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i think it’s all about moderation and how much your dog enjoys what s/he’s doing.

lola loves her agility classes, but i’d never get her so involved in stuff where she doesn’t have time to sit around and look out the window and be a dog.

plus, i need time to be a human and bond with my human friends w/o the company of dogs. i’d go crazy if i was doing dog stuff every night. don’t get me wrong, i love em, but one of the main reasons i have two is so that they have each other :)

u know how to get my to post huh? just put a dog article up LOL

So I see, v - thanks for the tip ;)

btw, I went to the Wok last Friday - it was pretty good :)

Ok, I am not a dog-person. IMO they need to much looking after, and they have mood swings — after a while they stop being animals and become almost human in terms of behaviour :)

I do like cats though (no toilet training reqd, and dont bother being friendly, they dont give a damn — they are smarter!!!).What this article mentions about showing pets their “original primal side” might sound like a good idea, but you might get more than you bargained for….

I had this old one-eyed-cat, who I trained to hunt a variety of lesser creatures (like lizards, rats) — lizards was a bit tough, because they are not edible. [tape a small piece of rank meat to a lizard — that part is a bit yuk — and the lizards here are huge, must be all the radiation this close to the equator…, but then to watch ‘em go for the prize is fun]. After a while he became more creative and started hunting down small birds…


Things became a bit weird when ming (that was his name) started bringing trophies home for papa(for e.g. a rat’s half-chewed carcass, a birds wings) and hiding it under the cot — but hey, I thought hes now a real animal.
Then one day he brought home a dismembered head of another cat — and thats when I really freaked out.
I put him in a cardboard box, drove 25 kilometres down the highway and left him on a tree. It took a few days for the nightmares about psychotic ming and his shrunken head collection to go away….

No pets since.


—Ashok

Wow, Ashok - that is some story :) I don’t know, I am not much of a cat person. I love my dogs because they seem so much closer to being human than anything else, I think.

I still remember Sammy (our black Dane) in diapers when he was a puppy ;)

LOL LOL LOL you put your dane in diapers?! LOL LOL LOL!! I thought putting my boxer in boxers was bad enough LOL LOL

do you have pictures? mine are at: http://vasha.fobstop.com/kinboxers.htm - he had just been neutered and i didnt want him getting to his stitches.

speaking of the ‘humanity’ of dogs feelings though, that is something humans do to theri dogs imo. i’m a firm believer in pack behaviors and trying to emulate that in my home so that my animals know where they stand in regards to our pack. The Dog Listener by Jan Fennel is a great book on that topic.

also i was at canine commissary saturday getting dog food and met great dane rescue :) - thought of ya :-D

ashok -
shakes head gross!! and if you were in america i’d blast you for deserting an animal.

and i’m becoming a cat person, my bf has a cat, Marx, and she is the moodiest thing i’ve ever seen, but when she wants to play, what a ball of fun she is! the real test of our relationship will be introducing my dogs to his cat. i’m NOT looking forward to that at all.

I don’t have pictures :(, but this was when my black Dane was a wee lad :) We made him sleep on the bed with us, so we would know when he woke up and wanted to go potty - just in case, we also put these tiny, denim diapers on his bottom. He’d pee in them, pull them off and then go back to sleep :)

Your boxers are sooo cute :)