On May 6th Starkville Changes Forever

[StarkvilleDerby]

WIENERS WILL RUN AND WINNERS WILL BE CROWNED...WE'RE RACING 150 WIENER DOGS DOWN UNIVERSITY DRIVE IN THE COTTON DISTRICT! We'll be having food trucks, vendors, dog races, and of course a good time raising a ton of money for our friends at Oktibbeha County Humane Society. It's the same day as the Arkansas baseball game so come out to the District from 11 to 2:30 and cheer on our racers. We're expecting 150 dachshunds and around 25 pretenders (non-wieners racing while wearing hotdog outfits). We're on Instagram, Twitter, and FB as @StarkvilleDerby...See ya there, and may the best ween win!

 

[Cantdoitsal]

Bump for Worthiness. I know people in need are more important than animals but I've not figured out why animals are still being put down in this day and age. Dogs and Cats need a little socialism.

 

[CoastTrash]

Cool event and great job putting in all the work. It’s crap like this that has the potential to create a unique culture.

 

[Air Raid 2.0]

My Pom "Dak" would smoke them all.

 

[Cantdoitsal]

Cool event and great job putting in all the work. It’s crap like this that has the potential to create a unique culture.

crap?

 

[HotMop]

WIENERS WILL RUN AND WINNERS WILL BE CROWNED...WE'RE RACING 150 WIENER DOGS DOWN UNIVERSITY DRIVE IN THE COTTON DISTRICT! We'll be having food trucks, vendors, dog races, and of course a good time raising a ton of money for our friends at Oktibbeha County Humane Society. It's the same day as the Arkansas baseball game so come out to the District from 11 to 2:30 and cheer on our racers. We're expecting 150 dachshunds and around 25 pretenders (non-wieners racing while wearing hotdog outfits). We're on Instagram, Twitter, and FB as @StarkvilleDerby...See ya there, and may the best ween win!

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[StarkvilleDerby]

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[StarkvilleDerby]

My Pom "Dak" would smoke them all.

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[Dawgbite]

 

[MSUDC11-2.0]

May the best wiener win

 

[BulldogBlitz]

So they are encouraging people to pull their wieners out and run through town?

Hmm.

 

[MSUDAWGFAN]

Deleted because I don't want to turn this into a political thread.

 

[StarkvilleDerby]

So they are encouraging people to pull their wieners out and run through town?

Hmm.

 

[johnson86-1]

Bump for Worthiness. I know people in need are more important than animals but I've not figured out why animals are still being put down in this day and age. Dogs and Cats need a little socialism.

Our humane society is filled with pit mixes and cats. Some other mutts but way more pit bull mixes (and/or dogs that look like they may have pit in them).

I’d be fine with them just fixing the cats and letting them loose in areas that already have feral cats. I’m sure that probably causes problems I’m not thinking about though.

 

[Cantdoitsal]

Our humane society is filled with pit mixes and cats. Some other mutts but way more pit bull mixes (and/or dogs that look like they may have pit in them).

I’d be fine with them just fixing the cats and letting them loose in areas that already have feral cats. I’m sure that probably causes problems I’m not thinking about though.

I''ve had a Pit and American Bulldog and they indeed can be troublesome if not properly trained early on so that creates adoption issues but I think other solutions instead of lethal injections. Tossing cats out in the wild who may never have lived in the wild? Yea, bad idea. REAL bad. Even if they were feral prior.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

So they are encouraging people to pull their wieners out and run through town?

Hmm.

You'd think the weiner dog race would have been from Sessums to the Drill Field Flagpole and back... **

 

[Dawgg]

Thought this was the long-awaited Target announcement.

still fun though!

 

[johnson86-1]

I''ve had a Pit and American Bulldog and they indeed can be troublesome if not properly trained early on so that creates adoption issues but I think other solutions instead of lethal injections. Tossing cats out in the wild who may never have lived in the wild? Yea, bad idea. REAL bad. Even if they were feral prior.

This is probably a stupid question, but for cats that were already feral and in areas that already have a feral cat population, why is that a bad idea? I think a town nearby may actually have this as a strategy. I think they trap feral cats, fix them, and release them, on the theory that it's more humane than killing them and that if they don't put them back, new feral cats just replace them, whereas if they put them back, there is less food to go around so they aren't just replaced. Still pretty harsh because the implicit strategy is that you are starving out new kittens, but again, not sure that's worse than killing cats and letting new kittens grow to be caught and killed.

Other than damage to small animals they hunt, what are the major problems? A potential disease reservoir, but they're already there, and I would assume they're not worse than all the birds, mice, rats, etc. that they kill?

 

[Cantdoitsal]

This is probably a stupid question, but for cats that were already feral and in areas that already have a feral cat population, why is that a bad idea? I think a town nearby may actually have this as a strategy. I think they trap feral cats, fix them, and release them, on the theory that it's more humane than killing them and that if they don't put them back, new feral cats just replace them, whereas if they put them back, there is less food to go around so they aren't just replaced. Still pretty harsh because the implicit strategy is that you are starving out new kittens, but again, not sure that's worse than killing cats and letting new kittens grow to be caught and killed.

Other than damage to small animals they hunt, what are the major problems? A potential disease reservoir, but they're already there, and I would assume they're not worse than all the birds, mice, rats, etc. that they kill?

Not a stupid question IMO. Trapping, fixing then releasing seems a good idea regarding cats that are already feral.

 

[Rupert Jenkins]

Yes, soon we will need all those cats as a food source during the impending apocalypse. Taste like chicken.