I've Come To The Conclusion: Pet Owners Are A Tad Nuts~~LOL
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
March 27, 2009 11:44pm CST
I've just come to a realization here and maybe many of your mylotters have noticed a trend especially with those of us who are pet owners.
Have you ever gone to one of your friends profiles and lurk around their photos that they might have posted there?? Notice something odd? The oddity being there are usually MORE photos of a MyLotter's pet(s) than of themselves or other family members.
I went to one friend's profile and looked at her photos posted and there were five photos of her dog, and only one of her....at another friend's photo page there were four photos of her dog, and NONE of her or her family...then I had to do a check of my own page..(yikes I had forgotten what photos I had there)---I have a total of nineteen photos...a few show off my photography in general (nine)...two of me..and six of my cats from past and present..bottom line..there are more cat photos there then of me.
So...are fellow mylotters a tad nutty when it comes to their pets? Do you have more pet photos than ones of you or your family? Do you also share photos of your pets on other sites as well more than of you????
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39 responses
@Aussies2007 (5336)
• Australia
28 Mar 09
People who have no children... compensate by treating their pets like children.
Same goes with older people who have only their pet for company.
And yes... it is all a bit nutty.
Particulary when I see people feeding their dogs premium steak.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Mmm--I know quite a number of people that do have children, but still treat their pets like children as well. Okay this was quite awhile ago when my mother was still alive and we had a lot more cats. During Thanksgiving I could never get a turkey smaller than 19 pounds..why? Well guess who most of the turkey went to?
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
28 Mar 09
LOL-i think the lion's share of our last turkey went to my calico..
and it wasn't just me,she was charming the pants out of my brother for it.
his "favorite wittle girl" 
she is shameless..
she is shameless..3 people like this
@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
30 Mar 09
Now that Banjo is no longer allowed outdoors he has no friends to play with. I caught a live mouse in a trap and gave it to him and he was in 7th heaven. When the time came to devour his new friend did he have to do it under my chair making all the appreciative noises while he crunched bones?
Looking at these responses ...yes Pye...we are all crazy in the coconut.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Lala is a beauty! Just took a look at your photos there
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Awwww come on zandi! Let us be the judge! lol I bet you're prettier than you think you are! 
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@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Guilty as charged! LOL! My cats are very well known on pretty much every site that I'm a member of. I get in so much trouble with friends if I forget to post photos of myself. So yeah.....I think you're right....us pet owners are most definitely nuts!
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@Aurone (4755)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Yep, crazy pet owner here. I even carry photos of my pets in my wallet. I have more pictures on my facebook of my cats then anyone else (although before my husband left, I had quite a few of him up there too). I think people would rather see my cats then me. lol. They are just so darn cute I can't help myself. Right now they are my only company and are like my kids, so I just go picture crazy with them.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
LOL--I forget are you a friend of mine over at Facebook? I know you have a lot of photos of your furbabies at Gather...LOL. My two kitties are my only company now for the past almost three years ever since my mother passed away
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@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
30 Mar 09
I'm guilty as charged!! LOL Having 10 cats and 4 dogs, there's bound to be more of them than of me but that's ok because I'm not a vain person so I'm not one to sit around waiting for someone to take my picture besides, one is enough to break someone's computer screen!! LMBO! Speaking of which, I do need to add one of my dogs to my pictures, he's just a wee baby still, a german shepherd that we named Toby. lol
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Yup--you're definitely in the nutty category..went to your photos and counted eleven photos, including one of Sassy....how is she doing?
@CatsandDogs (13963)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I wouldn't change a thing either!! lol Sassy is doing great! She's a frisky little thing! I mean frisky and little in the best of ways. She's so petite but loves to run and climb trees way up high or even my clothes line! She's hilarious and makes me laugh a lot! She's a real joy to have around! You should hear her meow, it's so lady like, very high pitched but very soft. Even hubby says she's very feminine when she wants to be. For him to notice that really says something about her! lol
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@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
28 Mar 09
Yes I would agree with you, all pet owners are a little nutty when it comes to their little furry friends. The first two photos I put up on myLot was our cat Wilde.
Sometimes it can be hard not to take pictures of the pets as they are so cute and you never know what kind of pose they will have next
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
LOL--I saw just now your photos of Wilde...he's not named after Oscar Wilde by any chance is he? LOL
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
29 Mar 09
Probably I don't keep with the trend on this site, but I can recognize many members by pet's pictures only. I keep my pets pictures all over the house. yes, I have far more pictures of my pets than any family members.
