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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 11/20/2006 8:03:16 PM | Hi...Listen, I don't have much time...my owner just left to make a cup of coffee.
Name's Harry by the way... a very classy Siamese if I do say so myself.
But back to the matter at hand....you need to get her off my paws...she's driving me nuts...always tapping on this damn box.... sure, sure, she'll get all dolled up every now and then...and she's a looker...for a human, and head out for an evening....but sure enough, a few hours later she's back....and I don't know where she goes or what happens...but she doesn't look real happy and usually forgets my treats.
What can I do? I need to get her out of the house for a weekend at least....I mean a cat has a life too.
Listen see what you can do to help a **** out huh? Oh oh...she's coming back....I was never here.... | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 11/20/2006 8:31:42 PM |
I am considering getting a pet. I am a small dog person so that will be what I look for. My thoughts are conflicting and need some real life solutions to being a pet owner. I hear what you say about boarding animals when going away for any length of time but, what about the day to day care? I know that I would have to reconsider some activities due to having a pet. A day trip would present a problem. How is this done when you have an indoor pet? Or should I say dog. Cats seem easier but I want a dog. Tell me your tricks.
Bonnie, may I suggest you get a pet from the local shelter that is already housebroken, maybe a year old. That is what I did. I looked at several but one came and sat next to my chair and he came home with me. He was so happy to have a home. I have left him for 12 hours and he never messes in the house.
Casey is my dog's name and he says
"look at mommy, she is putting on that big shirt with the Pooh's all over it and that nametag, she must be going to leave me again." He stares. Then he says "maybe if I jump around a little she will think I got to go outside and she will stay awhile longer, yep, it worked. Where is my treat? Look she's putting on her coat" Sad look. Then I go to the door and he watches. After I go, he gets on my bed, and
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 11/21/2006 8:52:43 AM | Dogs are social animals... they need a social life.
you should take your dog to meet people and dogs and other animals regularly so that they are taught the proper way to act in society. Its not fair to a dog to just keep him or her in a box [that's what a house or appartment is]
I took my dog everywhere I possibly could and just about everyone loved him. The car or truck was a place he loved and spent many hours happily in. If I opened the car door ...he jumped in ... some days he just stayed in the car half the day waiting for me to take him somewhere. Cats you can abandon for days with food and water left for them... but dogs are only good for a maximum of 12 hours... then you better get them out and about.
Too many people don't properly socialize their pets and then the pets become anti social to kids and other people.... its not a good idea. The more people that are familiar with dogs and understand dogs and the dogs are properly socialized ... the better our whole society will be.
Dogs are a social responsibility ... not just a personal pet.
just my 2ยข | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/3/2008 6:51:57 PM | | When I was growing up, we always had cats and dogs. As an adult, I've almost always had a cat, usually only one at a time. Had a dog for 12 years; the only reason I don't have one now is my lifestyle, a lot of traveling, is not conducive for having a dog. So, I don't think having a pet says anything about me as an older person. | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/3/2008 7:06:46 PM | Awwww! I love this thread. Pets are so great anyway, and just great companions in so many ways.
We always had at least one cat when I was growing up. Catty was the first (original name, right?) and he was a rather antisocial yellow tabby, but a good one. Then, we had Tabby, who was (amazingly!) another yellow tabby. He had some problems, though! He had a habit of chewing on light cords, getting shocked, and then running under a chair to hide...poor baby! He passed away of old age -- NOT from his shock therapy, though.
Then, we had Little Tabby (notice a pattern of unoriginal names?) He was a good kitty, too, and very gentle -- but my, was he ever a bloodthirsty Mighty Hunter! He loved to jump and catch birds in midair, and then carry them around as a prize. He also slept in a tree. A strange cat.
After Little Tabby also passed away at the age of 17, I was away from home and living in apartments, so no pets. When I bought my house four years ago, I adopted my cat Patches Kitty from an animal rescue fund. She was so skinny when I adopted her! It didn't take her long, though, to become a very round, sleek, spoiled cat -- she is primarily white with black spots, like a Holstein. And as all cats do, she certainly has a personality! She detests all other animals and if another cat comes into my yard, she retreats under my deck and begins to howl "nooo noooo noooo!" She also sleeps with her paws over her face. I believe she may be autistic; either that, or just a typical selfish kitty.
Yeah, I'm a cat lady. | |
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zeeba
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/3/2008 7:16:49 PM | Too cute, and totally done on purpose, believe me. Patches Kitty goes to the Kitty Hilton (aka the vet) to be boarded when I need to travel, and she has the assistants there SO taken in. They also love the fact that she sleeps with her paws over her face, and they train her to do little "tricks" such as reaching out with her paw for a kitty treat! Then when I come back to take her home, they say, "Oh! Are you here to take our precious sweetheart away?"  (Oh, come on!) This is NOT the way she acts at home.
