Tendai posted:

Oh god oh god oh god cat comes home today I think I might be hyperventilating.

I spent all weekend worrying that she'll get under the bed and never come out.

McDragon posted:

The one you were posting about in the YOSPOS thread? She's lovely, did you come up with a name for her yet?

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Ires killed a toy today. I hadn't swept for a while, so that's fine. I swept. Then she killed another toy while I was sweeping.



She did that within an hour. Aren't puppies supposed to go crazy with chewing long before now? And congrats Tendai, I look forward to hearing about your cat.

Bash Ironfist posted:

Haha, that totally sucks(but is funny as heck). I've forgotten, what breed is Ires? A mix of something?

quote:

Now that the city has removed it’s ordinance, Town and Country will be governed by St. Louis County’s “vicious dog ordinance”, which bases the vicious dog classification solely on a dog’s behaviour. This ordinance does not target any specific breeds.

a life less posted:

My little puppy is all growed up! I don't think she'll be doing much more filling out at this point.

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

They aren't just in the south. They will thrive pretty much everywhere without a "real" winter, Walmart was selling them in droves locally, and they were every-loving-where in Okinawa. The seeds can travel an impressively long way too. Balen killed the one in our yard in Okinawa by pissing on it constantly, since housing wouldn't remove the stupid thing.

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Any time anyone in my office brings up some pet-related problem (aforementioned sago palm, my recent adventure with ticks, etc), one of my coworkers always has the helpful suggestion of getting rid of the offending pet. I'm sorry you hate animals so much, lady.

Serella posted:

When she says this poo poo, let her know that next time she makes a mistake she's just going to be fired for being a hassle. "Oh, you formatted the cells wrong in this spreadsheet. We're going to have to let you go, that was mildly annoying."

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

For all of you in the south, don't let your dogs eat Sago palms. They're extremely toxic and my coworker almost just lost her dog because he ate one. He's been at the e-vet since Sunday night and he's just now being released. By some miracle the vet managed to save his liver, but it usually results in liver failure and death if ingested.


Any time anyone in my office brings up some pet-related problem (aforementioned sago palm, my recent adventure with ticks, etc), one of my coworkers always has the helpful suggestion of getting rid of the offending pet. I'm sorry you hate animals so much, lady.

Citizen Rat posted:

Bluh. I had to rehome my snake because one of my cats was super determined to kill him. (She took a diving leap off the refrigerator at him when I had him around my neck resulting in a great big gash down my arm.) After she figured out how to pop the locks off his enclosure it was just time to find him a safer home. I'm still upset about it though. Feel like I somehow hosed up as a pet owner.

a life less posted:

Have I mentioned how much I suck at stacking dogs?

wheatpuppy posted:

You would be a hosed-up pet owner if you didn't do anything and the cat ended up eating the snake and/or getting bitten by the snake. You are a caring responsible pet owner who put the welfare of your animals above your own feelings.

Citizen Rat posted:

Thanks. I'm feeling emo about it because I really liked my snake. But I couldn't take him out of his enclosure without having to lock the cat somewhere and she's a god damned ninja about getting out of places. So I've kinda been sulking every time I see the empty spot where his enclosure used to be. Bluh.

Riiseli posted:

Nice pics. And you have improved quite a bit or at least Cohen's stacks have improved The front could still be under (?) her a bit better, but other than that I see what I want to see from a stacked dog.

Azrael Alexander posted:

SUPER I NEED YOUR HELPPPPPPPP

Can you confirm weather or not these dogs were manbiters?
Bolio, Honeybunch, Chinaman
I know about Bullyson, but I can't think of the names of other famous manbiters off of the top of my head. I never heard about Honeybunch being a manbiter, but I haven't really done much research into the subject. Need this for arguing with dumb people on the internet. Kthx.

Superconsndar posted:

You gotta aaaaaaaaaaaaaaalways keep in mind when it comes to "Manbiter Chat" that "SO AND SO WAS A MABITER!!!" is the favorite rumor/smear for dogmen and fans/opponents of certains dogmen or individual dogs and due to this, you should aaaaaaaalways take accusations and stories of a dog being a manbiter with a grain of salt. I will say that it was not uncommon for dogmen to keep HA dogs around that should absolutely have been euthed because they were either very talented pit dogs or good producers. You really never know and it's all just he-said-she-said.

