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Setanta
 
Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 06:26 am
This little dog keeps ploppin' her bottom down on my foot while i sit here at the 'puter. How can i deal with this tactfully?
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spendius
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 06:45 am
@Setanta,
Take the bloody silly thing down to the vets whilst pretending it's just another ordinary, everyday, whistle while you trot, kind of walk and get one of the operatives there to put the ugly pug gently to sleep chewing on an aniseed bone and with Petula Clark's How Much Is That Doggie In The Window playing on the tannoy with the treble toned down.

Of course, it's different if you love the cuddly little cutie but your obvious aggravation at her behaviour shows that you don't really because if you did you would allow the dreamy-eyed, ear-cocking, tail-wagging, conditioning agent to work your soppy sentimentalist streak and "ploppin' down of the bottom" is just one aspect of the technique and, as such, should be as enjoyed by you just as much as the others, which was not an exhaustive list by any means.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 06:46 am
@spendius,
I enjoyed that.
izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 06:57 am
@spendius,
Really? I'd never have guessed.
Thomas
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:11 am
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
This little dog keeps ploppin' her bottom down on my foot while i sit here at the 'puter. How can i deal with this tactfully?

Throw a tennis ball and let her fetch?
dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:12 am
@Setanta,
The boot scoot.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:12 am
@Thomas,
Unfortunately, these dogs don't do fetch. But you've given me a good idea--i'll get a hunk of cheese and a knife.
Thomas
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:13 am
@Setanta,
Throw some baby tomatoes then. Bet she'll fetch those.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:15 am
Poor old girl's not doing well.

She does like rice crackers (and there are little tomatoes in the fridge).
Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:19 am
@Thomas,
Good thinking . . .
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Thomas
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:19 am
@ehBeth,
Awww. Give her a cuddle from me.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 07:54 am
@ehBeth,
Sorry to hear she is not doing well. How old is she?
Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 08:01 am
@dlowan,
She's 13 or 14. She is, however, stouter than the boy dog, and seems to be aging faster than him. He's older, but in better health.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 08:16 am
@Setanta,
She was stouter. She's getting pretty scrawny - I noticed she was quite light when I lifted her into the car on the weekend. Sad
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 09:42 am
@izzythepush,
It must be a right bundle of laughs at a dog lover's convention eh izz?
izzythepush
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 09:47 am
@spendius,
Maybe there's a hit reality TV show in the offing, a bit like Towie but with smaller dogs.
spendius
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 10:39 am
@izzythepush,
Did you see that an English dog won the US Ugliest Dog Title?

Man was the dog ugly! The second wasn't much better
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spendius
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 10:54 am
@izzythepush,
The great American intellectual Thorstein Veblen, in his must read The Theory of the Leisure Class, Chapter 6--Pecuniary Canons of Taste, wrote--

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In the case of those domestic animals which are honorific and are reputed beautiful, there is a subsidiary basis of merit that should be spokes of. Apart from the birds which belong in the honorific class of domestic animals, and which owe their place in this class to their non-lucrative character alone, the animals which merit particular attention are cats, dogs, and fast horses. The cat is less reputable than the other two just named, because she is less wasteful; she may eves serve a useful end. At the same time the cat's temperament does not fit her for the honorific purpose. She lives with man on terms of equality, knows nothing of that relation of status which is the ancient basis of all distinctions of worth, honor, and repute, and she does not lend herself with facility to an invidious comparison between her owner and his neighbors. The exception to this last rule occurs in the case of such scarce and fanciful products as the Angora cat, which have some slight honorific value on the ground of expensiveness, and have, therefore, some special claim to beauty on pecuniary grounds.

The dog has advantages in the way of uselessness as well as in special gifts of temperament. He is often spoken of, in an eminent sense, as the friend of man, and his intelligence and fidelity are praised. The meaning of this is that the dog is man's servant and that he has the gift of an unquestioning subservience and a slave's quickness in guessing his master's mood. Coupled with these traits, which fit him well for the relation of status -- and which must for the present purpose be set down as serviceable traits -- the dog has some characteristics which are of a more equivocal aesthetic value. He is the filthiest of the domestic animals in his person and the nastiest in his habits. For this he makes up in a servile, fawning attitude towards his master, and a readiness to inflict damage and discomfort on all else. The dog, then, commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery, and as he is also an item of expense, and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men's regard as a thing of good repute. The dog is at the same time associated in our imagination with the chase -- a meritorious employment and an expression of the honorable predatory impulse. Standing on this vantage ground, whatever beauty of form and motion and whatever commendable mental traits he may possess are conventionally acknowledged and magnified. And even those varieties of the dog which have been bred into grotesque deformity by the dog-fancier are in good faith accounted beautiful by many. These varieties of dogs -- and the like is true of other fancy-bred animals -- are rated and graded in aesthetic value somewhat in proportion to the degree of grotesqueness and instability of the particular fashion which the deformity takes in the given case. For the purpose in hand, this differential utility on the ground of grotesqueness and instability of structure is reducible to terms of a greater scarcity and consequent expense. The commercial value of canine monstrosities, such as the prevailing styles of pet dogs both for men's and women's use, rests on their high cost of production, and their value to their owners lies chiefly in their utility as items of conspicuous consumption. In- directly, through reflection upon their honorific expensiveness, a social worth is imputed to them; and so, by an easy substitution of words and ideas, they come to be admired and reputed beautiful. Since any attention bestowed upon these animals is in no sense gainful or useful, it is also reputable; and since the habit of giving them attention is consequently not deprecated, it may grow into an habitual attachment of great tenacity and of a most benevolent character. So that in the affection bestowed on pet animals the canon of expensiveness is present more or less remotely as a norm which guides and shapes the sentiment and the selection of its object. The like is true, as will be noticed presently, with respect to affection for persons also; although the manner in which the norm acts in that case is somewhat different.
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chai2
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 11:16 am
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:

She was stouter. She's getting pretty scrawny - I noticed she was quite light when I lifted her into the car on the weekend. Sad



oooohhhh.................. Crying or Very sad
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Tue 3 Jul, 2012 11:20 am
@Setanta,
A few months back we had to say good-bye to Sparky our cat. Losing a pet is never a pleasant thing...and I feel for you and Beth.

Sparky let us know the time was right. She obviously had a stroke of some kind...blindness and an inability to walk or stand without falling over. It broke our hearts to make that final trip to the vet. But we now have a very frisky new buddy, Cabot, and he is making our lives whole.

You are lucky you have two right now...which may ease the pain when the weaker one goes, but the pain will still be the pain.

I hope "the time" does not come too soon, but when it does, that you recognize the humane thing to do is act.
 

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