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Since we have a place for cats.. thought might be worth having a place for the other furry creature in many of our homes.
And to start the room off: The good news, is i just found out my kitchen table will support a 80+ pound weight. The bad news, is i just found out it can support an 80+ pound weight.
We feed the cats a can of food each morning, mix in their drugs. Have a 'pad' to collect anything that comes off the tray, which isn't often. I guess today something did and i missed it when i put the tray away.. Couple hours later, walked into see my GSD sitting on the table licking up scraps..
2024-07-01 09:22 from Nurb432
Since we have a place for cats.. thought might be worth having a
place for the other furry creature in many of our homes.
Horses?
Mice?
Tarantulas?
We feed the cats a can of food each morning, mix in their drugs. Have
a 'pad' to collect anything that comes off the tray, which isn't
often. I guess today something did and i missed it when i put the
tray away.. Couple hours later, walked into see my GSD sitting on the
table licking up scraps..
A Rottweiler of mine actually climbed up top the table to eat my breakfast while I was doing something else as a kid. I don't think it is that bad.
Well i did say "many".. But, i would never be the one to say no.. :)
And i guess we should include feathered friends.. I do miss my parrot. Really good pet.
Mon Jul 01 2024 18:56:26 EDT from darknetuser2024-07-01 09:22 from Nurb432
Since we have a place for cats.. thought might be worth having a
place for the other furry creature in many of our homes.
Horses?
Mice?
Tarantulas?
But, back OT for dogs..
My 12.5 year old FCR, who has not been able to go on a walk for 8 weeks due to a torn ACL, yesterday we got to go to the wooded park. Only for a few minutes, must take it slow, but she was thrilled to death to get to actually stop and get out. Been taking her for rides all along so shes not stuck in the house, but its not the same.
Bought her a fancy new ramp for the jeep too. Got rid of the old plastic one, now its metal, and has a cloth covering so zero slippage. Even after shes fully recovered, its now a permanent part of our travels. While i have always lifted her into the back, i'm not going to risk her tearing it again jumping out.
And i guess we should include feathered friends.. I do miss my
parrot. Really good pet.
Parrots are fucking awesome.
A friend of mine had a parrot who ended up learning lots of lines from the Terminator movie, because my friend loved that film so much he watched it with his parrot every other day, hahahaha.
My mother used to have a duckling because she decided to have a humanling. She was very fond of him.
Bought her a fancy new ramp for the jeep too. Got rid of the old
plastic one, now its metal, and has a cloth covering so zero
slippage. Even after shes fully recovered, its now a permanent part
of our travels. While i have always lifted her into the back, i'm not
going to risk her tearing it again jumping out.
I wasn't aware there were ramps in the market. I always lift the dogs up myself. I don't take the dogs anywhere with the van unless I am taking them to the vet :(
Both stairs and ramps are a thing. But, in her case, stairs would not be a good idea. This one folds up with 4 sections so its not too large and easy to store in the back. Id say about 5' long unfolded, 1.5' across ( just guessing. )
Most dogs love rides, they like stuff moving around them ( i guess its like running, without the effort ), the wind, seeing things fly by. Unless the only time they go for one is a bad destination..
Nanday Conure ( wife had a Quaker, but it fell off the cage and the dog scared it to death. had a African grey once, but it flew away. never returned. )
Mine was around 30 when we lost him. I think average for pets. Was with me 25 years or so. He was a rescue, so not really socialized. He was my first bird. So we adapted together. But, even day one he was attached to me like glue. "he is kind of afraid of men, not sure how he is going to react when you go in there " as he jumped off the cage in the other room, came in, walked across the room, up my leg and sat on my shoulder. "lets go home"
Wed Jul 03 2024 05:17:05 EDT from darknetuser
Parrots are fucking awesome.
Mine was around 30 when we lost him. I think average for pets. Was
with me 25 years or so. He was a rescue, so not really socialized.
He was my first bird. So we adapted together. But, even day one he
was attached to me like glue. "he is kind of afraid of men, not
sure how he is going to react when you go in there " as he jumped
off the cage in the other room, came in, walked across the room, up
my leg and sat on my shoulder. "lets go home"
Man, so much better than hens.
