Lammastide said:

sounds like a scene from fucking Gremlins

CarrieMpls said:

you don't even have to aim it at her - kitties hate the sound of those canned air things.

meltwithu said:

4. never lend them your car keys. because trust me there's nothing like trying to explain to your insurance company exactly who totalled the vehicle, and how

IrresistibleB1tch said:

Those are all great and on my list too. Being European I have a particular hate-on for the people keeping their pets only in their back yard, never taking them out for walks or runs in the woods/park whatever. I HATE IT!

CarrieMpls said:

One of my cats loves water too, Mini-Man... he'll sit on the cat litter hood watching me when I take a shower and both my cats demand that I turn on the bath tub tap to a drip so they can have fresh water...

my cat gets her food fed outside, that shit smells
and she does her business outside too

i feel sick when i walk into someone's kitchen and they have cat food in a bowl in one corner and a litter tray in the other.

shit and kitchens should never mix

I would never let my cat buy Pepsi...I mean there are pet owners who do that!

Teacher said:

Every time I turn on the kitchen faucet she wants to jump IN the sink. If I'm not payng attention, she does. So I used to try moving the spigot so it's going directly ON her, but she'd just kind of move out of the way and then start batting at the water.
She also waits outside the shower door for me to be done and then jumps in as soon as I open the door to watch all the remaining bits and trickles of water go down the drain.

I used to say I'd never let my dog in my bed, but lately. . . Damn boyfriend. But the dog loves him! I'm having second thoughts about relenting on this one. . . the dog may return to the floor soon. We'll see.

I don't care if he licks off my plates. Spit washes off.

I certainly wouldn't let him bark or be aggressive towards people, but that's not really a problem with him.


Most of the things I do differently are health things. I won't feed crappy grocery-store food. I don't let my dog drink out of puddles (I prefer him Giardia-free, thankyouverymuch). I don't care if he licks my face, but that's cause he's on a monthly dewormer -- most people don't think about getting worms from your dog, but it totally happens. I don't use nasty petstore flea control. That sort of thing.

origmnd said:

Pedigree - Real Chicken & Rice

Ingredients:
Ground yellow corn, rice, salmon meal (source of omega-3 fatty acids), chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, natural poultry flavor, animal fat (preserved with BHA/BHT), vegetable oil (source of linoleic acid), potassium chloride, wheat flour, wheat gluten, caramel color, vitamins (vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, dl-alpha tocopherol acetate [source of vitamin E], l-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate [source of vitamin C], thiamine mononitrate [vitamin B1], riboflavin supplement [vitamin B2], d-calcium pantothenate, biotin, vitamin B12 supplement, choline chloride), salt, iron oxide, trace minerals (copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, potassium iodide)

Guaranteed Analysis
Protein: 24%
Fat: 8%
Fiber: 10%
Moisture: 12%

I wouldnt try it but u know they r many stupid ppl that would

katt said:

Yeah, and what exactly would non-real chicken consist of?

I miss working at a clinic and having access to "prescription" diets. If a vet-only diet says "chicken and rice", that means that it's made from chicken and rice. Not corn and salmon.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

One prescription diet my pup was put on was chicken and rice. Turns out that it had chicken, beef, lamb by-products It only had 2% chicken in product and it made him very ill. When trying to find a food my pup could eat myself and the vet had to speak to dog food manufactures some would not tell me exactly what was in there products others did. My vet found out that there is not one vet prescription diet on the market that my pup can go on. We all soon got an education on pet foods for example when they list animal by-products this could mean many different animals. When they list poultry meal this means the feet, there inners and sometimes feathers. Thankfully now I have found a food he can eat, it has only fish and rice with natural vitamins and preserved with Vitamin A and its tested on humans

Good website 2 check out on pet food if you’re interested http://www.dogfoodproject.com/

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ALL my hamsters were toilet trained.. they didnt do it anywhere in their cage, they had a jam jar that they could squeeze their bums into and do their business there, so when it was getting a bit pongy, or even not, just everyday you could lift out the jar, clean it with boiling hot water and washing up liquid, put some fresh saw dust in and put it back in their cage

so much cleaner and nicer to live with

..and if my hamsters were bad, they would get punished.. a proper spanking!

katt said:

That's really weird. Are you in the US? How long ago was this?

Because all pet foods now are labelled with ingredients, and all of them I have looked at are animal-specific -- ie, it wouldn't say "animal by-products", it would say "poultry by-products." And there are lots of truly single protein/single carb source vet diets out at this point made specifically to avoid allergies.

There is nothing inherently wrong with some of the ingredients on the list at that site. Just because it's something that doesn't sound "yummy" to us doesn't mean it's not nutritious. By-product meal can have a better nutritional profile than actual meat. And the restrictions that they would have manufacturers place on fat sources borders on the ridiculous.

Most veterinary diets have been heavily researched and scrutinized, as have a lot of non-"rx" diets. I think it's a good idea to feed your pet a diet from a big, well-known manufacturer that can afford to do research, rather than some little organic boutique operation that may or may not have any idea what they're doing.

My dog eats Eukanuba, which I think is excellent.

XxAxX said:

lol

I don't mind kissing dogs, its kinda cute actually. Our terrier will run up and lick your lips, LOL. As long as they don't stick their tounge IN my mouth (which has happened on occasion) I'm cool with it.

I LOVE having our dogs sit on the couch with us. They'll place their head on our laps and go to sleep. Sure you get some fur on the couch, but it's a small price to pay.

I get scared when I see people walking their dogs down busy streets, only because when I was younger, I saw a ladys dog unexpectedly dart across the street and get run over by a motorcycle. Letting them stick their heads out of car windows makes me nervous too, because if you need to swerve or slam on the brakes suddenly you can practically break their neck if its poking out the window.

We used to take our dogs to Dairy Queen, but the employees there hate us now because our terrier will get in the microphone and bark at the top of her lungs when she hears them talking through the speaker. The one cashier actually complained to us when we were placing the order because it was so loud in her headset, LOL.

Tom said:

ewww, reminder not to kiss Tom in the future

HereToRockYourWorld said: