Ian, he's adorable.*wantwantwant*

Quote from: Ian AbsentiaYour collies are really quite lovely, by the way.

I like yours, too. I've always been a fan of the bulldog type. Boxers, Bostons etc.

Here are my two mutts.

This is Cathy. She's part Doberman, part Australian Shepard, and all mean!



And this is Theodore. I don't know what he is, other than retarded.



Edit- Hmm. I don't know why the pictures didn't embed.

Edit2- Now they've embedded (thanks to a tip from Vellorian), but the size on the first one is off. Oh, well.

Quote from: laffingboyHere are my two mutts.

This is Cathy. She's part Doberman, part Australian Shepard, and all mean!



And this is Theodore. I don't know what he is, other than retarded.



Edit- Hmm. I don't know why the pictures didn't embed.

They didn't embed because you used "URL" in your tags instead of "IMG".

Quote from: VellorianThey didn't embed because you used "URL" in your tags instead of "IMG".

This damned twenty-first century confuses me!

Thanks for fixing the pics, Vellorian.

Quote from: shewolfIan, he's adorable.*wantwantwant*

Well, after this last Friday, I'd almost be willing to let you have him...as long as I got to punt him the entire way.

I think he has Spring Fever, even though he has no gonads to speak of.  For the last week, he's been increasingly bored during the day.  My wife works from our home, but can't spend every moment of the day with Oz.  So he's taken to chewing up odd things here and there -- newpapers, the daily mail, work documents, whatever.  Well, on Friday, I came home to find that he had found my wife's telephone and decided to chew that up.  The veil that passed before my eyes was a calm, deep, cold red.

Now, before any self-righteous cat owners pipe up to remind me that this is the sort of thing that dogs do, a good (but cat-loving) friend of ours did just that yesterday.  Of course, in turn, I reminded her that cats tear up furniture, dogs chew up shit that you leave lying about.

So, I'm off for the day to wear him out at the dog park.  Mustn't let the little beast get bored.

!i!

Cats seem to zero in on remote controls, actually - at least the ones I grew up with did. And this was in the days before universal remotes to replace the one with all the chewed off buttons..

Fun.

My wife had a cat that, whenever company was visiting, would drag a feather duster out into the middle of the living room and begin to make mad, passionate love to it.

Eew.

I also had a cat that, whenever he got angry or put out with anyone in the house, would pee on their stuff.  He peed on the middle of my desk once.  The very worst, though, was his angry habit of peeing on the heating coils of our electric stove in the middle of the night.  My mother would begin making breakfast first thing in the morning, and the whole house would be filled with the gagging stench of burning cat urine.

Double -- no! Triple-eew.

!i!

Quote from: WerekoalaCats seem to zero in on remote controls, actually - at least the ones I grew up with did.

Oh! Oh!  And I have a theory about this, closely related to my wife's phone.

Remote control buttons smell like what? Fingertips.  What do fingertips smell like?  Food.  So, what do remote control buttons smell like?  Food.  Similarly, our dog went after the earpiece end of the phone.  What does it smell like?  My wife's head, particularly, her ear.  What does her ear smell like?  Ear wax.  All dogs love stinky ear wax.

Can hardly blame your cat or my dog, can we?

!i!

A little something a friend sent me:

So ...

there you are,

having a

dinner party...

Your parents

are there...

Your in-laws

are there...

Your boss and

his wife

are there...

The minister and

his wife

are there...

You're all

settling down

for a

nice relaxing

evening dinner...

Then

in

walks

the

dog...

I've been lucky, really. My jack never chewed anything up. My only stumbling block was housetraining...All my animals have wanted to crap in the house. My pug chose the runner in front of the door (which made me really happy as it was easy to clean) my jack hid behind the dining room table (which was bad as my eldest always would step in it getting to his chair) and the cats wherever it was hidden.

Although we wonder about Minnie....she humps all the dogs here. Male or female. I think she's Bi. Nothing funnier than this tiny dog on top of the long-suffering lab!

Dogs are sheer joy wrapped in fur. Doubling your dogs is doubling your joy.

I don't have a fenced in yard, but I was there when Lane's drummer stopped by with a dilemma. A beautiful dog had turned up, but Drummer already had 3 and no room for more. Lane's chick and kids had been bugging him to get a dog for a while. I urged Lane to take in the dog "for a trial run" until they could find another home for it...knowing, deep in my heart, that one look at that dog and his chick and kids were not going to give it up for anything.

Gaia is a white husky-style dog.
So I have all the benefits of the dog, without any of the costs or responsibilities, except watching her when they go out of town.