So you have a horse that can pull a plow at breakneck speed? Cool.

Here are my babies cici and ming.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...1991/cici1.jpg

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u...1991/ming1.jpg

:)

Yikes! Trouble with Tribbles, much? :)

Heh, duck_duck... I totally misunderstood what the first Chin was sitting on for a second.

They're adorable.

They are sitting on my knees in both photos. :)

Ohh...ahhh..yeah baby...keep doin' it like that! Oh yeah.. Oops!!!

I thought this was the "Pet your Post" thread. Sorry.


hehe

This is my "puppy" Speck. She's 16.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../willie009.jpg

The animals were having a lazy day... as shown by their I-just-woke-up-get-that-out-of-my-face look goin on.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/IMG_5803.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/IMG_5801.jpg

awwwww

For Mother's day I asked for a pet. Unfortunately, a dog is out of the question right now, due to our lifestyle. I thought it would be a good idea for all of us, especially my 4.5 year old daughter who is dying for a sibling/playmate.

Please give a warm Cellar welcome to Miss Piggy (resting on Mr. Rat's chest, her favorite place to chill)

I love her little mouth...

If I get about 30, I'll never have to mow again!!

Cute, and your kid too.

Guinea pig lips are precious*.


*so much so that sensitive males can describe them that way.

Your daughter's adorable, LR!

And, uh, your rodent is okay too I guess. :)

Omg they really are... I had no idea. I've led a very guinea-sheltered life.

This is my guard cat, Shadow. He watches my booze for me. ;)

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Bear in the driveway
 

At our vacation house in TN, this fella guards MY booze.

I think your bear trumps my cat. lol

Very nice kitty, very nice bear.

What sort of chow do you feed the bear? Little kitties, maybe?

And what do you say to the bear when the tequila is down a pint?

I ask him if he would like another.

my clowderette:

This is Ivan, the thug:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y107/cloudlb/ivan.jpg

and this is Miles, my S.O.:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y107/cloudlb/miles.jpg

will try to take some better pictures soon

Oh meow!
Beautiful, Cloud

Looks like my boychiks are moving to London with me, so I'll post pics from there, with their new house-sister Trifle

great! I'm glad that's working out. Cat interaction can be soooo tricky.

Labrat--the guinea piglet is sooooo cute!

but they bite, don't they?

Super good news.

I know it sounds like that... And it is (selfishly) good news. But my Mum has been looking for nice, settled, retired people who want two attention seeking boisterous cats to love on my behalf. She has friends in the age group that is more likely to offer a settled home.

My problem is at some point in London they will have to go outside. Trifle does, and there's no sensible way you can maintain a 3 cat household where 1 is indoor/ outdoor and 2 are indoor cats. I worry so much about this, I agreed if Mum could find someone suitable I'd consider giving them up.

Well then, whatever is best for the kids.

Wow, I had no idea Guinea pigs were so cute!

This is a glimpse of my menagerie.

Hope this pic comes up right.

oh, well done! and quite a handful!

I think he'd have to use both hands...

Oh wait, you're talking about the pets!

pet the lizard, baby

I hope it works out Sundae Girl.

So you let one cat out and keep the others in? I was thinking of allowing on of mine out and not the other. This is a silly question but do the other cats don't find it mean? :o I don't want the one I do not allow out to be sad. :o


You see I got two kittens. One good thing that happened because of my X. They are a sister and brother. They are almost 4 months old now. One is a tom and the other is a little princess.
Their names are Tommy Pickles (Sawyer) and Princess Zowie aka Gizmo.

sorry for those huge photos.

after my pc crash I no longer have a program to modify them either.

OMG
I prefer cats to kittens (and perhaps am alone in the world in that?) but A GINGER KITTEN! Almost enough to make me believe in creationism - surely nothing that cute could be the process of random evolution...

Anyway, cute-overload aside. In my situation I don't necessarily think it's unfair to have two cats indoors and one out, but it will be very, very difficult. My boys have never been outside. They are very small cats with very fine coats. They have only ever encountered cats from their own (extended) family as I adopted them from the breeder. And they are now 18 months old.

It seems cruel to me to let them out into a London urban location teeming with cats that have scratched and bitten over territory since they were weaned. One bite from a natural tom (they are neutered) will go straight through their fine pelt and probably end in an absess. And even without that - can I in all conscience introduce two madly inquisitive cats who love humans into an uncaring world?

If we did it, it would be very carefully managed, but even then, it is fraught with worry. Sigh.

As you were.

Why do you want to have one go out and one stay in?

I used to let my cats outside, but no more. Too many dangers to them, and they are a danger to critters. Fierce little omniverous hunters they are! I want to build them an indoor/outdoor enclosure, but my access to the outside isn't quite right.

to you both

ah yes that ginger kitten is a character! He was very random and my X was the owner of both the father and the mother. Only one born Ginger color. ...He was the last and biggest to be born stuck high inside the cavity of the mother here plopped out this orange kitty amongst the other black ones. Since I lost my cat back in December I knew it was only fate bringing me what I so wanted.

