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Topic: What would your pet say
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Randall
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posted June 08, 2011 01:18 PM
  
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DangerGirl
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posted June 08, 2011 03:51 PM
I imagine my pets are always saying "Feed me, Woman!!" and then after "you may pet me now."I'd be interested to hear other people's opinions on whether animals have emotions. I spent a long time studying animals, turning several types of wild animals into pets, and learned that each species I've encountered have different noises or behaviors to express rudimentary emotions: affection, happiness, fear, warning, the desire to mate. I adopted a dog last year that turned out to be deaf and I can tell by what he's looking at or touches his nose to what he wants, then he looks at me and he can tell by the expression on my face whether I'm in favor of giving him what he wants or not. It's kind of cool. IP: Logged |
Alma Sun
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posted June 08, 2011 05:49 PM
Oh definitely, I had 4 baby pet squirrels for a little over a week when I was little lol. When we found them they were living in my garage and when I told my dad he grabbed them and put them in a box. We fed them everyday with rice and milk and they recognized us! When we went out to play, they would as well (all 6 of us were running around in the backyard LOL). On one of the last days before my dad released them to a park, my older brother accidentally killed one of the squirrels, and the remaining 3 no longer wanted to play. Honestly, they were mourning.  ------------------
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Randall
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posted June 09, 2011 12:45 PM
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lechien
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From: my 30 cubic square meter room with a rat!
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posted June 11, 2011 02:29 PM
i'd be curious to know what my rats are saying. one is probably saying all the time "pet me pet me pet me pet me... yummy stuff yummy stuff yummy stuff... play play play play... is that food?" the other one is saying "leave me leave me leave me leave me... give me that food but don't touch me. but play with me play play play... ok now you can pet me. give me that food"  rats are pretty intelligent still. they are so communicative. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted June 12, 2011 01:50 PM
Rats can learn complex maze patterns rather quickly. They are the puzzle solvers of the animal kingdom, along with squirrels (who are nothing more than rodents with fluffy tails) who will always find a way to get into bird feeders.IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted June 13, 2011 07:05 AM
Sometimes the duckies miss some bread, and then the squirrels get leftovers.IP: Logged |
lechien
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From: my 30 cubic square meter room with a rat!
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posted June 13, 2011 07:17 AM
have you seen Sugar Bush? ok, to be honest it's slightly cruel to dress up and pose the poor guy (gal?), but too cute to argue... it may as well mean that it doesn't really mind, because it does pose and stay still for it.IP: Logged |
lechien
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posted June 13, 2011 07:25 AM
i'm thinking, if the use of hands was crucial to the evolution, rodents would be the second in the hierarchy after the apes, no?IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted June 14, 2011 01:06 PM
Interesting. We do share the most DNA with both apes and rodents.IP: Logged |
lechien
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posted June 14, 2011 04:41 PM
is that true!?  WOW, they deserve more credit than they are getting now, don't they?  IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted June 15, 2011 12:54 PM
Indeed they do.IP: Logged |
Alma Sun
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From: The East Coast
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted August 31, 2011 03:14 PM
My dog might say something like this..  ------------------
"Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise." — Maya Angelou IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted August 31, 2011 04:46 PM
That puppy spelled it right this time.------------------
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." Aristotle IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted September 01, 2011 05:18 AM
How can a winking puppy be wrong?  ------------------
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." Aristotle IP: Logged |
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