I'm in shock (A Dear Abby type scenerio)
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Dahli

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 09:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Tabby great minds... (I wrote that last one before I saw your post) but nothing to fear - any dog can be vicious I've heard but it's really hilarious to have afraid and whippet in the same sentence ROFL!!!
A cat can sleep on them walk around even frolic, but put it out in the back 40 ( we have a big yard) and if it starts moving too fast - the prey drive starts simple as that....

Dahli

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 09:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Square - they are cute! like little Bambis... I love goldens too, just too much dog for me is all. These are sighthounds and bred for hunting and actually catching small game. Goldens I think are bred for the retrieving... they all have some specific instinct bred in for sure, my sister has Australian shepherds and they herd us! it's so darn funny.

Squaredsc

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl dahli. and that's what i thought. i used to watch breed all about it religiously on animal planet during the weekends. i love that show, you learn alot of interesting info about dogs on it.

Happymom

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Julieboo, that is awful that your neighbor threatened you! I'm glad the situation has calmed down.

I do sympathize with the above posters who've had cats ruin their gardens etc. I'm frustrated with the neighborhood cats, but I do love cats. We have 2 indoor cats. They are allowed access to the yard when the weather is nice and we are home. We had to close our cat door due to raccoons getting in our garage. So, they are supervised when they do go out. They are 17, so the most they go outside is just to lie in the sun on our front walk. They do not use the yard (as a litter box) and spend very little time out there. We had all kinds of cats in our back yard using the kids gravel pit under the swing set for their litter boxes. That stopped when we got a dog.

We did have the neighborhood cat litter box in the front of our house (in the flower beds) until we put down cocoa mulch. It isn't terribly expensive. It really smells like chocolate! It really worked keeping the cats out. That was during the spring or summer. I guess it's (the cocoa odor) mostly gone now, because the neighborhood cats are using it again. Not sure if we'll re-mulch. It is a very effective but temporary solution

Grooch

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
A word of warning about cocoa mulch. It is dangerous for cats and dogs if they eat any of it. It can kill them. Link

Twiggyish

Monday, September 29, 2003 - 04:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I can't believe he took pictures. He has too much time on his hands. I'd be afraid with your cat. The advice given above sounds excellent.

Starfire

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 12:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I own a Fox Terrier and they are the same way Dahli. They will go after a cat, rabbit etc. and shake it to death around its neck. They are NOT for kids under the age of 10.

Dahli

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 10:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, Starfire - I did not know that about that breed.... Whippets are very good with small children and many whippet owners have little kids running around. That's interesting though because theory has it these dogs are a cross of greyhound and terrier of some sort. (I spose we should be playing in the DOGS thread)

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 07:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is not the Dog thread?

<slinks out>

Tabbyking

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 - 08:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my tiger tabby cat is so indoors he lives under my bed for days at a time. he has never been outside except to be carried to the car or the motorhome. we brought him in at 8 weeks when he was attacked by a dog. he was just a wild thing dumped by his mother at the time...well, after spending 400 bucks to sew him up and set his leg, dh said we could keep him. he hides so well, you could be in my house for 3 or 4 days without seeing him! he takes to women faster than men, but is very shy.

Julieboo

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 06:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
UPDATE 11/13

We have an apple tree in our front yard so dh has been making lots of apple pie. (Unbelieveably delicious btw, and I typically hate apple pie!) Anyways, we decided to give a pie to a few neighbors, including "Paul." Fast forward a few days; Chris and I are coming home yesterday and Paul waves us down. He starts raving again about how good the pie was and how surprised he was that we gave one to him, yada, yada. Then he says he thought maybe Chris had spit in it but the pie was so good that he wouldn't have cared.

How's that for a backhanded compliment?!

Pcakes2

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 06:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
That is too funny! But hey, that is probably what he was thinking. I think it's great that you didn't exclude him. Maybe he'll think twice about what he says form now on.

Eliz87

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 07:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Julie, I think that's just the best he could do to say "thank you." This guy's a character!

Tabbyking

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 07:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
julieboo, i would tell him the cat pissed in it and 'that's where the tart taste came from, but good guess on the spit!' and then wink and walk off.

not really, but i'd think it!!

Secretsmile

Thursday, November 13, 2003 - 07:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm convinced some people are happiest when miserable, just think of all the joy you are giving him! LOL!