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naM sdrawkcaB posted:My GF's dog and my best pal. He looks like he's disappointed that you're not scolding him for shredding the paper.
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I'm thoroughly a cat person. Those dog videos make me wish I understood dogs. They seem like great people, but I don't know as much about how they communicate, what they need, and how they behave as I do cats.
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Hyperlynx posted:I'm thoroughly a cat person. Those dog videos make me wish I understood dogs. They seem like great people, but I don't know as much about how they communicate, what they need, and how they behave as I do cats.  and  and 
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Hyperlynx posted:I'm thoroughly a cat person. Those dog videos make me wish I understood dogs. They seem like great people, but I don't know as much about how they communicate, what they need, and how they behave as I do cats. I have no idea at all if this correlates to you, but I know a few people who think about dogs the way they think about kids. Having them seems so consuming and stressful, I mean--the training! The walks and treats and food and they can destroy your house! You can't leave them alone too long, and they don't live as long as cats can. The effort it takes to care for a dog is so much different then cats. But when you get down to it, what many dogs want is just to make you happy. They want, essentially, to please. Cats aren't necessarily as concerned with this, and most don't require such attention. Which makes them great, because they're independent, they're subtler. But I don't really hold with the whole "cat person/dog person" stuff, generally. Some people are fully in one camp or another-and that's fine-I just think it's more fluid then that. People who have owned dogs and end up owning a cat, or vice versa, tend to be cagey about it. I had someone try to justify owning a cat to me once by saying "but he's just like a dog!" No, he's just a more demonstrative cat. You don't have to choose. You can love an animal because it's your buddy, it's your companion, your savior or your little household demon. But you love them, by god, even when they pee on your new loving shoes. I know this probably has little to do with you, Hyperlynx (a name that seems fitting) but it's just a ramble. I think it's fascinating, but I work all day with dogs and own two cats, and set myself firmly in the middle of loving all of 'em. Those shoes weren't that comfortable anyways.
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Dogs tend to be "I want _____!" and cats tend to be more "You should know what I want, when I want it and how much of it I want."
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Mar 12, 2016 03:40
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Das Boo posted:cats tend to be more "You should know what I want, when I want it and how much of it I want." Everything, all the time, all of it.
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Mar 12, 2016 03:45
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Bobby Digital posted:Everything, all the time, all of it. Unless it's belly rubs. There's a threshold somewhere between good and murder.
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When I was snorkeling off the coast of Florida I had a pufferfish swim up to me to investigate what was going on. Tiny little guy, maybe three inches long, and uber cute 
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Das Boo posted:Dogs tend to be "I want _____!" and cats tend to be more "You should know what I want, when I want it and how much of it I want." This morning, I walked out of my bathroom and my cat was sitting in front of it. I said, "Hello," and she screamed at me and then ran under a chair. I am not sure if that's what she wanted, but she got it.
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Dogs and cats raised together can make awesome pals, in fact it's not even necessary to raise them together sometimes. My neighbour had a kitten called Elmo, and as he grew he roamed the neighbourhood and soon discovered our family dog Muffy. She was barely tolerated by our own humourless cat, but Elmo just wanted someone to wrassle with and decided a little hairy dog would do. So the kitten play wrestled with the dog, the dog play chased the cat, they both had fun times and no one got hurt. I've always had cats around and feel like a cat person but I really miss having a dog in the family. Even the sometimes tense relationship between my family's old cat and our little dog contained an amount of affection. A dog can be a good friend, even to an unwilling cat.
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My favorite part about being a shelter volunteer is in the morning I can go walk the dogs and everyone gets lots of exercise and fun times outside, and treats, and kisses. And then in the afternoon I can go sit on the floor in the cat rows and chill with some cat pals and bat around some mice or just sit and squint at each other. I really wish it was my full time job.
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Eggbeater Jesus posted:When I was snorkeling off the coast of Florida I had a pufferfish swim up to me to investigate what was going on. Tiny little guy, maybe three inches long, and uber cute  face pufferfish have. Like a diminutive underwater helicopter* strafing around. It was adorable. *just one with propellers on the sides, somehow Nordick has a new favorite as of 05:11 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy9dVKx5ei8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnCqME_4gXE BattleMaster has a new favorite as of 05:14 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Mar 12, 2016 05:11
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All those  are so smart. I used to love calamari and I can't eat it anymore.
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 feed me bonus: https://vine.co/v/eh1J1LnnWKH
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cash crab posted:This morning, I walked out of my bathroom and my cat was sitting in front of it. I said, "Hello," and she screamed at me and then ran under a chair. I am not sure if that's what she wanted, but she got it. This is delightful! I have one that screams when I shower, and another that has to sleep on my face at least partially. Cats are like Greek gods-- temperamental and insane, but really entertaining. Scathach has a new favorite as of 06:09 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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If I had to choose between cat politics and television for entertainment, I'd go with cat politics for sure. Every day there's some kind of drama between Napoleon syndrome sufferer Sheego and Big Dumb Puffin, or territory disputes between Catalina and her sons Brutus and Batboy, or Old Man loudly protesting his lack of food. We discuss the cat news in the house like it's real news.  E: Here's our buddies who we lost recently, Shy Guy and Ludo. They had the same genetic condition. But they had good lives while they were here.  Baby Ludo. 
