Pets

[Dani]

These are my best friends, followers, and companion. Two boxers called "Taro" and "Dune" (brothers male and female). They know it's forbidden to enter to my hobby room, but still love me because I give them most part of my free time. Lovely and loyal pets, even more than most of humans can be.

[marknewton]

Nice looking dogs! I have a real soft spot for boxers, we had one when I was a kid. His name was Monty - wonderful dog he was too.

Cheers,

Mark.

[Dani]

Now they are in a kind of training to defend the house....

[Bernard]

Now they are in a kind of training to defend the house....

I heard Boxers could be over protective of their homes but yours take it too an extreme!

[linkey]

Now they are in a kind of training to defend the house....

I heard Boxers could be over protective of their homes but yours take it too an extreme!

May the Puppy force be with you. lol

[rpierce000]

We just put one down ourselves. We THINK she was about 13, but the vet doubted it and guessed older. She was fine until one morning and then....  Well you know.


I feel your pain, more than I ever want to.  As my six year old said to me, "She lives forever inside of us." Smart kid.

[rpierce000]

Claude,

Awesome boar!  Do you have a sow?  My wife and I used to breed GPs.

True story here: The first gift I ever gave my now wife was a Guinea Pig!  Yep, she had one die just before I met her and she was very sad about it. We had gone to the movies as a first date, but we showed up too early. To kill the time we walked over to a pet store in the strip mall next door and she showed me guinea pigs for the first time. She told me the whole story about losing hers and what she wanted in a new one. I went out the next day, good date, and looked all over town for the one she wanted, but no luck. I finally had one store tell me where their breeder was. I called them and we went there and picked out "Pumpkin".  Nineteen years we will be married this summer, I guess it was a good present!

[Bernard]

Bob - I enjoyed reading your story. Like Claude, we also have Guinea Pigs......my wife, Pam you could say she has the best or worst luck with them. There is a pet store that she buys from and now twice she's gotten young females that were pregnant. She's a third grade teacher so no problem finding students that want to adopt them.

Pam and I just moments ago were having a discussion about what is their natural habitat for protection? I know they come from Peru, but they have no natural defenses....they can't burrow, run, climb, swim, claw and I'm even sure they if they could bite a predator.....so in the wild how do they protect themselves? 

[clem24]

so in the wild how do they protect themselves? 

Well, they're all still trying to find out. They're guinea pigs after all.

[Bernard]

so in the wild how do they protect themselves?  

Well, they're all still trying to find out. They're guinea pigs after all.

Very cute response.  

[Claude_Dreyfus]

Taken me a while to catch up on this!

No sows as yet, just the two boars; however it is not something we have discounted as yet.

In terms of behaviour in the wild, although they don't burrow, they do live in burrows - invariably abandoned. Their defence mechanism is to leg it and hide, which means catching Phaal in particular a challenge when bringing him in for the night!