07-23-2003, 11:46 PM
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What pets do you have?
Just curious what pets do you have? Do you like pets at all? If you do not have pets but would like to , what kind of pet you would love to have?
I have a Lab, Boxer and a poodle. They are my daughters and son.
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07-23-2003, 11:47 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I have a Black Lab and a Ball Python.
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07-23-2003, 11:56 PM
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What pets do you have?
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Originally posted by: ocelot_ark
I have a Black Lab and a Ball Python.
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Same here. A Black Lab.
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07-24-2003, 12:05 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
i hate animals, as we all know,
but we have two cats....and they're disgusting.
there was one more, and he was really fat, his name
was clive. he was ok, but he died....
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07-24-2003, 12:14 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I have a Guinea Pig. It's like a regular pig, it eats every damn thing it sees.
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07-24-2003, 01:24 AM
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What pets do you have?
I see the black labs are popular w/the Mavs fans. I've got one too. His name is Lucky & he is now in his "I'm going to shed all over the patio & there is nothing you can personally do about it ha ha ha" mode.
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07-24-2003, 07:57 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I have a pure bred Sheltie, I don't have any pictures online of my dogs, but he looks close to this:
and I also have a catahoula/australian shepard mixed, that looks close to this except she has alot more blue/grey in her and she has two different colored eyes.:
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07-24-2003, 08:52 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
This is my puppy Oscar. 4 months old now, the pics were taken at about 2.5 months.
we also have a cat named Shenanigans (i didn't name her... she was my fiance's cat)
and my parents back home have a great dans and a cat as well.
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07-24-2003, 08:56 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
oh i have a fish. i like my fish.
his name is motorcycle boy (gee. i wonder what kind of fish he is [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img])
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07-24-2003, 09:27 PM
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What pets do you have?
I have 2 Siberian Huskies that look a little like these dogs. (somewhere I have pictures of my dogs, but can't find them right now)
and 1 cat who looks kind of like this
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07-24-2003, 09:58 PM
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What pets do you have?
1 Beagle
1 Boston Terrier-Jack Russell Terrier mix
1 lungfish
several fish
recently had a ferret that died of old age. Don't know if I will replace him or not. *sniff*
recently donated several hamsters to a local kids museum (several more than the 2 I originally purchased [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img] )
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07-24-2003, 10:05 PM
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What pets do you have?
I have a Kitten and a Red tailed Boa.
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07-25-2003, 01:09 AM
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What pets do you have?
I have a great Calico cat but my dad has temporary custody while my in-law's cat lives with us. He is mean and old. I can't wait to have my sweet cat back. I almost love her more than the Mavs.
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07-25-2003, 01:24 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
Dogs don't discriminate, cats make you work for their affection!
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07-25-2003, 01:54 AM
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What pets do you have?
We used to have a beta fish (Loki) but my roommate killed it via forgetting to feed it. We used to have turtles (Merry & Pippen) but they are technically illegal in the dorms so we gave them away. I think we're going to try a goldfish this year.
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07-26-2003, 01:38 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I have many pet roaches.
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07-26-2003, 08:25 AM
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What pets do you have?
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I have many pet roaches.
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This might help you,
Link
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07-26-2003, 10:05 PM
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What pets do you have?
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Originally posted by: mavsfanforever
Just curious what pets do you have? Do you like pets at all?
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I >hate< pets yet we have two dogs, three fish tanks full of fish, 2 hermit crabs, 2 turtles, a couple of frogs.
But I'm at least happy that I got rid of the suger gliders.
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08-11-2003, 04:17 AM
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What pets do you have?
After 19 years, we had our cat put to sleep this morning at 1:30.
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08-11-2003, 07:29 AM
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What pets do you have?
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After 19 years, we had our cat put to sleep this morning at 1:30.
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Really sorry to hear that.
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08-11-2003, 07:44 AM
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What pets do you have?
Quote:
Originally posted by: MavsFanFinley
After 19 years, we had our cat put to sleep this morning at 1:30.
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I know you loved your cat very much. I'm so sorry...
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08-11-2003, 12:11 PM
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What pets do you have?
I have a beastly 120 lb. Old English Sheepdog named Waldo. He is a gentle giant who loves to eat, sleep, play, and herd all his toy's together like sheep. He is only angry if he see's a stranger knock on the door or if you wake him up while sleeping, then watch out!
I also have 2 Guinea Pigs, 1 now. Yarky and Mr. Grizzles who recently passed.
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08-11-2003, 01:34 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
i have an orange fluffy cat named merlin, and a tiger calico cat named dorothy. they are soo cute!
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08-11-2003, 05:09 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
i have a dalmatian named dice, and she is the cutest!!
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08-11-2003, 05:30 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I have a fluffy furry stuffed animal pet dog... does that count?
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08-11-2003, 09:51 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I've got an 8 week old basset hound puppy named sunshine, a mut named oscar who is kind of stupid, and a really grumpy 9 year old dacshund named bandit.
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08-12-2003, 02:47 AM
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RE: What pets do you have?
I have two cats. A Manx named Autobot and a Bengal named simply Kitty. They love watching Mavs games with me and chasing the laser pointer. They also like to play with the golfers on my Tiger woods pc video game.
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08-12-2003, 02:12 PM
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What pets do you have?
Is Your Dog Fulfilled?
Herding classes, obedience school, play dates, day care—pretty soon you'll be taking your dog to ballet lessons.
