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TEB

(12,842 posts)
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 08:25 AM Nov 2017

Dogs at thanksgiving yes the dogs have a bill of rights

We dogs can attend any family or group activities. Involving food snuggles or fun activities. Now I know there are people that do not care for dogs. Yesterday my brother came to dinner with his new wife and her parents. And her father asked don’t you have cages or separate the dogs at dinner. Well no we do not cage or separate these guys a Golden retriever chocolate lab and newfie. They behave as in usually hanging under the table but my wife had to go tell the chocolate land shark lab to go lay down. So it is what it is I told him, you been here to eat before .you knew how we operate. These furry boy are our furry children.

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Dogs at thanksgiving yes the dogs have a bill of rights (Original Post) TEB Nov 2017 OP
Yes. Polly Hennessey Nov 2017 #1
I have a border collie and a black cat, FoxNewsSucks Nov 2017 #2
Our cats hang out at the holiday table Freddie Nov 2017 #3
A few years ago our shepherd/collection e mix decided to finish off the leftover turkey that night. world wide wally Nov 2017 #4
One year, our cat murielm99 Nov 2017 #5
Arf shenmue Nov 2017 #6
Both my cats were out radical noodle Nov 2017 #7

FoxNewsSucks

(10,429 posts)
2. I have a border collie and a black cat,
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:52 AM
Nov 2017

both love having visitors. They greet everyone at the door, and after getting attention, never make pests of themselves. If I'm having dinner, the collie is expert at sitting and looking very pretty "so please give me a scrap of meat". But she figures out who will fall for that, and leaves everyone else alone. The cat just likes to hang out wherever the people are.

My neighbors' dogs come over with them, and my friends dogs. I feel sorry for people who don't like animals. They are really missing out.

Freddie

(9,265 posts)
3. Our cats hang out at the holiday table
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 12:09 PM
Nov 2017

The late Freddie always hid when we had company but our current boys Charlie and Andy like to hang around for scritches and head-butts. After the table is mostly cleared they will join us at table for more attention, not really interested in people food. DH doesn’t mind them under the table but isn’t crazy about them ON the table but it’s their house too. Wed. my granddaughter and I set the table with all the nice stuff and of course the boys had to help. Freddie (RIP) was one of those cats who loved squeezing himself into tiny spaces and I would always find him curled up napping in a casserole dish on the nicely-set table.

world wide wally

(21,743 posts)
4. A few years ago our shepherd/collection e mix decided to finish off the leftover turkey that night.
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 02:26 PM
Nov 2017

He picked it clean and all that was left was a turkey skeleton.
I guess the triptophine got the best of us. But it t was pretty funny.

murielm99

(30,740 posts)
5. One year, our cat
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 02:54 PM
Nov 2017

climbed on the counter while I was out of the room. She crawled inside the mostly empty turkey carcass and got stuck there. She waved her body around while stuck inside the carcass.

Luckily, we had eaten most of the meat.

radical noodle

(8,000 posts)
7. Both my cats were out
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 05:42 PM
Nov 2017

wandering around and entertaining everyone. They don't beg for people food, though.

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