Be Excellent To Each Other

( Sorry Trousers.

Cheers all.

Having another dog in the house helps but then he's totally confused by the situation. Mrs T came in the house yesterday (it was she who took him to the vets) and Charlie just kept looking out of the door as if to say "Er, where's Jack?"

Then when we fed him late on he effectively circled his dish like a loon, as usually he goes and checks what Jack is having (always the same) in case it's better than his. Now he turns, realises Jack isn't there then goes back to his food, then turns to look again like he didn't believe it the first time and repeat ad infinitum.

Really sorry to hear about this dude, it's always a real kick in the balls.

At the risk of being a bit morbid, I read somewhere that it helps to actually allow other dogs to see the body because they can then understand what's happened rather than just having one of their number disappear on them. Obviously that's not always practical though.

Really sorry to hear that fella. I know exactly what it's like to lose a dog to cancer.

Heartbreaking. So sorry to hear about Jack, mate.

So 3 weeks after Jack goes somehow the little shit that is Charlie, The Jack Russell, gets out and goes missing yesterday. It was on my watch as she was out so I was absolutely frantic. The worst part was he had chewed his tag to bits and we hadn't got him a new one yet so would have been relying on his chip to get him back.

We combed the area with her on foot and me in the car and had to give up after a couple of hours. In the meantime we'd posted about it on Facebook and it turns out he had gone to the local co-op and been picked up there.

Facebook is a right load of old wank most of the time ("How hot is your body?", "Which of your Friends is your bestest?", "What fruit are you?" etc) and yet that post got a shitload of shares in a short space of time that led to us not spending a night fretting about him having got run over or stolen etc.

I still don't know how he got out. The garden is sealed up tight and the front door was shut - God Damn Charlie Houdini.

Result!

Really pleased you got him back Trousers.

Meet Digby:)

Not ours he belongs to our neighbours, so my boy has all the fun of a puppy with none of the work!

Our cat is not going to know what hit her once he goes outside, she treats the garden next door as her own. The previous dog my neighbours had passed away so for the last few years he wasn't bothered about chasing her.

My cat used to go and sit outside of my neighbours patio doors staring as their old dog whilst he sat in their living room, there will be no more of that!

What a handsome chap.

Not sure if we'll ever crumble again and get a dog (or maybe a cat). I like to think we will someday, maybe when the kids are old enough to pick up shit.

Almost stood on a little hedgehog in the garden last night

Love them as an animal and not seen one in our garden before, he is a little small so worried he won't be fat enough for hibernation.

So bough a torch and some specialist food and will track him down over the next few days and feed him in up the conservatory for the next couple of weeks all being well.

"Pass the salt please"

We're off to see this little beauty on Saturday with a view to taking her on.

Charlie has been enjoying life as the only dog in the house but Millie was posted on the Warrington Animal Welfare website for re-homing and well - just look at her.

It's clearly got a faulty ear. I'd give it a miss.

Seriously though, that's one cute dog.

Charlie will obviously be renamed Vanillie, yes?

SO CUTE!

I'm a massive sucker for terriers, especially one-ear-up-tilty-headed terriers.

House visit tonight to check that our house that already contains one Jack Russell is suitably Jack Russell proof, so we should be ok there.

All being well we pick her up at the weekend. Colour me excited.

WOOTF!!!!111111

Awesome news and she looks adorable ❤

Sdg! Hope all good!

Yes, it is!

She's here.

Seems to be settling in fine and Charlie hasn't got a sulk on about a new dog being here yet.

Tempted to cry off going to see Creeper in Manchester tonight just to experience more of the cute.

Morbo is enjoying the sunny weather

A picture of one of my girls being cute just because. Apologies to Facebook people who've seen it already.

Just had the vets round to put Rez to sleep.



See you later little buddy! You were a fucking ace cat.

So sorry for you loss

Thanks. I'm just glad they could come out to us. He just went to sleep purring away while we cuddled him. We're in pieces but our daughter is going to be crestfallen, he never really liked kids what with them being noisy and stuff so I thought that the arrival of a baby might have made him miserable. But it didn't, ever since she arrived he just followed her around everywhere and took all the hugs he could get off her (even if he did smack her in the face one time just so she knew what was up).

Really sorry, Mark. Gorgeous looking boy.

Rez was also awesomely named. Sounds like the best way to go though so glad he didn't suffer. Sorry you've lost him Mark.

Oh bloody hell mate, so sorry to hear you've lost Rez. You said he was struggling last time I was over.

Glad the vets were able to make a home visit and you were all there. Hope you're all ok.

Thanks everyone. We're all really going to miss him but it wouldn't have been fair to try to keep him going longer. The vet said she would have done the same thing if it was her cat. He'd stopped eating altogether and could barely move around the house.

Tank all clean for the festivities. Needs new plants, the buggers keep eating them.

My gallery on my phone is basically full of nothing but snaps of the dog, but this one the missus took I like especially.

I took a couple of nice pictures of the cats the other day actually. Not good in any technical sense but something of their personalities seemed to be captured.

I AM NOT A NUMBER. I AM A FREE CAT!

Did you bring that Koppaberg to MeatUp? Someone left quite a lot of it, which was nice of them

Nah, I maybe left a few cans of Red Stripe at most; I'm only drinking it in that picture because Mrs B left it in the fridge and it was the only booze in the house.

I left quite a few cans of Strawberry & Lime behind, I think.

Thanks, GazChap!

ThazChap!

My lips to yours.

Did I mention the rabbits? No? Oh, OK. Apparently we are getting big giant rabbits.

Big rabbits are awesome. Friends of mine have two Flemish Giant rabbits (they're bigger than my cats!) and having them lolloping around the house always makes me smile.

Can confirm, giant rabbits are awesome.

Guinea pigs ftw

Guinea pigs are cute but they shit everywhere, whereas you can litter train rabbits (source: have a fuckton of guinea pigs)

Yeah these are continental giant rabbits and will live outside.

What are you housing them in? Giant rabbits need a lot of space.

Next door's garden.

Hmmmm.

Big hutch and the garden is fully enclosed is plan.

Rabbits are adept at digging tunnels. You'll need to remove all the existing fences and put in some more that start at least 2 metres underground.