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22-09-2011, 15:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Mexico (currently)
Boat: Panda 40 - S/V Cambria
Posts: 573
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
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Originally Posted by Reefmagnet
I reckon a hen. They eat just about anything including roaches ... The only downside is that they are a tad messy and a bit clumsy, so some spares may be needed to replace those that fall overboard.
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I have always believed that a chicken can actually *produce* more than it consumes. Messy doesn't begin to describe it. They are one of the few things in the Universe that can violate conservation laws...
Michael
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22-09-2011, 15:31
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Chambly, Québec, Canada
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
Our ancestors brought cats to keep the boat free of roaches or parrots to nag them like a woman. Being a woman, I don't need anyone's help for the nagging part and since I dislike roaches and spiders, my cats will follow me on the boat.
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22-09-2011, 15:51
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Australia
Boat: CT 54... for our sins!
Posts: 2,083
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
Three pages of posts and nuthin useful....
Just have to post it myself...
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22-09-2011, 15:51
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#34
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
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Originally Posted by Missou
Our ancestors brought cats to keep the boat free of roaches or parrots to nag them like a woman. Being a woman, I don't need anyone's help for the nagging part and since I dislike roaches and spiders, my cats will follow me on the boat.
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this one also warms seats on board....as well as what she sed^^^^
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22-09-2011, 15:56
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Australia
Boat: CT 54... for our sins!
Posts: 2,083
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
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Originally Posted by VirtualVagabond
Three pages of posts and nuthin useful....
Just have to post it myself...
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... and in case you're wondering, that's her huntin' roaches
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22-09-2011, 16:00
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Mexico (currently)
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
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Originally Posted by VirtualVagabond
... and in case you're wondering, that's her huntin' roaches
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WAY too high maintenance...
Michael
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22-09-2011, 16:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: W Florida
Boat: Still have the 33yo Jon boat. But now a CATAMARAN. Nice little 18' Bay Cat.
Posts: 7,086
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
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Originally Posted by Reefmagnet
I reckon a hen. They eat just about anything including roaches which almost rate as a chook delicacy, produce fresh eggs and if you get sick of it you can always eat it. The only downside is that they are a tad messy and a bit clumsy, so some spares may be needed to replace those that fall overboard.
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LOL
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...ats-48997.html
http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...oard-6858.html
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22-09-2011, 16:37
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: 29° 49.16’ N 82° 25.82’ W
Boat: Pearson 422
Posts: 16,306
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
Think I will go along with Joshua Slocum on the subject of pets. Don't need no dorg nor cat. He tried a goat once but offed it at the next port after it ate his chart of the Caribbean. But the Boston spider didn't make noise, kept to herself and probably did her part on roaches as well (the six legged kind).
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22-09-2011, 16:39
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,364
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
I like all pets on the boat ................. as long as they are only a picture!
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22-09-2011, 17:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Boat: looking
Posts: 593
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
A mast-climbing monkey that doesn't fling poo.
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22-09-2011, 17:15
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern California
Posts: 1,144
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I love all pets. I pet those dogs, cats etc that OTHER people get up early to walk, clean up their hair off the boat & their clothes or empty litter boxes. I even buy them toys for special occasions. We have a parrot that flies around with the blue herons and a giant aquarium that I can even swim in but never feed or clean. (I even eat things out of our aquarium once in a while- Sorry Charlie!).
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22-09-2011, 17:26
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Middle Chesapeake Bay
Boat: Cheoy Lee Clipper 36 - Rapport
Posts: 95
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
We have lived aboard for two years now with our Gray striped cat, Joshua. He takes care of critters on board and greets anybody coming down the docks, so we always know when someone is walking the docks. He is our alarm clock in the morning, getting us up at the crack of dawn. In the evening he spends his time in my or my wife's lap as we read in the cockpit. I could not imagine life without him.
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22-09-2011, 17:58
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#43
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Thibodaux, Louisiana
Boat: Monk 36 Trawler
Posts: 679
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
We loved having our Daschie on board. Now that he is gone I'd nominate a Pet Rock, remember those?
You might have to time travel back 20 or 30 years to find one.
Steve W.
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22-09-2011, 18:10
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cruiser
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Tampa Bay area
Boat: Hunter 31'
Posts: 5,731
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
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Originally Posted by bangkaboat
A mast-climbing monkey that doesn't fling poo.
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This is the funniest thread I've ever seen online!!!
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22-09-2011, 18:11
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cruiser
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Tampa Bay area
Boat: Hunter 31'
Posts: 5,731
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Re: What's the Best Pet on a Boat ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by stevensc
We loved having our Daschie on board. Now that he is gone I'd nominate a Pet Rock, remember those?
You might have to time travel back 20 or 30 years to find one.
Steve W.
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What -- you have to have pure bred???
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