Be Excellent To Each Other

Whoever nominates this for POTW has no fear.

Erm!!

Meet Peggy!

We got her from the rescue place a few days back, and she's a little Jack Russell ( mostly, we think ).

Hullo, Peggy!

Lost turtle found in storage cupboard 30 years later!
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animal ... r-30-years

Must have been one shell of an experience. Turtley boring.

Poor turtle

Hello Peggy!

Hi Peggy! She's very cute

She sure is! She also has a tendency to look out the window waiting for one of us to come home, like something from a Victorian melodrama.

My dog does that, and our window goes right to the floor so she just lies in behind the blinds. It breaks my heart when I leave her and she runs to the window to watch me go but it is lovely to see her there when I come home. They seem to learn your patterns as well because my girlfriend has told me that it tends to be around my usual home time that Willow takes up her spot behind the blinds
How is Peggy settling in?

She's doing fine! It's like she's always lived here.

She's not quite certain about a lot of "doggy" stuff, possibly because she wasn't socialised too much as a young pup. She knows she should be burying bones but isn't quite sure how so she ends up just pushing them around with her nose.

Love that picture! Bless.

Then you'll really love this one!

Awwww, don't get me started or I'll flood this thread with my poochy pics!

Cute!

Do it!

But watch out - Peggy is a fierce, trained killer!

I just showed the Peggy pictures to my fiancée, she agrees she's a wee cutie

squirt I think he he needs a pirate hat

Here's my little boy.

He's doesn't know what a BeeX is.

also required pirate hat make it so.

Best I could do.

acceptable. Please continue.

That really needs a capshun!
Upload it to I has a hotdog and see what results.

I was away for a couple of days last week, when I got home the cat had changed her routine from out in the day\sleeping at night, to out all night sleeping in the day.

I’m too soft with her and didn’t want her out all night, I also like having her on my knee etc. in the evening. So I tried to change the routine back, it failed and she just sat outside the back door giving me sad eyes and crying at 10pm.

So night cat she became, I live in a dormer bungalow and we sleep upstairs, as is the norm with this sort of build we have Velux windows in each room upstairs

Yesterday at 7am she had managed to get onto the roof and was crying to get it at the window in our room, same thing at 4am this morning. I keep having to let her in via picking her up as she stands onto of the window as I open it!

I have no idea how she gets onto the roof, there doesn’t look to be an obvious place for her to climb up.
Still all good practice for the babies arrival in 6 weeks or so!

Can you not get a cat flap and let her come and go as she pleases?

Yes that's on the list for next week, she is chipped so we can get one that only she can get through.

I don't mind her coming in through the window, think is really cute and cool at the same time, that she comes and finds us even outside of the house.

How I read it / Mr Fish does hail from The North.

Aye, lad. Keep 'em well shagged and poorly shod and thine'll not wander far.

A special Beex Petx* picture on popular subject matter.



*This will only work if you say "becks" rather than "beaks".

Hnnnngh! I'm pressing the arrows but it won't spin round!

I do hail from the North, but have live in the South for years now!

I have a cat flap all ready and will fix it during the 4 weeks of baby leave\holiday I have.

Back on the cat

I bought one of these as I have seen it on My Cat from Hell and even the worst cats ended up liking it. They are expensive for a cat toy, but she was never that bothered with other toys. Also when it comes to replacement lures you can get 3rd party ones that are a lot cheaper

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bird-Interactiv ... B000F9JJJE

My cat loves it, she will jump 2 or 3 feet in the air chasing it. Recently I have found the toy outside as she gets it from the conservatory herself and plays with it. The other day I was sat in the conservatory reading and she jumped up on a table, picked up the lure in her mouth whilst dragging the rod behind her and dropped it at my feet!

My wife has just discovered that if her iPhone rings with a certain ringtone, our dog will pick it up and try to carry it to her. We didn't teach her this, she's just started doing it today. She's quite a small dog though, so if it's upstairs she can't carry it down the stairs - she just stands on the top step and drops it.

Presumably the teeth marks and dog saliva aren't doing much for the screen either?

One of our platys has had a baby, it's super-cute. Presumably she had between 50 and 100 babies but somehow this one survived. Normally they need to be in a separate tank to breed so how this one avoided being eaten for long enough to become big enough to not get eaten I have no idea. I'll try taking a picture but basically it's like this:



only smaller.

Platys! The ones in my dad's tank kept having babies. Over and over again. It got to the point where the aquarium became self-sustaining. My dad would collect the babies, take them to the aquatics shop and swap them for store credit which he'd use to buy fish food and other aquarium stuff.

Yeah, the cuteness and novelty factor is wearing off pretty quick.

My ringtone used to be the theme tune to True Blood. Now, when we watch True Blood, as soon as the credits start my dog sits right up and stares around the room.

