news headline i heard a few years ago
"Cat starts housefire, dog saves owner"
my girlfriends cats sleep all day, get up and eat and puke, and go back to bed. theres hair on everything they own, it really sucks when youre mowing down mashpos (mashed potatoes) and youll see someone just freeze....... and theyll reach in their mouth and pull a monster out. and you dare not laugh.. cuz youre next.
our dog however does have jobs. he keeps us from getting robbed, literally, we have cameras and people pull up in their cars and he runs right up to their car growling and they just pull out and leave and call us later. he also barks when someone is coming up the lane so we know ahead of time when pizza is here. he also cleans our plates because we dont have a disposal, and the plates are always squeeky clean.
we know if theres an animal in the woods because he chases them.
he swims with us. and waits for us to get out of the water before he comes out to make sure we're ok.
he stands by us when we shoot guns. he waits for the bobber to go under before he jumps in the water when we're fishing too. he runs around with us when we ride four wheelers. both of them we've had could run with the fourwheeler at 35 miles per hour for about an hour at a time, take a 10 minute break and then chase us again.
hell sit right by your feet, you stand up, he stands up.
and hes always happy to see us. hes bad sometimes until dad comes outside and he straightens up.
he can hear his truck coming 10 miles away i swear, hell stand by the driveway 2 minutes ahead of time and wait.
i have no doubt hed chase a bear... ecspecially if it were attacking one of us or a child
he also keeps the nighbors dogs away while the young ones play in the yard
weve had no health problems out of him either. small dogs are sick all the time.
he knows what "NO" means too. if he got into something he knew he shouldnt have he wimpers when you say no to him
he also sits by you with his head down when hes out of food.
they are a little bit expensive on the food side, they dont really shed that bed either.
oh btw, hes a chesapeke bay retriever
we've had 2 of them and they dont even need trained, they do alot of the same stuff and we never showed them anything. very very loyal, someone even stole him once and we drove around and found him and brought him home. they put an ugly brown collar on him. if you have a little land and can find one for a couple hundred bucks you wont regret it.
they also dont poop where they know youre gonna walk.
our first and second one only knew each other for a couple days and they are so similar its crazy. they do almost everything the same, they also both like to get rocks and bricks out of the pond with their feet. and they love water.
theyll also chase anything you throw!!!!!! if they bring it back or not all depends on how yummy it is.
they can also catch like crazy!!!!! if you throw a pop can or a frisbee they will jump 15 feet off your porch and catch it mid air. our first one munched on firecrackers and let them pop in his mouth. they chase ducks and geese around in circles and circles until they leave.
they always have energy but arent annoying like small dogs.
we had to put the first one down after 16 years, it got so old it could hardly stand and started to get gangrene on its legs. only dog my dad ever cried about letting go. we got him for free because they thought he was too wild to train. we all loved him.
cats are a retarded money pit.
my stepmom bought cocker spaniels, irish hounds, shit zus, poodles, theyre all retarded!!1 dumbest dogs ever. they bark at their own reflections until you close the blinds. the stand in front of you and bark and run away when you stand up. worse than cats. and they bark for no reason.
http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/chesapeakebay.htm this is probably spot on.
the only bad thing this dog did was chomp a small retarded dogs head when it tried to get in his dog food feeder. it went brain dead in one chomp. it made a dumb wimper sound like "AR! AR! AR! AR! every 3 seconds for 2 days before we let it go with a shovel. the dog costed 2 grand and it racked up another 2k in medical bills.
my dad was pissed. not at our retriever, but at his ex wife for blowing 4 grand on something that was useless, all it did was eat food and bark and get hair everywhere.
