Dead Puppy Ads Are Gross

November 15, 2005 1:21 PM

First Amendment issue? I have to say I've been really grossed out the last couple of days by the dead puppies picture in the ads on MeFi. I'm not for censorship---but similar to a NSFW notice, can't there be an icky picture warning that you can choose to click or not? I understand that is the point of the ad, to raise my ire (or bile) so I'll do something. But ewww.
posted by agatha_magatha to MetaFilter-Related at 1:21 PM (48 comments total)

I should say, of course, that I only see the picture when I'm not logged in, but that is most of the time unless I plan on commenting because I usually check in from work.
posted by agatha_magatha at 1:24 PM on November 15, 2005

Killing dogs for fur is so wasteful: they're much better used for eatin'.
posted by Bugbread at 1:26 PM on November 15, 2005

Well, this isn't a First Amendment issue since mathowie is neither a) Congress or b) a state bound by the Incorporation Clause.

But that aside, does Firefox's AdBlock extension help? Or perhaps you can just login all the time and then you won't see the blogads.
posted by sbutler at 1:27 PM on November 15, 2005

... also, I don't think the puppies are dead. Yet.
posted by sbutler at 1:28 PM on November 15, 2005

*logs out to oogle dead puppies*
posted by xmutex at 1:28 PM on November 15, 2005

every newsfilter thread kills a puppy. i thought this was made clear to newbies. apparently not. hmmm. i guess that explains a lot.
posted by andrew cooke at 1:29 PM on November 15, 2005

Every time a sock puppet is exposed, she claims another pelt.
posted by maryh at 1:42 PM on November 15, 2005

Dead puppies aren't much fun.
posted by elwoodwiles at 1:46 PM on November 15, 2005

I logged out so you don't have to. puppy picture (but it doesn't work in Firefox because the mimetype is set wrong or something)
posted by smackfu at 1:48 PM on November 15, 2005

Poor Matt. Now he can't even post socially responsible ads for non-members.
posted by xammerboy at 1:51 PM on November 15, 2005

Just so everyone knows... he did give up a lot of money so that Pron wouldn't be there.
posted by xammerboy at 1:52 PM on November 15, 2005

A screen cap:


posted by iconomy at 1:52 PM on November 15, 2005

xmutex writes "*logs out to oogle dead puppies*"

*meets xumtex on the way back in*
posted by OmieWise at 1:53 PM on November 15, 2005

Damn dude, why don't those Chinese fur farms actually kill the animals first? I mean that's almost enjoying watching the animal suffer. Besides JCrew's fashions are lame anyway, if you want fur done right go to Gucci.
posted by geoff. at 1:56 PM on November 15, 2005

It takes a special kinda community to prefer looking at dead and dying dogs in cages over hot almost nekkid goth chicks.
posted by xmutex at 2:02 PM on November 15, 2005

Speak for yourself.

*casts vote for hot almost nekkid goth chicks*

Why can't we have both, again?
posted by dg at 2:30 PM on November 15, 2005

the puppy is not dead it is sleeping.
posted by naxosaxur at 2:31 PM on November 15, 2005

the puppy is not dead it is sleeping.

...and your father and I have found it a home on a nice big farm where it'll have lots and lots of room to run and play.
posted by maryh at 2:41 PM on November 15, 2005

Silly, they are taking those puppies out to a wonderful farm where they will have wide open space so they can play and run around.

Also, you have multiple means at your disposal to not have to look at those ads, so the best solution is for you to take advantage of one of those means instead of having Matt drop the ad.
posted by Falconetti at 2:48 PM on November 15, 2005

D'oh. Great minds think alike? (or more likely obvious joke present themselves equally).
posted by Falconetti at 2:54 PM on November 15, 2005

Community consensus:

Dead puppies = A-OK.
Scantily clad women = GET IT OFF MY SCREEN NOW, YOU FILTHY PIMP.

Man, it's a bunch of Puritans around here.
posted by darukaru at 3:07 PM on November 15, 2005

And let's not forget that PETA kills animals too.

~wink~
posted by darukaru at 3:10 PM on November 15, 2005

I was pro-nekkid chicks myself. Seriously, hot naked goth women beat sad little caged puppies any day.
posted by LeeJay at 3:13 PM on November 15, 2005

I'm generally pro-ads, cause the first thing I do is log in. And I didn't realize the puppies were dead, I thought they were just en route...
posted by nile_red at 3:18 PM on November 15, 2005

Dead puppies = A-OK.
Scantily clad women = GET IT OFF MY SCREEN NOW, YOU FILTHY PIMP.

