What are your cats / small dogs thinking when you pick them up and carry them?

charlie and algernon

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Tue Jan-18-11 10:25 AM
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Poll question: What are your cats / small dogs thinking when you pick them up and carry them?

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JonLP24

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Tue Jan-18-11 10:42 AM
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1. My smallest dog

Edited on Tue Jan-18-11 10:43 AM by JonLP24

Around 25-30 lbs, maybe a little more, doesn't like to be picked up. She'll give me very angry barks and growls when I put my hands around her. She didn't seem to mind when she was a puppy (she barely grew) but now she does. The other two dogs are two big to be lifted up.

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surrealAmerican

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:12 AM
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2. other.

She's thinking, "I could reach all sorts of things to chew on from up here."

... except when she's outside, then it's more like, "mmm, warm".

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kedrys

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:13 AM
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3. Other: with five cats, one of each

Evie wants to have a better perch. Neutrino megaloathes getting picked up. Plato wants to see his empire. Socrates wonders what happened. Quark likes to fly. :P

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InvisibleTouch

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:21 AM
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4. Some of my big dogs...

...would be delighted if I could still pick them up and carry them around, like when they were puppies. One 70-pound fellow is convinced he still fits in my lap.

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Solly Mack

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Tue Jan-18-11 11:56 AM
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5. My little dog enjoys being carried around. He wants to see what is on the top shelves

and stuff. I had a cat (RIP) that was the same way.

Once or twice a day the cat would meow to be picked up and she wanted us to carry her through the house so she could see inside closets and places she couldn't quite reach on her own. After the tour she would meow to get down and go about her business.

My miniature dachshund is the same way....loves to be held and carried about the house just to see what's what. He also likes to sit on my shoulders when I'm reading so he can be high up to look around.

I'm definitely the servant of my 4 legged children.

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Crystal Clarity

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Tue Jan-18-11 12:59 PM
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6. Well, I don't think I'd like it if I were

in the middle of a well deserved, soothing bath, only to have a human come along, pick me up, and take me somewhere else.

"Geez, can't a gal have a little privacy here?" x(

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nyc 4 Biden

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Tue Jan-18-11 01:24 PM
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7. my cat doesn't like it very much.

she tries to jump down, and when she does finally get free she usually digs into me with one of her claws for added measure, lil brat.

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bluedigger

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Tue Jan-18-11 03:22 PM
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8. Other

"You're laughing now, but we'll see who's laughing when I puke in the bed at 3AM..."

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grasswire

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Tue Jan-18-11 05:41 PM
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9. I always wondered if they are puzzled...

...by the fact that we go out and hunt their food, can/bag it, and bring it back to them.

Or by the fact that the people go out but the animals stay in.

And when we had a swimming pool I'll bet they were amused by the fact that we went outside and came back soaking wet.

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AsahinaKimi

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Wed Jan-19-11 02:43 AM
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10. My cat really doesn't enjoy it..

If I pick him up and cuddle him he will tolerate it, then after he will go to his scratching post and rip the thing apart, you can see his frustration.

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sakabatou

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Wed Jan-19-11 02:56 AM
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11. Depends on who's picking her up.

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Heidi

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Wed Jan-19-11 03:13 AM
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12. "To the bird feeder, STAT!" (nt)

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Skittles

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Wed Jan-19-11 03:19 AM
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13. my Riff Raff is really strange

he's a former feral - doesn't like to be picked up and goes to extremes trying to avoid it, but if I corner him and pick him up he hangs limp like a rag doll :D

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