If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones
are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without alcohol,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
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Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!
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If you get your meals provided free.
If you take your minders for daily walks
If you can crap where you like and not have to pick it up.
If you can smell the rear of other dogs
If you can chase silly things like sticks which some person throws for you.
Your owner is a fool.
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If you can live in a large house with staff included, all free
If you can specify exactly which brand of food you like
If your staff are intelligent enough to be trainable to tell the time, and provide your meals whenever you specify
If you can have as much or as little contact as you like with your staff
If you can reserve whichever chair you like, and change it at will
If you can walk straight in without needing to change your shoes, and leave mud wherever you like
If you can sleep late without any responsibilities to take anyone for a walk
You are a cat.
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If you are allowed into my kitchen when I'm around and on my terms;
If you are happy to eat Lidl's catfood biscuits;
If you agree to be wormed four times a year;
If you frighten the mice and rats away;
If you sit on your mat, quietly under the radiator;
If you go out when you're told;
If you're happy to be fed if I'm around when you are
Then you're my cat.
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Childish of me I know.
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>>God how annoying.
I didn't know you were a believer, Sire.
Eh, there is some more to that inner peace thingy, quite good really, I thought but, DD would nuke the whole thing so I cut it orf.
I'll send it thee.
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Mapmaker, you and I will never see eye to eye, yet I have to admit you're one redeeming factor is you liking your cat;)
Something doesn't fit there....
Pat
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>> Mapmaker, you and I will never see eye to eye, yet I have to admit
>> you're one redeeming factor is you liking your cat;)
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>> Something doesn't fit there....
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>> Pat
Well you know what they say, " If the cat fits"
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I can just see Pat in a catskin cap a la Daniel Boone's c***skin one, earthenware jug in one hand, muzzle-loading mountain rifle in the other, bloodshot but unbowed, YEEE_hah!
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Z, will you stop posting on here please....you should be very busy doing something for me at the moment!
Pat
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"...you should be very busy doing something for me at the moment!
Blimey!
The plot thickens... and the mind boggles...
Pat and Z - now there's a thing. Who would've believed it? :-)
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If you're cold and hungry
And if you have to forage for what little food you can get
And if you're lying in my garden with a hole in your head
You're a brown rat
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>> Z, will you stop posting on here please....you should be very busy doing something for
>> me at the moment!
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>> Pat
Stop nagging woman, Its done.
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That quickly?
Pat
Last edited by: Pat on Tue 7 Jan 14 at 17:50
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Funny, thats what Nicole always says.
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>> Z, will you stop posting on here please....you should be very busy doing something for
>> me at the moment!
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>> Pat
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Get a room!!!
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You are both starring in "The 7:39" and I claim my £5!
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>> Mapmaker, you and I will never see eye to eye, yet I have to admit
>> you're one redeeming factor is you liking your cat;)
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Mapmaker's cat sounds like one of the poor deprived dears we often seem to find ourselves giving sanctuary to.
I wonder why that should be :)
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Bet he won't tell you off Cliff like he does me;)
.....water off a ducks back anyway!
Pat
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I'd love to leave him in the kitchen when it's raining, but he'd set the burglar alarm off, which would distress him!
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>> I'd love to leave him in the kitchen when it's raining, but he'd set the
>> burglar alarm off, which would distress him!
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Well, well, well, the mans got a heart after all!
Pat
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Meanwhile ... back to the OP:
Why Do Dogs Leave Earth First?
a child answers...
" Being a veterinarian, I have been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named, Belker. The dog's owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy, Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle. I examined Belker and found that he was dying of Cancer.
I told the family that we couldn't do anything more for Belker and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog, in their home. As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me that they thought it would be good for six-year-old, Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.
The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker's family surrounded him. The young boy, Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.
The little boy seemed to accept Belker's transition without any difficulty or confusion. We sat together for a long while after Belker's death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that animals lives are shorter than human lives. Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, " I know why."
Startled, we all turned to him. what came out of his mouth stunned me. I'd never heard a more comforting explanation. it has changed the way I try to live. He said, " People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life-- like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?" The six-year-old continued, " Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don't have to stay as long."
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Inner peace - madf
