That is NOT a cat. That is a puma or lynx or baby grey panther or something. Look at the paws on that thing!!!! Who are you trying to fool? Be careful and feed it often and plenty, I would hate to hear you disappeared . . .
I have little house apes, genus homo-sapiens. (does that count?) They're entering puberty now and getting a bit unruly so i think I may have to give them to a zoo.
As a kid I had many pets.Hampsters and turtles. I had a little white mouse that I near adored. Snakes { boa } which are a waste of time.As are Iguana { too tempermental if not warm }.I never had a Bird. I sprung for a Rhesus monkey once after visiting a pet shop and fell in Love.They are extremely tempermental.They throw fits just like in a Little Rascal short. I always wanted a Hot chick as a Pet,like in some Movies. Does anyone know where I can buy one.
It's a norwegian forest cat. They're awesome. It's got fluffy long hairs between its paws as well which helps keep them warm when walking through the snow.
Oh my gosh, she's adorable! Well, looks like she adopted the perfect family to coddle and spoil her.... Maine Coons are beautiful cats......
Wikipedia on: Norwegian Forest Cat Intelligent, social cats. Prefer to live with another cat, so they don't feel alone when you leave. Will attach itself to one person in the household, but if you neglect them, they will turn to another. They're big, fluffy, loveable cats. They do not eat people. But I found out that mine loves to hunt mice, frogs, leaves, anything that moves in the garden. They got plenty of energy, can jump high and love to climb.
Many times, I have watched my dog laying in the open (he has a perfectly good doghouse I'm not sure he's ever used) on a sub-zero day, sleeping soundly and snoring like a Kenworth. When I try to get him inside, he just looks at me like I'm insane. Some dogs not only do not mind the cold, they LIKE it. My dog is a well-insulated Saint Bernard.
I share living space with one lazy dog (St. Bernard, Marmaduke) and crazy cats in sizes S (Vierna, 7lb black shorthair), L (Briza, 15lb orange tabby), and XXXL (Maya, 29lb Maine Coon Cat).
WRONG.That St.Bernard was probably outside because the sun was out,shining.When a human is exposed to extreme bitter cold they too fall into deep slumber.When you freeze to death you fall to sleep first. Because the body and it's defenses no longer activate.Dogs are no different.Yes,a St.Bernard would love it outside especially in the cold or 40's.But not sub zero. Plus it wouldn't take much for a St.Bernard to die from heat prostation.
yup...my brother kept his dogs outside all winter they would curl up and let snow cover them in a blizzard, he had a heated dog house they would go in on the coldest of days -40 and lower...
wrong...deep slumber? a coma is slumber? obviously someone who has never been exposed to extreme cold, there is no comfy slumber when body parts are freezing and you begin uncontrolable shaking, much different from hypothermia at warmer temps...been there, done that...
It depends on the dog - some are better insulated than others! I have 2 Alaskan Malamutes, and although they do come into the house they will ask to go outside after a while, because it is often too warm for them (and I really don't heat my house very much). They have been provided with comfy bedding, but both prefer to sleep on hard floors because it's cooler for them (many mals are the same, although some are not). On the rare occasion we have snow, they will happily curl up outside in it while more falls on top of them, and will often choose to do that rather than come into the house or go into their kennel. They are built for it - only at very extreme arctic temperatures (which we don't get here at all) will the cold even begin to penetrate their layer of fur (when the snow falls on them, it doesn't even melt at all - their body heat is so well insulated from what is outside the fur layers). They love being outside in all weathers - cooling wind and rain suits them just fine, as does freezing cold and snow (relatively - this is a fairly mild climate). They will usually (not always - one of them in particular likes to sunbathe for a while!) retire to the shade (and damp) on hot sunny days, although in this climate it doesn't get particularly hot either (temperatures rarely get above 80 degrees F). They are very good at regulating their own temperature, and they can do that better outside than in. They are fully integrated family pets, more than welcome inside the house (and in the house on a daily basis), but they often prefer to be outside even when the weather conditions are pretty unpleasant for humans (and many other dogs). There are lots of neglected dogs made to live outside in all weathers, chained up in years and left in all kinds of dangers by uncaring owners - that is appauling. However, it should never be assumed that all dogs that seem to mostly live outside (and are out in all weathers) are doing so as a result of any such thing - some are very well cared for and looked after, have a free choice of where to be (with a variety of options - undercover, in a kennel, in the house, or out in the open), and often choose to be outside in the open because they are built for those conditions. This is the usual sleeping spot of choice for one of them: In a wooden half-barrel (with holes to stop water collecting in it), on blocks (so off the floor), but open to the elements - she will happily sleep in there in all conditions, including rain and snow, despite having free access to a covered outdoor run, an insultated kennel (which she uses only rarely), and the house. That's her choice, though - she likes it in there (despite the fact I originally bought it to put plants in - I'm not going to throw her out of her chosen place for that, though)! The other one (who obviously has the same choices) usually prefers to be spread out on the bare concrete slabs in the covered run.
