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Dogcatcher. That’s a resonant term. Couldn’t get elected dogcatcher, because dogcatcher is the lowest ranking office that’s still elective.

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but it was still elective

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There was a cartridge, velo-dog, because when bicycles were invented

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and DIGRESSION

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did you know that suburbanization and even paved roads began with 1880s hipster bougie bicyclists taking pleasure rides out into the country and then complaining that the ROADS WEREN’T PAVED? truth.
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when bicycles were invented these cityfolk would head out into the country and find themselves chased by packs of wild dogs, so this was a convenient gun/cartridge combination to shoot them with

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OK

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the thing is you can quite reasonably understand civilization as a long process of killing off feral canids.

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remember your wolf fairy tales. there used to be forests (that weren’t recreational) and there used to be wolves

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there once was an eccentric rich guy in the town I grew up in, when they announced a plan to round up the strays, paid for by a tag on owned dogs, he hired a private dogcatcher and had them all tagged ($5 each, which was a thing then) and released them

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he also built the world’s first rebar castle and filled it with volkstuff

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so when the farmers out around Yellowstone complain about plans to reintroduce wolves to the wild it’s not like they’re wrong, it really is a conscious rejection of millennia of civilizational progress

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