What next? requests for plants? favourite shoes? bits of furniture?Â
Anthropomorphism gone mad
It's not really anthropomorphism. The request is for the owner of the pet/table/orchid/wheel of cheese/car, not for the object itself. Although one of our dogs did have a particular reaction to one specific piece of music, so who knows?
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
What next? requests for plants? favourite shoes? bits of furniture?Â
Anthropomorphism gone mad
It's not really anthropomorphism. The request is for the owner of the pet/table/orchid/wheel of cheese/car, not for the object itself. Although one of our dogs did have a particular reaction to one specific piece of music, so who knows?
the anthropomorphism was intended as a reference to the notion that they think the pet actually cares if today is its Birthday or not.Â
What next? requests for plants? favourite shoes? bits of furniture?Â
Anthropomorphism gone mad
It's not really anthropomorphism. The request is for the owner of the pet/table/orchid/wheel of cheese/car, not for the object itself. Although one of our dogs did have a particular reaction to one specific piece of music, so who knows?
I had a spaniel who used to howl along to Ruby by Kaiser Chiefs and U can't touch this by MC Hammer. He loved those songs.
Horse girl and fiance didn't marry in the end. I'm not sure that he was too upset about it but I must say that life was never dull with her around.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The request is for the owner of the wheel of cheese
'Why am I sitting next to a blue cheese with a bit of tartan wrapped around it?â âAh, thatâd be Horace,â said Rob Anybody. âHeâs Daft Wullieâs pet. Heâs noâbeinâ a nuisance, is he?â âNo, but heâs trying to sing!â âAye, all blue cheeses hum a bit.'
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Canât agree Pansyface, Â Most of my cats have come from wild beginnings. When theyâre finally caught and brought in the house spitting and yowling, they hide away for a few days then gradually come round and make lovely pets. Â Iâve never had one that never socialised and never had a dirty one.Â
I donât get the children thing either, Â especially little babies.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
I was never particularly interested in other peoplesâ babies ⊠really hadnât come across more than two or three and my first baby was the first Iâd ever held ⊠but I bonded with both mine absolutely immediately and really didnât âgetâ why other people (grandparents, aunts etc) thought they ought to be allowed to hold them.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You canât force a cat,  I would just ignore them,  find where they were hiding,  put the food and little tray there and walk away. Out of curiosity they will come round, eventually. I canât say that they never saw a person,  the woodman who trapped my first two would have been in distant contact with them.  The last one, had been living in the garden so you could say he did see us.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
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âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
âAh, thatâd be Horace,â said Rob Anybody. âHeâs Daft Wullieâs pet. Heâs noâbeinâ a nuisance, is he?â
âNo, but heâs trying to sing!â
âAye, all blue cheeses hum a bit.'
Neigh, surely not.
When theyâre finally caught and brought in the house spitting and yowling, they hide away for a few days then gradually come round and make lovely pets. Â Iâve never had one that never socialised and never had a dirty one.Â
I donât get the children thing either, Â especially little babies.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Out of curiosity they will come round, eventually.
I canât say that they never saw a person, Â the woodman who trapped my first two would have been in distant contact with them. Â
The last one, had been living in the garden so you could say he did see us.