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The dog.

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  • #52
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Fart wrote: »
    I completely agree, and it always strikes me when I hear it.

    However, let's address the elephant in the thread: Who in the blue hell calls their dog "Shane"?

    Oh, I LOVE pets with human names. My favourites over the years have been dogs called Mary and Niall and cats called Raymond and Fergus.
    PabloAndRoy wrote: »
    A thread about "the dog" with posts by people talking about their cat. Typical cat person, missing the point!

    Cat loving people are just animal loving people who never had a dog!

    Ah, wha’? No, I’ve had both and love both. I love animals in general actually and their differences are what makes each species individually fascinating to me.


  • #53
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    dog-humor-master-is-home-cat.jpg


  • #54
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    For clarity, I have no objection to cat's, I'm simply saying that ours is a prick compared to the dog.

    I find it sad you had to clarify that.

    My God...


  • #55
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    I think cats have inspired more cartoon characters.

    Is Garfield a prick, for instance?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgWCDi755sA


  • #56
    E mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    We have a bichon frise who arrived about 8 years ago. Thought he'd stick to hanging around the house but no he thinks he's a sheep dog....albeit a not very good sheep dog...but he loves nosing around the farm going for drives on the quad bike /tractor/ jeep running into puddles etc. Bichons in case anyone doesn't realise are all white ! Every day is a wash day. Wouldn't part with him for the world.


  • #57
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Nixonbot wrote: »
    Cats for the most part are far cleaner than you or I.

    Do you let your phone into your house?



    Classic black-and-white bullshit. My ma has 3 dogs and a gajillion cats and I love the lot of them.
    Of course I let my phone in my house, what are you talking about? My phone doesn't **** in the yard or lick itself "clean" either.


  • #58
    PabloAndRoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭PabloAndRoy


    Cat loving people... So easy to wind up. Even fooled by cats pretending they like them.


  • #59
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    I bring my little fella to work with me, if I didn't have him in the lorry or van with me people would be wondering where he is and if he's ok :-)


  • #60
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Of course I let my phone in my house, what are you talking about? My phone doesn't **** in the yard or lick itself "clean" either.

    I'm saying that your phone is utterly filthy. Crawling with bacteria and what have you.


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  • #61
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Nixonbot wrote: »
    I'm saying that your phone is utterly filthy. Crawling with bacteria and what have you.
    So am I. Neither I nor my phone can possibly be dirtier than an animal. I keep my phone in my trouser pocket, which I wash at least once a week, and I personally shower approximately ten times a week. Our dog slept on a mound of hay in the shed and the cats slept in an old car in the garden. Hardly cleaner than a lab in Intel. :rolleyes:


  • #62
    mvl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭mvl


    Only have one child that got an indoors-y breed of a dog for 10th bday.
    Now 1, the three humans in the house just adore it: it changed our family life.

    - Curious if she will grow out of it what is called excitement urination - lots of giggles when it happens.


  • #63
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    4 dogs.

    All Irish setters.

    Eldest lady is the only one we got as a pup, she's 11 now and Queen of the house, would train you rather than you train her.

    Eldest male, rescue boy who was dumped, had a host of health problems when he was found, and also very nervous. He's maybe 9 or 10 now and is brilliant. He had a cancerous tumour removed last year and bounced back to full health.

    Younger male was given up to me for rehoming when he was 18 months old but we kept him ourselves. His family wouldn't let him into the house and he was beginning to develop difficult behaviours that they weren't prepared to deal with for the rest of his life. In fact he was just being a typical lonely dog who wanted to spend time with his family while he languished outside the back door.

    Younger female was taken in when her 89yr old owner was going into a nursing home, she was just turned 7 at the time. She rolled into the house at a whopping 37kg, turns out her owner had dementia and had been feeding her probably 5 times a day and she wasn't getting enough exercise since her brother died. She's 23kg now and a far happier healthier dog.





    They're all individual, but collectively make up our hairy family. I'd have more if I was allowed. They are brilliant with our 3yr old daughter as well, the eldest female was rolling a ball to the baby when she was 6 months old in the hope that she would throw it.


