Cats or dogs?

[paulb]

If the picture is on your hard drive, open up the Additional Options and attach it.

Thanks
all three kids adopted.
First kid, Cupichino, adopted from the house next door 12 yrs pre katrina. He was with me riding out K in our house.
Next guy, Night, adopted when we evacuated to BR, moved ina   house and he came around looking for food. We took him in and the lady acroos the street just had to give him up, she tried to get him to move back with her, but Night knew where the love and GOOD FOOD was .
Then there;'s the Royal Himalayan, adopted in BR, his name is Pelleas. He also has a  sad story, his owner died 10 yrs ago, an old man that feed 10 or so cats. Pelleas was the only one to hang around, and the korean lady next to us, somewhat kept it alive on cheap dry food.
All eat well.
Organic fresh in house roasted thin sliced turkey breast, canned tuna in water, Royal Cannin dry food, they also love dry Purina. Night loves his heavy cream , organic, with a  little caramel or cholocate ice cream mixed in.
My wife gives them junk food   for breakfast, Fancy Feast.
Night had that horrific and inhumane operation of extracting the front claws.
He's about 3 now, Cupichino is about 12 and Pelleras I guess is near 15, He hada   very hard life fighting this alley cat the size of a  small bob cat. Super powerful! He left the BR location just after we moved in. Pelleras had his first hair cut when i adopted him. I took his super long hair all the way down You could see the many scars.
All are spoiled and get lots of love.
They play among the gutted houses and high grass, no ferrals around so they love it around here. Also I see  mice and a  few rats they drag back to the house.
So they are havinga   field day hunting.

i got them a  toy mouse today and they practice trying to catch up with the stringed mouse i pull around the house. .

[paulb]

Ah, I see you got it the other way. Cool.

Yikes, it's a cat! If I had known that....     



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Thanks Gurn
yeah i love dogs too.
i saved a black lab from Katrina's flood waters.
I use to cut lawn for this wealthy lady, but she had little love for the dog. I use to walk Oliver on my own time.
We loved each other.
She calls sunday, 'P I am leaving town for the hurricane, take care of oliver, bye"

i take him to my place, luckily, as i paddled past his garage as i evacuated my 12 foot flooed home.
I gave him up for adoption and he FINALLY GOT THE HOME I ALWAYS HOPED HE WOULD FIND. A MIRACLE!!!

[(poco) Sforzando]

ok got that part
now the program says image too large
only 500 allowed
how do i shrink the image bits?

Save it as a JPG rather than BMP
AND/OR
Use a program like Photoshop or Paintshop to scale it down.

[paulb]

Save it as a JPG rather than BMP
AND/OR
Use a program like Photoshop or Paintshop to scale it down.

yesI think it is jpg
I will look into Photoshop asa  separate program. There's so much to learn about photo editing and filing.
Gald you guys could see my kids photos.

[Gurn Blanston]

Thanks Gurn
yeah i love dogs too.
i saved a black lab from Katrina's flood waters.
I use to cut lawn for this wealthy lady, but she had little love for the dog. I use to walk Oliver on my own time.
We loved each other.
She calls sunday, 'P I am leaving town for the hurricane, take care of oliver, bye"

i take him to my place, luckily, as i paddled past his garage as i evacuated my 12 foot flooed home.
I gave him up for adoption and he FINALLY GOT THE HOME I ALWAYS HOPED HE WOULD FIND. A MIRACLE!!!

Yeah, a lot of people forgot what a disaster it was for the animals there too. My B-I-L was in a rescue squad, one of the first ones in. He ended up taking home a dog that now lives with his daughter. Glad you were able to do that for that dog, it is probably among the few good memories to come out of that.

I have 3 dogs now, all adopted. A chihuahua that was found walking down the side of the freeway, a Cairn Terrier that was used as a breeder in a puppy mill until she got too old, and now a Scotty puppy that some folks thought they would breed the parents for the fun of it, and then remembered that they would have a bunch of pups to get rid of too.   My last 7 dogs have been adopted, and I would bet that the time they spent with us was the best time of their lives.




This was a couple of weeks ago, when Paco and Maui met the puppy for the first time. The body language alone tells you how delighted they were...    

Better now, though!



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[Lethevich]

yesI think it is jpg
I will look into Photoshop asa  separate program. There's so much to learn about photo editing and filing.
Gald you guys could see my kids photos.

I recommend Irfanview as an alternative to Photoshop if all you're going to do with it is resize/compress images. It gives the same choices for compression level on jpegs as Photoshop - so you can set them to high quality, or lower quality with a smaller filesize, or anything in between.

http://www.irfanview.com/

Edit: Whoops! I forgot to mention the key point It's free.

[Morigan]

ChamberNut, how's your pug puppy?

Pugs are my favourite dogs ever! As soon as I see one, i begin acting stupid and talking like a baby.

[ChamberNut]

ChamberNut, how's your pug puppy?

Pugs are my favourite dogs ever! As soon as I see one, i begin acting stupid and talking like a baby.

She's doing great.  Already wreaking havoc as usual and back to her very energetic self.  I wasn't really a dog person before, but this little pug changed all that.   

[Novi]

Cute dogs, Morigan, Gurn .

Dog person here, definitely.

Check out my avatar. It's 'Man feeding his dogs,' not 'Man feeding his cats.' Won't catch me feeding any cats. Unless it's to my dogs .

