have you ever loved an animal

[phil]

Im not talking about bestality before you go there. i mean have u ever really loved an animal? i had 2 guinea pigs one called bertie and the other called hannibal. i was upset when they died but i didnt love them. but when my dog gus died, by getting run over i was upset because i loved him. its good to love animals.

[interstellarhitman]

I've always had an affiliation with cats, perhaps because I have been a cat in a previous life. A strong mental bond can develop between pets and their owners, so it is only natural to mourn at the loss of their life.

[phil]

mental??? nah mate nothing mental about it. from the heart/

[pille'ocheoni]

i love all animals............esspecially all those little furry monkey's

[jukka]

i used to have some birds which i liked but i didn't love them !
so to answer your question no, i never loved an animal.

[aleks]

i love them grilled with some fine sauce...

[jukka]

lol

[owain_k]

My cat is well lovely....

To true though, grilled animal with sweet chilly sauce is particularly tasty .....

[thetonewrecker]

when I was young, I loved "Animal" from the muppets. He was a crazy drummer. Rock!



http://www.action-performance.com/muppets/images/animal_muppet.jpg

[Annefrankingmachine]

Anne's going to have to post this as she enjoyed it alot. She's not in the habit of copying and pasting other people's work but she's making an exception for the following paragraph. It is written by Brian Mung.

With warnings of the SARS virus flooding the media I have chosen this week to quit licking the Chinese. I've been meaning to quit for some time now and this seems like a pretty good reason. It's just that they taste so good. Of course half an hour later you just want to lick another but they're relatively plentiful so it's no real problem.

[invisibleplanet]

i love bunny - (french tortoiseshell dwarf lop)
and i have an affintity to horses that verges on the telepathic.

one moonlit evening, i was attending a large outdoor gathering. in the dream of the night, i wondered away from the camp, into a field full of gypsy piebald horses, and reached out to one of them, a gelding who inquisitively checked me out. i patted his shoulder playfully, and he whinnied quietly, sending clouds of moisture-laden breath into the chill night air. i pulled his ears playfully, and pressed my nose against his, breathing on his soft velvety muzzle. in my mind, i had a strong desire to climb on his back, but he was quite tall, and my inebriated state wasn't condusive to leaping onto a horse, so i whispered my desire quietly to him, whilst he munched the grass from my hand. walking to his flank, and taking some rough grass, i groomed his dusty coat, and separated his tangled mane with my fingers, whilst he tore up grass...seemingly ignoring me. i sighed, and said aloud...i really want to ride you, but i can't climb on...and then....a strange thing happened. he turned his head round to me, and pushed my leg with his nose, and then....he lay on the ground....craning his head around to look at me. i was amazed...i held back, and then holding his mane, climbed onto him, and leant forwards as he returned to a standing position, with me firmly in place on his back, under a full moon...a very drunken, and very happy invisibleplanet.

i love horses.

[MUX]

hehe anne that cracked me up...

[Annefrankingmachine]

Anne says....IP... that was a lovely thing to write.

[MUX]

Mux says....anne... that was a lovely thing to write to Ip

[Sheridan]

one of my cousins who lives in dublin has a very interesting job involving horses. she gets flown to farms all over the world where the farmer has a horse who can't impregnate or become pregnate. so she goes to the horse and looks in their eyes for a bit and then prescribes various roots and herbs for the horse to eat depending on what the horse needs. and everytime she does this the horse mates succesfully the next season.

[MUX]

arent horses telepathic?

[phil]

Ip that was really nice. i could have read and read and read. a lovely story.

[invisibleplanet]

thanks for your kind words, everyone. incredible as it may seem, it's actually a true tale which happened on Hallow e'en night, 1999. Perhaps there was magic in the air....

Phil, i'm sorry to hear about Gus.

[animal night train]

that's a nice story invisibleplanet. did it actually happen? if so, might i ask - how did you get off the horse?

were you worried at any point that dobbin might throw you? i suppose you were overcome by the apparent understanding the horse had of your desire to mount it.

[invisibleplanet]

yes animal night train, it did actually happen. i eventually dismounted after about being on the horse for around half an hour - it was around 2am and wanted to get back to the warmth of the celebration fire.

i was never worried that the horse would throw me off, as i was so drunk and full of the moon, and as u say, overcome by the horse's response.

[invisibleplanet]

Originally posted by MUX
arent horses telepathic?

i don't know....i don't think so...maybe when i said 'verges on the telepathic', i meant 'able to read our non-verbal cues effectively'

i was reading the other day, that domesticated animals, such as horses, dogs, and cats have the ability to read our non-verbal signals accurately

[stu pitaus]

to be quite honest, watching my my last dog get hit by a speeding car/the visual and audio of the whole hellish event was quite fucked up. not as fucked up as the asshole never even slowed down after he hit Pun. so i got to look for my Pun at 3am for 2 hours till i finally found him, and got to listen to him struggle for breath while he coughed blood on me... domesticated animals rely on us to protect them from dangers that being domesticated shelters them from. but having a livingthing like a dog i have heart, passion and love for, a dog i bottle fed as a pup, struggle and die in your arms while you do everything to stop it is the worst feeling i have felt. the whole time replaying the scene that brought me to that moment over and over again. i mourned as if it were a person, not by choice... the vet fucked me proper and didnt even let me keep the teeth or bury him. life does indeed go on...

