Ace of Spades Pet Thread, Christmas Eve

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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 enjoy the the furry (or scaly) ones and leave the world of politics and current events outside today. It's Christmas Eve!

Hope it's okay that I'm posting early. The two preceding threads are still open.

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Santa visited the shelter at the North Pole this morning and got adopted by a new kitty.

PS That tree fell over about 20 minutes later. Accidentally. No connection to the new kitty. pic.twitter.com/fpOrwx5g2O
— Cat Food Breath (@CatFoodBreath) December 11, 2022

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pic.twitter.com/zRBwvbgf41
— Heckin Good Dogs (@HeckinGoodDogs) December 21, 2022

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What is it about cats and Christmas trees? Our Country is Screwed has been looking for examples:

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Meet The PetMorons

People told me Robert was going to get bigger. I laughed and said "Yeah sure."
Boy was I wrong.
BChasm

Merry Christmas!

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My daughter's two best friends dogs. Stella hogging the chair, and Scarlet. Hard to imagine two better dogs, in all respects.
> > > Make up you own caption. Such as, "Stella, move over, dammit!".
Lee

They look like wonderful dogs!

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here is a picture of my 8 month old Maine Coon mix kitten Smudge. She's been on the Pet Thread before but wanted to share this picture of her posing beneath our Christmas tree. She hasn't climbed the tree - yet. She seems almost as curious about the water in the tree stand as she does at the possibility of reaching new heights in our Fraser Fir.
Thanks for sharing this and all the other pet pictures I've submitted.
Our Country is Screwed

Behaving herself so far . . .

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Christmas Cat
Thanks as always for the wonderful pet thread on Ace. Although she's passed many years ago, here's one of our beautiful Matilda (Tillie).
Nic is Rodent

A beautiful cat.

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It's another white Christmas in south west Idaho.
S.Lynn

What a wonderful greeting from your pups!

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I thought that I should send this picture of the latest addition to our collection of critters - the all-white, blue-eyed sort-of-Siamese, Miso, who has discovered that the best place to hide is on the white "snow" under our Christmas tree. Miso came from a litter of three white kittens produced by a semi-tame flame-point Siamese female, one of a pride of cats fed and encouraged by several families in the neighborhood. We noted one day, with alarm, that one of them was limping and tottering, as if her hind-legs had been damaged. So we scooped her up and took her home to be the cat-familiar for my grandson. The limp resolved itself within a week. There was a gap in our roster of pets, since the elderly calico, Jezebel had passed on in mid-summer, at the age of sixteen or so. She adored our wee grandson, and hovered over him constantly. I firmly believe that Jezz considered The Wee One to be her bald and grotesquely malformed foster kitten.
Merry Christmas!
Sgt. Mom

Too much sweetness for one paragraph, I'm afraid. I edited it slightly. And the photos may be even better.

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Our Shih-Tzu Pomeranian rescue Edison gave up a good picture in front of the tree. Merry Christmas!
Debra T.

Edison is a Cutie. Merry Christmas!

Love the pet stories and photos today. Thank you sharing your pets with us. We have a couple left for New Years Eve.

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 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 17. Some special PetMoron stories and photos there.

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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Posted by: K.T. at 02:34 PM

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1 I'm not sure a chain link fence is going to keep out kitties...Floor to ceiling plexiglass might be a better solution....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2022 02:38 PM (BpYfr)

2 Kittehs!!!

and

Puppehs!!!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at December 24, 2022 02:39 PM (1DgE4)

3 Pets!

Posted by: m at December 24, 2022 02:41 PM (RuTUS)

4 Critters!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2022 02:42 PM (u73oe)

5 Love all of the pets in and around the Christmas trees and out in the snow -- they celebrate right along with us even if they may not quite know the reason we're celebrating. Thank you to everyone who posts all year long! Debra (Edison's Mom)

Posted by: Debra T at December 24, 2022 02:45 PM (vFF0w)

6 Yesterday I suggested that today's Pet Thread would be twice as awesome as usual...

I underestimated...Thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures and stories!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2022 02:47 PM (BpYfr)

7 Beautiful Matilda (Tillie) is indeed beautiful.

Posted by: m at December 24, 2022 02:48 PM (RuTUS)

8 Sgt. Mom--Wee Jamie is so adorable...as is Miso. I was raised by a seal point Siamese (with some help from my parents). All Siamese will always have a special place in my heart.

On the pet front at our house, since it finally got out of the 20s today, dog has been outside most of the afternoon. Currently she's enjoying an installment of her Christmas present. I bought a rack of beef ribs and smoked them for her. She gets one a day. I think she's out scoping burial locations for the bone.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 24, 2022 02:50 PM (fTtFy)

9 Wonderful Christmas Pet Pictures!

I'm a dog person generally, but todays kitties are mighty cute.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 24, 2022 02:50 PM (ZZVmo)

10 I was going to wait another day to go to the lake, since it's still below freezing. But Jake was very sad and really needed to get out of the house. It really wasn't bad and he was happy to run around and smell new things.

