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Damn you Kate. Hot coffee through the nose hurts.
Hilarious! For a second I thought this was one of Greg Gutfeld’s clips….guy looks like he’s wearing a see-through shirt, LOL
yeah, I’ve met a few of the wide eyed “I can sell puppies $1000/each!” types yet with German Shepherds. Funny though how usually after 2 or 3 litters they abruptly stop and never speak of it again.
Mean, funny, and classic, it doesn’t get any better than that!
Does this mean you plan to stop breeding dogs, Kate? Totally hilarious. Definitely one of those things you do for love, not profits.
There’s always lots of people out there “living lives of quiet desperation”, as an author put it. Do some googling on making money at home, over the Internet, and you’ll find lots of websites, with very vague WHOIS information, with stuff like “Make $______ a month, working at home, with a very modest investment, yadda, yadda” Caveat mucho emptor!
Had to laugh Kate. My daughter’s dog was very sick. After her savings, tuition and line of credit were shot treatment continued. The Vet college helped out with a LOT of freebies and her usual vet paid for a very expensive drug. Grandpa was out bbq’ing hamburgers at 8AM for the granddogter enduring strange looks from the neighbours. Every day had to find something she would eat. She ate better than her vets until we discovered spaghetti.
Took her in to have an ear checked this week and I remarked to the Vet that I hadn’t thought she would make it. She kind of smiled and said “No one thought she would make it.”
Dogs, sanity departs thank goodness.
“Does this mean you plan to stop breeding dogs, Kate? Totally hilarious. Definitely one of those things you do for love, not profits.”
Posted by: Sue C. at November 6, 2010 11:22 AM
Kate, I suspect Quebecor’s new SUN TV will need solid conservative female voices to round out the Adler, Levant stable of males.
So which one of your enterprises would you have to forsake (if any) to become a regular contributor on the new conservative voice in Canada, SUN TV?
Joe… I wouldn’t forsake scrubbing toilets to be even an irregular contributor to television of any flavour.
I have always wanted an English Bulldog, but was put off by the apparent market price of $2500.for a pup. 4 months later, I see the average price has dropped to $1500.till way too much,The pups are getting bigger and hungrier, we may crack $1000 yet.
It’s not too much, Nick. Bulldogs are very expensive to breed and maintain. Bred by AI, and born by c-section.
Just be sure you’re getting value for your dollar – and that you have a nice savings account for future vet care.
Place to start is the website of the national breed club, then research the health issues so you go into an extreme breed like this fully informed and with the most experienced breeder you can find. http://www.thebca.org/ http://bcahealth.homestead.com/conditions.html
Priceless! Thank you for the morning funny, Kate (I’m buried up to my eyeballs in patching AIX servers right now, bleh).
“stimulate them naturally to urinate, and defecate…by licking them” hohohohoho !!!!
Anyone interested in a pet rock? Very low maintenance and they will never get sick or die.
Dogs don’t actually love you, they love that you feed them.
Cat’s don’t love you either and they demand that you feed them. No phony love, or groveling for free stuff … just ‘feed me’ and go away.
You know where you stand with a cat.
The anthropomorphizing of furry animals by Hollywood has managed to make us more stupid than we already are.
I too have been suckered. I have a cat that my entire life rotates around. I like dogs but they are just too needy to bother with, just like the entitlement-empowered welfare society we now live in.
I am looking for a one way ticket to the Klingon home world. I think I would fit in better there … or the USA if Palin makes it to the White House.
:0)
Cats that wake me up at 5:30 and who tomorrow morning won’t get the change of an hour…
“See what Donna has to say . . . read both parts.”
damn, that’s discouraging to hear…
“Joe… I wouldn’t forsake scrubbing toilets to be even an irregular contributor to television of any flavour.”
Posted by: Kate at November 6, 2010 12:14 PM
Geez Kate, Never say “NEVER” to SUN TV!
Make no mistake, they will come knocking, if they haven’t already!
You ARE THE FEMALE CONSERVATIVE voice OF Canada on the internet but must broaden your scope to TV.
We Canadian conservative oldies with time running out, need hope for a conservative values country, and by God you represent that hope!
I could do this in a private email, but I want the world to know, we need you in an expanded sphere of influence.
So there!!
We call them puppy mills in my neck of the woods, professionals don’t breed dogs for profit they do it for the love of the breed. I spent 1800 dollars in lab tests at the vet last year, todate they still don’t have a clue why my dog is sick.
