Dogs vs. Cats

[lgb&dtuba]

I like tubas and not animals.

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

[The Big Ben]

Is that a stuffed dog?

That's 44 pounds of spoilt rotten mess.

Ernest Hemingway, from _The_Sun_Also_Rises_:

"A man needs a stuffed dog. The road to hell is paved with unclaimed stuffed dogs."

[MaryAnn]

So why do I write tubist instead of tubaist? Because it's not violaist, it's violist.
So there.

MA

[windshieldbug]

Some of us write "vilest"

[SplatterTone]

In the new spirit of multi-cultural inclusiveness, here's a pet horse.

[steve_decker]

Is the doggie surfing TubeNet with you?

[steve_decker]

Is the doggie surfing TubeNet with you?

He whispers the URL's to me. Hey! That explains how we always end up on the doggie treats pages!

Just make sure he keeps up with his doggie mail! http://www.petcentric.com/doggiemail/" target="_blank

[PWtuba]

[Kevin Hendrick]

Ack -- it's a furry cobra! (where'd I put that oboe? )

[tubatooter1940]

I only wish I could live out my few years remaining to me without dogs or cats crapping on my floors, bugging me about food, destroying my possessions and requiring us to pay boarding before we can leave home for longer than a day.
I have been told that this will never happen.

[Donn]

I only wish I could live out my few years remaining to me without dogs or cats crapping on my floors, bugging me about food, destroying my possessions and requiring us to pay boarding before we can leave home for longer than a day.

I'm with you. We have a cat. Warm, fuzzy, lovable, but since the lady of the house is allergic, hopefully this one will not be replaced. The neighbors' cats aren't welcome either - I doubt they kill as many rats as they do songbirds, and they certainly aren't a match for the damned grey squirrels.

I've seen a few dogs who grow up with a reasonably responsible human and get to tag along with that guy all day, and they seem different. It's like they grow up, and maybe aren't quite as cute, but far more self-assured and well behaved. Maybe less neurotic than the average dog who is obliged to live in a social setting that doesn't really work so well for a pack animal. I like dogs, but wouldn't want to keep one in my house in the city, waiting all day to see me for an hour or two before I take off for a practice or something.

My favorite pets have been mud dauber wasps. So called because they make nests of mud, a row or two of cylindrical capsules. The wasps are very long and mostly black, and they're a good example of a solitary wasp, as opposed to the social hornet types which are vicious, obnoxious creatures with few redeeming virtues. Solitary wasps mostly prey on insects, for their young, and flowers for themselves. The male and female work together to get their little family started, and then they die and leave their young to emerge alone as new adult wasps in the late spring. Maybe unable to fly yet, maybe a little stunned by the world they are seeing for the first time (and they do have pretty good eyesight), maybe a little cold, they will walk onto your finger and sip a small drop of sugar water until it's all gone. Then set them in a warm spot in the sun, and your pet responsibilities are done, but you'll see your wasps coming and going all summer, out hunting for spiders or carrying them back.

[Donn]

I believe I've told my cat-and-squirrel story here before, so I won't retell it in the forum. It is astonishing.

Got it. Well, I believe you, but would never expect any such thing from a cat - I reckon that was a very unusual one. Maybe some Manx in its parentage?

[SplatterTone]

I will admit that cats are better harmonica players.

[Virtuoso]

I've had many dogs and many cats...but one of my favorite things to see is still my huge Mancoon cat stalking and then chasing my dogs around (beagle and collie) the house. I love all my pets, but my cats, especially Duke, the aforementioned mancoon, are much cuddlier than the dogs, and smell much better.



how do you post a picture?

[Brassdad]

My Bulldog prefers cats......

[Brassdad]

but they couldn't agree on the poll.....

[averagejoe]

My dachshund is on my lap right now... made it an easy vote.

[tubbba]

Cat FTW. Reese wouldn't have it any other way.

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RAWR!