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Hail-NekoYasha — Please Explain This Anomaly
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Is...is this a job for human rights activists or for PETA?Okay, this is something that has bothered me for years, and in all sorts of medium.
So I'm furnishing my little Animal Crossing cottage, right? But I don't know if I'm comfortable with keeping a caged canary (which is a furniture item) in the window when my next-door neighbor is a talking, four-foot-tall robin.
It's the same thing in what was one of my favorite childrens's show, Arthur , too. He's got a little pet dog, but one of his best friends is also a dog. And it happens again with Goofy and Pluto of the Disney universe; both are dogs, but they live in different castes of domestic hierarchy. What is this?
And when you encounter this sort of thing at such a young age, it's...I don't know, it's just crippling.
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maybe one is just more highly evolved than the other....
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Reminds me of the yellow dog from the Clifford The Big Red Dog cartoons 
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>>...
The Pluto thing: I've known this for many years, yet I'm only 12.
Does that make me an antichrist?...Because I just got into the religion when I was 4 or 5...
Anyway, enough of my rambling. What I really like about this pic is the look of disgust on their faces. It doesn't just say "OMG THAT'S SICK!", but "OMG THAT'S SICK...AND I'M DAMN WELL OFFENDED!"
I enjoy your art verily.
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Very good point, I've always wondered about this =O Great work with coloring and expression yet again!
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Touching up on Pluto: MICKEY NAMED HIS FREAKIN' DOG AFTER THE FREAKIN' GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD (alternative name to Hades).
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Actually, it was named in honor of the (once) planet (which indeed was named after the god) because the Pluto character was released the year Pluto was discovered by Percival Lowell (1931).
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I suppose if you put intentions before origins it's fine 'n' dandy. >.> I still think it's funny that Mickey's dog has the same name as the Roman/Greek (I mix them up all the time) god of the dead in the end.
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Haha, I'm glad someone else actually thinks about these little problems...unfortunately I don't think there's a solution...
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Wow, I never thought of that. I was too busy being disturbed by the idea of anthro characters eating meat. XD When Sonic eats a chili dog, is he eating someone he used to know?
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Sonic never knew a cow
Cow=beef=chili
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I've wondered about that too! Well, the Pluto/Goofy thing, not Animal Crossing, I don't have that game.
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in the owrld of cartoons and animation. animals that walk on two legs are usualy reated as people, as for animals taht walk on four legs are usualy pets. there for an personified animal can own a bipedal. 
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you mean 'therefore a bipedal can own a quadrapedal' :B
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big words hurt brain,,, but yes thats the just of it
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lol yeah... read the narnia cronicals and all will be explained.... i hope. XD
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Yeah, I was wondering about the same thing on Animal Crossing. You can catch frogs, but then some of your neighbors can be frogs, too...
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Lol
Goldie's expression just gets me. <3
(Goldie's in my town too! )
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I wondered about it too, actualy-- but maybe it's only bizzare from a misinformed human perspective, and to the Arthurians and Goof troop and whoever it's like the difference between a person and a rhesus monkey. Some people, maybe a lot of people, will say that a rhesus monkey's a person too-- but not that many people really believe that monkeys and chimps are as MUCH of a person as a human. I guess there are lower levels of dogs in dog-worlds, too.
Though I remember Arthur. An anteater owning a dog- wouldn't it make just as much sense for him to be owning a monkey or a pig?
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If anyone's ever watched Futurama,the "Popplers" episode,you would probably get the idea.
And yes,more intelligent more superior beings tend to rule the world they live in.
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Little children usually don't have these insights but ah...
The irony. You gotta appreciate the irony.
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You know, I've actually pondered the very thing myself...
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Oh yeah..I've kinda thought abouyt that but then Tom Nook gave me another debt to pay so I totally forgot about it.OR like when you catch a frog from the river you can keep it like a pet, and yet, frog people are runnin' around talking to you.The game always haves me in a tizzy.
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Thank you! I was just having this exact conversation with my friends the other day. Now I have an illustration for that moment.
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Well! now that you actually bring that subject up, I see what you mean. It disturbs me, too. o_O
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You better be careful cause I cen totally see those dogs coming to your house and kick your ass and steal your dog.
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Whoa comments on this picture are funny... I stopped after the first page or I would have been going forever! My mum always denied Goofy being a dog, cause when I was about seven I noticed him and Pluto both were. Good way to get your point noticed, through art. Its v cool btw, I love the trees... And the mail box reminds me of Blue's Clues!
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wait... isn't Arthur's best friend a rabbit?
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As a little kid I always tried to explain the Goofy/Pluto thing by saying that Pluto was Mickey's dog, as as if that made it all work somehow.
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lol Y'know, you're making me revisit a lotta stuff I thought about and questioned as a kid. lol And in a new, more-funny light to boot.
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Different stages of evolution. Such as man and monkey. That's how I always thought about it. Moral Dilemma Begone.
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Think of it this way: It's a kind of refelction on the deep phycological workings of the human mind. After all, we can class people by putting them in boxes, de-humanize them and therefore seemingly justify un-named horrors to them, hold ourselfs as higher then certain other people, despite the fact that we have no idea who they are or what amazing gifts they share in common with us, etc.
...sorry.
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This is why my friend maintains that Goofy is not a dog.
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Yes that has always bothered me too I remember sitting watching shows and complaining because it was just retarded, a lot of things bottered me as a child animals with pet animals and the reasoning behind superheros, I just couldn't understand why Batman had to have nipples on the bat suit and why spiderman had web coming from his wrist and not his butt, ah he reasoning of a child.
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Yeah, it's kind a twisted especially when Donald Duck had those Thanksgiving Turkey for dinner.
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I've always wondered about goofy and pluto.
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It's been brought up before, many times. It's odd, it's sometimes enforced (check Christopher Hart's how-to-draw books), but it's normal in a fictional world with talking animals.
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i thought about the Arthur thing... i mean isnt the janitor a dog? (i loved that show! and my little sister watches so i have an excuse... i mean *cough* have to watch it with her because she.. makes me.)
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Wow! .... I never thought of that... Definentally confusing... How crippling indeed.
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I don't get it either T__T Recently Hello Kitty got a pet, called Charmy Kitty...
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you right! is kind of strange that..Omg O//O
>//<
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Zoinks, I never gave it a thought...
Well, if you come across a human slave, let me know
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it might have something to do with skeletal structures. we keep chimpanzees as pets! although, granted, they are far more harrier.
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