THAT SAID, here are the conclusions I've drawn from watching peopple argue about individual dogs constantly:

Chinaman: Probably was not at all HA and just had poor self control/bite inhibition before matches. He had been mistreated and starved by someone early on in his life and that kinda of messed him up and may have contributed to some instability, but I think he was just one of those unreasonably hot dogs that's so DA they're unpractical and unmanageable. He would tear up his handler pre-release because he wanted to Git the Dawg. I don't think Chinaman was a manbiter and he was not known to throw pups who were manbiters, he just was so DA and good at what he did and ready to go that he would mouth the poo poo out of anything in reach until he was released, in order to GET the handler to release. Probably could have been taught to watch himself but dogmen don't really train their dogs at all.

Bolio: Was probably just another intense dog that was too high-drive to be reasonably managed, but regardless of the reason, was definitely a manbiter. He mauled his owner's two year old son, and based on what I've heard he was very prey driven and was just a huge ball of DA and prey-drive- which made him a great pit dog, but so difficult to manage that he was pretty dangerous. Like Chinaman, he would bite to be released, but with Bolio it was less blind excitement and more calculated "gently caress you, I hate you, let me go so I can get the other dog and I will wreck your poo poo if you don't." I have no personal experience with bolio dogs but based on everything I've heard, Bolio himself produced a lot of HA dogs and the line seems to have issues with manbiting.

Honeybunch: Have always heard that she was a manbiter but have never heard the details. Moses is related to Honeybunch, so I hope she wasn't! It is a mystery.


Honestly, the deeper I go, the more I realize that manbiters were not always culled if they were winners and made :tenbux:. If they were crap on top of being bitey, they were prob put down for being bitey. If they ate a few arms or legs or faces but were great in the pit or as producers, people tended to turn a blind eye. I don't agree with it, but I'm beginning to find that it's true.


Edit: Today, while taking these pictures, some people walking by stopped to pet Moses and asked if he had been a bait dog. I did not have the heart to tell them that the scars accumulating on his neck are from constantly hassling a Boston Terrier.




It will never cease to be hilarious to me that if he were in rescue, some fat woman would be telling everyone that he was fought and/or was a bait dog. The local rescues here are particularly big on billing every pit bull with a scratch on its nose a an ~ex fighter~ or ~former bait dog left to die.~ For some reason it deeply offends them when you try to explain that most pit bulls have scars from just being assholes and getting told off by other dogs. They really want to believe their dogs were bait dogs and/or ~forced to fight.~.

Azrael Alexander posted:

"BECAUSE IT WAS A CONSPIRACY BY THE ~PRO PIT BULL PEOPLE~"

Superconsndar posted:

Skizzles posted:

This, and when people go putting science in quotes, as in "yeah, pft, right, 'science'" is when I know to just give up and walk away, because there is absolutely nothing more I can do. Clicker training is apparently based in bullshit "science," btw.

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Max has the creepiest way of asking to go out. Instead of going to the door like a normal dog, he'll hop up next to me wherever I'm sitting and will get his face about an inch from mine and just stare then slowly lean forward and slowly and deliberately lick my face once, then resume staring. if necessary.

Aquatic Giraffe posted:

Max has the creepiest way of asking to go out. Instead of going to the door like a normal dog, he'll hop up next to me wherever I'm sitting and will get his face about an inch from mine and just stare then slowly lean forward and slowly and deliberately lick my face once, then resume staring. It doesn't help that when he's standing next to me on the couch while I'm sitting he's exactly at eye level. He'll do the same in bed. Hop up, stare, lick, stare. Repeat lick if necessary.

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Petey was a canine actor. He was not what you saw in the movies, movies are edited. Advertising mascots and logos are not real dogs. Stubby was a mascot and did not save anybody's life. Go back to the historical photos of Stubby. Doesn't he look like a Boston Terrier to you???

ladyweapon posted:

Please get a video of this. I can't stop laughing.

friend posted:

‎"There's an interesting Japanese news-and-discussion program on Saturdays called Yasuhiro Tase's Weekly News Report, where the important news stories of the day are discussed by some very smart commentators. Because the topics covered in the show are quite heavy and intellectual, they "soften" things in a uniquely Japanese way: by keeping a cat on the set and allowing the camera to follow what the cat is doing while various subjects are being debated."