Cats and Dogs, Dogs and cats

[Racoon]

Here is a little thread I'm starting to give people a chance to talk about their Cat(s) or Dog(s). :hihi:

I love both cats and dogs. Although I must say I'm more of a Cat Person. :)

They're just so much less maintainance. (Less SKAT to clean up! :) )

 

I have a cat and a dog. Balance.

 

My cat of 12 years died a while back. I loved that sucker. He was such a bad ***! Got 'em from the pound. He was also a spoiled jerk, but I miss his sleeping next to me at night. (sad...)

 

Anywho's, I found a pitbull that was abandoned at a park here. He's a little guy. (pocket pit) I just love him. First Pit I ever had in home. He's great, and gets along with My Golden Retreiver.

I found a possible home for him down in Oregon who heard his story that got put on an adoption site. Looks like he's gonna have a happy ending!

S'funny, He has a Spiked Harly-Davidson collar and his name is Bruiser! :eek:

 

Just opening a thread to discuss your pets, if indeed you have any.

 

I think pets can be an enjoyable and rewarding part of life. And unlike Kids, they actually listen to you! :eek:

[Jay-qu]

Yeah I have a cat! Her name is Roxy and I love her, shes one of the constants in my life. Shes always there, and like you said racoon they are very low matainance. Heres some pics :eek2:

[TheBigDog]

I grew up with cats. Now I have a dog. Charlie. He is how I got my handle.

 

Bill

[Racoon]

I thought you were BigDog cuz' you're 6'4" and 250!! :eek2:

 

What kinda' Dog??

 

PS, Those are adorable thumbnails JQ!!!

[TheBigDog]

I thought you were BigDog cuz' you're 6'4" and 250!! :eek2:

 

What kinda' Dog??

250? I am tipping at 265 these days. Anyway, I got the handle big dog from teaching the kids to deal with Charlie when we got him. He is half Border Collie, half Black Lab. When we brought him home from the pound at seven months old he was pretty well fully grown, but still lanky. We had a 4 foot fence in the back yard that he could jump over - clear over without touching - from a sitting position. He loved to chase the soccer ball around the back yard. And when he got excited playing soccer with the kids, he would begin to do, as #2 son described at the time, "his special dance". Charlie loved to hump kids in the yard.

 

To prevent this I had to educate the kids about how the dog thinks. He see the whole world as prey and dogs. Either things to hunt, or other members of the pack. he was humping them because he saw them as inferior members of the pack. But I assured them, he would never do that to me because I let him know from the very beginning that I was the big dog. And if they wanted him to leave them alone, they had to let him know that they were a bigger dog than he was. Because when you have a house full of kids in a neiborhood full of kids you end up being inivolved with lots and lots of kids, and my dog was humping just about all of them, I had to spread this same lesson to everyone who visited the house. And that is how I became TheBigDog.

 

The only one who still has assertiveness issues is #2 who is now 15, and who is learning about being assertive by taking old Charlie for his daily walks and making sure that the walk is on his terms, not the dog's. And now the mature dog weighing 85 pounds and in the prime of his life is a real handful if you do not assert yourself as his leader when you take him out. And that posturing that works with dogs - to show confidence and leadership - translates to humans very well too. #2 will do just fine.

 

Bill

 

ps I could tell Charlie stories for hours. Love that dog.

[C1ay]

Here is a little thread I'm starting to give people a chance to talk about their Cat(s) or Dog(s).

I guess that leaves out those of us with only 6 tarantulas, a ball python and a bearded dragon.....:eek2:

 

 

 

:)

[Jay-qu]

hehe - maybe we should extend the thread to all pets..

[Racoon]

I guess that leaves out those of us with only 6 tarantulas, a ball python and a bearded dragon.....:eek2:

 

 

 

:)

 

 

Cool Clay! I like Tarantulas too. I had a Pink-Salmon Bird Eater. Named it Martha. She Molted about 4 times before she died.

I later realized I should of fed her mice now and then, instead of just crickets.

Talk abot a cool, low maintainance pet! :D

Tarantulas are so fascinating... I could seduce her out of her cubby by gently tapping her webs. Probably thought I was food (or an annoyance)

[Chacmool]

My little pet rodent, Maximouse, died yesterday. I think he probably ate himself to death. But how do you put a mouse on a diet? I had Max for about a year and a half. He used to bully my cat, Chesh, by gnawing his tail and clawing at his face. Cheshire Cat was a stray that casually moved in with me one day, and now even shares my bed.

[C1ay]

Cool Clay! I like Tarantulas too. I had a Pink-Salmon Bird Eater. Named it Martha. She Molted about 4 times before she died.

I later realized I should of fed her mice now and then, instead of just crickets.

Talk abot a cool, low maintainance pet! :eek2:

Tarantulas are so fascinating... I could seduce her out of her cubby by gently tapping her webs. Probably thought I was food (or an annoyance)

I think she was probably a he. A female Pink-Salmon should have lived 15-20 years where the male would die about 1 year after maturity, 2-3 years. They can live their entire lives on insects but I do feed my larger tarantulas mice occasionally. If it was a she, her demise was not because of her diet.

