BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 27 Nov 14 - 11:45 AM

As the owner of a greyhound with a rather large garden with lots of shrubberies etc where you don't see what is there sometimes, I often get a worried feeling when I see a poster locally for a missing cat...

Cats (one in particular) love sitting in from of the french windows, close to his bean bag, cleaning themselves. Why should I have a distressed dog? Why should I check, as I do, before letting him out? I don't want to see someone's cat dead, but rescue greyhounds have been trained from birth to catch and kill anything small and furry. he is the most placid creature I have ever known but the trained red mist can come down...

I can't let him off in public because of it. (Sorry about your Yorkie Missus, don't cry. I'll buy you another one though if we can't put this one back together.)

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Charmion
Date: 27 Nov 14 - 11:48 AM

Why, no, Backwoodsman, my cats would not be the ones who shit in your borders. My cats -- city creatures that they are -- have never been out of doors in their lives.

Their pampered existence is spent entirely within the walls of our downtown row house, located as it is on three bus routes and some 500 metres from the banks of the Rideau River, which are rife with raccoons and skunks and other animals likely to harbour ill-will toward house cats. Not to speak of the high school across the street, or the traffic charging toward (and away from) the bridge over the Ottawa River.

This neighbourhood is risky enough for humans, let alone heedless young cats.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Nov 14 - 12:10 PM

Thanks Charmion, glad to hear it's not them! 😄

I pity anyone so devoid of a soul that they are unable to respond positively to animals. My dog could teach Little Stevie a lot about making friends and influencing people.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: gnu
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 06:10 AM

Well, this thread went to shit quickly.

Turds in trees? Never heard of it. Couldn't even have dreamt it up... how odd.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 06:29 AM

Your life is charmed, gnu. We have turd-hangers in Ottawa, too, and if I ever catch one in the act there will be Trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw nature-lover
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 06:35 AM

Typical defensive dog-owner response from Backwoodsman there. "If you don't love my dog you're a git who hates all animals." Well dogs are not all animals. As a matter of fact I have an organic garden with diverse habitats and lots of cover deliberately designed to attract bird life, and very successful it is too. I have grass snakes every year nesting in my compost heaps, frogs and toads breed in abundance in my pond and my butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies are a joy to behold. The problem I have with dogs is their owners. Most dogs are not living in appropriate surroundings for a start. Gardens not big enough, owners with not enough time to walk 'em enough, owners clueless about dog control, owners assuming that we all have to love their smelly, disease-ridden mutts to bits otherwise we're soulless or po-faced, owners who'll get their dogs to shit anywhere except on their own patch... I do love a nice dog, really I do. And people who take their dogs to pubs where food is being served should be bloody shot on sight.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 07:09 AM

Typical childish petulance, aggression and blabber-mouthing from our very own Little Ray of Sunshine, Stevie-Boy there. I hope the earth moved for you.

When you learn to actually read and take notice of what other people write, instead of stereotyping and simply repeating your own illogical dogmas over and over, it'll be worth engaging with you. But I don't hold out much hope that you'll ever conquer your OCD.

I repeat - my dog could teach you a lot about how to make friends and influence people. My friend's autistic daughter has better social skills than you.

You're on your own, Sunny. Have fun.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 07:50 AM

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"  Rumi

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw unoffendable
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 07:58 AM

Well that's very nice is that, I don't think, Backwoodsman. As I say, typical defensive response from a dog-sycophant. You diminish yourself, sir. For the last ten minutes I've been watching a red admiral fluttering in the November sunshine outside my front window. Remarkable sighting at this time of year, especially after a run of cold nights. Balm to the soul.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: gnu
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 08:50 AM

Mad Dogs and Englishmen?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 09:08 AM

""If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do with people"". - Diana Black

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 10:49 AM

If dogs could talk???????

Why the bloody hell do you think they are called man's best friend? They are the only members of the family with which we can get a bloody word in edgeways or indeed have the last word...

