A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....03-09-06...A Lower Your Blood Pressure Freeper Pet Day

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[dutchess]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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Hi Finest Friends...Giz here. It's Pet Day at the Finest. Please join us for a repeat of one of Rusty and my favorite threads!!!! (Fred the Cat thought it was silly...sigh...thats cats for you) Anyway, today we read what some of our finest canine friends might write to God...(These were sent to mom via email, maybe you too, but we thought they were cute enough to illustrate!) ENJOY!

DEAR GOD FROM THE DOG

Dear God, When we get to heaven, can we sit on your couch? Or is it the same old story?

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Dear God, Why are there cars named after the jaguar, the cougar, the mustang, the colt, the stingray, and the rabbit, but not ONE named for a dog? How often do you see a cougar riding around? We dogs love a nice ride! Would it be so hard to rename the 'Chrysler Eagle' the 'Chrysler Beagle'?

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Dear God, If a dog barks his head off in the forest and no human hears him, is he still a bad dog?

Dear God, We dogs can understand human verbal instructions, hand signals, whistles, horns, clickers, beepers, scent ID's, electromagnetic energy fields, and Frisbee flight paths. What do humans understand?

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Dear God, More meatballs, less spaghetti, please.

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Dear God, Why do humans smell the flowers, but seldom if ever, smell one another?

Dear God, When we get to the Pearly Gates, do we have to shake a paw to get in?

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Dear God, Why do my owners go to the bathroom in the best freshwater bowl in the house?

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Dear God, Are there mailmen in Heaven? If there are, will I have to apologize?

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Dear God, Let me give you a list of a few things I must remember to be a good dog :

I will not eat the cats' food before they eat it, or after they throw it up.

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I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc., just because I like the way they smell.

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The sofa is not a face towel; neither are Mom and Dad's laps.

The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.

My head does not belong in the refrigerator.

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I will not bite the officer's hand when he reaches in for Mom's driver's license and registration.

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I will not play tug-of-war with Dad's underwear when he's on the toilet.

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Sticking my nose into someone's crotch is not an acceptable way of saying 'hello.'

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I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I'm lying under the coffee table.

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I must shake the rainwater out of my fur before entering the house.

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I will not throw up in the car.

I will not come in from outside and immediately drag my butt across the carpet.

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The cat is not a squeaky toy; so when I play with him and he makes that noise, it's usually not a good thing.

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Okay...Giz back here...hope you enjoyed this...let me add one more...as many of you know I was a "dumped stray" who was "taken in" by my folks as many of our FreeperPets have been....Before I take my nap let me add.....

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Dear God, in case I haven't said so....thanks for finding us such special homes on earth especially for those of us lucky to live with Freepers. Life is good!

12-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #14

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Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[Mama_Bear]

That's an attractive menagerie you have there, Xenalyte. I especially like your Boston. My son, who also has "Penny the Pug", got a Boston puppy last year. What a couple of characters those dogs are! Looks like yours has real personality. :-)

[Mama_Bear]

Sassy and Scooter are so precious! I wish I could have a cat. :-(

[Feiny]

Here is Mojo & Roxy enjoying the sunshine. Mojo is now almost 8 months old while Roxy is around 9 years old.

[Feiny]

I just LOVE his tail.

[Kitty Mittens]

Without pain, we wouldn't be all that God wants us to be. His strength shines brightest through human weakness.

Amen. Thank you for your Faithfulness to our Christ in Posting these, Mr. Mayor.

[Mama_Bear]

I saw your photo before you had it removed. Such a sweet cat. They sure have perfected the art of sleeping, haven't they?....both guys AND cats! LOL

BTW, I use photoshop which has a feature that allows you to "optimize" your photos/graphics. It's amazing, in most cases, how reducing the file size of a photo doesn't necessarily reduce the quality to the naked eye, unless you go way too far, of course. I think probably all photo editing programs give you the ability to reduce the file size - it's just a matter of figuring out how to do it. I haven't used anything except photoshop, so I'm not able to be much help.

[Mama_Bear]

I just LOVE his tail.

Sure looks tightly kinked...like a Pug's. I tried to unkink my son's pug's tail....it's not possible - and she didn't like it one bit. LOL.

[snugs]

I love your glittery Mama_Bear what program did you do that in?

[Mama_Bear]

I love your glittery Mama_Bear what program did you do that in?

LouieWolf gave it to me. I wouldn't have the first idea how to make one myself. I have dabbled in animations, but only enough to become thoroughly frustrated.

[MEG33]

Love your pets!...Left TRubble and Diva..T is ao much larger than Diva now! He is snuggly and BIG..Diva is blue eyed but it doesn't show here. We are doctoring her left eye right now and giving antibiotics. She injured it and we are trying to save it.

[Billie]

Checking in! This made a great thread to rerun, dutchess - I had forgotten some of these adorable pictures and their accompanying descriptions!

Lori, hoping you will repost the picture from #3.

Pinging Louie to this post because I know he has mentioned a great (free, I think!) site for compressing graphics before. I didn't keep the link because I always use my software programs.

I will always love this picture.

[Feiny]

Yes, but he seems to have control over it. The tail also relaxes when he sleep....almost completely unfurls.

[snugs]

I have come across one that you can do that writing on the net but it gives their website address on it as below which in a way ruins the graphic. I would like to get a simple program that could do that (without costing a fortune and fairly easy to operate) but as yet no luck.

[Billie]

Photobucket shrinks the picture way too much. I need to reduce the # of bytes. I was shrinking the size of the pics before posting, but the byte size was still huge.

Yes, I think that Amy, who uses PhotoBucket, said they have a MAXIMUM width OR height of 500 pixels. But any physical size up to that is okay and they don't alter it.

On the other hand, tinypic.com has a maximum BYTE size of 250k that they will host, but the physical size as far as I know has no limits.

[Majie Purple]

"...I could not get the whole thing in one photo so I had to take 2 photos instead."

All can relate to that senario if they've taken full rainbow pics, for sure! One shot or two, it comes across as wonderous!

[Majie Purple]

ooo the blue/purple glow of Dennis' eyes is realy somethin'! Me likey!

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Some Presidential Pets

President Gerald Ford (1974-77) gives his golden retriever, Liberty, some attention in the Oval Office.

Amy Carter, daughter of Jimmy Carter (1977-81), holds her Siamese cat, Misty Malarky Ying Yang.

President George H. W. Bush (1989-93) walks onto the White House lawn with his Springer Spaniel, Millie, and Millie's new puppies. One of the puppies is Spot, President George W. Bush's dog, that returned to the White House in 2001 and sadly died in February 2004.

GWB's dogs

The late Spot

Barney and Beazley December 2005

The Vice President's Dogs Jackson (Black) and Dave

[Majie Purple]

Thanks for the post re: Glitter.com snugs! Returnin' the savor to Loue I am!

oh what fun!

[snugs]

Its fun to play with but unfortunately you have the web address in the graphic.

[Majie Purple]

"Its fun to play with but unfortunately you have the web address in the graphic."

Yes but I understand why...no biggie...Haapy to give the credit back to original source.