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23 February 2014, 07:45 PM
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Something I've failed at; Ours like to stick it to walls if given the chance....he's a four legged caulking gun. 
He won't sh*t on overnight car ferries though. Not sure if thats good or bad (or healthy? ).
Now if only cat owners would trains their cats not to **** on my car and to not s**t in my garden, all would be right in the (my) world
Anyhoo; Point to note with the OP - I grew up with two dobermans from birth. I was never mauled by them.
He won't sh*t on overnight car ferries though. Not sure if thats good or bad (or healthy? ).
Now if only cat owners would trains their cats not to **** on my car and to not s**t in my garden, all would be right in the (my) world
Anyhoo; Point to note with the OP - I grew up with two dobermans from birth. I was never mauled by them.
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23 February 2014, 08:21 PM
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If you calculate for over 15 years (minimum of a cat's natural life), 200 quid is eff all. Yes, there's electricity, litter, and water to be counted as well. Just drink a pint or two less a week to make up for it, innit. That's not much to pay for, for the amazing convenience and lovely pet in your house.
You can get a cheaper fancy one that looks like a plant>
The problem with that is that it's not self-cleaning. You have to do the usual ritual to clean it. Moreover, if you end up having an untimely guest, you'll have to quickly turn it even when it may have a cover flap. And if the cat has left poo in it, the stench will knock your guest out. If your guest comes back to life, just say sorry, and tell him/her that you had farted. Don't say that you disguise your cat **** with a plant pot or he/she will never come back to your house, thinking what all you must disguise.
Just a suggestion, like.
You can get a cheaper fancy one that looks like a plant>
The problem with that is that it's not self-cleaning. You have to do the usual ritual to clean it. Moreover, if you end up having an untimely guest, you'll have to quickly turn it even when it may have a cover flap. And if the cat has left poo in it, the stench will knock your guest out. If your guest comes back to life, just say sorry, and tell him/her that you had farted. Don't say that you disguise your cat **** with a plant pot or he/she will never come back to your house, thinking what all you must disguise.
Just a suggestion, like.
23 February 2014, 08:27 PM
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23 February 2014, 09:37 PM
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I went for a walk yesterday with the wife and 2 kids and our Yorkie, I saw a dog in the distance running towards us and the owner shouting at his dog to stop, a chocolate Labrador. when it got near us I grabbed it's collar, it was growling and snarling at our dog, the owner got about 20 feet away from us and said to let go of the collar, his dog was as soft as a brush and wouldn't hurt anyone
Erm, well I think I'll be the judge of that thanks. the owner was aggressive and made me feel like I'd done something wrong. keep your dog on a lead and under control and stuff like that wouldn't happen. what a t0sser
if it had run into my 5 year old, it would have flattened him, or if it had got hold of my Yorkie, it would have ripped her to bits. if I've got it's collar, what can it do? bite me? I'd strangle it before anyone else got hurt
what can't dog owners understand, why do they think everyone else want's their dog running up to them? keep it on a lead
Erm, well I think I'll be the judge of that thanks. the owner was aggressive and made me feel like I'd done something wrong. keep your dog on a lead and under control and stuff like that wouldn't happen. what a t0sser
if it had run into my 5 year old, it would have flattened him, or if it had got hold of my Yorkie, it would have ripped her to bits. if I've got it's collar, what can it do? bite me? I'd strangle it before anyone else got hurt
what can't dog owners understand, why do they think everyone else want's their dog running up to them? keep it on a lead
23 February 2014, 10:26 PM
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The other night, a homeless looking shaggy dog was free-crossing the front of my just-parked car on my drive. He got dead alert and focused, so I followed his gaze. He was eyeing my B&W cat who was sitting under my willow tree. I told the dog to GO AWAY!!!, and noticed his owner approaching in the dark. Obviously the owner was on a walk with the dog. He was polite, and started to shout at his dog. But the dog launched his dishevelled self towards my cat by then. My cat scurried up the hazelnut tree, and I shouted at him again along with his owner. The dog then fckked off, and the owner was very apologetic, but I don't know why that dog wasn't on the lead; especially when he was walking about in the locality with houses. If he had even scratched my cat I would have punched him hard!
