this is not true
dogs are slobbery and noisy and smelly and demanding.

Ducks are cute and quacky and their babies are soooo cute and they're just awesome.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:09, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Dogs are like kids.
Lovely to borrow and play with and even better to give back.
( girlinthehole, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:11, Reply)

oh no
much much better if it's your own. Borrowing a child would just annoy me - I'd be wondering why they were such an irritating little shit, why they kept whining, what the fuck is wrong NOW? etc etc. With my own, I know what's wrong (he's just an irritating little shit sometimes, there is no special reason, except bad parenting, obviously), and I have free rein to drug him with calpol when he gets up at 3.30am for the 10th fucking night in a row. (vitamin c gnashes teeth)
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:13, Reply)

Calpol is ace - although even the sugar free stuff sends my two kids loopy.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:24, Reply)

my other half is dead against it
but if it was up to me, baby'd get a spoonful everytime he woke up in the night. mrvitC finally relented at 5.30am, after 2 hours of whinging. result was a baby who went straight back to sleep and slept for 2 hours. Whilst we had to get up at 6.30 and get ready for work.
( ascorbate, Wed 23 Jun 2010, 11:27, Reply)