Cats or dogs?

[Gurn Blanston]

Would you happen to have a video recording of this conversation?

Of course. As you know, for security reasons, my entire life is on tape... Should I YouTube it? 



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Russian news story on Youtube covers a women owning a 130 cats in her home I guess.  Crazy.

[Joe Barron]

I befriend strange cats all the time with no difficulty, but then again I'm good with animals in general.

I find the best way to make friends with a cat in a strange household is to ignore it. In a few mintues, it's examining me as a new aspect of the environment, and soon it's sitting in my lap. Pursuing it to demand affection freaks it out.

[toledobass]

Here is my dog named Hugo. He's 11 or 12 now and is really slowing down.  His hips are starting to give him problems and one of his back legs is very weak due to a torn ACL when he was very young.  He's still in good spirits though. This was taken at our summer lake house on Lake Ontario.  I think it's his favorite place on the planet.

Allan

[carlos]

I've 2 female cats. and I prefer cats every time. Difference, IMHO, is that dogs are domesticated animals, and cats only domestics.
Dogs have a master who they adore and obey.Cats have a home
and a human who should adore and feed them. And cats are much more smart than dogs. You can't force cats to do anything
they don't want to do.

[Great Gable]

Dogs have a master who they adore and obey.Cats have a home
and a human who should adore and feed them. And cats are much more smart than dogs. You can't force cats to do anything
they don't want to do.

Not quite. Dogs have (or should have) a PACK LEADER. This is not a master - that is something quite different. This is the one main thing that dog "owners" get wrong or fail to understand. And dogs don't do "tricks" because they are stupid. Dogs appear malleable but are in fact just responding to order - another of the things that people don't understand. Dogs need order, discipline and rigidity in their life - it is what they get from the pack and what they should get from their new pack - in other words, the family that adopt them.

I have some understanding of this - I am a dog behaviour specialist.

[Novi]

Neither; for me it's fish...in particular Koi.

Oh nice! Is that your garden?

[carlos]

Yes, it is so. Female cats only need confortable places to stay.
food at regular times, and nobody to bother them, and are happy. They are highly individualistic and independent and hate to
get orders. And generally they can't stand rivals. Male cats are
predators and hunters, and they need to go out alone, to purse female cats.And they have terrible fights.

[Solitary Wanderer]

I used to like dogs but I now prefer cats, however when my 13 years old cat shuffles off his mortal coil, he won't be replaced with any pets 

[Kullervo]

I used to like dogs but I now prefer cats, however when my 13 years old cat shuffles off his mortal coil, he won't be replaced with any pets 

Didn't you say you would get another cat before? Change your mind?

[Bogey]

Here is my dog named Hugo. He's 11 or 12 now and is really slowing down.  His hips are starting to give him problems and one of his back legs is very weak due to a torn ACL when he was very young.  He's still in good spirits though. This was taken at our summer lake house on Lake Ontario.  I think it's his favorite place on the planet.

Allan

What a GREAT photo Allan.  Your last line really got me.  We have a basset that is either 12 or 13.  Eyes are going, backs starting to bother him, and hearing ain't what it used to be.  Still got some spunk though and our family room couch is his idea of "livin'".

[Danny]

Cats, because mamma had them all around the house while growing up.

[ChamberNut]

So this is what my dog has been trying to tell me the whole time, ah!

[RebLem]

I'm definitely a dog person.  I adopted my 25 lb pug/lab almost all black mix in July, 2003, when he was two years old, from the Albuquerque East Side Shelter.  He was a stray, with no tags or chip; I named him Scout.  He was emotionally shut down for a long time because he had been a street dog; it took him four months before he barked for the first time.  But I found toilet training very easy; he knows that if he MUST do his # 2 in the apt, he is to do it in the tiled bathroom, where it is easy to clean up, and not on the carpet.

I could go for cats, if I ever saw one lead a blind person across the street, but not until then.

[ChamberNut]

Dog Lovers:

Did anyone catch some of the Westminster Dog Show this week?

[ChamberNut]

Good point;dogs stink!

I won't pet any dogs anymore.

Some breeds of dogs don't have an odor, or hardly an odor (similarly to cats).  Pugs are one, and I believe Viszlas are another breed of 'non-stinky' dogs.

I love Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers but they do smell! 

[DavidW]

Ha!  I guess I'm in the minority-- I'm too allergic for pets.

[karlhenning]

Ha!  I guess I'm in the minority-- I'm too allergic for pets.

Didn't the Obamas get a hypoallergenic pooch?  (A great Zappa song that he never got to write.)

[Gurn Blanston]

Didn't the Obamas get a hypoallergenic pooch?  (A great Zappa song that he never got to write.)

Portuguese Water Dog. IINM, a close relative of the poodle, and similar in many ways, including being hypoallergenic. Many terriers are also blessed in this manner, as I can personally attest, having had nearly 20 specimens and 5 different breeds. I am quite allergic to cats, and also I was to my cocker spaniel, but no problems with the terriers.

[DavidW]

Sometime I'll have to be around for a terrier for awhile and see if I can handle it.