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searcher said:
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Guard lab?

I don't think that's gonna work. But if you got some pit-bull in the mix...I had experience with one such. Had a lab's intelligence, but a pittie's stubbornness. And she was an alpha, and she took zero schitt.

When I stepped out of line, she went for my hand. She meant business - like a bolt of lightning, on the web between thumb and forefinger...

...and just held it. Didn't even leave a mark. Just held it, like a retriever would bring back a bird...and looked me in the eye, with her small blue eyes....she couldn't talk but she didn't need to.

After about a second and a half, she let me go and then did a little victory strut. I was shocked.
 
nickndfl said:
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A few thoughts.

First, I lived with cats from when I was seven, to seventeen; and then, on-and-off, as an adult...I have watched their behavior, and thought about it. Which, really, is the function of cats. They're not pets, like a dog is a pet - a cat is animated furniture; it's living art; it's a study of life. Like an ant farm, only housebroken (one hopes).

The purring. Our huge tabby more-or-less adopted me (you don't own a cat, a cat may choose to own you) and would sleep on my feet night (a high-metabolism teenager, I slept with bare feet poking out).

Purring is not "contentment" as the women who write cat-care books tell you. Sick and dying cats purr. Also, cats are inherently dangerous, and instinctively territorial.

Purring is a signal to other cats - and anyone who understands cats - that they're open to company and socialization. Male cats have territories and also neutral territories where they meet females, or otherwise socialize. A purr is to tell other cats, the guard is down, I'm not going to maul you.

A cat who wants something, like breakfast, will purr.

The behavior the one cat offered, kneading with the claws out, is "milk-treadling." Kittens do that to, essentially, milk the mother's breast. It's been said that a domesticated indoor cat is basically a kitten, arrested development. Probably true. If a cat milk-treadles you, it either wants food or wants the comfort of a mother's belly.
 
Shadow is an almost 3 year.old male who got pushed off the bed by the female kitten. At times he dominates her, but that is usually after she instigates a challege when Sasha bites Shadow's tail while he is relaxing. Then he chases her around the house.
 
searcher said:
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Obviously loves his job.

Why give him a week off? That's like giving you seven weeks off - dog years, ya know.

I didn't see him actually work cattle, but he appears to have done so. Looking hard for cows to herd.

I've seen cattle dogs at work, and never seen such enthusiasm from an animal, as their driving and managing the movement and herding. I understand that cattle dogs, as well as other smart breeds, will actually develop some relationship with the cattle they herd.
 
Yep. At least twice recently I had leftover food that I would give to my dog, but since he is gone, it went into the trash. I thought about giving the food to the critters or bugs, but I did not want that attraction. So unfortunately the unused food went into the trash for waste disposal. In the eventual sense, it won't matter how I treat my garbage, but I do care about the next hundred years or so.
 
<sigh>
Did any of you utubers read the thread title?


OUR PETS

Please — enough of the videos of other people's pets that anyone who really wants to see them can go to u-toob and watch all day.
Geeze, I was gonna post a recent photo of Mocha but the video flood killed that notion.

Bottom Feeder
 
He'd be better with a grown dog.

First, the obvious - less delicate. Then there's the reality: Dogs are perceptive, but like infants, development of that skill takes time. A dog can smell out a pack-puppy...I've seen dogs endure infant abuse, twisting tails and even being sit on, and simply look on, reproachfully.

Do that yourself, and odds are, you'll get some puncture wounds in the gluteals. I don't know how, but they can sure smell or sense maliciousness, and also someone who doesn't know any better.
 

Tears over what rescue dog does just 1 hour after visiting new home​

The moment a rescue dog made himself at home has melted hearts across the internet.

Sophie Coombs (@sophcoombs), a 25-year-old digital manager from Shropshire, shared a video of the potential match resting comfortably on her lap as she sat on the couch, just an hour after he first arrived. The clip has already garnered 376,600 likes and 1.9 million views.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle...isiting-new-home/ar-AA1NBJbe?ocid=socialshare
 
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