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Post by Quinsam on Jul 11, 2005 18:36:34 GMT -8
I now have a lot of pics of Bootsie our kitten on my photo's page.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jul 11, 2005 19:40:37 GMT -8
Brian, those look like pretty cool dogs! I like that first photo sitting on whatever that thing is! I bet he does attract alot of the females!
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Post by BrianWilliams on Jul 12, 2005 3:55:00 GMT -8
It's a mooring bitt.
Bo, the shameless attention-suck, leapt up spontaneously and grinned at the summer-clad babes passing by.
Too bad he's neutered. Too bad he's a dog. Too bad I'm not young and slim, with glistening ivory teeth like his ...
I hate you, Bo.
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Post by nolonger on Jul 12, 2005 20:15:51 GMT -8
Guess I'll have to quit shaving my back!
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Jul 12, 2005 21:16:04 GMT -8
ok we did NOT need to know that
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Post by Balfour on Jul 21, 2005 18:00:11 GMT -8
I was on the Esquimalt today (I just decided to gon on a ferry randomly today), and as I was wandering around, some lady who wasn't blind had their dog up on deck 6, and then I saw someone with their cat on deck 5. They must have not seen the not pets signs in the stairwells.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jul 21, 2005 18:29:27 GMT -8
Or are just plain stupid! The say about pets when they announce to return to vehicles! Obviously if you dident hear the announcements they wouldent know! Although you think most people would!
Yeah I just randomly sometimes decide to go on a ferry too if it is a nice day like today! Good day for it!
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Post by Balfour on Jul 21, 2005 18:31:23 GMT -8
Well, this was before the announcements, while we were still docked in HSB.
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Post by BrianWilliams on Jul 21, 2005 23:43:49 GMT -8
Some folks do sneak their small dogs and cats onto the passenger decks. I don't, even though our mutts are small(ish). Our dogs are real dogs, and I will endure our trips in the dog pen with 'em, until BCF changes the rules. Sometimes, it's a happy community down there:  |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Jul 22, 2005 0:03:13 GMT -8
BCF deckhands, without exception, have been very helpful to us.
On lightly-loaded trips, I have been guided right to the dog pen on C ferries; the deck hand takes time to find a water bowl, run fresh water from the hose, and make sure we are set for our short journey.
On capacity runs, the overworked deck crew still smile and wave me into the dog pen.
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jul 22, 2005 9:26:34 GMT -8
Where do the dogs do their thing if they have to??? I think it would be messy and stinky down there!
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Post by Balfour on Jul 22, 2005 9:29:50 GMT -8
I don't think we want it smelling like the Esquimalt's cardeck yesterday. There was a manure truck down there.
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Post by Quinsam on Jul 22, 2005 9:35:16 GMT -8
No, maybe there is a small plae to do it, it's a good thing cats do their waste, then bury it. My little Bootsie Baby has done it since she first came to the house 5/6 weeks ago.  |
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Post by Koastal Karl on Jul 22, 2005 10:08:56 GMT -8
I sure wouldent want to be the guy who does the cleaning of the dog pens down there!
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Post by Balfour on Jul 22, 2005 10:19:18 GMT -8
That'd be weaksauce!
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Jul 22, 2005 10:37:37 GMT -8
no duh but I would porbably have the owners taking out the doggie pooh but then when they crap in the pen then that is sick
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Post by Balfour on Jul 22, 2005 10:48:12 GMT -8
Dogs do need to do their thing. Adult dogs are usually good about only going outside. It's the puppies that may do their thing in the pen.
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Post by Ian on Jul 22, 2005 22:52:31 GMT -8
is there a place for dogs on the v-class and spirits and if so does it have a window.
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Post by Balfour on Jul 22, 2005 23:27:20 GMT -8
The SOBC got one in her refit this past winter, and I'm assuming that the SOVI will get the same next winter when she goes in for the same.
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Post by Doug on Jul 22, 2005 23:48:40 GMT -8
Maybe they got a "hole" for them that dumps it overboard.  Pacificat style.  |
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Jul 23, 2005 10:25:25 GMT -8
OH GOODY! NOT!
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Post by Balfour on Jul 23, 2005 10:41:16 GMT -8
Don't get me started on the Pacificraps.
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Post by BrianWilliams on Jul 24, 2005 18:08:56 GMT -8
"Where do the dogs do their thing if they have to??? I think it would be messy and stinky down there!" I have travelled in the miserable pens on Coq, Cow, Surrey and Oak Bay, perhaps 16 trips in the past year. I have seen not one poop in these 100's of hours, nor a cocked leg. Dogs are very clean animals, and they have a sense of where and when to go. Adult dogs are especially predictable. If you have children, like me, you know when your toddler is likely to need potty. Dogs are easier. Unless ill, they poop twice a day, right on schedule. A 95-minute ferry trip is easily endured. To BCF's credit, the dog pens are scrupulously clean. BCF deck crew routinely hose down as much of Deck 2 as they can between off-loading and loading. They are washing motor oil, antifreeze and trans oil off the deck for safety, of course. The dog pen gets a wash at the same time. My complaint about the pens is their isolation, lack of ports, except on Surrey, and noise. Surrey's pen (circled) at least has an outside port, unlike the C's.  |
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Post by BrianWilliams on Jul 24, 2005 18:13:28 GMT -8
From my last post: "...in these 100's of hours, nor a thingyed leg..."
Hah! Now I know why "salt water" is corrupted when written as one word. Slow me. Substitute "lifted" leg in the above post, rather than c-o-c-k-e-d, and all is well.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Jul 24, 2005 19:55:20 GMT -8
"Salt Water"......ok, it took me a while, but I get it now.
Good thing there are no people posting with Japanese surnames on this board.....that would get filtered too.
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Pacificat style. 
