Cuddly Dudley howls for food, sniffs the bowl and walks off too! He prefers raw, fresh meat me thinks. I wish he would lick the bowl clean it would save me a job. Pets? They train us! We work and shop to keep them, so who's stupid? I had a plate as a child I loved to lick clean, it was pyrex. Used to drive my Mum mad. Debs x
Debs Lehner | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 9:19 pm | #

Debs, it is true- our pets do train us, don't they? Hermione has got me wrapped around her little finger. But I don't mind one jot.
girlwiththemask | 05.17.08 - 11:07 pm | #

Re your last post ... uuurrrrgh it feels just plain wrong when your parents go all phnaar phnaar, doesn't it?

Re this post ... yeah well Hermione will be back to stuff her face when she's sure nobody's watching.
GoneBackSouth | Homepage | 05.17.08 - 11:21 pm | #

GBS- Yes she will! (That made me laugh)
girlwiththemask | 05.18.08 - 11:12 am | #

Cats definitely rule the roost don't they?
Akelamalu | Homepage | 05.18.08 - 11:23 am | #

Akelamalu- they do in our house! Oh, except for when Pickle the Rabbit is out of his cage. They are quite scared of him.
girlwiththemask | 05.18.08 - 11:34 am | #

Wow, you have a lot to blog about! I am allergic to cats.
Ropi | Homepage | 05.18.08 - 1:38 pm | #

Churchill: "Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals".

A psychologist writes: Tell your wonderful but strange mother not to give the dog food to keep him quiet. She is actually rewarding his non-quiet behaviour! If she wants him to be quiet give him food when he *is* quiet.
Ernest de Cugnac | Homepage | 05.18.08 - 5:34 pm | #

Ropi- On no! I just think that they make the best companions.

Ernest- So by extension, when The Boyfriend moans about not being fed I'm to have him go hungry, but when he is a good boy I can feed him? Maybe?
girlwiththemask | 05.18.08 - 11:30 pm | #

Quite so MG. Strange and counter-intuitive, but evident in the appalling behaviour of other people's children (take a minute out to see what the parents are *actually* rewarding and you will see what I mean. When they are good they are ignored, when bad, the are indulged. BTW, you did *exactly* the right thing in "Safe Sex" when you ignored the brat).
Ernest de Cugnac | Homepage | 05.19.08 - 10:45 am | #

Again, we so need that manual...
Marjolein | Homepage | 05.19.08 - 11:04 am | #

Ernets- Yipee! Obviously, when I have children they will be different. Other people's children are quite appalling.

Marjolein- Amen!
girlwiththemask | 05.19.08 - 1:10 pm | #

i think that your "quote, end-quote" posts are quite possibly some of my favorite things to read.
Anonymous | 05.19.08 - 2:25 pm | #

Anon- Well that is just brilliant!
girlwiththemask | 05.19.08 - 5:39 pm | #

Dogs get stuck in with their grub. Cats are just stuck up!
Maggie May | Homepage | 05.19.08 - 10:15 pm | #

Oooh mums can be so harsh!
suburbia | Homepage | 05.21.08 - 9:03 pm | #

Maggie May TAKE THAT BACK!

Suburbia- Yep!
girlwiththemask | 05.21.08 - 11:09 pm | #