The Pet Thread

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Cats are easier to have as pets than dogs but I just have always been into dogs.

 

[milagros317]

Cats are easier to have as pets than dogs but I just have always been into dogs.

That is surely true, especially with modern liter boxes that essentially clean themselves.

 

[kurchatovium]

Cats are easier to have as pets than dogs but I just have always been into dogs.

I like them both. I like all widdle animals.

 

[kurchatovium]

That is surely true, especially with modern liter boxes that essentially clean themselves.

Cats do tend to be cleaner from what i have heard.

 

[milagros317]

Cats do tend to be cleaner from what i have heard.

Yes, cats groom themselves while dogs are apparently content to be dirty.

 

[kurchatovium]

Yes, cats groom themselves while dogs are apparently content to be dirty.

Yea they are a lot neater. I thought about a cat cause we do get lots of mice and rats here.

 

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Fortunately, Damian doesn't really shed hair. That's one positive to having that type of dog. Some larger dogs especially shed so much hair it could fill your vacuum every single day.

 

[milagros317]

Yea they are a lot neater. I thought about a cat cause we do get lots of mice and rats here.

Historically, that's why cats were domesticated thousands of years ago, to control mice and rats. 🐭 🐀

Fortunately, Damian doesn't really shed hair. That's one positive to having that type of dog. Some larger dogs especially shed so much hair it could fill your vacuum every single day.

My brother had two golden retrievers. They shed enough to stuff a mattress. 😱

 

[kurchatovium]

Fortunately, Damian doesn't really shed hair. That's one positive to having that type of dog. Some larger dogs especially shed so much hair it could fill your vacuum every single day.

Yea that's a lot of work lol

 

[kurchatovium]

Historically, that's why cats were domesticated thousands of years ago, to control mice and rats. 🐭 🐀

My brother had two golden retrievers. They shed enough to stuff a mattress. 😱

My neighbors cat was a little huntress. She killed rats mice and possums. Even crickets. It wss great.

 

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My grams had a vicious dog named "Champ" when we were kids growing up. People would run across the street when they saw him coming.

 

[kurchatovium]

My grams had a vicious dog named "Champ" when we were kids growing up. People would run across the street when they saw him coming.

One of my uncles in New Jersey had a few super nasty Dobermans. They were vicious. They were chained up all the time. He use to toss meat into the area they were at. Ashame people create such vcious beasts from such a loving animal.

 

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One of my uncles in New Jersey had a few super nasty Dobermans. They were vicious. They were chained up all the time. He use to toss meat into the area they were at. Ashame people create such vcious beasts from such a loving animal.

Yeah most dogs fortunately are friendly...but not all. Just like people. Although a higher percentage of dogs are more friendly than people are lol.

 

[kurchatovium]

Yeah most dogs fortunately are friendly...but not all. Just like people. Although a higher percentage of dogs are more friendly than people are lol.

I think almost all dogs are friedly. You really have to raise them nasty to make them vicious.

 

[milagros317]

When I was six years old, we had a pet parakeet. When it sang at 5am one day, waking up my parents, it was gone later that day. They never said what happened to it. ☠️

 

[kurchatovium]

My grandma had a parrot when she was still in the Bronx. The birds cage was next to the alley where kids were swearing cussing and saying nasty stuff. That bird we the most foul mouthed bird on the planet. Grandma got rid of it fast. Lol

 

[milagros317]

I can see how that happened. Kids playing in an alley must have used every obscene word known to humanity.

 

[kurchatovium]

I can see how that happened. Kids playing in an alley must have used every obscene word known to humanity.

Yea and once they knew the bird was repeating the stuff they said, it got even worse.

 

[milagros317]

Yea and once they knew the bird was repeating the stuff they said, it got even worse.

That made a wonderful feed-back loop. ➿

 

[kurchatovium]

That made a wonderful feed-back loop. ➿

Yea. I always wanted a parrot but they are expensive, hard to care for, and they can bite your fingers off with their beaks.

 

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Yea. I always wanted a parrot but they are expensive, hard to care for, and they can bite your fingers off with their beaks.

You could teach them not to bite maybe? 😉

 

[kurchatovium]

You could teach them not to bite maybe? 😉

I suppose. We went to a pet store once to look into it but they were just super expensive. That's what really killed the idea for my parents at least kol

 

[milagros317]

Yea. I always wanted a parrot but they are expensive, hard to care for, and they can bite your fingers off with their beaks.

I knew they were expensive, but I didn't know that they could bite your finger off. 😱

 

[kurchatovium]

I knew they were expensive, but I didn't know that they could bite your finger off. 😱

It makes sense they eat nuts so they need to crack nuts open. Their tongue is very strong and pushes very hard on their beak. Creates a ton of force to crack nuts ... or break off fingers lol

 

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How about having a pet snake? I'm scared of snakes so I would definitely not want one. One time this fisherman said to me you can go up to that snake it won't bite. I looked at him like yeah I'm going to stay away from it.