I just got up and turned on the BBC Breakfast program, and almost instantly was greeted with something I found absolutely insulting. A three-legged dog which used to work for the police had apparently been given some kind of award. It had lost it’s leg but has recovered, and is now being used as a so-called ‘support dog’. What I found so nauseating was the way the damn animal was being so fawned over, as if it was intelligent and could somehow sense other people’s ‘suffering’. It’s a damn dog! All it understands is food and fucking. It does not have any strange telepathic abilities. It does not feel emotion; any emotions it is said to exhibit are simply ones projected onto it by morons!

The way in which the mutt was being spoken about as though it was as intelligent as a human, and that it somehow deserved the respect disabled people have because it had lost it’s leg, boiled my blood. Frankly, when it was injured the most humane thing to do would be to put it down; but now the damn animal is being paraded around on national TV as this oh-so cute, brave, resilient three-legged hero capable of healing the sick. As I explain here, this kind of overt over-anthropomorphisation of dogs really, really pisses me off: once again dogs were being depicted as somehow equivalent to disabled people, or as somehow having special healing powers. I find such moronic, insulting nonsense utterly sickening.