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Cheryl Perkins wrote:
Seanette Blaylock wrote: Sounds like a good way to neaten up the Finnish gene pool. ;-) Not just Finland. I gather that a typical summer drowning victim here is a male, middle-aged overweight amateur fisherman who had a high alcohol level and decided to stand up in a small open boat in order to pee. It seems that it is extremely difficult to swim with your trousers around your ankles, which is where they tend to end up during your struggles. And that's even assuming you know how to swim. Life jackets, what they call personal flotation devices now, also do not appear to be popular among a certain subset of sports fishermen. A relative of a friend of mine worked in the local morgue, and I figure she knew what she was talking about. I remember the smell of a body that's been in the water for three weeks, to say it was strong was an understatement. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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Cheryl Perkins wrote:
Seanette Blaylock wrote: Sounds like a good way to neaten up the Finnish gene pool. ;-) Not just Finland. I gather that a typical summer drowning victim here is a male, middle-aged overweight amateur fisherman who had a high alcohol level and decided to stand up in a small open boat in order to pee. It seems that it is extremely difficult to swim with your trousers around your ankles, which is where they tend to end up during your struggles. And that's even assuming you know how to swim. Life jackets, what they call personal flotation devices now, also do not appear to be popular among a certain subset of sports fishermen. A relative of a friend of mine worked in the local morgue, and I figure she knew what she was talking about. I remember the smell of a body that's been in the water for three weeks, to say it was strong was an understatement. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:50:51 GMT, Victor Martinez yodeled: wrote: (Of course, the 80s weren't much better.) Hey! 80's music rocks! Ohhh, but the hair!! Yes, I had hair in those days. ;-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:50:51 GMT, Victor Martinez yodeled: wrote: (Of course, the 80s weren't much better.) Hey! 80's music rocks! Ohhh, but the hair!! Yes, I had hair in those days. ;-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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Kreisleriana wrote:
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 03:50:51 GMT, Victor Martinez yodeled: wrote: (Of course, the 80s weren't much better.) Hey! 80's music rocks! Ohhh, but the hair!! Yes, I had hair in those days. ;-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. |
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when my black labrador was alive, he was going mad to get out one night
so I let him out, he flew down to where the garages were, and set up a real racket, as I followed him down I heard a stage whisper of, quick there's a dog. Thinking he was frightening someone passing through the semi-private lane I called him back, obediently he came, next morning we found our garage had been burgled, the day before, a couple of blokes had passed when we had the door open going through some stuff we had stored in there, so I guess they thought they would relieve us of some of it . Sam probably prevented them from taking more, but I wished I hadn't called him back. Jean.P. Christina Websell wrote in message ... "Bobcat" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... Victor Martinez wrote: Christina Websell wrote: And you can't now? Why? Although I prefer to compost them, I could burn them if I wanted to. In many places in the US, it is against the law to burn leaves. Pollution, I think, is the main concern. That has got to be a joke. US is worried about pollution from burning leaves. That's amazing when US won't sign the Kyoto agreement about using too much gas. (petrol) They need to worry about that. I find it amazing how many things are against the law in the land of the free. ;-) Or the land of the maple leaf... Is it the same in Canada? I can do all these things in Britain - but I'm sure to have forgotten some. I can burn leaves, in fact I can have a bonfire for garden waste whenever I like. Burning car tyres is frowned upon, but you'd probably get away with it unless your neighbour rang up the authorities and complained. I can let my cats out, they don't have to go out on a harness. If my cats do anything naughty while they're out (Bast forbid) I'm not responsible for it. I have access to a vet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A vet that cannot only treat cats and dogs, but anything else I might have, like goats, horses and reptiles. (I'm in the middle of an argument on one of my other groups. It's mainly Brits, but there are worldwide posters too.) It seems like in the USA vets can choose the species they want to doctor, and just specialise in a few species, like just bring me a cat or dog and