Things not to like about dogs

[DanaC]

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.

[Spexxvet]

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

[Sundae]

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

[Undertoad]

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

[monster]

I see slobber! And shed hair.

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

[Undertoad]

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.

[monster]

I shuddered.

[monster]

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

[DanaC]

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.

[Griff]

Things to love about dogs.

[glatt]

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

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Griff

Things to love about dogs.

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

[Clodfobble]

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.

[Lamplighter]

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.

[infinite monkey]

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