Pets
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Topic: Pets
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Subject: Pets
Date Posted: March 10 2020 at 15:40
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Any folk here share your dwelling with animals? Small dog for me. She grew on me (8 years) and now we're best buds. Yep, I even talk and sing to her, but I don't know why. She loves chasing squirrels in the back yard. Share your stories...
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: March 10 2020 at 15:58
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I've always had cats, but since my last buddy died I haven't had the heart to get another. Maybe someday. ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Shadowyzard
Date Posted: March 10 2020 at 15:59
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I've had many pets, now only some cats. They are in and around our summer house in Kusadasi/Turkey. In winters we pay and they are fed by someone else. Kusadasi has a nice climate, so they're doing OK. Also they are used to outdoors, which makes it easy for us. I had dogs, other cats, fish and some other water creatures, a guinea pig, a zebra finch, parakeets, pigeons; as well as some unusual pets like a hedgehog, lizards, snakes, a wild tortoise and a wild turtle, even we took care of a wounded bat once. 2 years ago we took care of a jaybird, who was a baby found by my brother. When s/he grew up, s/he went. Such cute animals. I love animals. |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: March 10 2020 at 17:05
Current dog, Ribsey, aka The Professor, aka The Prog Dog, sporting a Marillion hat in the photo. :) Grew up with 6 dogs (one was half coyote, smartest dog I've ever had), have had an assortment of cats at different times and after the initial cluster of 6 dogs, 4 more of my own, plus volunteered walking dogs for a no-kill shelter for 2 years. Also have owned 2 horses in my time. For present dog, yes, talking, singing, silly nicknames galore!
------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 11:49
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My Mom had her own personal little zoo, so I grew up with dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, parakeets, finches, two garter snakes we caught (one the cat found -- instead of putting it outside, we kept it and fed it crickets), and a toad that I caught (also liked crickets). We even had a pair of field mice get into the house. Instead of setting traps, we caught them with cheese inside a tall trash can with a long ramp. Once they went in for the cheese, the can was too tall for them to jump out. We put them in an unused hamster cage (yes, wild mice do know how to use a hamster wheel) and freed them in the woods in the spring. My wife likes Bernese Mountain dogs and shows them at AKC (and other) shows. Our previous dog, Nick, did agility, rally, obedience, took sheep-herding classes, and did a bunch of other stuff of which I can't quite recall what the activities were called. He sadly had to battle degenerative myelopathy for his last three years and needed those special wheels they make dogs when their back legs fail (had to build some ramps for him too). Our current dog, Riker, has his grand championship, did some rally, and loves fast CAT (a coursing ability test; like a 100 yard dash chasing a plastic bag tied to a pulley; absolutely loves this). Here's Riker being chased around the yard by me about three years ago. I gave him the nickname Poojer when he was a puppy (my Dad calls all dogs poojers, a sort of local variant on "pooches"). ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 12:03
That Riker looks like one happy poojer to me! Bernese Mountain Dogs are just a quintessential dog, aren't they? Handsome and able. Sorry to hear of your Nick. We also did have some house-mice in Nashville that we caught in humane traps and would release in the woods behind our house, they were adults, though. They seemed to return every winter and then disappear the rest of the year. ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
progaardvark wrote:Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 12:35
Thanks! We absolutely love them. They're very easy to get along with and are very loving dogs. Downsides are probably vacuuming every other day and when they reach around 100 pounds, they're hard to hold back from something they shouldn't be licking off the fence! But, it's definitely worth it. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Snicolette
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 12:45
Well, I have to vacuum every other day, with just one....Ribsey is the sheddingest dog ever. You could brush him for an hour, fill a shopping bag with the loose fur and there would still be "snowdrifts," gathering in the corners within about five minutes. Nonetheless, well worth it. He's not terribly large (60 lbs), luckily, with my now bad back. I have usually had large breed dogs, but he is likely the last of significant size, since it is so hard when they age if you can't lift them readily.  ------------- "Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: March 11 2020 at 12:49
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on the day before we met Friede received two little kittens, a male and a female. she called them "Penis" and "Vagina". oh, and Vagina was the male. that was inspired by a book; let's see if anyone here read that book too. we had them for almost 15 years. when Vagina died Penis followed just a few days afterwards -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |