The Cute Animal Pics/Videos Thread

[Van Buren Supernova]

I had stayed in area where dogsnapper kidnap dogs and sell them for meat. And area where there are evil people who poison dogs (they throw poison mixed with food) either because they hate dogs or some other idiotic reasons.

 

Anyway, this photo cracks me up.

Bahahaha..

I don't want to mess with that!!

[Bluebell]

Yup, one reason I am also not sure about having a dog - here's loads places where idiots put poisoned or spiked dog treats (and there's rat poison around the house because we do have rats - I recently met a very big one in the cellars. And even I who love rodents, was a little shocked because it screamed at me....that was scary, I never had a rat being so 'rude' to me...but I was able to tell it that I would not hurt it and that it should go back to their nest, which it did, so it must have understood me ;D), so the dog must be 100% trained to eat only from my hand and nothing from the floor. Also there's other evil people, so you can not let them wait before a shop, not even shortly. I often see flyers with missing dogs where they say the dog was stolen somewhere near a shop/mall.

So many limitations for dogs in the city, even my vet says he is for everybody having their dog on the leash (he himself owns a dog) because his dog sometimes gets attacked by other dogs whose owners are too stupid to train them properly.

 

I just read a cute book about a cat who went to university. It was his area, and he told us about loads of adventures (he was not a stray, he grew up on a farm and then went to a caring home, but he was a freedom-loving one) and the things he learned about humans. At the end I had to cry because the person who wrote the book obviously wrote it because the cat was missing in the end. She made the end very positive about it, like he was going with someone he met in the university-clinic who was depressive, and who needed him more, and that he's going to study the people more being with her, and that he would help her feel better.

But the true story is they lost his trail at the clinic - so I only hope that someday the cat comes back, so it can tell us more about his adventures. Because the book was so cute and well-written.

 

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

I was about to ask the title of the book... but maybe not, sounds too dangerous.

 

I hardly ever cried at all all my life, but I wept like Reichenbach Fall for dog's movies or books; Quill, Hachiko, The Art of Racing in The Rain.

 

I have a copy of 10 Promises to My Dog but there is no way I will touch it. I'm thinking of locking it in a strong box, very strong box, and throw the key away.

[Arcadia]

I may have mentioned this before, but I cry like a baby at movies if any animals are injured or even just imperiled (Bambi destroyed me when I was a kid). I can sit through just about any other mayhem unmoved, unless it happens to an animal.

 

I don't think I've ever cried over a book, but I can go into a deep funk over one. The Red Pony, Old Yeller, and what's that other one ... oh, yeah, The Yearling ... gah, why do people write such depressing books!!!! :d Or at least warn me before I read them. (The Art of Racing in the Rain ... okay, good tip, cross that one off my list... )

[Arcadia]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH ... when

 

Justin died

 

I mourned for weeks.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Bambi ruined me as a kid as well.  It didn't help that I fell asleep for a few minutes and woke up as Bambi's mother was shot and the forest started on fire.  And no Benji or Lassie movies for me.  I think I'll stick to my action/adventure flicks.  Might be time for a Die Hard or Mission Impossible (Tom Cruise edition) marathon.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I have never watched Bambi, but I won't. Heard too many horror stories.

 

Let's lighten up the mood!

Master Shi Fu!

I would kill everyone in this forum for a chance to cuddle this. Responsibly of course.

 

(I'm not a bad person, it's just that my favorite character once said,"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer." So... :p

[Caya]

Dunno if I ever mentioned it here, but there's a site for that, at least for films:

 

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/

 

Forewarned is forearmed .

 

[Arcadia]

Oh, good job helping to lighten the mood, Martina!
 
Oh look, there's a list of books for that too..... http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/675.The_dog_dies_a_cautionary_list_:P

[Van Buren Supernova]

Good warning.. and how could I forget Marley. :(

If I can exhange my year to 7 years of dog, it's done.

 

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Come at me. I dare you.

[Arcadia]

OMG.

 

 

That reminds me of a cat I used to have. He'd sit on my bed and bat at my eyelashes until I woke up. I'd open my eyes and here was this big cat face an inch from mine.

[Bluebell]

@ VBS: The book is yet only available in german I think - it's about a cat from Regensburg (his name is Pep)...maybe they do a translation, don't know, it's a pretty new published book. So no danger to you, except you can read german... ;)

 

 

I only read Bambi once a while ago when I was repairing childrens books in a social project. It was really sad, I swore I would never watch the film...too sad. Just like 'Watership down', which is a film I saw in my childhood, or when I saw 'Marley' I never started the book because know how it ends.