By Jon Katz
Posted Friday, August 8, 2003, at 5:33 AM PT
I drive a couple of hundred miles each week so my border collies can embrace their destiny—or is it their ancestry?—by herding sheep at a farm. When I'm there, I'm always amazed at the scores of people who show up with all sorts of dogs, from avid herding breeds to bewildered mutts. Their owners are all eager to expose them to the ancient art.
"I do agility, obedience, and therapy dog training," the owner of a Lab/shepherd mix told me, "and I'd love to add herding. We have Thursdays and Fridays open."
America has enriched its children to the bone with soccer and ballet and computer camp and Chinese lessons. Now it's the dogs' turn. If your mutt isn't "fulfilled" yet, it will be soon. "Fulfillment" is the new buzzword among trendy California dog lovers, the Los Angeles Times reported last fall. The idea is to figure out what a dog was born to do—herd, hunt, retrieve, sit decoratively on laps—and find ways to do it.
Dog fulfillment feels like an inevitable movement. One of the baby boom's many dubious ideas was the Gifted and Talented Child. In the 1970s and '80s, schools created programs based on the same principle as dog fulfillment: We had to figure out what our kids could excel at and make sure they got vast encouragement to do it. Nervous principals and anxious parents made sure that every child was defined as gifted and talented at something. This has gradually led to families where too much is never enough: Every waking hour must be spent at some class or team or camp.
As Americans who love their dogs have increasingly emotionalized them and come to see them as family members, complete with complex psychological lives and histories, they feel more and more anxious and guilty about them. It follows that dogs, too, should have every chance at fulfillment. And it also follows that dog owners should come to feel as if they are never doing enough. "Is it OK to have a dog and still go to work?" one woman e-mailed me recently.
Dog owners vigorously search for activities that will endlessly stimulate and amuse their pets. Dogs belong to recreational and sporting associations, sometimes organized by activity (obedience, therapy, search and rescue) and other times by breed. Dogs have play dates or walking dates. They participate in agility, tracking, and myriad other sporting events. They are acquiring service and therapy certificates by the thousands. Dog day-care centers have sprouted everywhere so guilt-ridden owners can go to work feeling good that Max or Maggie (our dogs often have human names now, too) has sufficient exercise, stimulation, and companionship. And have you checked out the toy department at your pet store recently? It's like Zany Brainy in there.
A generation or two ago—in fact, for most of the species' evolutionary history—the idea that a dog needed to be fulfilled would have shocked even the most attentive owner. As recently as the '60s and '70s, dogs were rarely even leashed or confined; they generally were content just to hang around, occasionally squabbling with other dogs, getting into the garbage or menacing the mailman.
Today's dog owners might pause and consider that their pets may sometimes actually need much less from them than they want or feel they need to give. Most dogs require an hour of exercise a day, not endless fetching and chasing or romps with scores of excited peers. (A dog that chases balls, sticks, and Frisbees and races around all day is sometimes an obnoxious, aroused, or hyper dog, not necessarily a fulfilled one.) They certainly need love and attention, but not always as much of it as we think. They need food and things to chew on, but not as much as we usually provide. A trainer friend told me I wasn't helping my anxious border collie out by rushing him around to stimulating activities all day. "He needs to be socialized with dogs and people, but he also needs to learn how to be calm just as much as he needs to work. I see dog people smiling all the time when they see their dogs racing around in packs like maniacs, but they aren't always doing their dogs a favor. Dogs don't have 'fun' in the way that humans do, and people often confuse excitement and arousal for yuks."
In natural environments, which almost no dog or owner can find anymore, dogs are like lions. They lie around much of the day, rousing themselves every now and then for food or sex or to chase after something appealing. Dogs don't have human emotions. They don't get bored in the human sense of the word, although they do need some activity. They may get anxious when left alone—they are pack animals and usually prefer company—but loneliness is a human, not canine, emotion. With proper training and acclimatization, sometimes confinement, almost any dog can spend time alone, vegging out, smelling the smells and listening to the sounds of the world, chewing on rawhide, or staring at nothing in particular. One European study suggests that dogs left alone sometimes are smarter than dogs that are smothered by attention: They get the opportunity to solve problems by themselves.
Working with dogs and engaging in activities like agility, obedience, and herding is great, terrific for people and dogs alike. Nobody should feel badly about doing this stuff. I've spent some of the loveliest hours of my life out in pastures with my vigilant dogs, listening to the sound of sheep crunching away on grass. But it's sometimes OK to relax and let our dogs just be dogs. After considerable badgering by some great trainers, I now make sure my dogs spend several hours a day alone in the yard or quietly in their crates, learning to settle down. We have spent some of our happiest times together doing nothing.
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08-12-2003, 03:30 PM
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What pets do you have?
I have a pure breed German Sheperd and a G.S./Lab mix. Both females, and both are really jealous of each other.
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08-13-2003, 11:22 AM
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What pets do you have?
Border Collie (named Sadie) and 2 ducks (Dixie and Delilah). My lot is an acre and it backs up to an 8 acre lake...thus, the ducks.
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08-13-2003, 02:49 PM
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RE: What pets do you have?
Man Fails Alcohol Test, But His Dog Passes
Wed Aug 13,10:22 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man of Polish origin lost his driving license after failing an alcohol test but his dog passed with flying colors, police in the western city of Koblenz said on Wednesday.
Police said the 47-year-old man failed to perform any of the required actions, only to be upstaged by his West Highland white terrier who executed all of the commands given perfectly, including a 360 degree turn as his master staggered and fell.
At the conclusion of the uneven contest, the supervising doctor announced, "Man: fail; dog: pass
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