tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post112127582007776987..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: The truth about cats and dogsPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1121766950158505132005-07-19T05:55:00.000-04:002005-07-19T05:55:00.000-04:00I also can't help but read Art Spiegelman's Maus i...I also can't help but read Art Spiegelman's Maus into your reading of this. To extend that metaphor, dogs and cats getting along means that Americans and Germans really can get along. <BR/><BR/>But to overextend that metaphor even further, what could represent Palestinians? If Jews are mice are Palestinians hampsters? Do mice and hampsters get along? Sounds like there's a dissertation in this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1121320116463374262005-07-14T01:48:00.000-04:002005-07-14T01:48:00.000-04:00That's a very strange concept, to have a one's own...That's a very strange concept, to have a one's own body (or fur) turned by an outsider into a weapon against itself. The only other example I can think of is brain-washing, and that's really not the same thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1121318304666729732005-07-14T01:18:00.000-04:002005-07-14T01:18:00.000-04:00Unless they snuck up on the dachshund while it was...Unless they snuck up on the dachshund while it was sleeping and licked it, and then coughed up the dachshund's hair as hairballs. It would be so . . . Mujahideen-turned-terrorist. (I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but me.)Hathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02354635337903994221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1121292298562048372005-07-13T18:04:00.000-04:002005-07-13T18:04:00.000-04:00That would never happen. But, unlike regular cats,...That would never happen. But, unlike regular cats, these couldn't even hurl hairballs at their canine opponents. A weak enemy indeed.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1121290136518238322005-07-13T17:28:00.000-04:002005-07-13T17:28:00.000-04:00The true test would be whether longhaired dachshun...The true test would be whether longhaired dachshunds and hairless cats would get along.Hathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02354635337903994221noreply@blogger.com