They're both drowning, you can save only one... (1 Viewer)

[Disc Shark]

Frightening poll results here. I hope all of you idiot dog lovers out there are never the "stranger".

Why do you think you are more important than my dog?

Because all people are more important than all dogs. It's subhuman to think otherwise.

Wrong. My dog is far more important to me than you are.

As far as you know.

Uh, yeah. That is why you'd fall into the stranger category.

And my point is that there are fewer strangers than you imagine.

 

[zDragon]

So if I am reading this right then 49% of you would not have a problem with someone watching your son/daughter/wife/mother drown while he get's his dog? You would look them straight in the eye an hour later when you arrive at the morgue and say "Man, I'm so glad your dog is ok. I really get that you saved your dog. I would do the same thing." No hard feelings at all?

 

[Todem]

I save the stranger. As much as I know I love my dog (have had dogs all my life). I am more about saving a human being who may be a father, husband, grandfather, son, mother, grandmother, wife, daughter, before an animal.

Simple as that.

 

[Mister Martie]

So if I am reading this right then 49% of you would not have a problem with someone watching your son/daughter/wife/mother drown while he get's his dog? You would look them straight in the eye an hour later when you arrive at the morgue and say "Man, I'm so glad your dog is ok. I really get that you saved your dog. I would do the same thing." No hard feelings at all?

Some dog owners think their dogs are people - this isn't new.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

Would you be upset if he let you die to save his dog?

I think if you're dead it's tough to stay upset

 

[zDragon]

So if I am reading this right then 49% of you would not have a problem with someone watching your son/daughter/wife/mother drown while he get's his dog? You would look them straight in the eye an hour later when you arrive at the morgue and say "Man, I'm so glad your dog is ok. I really get that you saved your dog. I would do the same thing." No hard feelings at all?

Some dog owners think their dogs are people - this isn't new.

Agreed and understood. I really am curious how the people that responded save my dog would react if someone did just that. They saved their dog versus saving the respondents child/loved one. I'm assuming they would understand and have no hard feelings.

 

[Todem]

So if I am reading this right then 49% of you would not have a problem with someone watching your son/daughter/wife/mother drown while he get's his dog? You would look them straight in the eye an hour later when you arrive at the morgue and say "Man, I'm so glad your dog is ok. I really get that you saved your dog. I would do the same thing." No hard feelings at all?

Some dog owners think their dogs are people - this isn't new.

It's to the point of bordering on insanity with this mindset today.Again....loved all my dog's with a passion.They are not people. I crack up at these morons dressing their dogs in clothes,putting them in strollers and treating them like people. It is ####### hillarious.

 

[Ryan99]

If you answered dog you're either not really thinking fully about the situation or you are a horrible, borderline psychotic person.

If this situation actually occurred I think 99% of people would save the person.

 

[JoeSteeler]

So if I am reading this right then 49% of you would not have a problem with someone watching your son/daughter/wife/mother drown while he get's his dog? You would look them straight in the eye an hour later when you arrive at the morgue and say "Man, I'm so glad your dog is ok. I really get that you saved your dog. I would do the same thing." No hard feelings at all?

Some dog owners think their dogs are people - this isn't new.

Agreed and understood. I really am curious how the people that responded save my dog would react if someone did just that. They saved their dog versus saving the respondents child/loved one. I'm assuming they would understand and have no hard feelings.

CORRECT!

 

[JoeSteeler]

If you answered dog you're either not really thinking fully about the situation or you are a horrible, borderline psychotic person.If this situation actually occurred I think 99% of people would save the person.

more like 53%

 

[Sinn Fein]

clearly the answer is: Neither

Man drowns trying to save wife and dog

It should be noted that bystanders rescued the wife, while the dog made it to shore on his own.

 

[scrumptrulescent]

clearly the answer is: Neither

Man drowns trying to save wife and dog

It should be noted that bystanders rescued the wife, while the dog made it to shore on his own.

Well, at least that's one less Californian.

 

[T Bell]

clearly the answer is: Neither

Man drowns trying to save wife and dog

It should be noted that bystanders rescued the wife, while the dog made it to shore on his own.

Was his priority the wife or the dog?

 

[Sinn Fein]

Link from the same story:

A man and woman are dead and a teenage boy is missing after the trio were swept into the ocean by big waves in northern California while trying to rescue their dog, according to media reports.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon at Big Lagoon about 32 miles north of Eureka in Humboldt County.

