People are bloody insane
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Haven't you seen the Animal Planet show where dogs go and get acupuncture and take Yoga classes? I don't think the show stayed on very long.
Actually I never believed in acupuncture until I saw it performed on a dog with cancer. This dog was in terrible pain. After 20 minutes of acupuncture he was running around. he had the treatment 3x a week and it extended his life several more months. yoga seems extreme though. I did recently see a segment on theraputic massage for dogs.
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We took our car into town to the body shop today and on the way back stopped in at the pet food store to get some cat food. As we pull in we notice the parking lot is packed solid. This is a little pet shop between towns on the highway. We're wondering what the heck is going on, it's never busy there, we get to the door and there is a line of people with dogs going out the door. We figure there must be free doggy tatoos or something going on, get in the door and find out they are all waiting to get their pet's picture taken with Santa Claus! No kidding! A guy is dressed as Santa, sitting in a chair, there is a photographer, a box full of squeaky toys to get the dogs to look at the camera. This is the most freakishly insane thing I have ever witnessed. This isn't Bevery Hills or something, it's the country. Not a single child in the line, all adults.
John Cardinal wrote:
A guy is dressed as Santa, sitting in a chair, there is a photographer, a box full of squeaky toys to get the dogs to look at the camera.
:laugh: I wish I could have seen that :-D
If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa
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Overall, I am in awe of the degree to which people in the US bond to their pets. It's as if it's a release for people who have no human friends. The idea of paying for day care for your dog, for example, is just completely off the scale, in my opinion.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
The idea of paying for day care for your dog, for example, is just completely off the scale, in my opinion.
Yes, I agree. My dogs go outside, sit in their dog houses all day, eat and sleep. They don't need a stinking sitter :->
If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it. - Guffa
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Christian Graus wrote:
Overall, I am in awe of the degree to which people in the US bond to their pets.
What's most fascinating in a scary sorta way is when people tell you that their un-leashed, 2.5 feet tall, looking-like-a-wild-wolf dog is friendly and that we don't have to fear it. Or if they do have a leash, it's long enough to allow the dog to walk into the next park.
Regards, Nish
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It's nice to see a good photographer can still get work.
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John Cardinal wrote:
People are bloody insane
You've only just figured this out? John, I thought you were older than that. ;)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
There's insane and then there's bloody insane. This is so over the top I couldn't help myself, when we got to the counter and realized what was going on I blurted something out like "what the hell is wrong with these people" my wife blushed and gave me the shut up look, I just couldn't help it.
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When I used to do photography I did Xmas pictures for the humane society. There was one family that always brought in their SIX dogs. I kept telling them to give the dogs Benedryl beforehand because they were so unruly. I am one of those people who bonds with animals. I have an 11x14 portrait of one of my cats hanging in my living room. I take my birds to the store with me. When people talk about their kids I talk about my pets. The crazy people are those who try to bring in their cats to be photographed. Nothing more pathetic that a pissed cat in a santa hat. (Not my idea.)
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Ed.Poore wrote:
you want to watch out for the poodles
Poodles aren't dogs! :doh: Even other dogs don't think poodles are dogs! :rolleyes:
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Poodles don't think they are dogs either. They think they are the children of their human parents. A bit like cats, only far more stupid and unlike cats who think they own you.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Ed.Poore wrote:
you want to watch out for the poodles
Poodles aren't dogs! :doh: Even other dogs don't think poodles are dogs! :rolleyes:
I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes
JimmyRopes wrote:
Even other dogs don't think poodles are dogs!
if you don't think poodles are dogs, what do you mean by other dogs?
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Overall, I am in awe of the degree to which people in the US bond to their pets. It's as if it's a release for people who have no human friends. The idea of paying for day care for your dog, for example, is just completely off the scale, in my opinion.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
The idea of paying for day care for your dog, for example, is just completely off the scale, in my opinion.
We've had to do it a couple of times for medical reasons. Oh yeah, we have four dogs.
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Poodles don't think they are dogs either. They think they are the children of their human parents. A bit like cats, only far more stupid and unlike cats who think they own you.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
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Poodles don't think they are dogs either. They think they are the children of their human parents. A bit like cats, only far more stupid and unlike cats who think they own you.
regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa
Shog9 wrote:
I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
Paul Watson wrote:
unlike cats who think they own you.
They don't think, they know.
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Well, sometimes it's true. The neighbours have a wolf looking dog, and I pat it regularly over the fence. The trick is to look at their face and their tail, if they don't look aggressive, don't be scared ( your fear can change the situation ).
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Basically have some respect for the animal not treat it as a fluffy toy?
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Actually, they only say that about Tasmanians and New Zealanders. In fact, Tasmanian jokes are just NZ jokes recycled, the difference being that in Tassie, it's not actually true.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
Christian Graus wrote:
it's not actually true.
Well, I never really thought it was. :) OT - Haven't you done some work with audio/video stuff, using DirectX etc? Would you mind if I send you a private email to see if you're interested in a consulting job to help my client out with a few "issues"? Thanks! Marc
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There's insane and then there's bloody insane. This is so over the top I couldn't help myself, when we got to the counter and realized what was going on I blurted something out like "what the hell is wrong with these people" my wife blushed and gave me the shut up look, I just couldn't help it.