Have had a heating pad out for the cat, but she prefers the sheepskins I have on my chairs. Still cold enough to get her over on the heating pad though.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 02:51 PM (uz3Px)

11 I did notice, when driving back from the store, that there were several dogs out running around. I think everyone decided it was time to get the dogs outside for a bit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 02:52 PM (uz3Px)

12 I found out a way to get Dexter to stay up in my room instead of downstairs; I put my heated throw on the foot of the bed and turned it on.

Except now he likes sleeping on it so much he yowls and complains when I have to put him out of the room heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 24, 2022 02:55 PM (0hOvj)

13 The feral cat in the picture I submitted let me skritch her head yesterday!

Psciticene Phelbotomist's Christmas stocking full of toy bells and pistachios.

This week learned Scooter died. She was the shop African Grey parrot at a Burbank army navy store for years. For whatever reason store owner took her home two years ago. The cashier told me she died from a broken heart. She missed all her friends at the store, customers and staff. Left alone in a back room, no stimulus. She died of depression.

And the Griffith park pony rides closed last week after over 70 years. City council refused to renew lease bcuz "animal activists". Will they miss the kids too?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 24, 2022 02:55 PM (1gJuC)

14 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 02:57 PM (T4tVD)

15 I never thought of the chain link fence. I just didn't use lights for several years and only hung sarin balls. No tinsel, either, just garland. The kids screamed bloody blue murder, but they survived.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at December 24, 2022 02:58 PM (z7W9M)

16 Hate to be THAT guy, but it's dachshund, not daschund. dox-hoond

So 'daschund through the snow' doesn't work,.

hamster hampster

Posted by: Muldoon at December 24, 2022 02:59 PM (ykeLU)

17 dachs hund = badger dog

Posted by: Muldoon at December 24, 2022 03:01 PM (ykeLU)

18 Our cat Pax is avoiding the Christmas tree. She seems to view it as a large and vicious interloper that must be watched carefully but given a wide berth.
In other news... It is finally 16 degrees outside! That's the high temp for the day and we have managed to get the house temp up to 71 degrees. Pax was judging all hell out of everyone that didn't make it warm inside and outside yesterday. She was in high pout all day.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 24, 2022 03:03 PM (Wy1BU)

19 Hate to be THAT guy, but it's dachshund, not daschund. dox-hoond

So 'daschund through the snow' doesn't work,.

hamster hampster
Posted by: Muldoon at December 24, 2022 02:59 PM (ykeLU)

I'll have to have that Pierre reviewed.

Posted by: polynikes at December 24, 2022 03:05 PM (KLWiP)

20 Merry Christmas to all from the home of Northernlurker and The Paise.
We sound like a crime solving duo who travel the country in a beat up Camry solving crimes.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:06 PM (VdGjU)

21 Pierre reviewed

*****

Heh. You got me there

Posted by: Muldoon at December 24, 2022 03:06 PM (ykeLU)

22 Had a pet-related surprise today. There was a knock on the door and a young woman standing there with flowers. Turns out our nephew and his wife know we are without dogs for the first time in almost 40 years and how much we miss them. The flowers were a Christmas arrangement but the florist arranged some white carnations so they looked like a white poodle.

This was a complete surprise and so very sweet of them. Looking at the carnation puppy face made us smile and tear up.

Merry Christmas and pleasant memories of all our fur babies.

Posted by: JTB at December 24, 2022 03:08 PM (7EjX1)

23 Weenie dogs!!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 24, 2022 03:08 PM (nxdel)

24 Yeah tinsel went away decades ago cuz indoor cats. I never missed it. Too much fuss for the effect. We had mostly unbreakable ornaments anyway and the cats never bothered the lights. One year a half grown kitten really enjoyed climbing into the tree. She never wreaked havoc, just enjoyed the 'wheres Waldo' hiding out. I was trying to find a pic I had snapped of this last week but it is lost in cyberspace.

I also remember moms putting the tree inside the mostly outgrown play pen to keep it safe from very curious toddlers when I was a kid.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 24, 2022 03:09 PM (3cGpq)

25 Not pets, but mom had a lot of fun yesterday watching crows slip and fall over on the ice trying to get at some seeds

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 24, 2022 03:10 PM (0hOvj)

26 Heh. You got me there
Posted by: Muldoon at December 24, 2022 03:06 PM (ykeLU)

One out of thousands so very insignificant but it was so recent and unusual that I had to snark. Have a Merry Christmas . 😀

Posted by: polynikes at December 24, 2022 03:11 PM (KLWiP)

27 Wouldn't be the same without dogs and catz.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 03:13 PM (TkO4P)

28 So 'daschund through the snow' doesn't work

Yeah but people do pronounce it dash-und :/ Like people pronounce my name "shut the hell up"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 24, 2022 03:13 PM (0hOvj)

29 There needs to be a Brockdogge, which, I understand correctly is Olde English for Badgerdog.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:14 PM (VdGjU)