Family members went into the water to try to save their pet dog, which had been pulled away by 8- to 10-foot waves, KTVU-TV reported.

The mother and father drowned and their bodies were recovered. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Times-Standard. A 16-year-old boy, believed to be the couple’s son, was missing.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the daughter called police, according to KTVU.

The dog managed to make it to safety, the TV station reported.

Your dog can swim - let him make it on his own, you will just die trying to save him, and then he'll have to go to the pound when you die.

 

[T Bell]

Link from the same story:

A man and woman are dead and a teenage boy is missing after the trio were swept into the ocean by big waves in northern California while trying to rescue their dog, according to media reports.

The accident happened Saturday afternoon at Big Lagoon about 32 miles north of Eureka in Humboldt County.

Family members went into the water to try to save their pet dog, which had been pulled away by 8- to 10-foot waves, KTVU-TV reported.

The mother and father drowned and their bodies were recovered. They were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Times-Standard. A 16-year-old boy, believed to be the couple’s son, was missing.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the daughter called police, according to KTVU.

The dog managed to make it to safety, the TV station reported.

Your dog can swim - let him make it on his own, you will just die trying to save him, and then he'll have to go to the pound when you die.

Would you try to save your drowing wife or your dog from a high kill shelter?

 

[roadkill1292]

Smoo made 220 posts in this thread. I'm too lazy to go back and read them but I bet almost every one of them was a brilliant argument in favor of the dog, wasn't it? He was the best. He liked arguing so much that I suspect he picked his side of the argument mostly on the basis of which side was the most fun to argue, not the side he actually believed in.

But one of these days we're gonna have to have a debate about why being the best debater doesn't necessarily make you right.

 

[ntz08]

she had a safety line

 

[NCCommish]

she had a safety line

Terriers aren't good swimmers and the wife wasn't going anywhere.

 

[matuski]

I can't remember which way I voted. =Can we get the voting transparency feature added retroactively here?.

 

[satch]

Bump for 2014!

 

[McGarnicle]

Still dog.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Every time I meet someone new, I feel more and more confident about my dog vote.

 

[NCCommish]

Every time I meet someone new, I feel more and more confident about my dog vote.

Every news story pretty much reinforces my vote for me.

 

[lod01]

Every time I meet someone new, I feel more and more confident about my dog vote.

Every time I meet someone new, I feel more and more confident about my dog vote.

Every news story pretty much reinforces my vote for me.

Totally understandable. If you were to come out of Wal-Mart and this question was posed, the dog would smoke the humanoid somewhere in the neighborhood of 98%-2% with the possibility of the dog pitching a shutout.

I went save the stranger because my stranger just happened to be a really hot rich chick.

 

[NCCommish]

Every time I meet someone new, I feel more and more confident about my dog vote.

Every time I meet someone new, I feel more and more confident about my dog vote.

Every news story pretty much reinforces my vote for me.

Totally understandable. If you were to come out of Wal-Mart and this question was posed, the dog would smoke the humanoid somewhere in the neighborhood of 98%-2% with the possibility of the dog pitching a shutout.

I went save the stranger because my stranger just happened to be a really hot rich chick.

I understand.

 

[xyrza]

What was the consensus if the stranger was a child? You would still save your beloved dog over a child?

 

[NCCommish]

What was the consensus if the stranger was a child? You would still save your beloved dog over a child?

I believe most folks, including myself, said child over dog. Adults can fend for themselves.

 

[Spin]

I went stranger. I take my dog camping all the time and she runs in and out of the rivers/waterfall pools etc. If she ever gets into a situation where she can't get out, no way in hell I'd be able to help her. I'd be exhausted in about 4 minutes, and I'm in pretty good shape. Swimming for an extended period of time is much harder then people think.

 

[glock]

What was the consensus if the stranger was a child? You would still save your beloved dog over a child?

I believe most folks, including myself, said child over dog. Adults can fend for themselves.

That there is some sad ####, if I might say so. And I did.

 

[NCCommish]

What was the consensus if the stranger was a child? You would still save your beloved dog over a child?

I believe most folks, including myself, said child over dog. Adults can fend for themselves.

That there is some sad ####, if I might say so. And I did.

Well my guess is those that went the other way at the point were total shtick. I don't recall that there were more than one or two,

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Which one or which ones owner is more likely to give me a cash reward?

