Get a Dog...

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Discussion Starter · Nov 12, 2008

If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never say it's not quite as good as his mother's ...

... then get a dog.

If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long and wherever you want ...

... then get a dog.

If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn't care about football, and can happily sit next to you as you watch romantic movies ...

... then get a dog.

If you want someone who is content to get on your bed just to warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores ...

... then get a dog.

If you want someone who never criticizes what you do, doesn't care if you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old, who acts as if every word you say is especially worthy of listening to, and loves you unconditionally, perpetually ...

... then get a dog.

BUT, on the other hand, if you want someone who will never come when you call, ignores you totally when you come home, leaves hair all over the place, walks all over you, runs around all night and only comes home to eat and sleep, and acts as if your entire existence is solely to ensure his happiness ...

... then get a cat!

Now be honest, you thought I was gonna' say ... "get yourself a man", didn't you?

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Ross

· #2 · Nov 12, 2008

I knew you weren't talking about border collies.
My BC does not eat processed meats (you know the stuff that comes in plastic packs or weiners) She gives you that quizical "you don't really eat that do you?" look.

It's annoying but my BC will not go out to chase sheep at night. A quarter after dark is no time for sheep to be escaping and if they are it's because "my" yard gate broke and it's now my problem.

Doesn't care about football?? Joke right? Its a ball and it's the whole world revolves around playing ball. Cuddling intrudes on ball play time. Romance is for poodles.

If you want someone who is content to get on your bed just to warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores ...

You really never had a BC jump on your bed. As a pup mine pinned me with a foot on each shoulder and one on each leg and dropped a soggy tennis ball in my face the second my eyes opened. We've come along way, now she drops herself between my wife and myself and literally digs me out of bed. Good greif!!

If you want someone who never criticizes what you do, doesn't care if you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old, who acts as if every word you say is especially worthy of listening to, and loves you unconditionally, perpetually ...

I live for the day..... having a border collie 3 yrs is tougher than 20 years marrage!!

The cats would agree with you but almost suicidially envy the border collie's self instated status.

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wendle

· #3 · Nov 12, 2008

I had to laugh at the dog never taking the remote. One of my border collies has a thing about cell phones. If I leave mine laying around in doggie reach and it rings she will take it and bury it under a blanket somewhere. There's been a few times I had to search for a while before I could find the muffled ring.

Ross, that's interesting your dog won't work after dark. Did you try giving her a raise?

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Discussion Starter · #4 · Nov 12, 2008

Ross said:
You really never had a BC jump on your bed.

I sleep with one every night.

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Discussion Starter · #5 · Nov 12, 2008

wendle said:
I had to laugh at the dog never taking the remote. One of my border collies has a thing about cell phones. If I leave mine laying around in doggie reach and it rings she will take it and bury it under a blanket somewhere. There's been a few times I had to search for a while before I could find the muffled ring.

Annie (the BC) has no interest in the remote, but when the phone rings, she makes SURE someone answers it!

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Rouen

· #6 · Nov 12, 2008

well my dog fully embodies all of those, he sleeps at my feet, lives to be with me, doesn't snore, listens to every word I say. he does leave hair everywhere though.

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ihedrick

· #7 · Nov 12, 2008

That's as good as how cats and dogs receive phone calls...dogs are excited to get a call and will run to the phone. Cats just stretch and ask you to take a message for them.
My BC has to have his pillow at the head of the bed and you definately think there is a small earth quake when he jumps in and lays down!

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PenelopePince

· #8 · Nov 14, 2008

ladycat said:
If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn't care about football, and can happily sit next to you as you watch romantic movies ...

My sister and I have 2 Border Collies. Mine, Ludwig, is a TV/DVD fanatic (he really watches movies - his favorites are Milo and Otis and Babe) and he is obsessed with the remote. I think he views it as a thing of power, because only Mum is allowed to hold it and can use it to magically make the TV go on. He stares at it like a lunatic when I'm holding it and tries to steal it when I put it down.

He runs over to lick the TV whenever we say any of the following words: TV, DVD, movie, watch (as in "what shall we watch?") and sometimes even "party," because my sister and I call our movie watching sessions parties. And saying "remote" is just asking for trouble.

ladycat said:
Annie (the BC) has no interest in the remote, but when the phone rings, she makes SURE someone answers it!

My sister's dog, Wolfgang, runs to our cell phones and barks at them till we answer them.

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jasper

· #9 · Nov 14, 2008

wendle said:
Ross, that's interesting your dog won't work after dark. Did you try giving her a raise?

hahaha

now that was funny

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