forget about your ferret. Tough, I don't do them. *SO* this USA vet has joined in with the posts on this other group. She seems a bit arrogant. Declawing came up and I'm afraid I flamed her about it. She said she would only declaw a cat for medical reasons, like a really bad infection in the nailbed, and she would never declaw one "for elective purposes." That was all very well until she said she'd refer someone on to another vet to have it done. It eases her conscience of course that she won't do elective declawing herself, but yet she refers on to another vet so it can be done! I flamed her quite a lot actually, and normally I don't like to do that to anyone. I asked her if she knew how much front declawed kitties had difficulties with the litterbox afterwards and how this could lead to behavioural problems. (I learnt this from this group, thanks to you Americans) I wanted the declawing link that I now don't have, to show the other folks that were joining in how bad it was for the kitties. I never viewed it, because I knew I wouldn't be able to look at it. So can someone who might still have it send it again, and I'll post it for everyone to see on this other group and see how much they then agree with this vet. My stance on it is this. Cats come with claws front and back. If you don't like this idea, don't get one. It is really as simple as that. It's sort of like de-barking a dog. Everyone knows that dogs bark. When I had them (and I sorely miss them) I liked it when they asked to go outside to bark, because I knew that they'd heard something suspicious. So, well just maybe, there might have been a burglar thinking about breaking into my house and the dogs barking made him think again. I never object when my neighbour's dogs bark. I think of it as a free burglar alarm system. Tweed |
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when my black labrador was alive, he was going mad to get out one night
so I let him out, he flew down to where the garages were, and set up a real racket, as I followed him down I heard a stage whisper of, quick there's a dog. Thinking he was frightening someone passing through the semi-private lane I called him back, obediently he came, next morning we found our garage had been burgled, the day before, a couple of blokes had passed when we had the door open going through some stuff we had stored in there, so I guess they thought they would relieve us of some of it . Sam probably prevented them from taking more, but I wished I hadn't called him back. Jean.P. Christina Websell wrote in message ... "Bobcat" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... Victor Martinez wrote: Christina Websell wrote: And you can't now? Why? Although I prefer to compost them, I could burn them if I wanted to. In many places in the US, it is against the law to burn leaves. Pollution, I think, is the main concern. That has got to be a joke. US is worried about pollution from burning leaves. That's amazing when US won't sign the Kyoto agreement about using too much gas. (petrol) They need to worry about that. I find it amazing how many things are against the law in the land of the free. ;-) Or the land of the maple leaf... Is it the same in Canada? I can do all these things in Britain - but I'm sure to have forgotten some. I can burn leaves, in fact I can have a bonfire for garden waste whenever I like. Burning car tyres is frowned upon, but you'd probably get away with it unless your neighbour rang up the authorities and complained. I can let my cats out, they don't have to go out on a harness. If my cats do anything naughty while they're out (Bast forbid) I'm not responsible for it. I have access to a vet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A vet that cannot only treat cats and dogs, but anything else I might have, like goats, horses and reptiles. (I'm in the middle of an argument on one of my other groups. It's mainly Brits, but there are worldwide posters too.) It seems like in the USA vets can choose the species they want to doctor, and just specialise in a few species, like just bring me a cat or dog and forget about your ferret. Tough, I don't do them. *SO* this USA vet has joined in with the posts on this other group. She seems a bit arrogant. Declawing came up and I'm afraid I flamed her about it. She said she would only declaw a cat for medical reasons, like a really bad infection in the nailbed, and she would never declaw one "for elective purposes." That was all very well until she said she'd refer someone on to another vet to have it done. It eases her conscience of course that she won't do elective declawing herself, but yet she refers on to another vet so it can be done! I flamed her quite a lot actually, and normally I don't like to do that to anyone. I asked her if she knew how much front declawed kitties had difficulties with the litterbox afterwards and how this could lead to behavioural problems. (I learnt this from this group, thanks to you Americans) I wanted the declawing link that I now don't have, to