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Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur
One of the top Internet trends is undoubtedly cats. Pictures of felines wearing absurd clothes or doing funny stunts run rampant in the virtual world. Becoming the crazy cat-lady was everyone single girl’s worst nightmare, but owning cats is now the cool thing? I mean, if you don’t instagram a photo of your cat wearing tights, do you even exist? If fifty people don’t like the video you posted of your cat chasing its tail, does that mean your Facebook friends aren’t actually your friends? It seems that people have to validate their existence by constantly posting pictures and videos online. And for some reason cats are the best subject.…
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Grumpy Sphinx
Ob nun die zahlreichen Katzenvideos auf Youtube, komplette Websites, die einzig dem Thema Katze gewidmet sind, oder die mit mehreren Internetpreisen dekorierte Grumpycat – das Internet ist voll von allen möglichen Inhalten, die sich in irgend einer Weise mit den Vierbeinern beschäftigen. Man fragt sich, woher dieses Phänomen kommt und was es über uns aussagt. Es ist eine Mischung aus Nerd-Humor, gegenseitiger Zuneigung und Popkultur, die das ganze bisweilen so bizarr erscheinen lässt.
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Where’s The Respect?
Animals: We keep them as pets; use them for food, clothing, and transportation; we travel thousands of miles to see them on safari; gawk at them in zoos; revere them in certain religions; abhor them and call them vermin; experiment on them for medicine and for beauty; work alongside them in certain jobs; use them therapeutically; compete them; bet on them; cage them; free them; hurt them; heal them; study them; and learn from them. They truly are deeply ingrained into our way of life, and have been since the dawn of time. Our treatment of our (usually) four-legged friends, as a society, differs greatly from one country to the…
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