Things not to like about dogs
 

They bite
They slobber
They smell
They eat poop
They leave big piles of poop that someone has to pick up
They chew up precious things
They bite
They are really, really noisy
They slobber
They are not cats
Some of them look like rats
Some of them look like wolves
People talk to them in baby voices and tell them to go potty
They slobber
They smell


....feel free to join in any time.......

:bolt:

Their owners?

Them too. Especially the ones in denial about all of the above.

Did I mention the slobbering?

Also

They shed
Their food smells
They roll in decaying corpses and other unspeakable smelliness

except for the eating poop part which I find revolting, your list applies to babies too. (and the wolf and rat thing, though I have seen my share of ugly babies)..

I still love dogs and I still love babies.

sorry about ur doggie monster

babies would eat poop too if they could get to it.

on the plus side for dogs

they don't go out and get tattoos

ftfy

just ask footfootfoot.... hehehehehhe

Dogs - a complete and utter waste of oxygen.

When I come to power private ownership of non-working dogs will be made illegal. I'm not completely heartless though - owners will be given a brief period, say four to six weeks, during which time they can sell or use their animals for food.

:thumb: Woman after my own heart, Rhianne......

....wait 'til nirvana gets here -she's gonna whup both us arses......

She'll have to stand in line!


I told Pilau what y'all said and he's very hurt.

Well that's not very dog-motherly is it? Isn't it your job to protect his feelings by keeping him sheltered from all the nasty? You could have let him carry on in all innocence (just so long as you restricted his cellar access).....

I see he hasn't posted here yet..... perhaps he has me on ignore?

ooh look, that was my 20,000th post.

Typical of my bullshittin' on here :lol:

They bite Pico only lightly bites during play
They slobber Pico never slobbers
They smell Pico doesn't, well...his breath did, but then we got the bad teeth pulled
They eat poop Pico might, but I have never seen him do it
They leave big piles of poop that someone has to pick up Pico's piles are so small they dry up really fast
They chew up precious things Pico hasn't yet
They bite See above
They are really, really noisy This is Pico's only downside. He barks like a mad dog whenever (and whoever) someone comes to the door
They slobber Pico never slobbers
They are not cats Pico almost is, at least he cleans himself like one
Some of them look like rats I think that Pico might have rat terrier in him, but that is why he makes such a cute chihuahua
Some of them look like wolves Pico is too small to ever be mistaken for that
People talk to them in baby voices and tell them to go potty I don't talk to him in a baby voice, but when I tell him to go potty, he does
They slobber Pico never slobbers
They smell Pico doesn't

lol nice to see you marked the occasion with something special :P

Pilau smells...but he doesn't slobber. I can't abide doggy slobber. I really love Bassett Hounds, but would never own one because of the slobber. Same with Boxers.

Not slobbering was very much one of the criteria I had when choosing a breed. As was the shedding fur. Pilau doesn't moult. he has a double coat that has to be clipped and the undercoat plucked or combed out a few times a year. There are dog hair, but nothing like a shedding breed. Ceertainly not as many hairs as the average cat would leave :P

Pilau has bitten. But that's only when outside and excited. Indoors he has the perfect temperament. He can be lay there chewing on a bone and I can just take it from him. there will be no growling.

He doesn't eat shit, never has. Also never got into that rolling in smelly stuff habit either. Dan does from time to time (maybe once or twice in a year). But it's not Pil's thing.

The only things Pilau chews are the things he's been given to chew. The only exceptions to that being a couple of shoes and a portion of fireplace that he chewed when he was teething. Past a few months old he could be trusted not to chew anything that hadn't been given to him to chew, or left where his toys were. There was one wooden bangle that he chewed up a couple of years ago, but that had been knocked off the coffee table and had landed in amongst some of his toys, so fair play to him :p

Pilau does look a bit wolfy sometimes. But i consider that a plus not a minus :)

The one really irritating habit he has is digging up the carpet. I consider not having a nice carpet a small price to pay for his company.

They don't taste good, unless you bar-b-q them juuuuuust right.

I am a cowardly cat lover.
Too cowardly to post here anyway!

Look, my 500th!

Pearl is giving you the big hairy eyeball and look of disapproval.

http://cellar.org/2006/perly.jpg

I see slobber! And shed hair.

although probably not as much as beest sheds.....

Pearly hair is 1/4" short, and it is pleasant to find it, because it reminds you Pearl is around. She never slobbers, but she will lick you to death with her tiny tongue. And she will sneeze in your face, and others in the room will laugh at this.

I shuddered.

beest's hair is kind of OK to find around for the same reason. except when it's in your food.

At least my dog doesn't bring in half-killed rodents or birds and leave them goring up the kitchen floor.

Nor does he go find the pile of newly laundered clothes and bedding and liberally spread filament-fine hair all over them.

Lots of things not to like about cats:p



I am jesting (somewhat).

That said, I genuinely find cat hair more troubling than Pilau hair. It's too fine and clingy.

Things to love about dogs.

Cats poop inside the house. On purpose. With their owners' blessing. Need I say more?

That actually made me tear up a little. being very much in Pilau's twilight time. I could relate to so much of it.

It's okay monster, I'm with you. Except for the part about cats being better. Cats are just as awful. What they lack in slobbering they make up for in clawing apart everything you own.