Puppies or pimps? Pimps or puppies? But wait... you don't have to choose!
posted by languagehat at 3:24 PM on November 15, 2005

O.K., now I realize why I paid the vast sum to join---it's not about the comments it's about no dead puppies! I'll log in from now on.
posted by agatha_magatha at 3:26 PM on November 15, 2005

I am so going as a dog dressed like a pimp next Halloween...
posted by hototogisu at 3:38 PM on November 15, 2005

I'm not 100% positive, but I seem to recall when I approved the ad they weren't using that image. They can change it at any tiime. I think it runs out soon so the problem kind of solves itself.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:38 PM on November 15, 2005

Pimp Dog > all y'all.
posted by darukaru at 3:39 PM on November 15, 2005

It takes a special kinda community to prefer looking at dead and dying dogs in cages over hot almost nekkid goth chicks.

Well, actually suicide girls has turned out to be pretty weak. Threatening to sue their former models and blacklisting girls who complained about their cut of DVD proceeds.

Maybe matt could advertize some of the former girls who have struck out on their own^(nsfw)? Not that I'm saying he should, but he could and that might mitigate some of the complaints.
posted by delmoi at 3:51 PM on November 15, 2005

Also, matt, maybe you should institute some system where people can complain about ads. Someone complained about this same ad on metachat the other day.
posted by delmoi at 3:52 PM on November 15, 2005

delmoi: I'm really surprised to find out that the skin business lacks scruples.
posted by xmutex at 4:00 PM on November 15, 2005

xmutex: or a lot of "LOOK AT MEEEEHHHH" asocial types foster drama.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 5:17 PM on November 15, 2005

I'm generally pro-ads, cause the first thing I do is log in. And I didn't realize the puppies were dead, I thought they were just en route...

They have to be en route. Just ask yourself: why put dead dogs in cages? Hmmm?
posted by sbutler at 5:53 PM on November 15, 2005

I don't understand, really. The ad is an anti-animal cruelty ad, right? And the people who are opposed to it don't have to see it by definition, right? The ad might be in bad taste (or it might not), but I'm not sure that it's that much of an issue.
posted by OmieWise at 5:58 PM on November 15, 2005

darukaru writes "Community consensus:

"Dead puppies = A-OK.
"Scantily clad women = GET IT OFF MY SCREEN NOW, YOU FILTHY PIMP."

I didn't agree to that! Bring on the scantily clad women, I say.
posted by clevershark at 6:16 PM on November 15, 2005

Shoot, they don't even have to be clad, scantily or otherwise, as far as I'm concerned.
posted by phearlez at 6:46 PM on November 15, 2005

...and your father and I have found it a home on a nice big farm where it'll have lots and lots of room to run and play.

ROFL!
posted by quonsar at 7:15 PM on November 15, 2005

I didn't agree to that! Bring on the scantily clad women, I say.

*sighs*
posted by FunkyHelix at 10:25 PM on November 15, 2005

Well I still think the pimp-dog wins. Case closed and can we get a FPP of that?
posted by SuperNova at 10:44 PM on November 15, 2005

Right back atcha, Quonsar! *collapes from vapors*
posted by maryh at 11:25 PM on November 15, 2005

Damn dude, why don't those Chinese fur farms actually kill the animals first?
because dog and cat fur sheds like mad if the animal is killed before skinned. It keeps much better if the animal is skinned alive. which is why them little fur-bits on fashions lately make me ill - especially when the shop assistants have no idea what kind of fur it is. That means it's likely dog.
posted by dabitch at 2:13 AM on November 16, 2005

My dogs liked the Suicide Girl ads.
posted by tpl1212 at 3:09 AM on November 16, 2005

When are we going to have naked men ads?
posted by raedyn at 7:39 AM on November 16, 2005

On the Internet, there are no naked men.
posted by darukaru at 8:36 AM on November 16, 2005

because dog and cat fur sheds like mad if the animal is killed before skinned.

where does this come from? lots of anti-fur places say the same thing, but i can't find an impartial source. is it just cats and dogs? or all animals? i've never heard any other source of fur require skinning alive.

and what process causes it? why should fur that's been taken of an animal skinned alive be any better than from a dead animal? what is so bad about being attached to a dead animal that doesn't affect fur once it's removed from a live animal? in both cases, presumably, it's not getting any support from the animal.

if it's not true, what would be the advantage to anyone in reporting it? one possibility is that it gives the reader a justification for assuming that such barbaric behaviour is the norm, rather than the exception.
posted by andrew cooke at 11:02 AM on November 16, 2005

It certainly isn't true of other animal fur, or if it is, it isn't mentioned in anything I've ever read about trapping.
posted by OmieWise at 1:33 PM on November 16, 2005

dabitch: because dog and cat fur sheds like mad if the animal is killed before skinned. It keeps much better if the animal is skinned alive.
I so did not want to know that.
posted by tellurian at 4:17 PM on November 16, 2005