BS: Big Beasts

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 07:56 AM

sorry I thought it said...big breasts

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 01:15 PM

GOTCHA!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jan 17 - 09:18 PM

There's too many fools making too many rules; that's one thing you can't say about us; we all sing the same song, we all get along, but there's one thing that causes a fuss. We've got a $5.00 fine for whining; we told you that when you came in; if it aint on your mind to have a good time, y'all come back and see us AGAIN.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 17 - 02:22 PM

Joe, that was not aimed at you.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Ed T
Date: 25 Jan 17 - 03:04 PM

I like most dogs, except the yappy type, though I have no desire to have a dog as a pet, , as I find most have an odour when inside (cars or houses) that I dont like. I suspect dog owners become desensitized to the smell. Because of that, and a few other reasons, I prefer to keep a cat as a pet.

I like the look the look of Dachshunds, (I recall many Little Hawk posts about their merits) and they are likely tasty with a little dijon.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 12:31 PM

No dog will ever darken my doorstep. Every dog-containing house I've ever been in smells of dog, and it seems to be a thing among many dog-owners that you automatically won't mind if their stinky, slathering animal comes sniffing around your feet/crotch/hands whenever you're in their house. In two different houses I've sat at the dinner table enduring the family dog sleeping between my feet leaving me unable to move a muscle. On another occasion I was babysitting for some friends. For three hours of sheer terror I was pinned to the chair I was sitting in as every tiny move I made elicited snarls and growls from a huge dog lying three feet away with its beady eye constantly on me.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Senoufou
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 01:17 PM

Sorry Steve, but your last post is making me laugh at the thought of you quivering with fear while the huge dog kept its beady eye on you! :)

I like all animals, and have always wanted a dog. However, I'm not strong enough now to provide all the exercise a dog needs, and it wouldn't be fair. (Our cats exercise themselves)

Not long ago, we took in a lovely cocker spaniel for the weekend when her owners (a rather hard-nosed South African family whose house we used to clean) told us they intended to just shut her in their tiny yard with food and water while they were away. We felt this was cruel, so they let us have her for the two days. It was lovely and she was so affectionate and loving. But I found it hard walking her morning and evening for miles. My husband did the second day's 'duty'. When we took her back we were very sad and missed her. But it showed us we aren't really up to having a dog at our time of life. I still think of her. They went back to SA and gave the dog to a British couple they knew. I hope she's happy with them.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: leeneia
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 08:38 PM

I don't find Steve's story funny at all. Steve, you have my sympathy.

Dogs need baths, or so I read. The smell comes from dead skin cells under their fur.

I like dogs both big and small, but I don't feel like doing the work that they involve.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 08:57 PM

Well I have been known to dine out on those yarns, leeneia, though I must admit that they sound funnier in the telling than they felt at the time. Did I ever tell you about the cat and the prawn cocktails...?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 07:32 PM

Awhile back, I was offered a desireable model, low km car, that belonged to a neighbour, an elderly gentleman entering a nursing home. I snapped up the deal. The problem was he had a dog for many years that went with him everywhere he went with that car.
I tried every comnercial cleaning option tonget tge dog smell out of the vehicle without success. It was especially strong on hot, humid and rainy days, window ooen or not.

in the end, I sold the vehicle to a dog owning neighbour, who did not serm to notice the disgusting aroma - though I gave him a warning. He later told me it was tge best car deal he ever experienced (at tgevtime I took a sniff and the smell inside had not improved).

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 08:02 PM

I know your pain, Ed. We moved into this house thirty years ago on Feb 9. A bottle will be opened. The previous owners had two great big hairy golden retrievers. Lovely people (the owners were ok too). We still see them occasionally. We inherited all their carpets as we were broke and the carpets were OK colours and not worn. We scrubbed and shampooed them till the cows came home before we moved our stuff in. It was months before that horrible doggie smell finally dissipated. I mean, what is it with these doggie mindset people? If I'd made the house stink like that Mrs Steve would have put me in one of those homes that smell of wee years ago!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 03:59 AM

It's sadly true, as Steve says, that many dog owners assume you'll adore being sniffed, jumped up on and generally slobbered over by their dogs. I have a friend with a fox terrier. He's quite a dominant little beast and bites/chews any bit of you he can get his teeth into. Another friend went round there quite recently and the wretched animal got hold of one of her expensive leather boots, which she'd politely removed on entering, and bit it until it was full of holes. The dog's owner could see no reason to pay for this damage. I can normally get the better of this dog as, being a retired teacher, I know how to be firm and strict!

