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Nancy
Member
08-01-2000
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 3:25 am
** Rules for Non-pet owners who visit and like to complain about our pets: ** 1. They live here; you don't. 2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. 3. I like my pet better than I like most people. 4. To you it's an animal. To me he and/or she is an adopted son and/or daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and is speech-challenged. 5. Dogs and cats are better than kids. They eat less,don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called, never drive your car, don't hang out with drug using friends, don't drink or smoke, don't worry about buying the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, don't need a gazillion dollars for college, and if they get pregnant, you sell the results!
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Moondance
Member
07-30-2000
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:12 am
<clapping> <standing and clapping>
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:42 am
OMG NANCY!!! Yes yes yes.. I'll add.. don't visit people who live on a river in the middle of nowhere and have Labrador Retrievers in a white pantsuit. Don't go visit another long time breeder of labs and then when asked if you want to see the new puppies, say "I really don't like dogs, much". However, I must say I had a couple of labs who DID drink, if they got the chance.. with Grace, you had to hold onto your wine glass
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 10:45 am

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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 12:45 pm
Gotta see me them labs in the white suits!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:04 pm
I am going to print this!!!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 4:59 pm
Snork.. labs would wear white suits for maybe a nanosecond.. the labs in the real story went swimming and then went to greet the not so bright woman in the white pantsuit.. I mean a white pantsuit to visit someone living on 20 acres on the Kern river outside of BAKERSFIELD? And you just know that if your body language shows that all your sphinctors are contracting in terror, that the labs will sense this and come right over to you to SHAKE!!
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, July 10, 2004 - 5:49 pm
LOL Seamonkey! Nancy, I love your post. Thanks for sharing it!
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Lostintheglades
Member
07-10-2000
| Saturday, August 21, 2004 - 6:24 am
Nancy...that's great! Exactly how I feel.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, October 18, 2004 - 7:52 pm
Nancy, I love it! Love me, love my babies. That's just how I feel about it.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 5:40 pm
Ok, now, what about pets with very bad manners? My grandmothers 4 housedogs have atrocious manners, and I did live there with them, in fact one belongs to me, she just won't allow me to take her home with me. But they lick you, in the mouth (they are quick) tromple all over your lap, stick their noses in your nether regions, steal your shoes, shed like crazy and the littlest one barks non-stop. It is so stressful. What then?
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Tuesday, December 07, 2004 - 5:42 pm
I think you have to be at least partly responsible if they are licking you in the mouth. I mean doesn't your mouth need to be opened?
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 12:07 pm
No it doesn't need to be open. When Spike gets out of control he goes to his crate or he gets tied to my desk chair where he sits with his bone and when he's calm he's let loose. Shedding you can't control. You just have to get a dog that doesn't shed.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 1:10 pm
My gramma has bostons. They have lightning fast tongues. If you are talking and they are any where around you, and that's usually in your face, they get to lickin. Dolly, the bigger one, is the worst. She will jump on your lap and preceed to lick your face, and when you yell at her to get down, the tongue goes right to your mouth. Gross.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - 3:16 pm
If we could train our Fox Terrier (super hyper type dog) not to lick faces, any dog can be trained to keep their tongue in their mouth.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, December 09, 2004 - 10:54 am
Boston's tongues are too long for their mouths so there always hanging out. The dog's aren't even "super hyper" they are just overly licky. And she says the "licking" isn't hurting anyone. That may be, but it is gross and if you yell at them, she yells at you.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, December 13, 2004 - 9:02 pm
MY rules for people who visit and who don't like cats? HAHAHAHA. Umm, well, ummm... there's the door. Don't let it hit you on the way out! <snicker> <smirk>
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 6:40 am
Works for me!
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 8:46 am
Love your rules Nancy! When people visit me and ask if my birds get on my nerves talking so much I say "no THEY don't gossip or talk about people".
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 9:06 am
oooooooooohh....can I add one? 6. You know I have pets, so if you have pet allergies, don't come over or take your meds first!
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 9:14 am
Hypermom ever have someone call you and say I would love to come visit you but I am allergic to your animals? They seem to imply that I should be ashamed for choosing pets over them.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 9:23 am
My husband is deathly allergic to cats. We have two very good friends who have two beautiful cats. We can't go visit their place, even if he takes his medicine and he brings his Purell! His eyes swell and he gets asthmatic symptoms. They know this, and so we have them over to our place when we get together. It never occurred to me that it could be taken as us implying that they should somehow be ashamed for having cats -- it's just the unfortunate reality of his (very real) allergies.
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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 9:33 am
I have family members who are deathly allergic to cats and I understand that perfectly. I am allergic to cat dander myself. I was speaking of people I know that try to make me feel bad. Should have been more clear, sorry.
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Tuesday, April 12, 2005 - 3:58 pm
Kristy, yes, my younger sister. It's nice, she doesn't just drop by in the winter. lol
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