    Just FYI to the poster that wouldn't let "dirty" pets into their home - it's been scientifically proven that children who grow up with a typical pet - ie dog/cat in the house, is far less likely to suffer from respiratory diseases such as asthma, and will have a far more robust immune system than their peers who live in a pet free environment. Living in too clean a house is very detrimental for your immune system. In order for it to function, you must have one in the first place, and there's a generation of kids that are growing up with nervous ninny parents who refuse to have pets and fall victim to the dettol marketing ploy that you have to live 99.9% germ free, and you shouldn't even touch the soap dispenser:rolleyes:.


  • #64
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    So am I. Neither I nor my phone can possibly be dirtier than an animal. I keep my phone in my trouser pocket, which I wash at least once a week, and I personally shower approximately ten times a week. Our dog slept on a mound of hay in the shed and the cats slept in an old car in the garden. Hardly cleaner than a lab in Intel. :rolleyes:

    Doesn't really matter how many times you clean it, phones just pick up all kinds of things.

    Cats clean themselves with antiseptic about a million times a day, they're pretty damn clean.


  • #65
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    So am I. Neither I nor my phone can possibly be dirtier than an animal. I keep my phone in my trouser pocket, which I wash at least once a week, and I personally shower approximately ten times a week. Our dog slept on a mound of hay in the shed and the cats slept in an old car in the garden. Hardly cleaner than a lab in Intel. :rolleyes:


    Your phone
    Remote control
    Cash in your wallet
    Door handles
    Light switches
    Public transport
    Public buildings/work buildings
    Stair banisters


    All things that will have far more transferable germs and bacteria than your average healthy pet. Can you tell me about some of the zoonotic germs that you might have contracted from your pet had they been allowed into your home?


  • #66
    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    borderlinemeath wrote: »
    Your phone
    Remote control
    Cash in your wallet
    Door handles
    Light switches
    Public transport
    Public buildings/work buildings
    Stair banisters


    All things that will have far more transferable germs and bacteria than your average healthy pet. Can you tell me about some of the zoonotic germs that you might have contracted from your pet had they been allowed into your home?
    Your tone is very haughty. Google "yersinia pestis" and tell me if it was animals or light switches that introduced it into Europe during the fourteenth century. :rolleyes:


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  • #67
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Never known a dog to troll. Bloody great, so they are


  • #68
    anewme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,020 ✭✭✭✭anewme


    Never known a dog to troll. Bloody great, so they are


  • #69
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Your tone is very haughty. Google "yersinia pestis" and tell me if it was animals or light switches that introduced it into Europe during the fourteenth century. :rolleyes:



    Did you not read the post? Average healthy pet? The ones that are cared for by their owners? Treated for worms/fleas, vaccinated etc. Not the ones left to fester in a barn or an aul car.


    And as for your whataboutery, I'd be more worried about plague rats in the 14th century than dog fleas. I was hoping you might be a bit more up to date and maybe be worried about lyme disease as ticks are fond of dogs. Then again they're not exclusively a host, they'll jump on you regardless of whether you've a dog with you or not. There's probably more fleas on a single hedgehog in the undergrowth than all the dogs being walked in a park at any given time.


  • #70
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Anyone ever known s dog to troll? That's a question that needs to be asked.


  • #71
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Your tone is very haughty. Google "yersinia pestis" and tell me if it was animals or light switches that introduced it into Europe during the fourteenth century. :rolleyes:
    Ah here, going from just a tad OCD on the oul hygiene lark to bringing up the bubonic plague? Yeah I think you're safe Ted. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • #72
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    My missus fosters dogs from time to time here

    Some very sad cases over the years

    One just hid under a table shaking for a few days wouldn't move

    God knows what she went through

    After a couple of weeks she gained human trust again life came back into her eyes and she moved on to a permanent home

    We were sent a video of her a few months later and she was like a different dog running around tail wagging

    Another one was thrown out of van down in Kildare and we decided to keep her

    a fantastic dog

    If I could make laws it would be a minimum of a five year sentence for anyone found guilty of mistreatment of any animal


  • #73
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    I don't have pets but my parents and siblings do. My sister in law's bichon just licks people continuously. It gets annoying but it's insanely cute and loving! My brother's lurcher - sadly no longer here - was just divine. The love from her - how could a single entity contain so much love! :D Every time she saw me she would go ****ing mental with joy.

    And yeah cats obviously aren't as sweet as dogs - generally speaking - but my parents have had very affectionate cats which love being petted and weave around your ankles and muzzle up against you and are always purring and even... loving!


