Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 27

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Courtesy Marie Thérèse Tamini

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Possibly the most joyous thing you’ll see today…

Loving the “Race Interrupted” sign at the top…

🤣 pic.twitter.com/WiAXOOPsIz
— James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) December 20, 2025

Best regards from Jerusalem,

Biden's Dog

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Meet The PetMorons

Sending this on Christmas Eve. Hope all of you have a happy and merry holiday. This is a holiday image of our mated pair of Eclectus Parrots, Marley and Avery.
Regards,
David

Delightful!

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Merry Christmas, KT.
Thanks for all your Saturday threads, always enjoy reading them.
Attached is a Christmas ornament of our doggo, Sadie - she crossed the rainbow bridge this year. Our first Christmas without her clawing at presents, trying to eat wrapping paper, and generally being chaotic - zooming around. She will be remembered.
Enjoy your Christmas,
scampydog

Awwww . . . .

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Here's a picture of The Boyz. Just enjoying winter here in Minnesota. We're fleeing the land of Tampon Tim for four months; going to Texas! Yeah baby!
From a longtime lurker: Tom H.

Great photo, great plan!

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, December 20

Posted by: K.T. at 03:34 PM

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1 Parrots!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 27, 2025 03:38 PM (Kt19C)

2 Timing, I maybe could've been first. Ok with checking out the awesome pets.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 27, 2025 03:39 PM (KaHlS)

3 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at December 27, 2025 03:40 PM (sAmhv)

4 Happy Caterday everyone

And David that picture is too adorable

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2025 03:43 PM (Ia/+0)

5 And everybody didn't seem to mind that the race was interrupted" Very cute video and thanks to all who sent their pictures in and to K.T. For posting them

Here's a nice story about a kind and generous donor who paid for all the vet emergency room
visits on Christmas Day:

https://tinyurl.com/yc69jsfc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2025 03:49 PM (rZCVI)

6 Love the Pet Morons. That memorial ornament is a nice way to remember Sadie, scampydog.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 27, 2025 03:50 PM (rghSL)

7
Zoi Boyz!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2025 03:51 PM (tgvbd)

8 Woof!!! Tom H; The Boyz are very handsome. Safe travels and enjoy your time in Texas. As always, thanks for the thread K.T. and the pet pics.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 27, 2025 03:51 PM (gJyP7)

9 A black swan event.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2025 03:53 PM (pkeXY)

10 Hey guys,

I did a tiny update on our cats.

https://tinyurl.com/f3jo79jyk

I'm going to get more rest. Have a good day and thanks for the pet thread.

Posted by: Joyenz at December 27, 2025 03:54 PM (2F0/Y)

11 Time for a kitty check!

Jasmine - Perched on a cat tree near my office window. Watching the squirrel frolic in the backyard.

Allie - Napping on my desk.

Penny - Napping on her pillow on my bed.

Hexie - Napping on her sofa in the sunroom.

Kaylee - Hanging out in a cubbyhole in my sunroom, watching the squirrels frolic in my backyard. One of them is almost as big as her.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2025 03:54 PM (ESVrU)

12 Heh, “Perfessor”

Lucy the Fink is a slug on her heated pad under the Christmas tree.

She flops about periodically to warm all sides.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 04:05 PM (IhIKR)

13 ...the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread.

Well then. I shall almost read it!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 27, 2025 04:08 PM (2WIwB)

14 >>>Here's a picture of The Boyz. Tom H.

Fine fellows!

Posted by: m at December 27, 2025 04:09 PM (RuTUS)

15 Heh, “Perfessor”

Lucy the Fink is a slug on her heated pad under the Christmas tree.

She flops about periodically to warm all sides.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 04:05 PM (IhIKR)
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Our pets know they lead a good life. Lucy the Fink knows it quite well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2025 04:11 PM (ESVrU)

16 Kitty Check:

Bravo: Napping on the couch in my office. (I'm getting rid of that couch next month buddy.)

Charlie: Napping in her cat sock.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 27, 2025 04:11 PM (WdvEu)

17 11 Time for a kitty check!

Jasmine - Perched on a cat tree near my office window. Watching the squirrel frolic in the backyard.

Allie - Napping on my desk.

Penny - Napping on her pillow on my bed.

Hexie - Napping on her sofa in the sunroom.

Kaylee - Hanging out in a cubbyhole in my sunroom, watching the squirrels frolic in my backyard. One of them is almost as big as her.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2025 03:54 PM (ESVrU)

Your home seems to be nicely cat-equipped.

