whos losing what? - Page 3

Busman747 · 11-02-2005, 23:01

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Something to do with what he said about animals needing to be chained up

The problem with chaining a dog up is that the chain is attached to a neck and thieves will do ANYTHING to get what they want....

This unfortunate dog lover got MOST of his dog back but........

slinky · 12-02-2005, 00:44

owwwwwwwwwwww that is sooooooooooo sick O0MG wish i had'nt seen this

bobthedj · 12-02-2005, 03:39

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

As you are posting on here in the name of "bobthedj" it's rather difficult to know if it's a Mr Bob or a Mrs. Bob who is posting unless you identify yourself specifically each time. But as we are actually "talking" to the pseudonym does it matter that I call you "bob"? After all, you called me Willow and that isn't actually my name either.

This is bobthedjs wifes husband bobthedj

we are going through a bit of a woof patch at the moment, the wanderer as not returned. I have been told that there is a lot of dogs being stolen, father in law siad two have been swiped from church.

mez · 12-02-2005, 04:03

aww bob hope yours has just wandered, i hope someone nice has taken him in iv've looked honestly but as yet no sign of him, my little pooch, is a rescued dog so i know how you must be feeling.

WillowTheWhisp · 12-02-2005, 13:59

Oh that is more worrying if someone is stealing dogs. Often a dog which has wandered off finds its own way back eventually. Do you have a picture of your dog? I was thinking if you did a poster and showed a pic of the dog if anyone had been approached with a dog for sale they might recognise him and get in touch with you.

Where we stay in summer someone had lost a cat and they put posters up on lamp posts around the area - got the cat back.

Busman747 · 12-02-2005, 23:28

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Where we stay in summer someone had lost a cat and they put posters up on lamp posts around the area - got the cat back.

THEY were lucky.....

Less · 12-02-2005, 23:51

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I've suggested a cunning plan

I think in future I will refer to you as Baldrick!

WillowTheWhisp · 13-02-2005, 00:02

OOooh hello Less. I was worried about you. Haven't seen you for a bit so thought you might have had a touch of garlic poisoning

or a bit of stake trouble.

Less · 13-02-2005, 00:12

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

OOooh hello Less. I was worried about you. Haven't seen you for a bit so thought you might have had a touch of garlic poisoning

or a bit of stake trouble.

No baldrick, no prob's with garlic or steak in fact if ever I go to France (searching for my wandering pet horseshoe bat, (just to keep on thread)) I often have a touch of garlic with my steak. Did you know that if you hang a horseshoe bat the wrong way up all the luck runs to it's feet?

I must say I'm very tempted to come down heavily on Staggers & Tealeafs side in here, but I know they are big boys & don't need my help.