  • #74
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    I don't think I would be alive if it wasn't for my dog. He is my best (and at one stage, only) friend. He's the main thing that has kept me sane through all the crap life has thrown at me. He's 12 now, and coming into the last stages of his life (nerve damage), and I don't know what I'm going to do without him. He's the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, and I'm going to have to make that horrid decision of when enough is enough. Thankfully, he's stable and happy on the medication he's currently on and the physio I'm doing with him, but I know in my heart that it's not far off.



    I won't be able to get another dog for a long time though. He's a once in a lifetime dog, and it wouldn't be fair to get another when I will just be comparing it to this one. I mean I love dogs, I work with animals... but it'll be many years before I recover from the grief of losing this one enough to get another.


  • #75
    borderlinemeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭borderlinemeath


    Ave Sodalis wrote: »
    I don't think I would be alive if it wasn't for my dog. He is my best (and at one stage, only) friend. He's the main thing that has kept me sane through all the crap life has thrown at me. He's 12 now, and coming into the last stages of his life (nerve damage), and I don't know what I'm going to do without him. He's the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, and I'm going to have to make that horrid decision of when enough is enough. Thankfully, he's stable and happy on the medication he's currently on and the physio I'm doing with him, but I know in my heart that it's not far off.



    I won't be able to get another dog for a long time though. He's a once in a lifetime dog, and it wouldn't be fair to get another when I will just be comparing it to this one. I mean I love dogs, I work with animals... but it'll be many years before I recover from the grief of losing this one enough to get another.


    It's part of the reason why I have at least 3 -4. The thoughts of losing any of my dogs fills me with dread and I worry for them as well, because if I had only 2, then it would leave one on it's own. So I have to have at least 3, so that when one goes, at least they have each other. Rescuing the 4th was an added bonus.


  • #76
    kerry37
    Registered Users Posts: 239 ✭✭kerry37


    We have Dan the German Shepherd, Bobby the collie x terrier and George the tabby cat. The dogs are both 2 and George is 14 so hes an old boy but they all get on well together.

    My oh had George before we met and I was one of those people who "hated cats" but hes actually class, we have our little routines now and he will let me pick him up or give him the "rough rubs" like youd pet a dog

    We got Bobby off a farmer who was going to get rid of him otherwise. Hes a great little fella. Very affectionate and full of energy. Constantly doing silly stuff to make us laugh.

    Dan is a complicated story but the gist is, he was dumped in our friends garden covered in cuts, matted hair and severely malnourished. He wasnt chipped or tagged and she couldn't keep him. She had him for almost a month, got him vet treatment and on the mend. Then she gave him to us and it was the most challenging thing I've ever done but now it is the most rewarding thing I've ever done. He has chewed and.destroyed more things that I can remember but I wouldnt change him. He is still very much a work in progress but his progress over the last year or so is phenomenal.

    A mate of mine once told me to pet every dog I see, you'll feel better for it.

    Hes not wrong.


  • #77
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    borderlinemeath wrote: »
    It's part of the reason why I have at least 3 -4. The thoughts of losing any of my dogs fills me with dread and I worry for them as well, because if I had only 2, then it would leave one on it's own. So I have to have at least 3, so that when one goes, at least they have each other. Rescuing the 4th was an added bonus.


    I would if I could afford it! Maybe when I get fully qualified and have a much better income.


  • #78
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    malachy1 wrote: »
    Sure they'll eat any oul ****e ya give em at all.


    I learned a long time ago about the value of a good quality diet. My current dog has food allergies that cause him to break out in sores over his jaw and feet. He even recently had a lump removal surgery that was likely caused by a build up, as there's so much scar tissue under his jaw. His coat is now gleaming since changing his food, and up until a few months ago, he looked far healthier than he did as a 2 year old. A lot of his mobility issues are being kept at bay due to his diet as well.


  • #79
    Whehey!
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭Whehey!


    Aw I have a lurcher, a maine coon and a tabby!

    The lurcher I rescued when she was ten days old, her mother was very sick she was 11 years old and the family that owned her had over bred the poor thing basically to keep the females for more breeding. I had only set out to Foster her for two weeks, to feed her every three hours 24-7 was a full time job, but we kept her in the end.

