[quote]sluicy wrote:
Hang in there buddy 
What kind of dog is he?[/quote]
LoLn thanks. He is a pitt bull mix
How cute! Brindles are always lovely. I put a picture of ours up on the Halloween thread a couple of days back but your little guy is giving him a run for money in the lovable-expression department. I like the ear stuck out to one side. Imagine itās hard for him to sit still for a photo.
okay I want a pic of the dog.
I have pics of my beautiful babies in my profile.
OG Elliot has beautiful coloring. Heās obviously part Siamese, what else?
[quote]sluicy wrote:
OG Elliot has beautiful coloring. Heās obviously part Siamese, what else?[/quote]
Thank you! I love that cat. He is all over Molly, the female lab and golden retriever mix.
Elliot is Tonkinese and Siamese and what they call a āsnowshoe Siameseā. he is 28lbs of ridiculous loving behaviour. He loves every dog, every person and makes that weird Siamese sound. He is huge for a cat.
[quote]sluicy wrote:
How cute! Brindles are always lovely. I put a picture of ours up on the Halloween thread a couple of days back but your little guy is giving him a run for money in the lovable-expression department. I like the ear stuck out to one side. Imagine itās hard for him to sit still for a photo.[/quote]
O you have on clue he is either passed out or running around lke a mad man. Here is one the day we got him
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
How can you really be sure of this? There has to be some sort of pleasure to it, otherwise, what is driving the urge? Why the documented homosexuality in animals? Why does Fido want to hump my pant-leg? There has to be some pleasure involved.
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What is driving the urge is survival of the species. Not getting off.
Leg humping is not about sex. Itās about dominance. In dog world - Alpha.
Dogs are not on the animal homo list.
[quote]Geminspector wrote:
Leg humping is not about sex. Itās about dominance. In dog world - Alpha.
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I think that this is the case sometimes in the human world as wellā¦
Well, maybe not specifically leg humping, but humping in general.
All I know is, thank goodness for responsible owners. Spayed or neutered or not, those owners who love and care for their pets.
I have 2 dogs and 2 cats and thank goodness as they love the companionship.
OP! best wishes to you.
One of the worst feelings I have ever had was when the veterinarian had to put down the german shepard I had from 15-22.
She developed a condition called pyometria after going into heat.Antiboitics were not effective to treat it and she was not in a condition to survive surgery. If we had her spayed, it would not have happened.
[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:
sluicy wrote:
OG Elliot has beautiful coloring. Heās obviously part Siamese, what else?
Thank you! I love that cat. He is all over Molly, the female lab and golden retriever mix.
Elliot is Tonkinese and Siamese and what they call a āsnowshoe Siameseā. he is 28lbs of ridiculous loving behaviour. He loves every dog, every person and makes that weird Siamese sound. He is huge for a cat.
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Holy smokes! He must be huge because he looks like a lean, normal sized cat. The only cats Iāve encountered that big have been Maine Coons. Anyway, heās gorgeous. Did you adopt him?
I have yet to own a cat but the Tonkinese sounds like a fantastic breedā¦ cause they seem to have doglike traits
[quote]Himora22 wrote:
sluicy wrote:
How cute! Brindles are always lovely. I put a picture of ours up on the Halloween thread a couple of days back but your little guy is giving him a run for money in the lovable-expression department. I like the ear stuck out to one side. Imagine itās hard for him to sit still for a photo.
O you have on clue he is either passed out or running around lke a mad man. Here is one the day we got him[/quote]
That is just cute beyond words.
Thanks every one
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PonceDeLeon wrote:
You permanently alter a petās personality when you do this. I think itās a cruel practice and the need for it is highly overrated; just a quick way for the vets to make a buck.[/quote]
totally with you on this ponce.[quote]
sluicy wrote: As for making a buckāa typical neuter for an average size dog ran around $200, $300 for a spay. The surgery for an older animal with possible testicular and/or prostate cancer was at least twice that, and emergency surgery (which it always is) on a female with pymoetra was nearly always over $1000. Veterinarians would make a lot more money if they encouraged their clients NOT to sterilize or vaccinate their pets.[/quote]
letās seeā¦ $200-$300 for EVERY DOG NOW, or twice that for however many of them happen upon testicular cancer laterā¦hmmā¦are you a vet or truly naive ?
and to whoever wrote that crap about animals not feeling pleasure or getting off on sex and only doing it to procreate or to dominate jeez man gimme a breakā¦ monkeys will pay to look @ monkey porn and thereās only a zillion videos on youtube of like every animal in the arc jacking off, blowing each other, blowing themselves and fucking other speciesā¦
check my man āspotā here getting his freak on and try telling me again that animals donāt feel sex:
is spot about procreation ?
is spot about ādominanceā ?
is spot not having at least as good a time if not a lot better time doing what heās doing than anyone youāve done in real life ? shit that dog is better @ sex than most humans. i bet most animals are. iāll even go so far to say that humans are probably the WORST of all the animals @ sex for pure pleasure. whoever said that shit about animals not feeling it the way we humans do was right but they had it all backwardā¦animals feel it waay more than we do. humans have the most fucked-up repressed sexuality in the world man and here we are repressing our animals for reminding us of that. what the fuck ā¦if only one of these stuck-up wannabe-bulimic-connecticut bitchez iām doing would feel it the way spot does i would be in businessā¦one of 'em is a wannabe vet too.
