The Voting Booth is Closed
As you can tell, this poll is VERY scientific in nature. Margin of error is a mere +/- 0.05%
Final Tally:
Dog = 12 (Way to go, Quentin)
Cat = 400,026
Pig = 1
Pet Rock = 1
Firebelly Newt = 1
Wombat = 4 (Includes other marsupials)
Gerbil = 1
Snakes= 1
------------Honorable Mentions------------
Peacock = 0 (Though the peababies are damn cute).
Snow Leopards = 0 (Honorable mention)
Slow Lorises - Chunking Express loves em!
Fast Lorises - LUV2FLY will have nothing to do with those "Slow" Lorises.
Turtle = The turtle died
Stud Horse = 1 (just for having the word "stud" in his name)
No dogs for him!Kind of like, "No soup for you! Come back, one year!"
"Come back, one year!"
Oh Man, why didn't I think of that line?
::smacks head on desk::
Oh well....next time.
"There'll be no ice cream for you tonight."
What Tonya said just reminded me of that line.
freely stolen from one of the lionness's posts elsewhere
I read that story.
After going through all that............
No comment and I rest my case.
No one ever said cats can't be pathological ... pathological, playful, devious and intelligent. I think that deserves at least 1,000,000 votes.
No comment and I rest my case.
That deserves a vote for dogs.
I believe that deserves a vote for cats.
ironically, lionness, i believe the exact opposite. one vote for dogs for each dog in that picture showing restraint.
Can I cast one vote for each? I have one of each. The dog is patient, tolerant small and OLD. The cat is fiesty, provoking, fast big, and young.
Coon Cats Rule!
Nope, you can't cast one for each. That would just cancel them out.
btw: I saw a bear up by your parts earlier this year. We were up working on the deck at my Aunt's cabin and he just came down the road, saw us all out there working, and turned right around and left.
Hey Thx...there are a lot of them this year wreaking havoc with birdfeeders. I haven't even put out a hummingbird feeder. The bears slurp the juice out of them.
How is your aunt doing??? Did you say she was on Warner Lake? Still lots of clearing to do in that area. I'll be over that way tomorrow playing cards.
Hey L.L. I've never seen a bear up there before although I knew they were around.
When I was a kid we had a cabin on Fish Lake a little further north from you. My sisters said they saw bears all the time but I never did.
My Aunt is doing well, thanks. Things are coming together.
Yep, she's on Warner. She's got the cabin on the peninsula, if you know what/where that is?
Isn't that right where the tornado made a direct hit? I think I am going to be just across the lake there tomorrow. My friends lost a cabin on their property, and 6 acres (or more) of trees. They also just had a new deck put on.
My sister was looking at property there just off Dake Rd...is that the one?
My Aunt's cabin in on the point with lake on both sides of it.
The tornado went right across the lake on the South side.
Ripped out all her big trees, one tree went through the wall into her kitchen. Many trees destroyed her deck. One hit the roof and there was much water damage.
Anyway, I don't know the road names up there. I think it's called Warner Lake Road, right off of Anchor Inn Road? Sound familiar?
Hey, I think I know the lot you're talking about.
I think it was the only cabin on the lake that was completely destroyed?
Is that your friends?
I haven't been out on the boat yet this year but it looks like they've built a huge deck, no cabin yet though?
YUP..I know right where you mean....there is another penninsula sor of, that comes off Dake RD south and probably east of there. My friend is right on Cranberry Marsh Rd.
by THX last monthSeems dog owners don't hold up to their part of a bargain.
::searching through mail, looking for LUV2FLYs package::
were you expecting dog poop? unusual fetish.
was that in your car too when they stole it? that would have been funny :)
sorry, just catching up with my reading.
They haven't done anything there yet...there were 2 houses on that property. The one that was completely destroyed was older, Gordon had lived ther as a child. Their children had been using it. They had a newer place right next to it though, and had a lot of damage....all the windows broken trees in the house etc.
Ok, I know where you're talking about. I didn't know any other cabins, other than the one that was completely destroyed, were over there.
And yes, the cabin I was thinking is probably off of Cranberry Marsh Road.
Beans wants to know..."Why do cats see in people color and dogs see in gray, black & white"?
Beans is 6 and standing right beside me wondering if anyone will have an answer.
How does Beans know what colors either of them see in?
Is she a cat or a dog?
:-)
It depends on the rods and cones in the eye structure....I don't know how ther work though.
yeah confuse the girl!
she says her right side is a dog and her left side is a cat---that sounds interesting for the right/left brain theory :)
Beans got a palina-beaner! :)
here ya go, beans.
thank you
we are gonna go research Ares link-but she brought up a great discussion for this thread :) bye
Just got this in the mail. I think it is appropriate for this thread...
There's Always Room For Just One More.
