischief and you’d have to discipline them anyway), and cleaning up after it is part of our achrayus to take care of the environment.
JF- you can and walk and play without the dog, and the dog adds a lot more stress and effort which decreases productivity. After all, you don’t need to stop every 10 minutes to clean up drek if you just take walks by yourself. Why do you assume one can only get exercise with a dog?
Cleaning up after a dog (along with everything else I mentioned) is a waste of time and it dirties up your house, and as I said is bittul Torah. It’s not my achrayus if I don’t own a dog, it only becomes my achrayus if I, engaging in bittul torah and zman, buy a dog!
Regarding your name, feminist theory advocates for full equality and rights for women. Associating Judaism with that ideology doesn’t make sense, as halacha has a lot to say about gender roles, and it ain’t feminism.
1) There are many different valid ways of exercising. Walking a dog is one of them, and if you had ever owned a dog you would know that they don’t need to do their business every 10 minutes.
2) A properly trained dog will not make a mess in your house. If you’re worried about shedding, get a short-haired dog and keep it properly groomed.
3) Feminism is not the same as egalitarianism. Feminist theory does not, as is popularly and mistakenly believed, advocate that women are the SAME as men. I believe in Jewish values of gender roles, but that does not mean that I cannot also be a feminist.
A Sheid.
One of my daughters would love a dolphin! But….. we don’t have room in our bathtub 🙁 Any suggestions?
I have a bunch of birds. i dont mind more.
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Decrying bitul torah … in the CR? Kind of ironic.
I’d want Clifford, the big, red dog.
None. Absolutely none.
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