Oh yes – the vet bills can add up… my little female got a mast cell tumor (think cancer)… by the time all the tests, biopsies, surgeries, etc were done and she was declared fit (she’s back to full health and her generally affectionate self, thank God), it was about $4,000… but she did get quicker and better personal treatment than most humanoids in Ontario can hope for out of our socialist system.
Funny how those “professionals” that don’t breed for profit still SELL the puppies rather than give them away. Although if lack of profit is the measuring stick I would say that most breeders right now are “professionals” 😉
Loved the clip having bottle fed one or two little furry bundles of love for a friend and had other friends totally grossed out by the need to get the puppies to urinate. LOL I never tried the “natural” approach though 🙂
“Funny how those “professionals” that don’t breed for profit still SELL the puppies rather than give them away. “
Did you stop to think about the logic of that before you wrote it?
This story reminds me of the Chin Chilla, Nutria and similar make money deals of a few decades ago.
SunTV? Have not heard anything for a while. Did the Soros, Attwood crowd manage to stifle it?
‘Just sent this to the breeder of my little (not a schnauzer) guy (RIP). I know she’ll get a huge laugh.
I remember one very sad time when her bitch began eating her puppies (fourth or fifth litter, so it came as a big surprise) and she had to hand feed the remaining ones around the clock. She also had the neighbourhood kids come over after school to play with them and “socialize” them!
It was always something and I’m sure her vet bills were huge.
I think “Please Donate to Help Find a Cure” might be a nice add-on to the clip.
A few years ago my old dog developed cancer. The vet offered all kinds of very expensive treatments. At the end of his spiel I asked him, “Since I don’t have a rifle how much would you charge to put the old girl down?” Her mortal remains are now fertilizing the cranberry bush in the back yard.
Abe Froman has a death wish…November 6, 2010 12:43 PM
(Pretty sure Kate knows where you live)
😉
I might not get it anyway, but all there is between the headline and Kate’s byline is a big, blank space!
I scrolled up just now and the “cartoon” is available.
Cheers.
A few years ago my old dog developed cancer. The vet offered all kinds of very expensive treatments. At the end of his spiel I asked him, “Since I don’t have a rifle how much would you charge to put the old girl down?” Her mortal remains are now fertilizing the cranberry bush in the back yard.
Joe, that was extremely cold, cruel, and about the only post I could really relate to. Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs, but not enough to become the eternal financial slave of a vet.
As an aside, my cousin’s kid is a student who works part time selling pet insurance over the phone to various dupe…er…individuals. Apparently veterinarians pass along their customer information to this agency, who provide the vets with kickbacks on the sales. At the beginning of a work shift they get assigned a call list that is based on a local geographical area. Apparently when these lists are being handed out, they all hold their breath hoping that the list is from suburban Toronto or Vancouver. Their greatest dread is to be given a list from rural Alberta, Sask, or Manitoba.
‘VERY funny!
The vet bills: yes, that’s why, after our much loved cats died, we haven’t replaced them.
We had a budget for our vet bills and, during the penultimate visit of our (elderly) male cat, we were told we could have an MRI done for about $800, I think. The vet appeared to be shocked when I said, “No thank you. We’ve already spent half our budget, that’s all we have to spend, and the MRI is way too expensive for us.” (I also pointed out that as much as we loved our cat, he was a pet, not a person.)
I know vets are fine people, and are only responding to the market out there (plus technological advances). Driving demand is that so many childless people now treat their pets like surrogate kids: what they’re willing to spend on vets’ bills would have been altogether unthinkable, just a short while ago. In our case, spending a bundle at the vet would have substantially taken away from what we had available to spend on our kids.
It’s a very different world we live in.
I demand universal health care for pets. It’s inhumane otherwise! They can feel pain, too, and they will suffer if their owners have such a tenuous income that they can’t be treated!
The last news I read on SUN News was that Quebecore lost it’s bid for inclusion in the national coverage club because the CRTC vetoed it. Have they decided to appeal?
safety forced, I fear that your Orwellian scenario is being actively pursued as I type.
Good Lord, deliver us—and our children, if we have any!
“…would you like to buy a breeding pair?”
ROFL. I have to laugh, because the alternative is to break down, sobbing uncontrollably.
Except it was Dalmations…
Regards,
Ric
Clueless breeders is why I have placed thirty dogs, having fostered fifteen and adopted five. Rescue (or ‘rehoming’ is the PC term) from all those “loving families” takes a lot of time, effort and expense.
Ferris Bueller: Dogs don’t actually love you, they love that you feed them.