Terry · 13-02-2005, 09:34

After reading this thread and the other. "Why do people critisize" I felt tempted to post the following. I suppose I am more fortunate in a sense that I presently live on a very large piece of land(20 acres) and I have dog. I have lived in suburbia like most people on ordinary housing blocks and had pet dogs from time to time, and like most never truly understood dogs. The dog I have at the present time is a Bitza and just one of many I have had. It can go where it likes , whenever it likes, whatever takes its fancy. It goes on doggy adventures from time to time but never very far away. Generally speaking it stays within 100 m from 'base camp'. It understands many vocal commands. It is never tied up. It does not do its doo-doos anywhere near the house or garden. It totally trusts myself and my wife. I could take a flying leap at it if it was lying on the verendah. and wouldn't move a muscle. Thats because it has never been kicked or hit and doesn't expect to be. It lives a completely natural life as any dog should do. It visits the dog next door occasionally. It has a bucket of dog biscuits that it can eat at any time it feels peckish. It does not gorge itself although it has the oppurtunity to do so. It knows it gets a good tea at about 5.00 pm every day. and has always plenty of sweet rainwater to drink. When it has pups from time to time, it does not avail itself of a nice mudbrick shed with plenty of cubbyholes, it prefers to go out quite naturally into the bush and have them there. Its favourite spot is under the tree roots of a very large tree in a gully about 30 m from the house. It usally digs a depression in the dry dust earth. I don't like it to do this simply because I am a human and not a dog and am used to hygiene and cleanlyness. When the dog drops her pups in these circumstances, the pups are covered in a wet membrane which gets totally covered in dry muck and dust and the dog carefully eats the membrane, muck and all, and licks the pups clean. As far as I am concerned the dog is doing what comes naturally so I leave her alone. Some survive and some don't. If for some reason she needs help she will come to me whining and lead me down to the pups. I then try to figure out if she wants to move them to the shed or not. Which is usually the case. Another thing I have discovered is that dogs do not like eating out of deep bowls. They do not like getting their nose stuffed up with food or having to bury it in sloppy offerings. They much prefer to take their food on a flat surface. Hopefully I am not being to anthropomorphic, they are just observations and things I have learned observing dogs in a relatively natural environment. You may well ask what the point of this post is. Well it's quite simple. If I had to live in a town or city in the future there is no way that I would have a pet dog. Suburbia is no place for dogs. Period. Oh sure. we've all been brainwashed with pets over the centuries. We buy our dogs and stick them in little back yards and pretend we we are doing the best for them. These little hell holes where they have to crap and pee. They don't like it believe me. When dogs have the choice they poo elsewhere. If they could talk they would tell you they want out of there. I don't know what thought process's occur in a dogs head but I have seen their natural behaviour or what appears to be. I am not critisizing any one here because I have done exactly the same with pet dogs in the past nor am I saying don't have dogs in towns and cities, because people will continue to buy pets for whatever reason. As for dogs escaping bobthedj, all I can say is that if you gave the dog the love and attention that you appear to say you did, then the dog will at least call your place its home base and should return providing it gets through all the pitfalls of wandering around Accy. If it was totally peed off then you won't see your dog again , unless of course someone catches it and returns it to you. Back yards are prisons for dogs and when you take them for a walk It's like supervised weekend leave.

Those are my thoughts and observations. I am not an animal liberationist but I know the full meaning of the phrase. 'it's a dogs life' There is a lot more I could say but I think I have made my point.

WillowTheWhisp · 13-02-2005, 10:04

I can see where you are coming from because I've spent time on a farm in Ireland where the dog/dogs were always free to come and go as they pleased just like yours. They very rarely came into the house and if they did it was only when they wanted to, but they were usually somewhere close by when they weren't scrounging off the neighbours and giving the impression they never got fed!

I've also lived in town and had a pet house dog who was taken for long walks on a lead in areas where he needed to be on a lead and allowed to run free where it was safe for him to do so. He always ran back to me and eventually would trot along side of me, "asking" to go back on the lead before we started heading for home.

Just like it takes all sorts of people to make a world I guess it takes all sorts of dogs too. I believe most house dogs are happy provided they get enough outdoor fun and excercise.

I think bobthedj's dog is young and could well have got lost, but there is also the possibility that he's been kidnapped.

Terry · 13-02-2005, 12:41

Yes all too true Willow. I can never get everything in sometimes when posting. It starts to get a bit long and I give up.

Just as an aside(nothing to do with this post) We Accy outsiders have to be very careful to cross the 't's and dot the 'I's. Watch the 'p's and 'q's and be mindful of having to qualify everything we post. As opposed to the Accy webbers who have the oppurtunity to meet up with each other from time to time and get to know each other face to face. You have a freedom of posting to each other and knowing exactly where you stand with each other that we don't. I don't mind of course because that's the way things are. I'll just have to make plans to descend suddenly on you lot one day and get to know you all better.

WillowTheWhisp · 13-02-2005, 15:15

Just because we can meet face to face Terry it hasn't stopped the odd person going off in a huff now and again.

It's the written word. It doesn't half have a lot to answer for.

pendy · 14-02-2005, 13:12

All my animals have had collars with tags giving their name and our telephone number. Having had a wandering cat, who was a complete tart and would go off with anybody, it came in useful a few times. If I had another dog or cat now (difficult in a Central London flat and working full-time) I would certainly have it microchipped.

Certainly try the local vets, call the RSPCA, and/or the Cats Protection League for moggies.

Incidentally, unless you intend to breed from them, ALL cats should be neutered. It does stop them wandering off.

shiny gem · 14-02-2005, 14:26

Wow...thats a lot of mis-understanding and bad vibes...i think that a jokes a joke and let sleeping dogs lie...lol
So anyway..the original question staggerman was "whose losing what" and the whole pet thing has snowballed eh?? well to get back to the original path... get the humour back up and running...my dogs lost its nose!!! "how does it smell" i hear you ask...ill let you all think about that for a mo.!!! xx