But, speaking of Big Beasts, my poor sister was once as a child attacked by the inevitable large Alsatian. It rose up on its hind legs and pinned her against a wall, trying to get at her throat. Naturally she's very afraid of big dogs now. But the number of times someone out walking a huge dog finds her completely unreasonable when she cringes away from its embraces! They always say, "He won't hurt you!" They get very offended when you don't like it.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: keberoxu
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 04:54 PM

As a small child, I remember a Great Dane knocking me down and sort of flying back and forth over me as if I were a hurdle on a dog agility course. Obviously I was smaller than the dog at the time.

Fortunately I was cured of my dog phobia, if that's what it was, by Mickey the Bagel Dog -- that's part beagle, part other-hound like maybe foxhound.

I'm still skittish around horses though.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Senoufou
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 05:18 PM

We saw a huge (and very beautiful) tan-coloured Great Dane in the centre of Norwich just this morning. He was very well-behaved and well-controlled by his owners. They really are a massive breed aren't they?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 07:32 PM

Well I was also attacked by an Alsatian that got loose from its owner when I was seven. It was the dog's second bite and we took the owner to court. I remember standing on the leather-clad bench and being warned by the beak that I had better tell the truth. I remember being castigated by an inquisitor because the dog had attacked me while I was "playing football in the street." Heinous! The dog-owner was ordered to keep his dogs under control and to pay court costs. A little while later he was caught shoving dogshit through the letter box of my mum's shop. He was bound over that time. Bloody dogs. Bloody dog-owners. Do you blame me?

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 04:07 AM

That's outrageous Steve! And you were only seven?! Do you think nowadays the dog would be put down by the authorities for its second attack?
And putting poo through your mum's letterbox!! Disgusting!
The thing is, dogs need a lot of exercise and some owners don't provide it. I reckon this makes the dogs bored, edgy and vicious. It's cruel to the dogs, and ignorant on the part of the owners.

When we cleaned a holiday barn out near the North Norfolk coast, we often had 'guests' with dogs. A maximum of three dogs was allowed. When we arrived, often the 'guests' were just packing up to leave. But when we pointed out they should pick up any dog poo in the barn grounds they usually kicked off. They seemed to think that was our job! And as often as not, they'd showered their huge dogs in the bathrooms, using the white fluffy bath towels we provided to dry the animals with. And the dog hairs! On everything! It made our work twice as onerous.
Our neighbour is the 'groundsman' there still, he has to cut the grass and sweep the patio etc, and he never holds back. I've heard him tell some 'guests', "Dew yew git orl that shit clared up orf the graaaass afore yew goo. Snot moi jarb! Them dawgs is narthing but Bloody Shit Machines!"

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 05:51 AM

I worked for five summers on Radcliffe Parks Department and one of the jobs was to cut the grass on the verges and open areas of council estates. I had a large self-driven machine with a clutch and cutters at the front. Generally you could spot the fresh dog turds and steer round them, but once they'd sunk in for a few days and got grass growing round them they were a nightmare. The worst were the old ones that had dried up after a few days without rain. When you hit one of those it exploded into a puff of dust. You had to hope the wind wasn't in your direction. And don't get me started on those stupid leads that can expand to about twenty yards long, stretched across the path in front of you like a deadly booby trap. Make 'em illegal!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Senoufou
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 06:29 AM

Exactly Steve. Our neighbour does this type of work all day, every day, all year round, all over Norfolk. He has huge diesel-driven cutting machines, and like you he finds that large mounds of dog poo explode around his ears if he drives over them. He ends up covered in it, and it absolutely stinks.
He also 'does' farm grounds and smallholdings, and there are always huge snarling 'dawgs' to contend with. He wraps strips of canvas round his lower legs (like buskins or gaiters) and always has a stout stick with which to 'discourage' the animals. He says the farmers often become 'suffen savage' (rather cross) and give him 'squit' if he asks them to control their dogs while he's working!

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 11:31 AM

I have had an antipathy for shih-tzus, which I find an astoundingly well-named breed, for some time. For one thing, the ones I've been exposed to have hair over their eyes so they look at you, or at least they face you, with their small hairy faces and their panting little mouths agape, showing only their lower teeth, which reminds me of a certain Officer Driscoll who gave me my first speeding ticket on Route 128. The second thing I have against the breed is that my neighbor had two, they piddled on my car tire, which I did not realize until I had checked the puddle to see if it was brake fluid.

It is not merely their size, though the thought of a ruddy giant shih-tzu looking me in the eye while I'm sitting or standing is even less pleasant than the prospect of the giant ants from films of yore.

Big beasts, but not too big.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 02:07 PM

Went to a zoo today. But I was very disappointed. It only had one animal in it.

It was a shih tzu.

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 05:38 PM

It looks like a shih tzu, smells like a shih tzu and tastes like a shih tzu, don't step on it

Subject: RE: BS: Big Beasts
From: robomatic
Date: 29 Jan 17 - 05:57 PM

So it is ONE shih tzu