I was woken up at 4.30am Thursday morning by noise in the hall. I went out and the cat had a live mouse and was playing with it. We have just had a new boiler fitted and a load of tanks and pipes were remove leaving some holes in the floor boards so I figured she had caught it in the house.

So I let here play with it until she killed it then chucked it outside, thinking it was a good idea to encourage her to catch them in the house.

I sleep downstairs in the week since we had the baby as I need to get sleep etc for work. As my wife is busy with the baby I get away with leaving the bedroom window open and letting her come in and out as well as sleep on the bed, something my wife banned me from doing. I don’t want to lose the bond I have with her and want to keep her happy so that she isn’t an issue with the baby. So far she is fine and really just ignores him.

So last night she came in at 11.45 and instead of jumping on the bed she stayed on the floor and was “talking to me”. I put the light on and she had another mouse! So looks like she is bringing them in from outside. She again played with it, she kept knocking it under the bed and crying until I got it out. Eventually she ate it.

I looked this up on the web and apparently this is common in spayed females, she views me as family and is bring the mice in live to show me how to catch a mouse! Humans play right into the cats hands as they want us to interact with the mouse and our natural reaction when presented with a live one late at night is usually to do just that!

I personally find it really sweet and evidence that we have a really strong bond, she came in 2 hours later than normal so must have made some effort to get me a “training mouse”, my wife however is going nuts! I will sleep with her and the baby for the next few night so there won’t be any opportunity for more training for a while!

Yup, ours used to do it all the damned time. She was really good at bringing them in totally unharmed, so they could run around the bedroom at 4am.

Ours went through a catching live frog stage ( along with loads of mice ), which was pretty icky. We had a creaky old Jack Russell at the time, so they might have been trying to teach her what to do.

And frogs are *really* loud when being tormented by a cat.

When we moved house a couple of years ago we found several dessicated frogs behind furniture that had obviously been brought in and then misplaced by the cat.

I caught and played with frogs all my childhood. Only this year did I learn that could make that noise when threatened.

Around 95% of all frogs my cat plays with get away, they know how to play the long game and stay still. She loses interest if the thing she is chasing stops moving.

So far this week the presents have been moths, she proudly brings them in, plays for 2 minutes then eats them!

Last night we were back to mice, whilst she was playing with this one it bit her. She cried then went back outside leaving me to deal with it.

I let it go as I thought it had made a good job of sticking up for itself!

Don't do that! By letting the strong aggressive mice survive, you're speeding up mouse evolution process locally. In a couple of years you'll be over run by savage, bloodthirsty mice the size of terriers.

Unfortunately one of my son's guinea pig's died this morning.

Yesterday he was fine, this morning he was on his side, occasionaly twitching his legs. We took him to the vet and they did what they could, but he was apparently twitching every other minute or so. So they decided the best thing for him was to put him to sleep.

My son doesn't know yet, as he is at an afterschool function. I have that 'joy' to come when he comes home

Malc

One of my dogs isn't right this morning. She was crying through the night and this morning she didn't get out of bed when I came down the stairs, when I managed to get her to stand up she was shaking and had her tail between her legs. I've called the vet and we're going down at half eleven. I'm all worried about her.

Arra is ok, nothing obviously serious wrong with her. She's got painkillers and she might have early onset arthritis she's only two and a half the wee soul.

At least it's nothing serious, Gilly.

Found out the mystery illness that had inflicted our lab-she'd swallowed an inch square piece of Nyla bone. I know this because I 'found' it a few days later. No wonder she was in pain!

Anyway, here's a wee Merry Christmas from Willow and Arra

After a few weeks the presents got out of hand, I awoke one morning to find the cat in the spare room looking excited so I knew she had something, it turned out to be a baby rat, it was very lively so maybe was a bit sharper than a mouse as it had evaded death for some hours, she had also at one point trapped it in the gap where the door meets the wall and it had crapped on the carpet.

So I killed the rat and refused to let her in for a few nights, she hasn’t bought anything in for ages now.

She has the total run of us now, we haven’t had time to put our foot down since we had the baby. This is what happened last night.

1. Let her in at 12.30am as she was on the roof crying at our bedroom window
2. Fed her
3. 1am she comes to the bedroom door crying and scratching the door
4. Gets more food
5. 2.30am she comes to the bedroom door crying and scratching the door
6. This time she wants attention so I lie on the spare bed under the covers and she sits on top of me for 15 minutes purring her head off. Then she disappears
7. 5.30am she comes to the bedroom door crying and scratching the door
8. This time she wants to go out

Sounds really bad but our 6 month old is up half the night with wind so I don’t really notice, not a good thing to be letting the cat get away with so much though!