[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

well i kind of was.

[foot-loose]

... and you wern't thinking that much about the money

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

ah. bugger.

meh im gonna have so much to pay off season ticket due soon too.

[MK Chris]

My car goes in for a service a week on Thursday, I'm hoping that ain't gonna be too much.

[Sidders]

several large fatty lumps which look a bit odd but apparently is nothing to worry about.

Toby had a few of them too. Apparently they are just fatty lumps.

[foot-loose]

Aye.

They look a bit odd though. It doesnt seem to bother her.

[kendra k]

i remember a dog we adopted when i was about 15, named bruce. about a month after we got him, i noticed his nose was hot, his eyes were crusty, and he shed loads. we took him to the vet and he had a tumor in his chest as big as his heart and was immediately put down. it was six months after my mom recovered from breast cancer and my grandmother was in treatment for breast cancer. it was really sad. my parents went back to the shelter a month later to look at dogs just to see what was out there and they brought home our current dog maggie. all fees were waived since bruce died so soon, it was a like a warranty. maggie has arthritis now, which is sad.

when my guinea pig dies, i will have an awesome funeral for her. she is the best.

[Ballbag]

Pet insurance people, it's the way forward, my two cats are insured (well one is anyway, even though the insurance is in the name of Lionel, Tescos insurance don't realise whenever I claim for Elton's vet fees, that way they both get free stuff, but I only pay for one of them).

They've both been in for bits and picece over the years, and it aint cost me a dime. (apart from the insurance itself, but you don't really miss £3 a month) It's probably saved me a few hundred so far as Elton's got a liver disorder so requires special food (I claim back for that because it's technically treatment), so I don't even have to buy cat food.

[Boboff]

Lionel & Elton ! Fantastic names..

I have a Tigger and a Kate (aka Sniff)

[Ballbag]

Obviously they're named after Richie and John, respectively.

[Yudster]

i will be sad when my dog dies. she almost did in september, but she had a £900 operation and survived. now she is all fat.

I have Orange Cat, who is nearly 12 now, Black Cat who is about three I guess, and Stupid Dog who is about 10 I think. I love them all, especially Orange Cat, but not to the tune of £900. That would have been bye-bye for me. But it doesn't mean I wouldn't be sad about it.

[MK Chris]

I used to have a ginger cat. We called him Paddy, which had some quite comic effect when we called him and the Irishman next door was in his garden. He was a brilliant cat, caught anything from magpies to squirrels - right up to when he died at 15.

[Yudster]

Orange Cat couldn't catch a cold. He did manage to kill a bird once, it was a baby one which literally fell out of its nest and he happened to be sitting right underneath. Really proud of himself he was! Black Cat on the other hand has been know to attempt to catch and eat a Mallard.......and he might have succeeded if I hadn't taken pity on the poor old duck!

[Ballbag]

Elton brought in a shrew the other week, it was great, I've never really seen a shrew before. I had to get on t'inter-net to confirm it's identity.

Then I sneaked up behind Mrs Ballbag with the dead shrew and pretended it was alive by wriggling it about in my hands before dropping it at her feet, she screamed like the old lady out of the Tom and Jerry cartoons, it was brillo.

[Boboff]

Elton brought in a shrew the other week, it was great, I've never really seen a shrew before. I had to get on t'inter-net to confirm it's identity.

Then I sneaked up behind Mrs Ballbag with the dead shrew and pretended it was alive by wriggling it about in my hands before dropping it at her feet, she screamed like the old lady out of the Tom and Jerry cartoons, it was brillo.

It was a soap infused scouring pad ?

I thought it was a shrew ?

[Yudster]

If they bring their rodents in alive, you can always tell if its a shrew - if it squeaks a lot, very loud, its a shrew. And when you try to rescue it (assuming you will), it will bite you. Vicious, ungrateful little buggers they are! I like them.

[Ballbag]

The worst is when they bring in frogs, again Elton did this once, and toyed with it for a while. (Lionel's not much of a hunter)

Man do they squeal.......... it awoke both I and Mrs Ballbag from our otherwise deep slumber.............. I thought Sigourney Weaver was battling the Alien in our living room.

[foot-loose]

I prefer dogs. Mine would be scared of a frog!

[Yudster]

Other people's dogs are ok. Mine is just a nuisance.

[MK Chris]

I'm kinda opposed to people having dogs who work full time, there's just no time; cats are different, they come and go as they please, especially if you've got a cat flap, but dogs need a lot of attention and walks and someone to be there most of the day.

[foot-loose]

I'm kinda opposed to people having dogs who work full time, there's just no time; cats are different, they come and go as they please, especially if you've got a cat flap, but dogs need a lot of attention and walks and someone to be there most of the day.

Its sad but true.

My mum works from home so she keeps an eye on Hollie most of the time.
I think if you work full time and you have a dog, someone at least needs to go home during the day to let it out.

[Sidders]

That's why we're not getting another one. When we got Toby there was practically always someone around. My mum works shifts, so was always either there in the morning or in the evening, and everyone else had 9-5 jobs so would be there to walk him in the evening. Now my dad works away a lot, so Toby was left on his own for sometimes up to 9 hours, which I guess was quite hard on him. We always made sure he'd been out before we left and took him out as soon as we got back, and that he'd have plenty of water and been fed, before leaving him on his own.

[Yudster]

The thing is, dogs live a long time, and people's lives change.

[Ballbag]

My friend's mum wouldn't come to his wedding because she didn't want to leave her dogs at home for the weekend.


Imagine that, she chose her dogs over her son.

[Yudster]

Well, if it was a whole weekend, you have to either put them in kennels or have someone to look after them. If she tried all that and failed, is at least understandable, if a bit extreme. But if it was just because she didn't want to leave them with someone else or in a boarding kennel, well, thats just horrible. Of course, this all assumes that her son is a nice bloke and that she should want to go to his wedding anyway, which might not be the case I suppose.