Kitties can take in a lot in ten seconds. If the goal is to get calories into her, try adding just a bit of karo syrup to the yolk.
Fantastic Beasts and how we live with them
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vatchvaalger
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That would be the noble madame margo, thank you for asking. She rescued at one point by some friends of my mother, but despite their good intentions, she ended up being very neglected as these people regularly took on more than they could handle, so we rescued her from her rescuers and she is now quite happy. She loves graham crackers and is friends with my other beast, shane.
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vatchvaalger
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What an adorable dynamic they are lovely. I interned at a dog grooming place where two of the clients dogs became friends and had something similar, the bodyguard of the pair was very effective at soothing the others kennel anxiety.
I live in the inner city, so I obviously don't live with this animal. 
But I created this image a few years ago.
It's obviously a parody (the same angle of the tie, the same font etc.), but now I'm a tiny bit afraid that Ms. James's lawyer might sue me for copyright infringement. ;-P
But I created this image a few years ago.It's obviously a parody (the same angle of the tie, the same font etc.), but now I'm a tiny bit afraid that Ms. James's lawyer might sue me for copyright infringement. ;-P
I teach embroidery. One of the counted work pieces I designed is achromatic with red accents. I marketed it as Fifty Shades of Gray and a Red. It's an interesting piece, but I think the title is half of what sold it.
I've been gone a couple of weeks now, and dog lonesomeness is beginning to set in. Even though my daughter and family have a nice little dog, I particularly miss my Giant Puppy.
I've been gone a couple of weeks now, and dog lonesomeness is beginning to set in. Even though my daughter and family have a nice little dog, I particularly miss my Giant Puppy.
RIP sweet girlThis is Jyn!
Very praise motivated. Loves to do a good job. loves hugs. loves all kinds of people (has even followed a random stranger into their house and made herself at home on their couch). Loves other animals and will often "mother" them. we got her from animal control when she was 8months old
2017-2026
Run free and happy in the spirit world, Jyn.
That's heartbreaking.
Back in the old place, I posted a short story in the workshop about a dog's arrival into the lives of a retired couple. Fictional, but based on a couple of things that are possibly close enough to reality to be discomforting. It ended with this line:
He’s worked me out, though, throwing surreptitious glances as he curls at Anne’s feet of an evening, declaring, within his limited vocabulary, that he is not the first mutt she has rescued.
I mention this now because my wife was travelling with our daughter's partner's father in his car today and, having noticed something odd in passing, insisted he turn the car to check out and then come to the assistance of this young German Shepherd who'd got himself into quite a pickle, stuck between the rails of this gate with spikey bars just under his abdomen. She flagged down another couple of cars and the newly assembled team managed to free the dog and return him to safety.
He’s worked me out, though, throwing surreptitious glances as he curls at Anne’s feet of an evening, declaring, within his limited vocabulary, that he is not the first mutt she has rescued.
I mention this now because my wife was travelling with our daughter's partner's father in his car today and, having noticed something odd in passing, insisted he turn the car to check out and then come to the assistance of this young German Shepherd who'd got himself into quite a pickle, stuck between the rails of this gate with spikey bars just under his abdomen. She flagged down another couple of cars and the newly assembled team managed to free the dog and return him to safety.
Recently a friend in Pennsylvania found a great horned owl caught in the mesh fence around her chickens. She turned off the current, took the owl in both hands to keep it from flapping its wings and maybe injuring them, then rotated the bird like a cylinder until its feet were free of the mesh. She said it nipped her glove once, but it was so worn out from fighting the mesh that it quit when she told it to stop. She put it on the ground, it shook itself off, and flew away.
That doesn't happen every day.
That doesn't happen every day.
GrahamLewis
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Last Thursday night the tornado sirens went off, so we went to the basement; I carried the birdcage downstairs, with Billy the lovebird inside it. He'd been covered and asleep for a couple hours. As I stood before the television watching the weather nannies make their predictions (no tornado ever formed though there seemed to be a lot of potential ones), as I stood there I heard a rustling and suddenly Billy landed on my shoulder with a happy series of chirps. Somehow, he had managed to work the latch of his cage open and work his way around the heavy cover. He obviously didn't regard it as an escape, he was simply joining into the party. When things settled down and we prepared to go back upstairs, he went back to his cage without protest. And we all went to bed.
2 things about Mugen today:
first... the air cut on and moved a papertowel roll on my dining room table. Mugen was on the foot of my bed and could see into the dining room... and freaked out. He barked and growled but would not get off of the bed.
I ended up pushing him off (just so he could go out there and see it wasnt going to kill him). he crept to the door, and then realized what it was (the face of embarrassment)
2nd thing:
we were out on a walk. just made it to the park, and he finds a ball. he picks it up and carries it with us. we dont even make it a quarter of a mile before he starts whining, so I stop and ask him whatsup. he turns around and pulls me into the other direction toward home. this dog pulls me ALL THE WAY BACK HOME, goes in to the backyard, and drops the ball at me feet.
he wanted to play with the ball, but didnt want to play with it in the park
first... the air cut on and moved a papertowel roll on my dining room table. Mugen was on the foot of my bed and could see into the dining room... and freaked out. He barked and growled but would not get off of the bed.
I ended up pushing him off (just so he could go out there and see it wasnt going to kill him). he crept to the door, and then realized what it was (the face of embarrassment)
2nd thing:
we were out on a walk. just made it to the park, and he finds a ball. he picks it up and carries it with us. we dont even make it a quarter of a mile before he starts whining, so I stop and ask him whatsup. he turns around and pulls me into the other direction toward home. this dog pulls me ALL THE WAY BACK HOME, goes in to the backyard, and drops the ball at me feet.
he wanted to play with the ball, but didnt want to play with it in the park
transplant
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A while back I read an article that admonished the reader not to let your cat watch nature shows unsupervised because they may knock the TV over, and hurt themselves or do damage to the TV. At the time I thought, How fat-and-happy are we that we supervise what our pets watch on TV?
Since then a stray cat adopted me. I'm learning, so one day I put on a Youtube beach video - 30 minutes of surf and seagulls. Goose, the cat, gave it her full attention. Pretty soon she jumped up on the cabinet and walked back and forth in front of the TV with her face in the screen. She would stop and look, take a few steps and stop again. Then she looked looked around the back at both ends, couldn't find them there either. The TV cabinet sits in front of a window so as a last resort she walked across the front, looked around back again, then out the window.
So now I get it, Goose is very calm but another cat might jump at the screen. Since then she just watches, she figured it out. Smart cat!
Since then a stray cat adopted me. I'm learning, so one day I put on a Youtube beach video - 30 minutes of surf and seagulls. Goose, the cat, gave it her full attention. Pretty soon she jumped up on the cabinet and walked back and forth in front of the TV with her face in the screen. She would stop and look, take a few steps and stop again. Then she looked looked around the back at both ends, couldn't find them there either. The TV cabinet sits in front of a window so as a last resort she walked across the front, looked around back again, then out the window.
So now I get it, Goose is very calm but another cat might jump at the screen. Since then she just watches, she figured it out. Smart cat!
My dog goes batshit at birds and dogs on TV. Every frigging night.
"TV dog, buddy. It's a TV dog!"
"TV bird!"
"TV doorbell!"
"TV garbage truck!"
He goes absolutely nuts when he sees a real garbage truck. Ignores every other truck. I think he thinks it's alive with it's automated arms picking up the bins.
Or he thinks garbage trucks steal all the good icky chewable stuff and he's protesting.