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Yankee the giant St Bernard lets stray cats snuggle up to him every night
Daily Mail ^
| 11-27-13
| Simon Tomlinson
Posted on 11/27/2013 8:25:48 AM PST by Dysart
They were originally bred to rescue mountaineers trapped in snow storms.
So it is perhaps no surprise this giant St Bernard also wants to help the needy, albeit of a rather different kind.
For nine-year-old Yankee has been letting dozens of stray cats cuddle up to him when he goes to sleep every night to shelter them from the cold.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: doggie; giant; kittyping; saintbernard; yankee
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To: jocon307
I found that online and HAD to use it! :-)
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posted on
11/27/2013 10:45:12 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Mogger
My Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam) doesn't have moggie or moggy.
My Webster's 2nd edition (unabridged) of Webster's New International Dictionary (that's the famous edition that was replaced around 1960) has moggy ("Dial. eng. a. A cow or a calf; sometimes, a cat; -- a pet name. b. A scarecrow c. A slattern."), but no moggie.
Google has the cat definition of moggie.
I never saw moggie or moggy before today.
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posted on
11/27/2013 10:45:45 AM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
11/27/2013 10:49:37 AM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society. - Aristotle)
To: MUDDOG; Mogger
"moggy" or "moggie": In sense mongrel cat, 1911, of Unknown origin, possibly Cockney. Possibly derived from maggie, margie or mog, all short forms of the female name Margaret. Original sense, early 19th century, is a term of affection for a calf or cow, which may have been transfered to cats under urbanization. Later 19th century meaning of untidy woman, slattern. Alternatively, in Wigan, moggy traditionally applied to mice, not cats, and a cat was hence a moggy catcher, which may have been abbreviated to moggy.[1][2] Apparently not an abbreviation of similar-seeming mongrel, though perhaps from similar Old English/Proto-Germanic source; see mongrel for details.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moggy
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posted on
11/27/2013 10:57:03 AM PST
by
Dysart
(Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
To: MUDDOG
New word for me. Limey-isms are an endless source of linguistic education.
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posted on
11/27/2013 10:58:52 AM PST
by
publius911
( At least Nixon had the good grace to resign!)
To: MUDDOG
“Moggie” is the Queen’s English for “cat.”
To: Dysart; publius911; TheOldLady
Thanks!
I love words. "Moggie" seems like it's pretty common in England. But I never came across it in all those Agatha Christie books.
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posted on
11/27/2013 11:06:59 AM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: Joe 6-pack; Slings and Arrows
The best of both worlds! Fangs!
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posted on
11/27/2013 11:11:51 AM PST
by
Monkey Face
(For every Christmas tree lit before Thanksgiving, an elf drowns a baby reindeer.)
To: Monkey Face
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posted on
11/27/2013 11:14:39 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
11/27/2013 11:14:58 AM PST
by
Monkey Face
(For every Christmas tree lit before Thanksgiving, an elf drowns a baby reindeer.)
To: MUDDOG
To: DJ MacWoW
LOL, Ok, I was worried there for a bit.
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posted on
11/27/2013 12:14:30 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: jocon307
Well I do take in strays. Had a tom cat chase one in through my torn screen. Poor tom cat panicked when he realized he was in my house. LOL
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posted on
11/27/2013 12:21:22 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Dysart
Looks like the barn cats are doing the good deed—coming out in the cold to keep the lonely pooch warm at night!
To: Dysart
Poor dog, what the heck could he do, he was outnumbered?
I can just imagine the ridiculing email and letters he's probably receiving from fellow canines around the world....The internet is not your friend!
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posted on
11/27/2013 1:25:42 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
To: Fresh Wind
Cats have staff...
I'm not being critical but that picture is disturbing. While they have a thick coat of hair, it's difficult for any dog to lie on the frozen ground without being affected by the cold as this one might be.
That's why outdoor housed dogs are provided with an abundant layer of straw in their houses........
It is a cute photo tho.........
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posted on
11/27/2013 1:33:19 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
To: Mogger
See tagline. Totally different definition from "moggy"
Since we're jumpin' for TAGLINE attention, SEE MINE!
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posted on
11/27/2013 1:39:14 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
To: DJ MacWoW
“Poor tom cat panicked when he realized he was in my house.”
LOL! I’m inside! I’m inside!
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posted on
11/27/2013 1:41:22 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: Hot Tabasco
Since we're jumpin' for TAGLINE attention, SEE MINE! Moggy, Mogger, Muffit... Next?
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posted on
11/27/2013 1:44:52 PM PST
by
Mogger
(Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
To: Hot Tabasco
BTW, “Mogger” is someone who has a Unimog, thus, Mogs, and is a “Mogger”.
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posted on
11/27/2013 1:47:37 PM PST
by
Mogger
(Independence, better fuel economy and performance with American made synthetic oil.)
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