Other pets (pics and discussions)

[snakehill]

Well I wouldn't pay $1,000 for a dog right now but the dog costs that much because it's a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel...Shade is a big dog right? My chihuahua was $500. When you get into small pure bred dogs you are going to pay out the wazoo.

My Chihuahua was free! Found him on the highway at 10:30 pm on my way to work!

[ConcinusMan]

The ruby on the other hand isn't exactly show material, but personality wise it's far superior.

Seems like her head is too high and domed. Like she's a little too much regular King Charles.

And speaking of pugs everyone, you might notice some similarities in the Cavaliers. That's because the Cavalier was created by interbreeding King Charles Spaniels (also known as the English Toy Spaniel) with pugs about 300 years ago. Further refining created a new breed that is separate from the King Charles spaniel; the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Cavaliers have shorter noses (pug influence) and are supposed to have a head that not as high domed as the regular King Charles.

I do like their personalities. My friend has 5 adults. Blenheims and tri-colors. They vary widely but one thing remains constant. They are very loyal dogs and generally very loving. The shedding is terrible though. They shed tons of hair, year 'round. As hairy as my poms are, heavy shedding is generally confined to just a few months out of the year.

[ConcinusMan]

Did you know that a pug's eyeballs can pop out?? Because of the bulging. What would you do if you were sitting in your living room enjoying a nice evening with your family and your dog's eyeball popped out and rolled across the floor?

That would be a neat trick (rolling on the floor) being how the eye is attached to the optic nerve. Human's eyeballs can pop out too. It's just that the nerve is usually too short to let them pop out very far. I know humans eyes can come out because a friend of mine (after trauma to eye socket) had to have a plastic piece put in surgically because his eye would sometimes come out and actually hang there, looking down.

I've never heard of a pug doing that though.

[Stefan-A]

Seems like her head is too high and domed. Like she's a little too much regular King Charles.

And his legs are too short.

And speaking of pugs everyone, you might notice some similarities in the Cavaliers. That's because the Cavalier was created by interbreeding King Charles Spaniels (also known as the English Toy Spaniel) with pugs about 300 years ago. Further refining created a new breed that is separate from the King Charles spaniel; the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Cavaliers have shorter noses (pug influence) and are supposed to have a head that not as high domed as the regular King Charles.

I think you have something backwards there. It's the regular King Charles that has the pug traits, shorter noses etc. The Cavaliers don't have any pug in their appearance and were bred to eventually look less like them and the King Charles spaniels, and more like actual spaniels. Cavaliers are the ones with the longer noses, King Charles spaniels look like someone took a shovel to a Cavalier's face.

[EasternGirl]

I have had a couple of pug owners tell me that...about the eyeballs being able to pop out...of course, the rolling across the floor thing was my added drama for effect. As far as finding Chihuahuas for free...I suppose that if my chihuahua had been wandering on the road...I would have gotten him for free...considering he is purebred and I bought him from a breeder it is probably unlikely that would have happened. I actually did look at rescues and on Craig's list and in the paper and all over...trying to find a cheaper or free dog before I bought my dog...I couldn't find any small dogs that fit what I was looking for in my area.

[snakehill]

The only reason I found him on the highway was because he was abandoned by some a**hole. If your looking to get rid of your dog you couldn't find a better place than a highway to dump them? Not that any place is a good place to just "dump" a dog? I have nothing againest paying for purebred dogs! May family used to raise and show Goldens.

[kimbosaur]

I cant tell you the number of times Ive seen "homeless" dogs wandering the sidewalks at night and jumped out of the car to snatch them up...only to see the owner on the other side giving me a dirty glare. Then I just awkwardly get back in and drive away slowly...... Lol!

[EasternGirl]

What is wrong with people? Seriously? I seriously do not understand people and I never will. I went to school for psychology because I thought it would help me understand people...ten years after grad school, I walked away from the field of psychology shaking my head in disgust. Every single person who abuses an animal should go to hell where animals are waiting for them to abuse them in the same exact manner in which they were abused.

[snakehill]

And this is why I work with "special people" as opposed to "normal people"!

[EasternGirl]

Yes...but I worked with special people...and I got so frustrated with the politics and the idiots working in the psych field that I had to get out of it. In the psych field you have a bunch of damaged people who go out and get degrees and then think they know it all and try to fix everyone else. Having people who have personal experience with mental illness or abuse or what have you, working as professionals in the field would not be a problem...as it is actually beneficial to have personal experience...however...so many of these people have never actually gotten well themselves...they are still very sick and they are working in the field with huge egos thinking they know what is best for everyone else. It is unbelievably frustrating. And you also see a lot of bad, bad things going on.