Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan for July 12, 2022

Whinesplaining. That’s when you explain why you don’t believe their whine.

as if Chaz has the money for a yacht, Poncho

it’s all in the de-tales Poncho!

Poncho did you ever hear about payback ;-)

Chaz, just volunteer to let Poncho slam your tail in a door. Even Steven and all’s good.

Well… yeah. Duh. It’s what we do. Deal with it or go away.

Pomcho is perfectly correct. Chazz, who doesn’t have any direct experience with an external tail and therefore has only secondhand experience is explaining how a tail works to a dog who owns one. He’s in the exact position of a man who, having no significant medical training or experience, explains the workings of the female body to a woman who is a gynecologist.

Dog-splaining from Poncho is fine, but any other kind of ’splaining from anyone else is not.

I wonder why guys do this? It’s rarely done by women, thus the term. I often catch myself doing it in online forum posts to both men and women. It’s not that I think they don’t know, it’s that I enjoy analyzing things and practicing making my mind work by unpacking information. It must be something about how the male brain works. It’s also a form of self-comforting. “I’m okay, because I understand this and can explain it. It’s not a threat.” Maybe understanding why could generate a little more sympathy for men who need to mansplain stuff. It’s not for you, they’re doing it for themselves.

“I hear there’s an opening at the shelter, Poncho…”

Keep it up, Chazz…you got him on the run.

Those bones in the tail can break. Beagle #2 came with a bent tail at the end, and my vet said it was likely broken when she was very young. When older, she was outside and screamed when she went potty. I took her to the vet asap, and the vet was confused as to where the pain was coming from. I said she was unable to lift her tail or bend down to do what she needed to do, but it took the vet a long time to agree it was a tail injury. I never knew what happened for sure, but my best guess is that I had two dogs at the time and maybe a leash became wrapped around her tail briefly and one of them pulled. She was in serious pain for several days, even with the drugs given to help. The screaming pain was awful to hear, I can only imagine how bad it felt.

“Tail Expert.” He might be. :)

While Chazz is trivializing a traumatic experience, Poncho is clearly trying to profit by demanding incommensurate compensation. I would offer to take him to the actual vet, who, if the damage is indeed as bad as all that, can amputate the tail and perhaps even substitute a wooden peg so that Poncho could thereafter be Poncho the Pirate Dog. (He would have to find and presumably steal his own ship, but then he would have launched himself on a life of adventure and such romance as a neutered dog can find.)

Poncho is totally overreacting!

roflmao that was a good one