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My new sports jacket is very brightly orange.

Also, I walked 5K in 1:05 h -- personal best. Must be the very, very familiar route to the old castle by the river Rhine that I often walk with my mum. She kept the time, and I just walked.-

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You will never be shot by a deer hunter!

OMG I have the SMARTEST dog in the entire world!! Just three weeks and LOOK at her! I am on the horse and she is obediently sitting.

k i am bribing her with treats but STILL --

pretty impressive!

She looks like a clever and sensible dog! I hope the cats have stopped hating her now?

It's very entertaining to watch! The cats have totally figured the game out (they are feral and smart). I always leave the cat door open so they can come in when they are hungry or when it is cold outside but Kaylee is warned not to go near them. So they literally will walk right up to her and hiss and Kaylee backs up. It is hilarious to witness!

Awwww! Cats will be the terror of the earth, if they can get away with it.

You know once the guys are neutered they are passive, right? That's why barn owners won't keep the males. Chop their manhood off and they will never kill another mouse. So I have the males here (the females go to the barns -- they will hunt, whether they have babies or not) because they can't survive on their own. So to see them assert themselves with a 75 pound dog is hilarious! She could break their backs with one crunch.

My cats try to hunt things, even though they had their manhoods duly chopped off!

Really?

Huh.

My experience (and the experience of everyone around here -- and some of these barns have been around for 40 years or more) is that the guys don't hunt. That's why the barn owners won't take them. They only want females.

Maybe it is different for cats raised in captivity? These come to us from the wild and somehow removing the testosterone makes them completely passive (you can pick them up after you neuter them, even if they don't like you. I can grab Leopold and hold him; before, he would have taken my flesh off).

God she is SMART! Pit bulls have such a terrible reputation because of dog fighting but they used to be the #1 family dog in America in the 1900s because they are so loyal and smart. Now that I own one, I will never own anything else. She is hands down the best dog I have ever had. <3

I hear that from many pitbull owners. The Metropolitans used to have a Rottweiler, a breed with a similarly bad reputation, and I know to look beyond prejudices like that. I love those projects that match up unwanted pitties with ex-soldiers with PTSD; they are really good for each other.

I know! I just saw that article!

http://tadsaw.org/

I never knew anything about pits except that they were supposed to be incredibly vicious. Then I met a few and found that they were so loving. After I lost Keeper, I went to look at a dog at the Humane Society but the dog in the opposite visitation room (a white female pit) totally caught my eye! I went home and googled Pit Rescue and headed out a week later to discover Kaylee. I fell in love with her at once and took her home the next day.

They are amazing and very intelligent dogs.

I am totally committed to this breed. I have been shocked by the amount of discrimination they face. The insurance companies don't want you to have them. As I sit watching Kaylee lick the four-year-olds in the back seat, I am truly baffled.

They are total teddy bears, if treated right -- while the tiny yappy ones with brains the size of chickpeas are really unpredictable.

I am *terrified* of Chihuahuas!

Yes, you can't teach them sense! The dog who gave my mum her dog-phobia when she was little was a miniature spitz...

A Chihuahua attacked my sister when she was little and bit her lip off. She still has deep scars. :(

Yep, that spitz attacked my mum's little brother. He himself doesn't remember and likes dogs, my mum got the phobia. Minds are strange things.

My sister hates dogs! She was the one that got me into cats (her partner was once married and raised Siamese cats to put her husband through college -- that's how I knew Siamese cats were valuable!).

My mom hates dogs too but they are both excited about Kaylee. My mom called yesterday to say "So I have a new grandchild?" (My sister ratted me out, I wasn't going to tell my mom until Kaylee was trained because she thinks I have too much on my shoulders and would be mad at me for taking on another project. But my brother is a professional dog trainer and he is coming down to help. :)

What an interesting family, between a dog-hater and a professional dog trainer! But a certain affinity to animals (cats, dogs, horses) seems to be common to all of you.

Yes my father loved animals and we used to bring home all the strays -- puppies, kittens, birds, kids, you name it. :D

He once caught a loose horse and put it in the back yard until the police came to take it away.

My brother did Search and Rescue dogs in the military.

People who don't like animals, or have none in their lives, or even are scared of all of them, don't know what they're missing.

It is natural that mankind should not be alone. Other creatures keep us grounded, and give us an appreciation for the manifold beauty of evolution/creation (which to me are basically the same).

The more I see of my fellow man, the more I love my dog/cat/horse.

(Scratched into the wall of an Auschwitz barrack.)

It's not either/or. It's good to like people AND critters. But only ever people is boring, in any case.

No, I agree. But I can feel anger and frustration with people. I could never feel those towards an animal.

Check this!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=502603519760506&set=a.395276467159879.89194.135202846500577&type=1&theater

Oh, what a silly cat!

I LOVE Henri! Those videos are hilarious.

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