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[denizaksulu]

If I were an animal I'd be a flea, I'd call myself Fifi, and look like this ---> .

Oh, not that pesky FiFi again? Whers the s.w.a.t.?

[zan]

I'd be Beardie, the luckiest dog in Christendom. He was abandoned at ~6 weeks, in ways only Cypriots can abandon dogs, after whipping him. He was a starved skeleton, covered with parasites, when he chose to adopt us. He is now a robust 4-year old 26 kg multipedigree dog who has a good meal, often home-cooked, every day, the occasional walk in the hills, a large garden to play in and chase cats and hedgehogs, a comfortable bed in the house and two loving parents who look after him like no other dog has been looked after.

Devil, I have come to expect better from you, so am disappointed to see you being thoughtless. I'll put it down to emotions over reason and am very heartened that Beardie has found his rightful owners in your kind household.

We sometimes walk dogs at the local RSPCA home and I can assure you there are just as cruel, and proportionally as many people, in the U.K. as unfortunately are in Cyprus.

Such matters are just less visible here, because the perpetrators go to great lengths to avoid being shopped to the authorities. The RSPCA and other animal charities do a great job, and perhaps that is the only area where Cyprus could improve on . . . but since so many people have lost their homes to Turks, then perhaps understandably, that has been the last issue on peoples' minds.

How old is this dog.......People lost homes in 1974 and the dog is being used as an excuse today.... Funny girlie!!!

[T_C]

Obviously I'd either choose to be a lion, shark, eagle, or any other animal that doesn't get eaten often.

[zan]

Obviously I'd either choose to be a lion, shark, eagle, or any other animal that doesn't get eaten often.

MMmmmmmmmm! Shark soup.......Lion burger....Roast eagle...mmmmmmmmmm!


I would love to be an eagle.........I would have to walk everywhere though cause I am scared of heights...

[phoenix]

How old is this dog.......People lost homes in 1974 and the dog is being used as an excuse today.... Funny girlie!!!

. . . Exactly! If Cyprus was not forced into a situation of having to spend undue resources on defence because of the continuing threat from Turkey, Cyprus would have had more money to tackle more of its domestic problems.

Does that answer your query ignoramus weirdo . . .

[Niki]

How old is this dog.......People lost homes in 1974 and the dog is being used as an excuse today.... Funny girlie!!!

Does that answer your query ignoramus weirdo . . .

You go girl!!!

[devil]

. . . Exactly! If Cyprus was not forced into a situation of having to spend undue resources on defence because of the continuing threat from Turkey, Cyprus would have had more money to tackle more of its domestic problems.

Does that answer your query ignoramus weirdo . . .

For a supposedly intelligent person, you do utter outstandingly stupid remarks at times. What has money to do with a mindset? You just try to twist things into your political agenda but so naively that you lose out every time. Please explain why animals were treated just as harshly when I was here in the early 1950s, long before Turkey was a threat and when Cyprus' defence was assured by the Brits? Please explain why animals are treated just as harshly in the North, where there is no threat from Turkey?

Have you ever lived in the Cypriot countryside, where you see all the tick- and flea-ridden feral, abandoned and mistreated animals, including dogs with shot in their flanks and corpses from poisoned cats? Or in an ambelopoulia-trapping area? Or where beehives have limesticks over them, with the magnificent bee-eaters flapping their way to a long and painful death? Well, I do and I see some of it on a daily basis. I see large dogs kept 24/7 in a 2 m² concrete-floored cage with little or no protection from the elements, wallowing in their own excrement, or chained to a wall. I've seen two "hunters" with a juvenile dog who ran from the noise of their guns and who took pot shots at it, from within a few metres of our back fence, while laughing. Its yelps from the pain of the shot lasted 20 or 30 minutes before it lost consciousness and one of them went over and put it out of its misery. Why don't I take action against this? Because I prefer to be a live coward, rather than a dead hero. I've seen what happens to people when cruelty is reported, especially in a small village, and I don't wish to be hounded. The one time I did take action was when I found some mist nets about 50 m from our back gate. The police destroyed them and took them away. Happily, only one bird was caught in them, a song thrush. One of the policemen asked me whether I knew the danger of doing what I had done? He estimated the nets were worth £80 and if the poacher found out who had called the police, my life would not be worth living. What was interesting was that the police were not interested in finding out who had put them there. I know someone who had done the same near Paralimni and his car was sledge-hammered from the front bumper to the back bumper. He replaced it with another, which was torched.

And calling others "ignoramus weirdo" and other ad homine epithets only reflect on your own abject ignorance, quite apart from breaking the forum rules.

[denizaksulu]

How old is this dog.......People lost homes in 1974 and the dog is being used as an excuse today.... Funny girlie!!!

Does that answer your query ignoramus weirdo . . .

You go girl!!!

Poor Zan. I thought he had enough on his plate!

[phoenix]

What has money to do with a mindset?

Read any social psychology textbook to get your answer.

Although, I was specifically talking about the money being spent on defence rather than domestic policies . . . but you obviously misunderstood /selected.

Please explain why animals were treated just as harshly when I was here in the early 1950s, long before Turkey was a threat and when Cyprus' defence was assured by the Brits? Please explain why animals are treated just as harshly in the North, where there is no threat from Turkey?

Animals were treated MORE harshly EVERYWHERE in the World, in the '50s, than they are today.

Have you ever lived in the Cypriot countryside,

In my village dogs are chained up, but that is because there are no boundaries around properties. They are well fed and provided for, and I have seen no intentional mistreatment.

Because I prefer to be a live coward, rather than a dead hero. I've seen what happens to people when cruelty is reported, especially in a small village, and I don't wish to be hounded.

Strange I have NEVER heard of Cypriots killing people for such disputes . . . I though that was a common occurrence here where I currently live, in the U.K.

I may have to rethink going to Cyprus if the murder rate is so bad

And calling others "ignoramus weirdo" and other ad homine epithets only reflect on your own abject ignorance, quite apart from breaking the forum rules.

Well this is the problem with butting in between sparring partners, devil

That quote had nothing to do with you . . . and you deleted the quote it was referring to of Zan's, with his derogatory remark to myself.

Zan and I have a history of mutual personal abuse, which we regulate.

So devil . . . . . . tell me if I break rules in how I respond to you, not to others . . . Zan is more than capable of confronting me himself!

[phoenix]

How old is this dog.......People lost homes in 1974 and the dog is being used as an excuse today.... Funny girlie!!!

Does that answer your query ignoramus weirdo . . .

You go girl!!!

Niki, I'm pleased we have reached a new level of understanding in the reshuffling of pecking orders.

Are we both happy with your new role as my cheerleader?