Oh really? We had two dogs – a mutt (husky/shepherd cross from the look of him, but who really knows?), and a pure bred Irish Setter. One week, my parents took Seamus (the setter) to our cottage, and left Willie (the mutt) with my brother and me. They left Friday night.
Willie didn’t eat dinner that night. He didn’t eat Saturday. He didn’t eat Sunday. He didn’t eat Monday. My brother and I were worried sick; we tried everything – fresh steak, boiled chicken (which he normally loved), holding him, cuddling him – nothing worked. Frantic, we took him to the vet, who couldn’t find anything wrong. Finally, Wednesday, we called our parents and begged them to come home. When they arrived late that night, Willie roused himself, sniffed both my parents and Seamus for a minute, came back upstairs, and proceeded to eat for (it seemed) 24 hours straight. And don’t say it’s because my parents fed him – I fed him 90% of the time.
The explanation was simple – he missed Seamus and my parents. They never left him behind again, and the experience was never repeated.
You can believe dogs don’t really love you; I know better.
Yeah, Focus spent his two years in China looking for me in the bedroom I’d stayed in. He wasn’t fed there.
I’m waiting for pot-bellied pigs to make a come back. And no, it’s not just because they have bacon in them … mmm bacon.
Isn’t it time for the hunting pics Kate?
You’re livin’ the dream Kate, just livin’ the dream.
I prefer to have kids. They can spar with me and my savings account keeps growing despite buying countless crates of ammo, reloading components, sports equipment, guns, horse tack, musical instruments and textbooks (we homeschool). And in the evening they play guitar and piano. The downside is grilling by Canada Customs as to “why are so many guns registered to you?..”
If you think a dog doesn’t actually love you–you’ve never had a dog.
Love this video. A few friends couldn’t understand why I’d had my registered German Shepherds spayed–why, there’s profit to be had! Clueless.
I can relate. When my wife and I were married, we bought a couple of pure bred, extra cute, basset hounds. I still like the dogs…We bred them and sure enough the “section” happened, it didn’t cost us as much as the video said but enough. Lower tha expected pup prices and feeding was a pain. The bummer was the mother would lay on the pups and they’d die. We stopped breeding pups after that. Great video Kate LOL….
Damn you Kate. Hot coffee through the nose hurts.
Hilarious! For a second I thought this was one of Greg Gutfeld’s clips….guy looks like he’s wearing a see-through shirt, LOL
yeah, I’ve met a few of the wide eyed “I can sell puppies $1000/each!” types yet with German Shepherds. Funny though how usually after 2 or 3 litters they abruptly stop and never speak of it again.
Mean, funny, and classic, it doesn’t get any better than that!
Does this mean you plan to stop breeding dogs, Kate? Totally hilarious. Definitely one of those things you do for love, not profits.
There’s always lots of people out there “living lives of quiet desperation”, as an author put it. Do some googling on making money at home, over the Internet, and you’ll find lots of websites, with very vague WHOIS information, with stuff like “Make $______ a month, working at home, with a very modest investment, yadda, yadda” Caveat mucho emptor!
Had to laugh Kate. My daughter’s dog was very sick. After her savings, tuition and line of credit were shot treatment continued. The Vet college helped out with a LOT of freebies and her usual vet paid for a very expensive drug. Grandpa was out bbq’ing hamburgers at 8AM for the granddogter enduring strange looks from the neighbours. Every day had to find something she would eat. She ate better than her vets until we discovered spaghetti.
Took her in to have an ear checked this week and I remarked to the Vet that I hadn’t thought she would make it. She kind of smiled and said “No one thought she would make it.”
Dogs, sanity departs thank goodness.
“Does this mean you plan to stop breeding dogs, Kate? Totally hilarious. Definitely one of those things you do for love, not profits.”
Posted by: Sue C. at November 6, 2010 11:22 AM
Kate, I suspect Quebecor’s new SUN TV will need solid conservative female voices to round out the Adler, Levant stable of males.
So which one of your enterprises would you have to forsake (if any) to become a regular contributor on the new conservative voice in Canada, SUN TV?
Joe… I wouldn’t forsake scrubbing toilets to be even an irregular contributor to television of any flavour.
I have always wanted an English Bulldog, but was put off by the apparent market price of $2500.for a pup. 4 months later, I see the average price has dropped to $1500.till way too much,The pups are getting bigger and hungrier, we may crack $1000 yet.
It’s not too much, Nick. Bulldogs are very expensive to breed and maintain. Bred by AI, and born by c-section.
Just be sure you’re getting value for your dollar – and that you have a nice savings account for future vet care.
