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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 3, 2009 18:48:49 GMT
Don't let the board title put you off.
You can include the quick as well as the dead! But I mentioned the ones who are no longer with us because I know pets make a big impression on us long after their departure. Aubrey was saying elsewhere he still dreams about his old dog and I certainly still dream about my budgie - a sixteen year long bosom companion (literally).
So..........
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Post by admin on Dec 3, 2009 18:54:05 GMT
we really have to see a pic after that post Marchesa!
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 3, 2009 19:12:42 GMT
Well, when I was lounging about relaxing either in a chair or on the sofa he would come and cuddle up under my chin and sometimes he would preen my eye-lashes or the fine hairs (definitely not a moustache in those days) round my mouth. It really tickled.
Like many other animals he liked a drop of alcohol. I think he could smell it and if there was a glass of sherry or beer in the offing he would zoom in and sit on the rim of the glass and take sips.
More later...
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Post by aubrey on Dec 3, 2009 21:07:16 GMT
Patricia Highsmith used to smuggle her pet snails through customs in her bra.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 3, 2009 21:11:42 GMT
My brother was coming to stay. We hadn't seen him for a few months, maybe a year. I had arranged to meet him in the park. I took my dog for her usual evening walk. After a while, she seemed to notice something. She ran a little way, stopped and crouched down to look, ran a little more, stopped and crouched again, and in this fashion made her way across the park to where my brother was waiting for her. She had seen and recognised him from a good hundred yards. She was really excited, as well; she hadn't known he was coming, unless she'd heard me on the phone.
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 3, 2009 21:19:20 GMT
Luckyfredsdad tells me that Fred, his giant Schnauzer, knows when I am shortly to arrive and starts jumping up at the window. Dogs have a sense of smell thousands of times more acute than ours so I guess they just catch our scent on the air.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 3, 2009 21:31:35 GMT
There can sometimes be a kind of dismissiveness from some people about dogs' sense of smell - "Oh, he just smelled it." It's as if because we don't have that good a sense of smell it's not really worth having. (Evelyn Waugh reckoned that novellists should not describe what goes on in character's heads, because he wasn't very good at it - at least not to begin with.)
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Post by luckyfredsdad on Dec 9, 2009 18:08:30 GMT
I think the problem is, people take pets, dogs, horses or goats, anything ,,too much for granted. They are taken as part of the furniture. Because we do not understand them they are dismissed and vastly underated! Toby, now long gone, we bought from some kennels, or got from some kennels and he was a very lively little dog. When my lady wife died he waited up all night for her to come home. When she didn't he moved to a corner of a quite large room sat behind her chair and virtually didn't move for several months, April to September! Later my mam, told me that every morning he did a search of the house, 15 rooms, presumably to see if Mary was home, only to return disappointed to his hiding place.
When I moved to a part of the district below the Hill, he had never been down that way, but as we walked along the river bank, we got to a place where the road led up to my previous home, he couldn't see it, it was behind many streets and schools, but he always stopped and turned his head and body to face Mary's House, refusing to budge for several minutes.
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Post by luckyfredsdad on Dec 23, 2009 15:28:19 GMT
Pet's' they make a real contribution to our life. For some years I kept goats, warm. spirited creatures who were far more intelligent than dogs. I used to get best part of a gallon of milk a day from them. It was lovely stuff, people turn their nose up at it, goats milk, infact it was far cleaner than the stuff we usually buy in plastic cartons or from the milk man. Most goats are fastidious eaters, unlike dogs or horses, goats are particular what they eat. Once I'd got the animals, it was surprising that in spite of all the adverse comments from friends and passers by that a steady stream of people came to buy milk. A friend of mine had a child with terrible excema. The doctors couldn't cure the child and I suggested Goats Milk! He was quite savage in his refusal.Understandably so, the condition the young boy was in. Later he met me in the street and apologised! It was three months after his snap, and the doctor in despair had told him to try goats milk from the local supermarket and it had worked!
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