show the other folks that were joining in how bad it was for the kitties. I never viewed it, because I knew I wouldn't be able to look at it. So can someone who might still have it send it again, and I'll post it for everyone to see on this other group and see how much they then agree with this vet. My stance on it is this. Cats come with claws front and back. If you don't like this idea, don't get one. It is really as simple as that. It's sort of like de-barking a dog. Everyone knows that dogs bark. When I had them (and I sorely miss them) I liked it when they asked to go outside to bark, because I knew that they'd heard something suspicious. So, well just maybe, there might have been a burglar thinking about breaking into my house and the dogs barking made him think again. I never object when my neighbour's dogs bark. I think of it as a free burglar alarm system. Tweed |
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when my black labrador was alive, he was going mad to get out one night
so I let him out, he flew down to where the garages were, and set up a real racket, as I followed him down I heard a stage whisper of, quick there's a dog. Thinking he was frightening someone passing through the semi-private lane I called him back, obediently he came, next morning we found our garage had been burgled, the day before, a couple of blokes had passed when we had the door open going through some stuff we had stored in there, so I guess they thought they would relieve us of some of it . Sam probably prevented them from taking more, but I wished I hadn't called him back. Jean.P. Christina Websell wrote in message ... "Bobcat" wrote in message ... "Adrian" wrote in message ... Victor Martinez wrote: Christina Websell wrote: And you can't now? Why? Although I prefer to compost them, I could burn them if I wanted to. In many places in the US, it is against the law to burn leaves. Pollution, I think, is the main concern. That has got to be a joke. US is worried about pollution from burning leaves. That's amazing when US won't sign the Kyoto agreement about using too much gas. (petrol) They need to worry about that. I find it amazing how many things are against the law in the land of the free. ;-) Or the land of the maple leaf... Is it the same in Canada? I can do all these things in Britain - but I'm sure to have forgotten some. I can burn leaves, in fact I can have a bonfire for garden waste whenever I like. Burning car tyres is frowned upon, but you'd probably get away with it unless your neighbour rang up the authorities and complained. I can let my cats out, they don't have to go out on a harness. If my cats do anything naughty while they're out (Bast forbid) I'm not responsible for it. I have access to a vet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A vet that cannot only treat cats and dogs, but anything else I might have, like goats, horses and reptiles. (I'm in the middle of an argument on one of my other groups. It's mainly Brits, but there are worldwide posters too.) It seems like in the USA vets can choose the species they want to doctor, and just specialise in a few species, like just bring me a cat or dog and forget about your ferret. Tough, I don't do them. *SO* this USA vet has joined in with the posts on this other group. She seems a bit arrogant. Declawing came up and I'm afraid I flamed her about it. She said she would only declaw a cat for medical reasons, like a really bad infection in the nailbed, and she would never declaw one "for elective purposes." That was all very well until she said she'd refer someone on to another vet to have it done. It eases her conscience of course that she won't do elective declawing herself, but yet she refers on to another vet so it can be done! I flamed her quite a lot actually, and normally I don't like to do that to anyone. I asked her if she knew how much front declawed kitties had difficulties with the litterbox afterwards and how this could lead to behavioural problems. (I learnt this from this group, thanks to you Americans) I wanted the declawing link that I now don't have, to show the other folks that were joining in how bad it was for the kitties. I never viewed it, because I knew I wouldn't be able to look at it. So can someone who might still have it send it again, and I'll post it for everyone to see on this other group and see how much they then agree with this vet. My stance on it is this. Cats come with claws front and back. If you don't like this idea, don't get one. It is really as simple as that. It's sort of like de-barking a dog. Everyone knows that dogs bark. When I had them (and I sorely miss them) I liked it when they asked to go outside to bark, because I knew that they'd heard something suspicious. So, well just maybe, there might have been a burglar thinking about breaking into my house and the dogs barking made him think again. I never object when my neighbour's dogs bark. I think of it as a free burglar alarm system. Tweed |
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