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Are you close to your pets?.

  • 24-07-2011 5:45pm
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    I find this odd,or maybe im odd in this aspect,i don't understand why people would have a remembrance page or remember a date on when their cat or dog died,i would remember a human more than cat or a dog that got run over by a car years ago.

    what about you?.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    My dog is a bit of a loner,keeps to himself mostly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    i don't have a pet :( but if I did and they died I wouldn't make a remembrance page no.. I'd just go and buy another one or get one at the dog pound or wherever you get pets for free


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 106 ✭✭Messi2


    My cat is cooler than a fair amount of people I know.
    I would be far more sad if he died before some people I know.
    Strange but true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭ArphaRima


    Somebody made my dog a facebook page. I dont know who yet, but I havent seen her near a keyboard anyway. :D
    No remembrance days etc for my last dog, but both dogs were/are part of the family.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭xoxyx


    I haven't had a pet since my family dog that we had when I was five until I was 17. I loved her so much and, if there's a Heaven, I hope to see her there with her tail wagging.

    How can you not love your pet???


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    My dog is my very best friend :)

    Always happy to see me and spend time with me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    My dog is a bit of a loner,keeps to himself mostly.

    That's because he saw you eat the pig.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    The cat despises every single one of us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Elevelyn


    My dog died a year ago in september, really loved her and miss her loads, won't make a page for her or anything but I know I'll be sad on the day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Jack died and I was sad. We buried Jack in the back yard down by the little fountain he loved to drink water from. I felt very sad knowing that I'd never see him again.

    Jack was my friend and he was a cat.




    .


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Our cat was a hussy and a hoor!
    Found her as a stray, took her in, food & shelter & vet, everything she could want
    And now moved in with the neighbours, she even has a new name. What a user

    Love my dog though and yes, my best friend. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Cats are the worst animals in the world.

    Give me a dog any day :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Cats are the worst animals in the world.

    Give me a dog any day :)

    the only good thing for a cat is a pillow case, bricks and the nearest canal


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    I still miss the dog I had as a kid and always will. I've had other pets since and loved them, but it wasn't the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Cats are class,our last cat used to fetch like a dog,follow me to the bus stop,catch and torture mice,butterflies and worms and she even pissed on a annoying hanger on who slept on our couch after a party.

    She got hit by a car one day and one of the neighbors found her lying lifeless on the side of the road,really miss her.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I wouldn't set up any web pages, but both my husband's cats were cremated when they died (we didn't own our house back then, and burying them in a garden that didn't belong to us just felt wrong), and are in little carved wooden casks in the shape of cats on our mantlepiece.

    I'll remember those cats before I remember a lot of humans. I honestly don't feel that there's anything wrong with mourning for a creature that shared you life with you for decades?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Raminahobbin


    I can comfortably say that when my dog dies, I will miss her more than any human that has died so far in my life, and probably a lot more after.

    She has slept on my bed since I got her 7 years ago, and I'm always around her. My girl friends know that where I go, if it's possible, she goes, and it's widely accepted that she's part of 'girls nights' if they're taking place at my house. And I judge guys and potential relationships on whether or not they get on with her. She's a feisty cocker spaniel, so she's a bit mad, and I have no time for relationships where the guys can't handle her or are slightly afraid of her.

    She's family to me, shares my sense of humour and is always up for whatever I want to do. Plus she can be a moody little so and so, and gives the best 'you've made me sad now' faces if I don't give her something she wants. She's a sneaky, hyper, manipulative little wagon, and I love all the tricks she plays on me, and when she's being bold and knows it! It's all the ridiculous little daily things she does that keep me smiling and happy.

    I really don't understand how people can't have a connection with their pets.

    If ye all think that's sad, quite frankly, I don't give a shite :p


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    My dog is in the kitchen, so I'm relatively close to her, I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭Sierra 117


    I had to have my dog, Butch, put down last year. He was riddled with cancer so it was the right thing to do but it was heart breaking all the same. He was my best friend for ten years and I'll never forget or stop missing him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    I had a jack russell who died last october, we had her for 16 years and she was a fantastic friend, loved her to bits.