Although after an argument he tends to go out and shit on the middle of the lawn which is kind of the last word, watching me pick it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw, dogged
Date: 28 Nov 14 - 08:24 PM

I do that sometimes as well. The only trouble is, nobody picks it up. :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 29 Nov 14 - 03:03 AM

I thought it couldnt all be his. Just ask for a backdoor key will you? The toilet is the right hand door to your right, the one with the pullcord light outside the door.

Alternatively, poo bags are in the "dog" cupboard in the utility room further along. If you pick your own up, feel free to take a gravy bone as reward.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 29 Nov 14 - 06:57 AM

I'll be round in a minute. But I warn you now: it's Andrex Quilts or nothing. I do a very good dog's sliding arse imitation, you know.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 29 Nov 14 - 07:47 AM

I used to have a dog that could, but it was no impression unless you count the impression on the carpet...

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 29 Nov 14 - 08:00 PM

If aliens came to Earth and saw dogs walking around, followed by humans retrieving their shit, which would they think was the dominant species?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 30 Nov 14 - 03:20 AM

Retrieving would make them think. Watching us carry it around in bags would make them know. Seeing the less civilised ignorant chavs tie the bags to trees would convince them that we have religion.

You can learn a lot from a crapping dog. Just ask the designers of the Chrysler Crossfire.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 30 Nov 14 - 08:26 AM

Luckly few people got sucked in to buying the Chrysler Crossfire (aka, "old-style" Mercedes-Benz SLK in ass-mongrul clothing).

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 30 Nov 14 - 11:29 AM

The (soon to be) Lord Clarkson of Doncaster said on Top Gear that in profile, it was modelled on a crapping greyhound.

I did notice our greyhound having a crap on the lawn and in the background was Mrs Musket's SLK. Luckily it is the new one so I didn't get confused.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 07:39 AM

BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time included an interview with Dr Ian Bedford of the John Innes Centre, discussing the invasion of giant Spanish slugs. He said: "... they will eat dead animals - they'd eat, unfortunately dogs' mess ...".
Why is that unfortunate? If there is one good thing about giant Spanish slugs, it has to be that. Let's introduce them to our streets and parks and let the clean-up begin.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Musket
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 07:57 AM

21st century dung beetles, if you ask me..

There is a drain (ditch type waterway) that we walk along and every so often, it is dredged and reeds dumped on the side. I have no problem with leaving my dog's eggs there, in the long grass between path and water as curiously, they have disappeared a few hours later.

I wonder if these are chorizo looking worms then?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: olddude
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 04:08 PM

Spaw and I always walked dogs on the side easiest to shit in the neighbors yard

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Ed T
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 04:22 PM

""Coprophagia"" could be perpetual bowel motions?

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 04:37 PM

Stepped onto some grass tonight to pick my dog's shit up, and straight into a load of someone else's dog's shit that those dirty bastards hadn't.

That has to be the ultimate insult.

(And no, I didn't hang my dog's shit in a tree, it went in the dog-shit bin which our council provide all over the town).

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: olddude
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 09:26 PM

I got a pair of dog shit magnetic boots every time I wear the things the same thing happens some how I step in a doggie land mine from someone else's dog

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: olddude
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 09:28 PM

What side of the road does that poo throwing monkey chongo walk on

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 10:21 PM

I walk on whichever damn side I feel like walkin' on, see? And if I see you, you better cross over to the other one!

Anyways, there ain't no wrong side to a sidewalk unless ya mean the underside of it, and you can't walk a dog there. The only thing you might do on the underside of the sidewalk is dig up Jimmy Hoffa, providin' you dug in exactly the right place.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: olddude
Date: 01 Dec 14 - 10:32 PM

So that's what I am stepping in.. Filthy chimp

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 01:19 AM

Eat my bongos, human trash.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: gnu
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 12:59 PM

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Miles Cleverley.

Subject: RE: BS: Walking a dog on wrong side of sidewalk
From: olddude
Date: 02 Dec 14 - 03:37 PM

You are dead chongo just admit it