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No need to apologize! Tonight something inexplicable happened at our house. My black half meezer Andre was sharpening his claws at the cat scratcher when my brother's always sweet German Shepherd walked by. She's been around Andre a lot but suddenly she attacked and seemed to be biting him. I got her away from him, screaming all the time. I examined Andre all over and he doesn't seem hurt but he hid under a chair for a long time. Before this Andre was never afraid of dogs. We put the dog in her crate where she sat looking abashed and sad. My brother lost his own cat, Jezebel, to FELV and lymphoma last year and the dog was always so sweet to her. He was thinking about getting another cat, but he was so shaken by what happened tonight that he said he doesn't think he will now. It looked like Andre's scratching triggered the attack, but no one can figure out why. My brother got the dog from the Humane Society when she was a three month old pup. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Jen Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:30 pm Subject: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Interesting! Thanks for that, I didn't know that...but makes sense...Iknow that dogs on leashes can be inclined to do the same thing simply because they feel they have no where to go, so they think they have no choice but to stay and fight if they feel threatened. I absolutely agree that yellow labs are some of the sweetest dogs! I didn't mean to infer otherwise and if I did, I apologize! Looks like my dog Oscar and I could both use a little therapy to get over our
Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories!
You want to hear something weird? I always take fortune cookies seriously. I don't know. I guess you could call me superstitious. But I always get the really profound one for some reason. Anyway last night I'm finishing my Chinese food and I get to the fortune cookie and I gulp and take a deep breath. Okay, what's going to happen to Brissle now? Well the fortune cookie said Stubbornness is not a good virtue. So of course I immediately reflect back to the whole pitbull thread and right at that moment I looked up at the TV and I see the words yellow lab on the screen. It was the news and they were showing the transcript of a 911 call. I think the operator asked the kid something about whether it was a black lab or yellow lab. Well I never heard the term yellow lab in my entire life until yesterday. I remembered it was the last thing mentioned on the pitbull thread before I logged off. And now I check back and it was you that mentioned you had a yellow lab! What time did this happen? It was about 10pm Eastern when I read my fortune cookie. -Kyle - Original Message - From: BONNIE J KALMBACH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:54 AM Subject: Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! No need to apologize! Tonight something inexplicable happened at our house. My black half meezer Andre was sharpening his claws at the cat scratcher when my brother's always sweet German Shepherd walked by. She's been around Andre a lot but suddenly she attacked and seemed to be biting him. I got her away from him, screaming all the time. I examined Andre all over and he doesn't seem hurt but he hid under a chair for a long time. Before this Andre was never afraid of dogs. We put the dog in her crate where she sat looking abashed and sad. My brother lost his own cat, Jezebel, to FELV and lymphoma last year and the dog was always so sweet to her. He was thinking about getting another cat, but he was so shaken by what happened tonight that he said he doesn't think he will now. It looked like Andre's scratching triggered the attack, but no one can figure out why. My brother got the dog from the Humane Society when she was a three month old pup. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Jen Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:30 pm Subject: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Interesting! Thanks for that, I didn't know that...but makes sense...Iknow that dogs on leashes can be inclined to do the same thing simply because they feel they have no where to go, so they think they have no choice but to stay and fight if they feel threatened. I absolutely agree that yellow labs are some of the sweetest dogs! I didn't mean to infer otherwise and if I did, I apologize! Looks like my dog Oscar and I could both use a little therapy to get over our
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No, it wasn't the yellow lab that attacked the kitty, it was a black female German Shepherd who's always gotten along with and been gentle with kitties. I guess this is a question for animal behaviorists. Bonnie - Original Message - From: Melbeach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:12 am Subject: Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! You want to hear something weird? I always take fortune cookies seriously. I don't know. I guess you could call me superstitious. But I always get the really profound one for some reason. Anyway last night I'm finishing my Chinese food and I get to the fortune cookie and I gulp and take a deepbreath. Okay, what's going to happen to Brissle now? Well the fortune cookie said Stubbornness is not a good virtue. So of course I immediately reflect back to the whole pitbull thread and right at that moment I looked up at the TV and I see the words yellow lab on the screen. It was the news and they were showing the transcript of a 911 call. I think the operator asked the kid something about whether it was a black lab or yellow lab. Well I never heard the term yellow lab in my entire life until yesterday. I remembered it was the last thing mentioned on the pitbull thread before I logged off. And now I