I then say, "Well, Patches, back to reality and dry 9 Lives cat food! Life is hard!" | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/3/2008 7:25:41 PM |
I know that many people, living alone, rely on pets for companionship. What does this say about us?
It says I'd rather spend my time with a pvssy than a man any ole day. 
Yah, it's just me and the kitty now.... but before that it was two bulldogs for almost 12 years.
Pets take a lot of time, tie us down when we could be doing other things with a potential partner,etc.
But it was the bulldogs that stayed consistent in their love and loyalty, not the men.... *(and yes, it was a two way street.....but we're going for a comparison here..... work with me....)
And what does your choice of pets say?
I dunno, you tell me!
does the type or breed of your pet say something about your personality?
BULLDOGS:
Lazy
Drooling
Farting
Snoring
Needy
Difficult to be trained
Stubborn
Hmmm....... shit, I better quit while the dogs are ahead. 
Well, at least I'm loyal and only drool in my sleep. | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/4/2008 12:14:13 PM | first off better. as a student of the human animal i can tell you everything we do, say , wear and like or dislike says something about us. put all those jigsawed pieces together and you have a puzzle to read. pet ownership says something about people, one thing it says is that they know love can be inconvinient. a pet needs time and attention that you could be doing something else with (so does a plant but less so) so it says you care and you have love to give. i have had pets my whole life but choose not to now because i live in a place and with a lifestyle that does not allow for me to give them the space and love they need. the type of pet usually does say something too. from my experience cat lovers are different than dog or horse lovers and those who love the non furred are different yet. then there is the i love all animals types who are yet a different breed. those choices do say something about who we are. whether its a positive or negative is up to the doing the looking | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:16:01 PM | Don't know what my choice of a pet (brown tabby cat -- Miss Gina), says about me. I rescued her one month before 9/11/2001, from a couple that lived in a one bedroom trailer with about 1,000 other cats (oh, the stench). She was the runt of the litter, and quite ugly. But she came to me, and sat on my foot. I looked down at her, and remembered that one of my favorite stories growing up (and today, still), was "The Ugly Duckling." So she came home with me (I was in a relationship then, too). The "ex" was in Biloxi, Mississippi, training with the PA Air National Guard when he called, and heard something crying in the background. When I told him it was kitten, and I was bottle feeding her, he said, "you don't deserve a pet."
That should have been my first hint (I was dense at the time), that anyone who told me that I didn't "deserve" something that I was taking the responsibility for was not "right" for me. And funny thing, Miss Gina loved him -- even the bitterly cold night when I had to go to the grocery store, and he called me five minutes later saying that "you better get back here because I hear 'that cat' crying -- she's outside, and she might get hit by a car."
Now, you have to understand, 'that cat' was declawed, neutered, and was strictly an "inside" kitty, and I lived in a second floor apartment with a balcony....and KNEW that she hadn't followed me outside and down the stairs and out the door, nor did she jump off the balcony, because it would have injured or killed her. Second hint that the man was crazy......
So if I meet a man who is cruel to animals, or even hints that he is, I'm OUT, OUT, SO VERY, VERY OUT! | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:38:40 PM | This thread reminds me of a joke I heard:
Should you have a wife* or a dog?
To find out, lock your wife* and your dog in the boot of your car, come back after 2 hours and see which one is pleased to see you!
*Also works with Husband in case anyone thinks I am a sexist!!
I have a 7 year old Black Labrador Retriever and 2 cats. | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/4/2008 5:58:37 PM | I have a bulldog, Waltzing Matilda, and I fear I am growing to look more like her every day.
YOU HAVE A BULLIE?!?! 
Waltzing Matilda?!? OH LORD............... get me the smelling salts!! TOO FOOKIN' CUTE!
And so what if you start to look like her or walk like her or, heaven forbid, SMELL like her...
BULLDOGS RULE and there's nothing CUTER or more precious than a bullie.
*bullie's heading to samuraicindy's profile to search for a picture of Matilda...... 
hrumph.............. no pic. pooie | |
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| People, of our age, alone...what do our pets say about us?
Posted: 10/4/2008 6:35:21 PM | Boxers, Bullies...those snub nosed are a special sort. I love them all.
Boxers are huge clowns. Bullies are very distinguished.
One day walking to the train in Chicago, I met a bullie named Churchill Winston. I promptly fell in love with yet another breed.
Blonde and handsome Churchill was.
As far as Boxers go...well, there will always be the Bex. | |
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