Posted on 06/30/2011 3:29:04 PM PDT by NYer
Handsome dogs. Mine are Ridgebacks. Are yours? Or are they perhaps Vizslas?
Which works out in the end. Its better that the trash in society dont spread their weak genes around.
http://www.peterdobias.com/community/2010/10/a-jack-russell-doing-house-chores-so-much-fun/
Love this lil dog, Jesse. Have you seen this yet?
"Jennessa Durney has earned a MA in Theological Studies and an Advanced Apostolic Catechetical Diploma from Christendom Colleges Graduate School."
Her resume doesn't suggest her attitude. Nobody offered her water but she saw dog lovers quench a dog's thirst... and that upsets her?
I disagree. Raising a child cannot be compared to dog ownership. Children are much more work.
That woman standing under that tree is in deep doo doo should a damn big squirrel wonder by.
Sure that is why they used them for emergency food when things got bad.
Good thing to be guilty of. Me, too and I’m completely unapologetic. I do wonder at those who can’t live and let live with those who consider their pets family. Says much more about them than about the people they have such a problem with.
Agreed on that! As for her snarky comment about not being offered water, she can get her own: she’s human and has that ability. Dogs cannot. They are dependent on humanity to treat them well - and they overheat much faster than a human.
My children aew raised and have lives of their own and now I have a dog that I like better than most people, so sue me.
Whatever they are, they are very handsome dogs. The Redbone Coonhound is similar as well, although I’m not sure that they can be livers.
And you are so right! Unfortunately there are many conservatives who do. If it’s not about human babies, it doesn’t count. I couldn’t disagree more (and God doesn’t agree either - despite the efforts some make to try to prop their views up Biblically.)
I have four kids ranging in age from 8 to 29.
I also have a 2 year old pit bull dog.
The dog is always happy to see me, obeys on command, never complains about what I fix for dinner, doesn’t whine for his own cell phone, never talks back, never slams a door because I won’t let him wear THAT out of the house, doesn’t hang with the wrong kind of dogs, and, other then the vet, food and a few chew toys, does cost me a whole lot of money.
Kids on the other hand......
Dogs are my favorite people... for many reasons. I do not give a damn who that bothers.
LLS
I know a couple, who have children and they both work but they don’t want to leave their grown dog alone because he’ll cry so they make the mother in law come and pick him up to babysit. They treat the dog like a child!! Its weird. its one thing to love your pet its another to treat it like a person.
Cost of a child can be $15,000 per year or $270,000 in 18 years (or half that in poorer rural area). And that is if you don't get taken to the cleaners with a divorce and child support.
From BabyCenter Cost of Raising Your Child Calculator
$130,680 for rural, two parents, no college, household income under $56,300/year, child born 2011.
$236,070 for suburb/city in midwest, two parents, no college, household income under $56,300 to $98,500/year, child born 2011.
From USDA Cost of Raising a Child Calculator
$164,250 for rural, two parents, no college, household income under $58,000/year, child born 2011, 18 year cost.
$263,934 for suburb/city in midwest, two parents, no college, household income under $57,400 to $99,390/year, child born 2011.
That is deeply brilliant... I love it!
LLS
It gets creepier. Every now and then, someone does a poll about genetic selection of children. That is, if you could genetically choose your children, how would you design them?
Typically the answers are what you might expect: faster, stronger, smarter, prettier. And usually the poll ends with that. However, one time a poll decided to go more in depth and made a startling discovery.
People wanted their children to be more like dogs and cats. The reason was both that they personally liked dogs and cats better than they liked other people, and second, because they thought that if their children looked and acted more like dogs and cats, they would be popular.
My dog and I both agree with you. :-)
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