Dogs

Hahahahaha! As always S.P. well said!
Cigarbabe:saevil:
Also people please stop buying from "PET STORES" please.
You only perpetuate that, they will keep breeding
at the puppy & kitty mills. Please reseach the animals you buy,or
go to your local pound! And if they won't give you papers at the time of purchase,walk away! Call the numbers listed and see if they exist!
The numbers are usually bogus from pet stores,or disconnected.
This has been a public service message from your local
LPSG.org member!!:fing02:

Mr Ed.. I could not agree with you more. Pet stores are the worse place in the world to purchase a pet. We breed and raise Chihuahua's and have done so for about 25 years. Never once have we sold to a broker or a pet store. That isn't to say we've not been contacted by them.
Our puppies are never put in a cage... EVER. We meet with the prospective new owners and if they don't stand up to what we are looking for the puppies don't go anywhere.
I've been to puppy mills before and have rescued several dogs from them. It's very sad that people would treat animals this way. They are starved for love yet don't know how to accept it. Again, we don't use cages and when we rescue a 'caged' dog and let them touch the ground, for the first time in their lives, they don't know what to do. They generally spin in a clockwise direction, even in a wide open area, and it takes a long time to socialize them with the other dogs as well as human contact.

PLEASE DON'T BY YOUR PUPPY FROM A BROKER OR PET STORE. GO ON AKC OR CKC or another association and look for breeders. They will help you find one.
 
Right now, I have a black standard poodle named Agnessa Bella Donna, otherwise known as Agnes.

Prior to Agnes, I had a miniature schnazuzer named Abigail Rose III.

I grew up with a poodle/schnauzer mix named Muffin as well as the requisite gold fish, and I also had a parakeet named Blue.
 
Right now, I have a black standard poodle named Agnessa Bella Donna, otherwise known as Agnes.

Prior to Agnes, I had a miniature schnazuzer named Abigail Rose III.

I grew up with a poodle/schnauzer mix named Muffin as well as the requisite gold fish, and I also had a parakeet named Blue.

Wow. 90% straight, eh?

Just wow.

NCbear (who, when growing up, had the requisite collie/German shepherd mix named "Duke")
 
Wow. 90% straight, eh?

Just wow.

NCbear (who, when growing up, had the requisite collie/German shepherd mix named "Duke")


LOL! Agnessa is a looker now.... He did chose black because any other color he considered too froo froo. Besides, Italian men are in a class by themselves.:biggrin1:
 
Stereotypes are indeed hilarious.

I literally can't count the number of straight men I know who:
  • manscape or shave their bodies (i.e., more than just their chins)
  • use product in their hair
  • dress in a rather stylish way
  • wear fashionable cologne all the time
  • get manicures (and pedicures)
  • are knowledgeable about all manner of "gay" topics/issues
Most people say to me when I come out to them, "I wouldn't have guessed."

NCbear (who's not quite as straight-acting as all that, but who grew up in hetero-land during a time when gays were the last bashable minority: the 1980s)
 
I've always been a dog person but recently got a cat, they're rubbish pets, they won't come when you call them, they won't sit still and be stroked, they just do what they want to do - a real pet sucks up to you and acts like you're the centre of its universe.

All the reasons you've given for not liking cats are the exact reasons I love them. A cat's only purpose is to remind us that we are not in fact the center of the universe.When my cat is disgusted with me she'll let me know it, but when she flops on my lap or snuggles into my neck I know it's because she loves me, not just because I supply the food.

What?!

P.S. She comes when I call her....unless I have the car keys in hand.
 
i have 3 pets

one border collie girl ..my soul mate :) O-Ren
a border collie x boy Onyx
and a pure white cat, my prince named Balthazaa

looking at getting fish or seahorses soon
 
I had pets as a child, realized how selfish and unfair the concept was later in life. Animals are either beasts of burden or wild. There is "no assimilation to domestication". With the advent of the internal combustion engine, one could argue that an animal being forced into service as a beast of burden as even necessary anymore ?

And competitions with animals, those profiteering off such events should be shot !