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DOGS
Jan 12, 2021 19:36:48 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 12, 2021 19:36:48 GMT -5
Unpleasant for cat folk, but all farmers and ranchers (less them) know that from time to time a search-and-destroy is necessary. Ranchers less than farmers since they usually live where redtails, owls, coyotes, and ‘coons do most of the control work. I would hate for my little barn cat, Cat, to fall victim but it’s just part of the environment she lives in. True enough. Predators have picked off many of my favorites over the years. It is part of the cycle of life here. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 12, 2021 19:38:30 GMT -5
I know that when we take our little cat sized dog out we freak if she gets out of our sight. We had hawks at the old house, but I've seen an eagle here. 😬😳
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 16, 2021 18:08:58 GMT -5
I’ve been blessed with smart dogs for quite a while. (Or cursed, since smart dogs bring their own problems!) When Jack wants a cookie (dog biscuit) he will come and stare at me. I ask him what he wants and he goes to the cookie box and does his little “jack-wants-a-cookie” dance. Today, a little ahead of feeding time this afternoon, Eli came to me and stared. I asked him “What do you want?” not expecting any meaningful response. I asked him twice and on the second ask he went over to where I store their food bowls and bumped his bowl (not Jack’s), hard, with his nose and then stepped back and looked at me. Even though it was early I of course fed the little ogre. I can see we are going to have an interesting life together.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 16, 2021 18:26:02 GMT -5
Arrived home from the store in Questa, 40 mile round trip, and was greeted by my heighbor's dog, "Woody", aka "Woodnuts". He comes over for a pet and a treat most every day. I let him in the house and he polished the cats bowls and the dogs plates, just in case there is a morsel left over. I often grill or barbeque on Saturday afternoons, so he is wondering what is up?  |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 16, 2021 19:32:48 GMT -5
Woody looks like a sweetheart. He’s obviously got you marked as a softy, or maybe just a good friend. You pretty much recovered from your fall?
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 16, 2021 19:38:20 GMT -5
Dogs are smartest when it comes to getting fed. We consider them dumb when we can't get them to do what we want them to. Our stupid little Yorkie controls the house and everyone in it.
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Post by Darin on Jan 16, 2021 19:49:15 GMT -5
Ron ... I'm sending over Cesar Milan!  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 16, 2021 19:53:26 GMT -5
Ron ... I'm sending over Cesar Milan! I don't want to have to send a broken TV personality halfway across the country to return him. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 16, 2021 20:05:41 GMT -5
Arrived home from the store in Questa, 40 mile round trip, and was greeted by my heighbor's dog, "Woody", aka "Woodnuts". He comes over for a pet and a treat most every day. I let him in the house and he polished the cats bowls and the dogs plates, just in case there is a morsel left over. I often grill or barbeque on Saturday afternoons, so he is wondering what is up? Good dog, Woody. Good dog. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 16, 2021 20:13:03 GMT -5
Dogs are smartest when it comes to getting fed. We consider them dumb when we can't get them to do what we want them to. Our stupid little Yorkie controls the house and everyone in it. So true. They watch us, learn us, and then use everything they learned against us. But it’s a bargain we made thousands of years ago: I feed you; you keep watch over me and maybe help me find meat. We both profited, and we each lost 10% of our brain size/power. Them because they no longer had to spend all that mental energy feeding themselves, and us because we no longer had to use up brain cells staying awake at night and watching our backs all the time. One of those bargains where everyone is happy. Maybe the best that homo sapiens ever made. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 16, 2021 20:18:48 GMT -5
Dogs are smartest when it comes to getting fed. We consider them dumb when we can't get them to do what we want them to. Our stupid little Yorkie controls the house and everyone in it. So true. They watch us, learn us, and then use everything they learned against us. But it’s a bargain we made thousands of years ago: I feed you; you keep watch over me and maybe help me find meat. We both profited, and we each lost 10% of our brain size/power. Them because they no longer had to spend all that mental energy feeding themselves, and us because we no longer had to use up brain cells staying awake at night and watching our backs all the time. One of those bargains where everyone is happy. Maybe the best that homo sapiens ever made. The domesticated dog is man's greatest invention, as far as I'm concerned. I know other things would get votes. Fire. The wheel. The lever. The Pop-Tart. But for me it's the dog. Very, very few things have been as big a help and so emotionally satisfying. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 17, 2021 13:11:03 GMT -5
Woody looks like a sweetheart. He’s obviously got you marked as a softy, or maybe just a good friend. You pretty much recovered from your fall? He knows I love him and consider my pal. He responds obediently to me. Better than Izzy, my Australian Shepherd. Sadly, no I am hobbling about on a cane. Tried driving to nearby Questa yesterday and nearly rear ended a truck stopped on the road. I could not lift my right leg onto the brake pedal. Fortunately, he saw me coming and sped up. to stop, I have to put the tranny in neutral and use my left foot on the brake pedal. Or, my cane. So, no driving for a while. |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 17, 2021 14:08:56 GMT -5
Sorry to hear you’re still having trouble. A few days off will probably help. If not, prolly sawbones time. Let’s hope NOT.
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 17, 2021 14:12:09 GMT -5
So true. They watch us, learn us, and then use everything they learned against us. But it’s a bargain we made thousands of years ago: I feed you; you keep watch over me and maybe help me find meat. We both profited, and we each lost 10% of our brain size/power. Them because they no longer had to spend all that mental energy feeding themselves, and us because we no longer had to use up brain cells staying awake at night and watching our backs all the time. One of those bargains where everyone is happy. Maybe the best that homo sapiens ever made. The domesticated dog is man's greatest invention, as far as I'm concerned. I know other things would get votes. Fire. The wheel. The lever. The Pop-Tart. But for me it's the dog. Very, very few things have been as big a help and so emotionally satisfying. I imagine dogs think we are THEIR greatest invention. All it takes is a certain twist of the head, the right pathetic mumble, and— FOOD! Delivered right to the bowl! |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 17, 2021 14:49:54 GMT -5
The domesticated dog is man's greatest invention, as far as I'm concerned. I know other things would get votes. Fire. The wheel. The lever. The Pop-Tart. But for me it's the dog. Very, very few things have been as big a help and so emotionally satisfying. I imagine dogs think we are THEIR greatest invention. All it takes is a certain twist of the head, the right pathetic mumble, and— FOOD! Delivered right to the bowl! That is the pact we signed some years back. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 17, 2021 15:05:56 GMT -5
I imagine dogs think we are THEIR greatest invention. All it takes is a certain twist of the head, the right pathetic mumble, and— FOOD! Delivered right to the bowl! That is the pact we signed some years back. Bingo. They have definitely learned to manipulate us along the way, too. It's symbiotic. Or, as Bob Seger put it, "I used her and she used me, but neither one cared." I watched a Robert Sapolsky (neuroscientist) video a while back, talking about what makes the human mind distinctive from other animals' minds. In the Q&A, somebody said, "But what about dogs?" His answer was, "You may have noticed during my talk I was saying 'ALMOST unique' or 'VIRTUALLY unknown.' That's because of dogs. Dogs exhibit mental processes we don't see in any other non-human animal species." Many years ago, I had a Golden Retriever I had to have put down. Maybe a few days later, I was sitting in a waiting room when a blind man came in with a service dog (also a GR). Once he had checked in, she started leading him toward us to sit down. When she got to me, she stopped and turned and started licking me. That dog loved on me no end. Dogs get us. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 18, 2021 19:16:40 GMT -5
I met a neighbor's Staffordshire this afternoon. He's got the spiky collar and whole 9 yards. Name of Claymore.
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Post by toshtego on Jan 18, 2021 19:23:54 GMT -5
I met a neighbor's Staffordshire this afternoon. He's got the spiky collar and whole 9 yards. Name of Claymore. Groan. Sounds like another overly aggresive wannabe warrior and his dog. Those people are tiresome. We have them here. Their dogs have Spanish names, "Diablo", "Loco" etc. Also tiresome. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 18, 2021 19:34:43 GMT -5
I met a neighbor's Staffordshire this afternoon. He's got the spiky collar and whole 9 yards. Name of Claymore. Groan. Sounds like another overly aggresive wannabe warrior and his dog. Those people are tiresome. We have them here. Their dogs have Spanish names, "Diablo", "Loco" etc. Also tiresome. Yeah, some people like their dogs all tacticool, just like their . . . darn near everything else. This guy was friendly enough, and Claymore certainly was. A softy, that pup. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 18, 2021 20:02:39 GMT -5
I met a neighbor's Staffordshire this afternoon. He's got the spiky collar and whole 9 yards. Name of Claymore. Be sure to turn the business end towards the enemy. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 18, 2021 21:04:41 GMT -5
I met a neighbor's Staffordshire this afternoon. He's got the spiky collar and whole 9 yards. Name of Claymore. Be sure to turn the business end towards the enemy. True AND funny. |
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Post by trailboss on Jan 18, 2021 22:09:41 GMT -5
For whatever reason, one of my wife's sisters created an environment where she raised daughters that all hooked up with thug gangsters.
One of them raised "Bullies" that I saw once, on a chance encounter in enclosed chain link fence for good reason. The massive dogs could jump over 6 feet wanting to shred me from behind their fencing.
Them dogs were beyond rehabilitation, and so were the masters. One of the masters had his ticket punched in the last month and probably did the gene pool a favor, he was the bully master.
