Filthy Animals?

Last night an incident occurred in my household where Kory (my three year old brother) urinated on a piece of furniture (I think it was in a draw... lol). A pretty retarded thing to do and he claims to not know why he did it (he's not 100% toilet trained oddly enough). Naturally, it would make any mother rage and his mother was no exception. In her anger one of the things my step-mum said was that "only dogs wee on furniture! We are not doggies, we are boys and girls, we wee in the toilet!". I took a bit of offense to this as, as you know, doggies are my friends and in all my experience, I don't think any of my dogs have pissed on any of our furniture. It's always been the floor if they're not toilet trained, and once they are, it's always outside and very rarely there would be the odd whoopsie, and that could usually be justified (staying inside for eight hours straight without a human mustn't be easy for a dog). 

However, we used to have a Persian cat called Charlie, who would pee everywhere! She even peed on my mum's laptop once! Every time it rained, we would have to be prepared with a wet cloth and the pet stain remover. She refused to go to the toilet outside in the cold and wet. We ended up giving her away to new owners who could pay more attention to her. I feel sorta bad for not being able to give her the attention she craved, but on the other hand, she was pretty fucking annoying. Each time you'd enter the kitchen, she expected to be fed, even if she was given food less than an hour ago. She had the most annoying 'feed me' meow too. If you ever see me in real life, I will do an impression for you. I hope she's doing alright now and she is less annoying for her new owners. Therefore, if my step-mum said that cats are the ones who piss on furniture, I would have agreed.

Charlie. Cute but Annoying

Anyway, back to my main point. Are animals really that disgusting? Are humans so much more superior in hygiene? I don't think so. Of course there are exceptions to each. Some of the things non-human animals do can be pretty gross. Dogs do some pretty disgusting things, such as eat cat poo, roll in duck poo/other gross substances, and eat their own vomit. The reason why they do these things is because cat poo smells meaty and they think that rolling in things will make them smell nice... Well not a to a human anyway. (I have a friend who's studying to be a vet nurse). On the other hand, humans do some pretty gross stuff too, such as intentionally spreading disease and many, many disgusting sexual acts, such as shitting, pissing and vomiting on each other, and violating children/animals/women/men (i.e. everything). But many animals are hygienic for creatures who are 'uncivilized'. They wash themselves regularly, bury their poo, don't pee where they sleep, and don't intentionally infect others with pathogens. I would consider those the basics of hygiene. 

My step-mum doesn't like dogs. However, she was attacked by a Rottweiler a couple of years ago. This would make almost anyone anti-canine. But we need to bare in mind that there are waaaaaay more dogs who don't attack people than those that do. I think many people forget this when ever there is news of a dog attack. And let us not forget that there are far more humans who brutalize dogs and don't get any punishment. Anyway, digressing a bit. My step-mum didn't like dogs before the Rottweiler incident anyway (in fact I don't think she likes any animals...), so in her lack of knowledge she would think dogs are disgusting and piss anywhere and everywhere. But in reality, once you toilet train a dog, they will generally pee in the same area every time. I observed this when we were toilet training Tara. When she was a baby, she would just pee anywhere when we took her outside. But now she always goes on the grass. She knows this is the toilet and she can even take herself out there because she can fit through the cat flap.

In conclusion, humans can be just as disgusting as non-human animals. Also, it seems that it is quicker and easier to train a Cocker Spaniel puppy to pee in the correct place in comparison to a human child.

No puppy pee on this furniture!