Those great Fresh Pet commercials

[FlyersFan]

Yesterday I ranted against those stupid GRAVITE commercials.
Today I'll say something good about a commercial instead.
Usually I ignore commercials all together.
But I like the Fresh Pet commercials.

In them, the dog and the dog parent are together and another person comes into the commercial and makes snide comments about the dogs food, Fresh Pet, being in the refridgerator with the human food.  The dog gives the pet parent a look like 'who the heck is this guy and what are you going to do about it', and then the human parent kickes the interloper out and goes and pets the dog bonding with him.

I think they are cute.

A couple of days ago, Fresh Pet put out a new commercial along the same thought process.  This time it's with Mafia mobsters.   The interloper makes the snide comment about the dog food and then the Mafia mobster stuffs the interloper into the trunk of his car.  He then pets the dog and tells him that they will tell everyone they were at Grandmas house .. giving them an alibi for taking out the interloper after the snide pet food comment.

I dunno' why ... but my husband and I really liked this one.  Laughed and laughed.  It was cute.

[UltraBudgie]

Today I learned that your avatar is a plushy version of William, the mascot of the Met museum in New York!

This statuette demonstrates the importance of a variety of iconographic styles in Middle Kingdom era burial practices. As Nicholson writes, animal figures were common during this period and "hippopotamus figurines, usually decorated with aquatic plants, probably symbolized the revitalizing properties of the Nile". They may have held some kind of religious significance, as they were sometimes associated with one of the forms of Seth. As not all hippopotamus statues from this era were elaborately painted, William is a particularly important example; he has been "covered with a decoration in black line of lotus flowers, buds, and leaves" to signal his "natural surroundings among the lowlands of the Nile." As noted in the Metropolitan Museum's summary, the hippopotamus was one of the most threatening animals for ancient Egyptians and, in this case, three of William's legs probably were broken purposely to prevent him from harming the deceased in the afterlife (the museum restored these legs).

I don't know why I was wondering, perhaps your commercial anecdote got me thinking about whether it would be more or less funny with cats instead of dogs, since cats are much pickier about their food, then I was wondering what hippopotamuses ate, and why he was blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_th...ppopotamus

[FlyersFan]

Today I learned that your avatar is a plushy version of William, the mascot of the Met museum in New York!

YEP.   I always loved the Egyptian stuff growing up and in early adulthood and dreamed of visiting Egypt.
I never got there.  But I did get to the Egyptian exhibit at the NY Met a few times.   LOVED IT.
So William became  my avatar.

My favorite artifact was a mirror that was something like 4,000 years old.  I can't remember the date exactly.
It was highly polished brass which is what mirrors were back then.   
I looked in the mirror and wondered about the people 4,000 years ago who looked at themselves in it as well.

[Nerb]

...the dog and the dog parent are together and another person comes into the commercial ......

How can "another person" come into the commercial when there are no people in it to begin with, just 2 dogs?

Sorry, but that makes no sense.

[FlyersFan]

How can "another person" come into the commercial when there are no people in it to begin with, just 2 dogs?

Sorry, but that makes no sense.

In the commercials there are a dog and the pet parent (pet parents are humans who 'own' pets).
Then another person interjects something negative about the pet food being in the fridge.
The dog and the pet parent then exchange glances.
And the other person who made the snide comment gets kicked out.

In the case of the Fresh Pet commercial that has the mobsters .... there are 5 or so mobsters sitting at a table and there is a dog next to one of them.   A mobster goes to the fridge and opens it and makes snide comments about the dog food being in the fridge.   "what are we doing here?" ... the mobsters at the table stuff the man in the trunk of a car to 'take care of business' mobster style.   And then you see the mobster who owns the dog telling the dog to tell everyone they were at grandmas house .. it's an alibi for the mobsters taking out the one guy who made the snide comment about the dog food.

[Nerb]

(pet parents are humans who 'own' pets).

Slightly creepy logic that implies "ownership" of people by a Government.

OK, makes sense now.

[UltraBudgie]

Slightly creepy logic that implies "ownership" of people by a Government.

OK, makes sense now.

Are pets people? Here is an article from Psychology Today that shows they are not. And why! The reasons listed:

• We seek harder and harder problems to solve and invent new methods to extend knowledge. We not only create new things, concepts, and hypotheses, we also create new methods for creating new things, concepts, and hypotheses.
  
• We explain the world using hypothetical causes and can even imagine impossible scenarios.
  
• We can imagine and reflect on different situations concerning the far-off past and future.
  
• We not only learn, but can learn how to learn better. Cultural learning transmits skills across many generations.
  
• We study our own species and others, developing general knowledge and comparisons.
  
• We not only teach our own children, but prolifically teach other people and even teach how to teach.
  
• We build fires and cook our food.
  
• We use tools to create other tools and extend the range of problems we can tackle.
  
• We modify our environments and expand our habitats to extreme locations all over the world.
  
• We navigate with physical maps.
  
• We not only have emotions, but we also have emotions about emotions, e.g., fear of embarrassment.
  
• We evaluate ourselves and other people. We reflect on own behavior and engage in moral reasoning and judgment about ourselves and others. We punish strangers for breaking rules.
  
• We tamper with ourselves, fixing imperfections by means of glasses, hip implants, and surgery to change the odds of natural selection.
  
• We communicate linguistically with richly interconnected syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
  
• We not only tell jokes, but can make jokes about joking.
  
• We collaborate with each other and risk our lives for ideals.
  
• We consider the intentions and beliefs that produce actions. We can reason about our past, present, and future motives, beliefs, and actions.
  
• We have modified societies by creating governments and laws.

See? It's therefore perfectly moral to treat our animal comfort slaves as chattels to be owned and controlled. And obviously these very arguments have never been used historically in any improper way. If you think so, I can probably find a Psychology Today article about how you're projecting or something. The author is a unique and original thinker.

What this has to do with FlyersFan's creepy mobster morality tale is left as an exercise to the reader.

Why Pets Are NOT People