Posted by: m at December 27, 2025 04:12 PM (RuTUS)

18 Sister's dog had a most excellent Christmas. Not only did Santy Paws bring him a new tug-of-war toy (his absolute favorite game) he figured out it was the "inside" toy and not the raging armageddon he usually practices, so he was able to play a gentle round of tug-of-war with Grandma! A first ever! You could see this was The Best Day Ever in his eyes ...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 27, 2025 04:12 PM (8ESfK)

19 Sabrina!

Merry Christmas! I better get to see you in May 2026. It’s been too long, I miss you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 04:17 PM (IhIKR)

20 I have made an appointment at the groomer for my cat. He's 9 months old and it will be his first time. He's 3/4 Maine Coon. Apparently they get oily coats which causes matting. He doesn't have any since I can brush him out but he'll look fluffier. I'm also getting the de-shedding treatment.
Buckley is also going to get the same treatments. He is difficult to wash and dry.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 27, 2025 04:18 PM (VCgbV)

21 Have a feeling that James Dreyfus video is AI. Watching the first few seconds of the dog running behind the sign. Except it doesn't; final frames were of it fading out, instead of smoothly showing hindquarters. Could be real, but things 'teleporting' in video is a tell. Similar to that hedgehog video from this week, eating a cube of something. Cube is on the spoon (which looks a little odd), and then immediately in the hedgehog's mouth, no proper transition.

It's going to be a rough future. "Half of what you see," as they say about the grapevine.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 27, 2025 04:19 PM (4h45B)

22 Dog Christmas storytime:

We have two little dogs. Was the pup's first holiday, a few years for the older gal. Had a stocking of their toys, and we video them with said stocking. Sometimes squeezing at the squeakies inside, or lifting up to help them get their snoots within.

Little guy started getting excited at the scents of treats and toys. Older gal became possessive of "her" toy stocking.

She shoved her head on the top of the stocking and pressed down, "hugging" it closed. Wasn't going to let the puppersnapper get inside.

I hope we still have the video of it.

Posted by: Another Anon at December 27, 2025 04:23 PM (4h45B)

23 according to the web the dog interupting ski race really happened, Dec 29, 2023 in Italy. Doesn't mean the video was 100% real, hard to tell with them cutting between the dog and the skiers and spectators laughing at the fun.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2025 04:31 PM (hhkIi)

24 Lily has what I call her Voodoo Chicken, a little stuffed chicken that she drags over to her food bowl every morning to manifest her breakfast pâté. Sure enough, it appears by magic. That, and jumping on top of me.

Does anybody else have a pet that does this?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 27, 2025 04:33 PM (kpS4V)

25 Afternoon, pet folken,

Yeah, I liked the video with the racing dog too. AI or not, I loved the speed he poured on toward and then away from the camera.

My own cat check:

Stirling: Was sleeping with me. followed me out into the living room and bumped me with his head, insistently enough that I knew he wanted some lap time. He curled up there -- but then started to think nipping my arm was part of the fun, so off my lap he went.

Little Dagny? No idea. She could be under the bed, in the bedroom window behind the drapes, or . . . Wait! I see her on the floor near the armchair. She's gray, and so is almost camouflaged in shadow. She has begun cooing at me when she walks across the bathroom counter, asking for the tap to be turned on: almost an "uruk, uruk" sound.

We left the wrapping paper from the Christmas presents scattered across the floor out here so they could play with the crinkly stuff. It's about time for me to gather it up and dispose of it. But Stirling is having fun pulling at a piece of ribbon, so maybe not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:33 PM (wzUl9)

26 I am marveling at that picture of the Boyz Tom H. I'd expect the Boyz to have been tearing through the snow getting the scarves full of snow and ice before being ready to pose for a picture.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2025 04:36 PM (hhkIi)

27 I have made an appointment at the groomer for my cat. He's 9 months old and it will be his first time. He's 3/4 Maine Coon. Apparently they get oily coats which causes matting. He doesn't have any since I can brush him out but he'll look fluffier. I'm also getting the de-shedding treatment.
Buckley is also going to get the same treatments. He is difficult to wash and dry.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 27, 2025

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I took His Lordship Arizona, who had most of the appearance traits of a Coon, to be groomed when he was about four. You'd have thought I was about to have him quartered and served for dinner. HIs hissing and growling was mostly bluff, and he did look much better afterward.

