Dog or cat? Which do you own?

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:52 am

Since we all know Lizzie was an animal lover I thought it would be interesting to find out what animals, dog or cat, members of the forum own.

Some may own more than one dog (like Lizzie) or more than one cat. Answer as if you owned just one.

As usual your response remains anonymous unless you reveal it.

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:15 am

I just got a new puppy this weekend... (making it 8 dogs)

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:39 am

Wow, look at those big eyes! How can anyone resist so cute a dog. He or she?

Good luck, Auds

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:17 am

She is called Petra

And she is VERY naughty!

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:51 am

I'll have to say "Dog" on this one. (The six pound, nearly-toothless furball wouldn't have it any other way.)

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:32 am

At one time I had three dogs. But when I moved I am not longer allowed to have pets, so I don't have anything right now.

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:54 am

My babies...Tequi (short for Tequila) is on the left, and Nupie (for the Inupiat Eskimo's) is on the right. Tequi is a therapy dog princess. She loves people. Nupie is a very good boy...unless you are a bird. He loves to catch birds and he thinks mommy loves to receive them (I don't). I would not want to live where I couldn't have animals.

Tracy...

DWilly · Post by **DWilly** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:28 pm

Wow, you guys all have beautiful dogs. I don't have a dog right now so, I had to vote neither. I did have a dog years ago. I plan on getting another dog. I'd like to get a Boston Terrier which I think is the dog Lizzie had. Sometimes I read she had that and other times she had a bull dog.

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:11 pm

I have a total of 8 of them...

2 mini Doxies, including my new Petra... The other is called Gretchen.

4 Springer Spaniels... Boozer and his mate, Rose and their 2 daughters, Toonces and Tootie.

2 Border Collies, Charles and Camilla.

We have numerous cats that live in the barns.. Zack feeds them and has named some (most) of them.

We keep horses and like Lizzie, we have many bird feeders. Thayne loves to feed the birds and does a great job of keeping the feeders full year round. He also has a heater for a bird bath. he spends a great deal of time in the summer scheming to keep the squirrels from the bird seed! He NEVER succeeds! He also buys corn to put out for the squirrels and has many different gadgets to put the corn on to make the squirrel work for his food....

When Thayne was in dental school and we had apartments we could not have dogs... But we have had (at least) one since the moment we moved into our first house... I do not think I would agree to move into a house I couldn't take my four legged babies to!

I grew up with several dogs in the house. In France, dogs are welcome in most business, restaurants and in public. (We are notorious for not curbing them!) My brother has a little tea cup Chihuahua he takes with him everywhere, including Mass, in a Prada satchel.....

FairhavenGuy · Post by **FairhavenGuy** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:47 pm

We got our first family pet four weeks ago. Neither a dog nor a cat.

She's a guinea pig, Brownie, who is better for Lori and Emily because of their allergies.

There were either a cat or dog in the house when I was growing up, never more than one at a time, but we did have chickens, ducks and geese in the back yard.

Everybody else on both sides of the family except my parents-in-law have cats or dogs. (My brother and sister-in-law have three Welsh corgis.) One sister has chickens, too.

nbcatlover · Post by **nbcatlover** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:37 pm

You have already seen my Buddy since he is my nbcatlover logo:

This is one of his more reflective moments. He's a thinker.

Then I also have my little scaredy cat--Pumpkin. I'm his third home in 4 years, and he has trust issues.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:03 am

You all know I have had cats & kittens.

This is the funniest cat picture we ever took.

(It's an optical illusion because everything moved).

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:05 am

We have 8 cats (Shabazz, Jasmine, Chanel, Smoke, Ali, Daisy, Indy, and Ginger) and four dogs- Angel (a white German Shepard), Shadow ( a big black mutt who looks like an eighty lb. Benji), Buttons (a Llasa Apso), and Barkley (my new baby who looks like a cross between a cocker spaniel and a small golden retriever. He's all white with blonde ears.) We have a small kitty cat door through the front door and a doggie door through the back which leads into a huge fenced in back yard. The back yard goes partly into the woods, so they have a great life.

Kashesan · Post by **Kashesan** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:09 am

awwww-these are beautiful!!!

Kashesan · Post by **Kashesan** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:10 am

Audrey, is Petra a daschund? She is so sweet!

k

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:14 pm

Looks like a long-haired dachy.
These pets are really cute!!
Thanks for pictures everyone!!

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:04 pm

I currently don't have any pets, unless you include the dust bunnies under my bed. But, I've had many animals over the years; hamsters, fish, 3 different types of parrots, parakeets, fish, multiple cats and dogs and even a Vietnamese Pot Belly pig. Unfortunately I can't have pets where I live right now, though my fiance's dogs have totally adopted me. That seems to be the trend in my life right now, other people's pets that adopt me as their own. Which is fine with me, I don't have to do any of the work, but, get all the love and snuggle time I could ask for.