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 18, 2021 22:52:21 GMT -5
For whatever reason, one of my wife's sisters created an environment where she raised daughters that all hooked up with thug gangsters. One of them raised "Bullies" that I saw once, on a chance encounter in enclosed chain link fence for good reason. The massive dogs could jump over 6 feet wanting to shred me from behind their fencing. Them dogs were beyond rehabilitation, and so were the masters. One of the masters had his ticket punched in the last month and probably did the gene pool a favor, he was the bully master. Met people like that when I had my Rotties. Wanted to brag about how many people and dogs their dogs had “nailed.” Idiots. They are certainly the ones that need to be taken out of the gene pool. Agreed. Gets me angry whenever I think about it. |
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Post by Goldbrick on Jan 19, 2021 0:07:02 GMT -5
For whatever reason, one of my wife's sisters created an environment where she raised daughters that all hooked up with thug gangsters. One of them raised "Bullies" that I saw once, on a chance encounter in enclosed chain link fence for good reason. The massive dogs could jump over 6 feet wanting to shred me from behind their fencing. Them dogs were beyond rehabilitation, and so were the masters. One of the masters had his ticket punched in the last month and probably did the gene pool a favor, he was the bully master. Met people like that when I had my Rotties. Wanted to brag about how many people and dogs their dogs had “nailed.” Idiots. They are certainly the ones that need to be taken out of the gene pool. Agreed. Gets me angry whenever I think about it. People like that shouldn't be allowed to own goldfish...we dog-sit my sister-in-law's pit-bull. Each morning that big black pit gets here at 6 A.M.. She checks on each side of our bed ,to make sure we're okay, then , very slowly, she climes up on the bed and goes to sleep between us ; she a big sugar baby. The folks that turn these dogs into something to be feared are the ones who should be caged; then I can poke them with a sharp stick! |
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Post by sparks on Jan 19, 2021 13:23:57 GMT -5
Amazing when I hear stories about what people do to dogs. I have lightly swatted my guy on the nose on occasion for doing something stupid, and I feel guilty for days. Anyone that hurts an animal should get to experience the equivalent hurt for their size. Just my opinion.
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 19, 2021 13:30:41 GMT -5
Amazing when I hear stories about what people do to dogs. I have lightly swatted my guy on the nose on occasion for doing something stupid, and I feel guilty for days. Anyone that hurts an animal should get to experience the equivalent hurt for their size. Just my opinion. Completely agree. Contrition is good— a dog lives thru his nose and it shouldn’t be hit, ever. But you know that and regretted it as any good person would. Anger and frustration sometimes makes us all do things we deeply regret. (The only time I’ve ever wanted a suppressed Ingraham was when I have read about dog fights and their “trainers.” THAT I would feel no regret about) Just remembered— the scene in TOMBSTONE when Wyatt snatches the quirt away from the horse-abuser and lashes him across the face with it. “Hurts, don’t it?” |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 19, 2021 14:38:48 GMT -5
For whatever reason, one of my wife's sisters created an environment where she raised daughters that all hooked up with thug gangsters. One of them raised "Bullies" that I saw once, on a chance encounter in enclosed chain link fence for good reason. The massive dogs could jump over 6 feet wanting to shred me from behind their fencing. Them dogs were beyond rehabilitation, and so were the masters. One of the masters had his ticket punched in the last month and probably did the gene pool a favor, he was the bully master. Met people like that when I had my Rotties. Wanted to brag about how many people and dogs their dogs had “nailed.” Idiots. They are certainly the ones that need to be taken out of the gene pool. Agreed. Gets me angry whenever I think about it. I had a neighbor like that with Italian Mastiffs. Major pain in the arse dog breed. The sire was a sweet old boy with whom I got along fine but his progeny were terrible. I shot at them in my yard once and ended up being investigated for threatening the owner which I did not. |
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Post by urbino on Jan 19, 2021 19:12:58 GMT -5
Met people like that when I had my Rotties. Wanted to brag about how many people and dogs their dogs had “nailed.” Idiots. They are certainly the ones that need to be taken out of the gene pool. Agreed. Gets me angry whenever I think about it. I had a neighbor like that with Italian Mastiffs. Major pain in the arse dog breed. The sire was a sweet old boy with whom I got along fine but his progeny were terrible. I shot at them in my yard once and ended up being investigated for threatening the owner which I did not. Maybe hit 'em with some bear spray? |
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Post by Plainsman on Jan 19, 2021 19:32:39 GMT -5
I had a neighbor like that with Italian Mastiffs. Major pain in the arse dog breed. The sire was a sweet old boy with whom I got along fine but his progeny were terrible. I shot at them in my yard once and ended up being investigated for threatening the owner which I did not. Maybe hit 'em with some bear spray? Some dogs are iffier than others, but basically it’s not their fault. It’s the dumbhead owners that think its macho to have a dangerous dog and do nothing to socialize them. Better to hit the owners with the bearspray. Or— rub them with pigfat and take them for a walk in the bear woods... |
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Post by urbino on Jan 19, 2021 19:39:40 GMT -5
Maybe hit 'em with some bear spray? Some dogs are iffier than others, but basically it’s not their fault. It’s the dumbhead owners that think its macho to have a dangerous dog and do nothing to socialize them. Better to hit the owners with the bearspray. Or— rub them with pigfat and take them for a walk in the bear woods... It's not the dogs' fault, agreed, but lots of dangerous things/people are dangerous through no fault of their own. If they're being aggressive/threatening, you have to do something. |
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