Over the years he had to be dipped for fleas, so he probably got groomed then. I trimmed knots out of his fur myself. Eventually he did get some bad ones, so he had to be shaved. The "lion cut," they called it. To me he looked more like the Taco Bell Chihuahua (a huge thirteen-pound version with a lion's face on top, that is).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:38 PM (wzUl9)

28 I got Tux a heating pad the last year of his life. Never know what a critter is going to think of something bought for them, but he enjoyed it.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2025 04:40 PM (hhkIi)

29 Taco Lion!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 27, 2025 04:40 PM (kpS4V)

30 My cat check:
Fanny asleep on my office chair.
Mr Trouble, outside somewhere in the back yard

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 27, 2025 04:40 PM (+mUZM)

31 Eris,
Lucy the Fink will regularly bring her toys to the food dish to feed them. Her little mousies are baptized regularly.

It’s too methodical to dismiss as random. She loves her little babies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 04:42 PM (IhIKR)

32 Apropos of cat issues: I have to change the litter box in a bit. I scoop it out, then pour all the remaining litter in to a double-bagged garbage bag. The pan gets rinsed twice in the bathtub, the filthy water going into a bucket; then the water gets dumped on the grass outside (isn't that good for grass?). Refill the pan with fresh litter. Finally, the part I really hate, toting the double-bagged old litter to the dumpster. That stuff is *heavy*. A fresh garbage bag goes into the pail.

Then, of course, because they have rushed to use the fresh box, I have to scoop that out too.

No wonder they think of us as servants or staff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:42 PM (wzUl9)

33 Lucy the Fink will regularly bring her toys to the food dish to feed them. Her little mousies are baptized regularly.

It’s too methodical to dismiss as random. She loves her little babies.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025

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None of my cats have ever done this. Toys like their little mice are to be savaged and "killed," not bathed or dunked.

Arizona did love playing roughly with the little stuffed Pegasus that he stole from Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 during his first year. Over the years he continued to play with it; I'd catch him in the living room tossing it around. He'd look like "Busted!" and march off with dignity . . . but then a month later I'd see him doing it again.

He's been gone since Nov. '99. The other cats have had no interest. But the Pegasus is still atop my bookcase.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:47 PM (wzUl9)

34 9 Taco Lion!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 27, 2025

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Visitors always said Arizona looked like a lion instead of a tiger, despite his stripes (classic tabby, not mackerel). His orange color and full ruff probably contributed to that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:49 PM (wzUl9)

35 Snowman kitteh looks exactly like my boy kitteh.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 27, 2025 04:50 PM (KDPiq)

36 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:42 PM (wzUl9)

How often do you change all the litter instead of just adding litter?

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 27, 2025 04:53 PM (KDPiq)

37 I have three litter boxes for two cats. I clean the boxes twice a day. First thing in the morning and before I go to bed . I just add more litter and do a complete clean out maybe twice a year.

Posted by: Opinion fact at December 27, 2025 04:56 PM (KDPiq)

38
How often do you change all the litter instead of just adding litter?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 27, 2025

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Less often than I should. I guess about once every three weeks or so?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 04:57 PM (wzUl9)

39 One of the four kittens brought by the little cat who came to demand food from DH is ready to adopt us but not to give up his relationship to other garden kitties. The others seem to be hiding right now (two have let us hold them in the past but seem to have been scared by something) and mama seems to go back and forth between our house and maybe where she was staying when the kittens were tiny.

Posted by: KT at December 27, 2025 04:59 PM (7vIsy)

40 Here at Valhalla Estates the pet entertainment has mostly been the good, the bad, and the ugly faceoffs with a pair of red squirrels who think the bird feeders are theirs. The (dog) girls disagree. The doggie door is getting a serious workout.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 27, 2025 05:01 PM (6Bc88)

41 DH is a nervous wreck over the kittens.

Posted by: KT at December 27, 2025 05:01 PM (7vIsy)

42 So cute pets! Pits are such cute dogs. I wish idiot breeders hadn’t ruined them.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2025 05:04 PM (aT5K/)

43 31 Eris,
Lucy the Fink will regularly bring her toys to the food dish to feed them. Her little mousies are baptized regularly.

It’s too methodical to dismiss as random. She loves her little babies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 04:42 PM (IhIKR)

Our Newfoundland would do that with his toys - bring them to dinner, take them outside to potty, give them to me to look after if he needed some "me time." He would also arrange them according to size - usually smallest to largest. Never saw a dog do something like that, and found it a tad unsettling, but very very cute!

Posted by: moki at December 27, 2025 05:04 PM (wLjpr)

44 Erf. Count me as a horrible cat owner.

Lucy’s box gets scooped every morning. Entire box scoured and litter changed? Ummm. It’s been months.