 

Recently I started reading (or listening as I found audiobooks too) 'Warriors' (german title 'Warrior cats'), also as manga which is very cute. The storys are great, but also sometimes sad, and I cry a lot while reading or listening. But despite that I want to know them all because they are very cool adventures of the cats. I get them mostly from used book stores, so I switch between the english and german version, depends on how they are available that time.

[Caya]

When I had just turned six (in the 70s, a sometimes simpler and certainly less thoroughly informed time) I begged my parents to be finally taken to a movie now that I was legally old enough. As luck would have it, there was an age-appropriate film coming up one evening in one of the bigger theatres around, so my dear parents got us tickets. And it was a Disney film too, so it would be a wonderful way for me to first experience the magic of the silver screen - nice plan and all, mum. Shame it was Bambi. <_<

 

[Bluebell]

Goodbye to my old bumblebee Lily....

 

I had to let her go monday night in the pet emergency, because the cyst in her belly was so badly swollen that it pushed her uterus outside ...the doc could have castrated and saved her if she hadn't been cardiac and pretty old so she would not have survived the narcosis anyway.

She became ca. 6 years old. Now she is with her old friend Lola again, who died not too long ago. :angel2:

[Shadow Dweller]

[Arcadia]

Aw, Bluebell, I'm sorry. It's hard losing our pets, isn't it.

[Carol the Dabbler]

So sorry to hear your news, Bluebell. We lost our Amy just a few months ago, and I still find myself looking for her when I'm checking that the cats are all OK.

 

When I had just turned six (in the 70s, a sometimes simpler and certainly less thoroughly informed time) I begged my parents to be finally taken to a movie now that I was legally old enough.

A five-year-old can't go to the movies in Austria?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I checked to see how old I was when Bambi first came out, and was taken aback to see that it's been traumatizing kids since 1942, well before I was born.

[Arcadia]

Not to mention being terrified by Pinocchio, and broken-hearted by Dumbo ... good heavens, it's a wonder any of us survived our childhood! :d

[Caya]

Sorry to hear about Lily, Bluebell :(. This is always such an ugly decision ... you know you're doing the best for your pet, and yet it feels shite. Poor little furbaby.

 

Disney sure seems to have a decidedly mixed influence on childhoods, huh? Reminds me about something I once read in one of those "you're a child of the 70s when" lists,

 

"You learned swimming around the time JAWS came out, and you still bear the mental scars."

 

eta: @Carol, dunno how strictly this rule is enforced anymore (or if it has been loosened) but no, back then 6 was the cutoff age.

[Arcadia]

Was that to protect the children from the movies, or to protect the audience from the children? :p

[Caya]

Knowing my grumpy fellow Austrians, the latter seems more likely :lol:. Although there is a certain point to that - until you can't sit reasonably still in a dark room for 90 minutes, what are you doing in a cinema in the first place, really.

 

I just checked, btw, and there now is a "from 0" rating for films below the "from 6" (from then on, it's basically two-year steps till 16). So there now apparently are films to bring your toddler to .

[Arcadia]

Oh, joy. ;)

[Carol the Dabbler]

I checked to see how old I was when Bambi first came out, and was taken aback to see that it's been traumatizing kids since 1942, well before I was born.

 

Not to mention being terrified by Pinocchio, and broken-hearted by Dumbo ... good heavens, it's a wonder any of us survived our childhood! :D

 

And about the time we might have been recovering from those, along came Old Yeller. :(

[Caya]

Now THAT is a memory that could've happily stayed in the repressed part of my brain, like, till dementia claimed it . That film was ... well, I didn't even see the *whole* film, and no one can blame my parents for that one. I saw it as part of a Christmas afternoon special (those keep-em-quiet things) that mashed up snippets from several different films called, I kid you not, Disney's Most Beautiful Dog Stories (as innocent-christmaslike as a title can possibly get, and most clips were just that). And yes, the money shot was in there. Wasn't the best Christmas ever .

 

To lighten the mood a bit again, Disney does seem to be a bit tone deaf in that regard. This is, I swear, not photoshopped:

 

 

Afaik, that stuff was recalled and no longer exists, though, because (again, no kidding) it was bad for dogs.