#title Letter to a Show Dog Breeder
#author Ted Kaczynski
#lang en
#pubdate 2024-09-08T00:58:51
#source [[https://www.thetedkarchive.com/library/ted-kaczynski-s-1988-autobiography][Ted Kaczynski’s 1988 Autobiography]]
#topics Ted’s Correspondences Before His Imprisonment
#date Letter sent ~1979. Autobiography written in 1988.

While I was still in the Chicago area I advertised in the Mother Earth News for a woman interested in sharing a “very primitive life.” Got quite a few replies, but most of them were from women who either didn’t read the ad or had a strange conception of what the words “very primitive” meant. For example, one woman seemed to think that a “very primitive life” included raising quarter-horses and pure-bred showdogs. I was so disgusted with her stupidity that I sent her an answer to the following effect:

“I live in a cave, eat raw meat, and hunt bears with a club. I been combin’ the burrs out of my whiskers every mornin’ ever since I got your letter, so I should be lookin’ pretty good by the time you get here. Hurry up and come, cause I ain’t had a woman for several years now and I can’t hardly wait no longer.”

(I have a somewhat undisciplined sense of humor.)