Audrey, do you know the Greek meaning of your new dog's name? Petra. Its a big rock or boulder, which is cute for such a tiny, beautiful dog.

snokkums · Post by **snokkums** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:40 am

I have two cats. Snokkums and Scorch. Snokkums is a tortishell persian and Scorch is a Black smoke persian. Both very spoiled, but they are my children.

Kashesan · Post by **Kashesan** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:14 am

they're all beautiful, I agree.

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:33 am

Her mama was a long hair and her papa was a wire hair! It is going to be interesting to watch her coat grow in!

She is just a rascal! She is even more than a little naughty-- But I have to say that she has been paper trained in less than a week! It is bitter cold in Iowa right now and there is no way that baby is going outside in it.

nbcatlover · Post by **nbcatlover** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:14 pm

I don't understand--some people say they have both cats and dogs, but no one has voted that they have both.

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:53 pm

Read mine again.

Bob Gutowski · Post by **Bob Gutowski** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:34 pm

As you may remember, my cats are sisters. They are named Lizzie and Emma, after someone-or-other.

Lizzie is a calico, reddish, grayish and white, with a triangular shaped head, and Emma is part British-shorthair, black and white with a black mask nearly covering her Theda Bara-like eyes.

I love them more than I can say. Lizzie is my special girl, and we are very close physically, though I love Emma for her puppiness. Emma loves male visitors, one of whom said "She's kind of a whore, isn't she?" I prefer to think of her as the feline Liz Taylor, a gal who can barely abide other women, but who sparkles around men. Lizzie mews and prrls, whle Emma chirps.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:58 pm

Angel @ Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:53 pm wrote:Read mine again.

Hi Angel!
I read your account twice yesterday and twice today- you have cats & dogs, correct?
Someone else too has both, I think?
It's a good question, I think?

My cat Sweety is getting more like a dog every day. Very interactive with me. If she has been fed and I'm trying to get my dinner, she's not suposed to bug me in the kitchen.
I'll point out of the room and say firmly. "GO!" and she'll turn around, walk a few steps away, and sit with her back to me, no longer watching or yowing.

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:59 pm

All my dogs live in the house... We have a dog door for them to go outside.

Poor Thayne.. He just shakes his head... He would never have 8 animals in the house if it was up to him. Like usual they all tend to by the mom's animals... 4 of them sleep in our room and Petra is in our bed!

When it comes right down to it I really don't entirely trust people who do not like animals......

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:55 pm

Oh Boy a subject I can rack up a post in, being a
"newcomer" with my new name and new computer.
what great pix of pets, love that. My faithful Irish
terrier Holly is such a pain but I love her anyway.
My sister has 3 drooling big newfoundlands that she
loves to death, to each his own I guess, so much work for even one pet. I can't imagine so many as
Audrey has, plus a zillion kids and husband, yikes.

Edisto · Post by **Edisto** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:33 pm

Wow! I have never had a husband (among my many and varied husbands) who would let me have all the animals I wanted. Maybe that's just as well. My first husband couldn't abide cats (silly man), and my second is afraid of dogs. I'm about equally fond of both (pets, not husbands. Husbands I'm allergic to.).

Right now I have Paisley, a rather homely but sweet little tortie, who's around ten. (She came to me as a stray, so I can't be positive how old she is.) Very recently, I've adopted two more cats that were cast off by a friend. Their names used to be MoJo and JoMo. (My friend is somewhat lacking in imagination.) Since they (wisely) didn't answer to those names, I've rechristened them Cleo and Bandito. Cleo is a beautiful, satiny black shorthair, and Bandito is a longhair with somewhat Siamese coloration, except that he has a small, black Hitler moustache that's slightly askew. Cleo is about two years old, and Bandito is one. Those are all the cats I have or ever plan to have. Until Cleo and Bandito came my way, I had planned to get two beagles. We also have a visiting cat, Fred. He's a large rawboned oaf of a cat who stops by for breakfast every morning and takes a nap on the rug in my hallway every afternoon. I think he understands that he doesn't live here...

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:07 am

I always admire those who take in cats, and especially those who limit their intake! (Discerning?...)
I've limited mine to the two I have left- they are about 14 now.

ghostcat1313 · Post by **ghostcat1313** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:18 pm

Wow, so many animal lovers.

I have a goffin cockatoo named Martin. 5 years ago, a stray Calico cat adopted us during a snowstorm. We took her in and 2 weeks later, she had 5 tiger boys. Never able to find her owners, we kept the mom and called her Callie and fell in love with the kittens and kept three (Noah, Scaredy and Vish). My friend kept the other two (tiger and lion), but just moved to an apartment where she could not have pets, so they are back with me. The dad is a stray wild cat that comes to eat every night. So we have a whole cat family now and a cockatoo that knows all the cats by name.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 10:20 pm

Has anyone seen the new Budweiser commercial today with the old horses and the young horses in the field throwing snowballs!
I laughed out loud.