He offered to hug it out a few times, but I think it was only "hug it out, you little bitch!" the one time.(The things I know...sheesh.) As to its place in the zeitgeist, funny as that moment was, especially not expecting it, beats the hell out of me. Gary Busey's guest spot was totally funnier, as was the takedown of "Joshie" Weinstein as a "lightweight, pen-stealing, fuckface."

I'm just saying -- before I started watching, I really thought that was going to be the punchline of half the scenes!

Tommy, if that's the way he's always treated the dog, the dog may not be fully housetrained because he's never known what he's supposed to do. There's no way for a dog to relate anger to "don't mess the apartment" unless he's disciplined when it happens. From the dog's point of view, his owner comes in the door and yells at him for no reason.

However, trying to tell someone else how to raise a pet is almost always futile. You could suggest, in a spirit of helpfulness, that a vet visit might be in order.

He argues against it being important, is how I read that speech.

He compares the pedantry to a vice, one that he has to resist like sloth or gluttony. So I didn't read him as saying that it wasn't important or unimportant in a binary way, but rather that it wasn't that important. That the correcting, pedantic impulse was worse than the shopkeeper sign which was clear enough in context.

Maybe it's because it's one of the few things Ari says that you wouldn't look like a dick wearing on a t-shirt(although I bought coffee mugs that say "tse tse fly" on them, but that was an "In-Laws" shout-out, of course.) It's a soundbite world. (the only thing I hate about that bit, to be honest, is, much like Barney Stimson's "Legendary!" it became and remains shorthand among douchebags who want to show me they're cool and funny.) But I have laughed at the actual scene, repeatedly. Piven apologized after Kevin Connolly said that when he walks down the street there's always some dudebro yelling it at him

However, trying to tell someone else how to raise a pet is almost always futile.

True.

Perhaps the landlord could be asked to get involved? I keep my dog in the house (or crated) for the length of my workday. But I do it because I know she has the training to handle that, and the bladder capacity--and I make sure that she does all her business before I leave in the morning.

If she makes a mistake, it's my fault: there's no point in scolding her hours afterwards. All she learns is to be afraid of being scolded when I come home.

Perhaps you could get a card for a dog-walker and slip it under your neighbor's door? Oh, wait, he works nights. Maybe one of the kids in the area could be hired to walk the dog in the evenings?

we kind of need one. my attendants used to be dog-walkers too(with varying degrees of equinamity) It's gonna make me cry, though, if Betsy's dogwalker is more screened than mine, although I suspect she would be.

It sounds like the dog isn't getting enough attention, or enough positive attention, tommy. I hate hearing that. What Consuela said about scolding it hours afterward is so true -- it won't have any idea why it's being scolded by then.

Mona is alone from 10am until 7pm. I feel pretty awful about it. We've had a couple of accidents if we're delayed getting home, and she seems to feel a sense of shame that makes me feel even worse. When we got her, I thought, well, she's going to be in a loving home, eat ridiculously overpriced dog food, and receive otherwise excellent care. But then i sometimes am feeling horrible guilt about how lonely she must feel during the day.

OMG, please don't send me URGENT emails in the middle of my back to back phone hell day. I'm clutching these returned 20 minutes to my breast like they're mannah from heaven. I'm reading meeting minutes of meetings I just attended two hours ago. Please don't make me have to get back into high gear. That was Monday->Wednesday.

Okay, fine. Off to get more shit done before 12.