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Ghost is suffering from ear and eye infections, skin problems, and a broken toe that must be amputated, they say, but is expected to fully recover
I hope he finds a good home. As for me, I already have six cats… 
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This is a new spin on the old trope, I guess.
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Haha! Hadn’t heard that one before. Geez!
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Tarzan? Not exactly, of course, but along the general lines. Although raised by gorillas, he did come in contact with human populations.
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Also the entire John Carter of Mars series. Edgar Rice Burroughs was a big fan of the trope.
Of course audiences are far too progressive these days to go for that sort of tired old …what do you mean Avatar 2 just passed the $2 Billion mark at the box office?
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I’m thinking also Dune, for a modern interpretation of the trope.
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“Is it cool if I have a couple friends crash for the weekend?”
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I know of at least one real world example, as covered in this episode of Futility Closet. But as far as fiction goes, i do find that trope to be questionable at best. Racist and abhorrent at worst.
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That Marco Polo show on Netflix definitely would have been better without the titular character. Benedict Wong playing Kublai Khan would have been a fine premise for a show on its own, without needing Marco Polo there telling him how to build trebuchets and whatnot. (Plus there was a lot of gratuitous stuff with female nudity but that’s another issue.)
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A Princess of Mars is about twice as old as Dune
They’re both historical relics, really
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Dog to his new coyote friends: “I absolutely can domesticate those primates and I’ll prove it to you!”
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