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TyroneBiggums wrote:

guitarbilly wrote:yeah one of my dogs is a coonhound

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Mike LX-R wrote:

ovid9 wrote:You know that flaky neurotic guy? The one who you can TELL really wants to be in a band, but just sorta flakes out and can't make it work?

That'd be this guy.

Yeah fuck you. We post-poned that jam for like 3 straight weeks and you're still jerking me around

Chuck Nutz wrote:Man I hate cats.

Wayne wrote:My cats were awesome. They both died within the last three years.

I always kept the volume down for them and if they'd wander in the room I'd turn it down even more if they walked in front of the amp.

The male had this real chirpy kind of meow his whole life, with a whole vocabulary of different sounds. Little dude understood me better than most humans. I wouldn't risk screwing up his ears.

guitarbilly wrote:Chinchillas ftw.

ovid9 wrote:

guitarbilly wrote:Chinchillas ftw.

They are so cute and soft! My only experience with them is at pet stores where they've always hid in abject terror from me. I swear, I thought the lil guys were going to have heart attacks just because I wanted to pet their soft soft fur.

My kitties would love a chinchilla. Right up until the point they ganged up on it and ate it.

guitarbilly wrote:Yeah they have to get to know you before they let you pet them. My chinchillas would hide at first but once they realized I was not going to harm them, they are ok with me grabbing and petting them, they actually jump in my hand as soon as I open their cage. They are really smart animals and know their owners voice and touch.

We used to have a cat in the house (died last year) and he was totally fine with the chinchillas, never tried to harm them, even when they were out playing.

BrendanO wrote:Fuck y'all, I support Ovid not being a dick to his cats. Y'all would lose your mind if someone punched your pet in the ear, but you'll do with a Marshall fullstack and tell me they love it. They'll lay down at your feet if you hit 'em with a two-by-four, too.

Wayne wrote:The male had this real chirpy kind of meow his whole life, with a whole vocabulary of different sounds. Little dude understood me better than most humans. I wouldn't risk screwing up his ears.

guitarbilly wrote:Chinchillas ftw.

Cirrus wrote:

Wayne wrote:The male had this real chirpy kind of meow his whole life, with a whole vocabulary of different sounds. Little dude understood me better than most humans. I wouldn't risk screwing up his ears.

I love that. My cat Sage, when she's in a talky mood will just sit and chatter away at us, I've got no idea what she's saying but she loves to tell us whatever it is!

And I'm always amazed by how much they actually understand. Yesterday I called through to my g/f that I was gonna give Sage one of those meat stick treats. Sage heard the word "stick" and ran into the kitchen+ looked up at the shelf the treats are on with obvious delight. She knows "Downstairs" too, and always respects "No". Unlike me when the g/f says it...

I think if they had the right kind of voice box to talk like a human they'd surprise us by how much they pick up. I mean, a pea brained Parrot can learn English words...

guitarbilly wrote:Chinchillas ftw.

I only once met a Chinchilla in a pet store. Wasn't scared of me at all. It said hello then got to work, turning the numbers on the combination lock to its cage. They aren't dumb, those little buggers!

Cirrus wrote:

Wayne wrote:The male had this real chirpy kind of meow his whole life, with a whole vocabulary of different sounds. Little dude understood me better than most humans. I wouldn't risk screwing up his ears.

I love that. My cat Sage, when she's in a talky mood will just sit and chatter away at us, I've got no idea what she's saying but she loves to tell us whatever it is!

And I'm always amazed by how much they actually understand. Yesterday I called through to my g/f that I was gonna give Sage one of those meat stick treats. Sage heard the word "stick" and ran into the kitchen+ looked up at the shelf the treats are on with obvious delight. She knows "Downstairs" too, and always respects "No". Unlike me when the g/f says it...

I think if they had the right kind of voice box to talk like a human they'd surprise us by how much they pick up. I mean, a pea brained Parrot can learn English words...

guitarbilly wrote:Chinchillas ftw.

I only once met a Chinchilla in a pet store. Wasn't scared of me at all. It said hello then got to work, turning the numbers on the combination lock to its cage. They aren't dumb, those little buggers!

Mizati20 wrote:Fuck cats play loud....

....not joking....

nightflameauto wrote:

guitarbilly74 wrote:Not only they are smart as hell, but they have really refined motor skills with their hands. One of my Chinchillas learned how to open the clip that keeps their playpen door closed, which is not an easy thing to do. To make it even funnier, while she is doing that, the other Chinchilla acts as the lookout and squeaks if she sees me coming. They know EXACTLY what they're doing and they know it's wrong

This is the type of learned behavior I see in animals that makes me wanna run a camera constantly to rub in people's faces when they say they all run on pure instinct. There were two cats on the farm that knew how to open shed doors. So we put stronger latches on them. The two ganged up and used BOTH of their weights against the new latches, to open the doors so they could sleep inside on cold nights. If only they coulda learned to close the door behind them we wouldn't have cared.

What's really funny is when the geckos and the dogs gang up on a problem. One of my geckos will intentionally throw herself off my shoulder onto the dogs' backs when they're headed out the door because she wants to get outside. And the dogs have learned that if they just speed up right at the critical moment I can't catch them. Little fuckers.

This type of crap is funny when it's smaller animals, but aggravating with bigger ones. We had a cow that figured out how to grab the electric fence handles to open the gaps. About three nights a week for a while we'd go out to get the cows in the morning and they'd all be sleeping in their usual spots, but everything outside their lot would be trampled to shit, and there'd be cow tracks all over around the road and the gap would be open and down. Took us taking turns staying up to watch until we caught the culprit. Imagine trying to scold a cow, at 2:00 AM, while she stands there holding the handle of an electric fence gap in her mouth looking at you like, "I'm not doing anything."

We ended up having to install a fence in place of that wired area.

Chuck Nutz wrote:Man I hate cats.

AdrianPOA wrote: No other animal has shit that smells so bad that you can actually taste it when you catch a whiff of it. Ugh!

'63-Strat wrote:Both cats AND dogs have been known to eat their deceased owners. Just saying.