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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 12, 2020 16:55:28 GMT
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 16:58:00 GMT
How the hell...? 🤔
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Post by WDB on Nov 12, 2020 17:04:40 GMT
Seen the size of a husky? And a (natural) coat you could lose a badger in. Advantages denied to Vić’s little beast.
And few shrews live to see their second birthday. The effort of keeping that tiny body warm wears them out. Maybe instead of making fun of Vić (I can do that while you’re busy) you should be knitting jumpers for them. The knitting won’t take long; persuading the shrew to accept your choice of style and colour may be trickier.
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 18:17:49 GMT
Aye, but yer proper Husky lives inside the Artic Circle. Right up near the North bleedin' Pole some of them. Sleeps outside on the snow when it's not pulling guys around on a sledge. No igloo privileges for the Husky. A wee dug that lives in a house in Reading and gets a 20 minute stroll of an evening doesn't need a coat. Might not have the same amount of hair, but it's still furry. Well, it should be anyway. Foxes aren't very big, never see one of those with an anorak on do you? Then there's cats, out all day and all night some cats. Don't see them shivering and blowing on their paws do you?
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Post by WDB on Nov 12, 2020 18:26:16 GMT
A wee dug that lives in a hoose in Reading and gets a 20 minute stroll of an evening doesn't need a coat. Might need counselling, though.
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Post by tyrednexited on Nov 12, 2020 18:34:42 GMT
A wee dug that lives in a hoose in Reading and gets a 20 minute stroll of an evening doesn't need a coat. Might need counselling a Kevlar vest, though.
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 18:49:13 GMT
Al will look dodgy enough in that coat and hat to dissuade most potential assailants. 😉
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Post by WDB on Nov 12, 2020 19:32:39 GMT
Then there's cats, out all day and all night some cats. Don't see them shivering and blowing on their paws do you? I made the mistake once, when ours came in soaked, of rubbing him dry with an old towel. Since then, his arrival home on rainy nights is announced with a squawk that can only mean, “Human! Drying services, if you please!”
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 20:02:13 GMT
Lot of truth in the old adage about dogs having owners and cats having staff.
Between marriages, I lived mostly alone for a few years. Apart from my two cats that is. I rather liked them, which isn't all that common for a dog sort of person.
Smudge was born in a factory, and spent her first year living off whatever the guys would give her out of their lunch boxes. Would never eat cat food, but she loved a cheese sandwich. Misty never grew much beyond kitten size, she had gingivitis and found it difficult to chew anything. But, we rubbed along. I sort of inherited them from a friend who had a sudden overseas work posting. Never really intended to have cats, or any kind of pet at the time, but it just sort of happened.
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Post by WDB on Nov 12, 2020 20:23:58 GMT
We’re accidental cat-servicers too. Our first one came similarly from a friend who went to work in the US for two years. (That was in 1997 and he’s still there.) The second appeared in our garden, looking frightened and thin, six months after the first one died, and stayed for 12 years. This is the third — and he’s the closest we’ve come to choosing a cat, being a rescue from the Blue Cross centre at Lewknor. Only his mugshot made him look like a bijou round-eyed kittenette — and he’s huge! He can stand with two feet on the ground and two on the lid of a wheelie bin. He has a pretty nice life, though.
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 12, 2020 20:42:49 GMT
Our Polo wears a coat for wet and muddy conditions. He has long white hair and short legs. Ends up two-tone within a few minutes and walks back in the house dropping mud as it dries.
Mind you saw some Afghans wearing what looked like a one piece jersey coat to keep them warm. Looked about as silly as you can imagine. The Afghan dogs looked equally silly...
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 20:52:31 GMT
Not you too! 😫
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 12, 2020 21:01:33 GMT
'fraid so
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Post by Humph on Nov 12, 2020 23:01:07 GMT
We’re accidental cat-servicers too. Our first one came similarly from a friend who went to work in the US for two years. (That was in 1997 and he’s still there.) The second appeared in our garden, looking frightened and thin, six months after the first one died, and stayed for 12 years. This is the third — and he’s the closest we’ve come to choosing a cat, being a rescue from the Blue Cross centre at Lewknor. Only his mugshot made him look like a bijou round-eyed kittenette — and he’s huge! He can stand with two feet on the ground and two on the lid of a wheelie bin. He has a pretty nice life, though. I suppose you were always going to get a tall cat... 🤔
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Post by Avant on Nov 12, 2020 23:40:21 GMT
"Re street lights, yes, we had our nice old yellow tinted ones changed for white LEDs a few years back. I do get it, saving polar bears and so on, but the light is so dim and cold looking now." Still trying to work this one out fronm the last page. With a white LED light, wouldn't a polar bear be less visible and more likely to be run over, or perhaps cannoned into by a speeding mountain bike?
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