Comments on: Your pet- a Lover or a Fighter?

By: Louis Frey

Louis Frey — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:13:26 +0000

I’m not sure what my Siberian Husky “Spiritus” 8 week old pup is?

I got him when he was a few days shy of 6 weeks old. Siberians usually are easy going, but he is downright agressive and yet totally submissive at times. He fights with dogs 5 times his size…not playfully…but snarling,growling and curling up his upper lip biting type fighting. He lunges at everyone when excited or for no apparent reason. We don’t rough house or tug of war play with him even though that’s the type of play he always wants to do. He calmly spends time out in his crate, takes a nap and then the same senerio starts all over again.

I wanted a home guard dog to replace the Akita we had, she had to be put to sleep at 15 years old her health conditons were to far advanced to do anything else but let her go. It looks like I might get what I wanted, but not sure in how to go the distance in getting there.

By: Paul Prosser

Paul Prosser — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:49:33 +0000

My GSD Ace is both: the biggest softy going with anyone he knows but woe betide anyone who is in any way dodgy. My stafford Hooch is soft as butter with people but will attack other dogs and my border collie Rex will hide if there is any trouble unless I or my wife are threatened whereupon he becomes very aggressive. They are all rescues, and all intact males who get on together with only very occasional scraps when they meet head-on in confined spaces.

By: McKayla

McKayla — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:49:02 +0000

I have 10 pets…four sheep, three dogs, two cats, and a fish.

My sheep are all lovers <3 But, if you don’t feed them immediatley with their grain, they become monsters and try to climb all over me to get to the grain bucket…my one, Ciqala (aka Kiki) tries ramming into me when she doesn’t get her food first (yes, she’s selfish, the other three are her children, but she doesn’t care lol).

My oldest dog, Pepper, will be 15 in January ‘10. He is deaf and blind, so he doesn’t really care too much about what’s happening around him. Maggie, she’s aggressive when the thing she’s barking at is outside, but totally submissive if it’s in front of her — she hates confrontation. Grizzly is the most expressive dog; he always adds sound effects to everything he does — yawning, plopping down to sit/lay, and practically everything else XD But Maggie and Grizzly bark at anything that moves outside, though. We actually had someone attempt to break into our house a couple of months ago, but my dogs scared them off because they kept barking so loudly.

My cats…Frank is a barn cat, but he’s not neutered, so he fights any cats that try to steal his ladies. But, if he comes inside (which he often does), he is the most loveable cat ever, and he doesn’t mind my other cat, Tigger, mainly because he probably knows he doesn’t have his manly-ness lol. Tigger is scared of everything, so we don’t see him too often. All I know is that hes plump and fluffy.

My fish. I’ve never actually got to really see my fish’s personality, other than he, Pumpkin, loves to eat. He’s a carnival goldfish we’ve had for 3 years now. We’ve bought many fish as “companions” like from Wal-Mart, Pets-Mart, PetCo, etc but they all died on us

So, I’d say my animals are half and half — they love us dearly, and they will protect us.

By: Diane Milinowski

Diane Milinowski — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:14:03 +0000

My 4 cats are definately BOTH–LOVER & FIGHTER. They are HIGHLY acclimated to receiving and rewarding me with different types of love and also will fight, anything, in order to ensure my safety and the safety of the family. It’s really nice, knowing I’m both safe and loved!!!

By: Annette

Annette — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:03:51 +0000

I LOVE cats and have had many. One was both a lover and a fighter. He was amazing. (The vet thought he was a bombay as he was found a few miles from a bombay cattery and fit the description to a T. He was sooooo loving my husband used to tease me that one day I’d have to get that cat “surgically removed” and referred to him as my “appendage” because he could NOT sit in the room without touching me, even if it was to rest his head or feet on me.
He went everywhere. When I’d have to get an appliance serviced and a strange man would come to the house, he would NOT let them near me. He would always firmly plant himself between us, so they could only get so close. I loved him dearly.
He died at 19yrs old. (All my cats were indoor cats and of the many, the youngest they ever passed was my last who was almost 17yr when he died -MUCH too young). That one too was a lover & fighter, only he fought with me LOL! (Play fighting. He’d lay upside down, then unsuspectingly grab at you when you went by him.
Sometimes I would fight him with my toe. Poking him lightly and annoying him. He was so cute. He’d let out this incredible “war cry” – a distinctive sound that said, “I mean BUSINESS”, then would attack and attempt to disembowel my foot. Of course, all I had to do was say his name and bend over and pet him and it would stop.
He was just playing. When it camed to other people, only about a handful ever SAW him in his 16 year with us as he ran from them. This never bothered me a bit as I am quite reclusive in many aspects, prefering my animal friends to my human ones. They make for much better company in my book.