Ooops.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 05:05 PM (IhIKR)

45 Now feeding the stray cat who lives in the disused car wash two blocks from my house as I have done every night for the past two years and change.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 27, 2025 05:07 PM (MBqF+)

46 I have made an appointment at the groomer for my cat. He's 9 months old and it will be his first time. He's 3/4 Maine Coon. Apparently they get oily coats which causes matting. He doesn't have any since I can brush him out but he'll look fluffier. I'm also getting the de-shedding treatment.
Buckley is also going to get the same treatments. He is difficult to wash and dry.
Posted by: lin-duh at December 27, 2025

I have never gotten my cats groomed (to include my pure bred Maine Coon), I just brushed them daily. I do get Saijo groomed monthly, though. It’s his spa day, with his little paws sugar scrubbed, nails done, bath and blow out. How ridiculous is that?

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2025 05:11 PM (p4NUW)

47 Lucy’s box gets scooped every morning. Entire box scoured and litter changed? Ummm. It’s been months.

Ooops.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 05:05 PM (IhIKR)
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You are not alone...

Now, it's time for me to do some scooping...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2025 05:12 PM (ESVrU)

48 44 Erf. Count me as a horrible cat owner.

Lucy’s box gets scooped every morning. Entire box scoured and litter changed? Ummm. It’s been months.

Ooops.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December

I scoop twice a day, throw the whole thing out and start over every 6 months. But my monsters use a tote box because they are too big even for the extra large litter boxes.

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2025 05:13 PM (aT5K/)

49 Speaking of Changing the whole thing out, I will go to Target this week and get a Christmas colored tote box on clearance for their litter box change out. They won’t care if it’s green. 😂

Posted by: Piper at December 27, 2025 05:15 PM (aT5K/)

50 Yeah. I’m thinking the next time I get out, I’ll buy a new box and change it out.

But I hate creating all the plastic waste for the landfill. Ugh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 05:17 PM (IhIKR)

51 I only started dumping and bleaching the litterbox monthly when my cats were old and started having urinary problems.

On the plus side, visitors to my house said they couldn't tell there were cats without seeing one wandering around.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 27, 2025 05:18 PM (OWbpd)

52 Lucy’s box gets scooped every morning. Entire box scoured and litter changed? Ummm. It’s been months.

Ooops.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025

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Yes, but you only have the one cat. My two weigh about twenty-four pounds between them, and seem to eliminate a pound of something that I scoop out every day.

My nose tells me when it's time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 05:19 PM (wzUl9)

53 Our golden retriever, Chevy, passed over just three weeks ago, two weeks shy of his 13th birthday.

Part of our mourning was recognizing that our twin grandkids, at 10 months, would have no real memory of him. But the coolest moment of our entire Christmas was when they each received a small stuffed animal golden plushy toy, and they immediately broke into huge smiles and laughter and hugs and kisses.

They won't specifically remember him, but I believe they will have an automatic affection for these big loving pets.

Posted by: Half Dozen at December 27, 2025 05:26 PM (EYvpB)

54 Anyone recognize the song accompanying the dog running down the ski slope? I don't know it, but elements sound like Queen.

Posted by: Ken at December 27, 2025 05:26 PM (ke69m)

55 Dog on the slope! I repeat, there is a dog on the slope!

Posted by: Eromero at December 27, 2025 05:27 PM (LHPAg)

56 Anyone recognize the song accompanying the dog running down the ski slope? I don't know it, but elements sound like Queen.
Posted by: Ken at December 27, 2025

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I don't know it either, but it does sound like Mr. Mercury.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 05:30 PM (wzUl9)

57 One of the interesting things I've noticed about my cats is they all know where their own feeding station is located. They seldom poach food from another kitty.

Hexie only eats from her food dishes in the kitchen.

Allie only eats from her food dishes in the library.

Jasmine and Penny only eat from their food dishes in the office.

Kaylee is the only wild card. She'll eat from whatever dish she can reach if she's hungry, but mostly eats in my office and in the living room.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2025 05:31 PM (ESVrU)

58 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 27, 2025 05:31 PM (Ia/+0)

59 So...

Shirley cat is very old, skin and bones, and apparently had some episode 2 days ago that knocked her way down. Lethargic, no appetite, wonky right rear leg, beginning to wobble her head.
but not in apparent distress or losing control.

1.) Wait a night.

2.) take her to the emergency vet. She REALLY hates car rides otherwise we'd already be there.

She did go over to her chair to be picked up and put in bed again after I got her also hated leash on.

Posted by: DaveA at December 27, 2025 05:31 PM (FhXTo)

60 Don't stop me now. Queen

Posted by: Eromero at December 27, 2025 05:31 PM (LHPAg)

61 Okay; the litter box is done and the double bag has been taken to the dumpster. I'll buy another 15-lb. jug of litter next time I'm at Walmart, and that will serve to add and refresh the current setup.