    Altho fairly hesitant about it, as I had never had a dog before in my life only cats, it was the best decision I've ever made. She's my best friend now she's an absolute dream, who lives for getting hugs and kisses all the time. She has the funniest personality, and altho wild as a kite, she's the most affectionate lurcher in the world. She would kill you with kindness! She's 1 and a half now and currently asleep in the bed with me! There's so much to be said for owning a lurcher, I wish people would adopt more lurcher and greyhounds. There seriously diamonds.

    The main coon we got seven years ago, and he rules the roost. One day he actually let a meow out that was like a bark.... Ha ha very strange! He acts like a dog tho.Hes the best cat you could find! Extremely affectionate- like unreal. Spends his days lounging around, he is the gentlest soul you could find. But an absolute killer when on the loose for a mouse or a bird. He brought me home a chicken one day. #proudday..... Not, mortified the neighbours might have saw!!

    The main coon and the lurcher let on to be enemies, but there not fooling anyone. Every evening the coon would hop up beside the dog and start to groom the dogs ears, and luna the lurcher just stares off into the distance with the most awkward I'm actual loving this look he could give, with out giving it away. Who's he fooling? Hilarious.

    Then we have the tabby who we rescued, he was taken away from his mammy way too young and was found trying to suckle on a dog for milk, dog was having none of it tho. Funny that. The cat isn't right in the head tho, he went a bit funny for a couple of years, he couldn't meow properly but he seems to be fine these days! Hes still a mentalist tho, but at least he can meow properly!

    Him and the dog, don't get on tho, harmless scraps between the two of them. Ya can nearly hear the boxes the cat gives him. Ha ha

    My house is a bit mental most of the time.

    Wouldn't have it any other way tho, loves coming home to them all, with their own quirky personalities!


  • #80
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Down to just the one dog now, a miniature JR called Eddie. Beth and Bella the Rotties sadly died. Bella from bone cancer about 3 years ago and Beth from old age last year... We also have a ridiculous squad of cats, 6 in total and we also lost one (she went wandering and never returned) 2 months ago.

    I'm also a big fan of human names for animals. Once knew a guy with a dog called Tony which is a great name for a pet imp.

    Alongside Eddie we have cats called Jones, Gerry, Sal, Bob, Lucy and Holly.

    All our dogs and cats have been rescues of various kinds. Taken in when others didn't want them, adopted strays, on the run for murder (Eddie) or rehomed from elderly relatives.


  • #81
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    The feeling when you get home and the dogs are so excited to see you. Adorable.

    then face the teenagers who just grunt and snarl. Why cant teens be as lovable and loyal as the dogs


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  • #82
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    The feeling when you get home and the dogs are so excited to see you. Adorable.

    then face the teenagers who just grunt and snarl. Why cant teens be as lovable and loyal as the dogs

    Yep, I'll often get the "can't believe you said hello to Shane before me this evening".

    My reply is usually along the lines of whenever you greet me at the door by howling with excitement, and then licking me enthusiastically, and exposing your chest for me to rub, you could jump the queue any evening you fancied.

    Soon takes the wind out of her sails. :D


  • #83
    SAMTALK
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    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Yep, I'll often get the "can't believe you said hello to Shane before me this evening".

    My reply is usually along the lines of whenever you greet me at the door by howling with excitement, and then licking me enthusiastically, and exposing your chest for me to rub, you could jump the queue any evening you fancied.

    Soon takes the wind out of her sails. :D

    :D
    I have 3 (dogs not teens T.G) and to see them vying for my attention is so funny
    It.s like a competition to see who gets the most hugs


  • #84
    PinkLady2016
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭PinkLady2016


    I adopted a dog from the local animal shelter. He was a collie cross. When I got him first he wouldn't come out behind the couch because he was so nervous. But I brought him around over the years. Had him for 12 years and sadly he got a large lump in his stomach. The vets were doing tests on him to see what the lump was. Anyway he died shortly after coming home from the vet that day. Maybe it was the anaesthetic that got him in the end. But I remembered that night he smiled at me even though he wasn't well. Then some hours later he passed away through the next morning. In some way maybe he went off the best way surrounded by family. At least I didn't have to make that decision.


  • #85
    The Tetrarch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,092 ✭✭✭The Tetrarch


    I am 68.
    Six months ago I got my first dog, two rescue dogs, and they are great.
    They are a total mismatch, the big dog is five times the size of the small dog.
    I call the little dog the wee dog, and it is not about her size.


