[davep]

Here's a gratuitous montage of our Maremma, done by my daughter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U457btWl6nw

She's only young, so no stupid comments please.

[WildRose]

Ahh, pretty dog, davep!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'I') liked the story about your Newfoundland dog. You know, those dogs are very useful as search and rescue animals on the east coast. I have read some stories about them saving people in the water.

[dinopello]

This is kind of a memorial to my first dog

She was the sweetest thing and a real presence in my and many other people's lives. I received almost a dozen cards when she died.

She grew up with a cat (my ex-wife's). The cat was cool too. Earned her keep by catching the mice.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'T')he cat was cool too. Earned her keep by catching the mice.

[strider3700]

I had a cat that always shit in my garden. It also decimated the local shrew, mouse, rat and rabbit populations. I lost far far more crop after that cat was hit on the highway compared to what he damaged in the gardens.

I miss him almost every day.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')ometimes I go out walking after midnight. The Moon and stars call me. We've got these canyons here and the coyotes come up out of them to prey on house pets.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjEOeg8GcRQ]This is kind of a memorial to my first dog[/url]

She was the sweetest thing and a real presence in my and many other people's lives. I received almost a dozen cards when she died.

She grew up with a cat (my ex-wife's). The cat was cool too. Earned her keep by catching the mice.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')ometimes I go out walking after midnight. The Moon and stars call me. We've got these canyons here and the coyotes come up out of them to prey on house pets.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')ometimes I go out walking after midnight. The Moon and stars call me. We've got these canyons here and the coyotes come up out of them to prey on house pets.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'I') love night walks also.

PMS, can you imagine this? A couple of months ago, me and my new puppy, then just 3 months old, running in a blizzard, -25 degrees, my puppy jumping into snowbanks wherever she could. I think she's part Husky. You can get used to the cold. Still, I'm looking forward to spring!

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'I') love night walks also.

PMS, can you imagine this? A couple of months ago, me and my new puppy, then just 3 months old, running in a blizzard, -25 degrees, my puppy jumping into snowbanks wherever she could. I think she's part Husky. You can get used to the cold. Still, I'm looking forward to spring!

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Narz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'S')ometimes I go out walking after midnight. The Moon and stars call me. We've got these canyons here and the coyotes come up out of them to prey on house pets.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')inter nights in San Diego routinely drop to the low 50's, into the 40's and sometimes below freezing. Not exactly arctic but cold nonetheless.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Are you inland North County, coyote? Fallbrook can get very cold while directly west in San Onofre the temps are milder. I used to live in Lakeside where it often got very hot in the summer. Now I'm in Normal Heights, closer to the ocean and the temps are less extreme. I use the word 'extreme' advisedly. Nowhere in San Diego county do we get anything like, say, Houston. Yes, it does snow in the mountains and we do get those hot dry winds in Autumn from the east that can lead to terrible firestorms, but it's nothing compared to the drastic weather in Houston. I saw something incredible there once. Low black clouds to the horizon moving very fast north that went on for days. Astonishing. Led to enormous snow storms in Wyoming.

[threadbear]

I love them all. Dogs, cats, fish, birds, turtles. One of my favorite pets, as a kid, was a little snapping turtle my brother and I caught. We fed him hamburger, and patted his head--He loved it. We eventually returned him to the wild, with a good head start, a carapace of about 3 inches long and two inches wide.

My next wild pet, if it's meant to be, will be a raven.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'M')y next wild pet, if it's meant to be, will be a raven.

[threadbear]

I was out of town during the chimp attack, so don't know details of that one yet. Thanks for reminding me to google it! If I do somehow find a baby raven, in need of care, I would make an effort to get it right back with it's flock asap, if that was at all possible. It would be an outdoor pet. Don't actually believe in keeping wild pets anymore.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'I') was out of town during the chimp attack, so don't know details of that one yet.

[coyote]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'A')re you inland North County, coyote? Fallbrook can get very cold while directly west in San Onofre the temps are milder. I used to live in Lakeside where it often got very hot in the summer. Now I'm in Normal Heights, closer to the ocean and the temps are less extreme.