Consolidate the dog pee/cat poo threads?

[shereads]

It's a Red Letter Day at the AH.

We have two simultaneous threads with discussions of canine olfactory skills as pertaining to their interest in other dogs' pee and their proclivity for raiding cat boxes. Both threads are respectably literate.

I love this place.

 

[CharleyH]

It's a Red Letter Day at the AH.

We have two simultaneous threads with discussions of canine olfactory skills as pertaining to their interest in other dogs' pee and their proclivity for raiding cat boxes. Both threads are respectably literate.

I love this place.

LOL - is all I can do.

 

[Guest]

 

[shereads]

Substance comes in the door when pet come innuendo.

Apologies to Graucho,
Lime

It almost goes without saying.

 

[shereads]

The dog woke me up to go outside and pee.

This seemed an appropriate place to mention it. Also, I just realized how frustrating it must be for her to rush outside each day into her fenced yard, checking for messages that never arrive.

For her 13th birthday next February, maybe I should leave her at the groomer's for an afternoon and secretly bring some strange dogs into the yard for a while. When she comes home and patrols the perimeter, she'll be thrilled.

 

[Guest]

For her 13th birthday next February, maybe I should leave her at the groomer's for an afternoon and secretly bring some strange dogs into the yard for a while. When she comes home and patrols the perimeter, she'll be thrilled.

Sher, if you do that you will be as good a dad as SSSarahh's hubby who replaced a stick with a blooming tree for his daughter. If I were a dog I'd love to belong to you. I'd nip and lick your ankles in glee.

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Sher, if you do that you will be as good a dad as SSSarahh's hubby who replaced a stick with a blooming tree for his daughter. If I were a dog I'd love to belong to you. I'd nip and lick your ankles in glee.

Perdita

You don't think it might upset the dog and give her a heart attack or something? Maybe she's delighted that her yard is hers alone, and finding insulting territorial claims by strangers would turn her world upside-down.

I once hid a stuffed toy hedgehog near a chipmunk-invested treefall in the mountains to placate a dog who was frustrated that the animals kept teasing her and getting away.

It was her proudest possession until the day she died. I'm convinced that she smelled chipmunk on the thing and thought she had one.

 

[shereads]

Speaking of slippery things that smell...I haven't seen anything on this story in nearly a year, and I was beginning to think I hallucinated the Vanity Fair article. Pure found this in the op-ed section of yesterday's NY Times, and was kind enough to let me know I hadn't imagined the whole thing. I thought people would find this upsetting, and that we'd organize a march on Washington where we would get satisfactory answers to this mystery, or tar-and-feather someone. It's worth one more try!

The Great Escape
By CRAIG UNGER

New York Times
June 1, 2004

Americans who think the 9/11 commission is going to answer all the crucial questions about the terrorist attacks are likely to be sorely disappointed — especially if they're interested in the secret evacuation of Saudis by plane that began just after Sept. 11.

[color=dark red]We knew that 15 out of 19 hijackers were Saudis. We knew that Osama bin Laden, a Saudi, was behind 9/11. Yet we did not conduct a police-style investigation of the departing Saudis, of whom two dozen were members. of the bin Laden family. That is not to say that they were complicit in the attacks.[/color]

Unfortunately, though, we may never know the real story. The investigative panel has already concluded that there is "no credible evidence that any chartered flights of Saudi Arabian nationals departed the United States before the reopening of national airspace." But the real point is that there were still some restrictions on American airspace when the Saudi flights began.

In addition, new evidence shows that the evacuation involved more than the departure of 142 Saudis on six charter flights that the commission is investigating. According to newly released documents, 160 Saudis left the United States on 55 flights immediately after 9/11 — making a total of about 300 people who left with the apparent approval of the Bush administration, far more than has been reported before. The records were released by the Department of Homeland Security in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Judicial Watch, a conservative, nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington.

The vast majority of the newly disclosed flights were commercial airline flights, not charters, often carrying just two or three Saudi passengers. They originated from more than 20 cities, including Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit and Houston. One Saudi Arabian Airlines flight left Kennedy Airport on Sept. 13 with 46 Saudis. The next day, another Saudi Arabian Airlines flight left with 13 Saudis.

The panel has indicated that it has yet to find any evidence that the F.B.I. checked the manifests of departing flights against its terror watch list. The departures of additional Saudis raise more questions for the panel. Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, told The Hill newspaper recently that he took full responsibility for approving some flights. But we don't know if other Bush administration officials participated in the decision.

The passengers should have been questioned about any links to Osama bin Laden, or his financing. We have long known that some faction of the Saudi elite has helped funnel money to Islamist terrorists —inadvertently at least. Prince Ahmed bin Salman, who has been accused of being an intermediary between Al Qaeda and the House of Saud, boarded one of the evacuation planes in Kentucky. Was he interrogated by the F.B.I. before he left?

If the commission dares to address these issues, it will undoubtedly be accused of politicizing one of the most important national security investigations in American history — in an election year, no less.

But if it does not, it risks something far worse — the betrayal of the thousands of people who lost their lives that day, not to mention millions of others who want the truth.