ON NO HE DID-NNT!! XD

Yup. He did

Ooo this may get ugly
*hahaha* that last face, I dont know why but it makes me laugh

Very ugly indeed. (Ominous foreshadowing is ominous)

You can't use that word! Only we can use that word! D:

Yo my stripe dog, what up?
Stripe dog please! You be trippin'...

Exactly, except badgers don't use it amongst themselves even. (Stole this idea from Brian Jacques. Only vermin use the term)

"Were you mutt?" Since he is a dog....I think

"Stripe dog" is a confusing term to me, If only because it is coming from an actual dog in this story. If calling a badger a dog is meant to be insulting, it would suggest that a dog is lower than a badger, if not a lowly animal in general to begin with. In a way, Edelman is insulting himself and his entire species by using it. The modifier "Stripe" doesn't help. Several breeds of dogs, including pit bulls, boxers, Great Danes, and Mastiffs, occasionally wear a coat pattern noted by breeders as "Brindle". Brindle coated dogs are covered in stripes like tigers. In the world we live in, there are several racial slurs that pull from slurs referring to other races. These ones tend to be insulting to both groups in the end, and usually only are used by people outside of both of these groups, ones who wouldn't be offended by any part of the slur. I can't bring myself to give an example, I don't have the nerve, but a quick internet search for hate speech terminology can confirm this, I assure you. It just seems strange that a dog would insult someone else by calling them a dog. It would sort of be like if Brock went up to a Ratel and called them a "Honey Badger" or if a certain scientifically inclined calico referred to a ringtail as a "Miner's Cat" or a wolverine as a "nasty cat". The slur in itself makes sense on its own, but from the source it is coming from here, it just feels kind of weird. I can understand where the term literally comes from, an old fashioned term for badger. And coming from a non-dog, it would probably feel even harsher, suggesting ill regard for both badgers and dogs, but it loses its bite when it comes from the mean little wiener dog.

Now, your story is your own, and I by no means am suggesting that you change it by even one punctuation mark. It's just something that I noticed a while back, and just wanted to put in my two cents, and perhaps hear your thoughts on my observation.

I borrowed the term from Brian Jacques, but never really considered the etymology of the name as far as dog species are concerned. I think it holds up though, if you look at it from a class/caste point of view. The breeds that tend to display brindle coats are usually of the "working breed" type, thus from a caste point of view, the "stripe dog" insult still holds up. Also, the phrase "tripe hound" was often used in britain to denote a dog of mixed breeding, usually an unattractive one, and that could potentially evolve into the "Stripe dog" as well. Interesting thought experiment though, I've never really considered it before.

The working breed aspect does intrigue me, because looking two or three pages back, we the audience are shown that Brock's duties involve physical labor, reasonably because of his strength. Now, unless his amazing physical prowess is unique to Brock O'Meles alone, there could be a connection between the occupations held by badgers long ago, and that of working breed dogs.

The tripe dog is another good argument. Stripe Dog could easily be a play on words, with tripe dog being an insult towards mixed breed dogs, and Stripe Dog being a play on that as an insult to badgers. It also could suggest that badgers are "imperfect dogs", in a sense, similar to mutts. Badgers have keen noses and are said to bark, but in most other facets, are very uncanine, which of course is obvious since badgers are mustilids. Almost a way of saying that badgers are "wannabe dogs" which of course, they are not.

-nods- well reasoned. :)

And yes, Brock is incredibly strong (canonically, he's capable of man-handling twice his body weight with relative ease and considerably more with effort). Badgers in general are very powerful creatures, but Brock is strong even by typical badger scale, probably in the 98th percentile. And yes, this strength does have a corellation to nature as badgers in real life are incredibly strong and physically resilient animals for their size.

*inserts the scene from The Incredibles where Mr. Incredible throws his boss half-way across the floor....as in the entire floor of that building*

He is asking for it.