• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    5 months ago

    STOP TAKING DOGS ONTO THAT BRIDGE

    What is wrong with you people, this problem is solvable

  • MelonYellow@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Can’t help but wonder if any dogs were actually thrown off the bridge by some sick person. Especially as the bridge gets more well known.

    The idea of dogs staring at something unseen and then suddenly suiciding is freaky though. I could definitely see this being incorporated somehow into a horror story.

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      5 months ago

      Idk…reading the article it sounds fairly understandable. There are a lot of certain small animals in the area that dogs would like to chase. They run after the scent and get confused thinking that it’s not a far drop or that the ledge is wider than it is. So it leads to a number of unfortunate accidents.

      I think of it like this…have you ever gone down a set of stairs with an odd pattern to the carpeting making it difficult to see where the edge of the step is? There are all kids of perspective tricks and such our eyes can have difficulty with.

      Edit: Plus some dogs are just stupid and will jump off of high things not realizing they will be injured on the way down. I love my mom’s dog, but she is a moron and has jumped off of high places that could injure her. I have had to stop her from hurting herself on more than one occasion…and one time where I was afraid she was going to jump out of a second storey window from excitement. My brother’s dog also has jumped off of a second storey balcony before. The dog was fine and was monitored by the vet hospital afterwards but yeah…some just aren’t super bright either.

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    At some point they have to realise they are just feeding dogs to that bridge.

    Add some fiber, throw a cabbage down as well.

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    5 months ago

    A place where dogs throw themselves off a fifty foot drop onto rocks at the rate of one to two per month.

    … is not a sentence, but merely a fragment.