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New and improved pets and weather related things.
oh, that's a foreign concept around here.
Why would you want to change the name of the thread?
I wish I could give you some of ours lately!
My flowers are waterlogged!!
Should I change the name of this board?
Because it was ruining the trees. We don't have too many to begin with.
I never knew the term verga before I moved it. It refers to hanging clouds. It is like it rains but the rain evaporates before it gets to the ground. We have been on water restrictions for about 4 years.
Dam!
Why did they do that?
It's that bad eh?
I am toying with the idea of having a 4th of July party but I just know it will rain and I don't mean little showers.
The last party I had people couldn't even get out of their cars when they got here because the rain was so torrential!
That word always reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut. I wonder which book that was.
The whole state will pay for you to come.
The cleaners got it?
Nice grub AK
You have a drought?
You should invite me out to see you.
I will plan a party and you will be guaranteed much rainfall!!
Yup. People hunt them just south of here, just like that.
Oh, a red fox? Like this?...
The drought is forcing them into the neighborhoods. But there have always been a few.
Them?
There is more than one????
Do you live in the zoo ergo?
lol. This fox is small.
There is a movement afoot in the neighborhood to get rid of them. I just don't support it. Perhaps I should. A few years ago we had a beaver move in. They got rid of it pretty quickly.
Nice pastoral view you have.
They get less afraid when they are rabid too. Animal control might be interested.
Thank you Mr Sum!
You're welcome.
LOL.......I was at another board!
Maybe you should make it a pet?
edit: grub!
Would you please reply.
It has been here for a couple years but now it is getting a little too tame. At night I hear it and twice I have chased it away from the neighbors cat.
No, I'm sure he isn't a criminal type fox.....yet.
You would be saving him/her.
You think I should have the fox arrested?
OMG!
Shouldn't you be calling animal control or something?
It was just in the backyard.
There is a fox in your neighborhood?
Scary!
So I look out the kitchen window and there is Milo the half wit gimp stalking a fox. He is bigger than the fox but I went out and brought him in anyway. This fox is getting to be a little too sure of himself.
ah...the Elton John look. You should post that on the QBID board.
Perhaps your puppy will need some sunwear?
lol, that's a cool outfit for Halloween!
This what your dog is going to look like?
Is that Low's cat?
Oldest pet cat (article link)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3611453.stm
yeah and where are my choices?
Well the hairline is about right, lol. New ibox, btw.
Purebred Dogs Are Said to Resemble Owners
Wed Mar 31,10:54 AM ET
By SETH HETTENA, Associated Press Writer
SAN DIEGO - Those who think purebred dogs look like their owners are barking up the right tree, but matching a mutt to its master is another thing, a study suggests.
Research at the University of California, San Diego indicates that when people pick a dog, they look for one that, at some level, bears some resemblance to them. And when they get a purebred dog, they get what they want.
When given a choice of two dogs, judges correctly matched 25 purebreds with their owners nearly two out of three times. With mutts, however, the pattern went to the dogs.
"When you pick a purebred, you pick it specifically because of how it's going to look as a grown-up," said Nicholas Cristenfeld, UCSD professor of psychology and co-author of the study, which appears in the current issue of Psychological Science.
Cristenfeld said mutt owners such as himself make their choice on the spur-of-the-moment at a dog pound, not knowing what a puppy will look like.
Forty-five dogs and their owners chosen at random were photographed separately at three San Diego dog parks. The judges, some 28 undergraduates taking psychology classes at UC San Diego, were shown pictures of the owners and two dogs and asked to match the correct dog with the owner.
Out of the 25 purebreds, there were 16 correct matches and nine misses. For 20 mutts in the study, there were seven matches, four ties and nine misses.
"There is a certain stereotype of person from each breed," said Tracy Cavaciuti, a French Bulldog breeder in Connecticut.
So what kind of person likes the pop-eyed, pointy-eared, pug-nosed Frenchie?
"Actually, they're quite trendy and good-looking," Cavaciuti said, adding that they tend to strut on the streets of New York City's tony Upper East Side.
Hound people are a different story.
"You can spot them a mile away," she said. "They're very doggy."
How the aristocratic Afghan Hound or the otherworldly French Bulldog resemble their owners is unclear since the study found judges didn't use any one characteristic to make the matches. There were no significant correlation between dogs and owners on the basis of size, attractiveness, friendliness and energy level when considered separately.
"People are attracted to looks and temperaments that reflect themselves or how they perceive themselves," said Gail Miller, a spokeswoman for the American Kennel Club. Miller, who has owned several bearded collies, described her "beardies" as gregarious, active dogs.
"I'm definitely like them — very outgoing, likes to have fun and get active," she said.
Disregard last, it was probably a glitch.
That's nice AK, I'll add it to the suggestion box. I just had a post deleted. That really pisses me off so I had better leave for a while.
Doggie name suggestion: Cubanelle
(Cuban sweet pepper)
I realize that but it does have some very interesting possibilites. None of which I can think of at the moment.
That doesn't narrow it down much.
I am leaning toward something mispronounced in Rhode Island.
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