  • #86
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I've a lovely old Jack Russell. He's as thick as two short planks but I love him all the same.

    I asked the Vet yrs back to check for any sort of head issues but he says he's fine.

    Our 6 month old cat is like Einstein compared to the poor bastard. She already has complete control over the house but also shows affection towards him which is quite sweet.


  • #87
    Dial Hard
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    I've a lovely old Jack Russell. He's as thick as two short planks but I love him all the same.

    I asked the Vet yrs back to check for any sort of head issues but he says he's fine.

    Our 6 month old cat is like Einstein compared to the poor bastard. She already has complete control over the house but also shows affection towards him which is quite sweet.

    I had a boxer like this. I'm convinced he was dropped on his head as a puppy. He once got stung in the mouth by the same wasp about 4 times because he kept trying to pick it up and swallow it again even after spitting it out cause it had just stung him in the mouth. His entire head swelled up like a particularly misshapen pumpkin and we had to make an emergency stop at the vet. God, he was a big loveable gobsh!te, though.


  • #88
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Comparison is the thief of joy.
    Bigbagofcans wrote: »
    Comparison is the thief of joy.

    I was comparing my cat to my dog, not cats with dogs.

    I don't mind cats, we grew up with loads around us, and we even have one in our house now, I'm saying that he's a prick compared to the dog we have.

    I reserve the right to make a comparison between the two pets that are cared for under my own roof after all.

    The dog will shower you with his love, loyalty and dedication.

    The cat showers my lawn with cat shyte, barely acknowledges any of us most of the time except for when he wants fed or a treat from his press.

    He's basically a selfish prick in comparison to the dog, hence me stating such.


  • #89
    Graces7
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    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    I was comparing my cat to my dog, not cats with dogs.

    I don't mind cats, we grew up with loads around us, and we even have one in our house now, I'm saying that he's a prick compared to the dog we have.

    I reserve the right to make a comparison between the two pets that are cared for under my own roof after all.

    The dog will shower you with his love, loyalty and dedication.

    The cat showers my lawn with cat shyte, barely acknowledges any of us most of the time except for when he wants fed or a treat from his press.

    He's basically a selfish prick in comparison to the dog, hence me stating such.

    if that is how you think of him...


  • #90
    Kitty6277
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    borderlinemeath wrote: »
    4 dogs.

    All Irish setters.

    Oh I love Irish Setters, you never see many of them around.


    My dog died about 3 years ago, but she was such a great companion. She used to always be in the same room as us, and ended up sleeping on my mam’s bed.

    About a week before she died, our house was broken into, and when the people who broke in were gone, she was upstairs, and a sweeping brush was lying across the landing. We think they used the sweeping brush to try and keep her back from them, she was a Yorkie x so she was a small thing, but by god she’d bark if someone went near the house. She lost a tooth that night, it makes me sad to think of what they must have done to her. She got gradually sicker after that night and we wonder in hindsight if that has anything to do with her death.

    Either way, she was a great dog and we still miss her.


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  • #91
    McMurphy
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    Graces7 wrote: »
    if that is how you think of him...

    Yeah, I don't dislike him, nor try to treat him any less favourably than the dog, but he doesn't give nearly as much back as the dog.

    As already said, we acquired him (he just showed up) and never left, perhaps his complete take it all but return very little attitude has something to do with his past life before being adopted by us.


  • #92
    SAMTALK
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    Johnny Dogs wrote: »
    Yeah, I don't dislike him, nor try to treat him any less favourably than the dog, but he doesn't give nearly as much back as the dog.

    As already said, we acquired him (he just showed up) and never left, perhaps his complete take it all but return very little attitude has something to do with his past life before being adopted by us.

    Have to agree with you Johnny Dogs.

    Same in our house. Cat shows up for treats and food and then it's like he sticks the two fingers up at us as he rambles off
    He plops himself in the dogs bed and looks at them as if to say ' I dare you to move me '


  • #93
    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,349 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    SmartinMartin wrote: »
    Your cousin's dog can drive?
    Brings a whole new meaning to 'dog licence'.


    One of mine could :P


    Her is Colleen ( RIP 2013 age 17 1/2) driving Young Georgie( Back Seat Left )
    to school, accompanied by Sally ( RIP 2010 aged 15 )

    But they decided instead of going to school, they would down to Wicklow and pass through the Sally Gap.

