BS: Big Beasts

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 03:32 PM

itsy-bitsy-poo Felicity?

(That's what happens when you push the wrong button.)

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 03:30 PM

So, Brucie, you don't know about my puddytat, cutey-wutey

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Peace
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 02:54 PM

"Also, your cat will not be able to handle frozen food"

Lest you get picky about this, I am referring to frozen carcass in the wild. I know bugger all about cats in people's houses.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 02:36 PM

But they are somewhat smaller and poorly rooted compared to those of a wolf. Different jaw structure too. Our coyotes, at fifty pounds, snap off the ribs of a white-tailed deer at the backbone.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Peace
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 02:30 PM

Yes, they do. Also, your cat will not be able to handle frozen food. That is the point.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 02:04 PM

Cougars must have funny teeth then because the cat family have the finest set of cutting tools ever devised by Mother Nature....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Peace
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:10 PM

Hey, Rapaire. We have cougars here, too. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty.

Hey, while we're about it: heard while speaking with one of the trappers here that the reason cougars have a rep for being 'willing killers' is that during the winters (which we have lots of) their dentition does not allow them to be able to bite off pieces of frozen flesh. They can't do it the way a wolf, dog or fox can, so they have to eat game while it's fresh (warm, or at least not frozen). Once the flesh freezes, it can no longer be used by the cougar, so it will then have to go kill something else. That is what has given them a bad rep.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:00 PM

Yeah, Brucie, but a couple bites and two hours later you're hungry again. Ask the cougars around here.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:57 AM

Wolfhounds are okay - but for real size get a liger.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:54 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Peace
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:40 AM

The small dogs are easier to cook.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 11:40 AM

Little beast.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:55 AM

My Lurcher (95%greyhound 5%deerhound) is a bit of a wimp like that. On a leash or with a fence between he's Macho dog, running loose he's scared of every dog on earth.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: gnu
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:36 AM

Irish Wolfhound... minds me... Years ago, my landlord got this pup for a watchdog about five months before I moved in to the old farmhouse. He never walked it. What a shame. At five months, this Newf (father) and Shepherd (mother) mix was over a hundred pounds, had long legs and coal black hair. I re-named him "Bear" and I walked him every day.

On our daily walk, we crossed a fairly long bridge with three foot high concrete barriers on the sides. One day, when Bear was about six months old, we were on the bridge and I spied a fellow walking his Irish Wolfhound along the river road we were approaching. Bear and I got to the end of the bridge when the fellow and his dog were about a hundred feet away. I was apprehensive.

Bear spotted the Wolfhound and I got ready. When the Wolfhound spotted Bear he raised his head and stared intently. Bear began barking wildly, made a mad dash to the end of his leash, and fetched up. Despite my command to heal, he continued to bark and fight the leash.

The old leather leash let go and Bear burst forward like a pony out of the gate. He ran about twenty feet before he locked up all four wheels and slid to a stop in the gravel. He looked over his shoulder at me as if to say, "Aren't you going to stop me?" The Wolfhound let out one little snort and Bear, tail between his legs, ran back past me, turned and wedged himself betwen my legs.

Now, as if the fellow and the passersby (and the Wolfhound perhaps) weren't laughing hard enough, Bear began to bark again, at which point I yelled, "Shut up!!" and cuffed him, gently, of course. I led him back home by the collar and I could still hear people laughing when I got to the other end of that long bridge.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 10:27 AM

Funny, it's usually the blokes saying that size doesn't matter.... but they they're never being towed around the park on the business end of a bull mastiff.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: SINSULL
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:20 AM

Size doesn't matter...

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: freda underhill
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:18 AM

pugs, staffies, I like them ugly, not big.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 09:08 AM

Gimme an Irish Wolfhound! Big, friendly (unless you're a wolf), and if your car breaks down you can saddle up and ride it to work.

St. Bernards, Newfies -- nothing smaller than a Lab.

'Round here, small yappy dogs are called "eagle bait." Or "furry footballs." Or worse.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Leadfingers
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 07:43 AM

Whats the point of a dog thats small enough to stand on ? I recall walking into my local Folk Club and thinking "They've got a new mat!"
Then the Wolfhound got up and walked over to check me out !!
'Smallest' dog worth having is an English Bull Terrier - They have muscles in their spit !!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 03:20 AM

Big dribbly ones linger longer? I'll make a note of that.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 03:11 AM

I've always prefered big dribbly ones... the small ones - one bite and they're gone.

LTS

Subject: BS: Big Beasts
From: Davetnova
Date: 15 Apr 05 - 03:09 AM

Some people like small yappy dogs. I myself have a preference for big slobbery ones. Does anyone else like big beasts.