[quote]swivel wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
You permanently alter a petās personality when you do this. I think itās a cruel practice and the need for it is highly overrated; just a quick way for the vets to make a buck.
totally with you on this ponce.
sluicy wrote: As for making a buckāa typical neuter for an average size dog ran around $200, $300 for a spay. The surgery for an older animal with possible testicular and/or prostate cancer was at least twice that, and emergency surgery (which it always is) on a female with pymoetra was nearly always over $1000. Veterinarians would make a lot more money if they encouraged their clients NOT to sterilize or vaccinate their pets.
letās seeā¦ $200-$300 for EVERY DOG NOW, or twice that for however many of them happen upon testicular cancer laterā¦hmmā¦are you a vet or truly naive ?[/quote]
No, not a vet. But having worked as a veterinarianās assistant for two years, I know that an intact male reaching the end of his lifetime without testicular or prostate complications is rare.
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and to whoever wrote that crap about animals not feeling pleasure or getting off on sex and only doing it to procreate or to dominate jeez man gimme a breakā¦ monkeys will pay to look @ monkey porn and thereās only a zillion videos on youtube of like every animal in the arc jacking off, blowing each other, blowing themselves and fucking other speciesā¦[/quote]
Youāre anthropomorphizing.
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check my man āspotā here getting his freak on and try telling me again that animals donāt feel sex:
is spot about procreation ?
Yes.
is spot about ādominanceā ?[/quote]
Yes.
How the heck do you know this?
I am rather at a lossā¦someone help me hereā¦ ed. actually, never mind, please dude explain what the heck you mean and provide some evidence to that statement. Go to SAMA, for heavenās sake, do you see repressed sexuality there?
dammit! how do I separate quotes from my comments?!
āoh how nice, some very kind mod did it for me.
[quote]Mister T. wrote:
I, too, can get testicular cancer and die. But Iām not going to chop my balls off in order to prevent this possibility.
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Very good point. That propaganda is ridiculous. Neutering/spaying dogs has nothing to do with health issue. Come on! Itās all about money for the vet and convenience for the owner and the society. Donāt get me wrong, Iām not radically opposed to spaying and neutering, itās a personal choice, but I do hate those lies behind this!
Sure, dogs do get cancer but because of the shitty high processed food they getā¦
How to feed dogs properly:
I have vacillated greatly on having this done to my dog.
My vet says that since he spends most of his time in the house, or with me when outside, there is really no compelling reason to cut them off. He is already very docile and I donāt need him to be anymore of a wimp.
As far as testicular cancer or prostrate problems, most men wonāt make it through life without encountering these either, still Iām keeping mine.
With a wife and two daughters in my house I need all the testosterone in the air I can get.
Well I just got him back and you would never know that he just went through surgery. he wants to run and play and as already eaten a bowl of food. So unless he goes through some major changes in the next few weeks I dont see having you dog neutered affecting him very much at all.
Hell he even poped a boner when he saw me and pissed all over the nurseā¦thats about par for the curse
Im just worried that he will tare open his sutures
[quote]Berserkergang wrote:
Mister T. wrote:
I, too, can get testicular cancer and die. But Iām not going to chop my balls off in order to prevent this possibility.
Very good point. That propaganda is ridiculous. Neutering/spaying dogs has nothing to do with health issue. Come on! Itās all about money for the vet and convenience for the owner and the society.
Donāt get me wrong, Iām not radically opposed to spaying and neutering, itās a personal choice, but I do hate those lies behind this!
Sure, dogs do get cancer but because of the shitty high processed food they getā¦
How to feed dogs properly:
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Oh please, this is just an uneducated post. The vast majority of veterinary business is from sickpet visits.
I worked as a veterinarianās assistant before going back to school and it would be stretching it to say that perhaps 1/3 of our visits were preventative care, on a good day. In the seven months weāve owned our dog, we have spent about $2000 on veterinary bills.
Perhaps $300 of that has been preventative care. The rest has been a trip to the emergency clinic in the middle of the night because he was pre-bloat, skin scrapes for mange, stomach medications, dermatological evaluations for his allergies.
You are correct that most dog food is crap, but a raw diet is not necessaryā¦ there are some premium and super premium foods that are quite good. We feed Titus Innova Evoās Red Meat Bites, you should check Evoās line out.