Guys, just to clarify, if you’re out walking a dog and you hear a girl go, “Hey cutie!” or “Look how cute you are,” chances are, she’s talking to the dog, not you. Even if you’re cute too … and that it’s abnormal that we baby talk to random animals.
As cute and cuddly as dogs are — they make for great snugglers that don’t talk back — they are not fishing lures for women.
When I was a freshman at Virginia Tech, this guy would always bring a little puppy through the girls hall in the dorms so it would run into their rooms. This was a technique for kidnapping women’s attention. Again, we like the dog, not you. And we feel bad for it — a dog is not a prop.
Actually, men are more like cats and women are like dogs, if you think about it. To be continued.
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2011.