 

[fantasycurse42]

Wow, this is a real tough question... I don't even want to answer.

 

[Sinn Fein]

Pilot diverts plane to save dog

 

[Don't Noonan]

I have owned dogs my whole life and no question would save the stranger first

 

[Sinn Fein]

I have owned dogs my whole life and no question would save the stranger first

Maybe you should stop treating them as property, and more like family...

 

[NCCommish]

Pilot diverts plane to save dog

Good man

Yep

 

[sbonomo]

Pilot diverts plane to save dog

Good man

Yep

good job air Canada - I am sure that American Airlines would have continued on their flight plan.

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Pilot diverts plane to save dog

Good man

Yep

good job air Canada - I am sure that American Airlines would have continued on their flight plan.

First thing Air Canada has ever done right. I'm amazed the dog wasn't lost before the flight took off.

 

[Keith R]

Pilot diverts plane to save dog

Good man

Yep

good job air Canada - I am sure that American Airlines would have continued on their flight plan.

First thing Air Canada has ever done right. I'm amazed the dog wasn't lost before the flight took off.

All kudos to the pilot and Air Canada.

As to the original question, I save my dog. My dog has earned my loyalty, the stranger hasn't. End of story.

 

[msommer]

Is the stranger Trump? Because then definitely the dog

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Is the stranger Trump? Because then definitely the dog

what if the dog looks like Trump?

https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/trump-dog.jpg?w=500

 

[Angry Beavers]

I still don't care who the stranger is, I am saving the dog.

 

[Don't Noonan]

I have owned dogs my whole life and no question would save the stranger first

Maybe you should stop treating them as property, and more like family...

Human life 》》》》》dog life

 

[glock]

I have owned dogs my whole life and no question would save the stranger first

Maybe you should stop treating them as property, and more like family...

You do know that you are so attached to your dog because he/she worships the ground that you walk on, right?

He/she sees you as the head of his/her pack and therefore knows just how dependent he/she is on you for all that is good in his/her world. He/she doesn't understand why it is that you demand that he/she sit. Or stay. Or heel, leave it, come. All he/she knows is that if he/she is compliant, all will be well in his/her world. And it feels great when your dog looks at you with those big "loving" and dependent eyes, amiright?

But, try all that with your family.

Disclaimer: I am "only" 8 months into my first experience as a dog owner. (owner) He- Duncan- is an Alabama rescue Lab mix we picked up as a 2 month old puppy last February. (We also picked up an amazing kitten the same day. I am TOTALLY smitten. By both.) I raced home to a urine soaked puppy when we were trying to cover his day early on, held him in my arms and bathed him in the sink- apologizing the whole time. I have pulled string out of and wiped his ###. I have picked up boatloads of his ####. I have walked him in the rain and in the snow. I can't wait to see him when I get up and when I get home from work. To play with him outside or in the kitchen when it often seems to be his idea. I try very hard to be a good dog owner and my heart melts when he looks into my eyes.

For the first time I truly get this thread.

And I would still save the stranger.

 

[Sinn Fein]

I have owned dogs my whole life and no question would save the stranger first

Maybe you should stop treating them as property, and more like family...

Human life 》》》》》dog life

You have much to learn, Grasshopper.

 

[msommer]

Is the stranger Trump? Because then definitely the dog

what if the dog looks like Trump?

https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/trump-dog.jpg?w=500

if the stranger is still Trump, still dog

 

[TheIronSheik]

I have owned dogs my whole life and no question would save the stranger first

Maybe you should stop treating them as property, and more like family...

Human life 》》》》》dog life

No dog ever grew up to be Osama bin Laden.

 

[renesauz]

The results of this poll have always been very disheartening to me. 46% to save the dog is ridiculously high.

 

[ghostguy123]

The results of this poll have always been very disheartening to me. 46% to save the dog is ridiculously high.

I think the "unknown" is creating the poll results.

I think the results would vary greatly if we could SEE 100 different strangers and then vote accordingly.

Is the stranger a kid? A fat guy you might not even be able to save? A hot chick? ...........................

People also really love to brag about how much they love their animals and whatnot. The whole "animals are people, too" crowd.

 

[ghostguy123]

I find the results of this poll deeply disturbing. No way a dog's life is worth a human's life...and it's really not even remotely close.

This depends on which human. There are plenty of people in this world that I would let drown whether there was a dog out there with them or not.