Place to start is the website of the national breed club, then research the health issues so you go into an extreme breed like this fully informed and with the most experienced breeder you can find.
http://www.thebca.org/
http://bcahealth.homestead.com/conditions.html
Priceless! Thank you for the morning funny, Kate (I’m buried up to my eyeballs in patching AIX servers right now, bleh).
“stimulate them naturally to urinate, and defecate…by licking them” hohohohoho !!!!
Anyone interested in a pet rock? Very low maintenance and they will never get sick or die.
Dogs don’t actually love you, they love that you feed them.
Cat’s don’t love you either and they demand that you feed them. No phony love, or groveling for free stuff … just ‘feed me’ and go away.
You know where you stand with a cat.
The anthropomorphizing of furry animals by Hollywood has managed to make us more stupid than we already are.
I too have been suckered. I have a cat that my entire life rotates around. I like dogs but they are just too needy to bother with, just like the entitlement-empowered welfare society we now live in.
I am looking for a one way ticket to the Klingon home world. I think I would fit in better there … or the USA if Palin makes it to the White House.
:0)
SUN TV ??
See what Donna has to say . . . read both parts.
http://nofrakkingconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/when-is-a-job-offer-not-a-job-offer-part-1/
Cats that wake me up at 5:30 and who tomorrow morning won’t get the change of an hour…
“See what Donna has to say . . . read both parts.”
damn, that’s discouraging to hear…
“Joe… I wouldn’t forsake scrubbing toilets to be even an irregular contributor to television of any flavour.”
Posted by: Kate at November 6, 2010 12:14 PM
Geez Kate, Never say “NEVER” to SUN TV!
Make no mistake, they will come knocking, if they haven’t already!
You ARE THE FEMALE CONSERVATIVE voice OF Canada on the internet but must broaden your scope to TV.
We Canadian conservative oldies with time running out, need hope for a conservative values country, and by God you represent that hope!
I could do this in a private email, but I want the world to know, we need you in an expanded sphere of influence.
So there!!
We call them puppy mills in my neck of the woods, professionals don’t breed dogs for profit they do it for the love of the breed. I spent 1800 dollars in lab tests at the vet last year, todate they still don’t have a clue why my dog is sick.
Oh yes – the vet bills can add up… my little female got a mast cell tumor (think cancer)… by the time all the tests, biopsies, surgeries, etc were done and she was declared fit (she’s back to full health and her generally affectionate self, thank God), it was about $4,000… but she did get quicker and better personal treatment than most humanoids in Ontario can hope for out of our socialist system.
Funny how those “professionals” that don’t breed for profit still SELL the puppies rather than give them away. Although if lack of profit is the measuring stick I would say that most breeders right now are “professionals” 😉
Loved the clip having bottle fed one or two little furry bundles of love for a friend and had other friends totally grossed out by the need to get the puppies to urinate. LOL I never tried the “natural” approach though 🙂
“Funny how those “professionals” that don’t breed for profit still SELL the puppies rather than give them away. “
Did you stop to think about the logic of that before you wrote it?
This story reminds me of the Chin Chilla, Nutria and similar make money deals of a few decades ago.
SunTV? Have not heard anything for a while. Did the Soros, Attwood crowd manage to stifle it?
‘Just sent this to the breeder of my little (not a schnauzer) guy (RIP). I know she’ll get a huge laugh.
I remember one very sad time when her bitch began eating her puppies (fourth or fifth litter, so it came as a big surprise) and she had to hand feed the remaining ones around the clock. She also had the neighbourhood kids come over after school to play with them and “socialize” them!
It was always something and I’m sure her vet bills were huge.
I think “Please Donate to Help Find a Cure” might be a nice add-on to the clip.
A few years ago my old dog developed cancer. The vet offered all kinds of very expensive treatments. At the end of his spiel I asked him, “Since I don’t have a rifle how much would you charge to put the old girl down?” Her mortal remains are now fertilizing the cranberry bush in the back yard.
Abe Froman has a death wish…November 6, 2010 12:43 PM
(Pretty sure Kate knows where you live)
😉
I might not get it anyway, but all there is between the headline and Kate’s byline is a big, blank space!
I scrolled up just now and the “cartoon” is available.
Cheers.
A few years ago my old dog developed cancer. The vet offered all kinds of very expensive treatments. At the end of his spiel I asked him, “Since I don’t have a rifle how much would you charge to put the old girl down?” Her mortal remains are now fertilizing the cranberry bush in the back yard.