    The dog I have now is a complete and utter nutcase. He's a Golden Labrador, absolutely beautiful. He is only 10 months old but weighs at least 7 stone, he has admirers that bring him food to the gate (we live on a main road) even a woman that will buy him bags of treats to give to us to give to him. Its madness. But I do love him he's so happy to see me anytime i go back home. Don't know what I'd do without him to be honest.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Had a persian tomcat that I loved more than most people. Stomach was in bits when he died.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    I can comfortably say that when my dog dies, I will miss her more than any human that has died so far in my life, and probably a lot more after.

    She has slept on my bed since I got her 7 years ago, and I'm always around her. My girl friends know that where I go, if it's possible, she goes, and it's widely accepted that she's part of 'girls nights' if they're taking place at my house. And I judge guys and potential relationships on whether or not they get on with her. She's a feisty cocker spaniel, so she's a bit mad, and I have no time for relationships where the guys can't handle her or are slightly afraid of her.

    She's family to me, shares my sense of humour and is always up for whatever I want to do. Plus she can be a moody little so and so, and gives the best 'you've made me sad now' faces if I don't give her something she wants. She's a sneaky, hyper, manipulative little wagon, and I love all the tricks she plays on me, and when she's being bold and knows it! It's all the ridiculous little daily things she does that keep me smiling and happy.

    I really don't understand how people can't have a connection with their pets.

    If ye all think that's sad, quite frankly, I don't give a shite :p
    You really need to get out more :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    You really need to get out more :rolleyes:

    Well, look at this now - 3 months ago he can't get a number off a girl who's hopping him on the forecourt and has has to come to AH for advice, now he's Brian bleedin' Travolta dishing out the love advice!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    Well, look at this now - 3 months ago he can't get a number off a girl who's hopping him on the forecourt and has has to come to AH for advice, now he's Brian bleedin' Travolta dishing out the love advice!

    That was last month!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    That was last month!

    It was, wasn't it? Jaysis, that seems so long ago.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Cill Dara Abu


    Only seems like yesterday


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Only seems like yesterday

    Bllleeeeuuuurrrgghhhhh



    :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,070 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    My dog rarely leaves my side when I'm at home. If I try to keep him in the hall he'll literally dig his way through the door until I let him in, and regularly steals and stockpiles my socks in various parts of the house.. I love him to bits though :o

    This is him - http://i53.tinypic.com/2utgkt3.png

    Have a couple of lambs too atm.. I'm gonna eat them soon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    Do I like my dogs? The ones I feed, walk and take care of every day? The same ones I paid €400 (each) for and spend €52 a month on their food alone? The dogs who jump up and run over to me when I open the front door, drop a toy at my feet for me to play with them, put their head in my lap if they see I'm upset?

    Can't stand the ba$tards.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,466 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    I find this odd,or maybe im odd in this aspect,i don't understand why people would have a remembrance page or remember a date on when their cat or dog died,i would remember a human more than cat or a dog that got run over by a car years ago.

    what about you?.

    My dog is a whore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 856 ✭✭✭Karona


    My dog rarely leaves my side when I'm at home. If I try to keep him in the hall he'll literally dig his way through the door until I let him in, and regularly steals and stockpiles my socks in various parts of the house.. I love him to bits though :o

    This is him - http://i53.tinypic.com/2utgkt3.png

    Have a couple of lambs too atm.. I'm gonna eat them soon

    He looks like he did something bold.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    My cat is smarter and more fun than most people I know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 124 ✭✭Musicman2006


    I was getting close to a sheep before but then the farmer showed up...talk about being caught with your pants down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    Have always had dogs but very meh about them really. Never overly upset when any of them died.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I am a person that remembers dates, mostly because when I hear a date, I can think of a few things that happened that day (birthdays, anniversaries, historical stuff) so I can remember the date some of my pets died. I can't remember what date my horse died, and he was the most special animal I ever had, because the date didn't correspond to a birthday, etc.