(Just joking - cats are nice creatures, just not for me )

[Joe Barron]

To wade into controversial waters:

I love both cats and dogs (and turtles, too), but I believe you can tell more about people by how they respond to cats. It's been my experience that people to profess to hate cats tend to be jerks in other ways, too. (There may be  exceptions, of course, but I haven't met one yet. I don't know Sidoze personally.  ) It takes a certain humilty to love cats, I think, because you can't train a cat as you can a dog. You can't discipline a cat. You can't mold it into what you want it to be. The most you can do is treat it gently and hope it responds to you, and you that's not true even of people. I have found peace with cats.

A book called "A Cat Is Listening" points out that Alexander the Great, Elizabeth I, Napoleon and Hitler all hated cats, and the author, whose name I forget, theorizes that these megalomaniacs who considered themselves world conquerors, could'nt abide a tiny creature that wouldn't allow itself to be dominated.  Twain and Lincoln were cat lovers: I think that says something about their character.

[(poco) Sforzando]

Shakespeare appears to have disliked dogs. All references to dogs in his plays are negative, calling attention to dogs as cowardly, fawning, mangy, and other unpleasant things. This observation is a commonplace of Shakespearean scholarship, as is revealed further here:

http://scrolling.blogs.com/drmetablog/2006/11/shakespeare_and.html

I can't recall if Shakespeare had strong feeling towards cats.

[Lethevich]

I can't recall if Shakespeare had strong feeling towards cats.

"Prince of cats" makes it sound like he wasn't a great fan of those, either...

[The new erato]

"Prince of cats" makes it sound like he wasn't a great fan of those, either...

I have both. A border collie and two domestic cats. Every time the cats snub me, I take it out on the dog!

[Lethevich]

I have both. A border collie and two domestic cats. Every time the cats snub me, I take it out on the dog!

An excellent system 0:)

[orbital]

Shakespeare appears to have disliked dogs. All references to dogs in his plays are negative, calling attention to dogs as cowardly, fawning, mangy, and other unpleasant things. This observation is a commonplace of Shakespearean scholarship, as is revealed further here:

http://scrolling.blogs.com/drmetablog/2006/11/shakespeare_and.html

Though I am not sure if it is a compliment  , we should not forget his reference to Basset Hounds (my uncontested favorite breed):

Their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew
Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapped like Thessalian bulls;
Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells

[Grazioso]

To wade into controversial waters:

I love both cats and dogs (and turtles, too), but I believe you can tell more about people by how they respond to cats. It's been my experience that people to profess to hate cats tend to be jerks in other ways, too. (There may be  exceptions, of course, but I haven't met one yet. I don't know Sidoze personally.  ) It takes a certain humilty to love cats, I think, because you can't train a cat as you can a dog. You can't discipline a cat. You can't mold it into what you want it to be. The most you can do is treat it gently and hope it responds to you, and you that's not true even of people. I have found peace with cats.

A book called "A Cat Is Listening" points out that Alexander the Great, Elizabeth I, Napoleon and Hitler all hated cats, and the author, whose name I forget, theorizes that these megalomaniacs who considered themselves world conquerors, could'nt abide a tiny creature that wouldn't allow itself to be dominated.  Twain and Lincoln were cat lovers: I think that says something about their character.

Well said. The cat v. dog debate tends to be something of a Rorschach test. I'll jokingly put down dogs, but that's really because I dislike the many irresponsible dog owners who let their pets run loose, jump on strangers, tear up yards, crap everywhere, etc. I actually love dogs, though I do have a particular fondness for the grace, agility, intelligence, cleanliness, mystery, and supreme hunting abilities of cats. Contrary to some uninformed opinion, cats can also be as loyal and affectionate as dogs.

When I hear people say they detest cats, or that cats are all mean and unpredictable towards them, it tells me that they a) have a nasty disposition or inspire fear in animals (animals are great judges of character) b) feel the need to dominate and control and can't easily do it with a cat and/or c) don't take the time to understand cat psychology and behavior and learn how to interact with them. I befriend strange cats all the time with no difficulty, but then again I'm good with animals in general.

[Gurn Blanston]

Wow, good question! Both have their merits. I don't think there's any question that cat takes less time to prepare, but it tends toward stringy and tough. For something like jerky, I'd go with cats. Dog, on the other hand, is more beef-like, though in smaller quantities, and would be better for just regular eating (like steaks). I think it would depend on the situation. If I was going camping and needed something to bring along: cat. If I'm going to have a nice at-home meal: dog. Usually I prefer the flavour of dog, so maybe I should lean in that direction for my vote.

Here is a more practical diet, perhaps, Josh.

I have 3 dogs, and was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart, and was in line to check out. The woman behind me asked if I had a dog?

Duh?

On impulse, I told her no, I was starting The Purina Diet again. Although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital the last  time. But I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with  tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one  or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so I  was going to try it again.

Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me? I told her no, I'd been sitting in the street licking my ass and a car hit me. 




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[longears]

Through the nose, Gurn, through the nose! 

[Bogey]

LOL....for the second time Gurn.

[BachQ]

Here is a more practical diet, perhaps, Josh.

I have 3 dogs, and was buying a large bag of Purina at Wal-Mart, and was in line to check out. The woman behind me asked if I had a dog?

Duh?

On impulse, I told her no, I was starting The Purina Diet again. Although I probably shouldn't, because I'd ended up in the hospital the last  time. But I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with  tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one  or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so I  was going to try it again.

Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me? I told her no, I'd been sitting in the street licking my ass and a car hit me. 

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