Huskies can withstand extreme cold down to 40 below zero.Having had 2 Huskies,one a full blood and the other had 25% Malamute { it was a bigger husky } they do love the outdoors except on a sweltering hot day. Yes,Huskies love to curl up.They curl up and use their fluffy tails to cover their face in the cold winter.Huskies also like to use the same spots to lay down.Huskies also don't get along well with each other. Huskies get along pretty well with other dogs and are like klowns. But they are very good at keeping a yard free of small animals,as they are better killers than cats.Huskies don't like places like a Vets where they tend to act like big baby's.If you spoil a Husky with table scraps in their dog food and then decide to cut it off,they will go on mini-starvation diets until they get those table scraps back.Huskies are brave but also stubborn,and hard to train them unlike most big dogs.A mature husky should weight around 50-60 lbs.
Mals and huskies share many common traits (although mals are thankfully less prone to hyper-energetic-ism and escapism!). They are certainly not the ideal pet for everyone. If anyone expects to reliably 'train' a sled dog breed in the way that they do with most other dogs, they are going to be in for a shock - it's much more of an ongoing process of negotiation! That's not to say that 'training' can be ignored, of course, but just that it's a different way of working that's required, and that's something that suits some people and drives others completely up the wall (especially when they hit the 'malamonster' adolescent stage and 'forget' everything they have ever 'learned' - alot of mals end up in rescue at about 18 months old, when their owners discover that their 'exception to the rule' about training is just like most other mals after all, and they decide that they can't cope with it - unfortunately, lack of research into a breed before taking it on as a pet is a fairly major problem. Choosing the right breed is about much more than deciding which one you like the look of, but far too many people seem not to realise that).
my brothers dogs were an English Setter, Golden Retriever X, and a Standard Poodle...their coats all thickened for the winter, my brother was was a little annoyed they wouldn't use the heated dog house until -40c and lower only his assorment of cats would use it on a regular basis, when the dogs joined them was a fair amount of snarling and spitting but in the end they would huddle together with the cats sleeping on top of the dogs...
My first Husky which had 25% Malamute was a digger.I guess most those sled dogs are.But Dominic { First husky } was an escape artist.I spent many a day scouring the neighborhood looking for him.He would work for hours in a spot under my fence to dig and then crawl out.I usually caught where he was workin {diggin'} and used firewood to plug up the spot. When the spot was too wide I got railroad ties. My 2nd husky was a full blood and I got him for a discount price { $100 } because he was almsot 2 years old.I had to promise to get him neutered because he had some kind of inherited eye problem in his pedigree that breeders could look up and disqualify if wanting to show him.My first Husky cost $300 in early 1980's. My 2nd husky lived 15 years and a few months.My First Husky a little short of 13 yrs.My 2nd husky never dug holes under my fence but occassionally did dig a few holes.I also could never get my 2nd husky to use stairs.I bought him at a Husky Farm when he was just short of 2 yrs. old and he was unfamaliar with stairs and I could never train him to use them.So he couldn't come in the house from the backyard via the balcony stairs like Dominic.So,I had to just put the leash on and lead him into the house in the hot summer.
I had Malamutes growing up, Love the breed! My wife helps large breed rescue, so we have lots of dogs coming and going. She loves Great Danes. We have never owned one but have had lots of them for temporary rescues. I cannot stand the drooling! Here is our Shepard and catahoula leopard dog. Both females, both wonderful. Playing with a litter that arrived in the shed last summer. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLhkzBkgDCs&feature=channel_video_title"]Sasha and her kitten - YouTube[/ame] We had a crazy Husky named Riley a while back. The dog was amassing but he killed everything. We would wake up in the morning and find Riley on the porch with dead racoons, goats, snakes, stinking like a skunk or with a head full of porky pine quills. You could not keep the dog inside, he would go right threw the window and take the screen with him. The stories are endless and expensive! One time we were hiking in the mountains and Riley disappeared as usual. He usually show back up in hour or two. We heard a loud animal scream and starting running in that direction. We found Riley in the bush holding onto a dears neck. He was holding the dear down on the ground suffocating it. I ran over and broke it up. The dear ran about 15 foot and fell over dead. That dog was nuts. He was the definition of a Fairwheather dog.
I have to forcibly DRAG him inside on sub-freezing nights...Marm LOVES the cold. He's outside right now, sleeping on the porch.