John Cardinal wrote:
There's insane and then there's bloody insane.
I've actually been watching that insanity grow, that is why I was so surprised. Never preferred big city life myself; I am just a country hick with a "little" knowledge of 3D graphics. :rolleyes: But I have been watching the spread of the pet-marketing. From rented tuxedos for your pet, to psychics, psychiatrists, relationship counselors (when you and your pet just aren't getting along well), to professional photos, to the Santa and Easter Bunny pictures, to far crazier. When I say nothing surprises me anymore, I mean it. Maybe there is hope for a surprise eventually, something so over the top beyond even this that I will actually double take. But all this I have seen growing, so it is no surprise. Yeah, I know you are not in the big city, neither am I, I've been watching it spread like a virus.... :doh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Christian Graus wrote:
Overall, I am in awe of the degree to which people in the US bond to their pets.
What's most fascinating in a scary sorta way is when people tell you that their un-leashed, 2.5 feet tall, looking-like-a-wild-wolf dog is friendly and that we don't have to fear it. Or if they do have a leash, it's long enough to allow the dog to walk into the next park.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
What's most fascinating in a scary sorta way is when people tell you that their un-leashed, 2.5 feet tall, looking-like-a-wild-wolf dog is friendly and that we don't have to fear it. Or if they do have a leash, it's long enough to allow the dog to walk into the next park.
Well, having had a dog that was 3 foot tall when standing on all fours (not counting tail, which was almost body length), over 6 foot tall when standing on two legs, and very friendly... Sometimes it is true. You should however, always be cautious. Thor was well trained, and extremely intelligent. Because of the intelligence, we often underestimated him and there are many, many stories about that. He barks a good bark, we argued over names for him (my brother wanted Maximilian Ambrosius or something like that) until his first bark, deep loud and felt like it should shake the house (later it really did), the name Thor was very appropriate. He was, half wolf, half German Shepard, which is actually a good thing, the closer to wolf the closer you can get to the loyalty and intelligence of the wolf. He was also a throw-away, probably bought for a family with a child and when the origin of the dog was explained by the vet, or the person giving it, they boxed it, and threw it in the trash. My great-grandfather rescued it, and it eventually made its way to me. Thor could scare the heebee-geebees out of you, but if he did so, it was deliberate, and there was no malign intentions, just wanting you to be fearful or respectful, or sometimes for his own amusement. Or in many cases safer. My two dogs of this breed have both shown a predetermined dislike of anyone taking chances. If you are doing something unsafe, or especially if any children in the neighborhood are, they will raise the entire neighborhood. China, my later dog, especially barked at two neighbor kids without skating safety gear while being pulled by a bike, but would not bark at the bike or the one kid who had all the proper safety gear. When a dog barks specifically at certain people and ignores others, it invokes curiosity, the kids even eventually figured it out, and were amazed. After that when China was barking, she made the people think about why. Thor could run off a leash and behave, China could not. Although Thor was significantly larger than China, and in fact larger than most people, he was always the scary one. China because of her China blue eyes was a preferred one to pet, she attracted
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JimmyRopes wrote:
Even other dogs don't think poodles are dogs!
if you don't think poodles are dogs, what do you mean by other dogs?
I'll leave that to your imagination. ;P
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John Cardinal wrote:
There's insane and then there's bloody insane.
I've actually been watching that insanity grow, that is why I was so surprised. Never preferred big city life myself; I am just a country hick with a "little" knowledge of 3D graphics. :rolleyes: But I have been watching the spread of the pet-marketing. From rented tuxedos for your pet, to psychics, psychiatrists, relationship counselors (when you and your pet just aren't getting along well), to professional photos, to the Santa and Easter Bunny pictures, to far crazier. When I say nothing surprises me anymore, I mean it. Maybe there is hope for a surprise eventually, something so over the top beyond even this that I will actually double take. But all this I have seen growing, so it is no surprise. Yeah, I know you are not in the big city, neither am I, I've been watching it spread like a virus.... :doh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I know you are not in the big city, neither am I,
That's just it exactly, if I went to Vancouver or Seattle and saw that I'd just think to myself "crazy city people". I think though that what's happening is that those crazy city people are moving to the country and bringing their crazy city folk ways with them.:)
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
I know you are not in the big city, neither am I,
That's just it exactly, if I went to Vancouver or Seattle and saw that I'd just think to myself "crazy city people". I think though that what's happening is that those crazy city people are moving to the country and bringing their crazy city folk ways with them.:)
John Cardinal wrote:
I think though that what's happening is that those crazy city people are moving to the country and bringing their crazy city folk ways with them.
I hate to break it to you... but many of the country people are ASKING for city people ways! Yes, one city person comes and wishes they had a pet manicurist and everyone rolls their eyes.... but they see the picture on the wall of their dogs and Santa and think, "oh how cute" and then they start asking.... Insanity really is contagious, sorry John. Just keep your distance and every eye-roll is an anti-viral shot. :rolleyes:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Christian Graus wrote:
The idea of paying for day care for your dog, for example, is just completely off the scale, in my opinion.
We've had to do it a couple of times for medical reasons. Oh yeah, we have four dogs.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Sure, that's different. I'm talking about a regular day care, for the sake of it.
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