I see by his coat he must be a stray,
The untidy look gives him away.
He has lost his will and is so thin,
Hasn't eaten since God knows when.
I know as I coax him through the door,
There's always room for just one more.
The other night in the freezing rain,
That little female came again.
Matted and soaked, crying in need,
Lost and alone with babies to feed.
Her pleading eyes I couldn't ignore,
There's always room for just one more.
There's a new face on the docks today,
Hungary but clean, to our dismay.
I stroked her head, her body rippled,
When she got up I saw she was crippled.
She started to go, but fell on the floor,
There's always room for just one more.
There's the poor doggy standing in the rain,
I've tried to entice him time and again.
One ear was lopsided, the other was torn,
Blind in one eye, lost and forlorn.
There' always room for just one more.
These stories are true,
As I,ve said before,
There's always room for just one more.
you're welcome, j.
Not to be O/T but, Tornados in Minnesota? Well, if he thinks I'm moving there he's got another think coming!
On/T: (probably rhetorical question) Why when you don't want the cats they are all over you and want to kiss you with their awful breath, but when you call and call them to no effect and you think they have gotten out the door and been run over by a car they're actually hiding under the bed?
Love the email Lady Lou!
Another interesting cat/dog thing I learned from a vet tech friend of mine, is that neither one of them (cats or dogs) hears consanants, only the vowels we say.
Not to be O/T but, Tornados in Minnesota?
Yeah, we get them once in a while but actually the tornado we were talking about was in Siren Wisconsin. It's practically Minnesota but I wanted to be clear.
Well, if he thinks I'm moving there he's got another think coming!
Who wants you to move to Minnesota?
Ah! I should read closer. I actually thought seriously at one point about moving to Minnesota because of the regional theatre activity there (and it was recommended highly as a place to live). Where he lives currently seems to be as expensive as Seattle, which I escaped from back in Feb. I don't really talk about "him" by name - he wouldn't want me to but he's someone I met going on probably 2 years ago at another website. Probably wishful thinking on my part he'd want me to come there but I keep dropping hints about moving where I am. Men are so stubborn. Plus, he loves to torment me. But enough about me and back to varmints.
Minnesota is one of the places in the U.S. I would actually consider moving to. Very similar to my current state of Wisconsin, I think, only generally farther north. And the movie selection can't possibly be any worse than it is here.
It's also as good a place as any to be owned by a troupe of cats.
while on the other hand, express, i would never think about moving to wisconsin. aside from the ass-kicking i'd get from my family, i mean hey, its wisconsin. hey since i've got a cheddarhead here, what's there good to do in milwaukee on a saturday nite, besides tour a brewery or watch the brewers (who we don't like over here just because of bud selig)? my dad's gonna be there in a couple of weeks, and he'd rather not spend the evening in the hotel.
I've seen pictures of Madison and it looks stupendously beautiful (I have to be where there is a body of water) but, also expensive.
Well, I know it's more expensive than here, but not as bad as Milwaukee. I've no idea how it would compare to Seattle.
Madison has four or five lakes in the region--three of them (the largest) are right in town. I've heard they have some algae problems though. They certainly did when I lived there. But who doesn't, these days?
I don't know--I've never been in Milwaukee on a Saturday night. They have a visitors bureau which could probably help though--the number is 800-231-0903 (I just happened to have it handy).
You people are WAY too cold-adapted.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Wow...something LL and I actually agree on! Amazing!
Other than the lamentable and inexplicable fact that you prefer dogs to cats, I think you're an all around great guy!
You may call it lamentable, LL, but it's certainly not inexplicable. It's the allergies.
You people are WAY too cold-adapted.
What do you mean? Winter is the best 9 months of the year for us Minnesotans!
:-)
You do learn to live with it. When I lived in MO I remember school closing because they thought it was going to snow. Yes, they THOUGHT it was going to snow.
If we did that here we'd have a bunch of idiots in our schools.
Very dangerous. Plus, many Southerners have never learned to drive on snow, which drives my European husband nearly insane every time we have a snowfall down here.
Oh I know. I'd rather have 4 feet of snow than 1 inch of ice anyday.
The good thing about them not knowing how to drive in it is, they usually stay off the roads so you have them all to yourself. At least that's how it was in Missouri.
I noticed this when I lived in Madison, which is only a little ways south of here. Much more ice than I was used to. A royal pain in the butt it was, particularly when, as a result of the ice, I inadvertantly fell on said body part. OW!!!
Winter here is usually only six months. :-)
(Actually, the last realwinter we had here was 1995-96. Global warming, you know.)
so if they can only hear vowels than when I say 'sit' they hear the 'i'?
or when I say 'lay down' they hear 'a ow'?
and 'shake' they hear 'a'?
and 'role' over is 'o o e'?
hhhmmmmm