I can say this becaue there wasn't a kitten to be found in the papers or at the pound or animal shelters.

So anyway he seems to want to go outside. The small female is happy with her place inside.
They are both beautiful in temperment.


If I thought I could pull it off SG I would try but since it's a work in progress with you then perhaps I won't.

@cloud... I was just exploring the idea for the future because the little tom seems to find the outiside to appealing. I don't want to be cruel either way.

I'm really into the idea of outdoor enclosures for cats. I think more and more people will be constructing them.

Here's a very good run down of how to provide a rich home environment for indoor cats; includes description of refuge and perches and interesting checklist on how to determine toy preference: What Indoor Cats Need

Yes and no. If you stick your finger in through the bars, she will first give you a test nibble, then full blown chomp. If you are holding her, she usually will just nibble your fingers. Occasionally she has gotten ahold of my nail, and takes a stronger pinch on that, but has only drawn blood once, on my thumb. It was totally my fault because I let her nibble a little too long before moving my finger.

The best though is her little tongue. Betcha didn't know that they have the softest little tongues. If I have been exercising and my arms are a little sweaty, she will lick the salt off of them.

I'm going to try to get a shot of her reaching up to eat her parsly, but we'll see. My camera has a good bit of delay between pushing the button and the actual pic, so it won't be easy. You guys are worth it though :D.

Oh, I guess she also bit me in the knee last night when I was kneeling too close to the bathtub for her to scoot through. No blood, but I did make sure I left her room after that. Impatient little bitch. :lol:(I let her run free in the bathroom for exercise while giving my daughter a bath. Easier to clean up linoleum than carpet.)

thanks very much for the answer, Labrat. --well, my cat bites, so it doesn't disqualify one as a pet. Somehow the thought of being bitten by a gp scares me a bit, though.

very, very cute, though!

one of mine - Boots

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Boots looks like a nice kitty :)

he is, thank you

however, he is also fat & lazy. he uses all of his energy to eat. he might every once in a great while break out into a jog, for about 2 seconds.:D

:lol: 'for 2 seconds'

funny visual there

Boots looks like my boo boo! (she's fat & lazy too - but she hides it well)

Boo Boo Kitty Fu** is the black & white and Peach Pie is the orange one - they are very good girls.


Bah - I can't get them to attach - so here is the link for them:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/queendis...803417320475/0
This is Peach

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/queendis...803417320208/1
And this is my Boo

how very cute - i hope to have a picture of boots' mother in a couple of days.

Our three dogs. From Left: BeBe, Elle Belle, and Jr.

BeBe is a Miniature Schnauzer, and the other two are Snorkies (Miniature Schnauzer & Yorkshire Terrier mix).

Jr is 6, Elle Belle is 5, & BeBe is 4.

http://lh4.google.com/pepperman65/Rm...0/DSC01909.JPG

Sweet. You can really see the breed mix in Elle Belle.

yeah, it's like a continuum or a blended photo. Bebe looks like a Yorkie, except for the too-long legs. How funny. And they are cute.

But I'm afraid of little dogs like that.

. . .

okay, I'm afraid of big dogs too sometimes.

Here is The Princess (aka - The Queen of the World). She's the smallest and lightest of my 8 cats and takes no crap from anyone.
She had a very bad encounter with fire, hence the lack of ears. This is her "kiss-my-furry-gray-butt" look. I get it often.
Sorry for the huge picture....I'm not that great with picture attachments!

Remember Shelia, the hole digging dog? I let her off the running wire for awhile today. Came back with this stinking dear squrrel, I guess. Hung up in chain collar. Yuk. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1352/...48673b06dd.jpg

Thats a squirrel? How can you tell?

It looks like an old banana skin with leg bones. Eww, I bet it smells really bad.

Probably got hooked in her collar while rolling in/on it. Bet she was quite pleased with herself, too.

wow, that's a really disgusting looking pet there, you have Buster. Live next to a cemetary by any chance? :D

Let's step away from the dead stinky squirrel...

Here's Bosco, all comfy and tuckered out.

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e3...leepybosco.jpg

Not exactly a post your pet.
 

For some reason this just felt like the place to post this.

Two days ago my mothers dog died. He was kind of the family dog. We had him for 13 years. He was a loving mutt who protected the children, warned us of snakes in the yard, did regular patrol duty of his domain and took no shit from any squirrel.

He was taught this by our dog that died ten years ago. She looked just like him but they were different breeds. What she taught him I watched him pas to our younger dogs. That sounds hokey but I use to watch him do the whole running/bark at the empty tree routine. Then he would stop and bark at the puppies till they came and did the same. In the last year he would simply sit on the porch and bark for a minute and all the other dogs would run out to bark at the trees.

For a Rottweiler/long-haired Dachshund mix, he was pure gold.

In the fashion of dog lovers I would bestow on him the highest honor. He was a "GOOD DOG" and will be missed. :sniff:

Bandit sure does look like a good dog. I'm sad to hear he's gone, Nightsong.

The only good bug. Much like the poor squirrel.