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porkswordonboard posted:I have no idea at all if this correlates to you, but I know a few people who think about dogs the way they think about kids. Having them seems so consuming and stressful, I mean--the training! The walks and treats and food and they can destroy your house! You can't leave them alone too long, and they don't live as long as cats can. The effort it takes to care for a dog is so much different then cats. But when you get down to it, what many dogs want is just to make you happy. They want, essentially, to please. Cats aren't necessarily as concerned with this, and most don't require such attention. Which makes them great, because they're independent, they're subtler. I meant more that I understand cats pretty well, just from experience and reading up, so I know how to read their body language and so react to their mood. How to approach politely, when to back off, that sort of thing. I have almost no clue about dog body language. I find myself looking for cat cues and having to remind myself that it's a different animal altogether. It's like people who don't know how to talk to kids, and are like "ok, it's a kid. I have no idea what to do with you". I'd like to be able to "speak dog" better, I guess.
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Yoink! https://twitter.com/Hag0605/status/706969998867243008
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I have special dogs. They're good dogs, or at least good dogs live inside them somewhere. We've had a lot of problems with obedience classes and them being too keyed up to do well and reacting to other dogs. We were frustrated and they were frustrated by the end of the classes. Last night we took them to their first nose work class and they did spectacularly and you could see that they were really happy and proud of themselves. The instructor told us privately he was really happy to have them in class because they were already so good. It's a little early but I'm so happy we found something they can be good at. 
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:All those I love all cephalopods but cuttlefish and their close relatives the reef squids are my favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmraRAPAguo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udWMMWM54p8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an3nv0dk9K0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJMmWsnNDUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpeX3lmULC4
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Eponine posted:I have special dogs. They're good dogs, or at least good dogs live inside them somewhere. We've had a lot of problems with obedience classes and them being too keyed up to do well and reacting to other dogs. We were frustrated and they were frustrated by the end of the classes. These dogs have no regards for tables. 
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You appear to have acquired herding dogs. Good luck.
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:These dogs have no regards for tables. Oh no! I was mobile posting and it auto formats. Lemme change it. goatface posted:You appear to have acquired herding dogs. Good luck. We've had them both for 18 months now and they behave well inside with us and we kind of tried doing trick classes and agility and it just was not a good fit. They're smart dogs, but the herders in them get the best of them in a class setting and we could tell that the instructors would get annoyed with them. Marius Pontmercy has a new favorite as of 17:28 on Mar 12, 2016 |
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Eponine posted:I have special dogs. They're good dogs, or at least good dogs live inside them somewhere. We've had a lot of problems with obedience classes and them being too keyed up to do well and reacting to other dogs. We were frustrated and they were frustrated by the end of the classes. Oh god, considering their breeds, they are going to be a pain unless you have a lot of space for them to run. I used to train beagles for field work/hunting and sometimes we would have shepards in the group and they would flip out over every little thing. Good to hear that they are learning. I wish you the best of luck.
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BattleMaster posted:I love all cephalopods but cuttlefish and their close relatives the reef squids are my favourite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDwOi7HpHtQ
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Didn't see this posted - I think I found the spirit animal of Scatman John https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi_hejNwPxI
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Ozz81 posted:Didn't see this posted - I think I found the spirit animal of Scatman John There is a strong connection between glossolalia (speaking in tongues) and Satanic worship. Things go awry when a drunk demon accidentally possesses a goat.
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must. touch. thing. https://twitter.com/paperbeatstweet/status/708187886152077313 It's good to keep a few around for parts. 
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Das Boo posted:Dogs tend to be "I want _____!" and cats tend to be more "You should know what I want, when I want it and how much of it I want." Also "gently caress this thing on your nightstand/table/dresser."
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Nordick posted:This reminds me, it's been a while since we had some zefrank in this thread: Lol, I've always loved that video but it bothers me that he lumps bobtail squids in (the ones that bury themselves to hide) in with cuttlefish! They're not cuttlefish!!! They're not squids either; they're their own thing in the ten-limbed cephalopod category
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Eponine posted:We've had them both for 18 months now and they behave well inside with us and we kind of tried doing trick classes and agility and it just was not a good fit. They're smart dogs, but the herders in them get the best of them in a class setting and we could tell that the instructors would get annoyed with them. Heeler dogs are best dogs. I wouldn't give up on other stuff, any decent instructor would work with the dog and its tendencies. Most classes just have one dog out at a time anyway so there's nothing for it to herd.
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Obligatory Toast posted:Also "gently caress this thing on your nightstand/table/dresser." 
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Garrand posted:Going back to our theme of food-like animals  Well-bread dogs. Whereas these  are well-breaded dogs.
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IMJack posted:
This stuff is the best meme the internet has produced to date.
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Rexxed posted:Cattail Sapporo takes red panda videos at the Maruyama Zoo in Japan almost every day. But sometimes he takes video of squirrels! These squirrels have much bigger ear tufts than the ones I see in the US. OH MY GOSH! That was just too adorable!
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