    I will always remember the date I got my two cats cause it's my friend's birthday. I always remember my two budgies' invented birthdays because I've had them ten years. I love my pets but they're not human.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    Hurt my Dogs and ye'd wish to christ it was only Liam Neeson ye'd wished " Good Luck ".

    I would. And I would. See; I'd have nothing left to lose.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    73Cat wrote: »
    Have always had dogs but very meh about them really. Never overly upset when any of them died.

    Well, with that username, your ambivalence comes as little surprise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Love my two cats - they're the coolest little peeps ever. Sleep with me most every night. Would be devastated if anything ever happened to either of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭willow tree


    love my dogs more than lots of people i know,especially the first one i got shes so cute and funny and loyal but she can be a diva....
    last year when one of my dogs died i missed a day at work and when i did go in i cried every day at work:o that week, i was morto but i just couldnt help it. luckily i have a sound boss and understanding workmates:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 272 ✭✭Loopie


    Ah my dog's a deadly little thing. She's only a pup, getting to grips with life and all it has to offer!! She shreds everything, sits at the cooker staring into it, hangs out of the washing line, sh8ts like a good thing, and just has to be beside you. Yup, she rocks!!!!


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Myself and the bow-wow just watched an episode of top gear together, so ya, I love my dog!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭Raminahobbin


    You really need to get out more :rolleyes:

    Might seem silly to you, but I find I gel better with people who are the kind of people who get on with her. Friends, family and relationships. When I break my friends down into friends who like her and those who don't, it's easy to see who my best buds are. One of my immediate family members hates dogs, and I don't speak to him if I can help it.

    It's not necessarily just because they like/dislike dogs, specifically, but given that its a common denominator, I use it as a fairly decent indicator. It says a lot about someone if they're not a dog person, and it just so happens I get on better with dog people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭yesno1234


    Dog died recently, had Cushing's disease and we brought him into a vets for a second opinion, to start with they had asked us to collect his urine to avoid them having to insert a catheter but they still did it even after collecting his urine, dog couldn't walk when we went to collect him that evening, was horrible seeing him not being able to move and vomiting for a day, watching him die. Buried him in the back garden but will never forget him. Had him for a good 12 years and that involved him getting lost for 6 months about 8 years ago and finding his way back home. Grew up with the dog, and was the first dog I can remember fully. Had other dogs when I was a baby but it's not the same. They become a part of the family.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭Kevo


    My dog was put down after a seizure when I was on holiday. I had him for 17/18 years so I was very attached. Wish I had stayed home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    I find this odd,or maybe im odd in this aspect,i don't understand why people would have a remembrance page or remember a date on when their cat or dog died,i would remember a human more than cat or a dog that got run over by a car years ago.

    what about you?.

    Howard: (about Jack Cooper, the fox) We got close at one point, too close some people said. There was rumours. I don't know what those rumours were. I don't care to know.
    Vince: It was that you were bummin' him.
    Howard: Yeah, whatever, stupid rumours. Childish, not true. Whatever they were.
    Vince: It was that you were bummin' him.
    Howard: Yeah, I know what the rumours were. Not true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭AG2R


    I'm only close to my dog tbh. Would be gutted if he died.
    My budgies and Fish I couldn't care less if they die. I give them attention and all keep them right but I can't interact with them so don't feel attached.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭BrianJD


    Yes....Her breath smells.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    If anything happened my dog (touch wood it doesn't) I would be absolutely devastated. Seriously I would end up a sobbing mess. I would treat it the very same as if one of my family died.

    I'm very attached to him. He's my buddy & even though some days he can be a pain in the arse I wouldn't be without him.

    Sometimes I am sorry I got him because the day will come that I'll have to say goodbye & I don't ever want that day to happen.

    He's my little dude :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,627 ✭✭✭Lawrence1895


    I have a cat there and two bunnies, they are just craic, I do love them. Just watching them playing around in the garden is always something to look forward to after a long day in work :)


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