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what if dogs are just...

Sometimes, moms and dads have to do stuff the kid doesn't like for his own good. ;)

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The vet said that I would miss them more than he would! She offered to install a pair of “neutrecicles” if I wanted. We declined and she was right, I miss them more than he has!
 
We had a big dog for years (Australian Shepherd). I missed her very much when she got old and passed. I looked everywhere locally for another like her. I could not locate any Australian Shepherds for sale. I finally located a toy female of that breed. Hard to believe that Aussies have been bred down, with a toy version now. She actually looks similar to Rexedgar's dog (black-tri) but smaller and has no tail. She is a hyperactive love bug (like most Aussies) and herds our two poor old cats around the house.
 
sweet furry abductees with stockholm syndrome?

I think about this all the time with my two dogs. We take them away from their moms as small children and raise them as our own. Do they actually love humans, or are we just the only family they know?

Sometimes, to be honest, I feel a little guilty that in the world we've made, dogs aren't able to run free and do doggy things all the time.

But I love my dogs.

Here's a picture of my "puppo" - Bowden - who is 3 years old and a total dork.


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What's not to like? He gets fed and then hangs out in the pool. Rough life.
 
Then I'd be pissed cause you removed my balls ....

Though my dog still loved me after I had his balls removed. But then I always questioned that guy's intelligence. Sweet and good natured to be sure - and funny as hell - but not the sharpest knife in the draw.

That's what he wants you think. All the while since then he's been putting on his "dumb dog" act and planning his revenge :eek:
 
We had a big dog for years (Australian Shepherd). I missed her very much when she got old and passed. I looked everywhere locally for another like her. I could not locate any Australian Shepherds for sale. I finally located a toy female of that breed. Hard to believe that Aussies have been bred down, with a toy version now. She actually looks similar to Rexedgar's dog (black-tri) but smaller and has no tail. She is a hyperactive love bug (like most Aussies) and herds our two poor old cats around the house.

I lost my Aussie (red merle) in September of 2015. She was a rescue and had been viciously used to train pit bulls. Her original owner must have loved her very much because I learned that she had been trained to do her business on the second bounce of a tennis ball and that she had spent time in trucks and boats. Sooooo smart. Aussies really need four 19-year old guys to play with and do jobs for, so I always felt guilty because I wasn't "enough," but she did have a happy, loving life with me.
 
Damn you for getting me all misty. Wait, those aren't tears, I just have allergies.

Really.

K I need a tissue.

I am so, so sorry about the loss of your pup. That's so sad. But I'm so glad he got to experience your enchanted forest.

The cats are the hilarious ones. This is a long, curved row of boxwoods, and they think they're invisible.
 
My babies love us! My dobie, now passed, was the sweetest in the world! Unless you tried to hurt me or my daughter :) My 'ankle biter', still with me after 13 years is little moody :shrug:

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Can I just say that having a dog nap on you is one of life's great joys?

Yep. Ours - a welsh corgi - would lay on my chest while I was laying on the couch and sleep while I watched TV.
 
The cats are the hilarious ones. This is a long, curved row of boxwoods, and they think they're invisible.

My cats, when they are outside, strongly believe that they grow by 10X and are fierce jungle panthers.
 
It's mutual. Humans have been trained by dogs. Maja sees my wife and me as reasonably competent domestic staff, capable of performing simple tasks on demand.

That reminds of the old dog / cat joke:


Dog: They feed me. They must god.

Cat: They feed me. I must be god.
 
My cats, when they are outside, strongly believe that they grow by 10X and are fierce jungle panthers.

Exactly. It was a little man-cat who was "disappeared" in the night. Had to have been coyotes. My man-cat, Rocco, is half-feral (rabbit hunter). Also a rescue. He patrols my property, and the younger man-cat thought he could do the same job. As I say, he'd been trapped in a dark, lonely apartment all his life and had made his life's mission to get out. Here he was free, and he loved it. One early morning he was just gone.

I remind myself that he had more than a year of his heart's desire and was happy and free and eating IAMS and having his long coat brushed every day. I even took him for steroid shots because, although I'd never heard of this, some cats are so allergic to fleas that just one does them in. Exterminators come quarterly, and I don't think there are fleas in my yard because the other eight animals had/have none, but the neighbors have animals and, I don't know, many some airborne flea poop landed on him or something. He would shred himself scratching and had scabs all over without the shots. Free info for other animal lovers is that this really is a thing. I had no idea until I saw it for myself.
 
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Exactly. It was a little man-cat who was "disappeared" in the night. Had to have been coyotes. My man-cat, Rocco, is half-feral (rabbit hunter). Also a rescue. He patrols my property, and the younger man-cat thought he could do the same job. As I say, he'd been trapped in a dark, lonely apartment all his life and had made his life's mission to get out. Here he was free, and he loved it. One early morning he was just gone.

I remind myself that he had more than a year of his heart's desire and was happy and free and eating IAMS and having his long coat brushed every day. I even took him for steroid shots because, although I'd never heard of this, some cats are so allergic to fleas that just one does them in. Exterminators come quarterly, and I don't think there are fleas in my yard because the other eight animals had/have none, but the neighbors have animals and, I don't know, many some airborne flea poop landed on him or something. He would shred himself scratching and had scabs all over without the shots. Free info for other animal lovers is that this really is a thing. I had no idea until I saw it for myself.

It really is a thing, my dog is allergic to fleas, and I have a cat who is as well. So we are pretty scrupulous about that.

It's a beautiful thing what you have done for those fur babies. <3
 
It's mutual. Humans have been trained by dogs. Maja sees my wife and me as reasonably competent domestic staff, capable of performing simple tasks on demand.

I think it might be more a case of the dogs having learned humans perfectly over the eons, while they must train every generation of humans anew.
 
It really is a thing, my dog is allergic to fleas, and I have a cat who is as well. So we are pretty scrupulous about that.

It's a beautiful thing what you have done for those fur babies. <3

Well, you know how it is with animal lovers because you're one too.
 
Our Shepherd Rex, this actually his account, takes us on a slightly longer than a mile each AM. He checks for ‘messages left since his last passing and every now and then you can tell he is on the hunt for a recently passed varmint. His tail curls and he gets more animated and will go ballistic in the direction the varmint has recently passed. He used to snatch me into the rough with him and then I would just let go of the 26’ telescoping leash. We have now trained ourselves to monitor the signs and if you stay ahead of Rex he will not drag you into the rough. I wonder what goes through the dog’s mind, he goes off as though it doesn’t matter the size or make up of whatever he has identified. Sometime there is nothing there and he will recover and look at us as though we are simple!
 
My cats, when they are outside, strongly believe that they grow by 10X and are fierce jungle panthers.

I have been feeding on occasion a neighborhood stray. .. which is semi friendly with my cat. My cat went out one mornig, and got a toy to play with, and this stray came over and killed and ate it (chipmunk).

The next door neighbors cat, , who is probably 8 or 9 months old, comes over and alternately gets chased and chases my cat. .. until they get caught, tackled, fight a bit, then exchange who is chasing and who is running away. The neighbor cat has come over and meowed at my door to tell me he wanted my cat to come out and play
 
I don't think I've ever laughed this hard about neutering.


if it would have been you with your balls removed, I bet you would have never laughed .........

humans do morally questionable things to animals, for our own selfish interests; not for the animal's benefit

I'm sure the cats that get 'de-clawed' wish they had claws, if only for revenge ............
 
My dogs are plotting against me. I know it, but I dare not act. They do my taxes.
 
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