We are very lucky to have commercial litter, let alone the clumping stuff. Decades ago, I understand, you had to find an enamel pan and put shavings or sand, or shredded newspaper, in it. And without plastic bags, just paper bags from the grocery, cleanup would have been even harder.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 05:33 PM (wzUl9)

62 Long time lurker, who might post once or twice a year.

I wait for the pet thread every Saturday. Brings joy to my life, and sometimes sadness and Remembrance of my pets who have gone on.

Currently I have Dante the 3rd. Third Rottweiler, and my sons dog Ari. She is a sweet joyful dog. My son is stationed overseas. First Christmas he was not able to come home.

Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:35 PM (3UL4Q)

63 One of the interesting things I've noticed about my cats is they all know where their own feeding station is located. They seldom poach food from another kitty. . . .

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 27, 2025

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You're lucky. I feed Stirling atop the counter extension that flanks the kitchen sink, Dagny on the floor near the water fountain. But Stirling eats fast and is often down there to nudge Dagny away so he can take some of her portion. I have to give her a little extra dry food later to make it up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 27, 2025 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

64 Ari is a Great pyrenees and husky mix.

Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:37 PM (jbzdC)

65 Greetings Pet Morons. Thanks as always K.T.

While Daughter and her hub are in NY this week visiting his family for Christmas, we're dogsitting Chowie and Maya again. It's been mostly okay, except when they and Daisy our Madcap Malinois all start barking at once. It was a continuous cacophony on Christmas, but, fortunately, they seem to have worn themselves out and we got a good, interrupted night's sleep. Then they started up again today. They are so loud!

Son got the small, very short-haired Maya a nice little coat. Not needed today, but our 78° days end today, and Arctic conditions return tomorrow. (Daughter & SiL missed the whole Warmest Christmas evah ha ha.) MiladyJo got all three dogs new fluffy toys, in which they showed no interest, except Chowie, who swiftly disemboweled (disemstuffed?) one of them. They also got too many treats.

We're running them outside frequently these warm days, knowing it won't be as fun very soon.

Ony the old black cat has learned she doesn't need to put up with the dogs' $#!+ and doesn't just stay in the bedroom now. She will retreat, though, when GoodSon brings Jarl the Giant Malamute and Bandit the hyperactive Kelpie later.🐈‍⬛

Posted by: mindful webworker - would you like a snack?? ARF ARF ARF at December 27, 2025 05:40 PM (dESj/)

66 Currently I have Dante the 3rd. Third Rottweiler, and my sons dog Ari. She is a sweet joyful dog. My son is stationed overseas. First Christmas he was not able to come home.
Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:35 PM (3UL4Q)
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Hi Idlan! De-lurk more often. Sorry that your son wasn't able to come home for Christmas. I know how that feels, especially the first time they miss. Having Ari with you is nice.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 27, 2025 05:40 PM (3ImbR)

67 My son is stationed overseas. First Christmas he was not able to come home.
Posted by: Idlan

Hugs to you. Marine’s first thanksgiving and Christmas away were while he was at boot camp.

It’s hard. Many hugs for you.

And thank your for raising a son who wants to serve.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 05:42 PM (igX5u)

68 Idlan, they sound like fun dogs.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2025 05:42 PM (hhkIi)

69 Hi Idlan! De-lurk more often. Sorry that your son wasn't able to come home for Christmas. I know how that feels, especially the first time they miss. Having Ari with you is nice.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 27, 2025 05:40 PM

Thanks, I did miss him a lot. He called and talked to me for over an hour. Very comforting. Ari's personality is joyous sunshine.

He is 14 hours ahead so it is hard for both of us to keep track of hours and days.

Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:48 PM (Q+WF1)

70 Mostly we text, and I send him regular pictures and videos of Ari.

Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:49 PM (Q+WF1)

71 Hugs to you. Marine’s first thanksgiving and Christmas away were while he was at boot camp.

It’s hard. Many hugs for you.

And thank your for raising a son who wants to serve.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2025 05:42 PM

You are very sweet.

Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:52 PM (Q+WF1)

72 Sounds like vestibular, similar to a stroke DMSO can help with that, even in an old cat.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 27, 2025 05:55 PM (+mUZM)

73 Idlan, they sound like fun dogs.
Posted by: PaleRider at

They are great at keeping me busy.

The only problem with Ari is she "blows" her coat twice a year. Whit hair everywhere. Daily brushing and even pulling.. daily sweeping and vacuuming. But she is worth y.

Posted by: Idlan at December 27, 2025 05:56 PM (Q+WF1)

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