Mammals are gross. Present company not excluded. The only reason I put up with a handful of humans in my house is because they will talk to me and cook me dinner sometimes.

I love almost all creatures great and small. Except for yappy dogs. Snarly dogs. You can keep them, but I don't HATE them because they're pitiful.

I love this dog who loves my nieces and wouldn't hurt a soul except in defending family.

Animals, while often a pain in the ass, are a gift from FSM, imho.

Who said it better? Ladies and Gentlemen, Conway Twitty. Oh. Ahem...sorry, I mean Walt Whitman.

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.

― Walt Whitman

The only job our dog has is to get me up early and out
for a jaunt in that quiet, darkest time before sunrise.
This morning she out did herself.

A sliver of a moon with Mars trailing behind, Jupiter, bright as only Jupiter can be,
and the first onset of the winter night sky... Orion and Sirus.

Central Oregon has clear skies all year long, but here in the Willamette valley
we get to appreciate the seasonal changes.

Damn dogs, they're of no use at all.

Lamp , that's gorgeous.

I could say the same about Diz.
Only I cuff him down the bed and hiss at him because treading all over my hair 40 minutes before I am due to get up just makes me unhappy at the sleep I've lost.

At that time of the morning it's fuck cats, fuck nature and fuck Orion and his fucking belt.

:lol:

See, right there.

I'm that way about mornings too. But for Gaines it's wailing, and wailing, and wailing...half the night wanting in then out then in then out, then in the morning before I'm ready to get up.

He's the loudest fucking cat EVER. Can I get his voicebox removed? :eek:

I blame the parents. if they hadn't given in to this behaviour when he was a kitten.....

uh huh... you don't know much about cats do you?

dogs have people.

cats have... staff.



not parents.

From War of the Roses:
The moral of this story (other than dog people should not marry cat people)...

Wow just wow! How could anyone deny another human being the pleasure of unconditional love? Only those that are not capable of real love. I feel Monster is capable of love because of all the things she does for her kids she is exempt, besides I think she actually likes cats! ;)


"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures
from the shelter of compassion and pity,
you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man."

-St. Francis of Assisi

Oh and by the way dogs enjoy smelling human farts "nuff said"...

I was reading or hearing somewhere about how dogs were crucial to the survival of the human species. I think the relationship goes back 15,000 years or more.

Gotta find that reference...

I put that in the plus column for dogs. :D

Men try to hide it, but we really don't mature past 7th grade.


Well, at least all worth knowing.

Diz is spooked by my farts. Never worked out whether it was the sound or the smell, but he certainly reacts.

That's Mr. Conway Twitty, thankyouverymuch.

I think dogs are better than cats for two reasons.

One: Cats will not lick bacon grease/peanut butter off your testicles. No matter what.

And, two: Cats rarely do things like this:

Cats play with string all the time. Not always a good thing.

I love my dogs, and I'll never be without at least one, even though they sometimes fart inappropriately, or trample my vege garden just when the seedlings are coming up, or bark at other nasty dogs sniffing at their fence, or slobber on me while they're telling me how much they love me, or gently bite me when I'm playing silly rough games with them. I also love them because they protect me from anyone unannounced coming through the gate and they'll stand by me even when I'm a bitch to them because I've had a shit day.

There's no one in the world who loves me like my puppy dogs do, and that suits me. There's no one in the world who loves my puppy dogs the way I do, except maybe Max. :)

Only thing not to like about dogs:
They don't live long enough and break our hearts when they go.

Pet halloween costumes. There's another thing on the minus list. If dogs weren't so pliant or didn't exist, I bet no-one would have come up with costumes for pets. You look at a cat or guinnea pig or snake and even if the thought of a costume popped in for a second, it'd pop right back out again pronto. Screaming and looking for a place to hide.

Wow! I wonder what drug they have those cats on to make them sit still for those costumes? I put a collar on Sylvester a while back, and he went insane trying to get it off. Finally, he resorted to hiding under the bed and mournfully meowing for hours. He won that round. :thepain:

But would anybody have even thought of cat costumes had they not tried dogs first?

I'm sure the costumes began with the dogs who are so much more eager to please than cats are. Had they begun with cats, the results would have been so depressing that the costume for your pet thing would never have got off the ground (or the cat). I once got a cat to wear a Christmas bow for an entire half hour. That's my life time record to date for dressing up cats.

Trick or treat :P

I swear this is the only costume I have ever put on a dog.... well maybe I put antlers on Victor, yah maybe that was me...

exactlt my point -dogs are wholly responsible for this nightmare

Dogs made hunting easier.

Cats made agriculture viable.

Judge for yourself which was more important in human history.

Ahem. Actually....

Burn! Good find Moar.

yeah I don't see cats herding cattle so much.....

....so dogs are also responsible for McDonalds......

;)

Cats should be seen and not herd.

:rotflol: I about spit my coffee all over the screen! Good one, IM! No doubt a herd of prime mousers like that will bring top price when they finally get to market about 10 years from now.

Butt but butt even Monkeys love dogs

Im ready to go all :smack: soon, but...

Nirvana, Ive been trying but I still cant figure out what your little chihuahua is supposed to be? And how does it ignore the cookie and marshmallows on its head?!? She is being really cool about it.