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@polachicago (18716)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I am going to make mouse pad with my cat picture and my dogs on canvas or my shopping bad...I am teasing myself with tons of ideas....
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
6 Apr 09
I might do something like that myself. I think I could stand to have a new mousepad, and I think my photo of Pyewacket would be perfect...
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I'm definitely going to have to put up more pics of my kitties past and present in my apartment. Do have a photo of Pyewacket on the refrigerator..wonder if by my putting it there it means something...like he's guarding the food maybe??? Heehee
@raydene (9871)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Hello Sweets
I do have pics of pets on my profile.
I think many are more comfortable with
not showing too much of the people
in their lives.
I do have loads of pics of my family/pets
on myspace page www.myspace.com/raydenel
if you want go look at them.
xoxooxxoxo
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
30 Mar 09
I managed to see your kitty photos on your MySpace page....awwwwww..
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
28 Mar 09
heh..guilty.
i know when i get a friend request,i look for pets.
there are so many cute pix on mylot.
i don't consider myself a photographer by any means,but yea,i have a ton of pictures of the "kids".and thankfully,use of a digital.
the 110 was getting hard to find film for.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
29 Mar 09
I often ASK friend request if I happen to come across someone's avatar and it's a kitty one..then look at their profile page. If they have photos of their furbabies then figure they're A-OK
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@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
29 Mar 09
LOL yup,i've done that too.there was a woman on here with ten beautiful cats she
had on her profile.i haven't seen her around,not sure if she still posts.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
28 Mar 09
Pets often image their owner. The late Winston Churchill's bulldog was as handsome as the Prime Minister of Great Briton. A neighbor has a dear little beagle cross. Short legged, with black, brown, and white markings. His wife is crippled, and quite a handful. She doesn't know he smokes, while walking the dog, but he has very few other interests. His dog is his life, and the only thing he has going for himself.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
30 Mar 09
Yes I've often heard that people seem to resemble their pets. Sorry to hear about your neighbor's wife. Since he seems to have his hands full taking care of her, I guess his dog is a form of "therapy" for him and a good excuse to get out of the home for awhile
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Hey pye! I still don't have a camera so I don't have any pictures
at all. But, if I did have a camera there would be nothing but
pictures of my cats of course! Everyone would be so tired of
seeing all my pictures of Star & Luna! And by the way, that is
a beautiful picture of you! I had never seen one on your
profile page here. I had seen it on your website. You look
reallly pretty in it! I don't know if I will ever get a camera
and if I do I wonder if I will ever be able to figure out how
to use it and the how to post the pictures! I really want a
camera so bad!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
29 Mar 09
Too bad you don't have a camera I would LOVE to see photos of Star and Luna. I still use my old film camera but would love to get a digital one but the kind I would like ..that is a Nikon DSLR is way out of my league to get. Aww...thanks for the compliment--that was a self-portrait of me taken a few years ago.
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@dreamweaverjan (3471)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Hi Pye~Darlin: Yeah you know I have more of my pets than I do of myself; I hate my picture to be taken and the one I have of myself is VERY OLD..(g)!
I love my pets past and present, you should see my house, I have pet photo's all over the place, kinda like a Memorial Wall and its growing let me tell ya!!
So yeah on any website or social place I always have pics of my pets or involve
them in my topics for discussions;
speaking of which as I sit here my Cat Screamer is asleep and snoring LOUDLY!!!
ROTFL! She is so funny when she snores!! LOLOL!!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
One of these days I would love to place photos of many of my former furbabies as a memorial type thing too. YIKES..I would need an awful lot of space for that..LOL
@sysdexlicwriter (1619)
• United States
28 Mar 09
First of all, I think my cats are cuter. Hey, I'm cute too but not as cute as them.
Second of all, I think the reason I aim the camera at the cat is they can't say, "Stop, don't take my picture. I haven't put my makeup on yet. I look too bloated for a picture. My face is broken out. Don't take a picture of me I just woke up." The little fur balls just sit there like they are taunting me to just snap away.
Third of all, who else can you get a picture of while they are cleaning their back end. No thank you, I don't want to know the answer to that question at all! 
Second of all, I think the reason I aim the camera at the cat is they can't say, "Stop, don't take my picture. I haven't put my makeup on yet. I look too bloated for a picture. My face is broken out. Don't take a picture of me I just woke up." The little fur balls just sit there like they are taunting me to just snap away.
