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We all know what its like when our friends or family members go away on long trips and leave us behind. Its a major bummer, and we all wait patiently for that day when they return home.
But you know what they sayabsence makes the heart grows fonder, and reunions are awesome. We greet our fresh-off-the plane travelers at the airport or open the front door with open arms lay a great big embrace on our road-worn companions.
And thats exactly how Jasper the cat reacts to seeing his dog friend Bow-Z after 10 days of being apart.
In a video uploaded to YouTube, the black cat just cant contain his excitement as he jumps up and throws his paws around the dog and buries his face in the canines neck. Bow-Zs tail wags and the dog allows his feline friend to hug him for a few minutes before trying to back away and get some breathing room.
http://www.pet360.com/dog/lifestyle/watch-cat-cant-stop-hugging-dog-after-10-days-apart/l1k9sVVpLEKE1hrpJ97AkA?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=PaidContent&utm_campaign=360-Articles&utm_content=WATCH-Cat-Cant-Stop-Hugging-Dog-After-10&extcid=PCDOB1
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)He just loves my dog, and the dog likes everybody, but sometimes the cat's affection is just a little too much.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)another half hour.
for all the pets loved and at home and their owners. To those who are not, the Great Pet Mother will snuggle them in her Royal Basket in the sky. That's what I told my son every time we lost a pet...it seemed to help. (Of course it varies...sometimes it was the Great Fishbowl, or the Great Lizard Tank)
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)I currently have both a cat and a dog. My pup was a "pet shop rescue" and I found my kitty - as a tiny kitten - last summer in a grocery store parking lot...
Jack
Felix
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)raised a wounded blackbird, Priscilla the Pig washed up after a flood, had wild guineas, barn, chickens...the whole menagerie. Now I can't have pets where I live, but I may remedy that situation soon.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)All of them have had sad stories. I previously adopted senior dogs, felt they were the ones who needed me. Jackie found me at five months, was a pet shop dog who couldn't be sold *sigh* because he had a health problem - a hernia that was repaired when he was neutered, and it never slowed him down, LOL. He just turned nine.
And I discovered a tiny kitten last August in the parking lot of a local grocery store where they were doing construction. I couldn't just leave him there. The vet thought he was about 7-weeks-old. And he is growing up into such a beautiful cat!
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)was very icy here, apparently a racoon got up inside one of the vehicles here for some warmth and knawed some wires loose. At least s/he is still around so nobody took out a shotgun or anything.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)You could probably get away with small pets. When I was away at school, I had a mouse for a pet for several years - then acquired a rat who I rescued from being "recycled" to the biology lab. Both had distinctive personalities, just prefer the larger pets since the smaller ones don't live as long. Two of my dogs have lived past 18, am hoping that Jack will, too.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Joey Pouch with my sweatshirt and carry one of them around. I told the pet store I wanted two females...for obvious reasons. Well, we got one of each. Let me tell you, we had an impromptu sex education lesson in front of the rat cage one day along with another 7 year old. Not how I'd had it planned. LOL So we went through gestation, and they looked like little peanuts...so cute. We gave all but one away.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)Though we're talking about domesticated rats. Mine was a male hooded rat, black and white, all the rats in the science departments were, and he was jittery at first, listening for every sound because he'd been conditioned to. But he calmed down pretty fast, developed a huge love for cheese.
I had the mouse when I was younger and he was a wonderful pet, kept me company when I was away at boarding school, though he had to remain a secret. His name was Franklin Roosevelt...
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Edit: Oh lord please forgive me, every time someone uses the pejorative "rat f##ers" I am forced to remember that event and howl in laughter. If they only knew.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)until I saw that he was wagging his tail. His eyes are saying he's a bit embarrassed.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)I think he initially likes the attention from the cat, but a little goes a long way.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)I would be so happy if my cats liked a dog that much.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)But he thought the dog was his mother. Seriously. We are still amazed how attached the kitty was.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)I'm feeling your kitty. I worry about my younger cat who is so attached to the older one. He would be most likely to befriend a puppy. Sometimes I look at them, and having lost animals in the last decade that nearly put me under, I get so sad. I wouldn't give them up for anything, but it is so very hard. The older one mourned like I've never seen when his "big brother" died. That's why we got the younger one and the cycle continues. So sad for your cat, but I'm sure you give him lots of extra squishes.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)shenmue
(38,501 posts)Bryce Butler
(338 posts)I usually get, "Oh, you're home?"
My dog on the other hand, won't leave my side.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)By the way, it is a shame we do not live close as I would love for our two Jackies to have a play date. My girl is still afraid of of other dogs and in desperate need of socialization.
The dogs in my neighborhood are mostly larger than her, adding to her reluctance to give them a chance.
So far, when I have tried to introduce her to another 4 legged person her reaction is to try to climb up my leg.
I will keep trying. She needs to learn that whatever bad experiences she has had in the past with others, such is not necessarily the norm. She was afraid of other two legged people as well, but after taking her with me to meet (the nice ladies with the treats - one my mother in law and the other a neighbor that adores animals) she has begun to change her mind about people.
I am desperate to find even tempered dogs - not too young and frantic and not too large and imposing for her to learn to make friends with the fur people as well.
The video is giving me ideas about trying her with a cat (one that owns a dog already perhaps and bears no speciest grudges) maybe that will help.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)The kitten that I rescued last summer just loves him, but he can only take so much. I'm fortunate with him, since Brussels Griffons can be one person dogs. My other Griff (Meneken, if you remember ) was, but he had previously belonged to a very elderly lady who died.
Jack, on the other hand, was fostered at the Animal Emergency Clinic. So he rarely has issues with anyone, doesn't hesitate to greet perfect strangers, LOL. His best buddy for the first few years of his life was a 100 lb. Airedale so he loves big dogs, and he's used to cats except when the kitten comes on too strong...
I did take Jack to a couple of doggy classes when he was around a year old. He did much better in the smaller class and I know that they also have socialization classes, usually for puppies, though anyone who's used to dogs and understands the situation should be willing to help out...
Let me know how she's doing. This sounds like a perfect match for both of you...
progressoid
(49,825 posts)Just got home and my cat has been on me for the last 4 hours. Purring like crazy.
Rhiannon12866
(202,970 posts)My dog used to make a point of ignoring my parents (my Dad was his favorite) whenever they came back after a long trip. My Dad thought it was amusing. But it just goes to show that they really do notice - and miss us, too.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,375 posts)this is why you should never allow your cat to binge-watch True Blood.