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Post by pinky on Mar 27, 2008 20:36:22 GMT -4
Understood. I was just commenting on the "glamour and popularity of very small dogs" line. None for me, please!
I love greyhounds. When I lived in Doylestown, PA they were all over. There was a rescue there. I remember "meeting" a brindle-colored one some years prior. That dog was just beautiful.
My favorite in the list besides greyhounds is the Irish Water Spaniel. It was on my top 10 list as a kid, along with breeds like Great Pyrenees, Saluki, Keeshond, Kerry Blue, and Samoyed.
I took the AKC handbook out of the library many times to read it for pleasure!
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Post by pinky on Mar 27, 2008 16:20:32 GMT -4
I love dogs, but I have no enthusiasm at all for very small dogs.
I grew up with a miniature poodle--he was on the large size for a miniature, though.
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Post by pinky on Apr 4, 2008 18:52:03 GMT -4
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. -- Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), author of "Black Beauty"
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Post by pinky on Mar 8, 2008 19:32:12 GMT -4
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.-- Roger Caras, former head of the ASPCA
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Post by pinky on Feb 23, 2008 20:27:47 GMT -4
Some of these may have been DF's postings before I took over.
I will try to keep this list updated.
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. --Albert Schweitzer
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?" ~Jeremy Bentham
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. ~Sri Aurobindo
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. --Winston Churchill
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. --Mahatma Ghandi
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. --George Eliot
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. --Mark Twain
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. --Leo Tolstoy
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. --Mohandas Gandhi
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. --The Dalai Lama
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. --Gary Larson
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. --Alfred A. Montapert
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. --St. Francis of Assisi
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. --Edward O. Wilson
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's. --Mark Twain
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Post by pinky on Mar 7, 2008 16:16:00 GMT -4
Shiba Inu and Borzoi--but well, in general I just like dogs, so I feel somehow bad picking favorites!
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Post by pinky on Feb 8, 2008 16:35:14 GMT -4
Here's what I don't get -- just put EDIBLE products in the stuff we eat, for cryin' out loud!! What the h*** needs to be tested...like THAT??!! My response exactly!!!!!!!
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Post by pinky on Dec 18, 2007 21:06:25 GMT -4
WOW! And so furry!
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Post by pinky on Dec 14, 2007 18:36:19 GMT -4
Not sure how this really advances mankind.
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Post by pinky on Dec 15, 2007 16:11:52 GMT -4
A wonderful development in the fight against animal cruelty. www.newsweek.com/id/69533A wonderful essay by the president of the Humane Society.
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Post by pinky on Dec 7, 2007 21:42:17 GMT -4
Lucky doggie!
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Post by pinky on Nov 16, 2007 22:29:22 GMT -4
From my reading of several sources, I would say that while there is no doubt that the dog should not be euthanized there IS a lot of doubt about the details. And the owners are not without fault here. The landscaper required over 60 rabies shots because the dogs were not vaccinated.
The documentation status of the landscaper is irrelevant here.
As a matter of fact, the landscaper worked for a business owned by the dog owner's brother. . .
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Post by pinky on Nov 16, 2007 19:45:48 GMT -4
I know a little about this. My boyfriend lives in a neighboring community and told me a bit about it Tuesday. Note: he said nothing about the woman being knocked down, only that she was grabbed. There are other disparities. The story seems to vary depending on who tells it.
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Post by pinky on Oct 25, 2007 21:18:22 GMT -4
It's easy to forget about pets at times of crisis like this--I'm glad that HSUS doesn't.
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Post by pinky on Oct 19, 2007 19:59:18 GMT -4
*has mental picture of Katie blocking with her super powers all the arrows that DF shoots* ;D
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