Should Yoyo and I get a puppy?

[DaShen]

The ATOTers have spoken. OVERWHELMINGLY get the dog. They are more loyal than girls anyways. I kid, I kid.

 

[dawnbug]

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: LadyBuggy

Originally posted by: eakers
1. can you afford the pet bills?
2. what happens after you live in this house? are you going home for the summer?

1. As long as it didn't have any unusual health problems, vet bills and food and stuff wouldn't be a problem.
2. I'm planning on staying in the house for the summer (Yoyo might go home to work, but I want to get a job here).

Cuteness only goes so far. Be sure you're completely ready for the responsibility of a puppy. They control you in a lot of ways and your schedule will revolve around taking care of your dog. You will realize that very quickly.

Plus, you have a roomate/boyfriend that has very expensive equipment and a puppy is not going to know any better and pee all over it. Thats not very fair to Yoyo when he also has something he cares very much about.

If you're still in college, then you have your whole life ahead of you to own a puppy. Don't forget you could potentially be comitted to it for the next 10-15 years.

Just my 2 cents.

Oh, I forgot to mention that patience is usually not a womans most adoring quality, so Yoyo, no matter what I say to your woman will probably go in one ear/eye and out the other.

Hey, I'm listening. I'm trying to think about this from all angles, and be completely rational about it. You make good points. Yoyo and I talked about how we have a lot of time and we could wait until we're living on our own to get a puppy. I also am taking into consideration that a puppy could potentially damage some of his things, but my family's never had a dog who liked to destroy things like speakers in the house, so I don't really see that as too likely with any dog that we'd potentially get (but I know it's a possibility). I really am trying to be rational and listen to all viewpoints about it, though, because I don't want to end up regretting it if we did get it.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: LadyBuggy

Originally posted by: tami
by the way, is this yoyo the soundman?

Yes, he is. He's worried about the chance that a puppy could damage his speakers.

tell him to stop being so paranoid

oh yoyo, stop being so paranoid.

Do puppies like scratching/biting/licking speakers? Anyone have experience?

I have approximately $2000 worth of stuff that's at puppy head height or lower (not counting my computer because I don't care if it damages the case).

I guess I could make little barriers around my stuff...

I'm also worried about the smell. I mean the rats are sometimes smelly as it is before she changes the cage material. Ladybuggy is very good about changing the stuff, but it still gets smelly after a couple days.

The rats are really new too. I didn't want to get them either. I kind of feel like they get neglected a little and play with them at night when ladybuggy is in bed.

I fear that if we got a dog that it wouldn't get as much attention as it should.

We also don't really have a good place to keep it. There's a room attached to our garage if we needed to get it out of the house for a period of time, but I suspect 99% of the time it's going to be in here with us (it was like 35 degrees outside lastnight already).

We have a basement, but it's pretty creepy down there and not really a good environment. So, it would be on the first floor here with us. One of the rooms is a bedroom of another roommate, there's our
computer room / dining room
living room
and then a small kitchen.

I really don't think we have enough room here for a dog to be happy unless it's really lazy.

If we "Teach it to not go into certain rooms" like DaShen suggests, that would only leave it with the computer/dining room and the kitchen

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: LadyBuggy

Originally posted by: eakers
1. can you afford the pet bills?
2. what happens after you live in this house? are you going home for the summer?

1. As long as it didn't have any unusual health problems, vet bills and food and stuff wouldn't be a problem.
2. I'm planning on staying in the house for the summer (Yoyo might go home to work, but I want to get a job here).

Cuteness only goes so far. Be sure you're completely ready for the responsibility of a puppy. They control you in a lot of ways and your schedule will revolve around taking care of your dog. You will realize that very quickly.

Plus, you have a roomate/boyfriend that has very expensive equipment and a puppy is not going to know any better and pee all over it. Thats not very fair to Yoyo when he also has something he cares very much about.

If you're still in college, then you have your whole life ahead of you to own a puppy. Don't forget you could potentially be comitted to it for the next 10-15 years.

Just my 2 cents.

Oh, I forgot to mention that patience is usually not a womans most adoring quality, so Yoyo, no matter what I say to your woman will probably go in one ear/eye and out the other.

I pretty much went over those same points earlier with her.

I guess if this really makes her happy though...

 

[Crescent13]

Cat FTW!! Imagine what a puppy would do to the home theater.

 

[ironcrotch]

Just train the new puppy to stay away from the speakers.

 

[iamwiz82]

All the more reason to get an adult dog! Ours will do nothing to lounge on the couch all day unless I get her worked up and run around with her. Otherwise she is really mellow. She loves to sleep between which does hinder our mojo sometimes, but nudging her out of bed usually works.

