That WAS cool. Thanks for the regular you tube link. I couldn't tell if that was a real lobster or a decoy they use for training put there by the camera person... Or maybe even a trained lobster?

Lets see your cat do this. But I suppose it you had a cat instead you wouldn't bother to work on the brakes. No sense it wanting to live. :p:

Three happy doggehs:

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On the subject of Border Collies...

I love that vid! I've seen it before, but it gets me every time.

Mum's pure white collie-cross, Nelle,does the collie stalking walk. She looks fucking amazing when she does. It's so funny though, because she'll be silently stalking towards a bird or something and being really careful not to spook it and then Carrot will just plough right through and spoil the game. Not the most subtle dog, our Carrotcake.

The Collies are considerate, not wanting to disturb you before it's necessary.

I love my collie. Yesterday my Dad was going for a walk and made eye contact with Benny from a distance of 30 yards or so. Benny spun away and ran off. Then came sprinting back with a frisbee to keep the old man busy. My old man is not an animal guy but Benny has him wrapped around his little white paw.

Ha ha, they're smart, too damn smart. If you let your guard down they'll play you like a pinball machine until you drop.
Then lick your face and tease to play some more. http://cellar.org/2013/dog.gif

Dog posters...

Oh, your cats catch mice... isn't that cute.

Hmm. Don't know how I feel about that. Obviously I have to state my bias as a rat-owner. I know these dogs are not killing domestic rats, but seeing it is still going to be close enough to be uncomfortable.

Also, it's the sheer glee of the owners.
Diz and Dylan couldn't hunt - bless their furry chops - but I took no pleasure when Raphael and Gabriel brought home "gifts". I was certainly not impressed by the fully grown live magpie in the kitchen, although that was more because we were all terrified by it, rather than for animal-loving reasons.

I suppose if rats are a problem, then it's a natural and humane way to deal with them. It's fast and gives them a chance to use their skills, unlike poison bait or traps.
I just don't like to see humans getting so excited about the death of an animal.

These are nasty dirty rats, that bite children and spread disease.

And spoil crops, but worst of all those rat bastards are the ones that lured cats into their semi-domesticated lifestyle. :p:

So we should revel in their death throes, laying down our vengeance on our tiny enemies?

Sundae's point was not that the rats should not be hunted. Indeed, she actually says:
What she was objecting to, and I agree with her point, was 'humans getting so excited about the death of an animal.'

Oh, you know these people? You're sure they aren't reveling in the skill, tenacity, and success of their dogs?
Jesus Dana, you've read enough history to know what a problem rats are, how many millions of people they've killed, not only from bites/infection, but disease, the plague, and starvation. Look at the wildlife that's been decimated by rats on islands they've gotten to. Mice are cute, Rats are stone evil.

Center for Disease Control

Wild rats bad, Wild Cats good.

Rats are not evil. They're just animals. I don't have a problem with killing them. I have killed rats myself.

That, right there, is the only salient point in your post. I can get my head around being excited by my animal's skills and training. I cannot fathom how anybody would get a kick out of the rat'sdeath itself, and it baffles me that anybody can respond to a post about not liking to see humans revel in an animal's suffering with the justification that rats are evil/harmful/dangerous. Nobody denied they can cause terrible disease and suffering. Neither Sundae nor I have suggested that nobody should ever kill a rat.The harm rats have done and continue to do, is no reason to delight in their suffering.

Sundae made a point about not liking to see humans excited by the rats'deaths,and was answered with this: 'These are nasty dirty rats, that bite children and spread disease.' That,is a reallygood reason for killing rats. It's not a really good reason for enjoying it. Unless you feel some sort of vengeance is in order. And that - when applied to a rodent - is fucking ridiculous.

But yes - the flipside is that those people may have just been excited about their dogs' skills and the success of their training.

Balderdash, we should all have cupcakes and fizzy drinks in jubilation, every time one of those spawn of hell dies.
I can understand Sundae's affliction, she even feeds the flying rats, and bushy tailed tree rats, in the park.
But a historian should have a better grasp on the menace they are, and the stellar service these dogs perform on humanities behalf. The human companions celebration on our behalf, is certainly warranted. My only regret is the vermin are dispatched so quickly, there's no time to hang them by their disease ridden tails and watch their eyeballs boil and burst in the flames of justice.
Did you read about the human babies eaten alive in India, South Africa, Mexico and Kansas city, by this scourge?

If the city's vermin control was doing its job, those rats would not be torn apart by dogs. They would be dying a slow, two-week-long agonizing death due to shock and anemia after internal hemorrhaging.

Like Sundae said - if they're going to die, then this is probably the kindest and most natural way.

Perhaps it's also a natural coping mechanism for people who don't particularly want to kill animals; but, need to for their own safety, to band together in such a way as to get each other and their companion animals psyched up to perform an unpleasant task that needs to be done.

I was surprised how much kinder.

As a 14 year old, I poisoned rats and managed the carcasses at a farmhouse nearly destroyed by low-class renters. I must have taken out 20 of them. I wish we had dogs. That would have been awesome.

Some where there's a record set by a rat terrier, in England, for the most rats killed in X amount of time. Boy it was a bunch.

And remarkable, because most dogs are not very bright.

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They don't call the Rat Terriers for nothing. Granted they're one trick ponies but they know that trick well. Then too, when you get a bunch of them together, a rat or a ball/stick will prompt competition to get it first. Mobs are single minded and efficient that way. Those NYC rats are street tough, you can tell by the bloodshot eyes and hairy knuckles.

And the switchblade.

Our westies killed a rat once. It was strange to watch, because neither had been trained to hunt. It was a fairly young rat I think, and had got inthe house and gone behind the sofa.

As a teen I got paid to clean out a barn for a guy that was moving. The loft had piles of old fiberglass insulation just full of rats. I don't know how many I pitchforked... that was grim work. I'd better be long gone before the rats inherit the earth.

I remember having to finish off a dying rat in the back yard, after the exterminators had been in. That was not fun.

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I think it might be a Spaniel of some description!

Dognapped!

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This dog is an artist.

And he's kinda good:

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That's cause he's more black than white, they're naturals. :rolleyes:

Very helpful

I laughed and laughed. So very dog.

A Greyhound Chair.

I'll never, EVER, see a greyhound without thinking of this stool/chair/assprop/thing.

Hey look, these cars came with pupholders.

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I'll take the tiny French Bulldog. I'll name him Sluggo.

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I'll take the incorrectly coloured cartoon raccoon







Or the French Bulldog - or indeed the Great Dane

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super bowl special

Personal foul, facemask, unnecessary roughness, gloating, 15 yards.

Damn dog! He's always stealing someone's shoe...GAH!!

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Dat would be a hyena. A relative, but distant.

In my experience, distant relatives are the best kind.

:D

Only when they send you lovely prizes.
I'd take a cup of tea from a rellie who lives in the same town by preference.

Loved the child and dog.
I so knew what was going to happen (given the thread) but it still surprised me into a laugh hard enough to startle the poor old gent on the PC next to me.

Metro

Daily Mirror (Includes video)


Where does he sleep?

Anywhere he likes!



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It takes two people with leashes to walk him!

Not unless you want him to go someplace other than where he wants to go. ;)

They don't mention the canine miracle, the ability to transform a pound of food into two pounds of poop.

A lullaby that actually works:

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:lol2:

I want to know which paper printed that. But it looks like it says "Advertisement" at the top of the article. So some awesome person paid to run that in the paper.

It was the New Zealand Herald