February 04, 2008

Making a dog's dinner out of fish and chips, can result in a big litter.
posted by some wander by mistake 16 years ago
  • I don't think I've ever seen anyone look happier than that mamma dog.
  • I love red setters; beautiful dogs. How much fun would 16 puppies be?
  • red setters are beautiful & lovely natured, but I have rarely encountered a dumber breed of dog, except perhaps afghan hounds. Red Setters are almost so dumb you teach them to sit & they forget how to stand. They have a deserved reputation for getting lost.
  • Heh, 16 stupid puppies falling all over the place and banging into each other.
  • ah, during pregnancy you just can't beat that nutritionally balanced diet of pure lard, bleached flour, and white fish!
  • Well, it's not surprising, really, you fill the animal with fat and protein, and it has all the fuel to plop out lots of little animals. This is basically what it would be looking for in the wild, essentially.
  • Actually, Hank, the old style, broad-headed setters used to be great dogs. They could actually hunt and retrieve. Thirty (!) years ago, I worked in a kennel with 18 of the old-style dogs that were being phased out of the show circuit, and they were wonderful to handle. They had done it all: showing, hunting trials, obedience. Unfortunately, their values had plummeted, and the breeder was going with different "more fashionable" lines. The kennel also had ten of the "new" style, narrow-headed, no-brain, no-bone, couldn't-hunt-a-bone-in-a-paper-bag type setters that weren't worth shooting. No hunting, no obedience. One of them, Mike, used to clear an eight foot fence and run like a maniac. Scary to be responsible for a dog worth several thousands of dollars that tries to chase cars on an interstate!
  • PUPPIES!!!!! *squee*
  • I love how the fish guy explains how healthy battered and deep-fried fish is -- because there is no oil in the fish. yeah, but it's all in the batter. and whoever says they don't eat that droolingly delicious insanely fatty batter is either crazy, or lying.
  • That's great and all, but who pays like $1400 for a dog (pedigree or no) when you can get a perfectly good one for damn near free at any shelter? Best dogs I ever had growing up were mutts. Long live the mutt! Purebred is just a nice way of saying inbred, folks. But puppies, yep I like the wee baby aminals. Not a patch on kittens though, in my book. Kittens rule.
  • Yep, she's the Michelle Duggar of the canine world.
  • Five-minute timewaster quiz: What Breed of Dog Are You? I'm a border collie!
  • I'm a golden retriever. No, really.
  • I didn't find out. They wanted my email at the end, and I refuse to give it to strangers who create puns so lame.
  • Pssstt...Captain R. You can put in a fake email address. Wow, You're a Poodle! Poodle The Star Intelligence, style and good looks in one able-bodied, well-manicured package? But of course! You are a Poodle, and proud of it.