AI03™
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Joined: 5/3/2005
Msg: 26 | |
| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 4:03:36 AM | this is easy. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Look at the people in your life, family or otherwise, they cant match a pets LOVE. PET PEOPLE ROCK !!!!!!! | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 4:26:10 AM | Personally if i was given a choice, i would pick animals. If i had to live on a island with only my animals (or any animals) that would be fine with me!  I have 3 dogs and 5 cats. The dogs (sheperds) live out side and cats indoors.  I would help any animal that needed help no matter what! And i have. The neighbor has a big pole barn next dr and we normally dont get strays in this area but we ended up feeding a couple cats all winter then they both had babies, so i rasied the babies and trapped the mamas and took them to the vet and had them spayed. We turned them back loose in there and are still feeding them!
I LOVE animals and they for sure would come before a man! Esp the ones i see on the net.  Please spay and nueter!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its sooooooooo important.  | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 4:35:28 AM |
Esp the ones i see on the net. Please spay and nueter!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Its sooooooooo important
I C...you were referring the spaying of the male-human breed, eh? LOL | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 5:51:37 AM | | Well lazyboyz I did say in most circumnstances. Not all. Sorry for you that you have had such bad experience with the human kind, but happy for you, you had such a great companion in your former dog. I also said I wasnt going to enter into the morals of people vs animals as that would be a 10 page thread of its own. lol. I know exactly what you are saying though | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 5:52:36 AM | Animals are great company, give unconditional love, and are great silent therapists. If it wasn't for my critters I don't know how I would have gotten through my husbands death. They forced me to get up each day and have a normal routine.
One thing that I have learned over the years is that someone who is uncapable of loving animals is also incapable of loving people.
However, one thing is that there is also a fine line between loving animals and having them as an obsession. There are those who's animals take over their lives and homes. Mine control my life, I totally admit it! However, I do try to maintain my home in a reasonable condition where I don't have to be afraid of friends dropping in...and they dont' have to worry about the what they'll catch eating the food I prepare 
Being involved in showing and breeding and meet a lot of people on the other end, who's homes I myself have trouble going into because of the stench. | |
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LL3
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Joined: 9/10/2005
Msg: 33 | |
| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 8:03:19 AM | | Animals are a lot of work, but extremely rewarding...One dog and three cats here....My dog is a puppy mill reclaim(one of the oldest breeders), confined to a kennel for 10 years. As I sit her, I just looked to my left and saw my "baby" look up and in her eyes you almost see a Thank-you. Pets are completely important and yes as much as people! Whoever thinks otherwise is daft. Who else comes to the door wagging her tail when you walk in from work???lol | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 3:45:01 PM | Well this is a very timely thread, today is a month since I had to say goodbye to my loyal dog who spent the last 10 years by my side. As far as dogs go he was unique, lively, fun to be around and in his last year he taught me much about trust and loyalty. You see, he went blind at Christmas time, totally blind and yet when I took him to the field to run he ran as if he could see as he did when a puppy. He learned to listen to me clap my hand on my leg for location and when I said 'stop' he would stop instantly as he knew there was danger. He also learned 'step' meant exactly that and would lift his paw in anticipation of the step. When my daughter went to university he knew I was lonely and would make sure he was always around, when I picked up my keys he ran to the door, when I sat down he laid at my feet, when it was bed time he slept on the floor until I rose in the morning.
I also have a 9 year old dog that has been grieving for him, yeah I know they say animals don't have emotions but not so - for the first week she hid in my closet behind the clothes. She still doesn't really want to eat, I have to force her to go for a walk and she just sleeps all the time, does she miss him - you bet, is she grieving, again I believe she is. She has always been a very quiet dog and just the other day she was wandering around the house in all the spots he used to lie and whined through all the rooms.... So I have learned animals do feel pain and sadness, just as we do.
They truly are the epitomy of love, devotion and strength, these wonderful animals that allow us to be blessed with their footprints on our hearts. | |
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ksue44
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Joined: 6/20/2005
Msg: 35 | |
| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 4:26:11 PM | There are times I love animals more than people. I won't sugar coat this one. What I so love about animals is their love is unconditional.