check back and it was you that mentioned you had a yellow lab! What time did this happen? It was about 10pm Eastern when I read my fortune cookie. -Kyle - Original Message - From: BONNIE J KALMBACH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:54 AM Subject: Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! No need to apologize! Tonight something inexplicable happened at our house. My black half meezer Andre was sharpening his claws at the cat scratcher when my brother's always sweet German Shepherd walked by. She's been around Andre a lot but suddenly she attacked and seemed to be biting him. I got her away from him, screaming all the time. I examined Andre all over and he doesn't seem hurt but he hid under a chair for a long time. Before this Andre was never afraid of dogs. We put the dog in her crate where she sat looking abashed and sad. My brother lost his own cat, Jezebel, to FELV and lymphoma last year and the dog was always so sweet to her. He was thinking about getting another cat, but he was so shaken by what happened tonight that he said he doesn't think he will now. It looked like Andre's scratching triggered the attack, but no one can figure out why. My brother got the dog from the Humane Society when she was a three month old pup. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Jen Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:30 pm Subject: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Interesting! Thanks for that, I didn't know that...but makes sense...Iknow that dogs on leashes can be inclined to do the same thing simply because they feel they have no where to go, so they think they have no choice but to stay and fight if they feel threatened. I absolutely agree that yellow labs are some of the sweetest dogs! I didn't mean to infer otherwise and if I did, I apologize! Looks like my dog Oscar and I could both use a little therapy to get over our
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Bonnie! I didn't mean I thought it was your dog on the news. I was just trying to make a silly psychic connection. -Kyle - Original Message - From: BONNIE J KALMBACH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:37 AM Subject: Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! No, it wasn't the yellow lab that attacked the kitty, it was a black female German Shepherd who's always gotten along with and been gentle with kitties. I guess this is a question for animal behaviorists. Bonnie - Original Message - From: Melbeach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:12 am Subject: Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! You want to hear something weird? I always take fortune cookies seriously. I don't know. I guess you could call me superstitious. But I always get the really profound one for some reason. Anyway last night I'm finishing my Chinese food and I get to the fortune cookie and I gulp and take a deepbreath. Okay, what's going to happen to Brissle now? Well the fortune cookie said Stubbornness is not a good virtue. So of course I immediately reflect back to the whole pitbull thread and right at that moment I looked up at the TV and I see the words yellow lab on the screen. It was the news and they were showing the transcript of a 911 call. I think the operator asked the kid something about whether it was a black lab or yellow lab. Well I never heard the term yellow lab in my entire life until yesterday. I remembered it was the last thing mentioned on the pitbull thread before I logged off. And now I check back and it was you that mentioned you had a yellow lab! What time did this happen? It was about 10pm Eastern when I read my fortune cookie. -Kyle - Original Message - From: BONNIE J KALMBACH [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 3:54 AM Subject: Re: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! No need to apologize! Tonight something inexplicable happened at our house. My black half meezer Andre was sharpening his claws at the cat scratcher when my brother's always sweet German Shepherd walked by. She's been around Andre a lot but suddenly she attacked and seemed to be biting him. I got her away from him, screaming all the time. I examined Andre all over and he doesn't seem hurt but he hid under a chair for a long time. Before this Andre was never afraid of dogs. We put the dog in her crate where she sat looking abashed and sad. My brother lost his own cat, Jezebel, to FELV and lymphoma last year and the dog was always so sweet to her. He was thinking about getting another cat, but he was so shaken by what happened tonight that he said he doesn't think he will now. It looked like Andre's scratching triggered the attack, but no one can figure out why. My brother got the dog from the Humane Society when she was a three month old pup. Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: Jen Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:30 pm Subject: RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Interesting! Thanks for that, I didn't know that...but makes sense...Iknow that dogs on leashes can be inclined to do the same thing simply because they feel they have no where to go, so they think they have no choice but to stay and fight if they feel threatened. I absolutely agree that yellow labs are some of the sweetest dogs! I didn't mean to infer otherwise and if I did, I apologize! Looks like my dog Oscar and I could both use a little therapy to get over our
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My cats have their way of getting even. Someone peed on my 12 yr old black lab's doggie bed. Grrr. Out to buy another doggie bed (water-proof hopefully). Gloria At 03:41 PM 3/31/2005, you wrote: My dogs all 7 hate it when the cats use the scratching posts. They will growl and my black lab will take her nose and push the cat away from the post.
