Tag: dogs

Here’s how much your dog will cost you over its lifetime

Via MSN Money

When Kristen Silton and her husband went house shopping several years ago, a fenced-in yard was high on their must-have list. The Atlanta couple, now 29, wanted a safe outdoor space for their mutt, Lola.

They’re among the one-third of millennials whose dog played a bigger role in their home purchase than any children or spouse, according to a recent survey by SunTrust Mortgage.

“Every millennial couple I know has a dog,” Silton says. “Everyone’s got a practice baby.”

Since they’ve moved into their house, Silton and her husband have had two children, ages 3 ½ and 1 ½. But it was Lola who drove the decision of what type of house to buy, and Lola who helped them learn how to budget for another’s needs.

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A Post About Pussies

Guest Post by The Zman

I’ve had all sorts of animals as pets over the years. As a boy, I had dogs, lizards, turtles, fish and birds. The birds were rescues that my dog would find. Every spring he would find at least one baby bird that fell from its nest and stand over it, howling until I helped save the bird. We raised quite a few birds that way. One of them became my father’s Woodstock. The stupid thing would follow him around outside and sit on his shoulder. Most times, the bird would get healthy enough and we would let it loose.

The main pet was always a dog and I’m still partial to dogs. The trouble is that I travel enough that owning a dog is difficult. About 25 years ago a woman I was seeing suggested I try a cat. I did not think I’d like a cat, but the first one turned out to be a good pet. It was some sort of Siamese hybrid thing that had very long legs and could jump about eight feet in the air. I was surprised to learn that you can train a cat and it is not all that difficult. Me and the cat leaned a bunch of tricks to keep us both entertained.

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13 TBP Big Dogs and 1 Cat Eating Christmas Dinner

I am writing this post to introduce you all to two really cool new web sites I found recently.

1. The video below is from— http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/ It has very interesting data presented in a most creative and visually pleasing manner. I just happened to pick one of their funny vids, but there’s much more there than just humor.

Good Lawd! Ms. Freud and I were cracking up watching this.

 

2. The annimation below is from— http://www.viewsoftheworld.net/

It shows worldwide rainfall over the course of one year. The author prepared this as part of his doctoral thesis.  The web site is chock full of unusual data, interestingly presented.

Animation of a gridded cartogram projection of global annual precipitation patterns