Yes, you do get folks that care more about their pets than their SO's or their children. However, you get folks that care more about their jobs, hobbies, other side kicks than their SO's or their children. Quite frankly, I don't know which is worse.
I think an "obsession" about anything or anyone is not a good thing. I love my cats, I hug them, tell them "teeth & prayers", I say "I love you", but by damn, they don't eat out of Waterford crystal bowls. They have science diet cat food. I don't spend hours a day preparing special food for them. They go to the vet for their checkups or when they are ill. Sometimes people without SO's or children, do treat their animals as children, etc.
There are stories of old people who leave millions of dollars to their pets when they pass on, and their relatives or charities are left out in the cold. Everyone has their own vice, just human nature in us. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 5:59:24 PM |
Are pets as important as people?
my pooch makes up the .5 of the 2.5 kids average of the 'perfect' family...(hmmm...wonder if you have to have a husband to be part of those stats...lol | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:06:33 PM |
Pets are way better than people - a hamster never asks you to wear a condom, and they explode when you fuk them, which is kinda cool.
Eww....lol | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:14:47 PM | | My cat was hurt,broken hip,needed surgery,,777.00 bux later he is limpin but fine.i love my pets.Are they as impt as ppl,no,but some ppl could learn from them all the same.Myself included. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:16:41 PM | Halokitty, I have a Zoe too she's a yellow lab. I also have a Maddy(yellow lab) and a border mix named Jack. I have always adored animals, and I manage a pet store. I've learned that people either "get it" or they don't. For the ones who don't, it is unfortunate for them. My "kids" mean the world to me, and they share wonderful life lessons with me every day. Dogs know how to live life. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:20:34 PM | | Mangy mutts make the best companions as far as pets are concerned. Not sure about the self-stim fantasy but I've heard that people who take yoga become quite flexible so you might want to enroll in a class. Even if you don't attain the necessary flexibility to be able to gnaw at you own scrotum, women in leotards attend Yoga classes which may be sufficiently stimulating to forget about the idea of scrotum gnawing. But for reasons I don't understand, yoga classes are sometimes segregated. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:34:40 PM | | LMAO!!! aint that the truth.. the one cat i had.. crapped on my brand new jacket and woke me up from a dead sleep... I will stick with dogs. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:42:12 PM | | I have lots of animals, but I don't let them in the house. Anyone comes to vist and they bring their pets, they don't get to bring the pets in. So that sort of says it right there. I have defended animals from people that were just being mean, because I do have a soft side. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 6:42:45 PM | My horse thinks he's a dog, and my cats think they rule the world.
I've broken up with guys over my pets on more than one occasion. Don't get along with my pets, you won't get along with me.
I don't think they're as important as people. I have to go with my own species on this one... but they're pretty darn close. And I'll chose animals over a great many of the human race any day. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 7:06:46 PM | I thought it was so cool when I heard that during the last hurricane, some parts of Texas were allowing evacuees to take two carry-ons, one of which could be a pet carrier. I know I would have been hard pressed to leave my two cats, even if I had still been living in New Orleans during Katrina.
Yesterday my roommate was saying that our older cat is now 13. That stunned me because she is still so youthful. It occured to me that she may die before I, now 42, reach the age of 50. She is technically his cat but the thought just devastated me. These two cats are definitely like our children.
I don't think it should come down to an either or situation. Pets provide a very different kind of love in our lives. There is room for all of it.
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 7:14:59 PM | I live in California and, though we don't get hurricanes here, we have earthquakes and the possibility of tsunamis, and flash flooding. I was talking to some of my friends at the barn on what we would do if we had to evacuate, but for one reason or another couldn't trailor our horses out. Would we bail and let the horses fend for themselves, or stick with them and risk our lives and health in the process.
Every single person decided that they would send valuables off with loved ones in the car, take a backpack and our horses, and head out. We even mapped what course we would take. Not one person was willing to leave their pet behind. | |
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| Are pets as important as people?
Posted: 10/15/2005 7:19:02 PM | | Pets can certainly bring much joy to man. But it is good to keep a balanced viewpoint of them, because pets can never replace or equal good relationships with other people. | |
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