BS: Grrrff! Bark...rrr-whine...Arf!

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Aug 13 - 12:22 PM

Yes, indeed. A troop of Baboons might have been well used to hunt down and eliminate Sawney Bean and his clan.

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From: gnu
Date: 03 Aug 13 - 06:54 AM

Sawney Bean is tame compared to a troop of baboons.

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From: Pete Jennings
Date: 03 Aug 13 - 06:36 AM

Sawney Bean? Who he?

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From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 02:03 PM

Typical arrogant human comment. I bet I am more civilized than you, ya Limey chump. My role model is Humphrey Bogart, see? He had style. More style than you ever dreamed of, I betcha. Who is yer role model? Benny Hill? Sawney Bean maybe?

- Chongo

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From: GUEST,Musket curious
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 01:26 PM

And Chongo is domesticated I take it?

House trained even?

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From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 11:08 AM

Dogs gotta be about the laziest damn things on Earth...but when they see ME they suddenly stop bein' lazy and become galvanized! They go absolutely nuts. I hate the damn things. They never shoulda been domesticated at all.

- Chongo

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From: Musket
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 10:03 AM

Sorry, been away watching the telly. The Woof Life with Felicity Kennel.

Just as an experiment I just played some Bonzo Dog Doo Daa Band for my dog, (My Pink Half of the Drainpipe, if you must know.) No reaction.

I notice the listings for tonight include, after the watershed that is, Lapdogs Uncut. I'm going to have to put a parental lock on the telly... Good job he's too lazy to get the remote. (If he had ever got the remote, we would have known, there'd be nothing left of it.)

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From: mmm1a
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 09:56 AM

I imagine you would have to be barking mad to watch it.      

sorry just kinda popped in my head while I was resetting my cookie.:)

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From: GUEST,mmm1a
Date: 02 Aug 13 - 09:49 AM

lol, I have 2 beagles and that is what they do, sleep all day and sing all night. well not all night but jn between naps at nite

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 08:54 PM

Chongo seems to share your opinion on that, gnu.

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From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 08:18 PM

Becca... hahahaha!

"the only thing the dog gave any evidence of seeing being "baboons.""

Well... baboons eh? One of the nastiest species on earth from what I have seen on TV. I wouldn't go near one. The only reason *I* don't bark at them on the TV is I know there is no way they can come thru the screen. Fluffy may not understand that concept. But, s/he knows baboons!

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From: GUEST,Musket sans greyhound
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 03:10 PM

The Sky + box gets full as it is without a certain greyhound wanting things recording for when he isn't busy licking the patch where his nuts used to be ...

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From: Bill D
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 11:24 AM

I wonder if that new channel will have poets reciting doggerel......











hey, don't hide my hat, I gotta get outa here!

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From: Elmore
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 10:31 AM

Some cats we've had will watch shows about cats. Others are totally disinterested.

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 10:16 AM

He must be a fan, I suppose. Still, it's pretty odd, isn't it?

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From: Becca72
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 10:11 AM

A friend of mine has a cat who watches the Red Sox.


there's no accounting for taste...

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From: Pete Jennings
Date: 01 Aug 13 - 10:03 AM

Sounds like Chongz would like Trinidad...

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 09:27 PM

You should try out Trinidad sometime....several million dogs all over the streets, hanging around on every corner, shitting wherever they please...and no one blinks an eye over it. "Pothounds", they call them, because the people tend to help out the neighborhood canine battalions by feeding them scraps from the kitchen pot. They tend to be smallish, short-haired dogs, mostly white but with colored spots here and there. Nice little dogs if you get to know them individually.

You would either adjust to the mundane realities of dog shit in public places...or go utterly mad...or have to flee back to the more regulated streets of the UK.

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From: Steve Shaw
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 08:32 PM

Anything that keeps dogs off the street so that they only shit in their own houses would be hunkydory with me.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 07:35 PM

Cooking with your dog -- how nice!

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From: Dead Horse
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 04:16 PM

Korea do a cooking programme for dogs.
Well, not so much FOR dogs, as WITH dogs. :-)

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From: JohnInKansas
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 03:59 PM

My last dog, also a miniature poodle, completely ignored the TV until one day I had a "wildlife" show on and a tribe of baboons cavorted across the screen. Woofie objected strenuously.

The trait persisted, with the only thing the dog gave any evidence of seeing being "baboons." Chimps, gorillas, Orangutangs, et. al. were completely ignored, along with all other life forms, including plants, animals, and humans.

My logical assumption was that one of his handlers when he was a wee puppy must have strongly resembled a baboon ... (?) ... and it appeared he didn't get along well with that one.

John

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From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 03:32 PM

Of all the dogs we ever had, only one of them showed any interest in watching the visual images on TV. That one was a miniature poodle, and she definitely recognized what was on the screen, but the only things that seemed to get her excited were:

- other dogs
- cats
- domestic or wild animals
- cartoon characters!
- and buses (???)

She was not the least bit excited about seeing human beings onscreen, unless they were human cartoon characters...or people dressed up in really weird costumes.

All our other dogs completely ignored all the visual stuff on TV, but they did react to the animal sounds, specially cat or dog sounds. Barking on the TV would set off quite a reaction.

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From: gnu
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 01:49 PM

And then there is Beaglevision. That's when ya turn the TV off and dawg sleeps all day.

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From: akenaton
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 01:46 PM

In the UK its Sky channel 212 for greyhound racing 5 nights a week.

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From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 01:34 PM

Don't know much about dogs, but over the years only some of my cats have related to TV and appeared to be watching it. The others seemed to be unable to 'see' the images on the screen. If a prog about, say, lions hunting prey in Kenya comes on, SmokeyPokey sits up, ears forward and 'chatters. He obviously relates to the hunting. Recently we had a documentary about a village and the movements of each cat were traced by transmitters. Two of our three cats nearly leapt into the TV with intense interest. But the third seemed puzzled. I'd love a Channel for the cats. I suppose it would be scenes of hunting and catching birds and small rodents, weeing up walls and plants, fighting among rival moggies etc.

Subject: BS: Grrrff! Bark...rrr-whine...Arf!
From: Bill D
Date: 31 Jul 13 - 12:12 PM

bark! bark!

DOGTV, a 24/7 channel designed specifically for man's best friend, will air nationally next month on the U.S. satellite operator DirecTV, with hopes of attracting dogs in some of the 46 million U.S. households that have at least one.

(they say they 'may' do one for cats later)



(they'd do one for snails if you'd buy it.)