 

[BooGiMaN]

id say no

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
Cat FTW!! Imagine what a puppy would do to the home theater.

Don't cats like to scratch things?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Just train the new puppy to stay away from the speakers.

By cranking them when it gets close? :evil:

I have no idea how to train a dog.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
All the more reason to get an adult dog! Ours will do nothing to lounge on the couch all day unless I get her worked up and run around with her. Otherwise she is really mellow. She loves to sleep between which does hinder our mojo sometimes, but nudging her out of bed usually works.

I think I would be more open to a nice older lazy dog.

 

[Hankerton]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: Hankerton

Originally posted by: LadyBuggy

Originally posted by: eakers
1. can you afford the pet bills?
2. what happens after you live in this house? are you going home for the summer?

1. As long as it didn't have any unusual health problems, vet bills and food and stuff wouldn't be a problem.
2. I'm planning on staying in the house for the summer (Yoyo might go home to work, but I want to get a job here).

Cuteness only goes so far. Be sure you're completely ready for the responsibility of a puppy. They control you in a lot of ways and your schedule will revolve around taking care of your dog. You will realize that very quickly.

Plus, you have a roomate/boyfriend that has very expensive equipment and a puppy is not going to know any better and pee all over it. Thats not very fair to Yoyo when he also has something he cares very much about.

If you're still in college, then you have your whole life ahead of you to own a puppy. Don't forget you could potentially be comitted to it for the next 10-15 years.

Just my 2 cents.

Oh, I forgot to mention that patience is usually not a womans most adoring quality, so Yoyo, no matter what I say to your woman will probably go in one ear/eye and out the other.

I pretty much went over those same points earlier with her.

I guess if this really makes her happy though...

hahaha.....*makes whiplash noise*
j/k, good luck with everything, hope you make the right decision.

 

[dawnbug]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
Cat FTW!! Imagine what a puppy would do to the home theater.

Everybody says don't declaw your cats, though. My sister has a not declawed cat, and it loves to scratch up her couch (she tried getting a scratching post, too, but it wasn't interested). I'd be more worried about a cat with the home theatre equpiment than a dog...

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Crescent13
Cat FTW!! Imagine what a puppy would do to the home theater.

Don't cats like to scratch things?

Some do, yes.

I second the older dog idea. We don't want you throwing the puppy out the window into the freezing night when he pees all over your couch or something.

 

[Crescent13]

My cat is declawed, FTW!!

 

[dabuddha]

Unless you see yourself taking care of it for the next 15+ years or so, I wouldn't get it. Don't be one of those assholes that gets a puppy and gets rid of it when it becomes inconvenient to take care of.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
My cat is declawed, FTW!!

:thumbsdown:

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
My cat is declawed, FTW!!

:thumbsdown:

Someone should break your knuckles and see how you like it.

Link

 

[DanTMWTMP]

LOL @ thread. I started to LOL after I saw the pic of the speaker and yoyo saying it looks like a tree to a dog, and the following post from lady when he said "but he's sooo cute!!!"


I vote yes, since I love dogs lol . I'm sure you guys can work something out

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Crescent13
My cat is declawed, FTW!!

:thumbsdown:

Someone should break your knuckles and see how you like it.

well sorry!! It was painlessly surgically declawed when it was a kitten, and I didn't have much choice in the matter since I was only 5 then (the cat is 9 now)

EDIT: oh didn't see the link, wow, but like I said, not much control over situations like that at 5 years old.

 

[VB]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: LadyBuggy

Originally posted by: tami
by the way, is this yoyo the soundman?

Yes, he is. He's worried about the chance that a puppy could damage his speakers.

tell him to stop being so paranoid

oh yoyo, stop being so paranoid.

Fine....may I piss in your gas tank?

 

[ShadowBlade]

No, puppies are dumb.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Get the puppy, and build him a nice cozy dog house in the yard with a big blanket and a light to keep him warm. A shepard sharpea mix is a hardy breed and will grow very fast, don't get him too used to coming in the house as he will quickly outgrow the small space that you have.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: Crescent13

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: Crescent13
My cat is declawed, FTW!!

:thumbsdown:

Someone should break your knuckles and see how you like it.

well sorry!! It was painlessly surgically declawed when it was a kitten, and I didn't have much choice in the matter since I was only 5 then (the cat is 9 now)

EDIT: oh didn't see the link, wow, but like I said, not much control over situations like that at 5 years old.

Not painless at all. Did your parents get the declawing then?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Get the puppy, and build him a nice cozy dog house in the yard with a big blanket and a light to keep him warm. A shepard sharpea mix is a hardy breed and will grow very fast, don't get him too used to coming in the house as he will quickly outgrow the small space that you have.

ladybuggy said she didn't know if this would get big.

How big would you think it would get?