    West Highland Terrorists
    jv3kol.jpg

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • #94
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Cats should barely be classed as pets. Coming and going as they please and giving fickle loyalty to whomever is feeding it that day.

    Also, I find that houses with cats tend to smell a lot worse than those with dogs.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #95
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Cats should barely be classed as pets. Coming and going as they please and giving fickle loyalty to whomever is feeding it that day.
    Some. The one in my gaff curls up to sleep next to us, rolls over for belly rubs, starts chases with the dog, great fun. :)
    Also, I find that houses with cats tend to smell a lot worse than those with dogs.
    Yup. When people claim cats are cleaner than dogs I can honestly say I've often been surprised that there's a dog in a house, not so with a cat. Opening the front door is enough.


  • #96
    SAMTALK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,339 ✭✭✭SAMTALK


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Cats should barely be classed as pets. Coming and going as they please and giving fickle loyalty to whomever is feeding it that day.

    Also, I find that houses with cats tend to smell a lot worse than those with dogs.

    Well you've just opened a can of worms now :D


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  • #97
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    SAMTALK wrote: »
    Well you've just opened a can of worms now :D

    That is true though. Unless the cat goes to the toilet outside, you can smell the p*ss through walls.


  • #98
    Boom_Bap
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    Scented cat litter FTW.


    I've recently become a dog owner (also have 2 cats, they are pr*cks, but lovely ones), my experience so far is great.
    I have someone to chill out with me, someone to keep me company on walks, someone to welcome me home, someone to welcome me in the morning, someone to eat the missus's cooking :)


    It's been great so far.


  • #99
    Carry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Aaah, dogs. I can hardly read something about dogs without my heart melting.

    Next week is the first anniversary since my beloved doggie died. She was a gem, a rescue who first was scared shítless then couldn't be detached from my side and eventually started to love every human. Apart from plumbers and other males she didn't know and considered as intruders who disrupted her comfortable life. She was a brilliant watchdog. Well, most of the time.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106587876

    Three years before she died a kitten invaded our blessed relationship. My dog hated cats, went berserk whenever she saw one.
    So I tried to find a home for that half starved and hurt creature. Didn't find one so I kept the charmer.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=96564019

    And a charmer he was. He attached himself to my dog, more than to me, probably he prefered four-legged creatures. And love has mystery ways - the dog took the cat on as part of the family. The two of them were eventually inseparable and the cat even came along to our daily walks.

    The cat by now still seems to thinks he is a dog. He acquired the same quirks (and good clean behaviour) as my doggie, but strangely he refuses to sleep on places where my dog used to sleep. And he reacts to the same commands I used for my dog - not that he would always follow them. But that's cats for you.


  • #100
    PinkLady2016
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭PinkLady2016


    Carry wrote: »
    Aaah, dogs. I can hardly read something about dogs without my heart melting.

    Next week is the first anniversary since my beloved doggie died. She was a gem, a rescue who first was scared shítless then couldn't be detached from my side and eventually started to love every human. Apart from plumbers and other males she didn't know and considered as intruders who disrupted her comfortable life. She was a brilliant watchdog. Well, most of the time.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=106587876

    Three years before she died a kitten invaded our blessed relationship. My dog hated cats, went berserk whenever she saw one.
    So I tried to find a home for that half starved and hurt creature. Didn't find one so I kept the charmer.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=96564019

    And a charmer he was. He attached himself to my dog, more than to me, probably he prefered four-legged creatures. And love has mystery ways - the dog took the cat on as part of the family. The two of them were eventually inseparable and the cat even came along to our daily walks.

    The cat by now still seems to thinks he is a dog. He acquired the same quirks (and good clean behaviour) as my doggie, but strangely he refuses to sleep on places where my dog used to sleep. And he reacts to the same commands I used for my dog - not that he would always follow them. But that's cats for you.

    Sorry to hear about your dog. That photo reminds me of my cat and dog they were great buddies. Nothing fills that void when they are gone. Its a friendship that cant be explained.


  • #101
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,450 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Should have stricter laws on what dogs can be owned.
    Sheep dogs for example aren't suitable for a semi d. Nor are Huskies. Pugs and all of those snub faced dogs should be outlawed completely.

    Caging them up in the garden should also be illegal.


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