 

They are very low maintenance, fascinating pets to observe. Sometimes my goliath will go for months without eating, needing nothing but humidity to keep her happpy. I also have an usumbara that will sometimes go 6 months with no food and prefers an extremely dry habitat. Almost no maintenance.

[Queso]

i Once had a cat that lived with me in this apartment.

 

I looked Galaxy straight in the eyes one night when i was tripping,

and she never

EVER

got close to me

ever again.

 

she walked away one day.

[InfiniteNow]

I share residence with my friend, and 8 1/2 year old Italian Greyhound (think, mini greyhound... around 13 pounds, but shape and mannerisms the same as the large ones). His name is Galiath, and he's my bro. Sometimes, smarter than I'd like (he figures things out, and sometimes that's just frustrating!)

 

He's totally cat-like (he even walks on the top part of the couch like cats would), even though he's a dog. He's like 1 foot tall, but can jump 8 feet verticle, and can run 35mph...

 

Very affectionate, very fun, very fast, and very cool. Sorry, no digitized pics... but he's a handsome one. :eek2:

[Racoon]

I think she was probably a he. A female Pink-Salmon should have lived 15-20 years where the male would die about 1 year after maturity, 2-3 years. They can live their entire lives on insects but I do feed my larger tarantulas mice occasionally. If it was a she, her demise was not because of her diet.

 

 

Damn!! The Guys at the Pet Shop Said that They ONLY sell Females!!!!

 

Those Rat Bastards!! :eek2: (thats how long mine lived, 2 1/2 years!)

 

I'll try again soon, Cuz' My Tropical Aquarium got a case of Ick, and drove my Red-Tailed Shark Mad, and he ate all the other fish ,then died!!!

Aquariums are High Maintainance!

 

I'm gonna buy another Tarantula.... :)

[C1ay]

Damn!! The Guys at the Pet Shop Said that They ONLY sell Females!!!!

I've found very few people, including those at pet stores, that can sex tarantulas. My local pet store actually asks me to do this for them pretty often. It requires a skilled look for epiandrous fusillae, sperm spinnerets, on the forward part of the abdomen underneath, the epigastric furrow, located between the forward pair of book lungs. Males will have them and females won't.

 

Take a look at Rick West's site to see what to look for and take a light and a magnifying glass with you to the store. I would not recommend trying to positively sex any tarantulas that are younger than the 2nd or 3rd instar, moult, as the fussillae are incredibly small and hard to tell if they are different than the surrounding hair. Spiderlings are also harder to hold on to without hurting them than larger specimens. I have found that one of those 30x pocket microscopes from Radio Shack helps sometimes as well.

[Drip Curl Magic]

First dog I had was a mut named willie. he was pretty rad.

 

Then we got Bruno (willie's son)

 

Then we got a really annoying and slobbery dog named Uzi.... he would beat up willie all the time.... 'til willie died.:eek2:

 

Then after we lost both Willie and Uzi, we got a new little pupster named Mariah (I like to call her Poopers).

 

As of right now we have both Bruno and Poopers. But it looks like Bruno doesn't have much time left.... he's starting to lose control of his bladder... and his kidneys are weak.

 

 

 

As for cats.... I've had a few as well.

 

When I was really young, we got a cat named Naomi. She was really awesome. But she died in '99 when she got ran over by a car in the middle of a main street that we used to live by. (we burried her right next to willie)

 

Then we got a really freaky cat named Chance. We named him Chance because he was the only kitten of his litter to have survived birth.

 

He's kind of a mean cat, though. He'll purr while you pet him and act like he likes the attention... and then out of nowhere he'll attack your hand. He's weird.... and he looks like an alien. He's still around today.

 

And within the past couple of years, we got another cat named Takara. She's really skiddish- she will hardly even let me be in the same room as her.

 

She spends most of her time hiding in the closet..... she wasn't like that when she was a kitten, though.

 

Yeah, that's about it as far as cats and dogs go.

 

But I've also had many other pets like Turtles, Tortoises, Iguanas, Hermit Crabs, Spiders, Various bugs, Rats, Hampsters, and Birds.

 

My Mother reffers to our house as a "zoo".

[Racoon]

Excellent Info there Clay!!! :eek2:

Thanx.

 

I will refer back to your post when I'm ready to commit to a 15 year relationship!! :)

[Racoon]

 

He's kind of a mean cat, though. He'll purr while you pet him and act like he likes the attention... and then out of nowhere he'll attack your hand. He's weird.... and he looks like an alien.

 

My cat did that as well. Not uncommon. My cat would draw blood!

He would also pee in my clean laundry basket if he thought I wasn't doing something right! :eek2:

 

Seems they like attention, up to a point, and then, Wham! "Back off, I just licked my fur and now I smell like Human!"

 

Sounds like you got a buncha' critters!