for the cat lover in all of youFollow

I don't like cats though.

We are amused. I hope the cat eventually figured it out.
there are those of us who really want a cat, and can't own one right now. So internet cats are the next best thing.

Edited, Oct 25th 2007 8:54pm by Aripyanfar

Cats... meh. Good for lolcat pictures, and nothing else. Now dogs is where you get a real animal in your house. And no, I don't count those little mutated rat-wannabe yipping freaks as dogs. A dog who has the ability to tear your throat out if he feels like it, is a real dog.

Bring them up right (and 95% of the people I know shouldn't ever be allowed near a dog) and you have the best friend you could ever imagine. Someone to tussle with and actually have a chance of wrestling you down. Someone who comforts you if you are feeling like crap, and they don't even know why you feel like sh*t. They are just there if you need them. Someone who exults when you feel great. Someone who will be playful, dangerous, enraged, hilarious, sad, overjoyed and everything in between. And always at the right moments.

Not to mention that real dogs kill cats as if they were the plague. I've paid a few neighbours a modest sum for every cat that strayed into the domain of Revan, grinning the whole time. Not to mention the time he chased away this drunken brute that for some reason tried to break in. One chase later (which stopped exactly on the property limit, I swear that dog is intelligent as hell) and my Revan came back in with that totally smug look on his face. "So, anything else you wanted taken care of while I'm up? Scare some girlscouts? Check under your bed for the boogeyman? No? Well, I'm here for you should you need me. Wuss..."

I'm just glad the military training sticks. I have to give an order for him to actually attack a human unless he is truly threatened.

Edit: Oh, and as I said. Only a few people should ever be allowed to keep dogs. I've seen too many dogs be destroyed by their owners, even by good intentioned ones, to recommend a dog as a pet. It takes a special kind of owner, especially if you have a family. Take that post a while back as an example, where a poster here had to have the dog killed for biting the kids. Textbook example of smacktards that should never have taken a dog, and could just as well just picked up a puppy and shot it when he came back home.

Edited, Oct 25th 2007 9:38pm by NorthAI

Dear NorthAI,

Just a few minutes ago, I asked my manatee shaped fluffy cat, "What do you think of NorthAi?" And you know what she said? And by the way, she has perfect spelling, not like those darned meme cats.

Can I come visit instead? I got much more to offer?

So, wait, NorthAI, let me get this straight.

You raise a dog that indiscriminately kills cats, and act as if you've done something right?

North, you make it seem like you need to be a rocket scientist to own a dog.

Sorry to say, but taking care of a dog is very easy, even a retarded hellboy can do it. This coming from a dog owner who has always had 2 dogs at any given time his whole life.

I personally think cats are much more complicated then dogs.

Edited, Oct 25th 2007 10:13pm by Darkenbuddy

yes, yes, yes, read higher up. the reason i posted this is a KNOW there are posters here who like cats. i am glad you enjoy the video. you are one of the ones i posted it for.

No. I trained a dog from childhood to be a... ergh, I am not sure we have a good english word for it, but think of a guard dog, only with alot of added features like flushing out enemies, taking down a hostile without risking human life, tracking and listening posts. I was a Doghandler in the army, and trained Revan from the day he came to our station.

After training him, and being the dedicated doghandler for him for many months, I left the Army. Less than two months later, they were going to downsize the army, and that particular base was one of them. The ones who were still in called up all the old doghandlers and offered us the dogs, because no one else had the training to deal with these semi-psychotic creatures, and they would have to be put down unless we took in the ones that wouldn't be transferred.

So, I got my Revan back, and have spent the last several years untraining alot of his military reflexes. One of those that is pretty much impossible to break without breaking the dog is the "defend this territory" instinct, which has been reinforced several times over through his military training. Humans that I haven't accepted will be stopped if he is outside, and animals will be scared off.

To be perfectly honest, he has only killed the ones dumb enough to stick around after he has gone after them once. And if I am outside with him, he doesn't even raise his head and sniff towards them.

So as you can see, it isn't indiscriminately. It's the intruders. And yes, it is definitely something I've done right, since this dog was actually intended to kill you should you ever be a threat. Or Anna. Or BT. That he is restraining himself enough to only kill cats or the few insects he catches on his turf is in fact remarkable considering what he was originally trained to do.


Of course it is. Which is why what's-his-face had to put down his dog for biting kids. And why my aunt had to put two dogs down. And why I spent alot of my time as a doghandler being sent out to retrieve dogs from people who couldn't deal with them and thus turned them feral. And why dogs ever bite another person.

It's never the dog's fault. It's always the owner's fault for being a lousy trainer. And I've just seen way too many of those to ever recommend owning a dog, unless you have had training yourself.

Edit: Failquote
Again. Would almost think I was the drunk one.

Edited, Oct 25th 2007 10:51pm by NorthAI

Threat has nothing to do with it. Intruding on his territory does.

Your dogs are conditioned to your home and situation. Mine is conditioned to something far worse, and was trained for it since he was a puppy. He is completely harmless to other people, unless they make a nuisance of themselves, which is pretty much impossible to do unless you actually do mean harm to him or someone else. I highly doubt anyone on these boards, no matter what kind of drug they were on, would approach him again after he has made it plenty clear that you have overstayed your welcome.

Besides, he is rarely alone. If he is outside, I am either with him, or he comes back in after doing his business. And as long as I am within earshot of him, he completely ignores anyone. Which is also part of his training. He would only attack someone if I gave the order for it, which would never happen this side of a war or some completely unplausible situation where I stumble upon an attempted murder or some crazy crap like that.

Besides, in this town there aren't many people he don't recognize on sight as accepted.

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I agree. There are reasons why I left the army, and that is one of them. And if you amend your statement to include the military, I also agree with you. However, I would not let my dog be put down because some deskjockey decided the base he was stationed on wasn't worth the money.

Heh, well trained doghandlers have trouble with an agressive attack dog. Anyone without training wouldn't stand a chance unless armed and prepared.

It's not that I don't agree with half your statements, but the fact remains that dogs are far more complex than alot of people credit them with. It takes knowledge, and skill to properly train and own a dog to make sure they aren't dangerous to anyone else. Not so much with your average family dog, but any breed that is prone to baser instincts like a pack of huskies, or a dog that is put into a situation they are not used to or comfortable with. The most mellow of dogs can do some nasty damage due to inattentive owners.