Comments by "B Nic" (@bnic9471) on "The Dodo" channel.

  1. My husband said they remind him of big, furry woodticks. He needs to watch what he says, though, having moved to the Badger State.
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  2. I have a little yellow cat who was pulled out of a frozen mud puddle by two Great Pyrenees. They bottle fed her and we adopted her, and she is the nicest cat I've ever known. She loves humans and big dogs so much!
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  3. Not gorgeous--just a chintzy, empty, ugly McMansion. My house is 100 years old and much better built than their pile of chipboard and vinyl with umpteen gables.
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  4. I used to be super-phobic of dogs, after having been bitten as a girl. But I got tired of the fear and forced myself to make friends with every dog I met. Mind over matter, right? Now, it's the strangest thing, but dogs really seem to hold me in high esteem. I married a man with 5 dogs and soon became their pack leader. They seem to have elected me. Lol.
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  5.  @JJ-ji9xx  Not bitter or envious. I just really hate their decor and McMansions in general. It's called an opinion. I also once lived in a similar house and really didn't like the quick and dirty construction and cheap materials.
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  6. She looks just like a little feral stray I took in in 2001, right down to the coffee moustache under her nose. Only difference was that my kitty was a Manx. It took a very long time for her to open up and trust me, and I miss her. Wish cats had longer lifespans.
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  7.  @erinmiller1433  And we're so apelike.
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  8. Chickens will do that, if you give them plenty of TLC.
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  9. She looked like she was using a carpet sweeper.
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  10. Last time I was in the South, I stepped on a fire ant nest, and I still have the scars where they stung, 21 months later.
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  11. I live in Wisconsin, "The Badger State", and saw one chase my fearless brother down a hill and into the road. They really are "mean as snot".
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  12.  @_Myrhl  Great Pyrenee. Don't know much about them, myself, except that they know a frozen kitten when they see one.
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  13. Lime looks just like my rescue cat, Nat, except for the eye business--a grey girl. A long girl, too. She and Letty are an adorable pair.
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  14. I once surprised a skunk in my mud room--it came in through the cat door to rip open a bag of cat food and was eating it. It tried to run. I backed out in a hurry and opened both mud room doors from the outside. It was able to leave, and I poured my cat food into a covered galvanized pail. The mud room was a tiny bit stinky for a day or two, but nothing like it would have been if the skunk had let loose a full charge.
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  15. Damn, people . . . how about decorating your McMansion, even a little bit? Have you no taste?
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  16.  @maurigangarside2439  Yes, Stoffel is crazy clever. He's also how I found out what "Stoffel", the surname of the Belgian branch of my family, meant. 😜
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  17.  @thetrumpnewsnetwork7503  Good Lord . . . Siberian huskies are almost untrainable. My sister dumped two of them on my parents when I was a kid. They killed a cat, broke out of their run and killed someone's pet turkey a mile away, and dragged me down an icy driveway, once, when I was trying to walk them. They do not heel, and God help you if you make the mistake of trying to get them to trot with you.
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  18. Bridget, there must be a way to bring her around. I used to be phobic about dogs, but calmness, proper body language, thinking like a dog, treats, singing, and just the tiniest use of a command voice when he needed it helped me make an abused, aggressive schnauzer my best pal. Take your time with her and trust will build up. I also have a stray Chihuahua mix--a very nervous girl, and food-aggressive. I had to let her know that I was the queen of the kitchen in a loud voice a few times, but she straightened out a bit, at least when I'm around. Mycel's advice sounds spot-on. I don't quite know why, but it does. Maybe some people are just natural with animals. I know that animals really seem attracted to me, for some reason. What Mycel listed is all stuff you should be doing.
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  19. I love his name.
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  20. I've taken in some matted, neglected dogs from a woman with a hoarding problem. I suppose she thought she was doing a good job, but she had almost 40 of them, including some she'd bred, then couldn't bear to sell. One mini schnauzer especially stole my heart because he was an antisocial biter when I got him, and he turned into a big love bug with me after a few months. I miss him, and I hope his former owner hasn't loaded up on dogs, again. She would see one running along the side of the road and grab him. Her dog warehouse just reeked, and she only seemed to pay attention to a handful of them. We took 5 and found new homes for 2 others out of the 38 she had.
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  21.  @rapcat1271  Or not been able to afford furniture. 😀
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  22. Great apes like other great apes.
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  23. I thought her face was her butt, at several points. Poor thing. What the heck did her original keepers feed her?
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  24.  @DeezN00tz99  Take your red/blue garbage and stuff it. Your disdain is a huge problem. One man's First World state is another man's liberal sh*thole.
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  25. Sometimes purring can be deceptive--a diminutive growl.
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  26. I have a little cat named Hildur who is totally obsessed with water, too.
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  27. Aren't you a wit?
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  28. He wasn't so bad off the night before, either, passing out with his pack on the leather furniture.
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  29.  @thetrumpnewsnetwork7503  My sister's huskies were a breeding pair. Beautiful, unruly dogs who lived to run. Although they didn't choose to make but one litter. Once, I was walking the female, and she must have been in heat, because, out of nowhere, my history teacher's St. Bernard appeared and sat on her . . . and would not budge. Just slobbered and sat on her. And he didn't listen to me. I felt like such an idiot, standing on the side of the road with a St. Bernard sitting on my dog, whose name was "C'mere, dog" in Russian. The male was "Get outta here, dog".
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  30.  @thetrumpnewsnetwork7503  That is some dedication, running your dogs with a bike! My brother in Alaska had some husky mixes, a malamute, and a samoyed, and I think he had them pull sleds, sometime. Not as easy to do so here in Wisconsin, although snowmobile trails would work great for that. My parents were completely unprepared to take good care of huskies and recognized it after several months of howling, great escapes, and angry neighbors. They gave the dogs to a guy with other huskies who was well equipped to take care of them, and my sister went into a snit about it, even though she'd stuck my parents with them, moved out of state, and had no intention of taking them back. Bad dog owner.
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