Other thing, like I said in a previous post, when dog owners turn up to your house with their uninvited dog, it's impolite and imposing on the host. In same way, when someone invites you, and doesn't tell you that their dog is a super attention seeking creature with the tendency to ruin guests' clothes, to me this is also bang out of order. I've had it a few times various hosts. My late great mother-inlaw's yorkies used to moider me to death! A friend's Labrador is just incapable of staying still! If these people had warned me, 1. I wouldn't have bothered going to their houses 2. If I had to go, I'd wear hardwearing casuals than tights with nice dresses etc. I've had my clothes ruined by visiting such people's houses; at least for the first time. Once you take a seat in such houses, their spoilt dogs are all over you like a plague; licking your face and making you smell their bum! You just want to push them, but you daren't! You have to keep saying- "What a cute dog!"
1. If you do push the dog off you, the host might get offended, 2. The dog may also bite you. You can't win!I think a lot of dog owners need to be taught some etiquettes.
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23 February 2014, 10:30 PM
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23 February 2014, 10:42 PM
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Very true.
The other night, a homeless looking shaggy dog was free-crossing the front of my just-parked car on my drive. He got dead alert and focused, so I followed his gaze. He was eyeing my B&W cat who was sitting under my willow tree. I told the dog to GO AWAY!!!, and noticed his owner approaching in the dark. Obviously the owner was on a walk with the dog. He was polite, and started to shout at his dog. But the dog launched his dishevelled self towards my cat by then. My cat scurried up the hazelnut tree, and I shouted at him again along with his owner. The dog then fckked off, and the owner was very apologetic, but I don't know why that dog wasn't on the lead; especially when he was walking about in the locality with houses. If he had even scratched my cat I would have punched him hard!
Other thing, like I said in a previous post, when dog owners turn up to your house with their uninvited dog, it's impolite and imposing on the host. In same way, when someone invites you, and doesn't tell you that their dog is a super attention seeking creature with the tendency to ruin guests' clothes, to me this is also bang out of order. I've had it a few times various hosts. My late great mother-inlaw's yorkies used to moider me to death! A friend's Labrador is just incapable of staying still! If these people had warned me, 1. I wouldn't have bothered going to their houses 2. If I had to go, I'd wear hardwearing casuals than tights with nice dresses etc. I've had my clothes ruined by visiting such people's houses; at least for the first time. Once you take a seat in such houses, their spoilt dogs are all over you like a plague; licking your face and making you smell their bum! You just want to push them, but you daren't! You have to keep saying- "What a cute dog!" 1. If you do push the dog off you, the host might get offended, 2. The dog may also bite you. You can't win!
I think a lot of dog owners need to be taught some etiquettes.
The other night, a homeless looking shaggy dog was free-crossing the front of my just-parked car on my drive. He got dead alert and focused, so I followed his gaze. He was eyeing my B&W cat who was sitting under my willow tree. I told the dog to GO AWAY!!!, and noticed his owner approaching in the dark. Obviously the owner was on a walk with the dog. He was polite, and started to shout at his dog. But the dog launched his dishevelled self towards my cat by then. My cat scurried up the hazelnut tree, and I shouted at him again along with his owner. The dog then fckked off, and the owner was very apologetic, but I don't know why that dog wasn't on the lead; especially when he was walking about in the locality with houses. If he had even scratched my cat I would have punched him hard!
Other thing, like I said in a previous post, when dog owners turn up to your house with their uninvited dog, it's impolite and imposing on the host. In same way, when someone invites you, and doesn't tell you that their dog is a super attention seeking creature with the tendency to ruin guests' clothes, to me this is also bang out of order. I've had it a few times various hosts. My late great mother-inlaw's yorkies used to moider me to death! A friend's Labrador is just incapable of staying still! If these people had warned me, 1. I wouldn't have bothered going to their houses 2. If I had to go, I'd wear hardwearing casuals than tights with nice dresses etc. I've had my clothes ruined by visiting such people's houses; at least for the first time. Once you take a seat in such houses, their spoilt dogs are all over you like a plague; licking your face and making you smell their bum! You just want to push them, but you daren't! You have to keep saying- "What a cute dog!"
1. If you do push the dog off you, the host might get offended, 2. The dog may also bite you. You can't win!I think a lot of dog owners need to be taught some etiquettes.
fortunately she can't jump quite as well as they can though. 