[Lady E]

oh dear that is very sad stu.
poor you.

[mr franks]

when one of my cats went missing i had to put posters round my area, it was the saddest thing, and i was very upset, but she came back after a week and i was so happy i cried.
now and again i see people putting up lost cat posters and i know how they feel. there are many lost cats in brighton and lost cat posters, it makes me sad to see tham.

[gunjack]

Originally posted by stu pitaus
to be quite honest, watching my my last dog get hit by a speeding car/the visual and audio of the whole hellish event was quite fucked up. not as fucked up as the asshole never even slowed down after he hit Pun. so i got to look for my Pun at 3am for 2 hours till i finally found him, and got to listen to him struggle for breath while he coughed blood on me... domesticated animals rely on us to protect them from dangers that being domesticated shelters them from. but having a livingthing like a dog i have heart, passion and love for, a dog i bottle fed as a pup, struggle and die in your arms while you do everything to stop it is the worst feeling i have felt. the whole time replaying the scene that brought me to that moment over and over again. i mourned as if it were a person, not by choice... the vet fucked me proper and didnt even let me keep the teeth or bury him. life does indeed go on...


damn. i need a drink.

[decadnids]

I loved my cat audrey, she sadly died a month or so ago.

[dirtyho]

I loved our dog sloopy when I was a kid. It was an old english sheepdog and it let me climb on its back and ride around the garden, it was always bumping into things because its hair was too long and it couldn't see. It got run over by a car and I cried :(

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by invisibleplanet


i don't know....i don't think so...maybe when i said 'verges on the telepathic', i meant 'able to read our non-verbal cues effectively'

i was reading the other day, that domesticated animals, such as horses, dogs, and cats have the ability to read our non-verbal signals accurately

I think that animals certainly are able to read a persons emotions. like when I have been sick in the past my cat would come and lay next to me and comfort me. and that is something that she never does. she is very standoffish. also she would do the same thing everytime I was moving away from home. about a week before I left home for the first time she followed me everywhere I went and had to be next to me all the time. also when my family went to scotland this year my mum told me my cat was all over her about a week before they left. animals just have this inate ability to know and understand what is going on.

[aleks]

sheep start crying when there about to be butchered...

[phil]

is that true about sheep? thats pretty fucking depressing.

[aleks]

my cousin told me so he used to work in a butchery and killed heaps of them. they exactly knew what´s going to happen and had tears in their eyes...

[phil]

i didnt think they were allowed to see each other being killed. i thought that they had created a maze type structure that would make the cow/sheep unaware of his fate until it gets a bolt in its head. i saw a program on it. some woman was the don dada of slaughter house dynamics. they played aphex twin in the background on a side note. anyone else see that program?

i dont like to think of the sheep crying.

[aleks]

maybe nowadays... i reckon it was some 20 years ago and he had to cut their throat. and even without seeing the others they knew...

[Sheridan]

Originally posted by aleks
my cousin told me so he used to work in a butchery and killed heaps of them. they exactly knew what´s going to happen and had tears in their eyes...

thats one of the reasons why I stopped eating meat.

[MUX]

meat really misses you sheridan
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/gallery/2001/06/08/meat.gif

[Weishaupt]

Originally posted by MUX
meat really misses you sheridan
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Football/Pix/gallery/2001/06/08/meat.gif

hehehe

[grunder]

Originally posted by Weishaupt


hehehe

wow great picture of david semen the beloved england goal keeper

he as been knowen as the meat with eyes for a long time and now the most perfect portrait i have ever seen.....

thank you world i love you......

[Eva]

i love my cat, really, it's a nine month baby cat and it's doing groovy things all day long...

[grunder]

@ eva that sounds positively lovely could you post a picture.

i would love to take a long look at a lovely little puss..

[bitch one]

creepy...

[pille'ocheoni]

accually pretty funny

[baba]

yea I love my rabbit ( whom I call baba sometimes). IP have you ever seen a film called Equius (spelling?) it stars Richard Burton as a psychologist. Your night-time pony adventure reminds me of this film (the film is rather more sinister though)

[invisibleplanet]

i've never seen equus, no. i heard it was a stage play, and i heard they killed horses, so i don't think i can bring myself to watch it...maybe when i'm over 50, and have developed a post-menopausal lust for blood and death, i might begin to watch violent movies...or maybe when i get so fucked off with the human race, i might develop some perverse pleasure from watching murder/horror/violence, but to be honest, I am really too wimpy to watch such films...

my horse tail is 100% true

[marcel]

Originally posted by aleks
my cousin told me so he used to work in a butchery and killed heaps of them. they exactly knew what´s going to happen and had tears in their eyes...
ouh thats hard

[4md]

I love my dog ! it's a golden called Sunny

[baba]

Ip - oh yea - he killed the horses - I forgot that part - I just remembered a scene where this young man sneaked out and rode horses naked across the countryside and got them all muddled with a picture of jesus christ.

[Lady E]

easily done though.

[Marolo]

Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer. It's an excellent play, although I've never seen it being performed, just read the book. Never seen the film either. I read the play when I was about 14 and remember feeling quite disturbed.