Hens are only somehow cute because of their dumb factor. By that I mean that you see a hen and you realize how dumb it is, and then feel compelled to protect her and love her because she is so defenseless. If that makes any sense.
it does.
These things are super intelligent. As a pet, they are a lot like 'cats with wings' in personality. I don't know how much brain can be shoved in such a small package.
Nandays rarely learn to speak words, but they do use sounds to communicate ( door sounds, various screeches, water bubbling sounds, knocking, etc ). And are some of the loudest birds out there when they want to be. I dont know how he knew, but he would screech his hello sound just when i entered our development. I could hear him 2 blocks away. We had another in the area, same thing, could hear him way down the road.. never knew where. Managed to see it in a window one day. They would talk to each other on cool evenings when i had the windows open.
Wed Jul 03 2024 08:15:23 EDT from darknetuser
Man, so much better than hens.
Hens are only somehow cute because of their dumb factor. By that I mean that you see a hen and you realize how dumb it is, and then feel compelled to protect her and love her because she is so defenseless. If that makes any sense.
I think I have made you aware that my barn also hosts many wild birds. I pusposedly let the windows open so they can come inside and nest among the upper beams that hold the ceiling. Having wild birds have their chicks in my barn is fucking adorable and I love it.
My mother called some repair guys this monday to build an annex to the main house. I am spending half the week out of home due to work, so I told her she could tell the repair guys to fix one of the broken feeders in the barn while I was away since they were already in. The repair guys came in, repaired the feeder, closed the door and left after telling my mother they had used a lot of concrete to hold the thing in place and that the horses are to be out for a couple of days until it dries.
My mother forgot to leave the windows open, so she shut the chicks inside, sitting in their nests, while their parents were outside.
Next morning my mother phoned me to $job, freaking out bcause she realized she had shut the chicks in and she didn't know how to open the windows. She was crying because she thought she had killed the chicks.
Apparently she managed to open the windows and the chicks seem to be fine now. It is good because the ophone call really ruined the day.
2024-07-03 17:11 from Nurb432
Ack. for both birds trapped in and horses stuck out...
But it worked out.. which is good.
Horses are fine. In this time of the year they prefer to be out anyway.
good
Wed Jul 03 2024 17:23:03 EDT from darknetuser
Horses are fine. In this time of the year they prefer to be out anyway.
Took the old dog to the river today. First time shes been able to swim this summer ( due to the torn ACL )
Not sure she even believed we were going to get out of the jeep at first. "wait, we are stopping.. and you are putting the ramp down.. yayayayayayay"
2024-07-26 15:13 from Nurb432
Took the old dog to the river today. First time shes been able to
swim this summer ( due to the torn ACL )
Not sure she even believed we were going to get out of the jeep at
first. "wait, we are stopping.. and you are putting the ramp
down.. yayayayayayay"
Hahahahahaha. So cute. That kind of fixed my day a bit.
I was getitng some job done by the computer with all the dogs laying around my seat and Little Coconut asked me to take her outside, so I did nd got back to work. An hour later, I walked off the house to hand some treats for the horses.
Right after I crossed the threshold, I noticed all the horses were lined at the fence, watching in silence (which is weird because they start calling me like crazy when they see me). Little Coconut was taiting for me with a pink rubber bone in her mouth, waving her tail. And there were lots of feathers allover the ground.
It turns out the chicken coop's door wasn't well closed so Little Coconut managed to get to the hens. Fortunately, it looks like she only wanted to play so it looks like she did to the hens what she does to the other dogs: to put her pawns on them and kiss them all over and pull their ears. The rooster was all covered in dog saliva.
The bad news is it looks like Little Coconout tried to pull a hen's ears and, failing to figure out how that would have worked, ended up plucking half her feathers off. I found the hen laying belly up, completely still and thraumatized. When I took her back into the hut she darted into it and sat in a corner.
I guess the good news is Little Coconut had a very fun morning?