4321

How adorable.

4322

That’s not a dog, it’s a rat trying to be an ewok. Our cat would eat it for breakfast. In other news our cat got hold of a Shnauser (sp?) that lives in the complex this morning and messed it up. Its owners were a little miffed. Our cat isn’t called Odin for nothing - he is legendary.

4323

Hahaha, nice, although don’t count the Cairn out, he literally went right for the Malmute’s throat last night. The little guy is a ball of hell with a cute smile.

4324

Actually, terriers (especially Cairns) will fight cats right back, they were bred to go into piles of rocks and kill rats.

4325

Little dogs often don’t know that they’re little. That’s my impression, anyway. They think they’re just as big as the other dogs and get right into whatever they’re doing. It’s often hilarious.

4326

This. Funny part is there’s 3 cats, and 1 stays outside to kill rats, the other two are purely house cats. The one cat Fuzz you never see until he’s standing on my chest headbutting me in the middle of the night for me to pet him. Then there’s Ceaser, he loves trying to impale his claws into my feet and bite me whilst I’m trying to sleep. Gotta love it…

This morning, the Cairn was eyeballing the cats, who looked on with much disdain. I’m anticipating some good fights until everyone finds their rung on the house food chain.

4327

I’ll still back Odin against a small terrier. He’s a vicious ghetto Siamese.

4328

I’d take a vicious cat against a little dog, as well. My little shorkie, Smitty, will go right after bigger dogs - labradors, bulldogs, etc, but my sister-in-law’s longhair tabby treats him like a new inmate in “Oz”. We once found Smitty cowering in the corner of a room while the cat, Murphy, paced menacingly back and forth in front of him, occasionally swiping a claw or hissing in his direction. It was sad and hilarious at the same time.

4329

The squirrels have solved our “squirrel resistant” bird feeder.

There is now a hole in the snow underneath the bird feeder. Squirrels scoop out the bird feed and then sit below it munching. Their little squirrel asses have melted the snow.

4330

IME little dogs are like short dudes in that they know they are smaller than average and thus have a bit of a chip on their shoulder and something to prove and are more likely to run off at the mouth and try to start problems than a normal sized person/dog is.

That’s why those goddamn little yippie dogs just yip yip yippie away all the time.

4331

Case in point: chihuahuas.

4332

The little dogs that think they’re the pack leader just need to get the shit beat out of them by a bigger dog. It’s euphemistically referred to as “socializing”.

There’s nothing inherent in smaller breeds that makes them annoying, like almost all dog behavior issues the problem is the owners. Instead of treating their dog like a dog, they treat it like a baby. The dog acts like it’s the pack leader because it is. When they bite strangers, they’re not “just playing”, they’re asserting dominance.

4333

[edit]wrong thread

4334

Small dogs are also easier to handle, even when they misbehave, by people who have no idea how to treat a dog. So the yippy little mutt that is tugging on that old lady’s leash gets away with it because the old lady can still keep hold of her dog. A big dog would just pull her until she fell over and for that reason they tend to be taken more seriously.

4335

Small dogs have an undeserved reputation of being yip yip dogs. I’ve had two Boston Terriers, a Shih Tzu, and a chihuahua mix and none of them yip. Now if they had their way they might yip, but yipping is only allowed by folks who pay rent :)

Bosco, my first Boston was aggressive toward other dogs, and the Shih Tzu is somewhat aggressive. The chihuahua ignored other dogs. The second Boston has other issues so he is not aggressive.

I like smaller dogs because I know that no matter what, I won’t be responsible for a serious injury. I don’t allow my dogs to bite, but you never know what people can unintentionally do to dogs to make them aggressive.

4336

I know nothing about dogs. But my book was published today.

It’s nowhere as awesome as Kierons comics or Garys movies, since it’s just volume 15 of a science encylclopedia. I was consulent and wrote a few chapters of the volume about computers and related stuff.

But even after writing for a paper with 500.000+ readers there’s something special about seing your name on something with a hard cover (even though it’s just 8 point type in the colofon).

4337

People say this sometimes about one of our dachshunds but don’t realize he’s just scared. We didn’t socialize him as well as our mild-mannered one, so when he encounters a bigger dog everyone starts with the “ah, small dog syndrome!” when he’s really just alarmed and confused.

4338

Cool, what is the topic?

4339

Well, I suppose this is interesting, at least it gave me a good laugh. Apparently after I went to work this morning, the Cairn Terrier was standing underneath the Malmute, and decided it would be a great idea to urinate on the malmute’s leg. I have no clue what’s going on there, but it made me chuckle.

4340

I was walking past the Life Sciences building on campus today, and the corner of my eye caught what looked like a bunch of students standing over a sea lion or walrus. I took a few steps back for a better look through the window and no…it wasn’t a sea lion or a walrus…it had feet…it was an overweight black women on her stomach being dissected by four students in lab coats.

I was more insulted than shocked. Here these people are pulling open the back of a cadaver, scraping away layers of fat, right beneath an open window with clear visability from the walkway. It was 7pm, but I stood there for 10 minutes with nobody even glancing my direction. Even took a video on my phone. That was the second time I’ve seen a dead body, the first being an open casket at a funeral, and I’m kind of disturbed by how …not disturbed I was.