Re: Find the Pit Bull--Memories!
Wow! That brings back memories! I had completely forgotten about the dog that lived adjacent to our back yard when I was a kid! He was a big yellow dog (probably a lab mix) named Gilda, or something like that...we were always warned to stay clear of him, and, for the most part, his owner's kept him chained up in the yard...but one day, he was running loose through the yards that were joined in the back (nobody had fencing)...I was in the backyard (I was probably 6 or 7 at the time) and I remember he started approaching me (and had the sense that he wasn't looking for a good scritch)...I was scared out of my wits and picked up a stick that was lying on the ground...not the wisest decision on my part, but I wasn't about to turn and run (last thing I wanted to do was take my eyes off of him)! So there we were, dog and kid not willing to concede...THANK GOD my dad saw me and came running out!! Ever since then, I've always been a little leary of yellow labs...wow, I can't bel ieve I forgot all about that incident! :) Okay, I'll get off this subject now...thanks, everyone, for putting up with my rantings! :) - Original Message - From: Belinda Sauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:12 pm Subject: Re: Find the Pit Bull--problems w/ legislating Hi Kyle, I wasn't offended, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I feel bad for anyone that gets attacked by a dog pitbull or other. When I was 5 years old walking home from school I had to walk by this house that had a dalmation in the yard. The yard was fenced and the other kids would tease this dog mercilessly when they walked by. Most of the time he was chained also. But one day as I was walking by he got up and jumped the fence, bit me in the lip and jumped back over and laid down next to his dog house. I never teased this dog, but I did say hi to him on some occasions, he had just finally had enough and was not chained and I unfortunetly happened to be the kid walking by. I don't blame the dog or the owners in this case, he was in his yard behind a fence, I blame the kids whose parents didn't teach them to respect animals, who teased this dog everyday. I had to get 6 rabie shots and the dog was quaranteed until he was cleared. To this day I love dogs but have a bit of a fear of dalmatians (the type of dog this was), it isn't something I can control and I would never wish harm on one, but I do get a slight panicky feeling if I see one running loose. -- Belinda Happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties ... http://www.bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candle Light Service http://www.bemikitties.com/cls HostDesign4U.com (affordable hosting web design) http://HostDesign4U.com --- BMK Designs (non-profit web sites) http://bmk.bemikitties.com
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Generally yellow labs are the sweetest dogs - I have one - however the key word that leapt out of your post was chained. Chained dogs, especially those that spend much of their lives that way, are very likely to attack and bite. We were just talking about this topic on another list Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:40 pm Subject: Re: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Wow! That brings back memories! I had completely forgotten about the dog that lived adjacent to our back yard when I was a kid! He was a big yellow dog (probably a lab mix) named Gilda, or something like that...we were always warned to stay clear of him, and, for the most part, his owner's kept him chained up in the yard...but one day, he was running loose through the yards that were joined in the back (nobody had fencing)...I was in the backyard (I was probably 6 or 7 at the time) and I remember he started approaching me (and had the sense that he wasn't looking for a good scritch)...I was scared out of my wits and picked up a stick that was lying on the ground...not the wisest decision on my part, but I wasn't about to turn and run (last thing I wanted to do was take my eyes off of him)! So there we were, dog and kid not willing to concede...THANK GOD my dad saw me and came running out!! Ever since then, I've always been a little leary of yellow labs...wow, I can't bel ieve I forgot all about that incident! :) Okay, I'll get off this subject now...thanks, everyone, for putting up with my rantings! :) - Original Message - From: Belinda Sauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:12 pm Subject: Re: Find the Pit Bull--problems w/ legislating Hi Kyle, I wasn't offended, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I feel bad for anyone that gets attacked by a dog pitbull or other. When I was 5 years old walking home from school I had to walk by this house that had a dalmation in the yard. The yard was fenced and the other kids would tease this dog mercilessly when they walked by. Most of the time he was chained also. But one day as I was walking by he got up and jumped the fence, bit me in the lip and jumped back over and laid down next to his dog house. I never teased this dog, but I did say hi to him on some occasions, he had just finally had enough and was not chained and I unfortunetly happened to be the kid walking by. I don't blame the dog or the owners in this case, he was in his yard behind a fence, I blame the kids whose parents didn't teach them to respect animals, who teased this dog everyday. I had to get 6 rabie shots and the dog was quaranteed until he was cleared. To this day I love dogs but have a bit of a fear of dalmatians (the type of dog this was), it isn't something I can control and I would never wish harm on one, but I do get a slight panicky feeling if I see one running loose. -- Belinda Happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties ... http://www.bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candle Light Service http://www.bemikitties.com/cls HostDesign4U.com (affordable hosting web design) http://HostDesign4U.com --- BMK Designs (non-profit web sites) http://bmk.bemikitties.com
RE: Find the Pit Bull--Memories!
