Will it be a three dog night where you live?

[Kaleva]

I didn't know this till today but for the aboriginals in Australia, they'd dig a hole in the ground and jump in with a wild dog to keep them warm for the night. If it was quite cold, then they'd go in with two dogs. If it was going to be really, really cold, then it'd be a three dog night.

[DFW]

1. Well, it IS cold here

But my wife is one of the friendly natives, and I think I will continue to take my chances with her instead of any of the furry creatures roaming around outside.

[Kaleva]

2. Those who tried this technique with wolves took themselves out of the gene pool.

[DFW]

3. Didn't seem like the best solution for longevity, for sure. n/t

[KamaAina]

4. Hey! That'd be a cool name for a band!

[Dr. Strange]

7. It could be...

assuming their songs brought Joy to the World. (All the boys and girls now.)

[Kaleva]

11. The woman who is credited with coming up with the name for Three Dog Night just died.

http://pagesix.com/2015/02/19/actress-turned-addict-june-fairchild-dies-at-68/

[KamaAina]

5. Not even a three-cat night.

Low in the upper 40s, and no kittehs.

[mak3cats]

6. Well, it was around minus 30 wind chill here last night...

...but mine will be a three cat night (obviously).

[liberal N proud]

8. It was last night - but only had 1 dog.

I post this in another thread:
It was colder than a proverbial sorceress mammary gland in the deepest darkest depths of purgatory.


-18 when I left the house at 6 AM it is now all the way up to 9 above.

[riderinthestorm]

9. Yup. Literally as all three of my dogs sleep with me every night!

and I wouldn't have it any other way...

[In_The_Wind]

10. If I had 3 dogs the answer would be YES!

Tonight
Partly cloudy. Cold with lows around 3 below. West winds 5 to 10 mph...becoming south after midnight. Wind chill values as low as 15 below.

[KMOD]

14. My dear friend, you need to get OUT of the wind.

[In_The_Wind]

15. Indeed

It's almost over. I believe your cat's forecast. Spring is almost here!

[hobbit709]

12. EVERY night here is a two dog night. They might leave room for me.

[PasadenaTrudy]

13. One dog + air conditioning

I sleep with cold air on and two fans on me. My dog just makes it hotter, lol.

[WinkyDink]

16. Yes, and they'll be COLD!!

[irisblue]

17. two cats for sure

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I am a human heating pad. the dog, Princess Peanut can't get up on the bed, and I can't sleep on the floor, so the sweet elderly dog gets a sweater and her own blanket. I'll put a heating pad in her nest-bed.

[Demoiselle]

18. It's been a three dog night here for the past three days and nights. (Philly.)

I remember a lovely scene in a John Garfield movie ("Tortilla Flat&quot where Frank Morgan ((yeah, the Wizard of Oz) beds down with his loving pack of dogs…maybe ten? Twenty? Anyway, I've always loved the scene.

[Brigid]

19. No, but it will be a two kitteh night at my house.

As usual.

[surrealAmerican]

20. Tonight it will be a little warmer ...

... which is good because I have only two dogs.

[seveneyes]

21. Numbers, like an arrow, flys like fruit flies from everywhere, Spring comes on the rebound

Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one

[undeterred]

22. My dog will have to do triple duty.

[TrogL]

23. Yes plus two cats

The third likes to sleep on the heater in the bathroom

[RebelOne]

24. Only one dog, my Chihuahua.

But there are 6 English bulldogs here, but they are my son's as he is a breeder, and I wouldn't want them in my bed because they are too big and one snores terribly.

[fizzgig]

25. low 20s tonight

not too bad, but they're calling for single digits tomorrow and sunday night. i have two cats and a husband, so i'll be plenty warm.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. It's a three-cat night, but that's every night.

[Arugula Latte]

31. Same here.

I sweat bullets in the summer with those fuzzy little furnaces pressed up against me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. It doesn't seem to bother them at all, though.

They're running at 101 degrees and we're at only 98.6, so maybe we feel cool to them?

[Arugula Latte]

33. Maybe so.

I never have the heart to disturb them. They seem so content.

[cwydro]

28. I've slept with my goose, Bogart,

during the coldest nights.

My own personal goosedown comforter.

[yellowdogintexas]

29. no but it will be cold enough to be a possible six cat night nt

[LibertyLover]

30. Well, given that we have 2 greyhounds

and only a full-sized bed, no matter how cold it gets, it will only be a 1 dog night - that's all that will fit. Besides only Finn likes to sleep on the bed. Tycho prefers the sofa.

[hunter]

34. It's always a three dog night in our household.

Including one dingo.



"Ancestral" dogs. Don't ever adopt one unless it's from an animal shelter and you know dogs. This dingo is a shelter rescue.

I have very strong feelings about this.

The god damned dogs-for-sale idiots must never be encouraged.

If it was up to me I'd make breeding dogs for sale a felony. Hard time. Like selling children.

Breeders celebrating a "breed", finding good adoptive homes for puppies, no monetary transactions, I might be tolerant of, especially for actual working dogs. Nothing wrong with a good cattle, sheep, seeing eye, companion, rubble-avalanche-victim-of-foul-play-sniffing-catastrophe dog.

All three of our adopted rescue dogs were rejects from despicable dog breeders and buyers.

Dingo climbed a fence and escaped all by herself, evading animal control officers, coyotes, mountain lions, and highway death, for almost a year.

Her breeder was eventually forced out of California.

I've much less than zero sympathy for any for-profit dog breeder.