Abandoned Dogs Roam Detroit in Packs as Humans Dwindle

[laklak]

No, no, the answer is a Federally Funded program for feral doggies (and kitties, and goldfish, etc). None of this spaying and neutering, they have a right to reproduce. Personally, I feel a terrible burden of guilt for what our species has done to theirs, keeping them in virtual slavery for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. Did they ask to be domesticated? Did wiener dogs ask to look like a bratwurst? This is our fault and we need to take responsibility.

[piscator]

No, no, the answer is a Federally Funded program for feral doggies (and kitties, and goldfish, etc). None of this spaying and neutering, they have a right to reproduce. Personally, I feel a terrible burden of guilt for what our species has done to theirs, keeping them in virtual slavery for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. Did they ask to be domesticated? Did wiener dogs ask to look like a bratwurst? This is our fault and we need to take responsibility.

Enlightened Libertarian self-interest could unleash the power of the Private Sector to efficiently match these animal's needs with a strong market niche for wholesome family-friendly pet population management and combat gun training in Detroit.

[Seth]

Are there any muslims or marxists in Detroit? You could hunt them too!

Don't need to unless they turn feral.

[Seth]

They have a serious money-making tourist venue they are ignoring. I'd pay money to be allowed to take my silenced Colt M4, IR laser, thermal sight and dual PVS-14s to Detroit and sneak around in the dark whacking feral dogs. It'd be just as much fun as whacking feral hogs in Texas, but you'd get some good urban combat movement training in at the same time.

That type of trainin' will be real practical when the zombie times come. Libertarians should buy up Detroit and create a utopian meritocracy based on a Lassie-faire urban combat shooting ranch economy.

Waste of money. Detroit should be left in it's decaying condition as an object lesson on the evils of Marxist Progressive social engineering, which is exactly what caused it to fall. Make it into a museum and send every schoolchild there on a field trip while explaining how the socialist pretensions of the jackasses who lived, worked and ruled there failed utterly both economically and socially, as has been and will be the case with every other Marxist Progressive society...sooner or later. Detroit is one of the best examples of the fundamental failings of Marxist Progressive theory we have in the US, and perhaps the world.

[orpheus]

They have a serious money-making tourist venue they are ignoring. I'd pay money to be allowed to take my silenced Colt M4, IR laser, thermal sight and dual PVS-14s to Detroit and sneak around in the dark whacking feral dogs. It'd be just as much fun as whacking feral hogs in Texas, but you'd get some good urban combat movement training in at the same time.

That type of trainin' will be real practical when the zombie times come. Libertarians should buy up Detroit and create a utopian meritocracy based on a Lassie-faire urban combat shooting ranch economy.

Waste of money. Detroit should be left in it's decaying condition as an object lesson on the evils of Marxist Progressive social engineering, which is exactly what caused it to fall. Make it into a museum and send every schoolchild there on a field trip while explaining how the socialist pretensions of the jackasses who lived, worked and ruled there failed utterly both economically and socially, as has been and will be the case with every other Marxist Progressive society...sooner or later. Detroit is one of the best examples of the fundamental failings of Marxist Progressive theory we have in the US, and perhaps the world.

And what of the people who still live there?

[Seth]

They have a serious money-making tourist venue they are ignoring. I'd pay money to be allowed to take my silenced Colt M4, IR laser, thermal sight and dual PVS-14s to Detroit and sneak around in the dark whacking feral dogs. It'd be just as much fun as whacking feral hogs in Texas, but you'd get some good urban combat movement training in at the same time.

Yes, and that would be so safe for the people who still live there. I'm sure they would love it.

The non-criminal citizens of Detroit would be far, far safer with legions of people like me around to exterminate the vermin and protect them than they are today...or have been for nearly a hundred years. Of course, they should be doing this themselves. They need to organize armed local militias to patrol the streets and deal effectively with feral animals of all species. I'd be happy to help train them how to do so. That is, after all, what the Militia Act is all about.

[Seth]

They have a serious money-making tourist venue they are ignoring. I'd pay money to be allowed to take my silenced Colt M4, IR laser, thermal sight and dual PVS-14s to Detroit and sneak around in the dark whacking feral dogs. It'd be just as much fun as whacking feral hogs in Texas, but you'd get some good urban combat movement training in at the same time.

That type of trainin' will be real practical when the zombie times come. Libertarians should buy up Detroit and create a utopian meritocracy based on a Lassie-faire urban combat shooting ranch economy.

Waste of money. Detroit should be left in it's decaying condition as an object lesson on the evils of Marxist Progressive social engineering, which is exactly what caused it to fall. Make it into a museum and send every schoolchild there on a field trip while explaining how the socialist pretensions of the jackasses who lived, worked and ruled there failed utterly both economically and socially, as has been and will be the case with every other Marxist Progressive society...sooner or later. Detroit is one of the best examples of the fundamental failings of Marxist Progressive theory we have in the US, and perhaps the world.

And what of the people who still live there?

Think of them as part of a "living history" exhibit...if they are too fucking stupid to leave.

[orpheus]

And if they can't leave?

[charlou]

No, no, the answer is a Federally Funded program for feral doggies (and kitties, and goldfish, etc). None of this spaying and neutering, they have a right to reproduce. Personally, I feel a terrible burden of guilt for what our species has done to theirs, keeping them in virtual slavery for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years. Did they ask to be domesticated? Did wiener dogs ask to look like a bratwurst? This is our fault and we need to take responsibility.

Flippancy aside, stating dogs are the problem does seem to deny accountability and responsibility for what is also a really bad plight for the dogs. A government funded eradication effort with strict animal welfare and OH&S guidelines is probably the most humane and practical way to deal with such numbers of feral dogs.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

You always were a porponent of teh doggie position, if I racall.

[charlou]

ah good times

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Pleaese excuse me. I'm pissed.

[Audley Strange]

I blame KISS. The city has been in a decline since the release of the song "Detroit Rock City."

[Seth]

And if they can't leave?

Why couldn't they leave? There's no fences or walls keeping them in. Worst case they can take shank's ponies. Lotsa people did that during the Great Depressison, and they went all the way to California in search of gainful employment and a better standard of living. After all, it's not all that far to get out of Detroit, where things aren't nearly as bad.

But I suppose if they really don't want to leave perhaps we can hire them as window-dressing for tour buses, kinda like going to Disneyland, except it's called "MarxLand" and the buses are armored and escorted by HMMWVs with .50 cal BMGs on the turret, in case of a feral animal attack. We can charge tourists $20 a head for the tour, or more if they want to hunt feral animals, and use that to pay the extras.