Third of all, who else can you get a picture of while they are cleaning their back end. No thank you, I don't want to know the answer to that question at all!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
29 Mar 09
Mmmm--never thought of photographing my two kitties while cleaning their back ends....LOL.
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@kitli29 (31)
• Portugal
28 Mar 09
Hi! I have a few birds, I think that they are lovely, and they can sing along with me, that's good.
I don't treaten them as gods but I have a special care for them, they are my company and the joy of my life.
But I don't share pictures of them, at least on the web, with within my circle of friends maybe I can share.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
30 Mar 09
I used to have birds too, and photographed them as well
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@moondancer (7433)
• United States
28 Mar 09
lol, yes pye we all are nuts for our pets. I think I have an equal number of each.
I think it's great that you have all of your cats there it shows how much you care for them all. Just because they have left us doesn't mean they are loved any less. Perhaps we love them even more because we don't have the time to spend with them anymore. All we have are the precious memories and that keeps them with us.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
6 Apr 09
LOL--by no means do I have all my cat photos in my photos section here...heehee. I quite literally have over a thousand photos of my cats, even going back to my very first one, Babette who I got in 1961
@BarBaraPrz (47344)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Mar 09
Maybe it's just a matter of the simple fact that pets aren't that good at taking photos of their people...
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@BarBaraPrz (47344)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Mar 09
Do you really want to see photos of people picking their noses, hopping on one foot while trying to put on their pants, scratching various body parts, sitting on the can... you know that's the kind of pics they'd take if they could.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
29 Mar 09
Can't help thinking our pets would love to be able to take our photos to get even for all the photos we take of them
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
28 Mar 09
holy sh!t !! I read this and said I can't have more of the puppers than I do for my family.. Then I saw that I have more photos of the puppy than my kids. wow I guess I'm included in the nut category. LOL!! But to be honest when I read the title I thought " You think" because I was just thinking that we would never wait hand and foot on anyone without good reason i. e. kids to young to take care of themselves, the sick and injured. But pets have it made if they get the right owners, like us who fawn over them and wait on them like we're there servants so I guess you have to be kinda nuts to have a pet ok in actuallity a family member that you devote yourself and time and money to..
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Aww--Frost is a beauty...what kind of dog is he??? I sometimes think what a life my two cats have. No worries about bills or anything, just spend their time snoozing, eating, playing...what a life!
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@bellaofchaos (11538)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Frost is a full blooded AKC siberian husky, I was thinking about showing him when he was younger but I'm not sure about that now I really don't have the money and I would need to get a trainer or someone to show him too.But he has it way made he sleeps whereever he wants and has a food bowl upstairs and downstairs and I fetch everything for him LOL!! I sometimes would love to trade places with my spoiled puppers.
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@nanajanet (4436)
• United States
28 Mar 09
Thank God that we are! How boring would life be if there were only people who did not like animals.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I plain don't trust people who don't care for animals, do you? Or have the attitude..oh, it's only an animal...grrrr.
@nanajanet (4436)
• United States
31 Mar 09
I only have one friend who does not have or had pets. She is allergic. Everyone else I know loves animals.
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
28 Mar 09
Hi pye,
I justwent in to see what you look like, I must say you are so stunning with that Native American look. I have only that one photo of me on my profie and I haven't got a digtail camera but will be getting this week so I will be putting my furbies photos in soon. I think i really lovely that all pet lovers put their pet pictures in their profile as it lovely to look at them.
Bright Blessings.
Tamara
xxxx
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
6 Apr 09
Did you get the camera yet? I was looking at your photo..mmm...is that a cat on your sweatshirt??? LOL
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
6 Apr 09
Hi Pye,
Yes that is a cat on my sweatshirt that littleowl bought me a couple of years ago and I will be getting a new camera soon, hopefully in a next few days and will be able to put my two furbies on my page.
Bright Blessings.
Tamara
@Vladilyich1 (1454)
• Canada
28 Mar 09
Pet owners, by definition, are more than just a little bit left of centre. You have to be a bit crazy to allow yourself to be domesticated by an animal. I've also noticed that pet owners appear to have more pictures of the animals than they do of themselves or their family.
@polachicago (18716)
• United States
29 Mar 09
I am domesticated by my animals...1 person likes this
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
31 Mar 09
Yup--I'm sure domesticated by my two cats....they have me well trained...LOL
