• Zerlyna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    1 year ago

    I like this dude more with each article I see. 💙

  • casmael@lemm.eeEnglish
    47·
    1 year ago

    The first dog in Minnesota?! What did they do before that? Everyone out walking their porcupines / large lizards / capybara in the park? What? How did they not import dogs from the next state?!

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    Damn, Walz feels like the first human being up for office in I don’t know how long. IMO Sanders was pretty real, but he has a lot of institutional weight and history behind him. I thought Fetterman was close, but he’s not who we thought he was going to be. There may have been others I can’t think of off the top of my head, but they just didn’t make an impression.

    I’m sure the press has a lot to do with what we see of Walz, but everything I’m seeing so far really just makes him seem like “one of us”. Literally taking care of the average person, having a rescue dog and not some breed ans a statement, etc.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      As a Minnesotan I just have to say that I am so fucking happy that you all are giving him this reception. I was woried that when he got this position people would seem him as just some flyover state grandpa nobody cared about.

      But you all seem to love him as much as we have here and it really gives me so much hope for this country. Like literally brings a tear to my eye.

      • killingspark@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        My opinion as a german probably doesn’t really matter, but this guy as well as Kamala are giving me hope again that the world might not have gone completely mad. Also if this works out for you guys I hope the german party system is paying attention.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      441·
      1 year ago

      I can understand people not liking dogs. I can’t understand people who hate dogs.

      I really can’t understand people who are universally hated by dogs. And cats. Cats don’t like trump either.

      Like. What kind of foul, loathsome shitstain-on-the-universe do you have to be, for not a single golden retriever to accept you?

      • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Lots of evil people have pets that love them. Here’s Blondi, Hitler’s dog. So it really says something that Trump apparently doesn’t register as a human to animals.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      TBF I’ll bet dogs fucking hate him and he’s just responding to that. Dogs can usually tell a creepy weirdo.

      I’d bet even mosquitoes don’t want to be anywhere near him.

      • meggied90@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Can mosquitos even suck blood from a leech? I feel like blood probably doesn’t taste as good when it’s secondhand.

    • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      I don’t like cats. But I’m severely allergic so it’s too be expected. I mainly dislike cat owners who let their cats roam.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      You joke, but after the things they’ve come up with so far to attack Harris and Walz with, I wouldn’t even be a little surprised if some Newsmax flunkie said that. Or just criticized Walz for getting a rescue rather than buying an inbred purebred dog from a puppy mill.

      • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        I’m seriously waiting for someone at Fox News to mention that it’s a black dog. it’s inevitable.

  • runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    Literally every single thing I’ve learned about Tim Walz has been super uplifting.

    • Sunroc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Only detraction is the DUI. Probably would have been a bigger deal before 2016… now we have felons running for president.

      • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Judging by how it happened, he had a bad experience with cops, which he will likely remember.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      Aww. Poor Scout. We have to keep our big dog out of the kitchen with a gate so our little dog can eat his food before the big one eats it (he has a hole he can go through), but occasionally we forget we let her into the kitchen. 20 minutes later, we’ll see her silently standing by the gate, patiently waiting to be let out.

  • Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    For the love of god, nobody tell Kristi Noem. She gets a bit trigger happy around loveable, innocent creatures.

  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I read that as the first dog ever in Minnesota and was very confused until I recognized the name

    • spongebue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same! Well, almost. I read “First Dog”. I understood what “First Dog” was supposed to mean. But for some reason my brain processed it as “first First Dog” and I was amazed no other governor in Minnesota had a dog, until I realized it just said “First” once.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    1 year ago

    What’s his secret service bite count so far?

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    You mean to tell me Minnisodans haven’t had dogs before? I don’t fuckin’ believe ye!

    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      I’ve never, ever heard of a breakaway dog collar. Cats are the ones jumping off stuff, squeezing through small spaces, climbing and having a much higher risk of strangulation via a caught collar. Dogs don’t typically do that, so their risk is very, very low.

      • Botzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        They’re required by some dog boarding/daycare places.

    • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      I’ve never seen a breakaway on a dog. My trainer recommended a martingale, though two dogs now are “special” and were abused rescues that bite the shit out of me.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        I haven’t either, and I just did some searching and I’m not seeing vets saying you should use one. I’m seeing a lot of companies that sell them claiming that vets say that, but I’m not seeing it anywhere. I’ve had four dogs in my life and I’ve never been in a situation with any of them where a breakaway collar would be needed.

        • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s an abundance of caution thing I guess, I didn’t know they were so controversial.

          My dog has a collar for ID and a harness for walking with

          • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Someone above mentioned that boarding places want them sometimes. That seems reasonable. Less likely that the dog will escape and more likely it will hurt itself when there are no staff. I wish I could find a boarder that was staffed 24/7. There was a huge fire in Austin a while ago at a boarding place and every single animal perished.

        • Chocrates@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          That’s what I do. She still wears the martingale and I suppose if she is being a dick I could hook up to that, but I have a nice 3 point harness with a handle so if she gets in to trouble I can just pick her up like a suitcase 🤣

          She hates when I do that of course

      • dvlsg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        My dog hates wearing a harness. We’ve tried a ton of different types, and he just doesn’t like it for some reason.

        He doesn’t really pull on his leash, though.

    • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
      41·
      1 year ago

      Damn, I have never had such a neutral comment catch so many downvotes.

      I’m kind of proud