Pictures of my pet/s

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I add one for all us animal lovers

Mankinds degree  of civilsation  is measured 
by how well they  take care of ...
Their children
Their elderly
and ..
Their animals

So so true.....I told my girls "Don't get involved with a man who does not like animals" Its a good yardstick to measure a mans worthyness by.

[SandyB]

Politics ??  methinks you mistaken .. its a simple measure  of humanity .. what we as  individuals  and  fellow beings do ... its a looking into our hearts and asking  how well do we measure up to  what is written here  ???

What the politicians  and policymakers  do in their  cloud cuckoo land  of broken " promises " is another story ...  I keep that separate  from  here ...

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Whats so political about caring for children,the elderly and animals ???????
   I think I've lost you here. Let me get back to my 

[georg ruf jr.]

Welll.....
We've had several topics on humaniy on this board before. I was always asking for everybody to see things in a  conext...

[SandyB]

Georg ,,,  The context  here is how well do we as individuals measure up to this one ..

But yes if one wanted to take it further  in the  context .. the politicians and policymakers with their generally hollow promises ..  if they dont measure up to some of the basics .. which includes the  children elderly and animals ... well we should do our damndest to vote them out ... so yes in that context i suppose we if we are caring individuals that  are in touch with our hearts will do so ..lets leave it there and out of this topic ... here we celebrate our love and feelings   toward  our  animal friends .

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

Hey Georg ...did you see my handsome German type dog?

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

Hey Georg ...did you see my handsome German type dog?

I saw the dog, lovely

[Delia]

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
        --Immanuel Kant (18th Century German Philosopher)

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
        --Ghandi

[Bertie Horak]

Great stuff, Delia.  I do agree.  I still have to meet an animal lover I don't like.  And yes, somebody mistreating animals - definitely end of that friendship.  Maybe because my animals are like my kids - spoiled rotten, but sooooo wonderful. 

[Delia]

Agree 100% Bertie - "if you're not an animal lover, you're aint no friend of mine"!

They ARE like children - when my cats were still outdoor cats (they're not anymore for various reasons - i do take them out daily, supervised tho to eat grass, sniff around,lie in the sun a bit), the male one would come flying in thru the bedroom window at precisely 9.30 every night and no matter where i was, on the couch watching TV, in bed reading or wherever, he would jump up on me and wrap himself around my neck purring away,rubbing his face against mine and carry on like this for about 10 minutes - i got the feeling he was telling me all about his evening - where he'd been, what he'd done, who he'd seen............then satisfied that he'd told me all about it, he'd go eat, curl up on my bed and sleep till the outdoors called again.  The female would saunter past after coming in with that high falooting attitude of "none of your business where i've been"...........such different personalities.  They bring so much pleasure and joy, boggles my mind how someone can say they don't like animals?????

[Bertie Horak]

So true Delia - they definitely have their own personalities.  I know exactly what they're thinking/planning/scheming - know them very well.  They have so many expressions one can pick up if you look for it.  The whole body position, posture and eyes - shape, size, blinking, squinting, etc everything means something.  Dont know if you've seen my 3 - I posted pictures a few months ago - reply #226 in this topic, here's the link:

http://www.oranjemundonline.com/Forum/index.php?topic=807.msg30999#msg30999

[Florrie van Zyl (Muir)]

I am not a people person, love animals and small children and thats about it.

[Delia]

@ Bertie - your kids are bootiful

[Bertie Horak]

Thanx Delia.  I was in the dogbox for 20 minutes this evening.  I gave them their "vlooitjie-medisyne" because it's flea season.  They absolutely hate the drops behind the neck, but after a while they were friendly again!  All 3 lying around the computer at the moment, waiting for me to carry on with their bed-time story about the tooth mouse and his ordeals with puss-in-boots!

[SandyB]

The Morag getting  bigger and naughtier by the day .. really pushing  the  limits with Tina girl ... today went to  visit Charlie in Plumstead ...  nice braai outside ... when it got to time to leave ..  I put on their  leashes . so Madam decided to give a show ... she grabbed Tina's  leash and  dragged her  around .. as if to say .. dont worry I'll keep an  eye on her ,, you dont have to .. but was having mischevious fun ...  Tina needs to bite her bum hard to keep the pecking order ...