23 February 2014, 10:49 PM
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If you calculate for over 15 years (minimum of a cat's natural life), 200 quid is eff all. Yes, there's electricity, litter, and water to be counted as well. Just drink a pint or two less a week to make up for it, innit. That's not much to pay for, for the amazing convenience and lovely pet in your house.
You can get a cheaper fancy one that looks like a plant>
The problem with that is that it's not self-cleaning. You have to do the usual ritual to clean it. Moreover, if you end up having an untimely guest, you'll have to quickly turn it even when it may have a cover flap. And if the cat has left poo in it, the stench will knock your guest out. If your guest comes back to life, just say sorry, and tell him/her that you had farted. Don't say that you disguise your cat **** with a plant pot or he/she will never come back to your house, thinking what all you must disguise.
Just a suggestion, like.
You can get a cheaper fancy one that looks like a plant>
The problem with that is that it's not self-cleaning. You have to do the usual ritual to clean it. Moreover, if you end up having an untimely guest, you'll have to quickly turn it even when it may have a cover flap. And if the cat has left poo in it, the stench will knock your guest out. If your guest comes back to life, just say sorry, and tell him/her that you had farted. Don't say that you disguise your cat **** with a plant pot or he/she will never come back to your house, thinking what all you must disguise.
Just a suggestion, like.
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23 February 2014, 11:02 PM
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Oh, don't be sorry, I agree! Not all my friends are like that, just like not all dog owners are crap. Great mother-inlaw sadly died a year and a half ago, and regardless of her spoiling her dogs, she was a nice lady. I started to go to her house in rough casuals from then on. I also started to like her little attention seeking dogs, but it's not to say that they should have behaved the way they did.
About that 'friend' with the lab, she's just a 'friend' of the type that I avoid meeting even if she's without her dog. Crap dog owner for sure.
So imo you may eventually excuse the dog for its needy pestering if the owner is nice. Even then, the ones who can control their dogs are better owners, to be fair.
Good one. My son is like that with his SBT, although the dog is factually manic. Sometimes when I go to watch movie at my son's house in his home cinema, his SBT would jump on the settee and put himself flat out to ensure I don't sit on it. My son then just has to strictly say "Get off!" and he's down like a shot in his own bed.
So yeah, not all dog owners lack etiquettes. Some do, though.
About that 'friend' with the lab, she's just a 'friend' of the type that I avoid meeting even if she's without her dog. Crap dog owner for sure.
So imo you may eventually excuse the dog for its needy pestering if the owner is nice. Even then, the ones who can control their dogs are better owners, to be fair.
Two of the top commands in my view are "leave it" and "bed" I have a jack russell that you can put a piece of meat in front of and she won't touch it, when she goes out onto the drive way to get in the car and sees the neighbours cat and desperately want's to rip it to pieces I just tell her to leave it and she does, however they are fair game in my back garden fortunately she can't jump quite as well as they can though.
fortunately she can't jump quite as well as they can though.
My son is like that with his SBT, although the dog is factually manic. Sometimes when I go to watch movie at my son's house in his home cinema, his SBT would jump on the settee and put himself flat out to ensure I don't sit on it. My son then just has to strictly say "Get off!" and he's down like a shot in his own bed. So yeah, not all dog owners lack etiquettes. Some do, though.
24 February 2014, 08:00 PM
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My God - even their owners are at it!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-26324683
I looked up the antonym of anthropomorphism, but have not found a satisfactory word to ascribe to this phenomena/behaviour.
Perhaps "they say owners take after their pets"?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-26324683
I looked up the antonym of anthropomorphism, but have not found a satisfactory word to ascribe to this phenomena/behaviour.
Perhaps "they say owners take after their pets"?
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24 February 2014, 08:30 PM
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Except with cars…
We can do the "leave" food thing - get her to lie down, put food on her paw, she won't take it until we tell her.
And she does "paw" then "other paw" which kids like a lot.
She can be a bit over submissive at times (when I say "no" it's sometimes like I'm about to torture her) but she knows her place.
Helped us through a terrible time in 2007 - cracking hound. Will be a mess when she expires.
We can do the "leave" food thing - get her to lie down, put food on her paw, she won't take it until we tell her.
And she does "paw" then "other paw" which kids like a lot.
She can be a bit over submissive at times (when I say "no" it's sometimes like I'm about to torture her) but she knows her place.
Helped us through a terrible time in 2007 - cracking hound. Will be a mess when she expires.
24 February 2014, 08:58 PM
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