The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy, or desert mole rat is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in genus Heterocephalus. It is notable for its eusocial lifestyle, nearly unique among mammals (only the Damaraland mole rat shares the trait), and for a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in a harsh, underground environment; including a lack of pain sensation in its skin, and a nearly cold-blooded metabolism.

Anybody else resisting the urge to just beat it off right now?

Seriously. Having to sit here all day and approve comments on the David Mortari post (of which there are almost 100) is making me feel physically ill. Shit like:

“I am posting this to give David Mortari That I live very close to where his Mother lives. If he lives there I will find him at some point and I will let him know what it is like to be defenseless”

“i hope this faggot gets thrown off the cliff and hear him scream for his life”

“I’d grab your testicles and castrate them right then and there. I then make a bowl of spaghetti and feed your raisin size balls to your mother because she is worthless for raising a coward with an unusually small scrotum.”

Like I said yesterday, funny that all these fucking people are coming out of the woodwork in defense of dogs, when millions of them each year are euthanized right here in our country for reason other than apathy and laziness. How about the thousands of other dogs used each year for Animal Testing for companies such as Iams? Or how about the dozens of countries who eat dogs as meat?

Or for Fur?

If you’re that pissed off about this video why don’t you do the following:

1. Go to the Humane Society and adopt all the dogs, who will otherwise be euthanized.
2. Go Vegetarian immediately.
3. Vote Democrat.
4. GTFO off the internet for a couple hours. Thanks!

In the midst of what is quickly becoming Puppygate 2008, it is interesting (to me at least) to note that, many of the same internet-dwellers that believe 9/11 was an engineered event meant to shift the will of the general population in favor of a certain socio-political viewpoint, are so quick to vouch for the authenticity of a grainy, unsourced YouTube clip. I’m not saying its NOT real, however, I’m definitely not gonna say it is. As the above video points out, remember not so long ago the whole “bird shitting in the reporters mouth” clip that was a supposed outtake of real news footage? Well it turned out to be fake, after of course, getting a few million views on YouTube and getting linked by Huffington Post along with every other blog, most of whom are probably posting this puppy video as we speak. Like I said, maybe this video is real. Maybe I’m totally off base. But I’d rather be the guy who was wrong about it being some engineered viral meme, than the guy that’s wrong but can’t go back and unpost a United State’s Marine’s mother’s home address, or worse yet, threats of physical violence.

And even if it is real, Who are we to decry the senseless death of one animal, when everyday in every single city in our entire country, who legions of animals are routinely slaughtered, for food, because they’re “pests”, or because they happen to walk onto our roads? Or how about the 3-4 million dogs and cats euthanized each year at United States animal shelters. Where’s the outcry over that? How many hundreds of thousands of puppies do you think that includes? Why is no one storming the gates of these humane societies and demanding justice?

If we want to punish someone for purposely mistreating animals why don’t we start with the people we can at least prove are doing it? Such as the factory farms that produce the majority of America’s meat? Pigs, which are known to be as intelligent, if not more so than dogs are just one of the animals that suffer unimaginable deaths every single day on their way to our sandwiches, tacos, etc:

Pigs are very clean animals who take to the mud primarily to cool off and evade flies. They are just as friendly and gregarious as dogs, and according to Professor Donald Broom at the Cambridge University Veterinary School, “They have the cognitive ability to be quite sophisticated. Even more so than dogs and certainly three-year-olds.” Mother pigs in factory farms in the U.S. live most of their lives in individual crates that are 7 feet long and 2 feet wide. They display signs of extreme boredom and stress, such as biting the bars of their cages and gnashing their teeth. Their piglets are taken away three weeks after birth and packed into pens until they are singled out to be raised for breeding or for meat. Like chickens and turkeys, pigs are genetically manipulated and pumped full of drugs, and many become crippled under their own weight. Although pigs are naturally affable and social animals, the confinement of these crowded pens causes neurotic behaviors such as cannibalism and tail-biting, so farmers use pliers to break off the ends of piglets’ teeth and cut off their tails without any painkillers.

Makes being thrown off a cliff sound pretty humane.

Just for emphasis, we’re blogging about this again. And AGAIN. BECAUSE IT’S WRONG! Recent outrage over a video showing a Marine killing a puppy has led to an Military Investigation of the incident. And now he made CNN, congratulations, you are the most hated person in the world. He will be eaten alive by rabid puppy’s in the depths of Hell.

We would buy all the puppies with hearts on them and pass them out on Valentine’s Day! AWWWWWEEEEE!