"Don't tell me to walk my high prey dog off lease! I don't wanna hear the truth!"

everytime you love a puppy, a human dies!The article itself is sad, but I *hate* when people get on their bandwagon that animal welfare and human rights are mutually exclusive. I am angry about violence against animals, but that doesn't mean I find any kind of human suffering okay ( Read more... )

from my local craigslist:

http://wv.craigslist.org/pet/455738134.html

why would you want three kittens that are probably going to have some fucked-up behavioral issues when they get older?

went to a friend of a friend's house last night where there were 2 chocolate lab puppies. dominance theory abounds with such great ideas - never, ever let a dog go through a door before you. never let the dog eat before you eat. and sleeping in the bed? that's like asking for chaos. oh and these dogs are special - they perceive no pain ( Read more... )

OMG! Degus make terrible TERRIBLE pets. PLZ DON'T GET ONE it will eat your child! These animals are OMG SO EXOTIC LIKE RACCOONS AND OSTRICHES and they shouldn't be with people! They are SO complicated, no one could possibly take care of them right! BTW DID YEW KNO? People who do rescue NEVER GET ANIMALS FROM BREEDERS EVER EVER. IF THEY DO THEY ARE ( Read more... )

You would think that the universe would at this point be so sick of my "a crate saved my dog's life" story that it would stop spewing crate-haters on to all my dog fora. I have to admit though, this one provided enough hearty lulz that I'm willing to forgive being made to tell that story again. It started off in normal "how would you like to spend ( Read more... )

To my fellow apartment dwellers ( Read more... )

I spend a lot of time, because apparently I'm a masochist, looking over various dog forums wherein people post problems they are having with their dogs. Sometimes I have something constructive to say, a lot of times I just read the good advice other people give (and cringe at the bad). Mostly it's pretty banal stuff, mistakes probably most of us ( Read more... )

Please to be advised, I think it's super-duper lovely your child loves dogs. But, it's really important to teach your off spring some simple, simple rules about meeting new dogs ( Read more... )

So as we all know by now, crate-training is a controversial-at-best topic in the UK, while in the US and Canada it is generally accepted. So, when crating is brought up in a multi-national forum, like, say Dogster, someone's going to be bringing the wank. It is like unto the sun risining in the east and setting in the west, verily. Every single dog ( Read more... )