Joe, that was extremely cold, cruel, and about the only post I could really relate to. Don’t get me wrong, I love dogs, but not enough to become the eternal financial slave of a vet.
As an aside, my cousin’s kid is a student who works part time selling pet insurance over the phone to various dupe…er…individuals. Apparently veterinarians pass along their customer information to this agency, who provide the vets with kickbacks on the sales. At the beginning of a work shift they get assigned a call list that is based on a local geographical area. Apparently when these lists are being handed out, they all hold their breath hoping that the list is from suburban Toronto or Vancouver. Their greatest dread is to be given a list from rural Alberta, Sask, or Manitoba.
‘VERY funny!
The vet bills: yes, that’s why, after our much loved cats died, we haven’t replaced them.
We had a budget for our vet bills and, during the penultimate visit of our (elderly) male cat, we were told we could have an MRI done for about $800, I think. The vet appeared to be shocked when I said, “No thank you. We’ve already spent half our budget, that’s all we have to spend, and the MRI is way too expensive for us.” (I also pointed out that as much as we loved our cat, he was a pet, not a person.)
I know vets are fine people, and are only responding to the market out there (plus technological advances). Driving demand is that so many childless people now treat their pets like surrogate kids: what they’re willing to spend on vets’ bills would have been altogether unthinkable, just a short while ago. In our case, spending a bundle at the vet would have substantially taken away from what we had available to spend on our kids.
It’s a very different world we live in.
I demand universal health care for pets. It’s inhumane otherwise! They can feel pain, too, and they will suffer if their owners have such a tenuous income that they can’t be treated!
The last news I read on SUN News was that Quebecore lost it’s bid for inclusion in the national coverage club because the CRTC vetoed it. Have they decided to appeal?
safety forced, I fear that your Orwellian scenario is being actively pursued as I type.
Good Lord, deliver us—and our children, if we have any!
“…would you like to buy a breeding pair?”
ROFL. I have to laugh, because the alternative is to break down, sobbing uncontrollably.
Except it was Dalmations…
Regards,
Ric
Clueless breeders is why I have placed thirty dogs, having fostered fifteen and adopted five. Rescue (or ‘rehoming’ is the PC term) from all those “loving families” takes a lot of time, effort and expense.
Ferris Bueller:
Dogs don’t actually love you, they love that you feed them.
Oh really? We had two dogs – a mutt (husky/shepherd cross from the look of him, but who really knows?), and a pure bred Irish Setter. One week, my parents took Seamus (the setter) to our cottage, and left Willie (the mutt) with my brother and me. They left Friday night.
Willie didn’t eat dinner that night. He didn’t eat Saturday. He didn’t eat Sunday. He didn’t eat Monday. My brother and I were worried sick; we tried everything – fresh steak, boiled chicken (which he normally loved), holding him, cuddling him – nothing worked. Frantic, we took him to the vet, who couldn’t find anything wrong. Finally, Wednesday, we called our parents and begged them to come home. When they arrived late that night, Willie roused himself, sniffed both my parents and Seamus for a minute, came back upstairs, and proceeded to eat for (it seemed) 24 hours straight. And don’t say it’s because my parents fed him – I fed him 90% of the time.
The explanation was simple – he missed Seamus and my parents. They never left him behind again, and the experience was never repeated.
You can believe dogs don’t really love you; I know better.
Yeah, Focus spent his two years in China looking for me in the bedroom I’d stayed in. He wasn’t fed there.
I’m waiting for pot-bellied pigs to make a come back. And no, it’s not just because they have bacon in them … mmm bacon.
Isn’t it time for the hunting pics Kate?
You’re livin’ the dream Kate, just livin’ the dream.
I prefer to have kids. They can spar with me and my savings account keeps growing despite buying countless crates of ammo, reloading components, sports equipment, guns, horse tack, musical instruments and textbooks (we homeschool). And in the evening they play guitar and piano. The downside is grilling by Canada Customs as to “why are so many guns registered to you?..”
If you think a dog doesn’t actually love you–you’ve never had a dog.
Love this video. A few friends couldn’t understand why I’d had my registered German Shepherds spayed–why, there’s profit to be had! Clueless.
I can relate. When my wife and I were married, we bought a couple of pure bred, extra cute, basset hounds. I still like the dogs…We bred them and sure enough the “section” happened, it didn’t cost us as much as the video said but enough. Lower tha expected pup prices and feeding was a pain. The bummer was the mother would lay on the pups and they’d die. We stopped breeding pups after that. Great video Kate LOL….