Interesting! Thanks for that, I didn't know that...but makes sense...I know that dogs on leashes can be inclined to do the same thing simply because they feel they have no where to go, so they think they have no choice but to stay and fight if they feel threatened. I absolutely agree that yellow labs are some of the sweetest dogs! I didn't mean to infer otherwise and if I did, I apologize! Looks like my dog Oscar and I could both use a little therapy to get over our childhood traumas!! :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of BONNIE J KALMBACH Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:59 PM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Generally yellow labs are the sweetest dogs - I have one - however the key word that leapt out of your post was chained. Chained dogs, especially those that spend much of their lives that way, are very likely to attack and bite. We were just talking about this topic on another list Bonnie in WI - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:40 pm Subject: Re: Find the Pit Bull--Memories! Wow! That brings back memories! I had completely forgotten about the dog that lived adjacent to our back yard when I was a kid! He was a big yellow dog (probably a lab mix) named Gilda, or something like that...we were always warned to stay clear of him, and, for the most part, his owner's kept him chained up in the yard...but one day, he was running loose through the yards that were joined in the back (nobody had fencing)...I was in the backyard (I was probably 6 or 7 at the time) and I remember he started approaching me (and had the sense that he wasn't looking for a good scritch)...I was scared out of my wits and picked up a stick that was lying on the ground...not the wisest decision on my part, but I wasn't about to turn and run (last thing I wanted to do was take my eyes off of him)! So there we were, dog and kid not willing to concede...THANK GOD my dad saw me and came running out!! Ever since then, I've always been a little leary of yellow labs...wow, I can't bel ieve I forgot all about that incident! :) Okay, I'll get off this subject now...thanks, everyone, for putting up with my rantings! :) - Original Message - From: Belinda Sauro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:12 pm Subject: Re: Find the Pit Bull--problems w/ legislating Hi Kyle, I wasn't offended, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I feel bad for anyone that gets attacked by a dog pitbull or other. When I was 5 years old walking home from school I had to walk by this house that had a dalmation in the yard. The yard was fenced and the other kids would tease this dog mercilessly when they walked by. Most of the time he was chained also. But one day as I was walking by he got up and jumped the fence, bit me in the lip and jumped back over and laid down next to his dog house. I never teased this dog, but I did say hi to him on some occasions, he had just finally had enough and was not chained and I unfortunetly happened to be the kid walking by. I don't blame the dog or the owners in this case, he was in his yard behind a fence, I blame the kids whose parents didn't teach them to respect animals, who teased this dog everyday. I had to get 6 rabie shots and the dog was quaranteed until he was cleared. To this day I love dogs but have a bit of a fear of dalmatians (the type of dog this was), it isn't something I can control and I would never wish harm on one, but I do get a slight panicky feeling if I see one running loose. -- Belinda Happiness is being owned by cats ... Be-Mi-Kitties ... http://www.bemikitties.com Post Adoptable FeLV/FIV/FIP Cats/Kittens http://adopt.bemikitties.com FeLV Candle Light Service http://www.bemikitties.com/cls HostDesign4U.com (affordable hosting web design) http://HostDesign4U.com --- BMK Designs (non-profit web sites) http://bmk.bemikitties.com