30 There are more animal Christmas movies than you would think.

Posted by: polynikes at December 24, 2022 03:15 PM (KLWiP)

31 Happy Caturday everyone

Only pet report is back at the Philadelphia Animal shelter and should be all next week if not longer.
Not allowed to bring a dog home

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2022 03:15 PM (xhxe8)

32 Madame Mayhem. That's different. I always called the Christmas tree the giant, seasonal pet toy. They all seemed to like to crawl under it at minimum. I didn't set up the tree this year, with electric bed for dad in the living room there isn't room to do it. Even if I got the one shabby old recliner I wasn't ready to toss hauled into the dumpster I think it would be too crowded.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 24, 2022 03:16 PM (3cGpq)

33 Hate to be THAT guy, but it's dachshund, not daschund. dox-hoond

So 'daschund through the snow' doesn't work,.

hamster hampster
Posted by: Muldoon

I guess its not "one whore, soap and sleigh" either.

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 03:16 PM (T4tVD)

34 Beautiful pets, as always.

My cats are being good little troupers about the weather. Mom [me) is the anxious one. Julius the black kitten usually sleeps right up beside me at night. Woke up at 4:00 this morning and he wasn't there. Was terrified I had let him slip through the kitchen door into the unheated garage and he was freezing. Got up and ran through the house, couldn't find him, checked the garage. Went back through the house and all of a sudden there he was, looking at me like "what's going on, Mom." Whew.

He slept beside me for the next few hours, taking care of me because I'd gotten so agitated. Hypervigilance in temps like this is the pits.

Posted by: skywch at December 24, 2022 03:17 PM (uqhmb)

35 As big of James Wood fans as all of you are, you'd think you'd know to keep the cat away from the baby to keep it from stealing the baby's breath.

Posted by: squid at December 24, 2022 03:18 PM (S/NWs)

36 Cats always win...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-Ve357tTck

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2022 03:18 PM (Q4IgG)

37 LOL. That is great MF.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 24, 2022 03:19 PM (3cGpq)

38 Always beautiful pets

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:19 PM (VdGjU)

39 Quite right NL. I forgot to mention it this week.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 24, 2022 03:20 PM (3cGpq)

40 "I just didn't use lights for several years and only hung sarin balls. "

I guess that would keep the cats off. Seems kind of rash though.

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2022 03:20 PM (iayUP)

41 Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2022 03:18 PM (Q4IgG)

Hah . The owner lost but he also won with that video.

Posted by: polynikes at December 24, 2022 03:20 PM (KLWiP)

42 As big of James Wood fans as all of you are, you'd think you'd know to keep the cat away from the baby to keep it from stealing the baby's breath.

Its protecting the baby from a tiny monster! I saw Cat's Eye!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 24, 2022 03:21 PM (0hOvj)

43 "Its protecting the baby from a tiny monster!"

Right. We're going to trust the cat is protecting the baby from a mysterious fairy creature?

Posted by: squid at December 24, 2022 03:21 PM (S/NWs)

44 "I just didn't use lights for several years and only hung sarin balls. "

As long as sarin didn't mind....

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 03:25 PM (T4tVD)

45 That pic of the three cats...
I have two brothers Thing one is older and Thing two is younger. If the psycho cat was in the middle, that would be us.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 24, 2022 03:25 PM (Wy1BU)

46 Nice Moronimals today! Merry Christmas to the Horde!

I am frying some ham, will add eggs momentarily. The ham bone, and much of the remaining meat just went into the slow cooker along with some split green peas.

Je te cookerai pea soup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 03:31 PM (tkR6S)

47 Merry Christmas AOP !

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 03:33 PM (T4tVD)

48 Merry Christmas AOP !
Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 03:33 PM (T4tVD)

To you as well!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 03:35 PM (tkR6S)

49 Merry Christmas everyone, happy Hannukah and whatever assorted merriment

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 24, 2022 03:37 PM (0hOvj)

50 Merry Christmas to all.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 24, 2022 03:39 PM (+Wcyp)

51 Big dog on the armrest cracks me up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 24, 2022 03:39 PM (KFhLj)

52 And Happy Hannukah to all.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 24, 2022 03:40 PM (+Wcyp)

53 Merry Christmas AOP. You still in Apache Junction?

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:41 PM (VdGjU)

54 I surely hope many critters get to go to forever homes this Christmas, as always. Good homes...
BecChas! Yikes...that Robert!🤣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2022 03:46 PM (9yKx+)

55 Thank you, KT and pet slaves. I've been sick for almost a month. Seeing the Christmas pets has done wonders for my frame of mind. I really appreciate the time and effort put in here. Merry Christmas, Hordelings.

Posted by: creeper at December 24, 2022 03:46 PM (cTCuP)

56 Big dog on the armrest cracks me up.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at December 24, 2022 03:39 PM (KFhLj)

Paisley does not get on the couch. The bed is another thing.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:48 PM (VdGjU)

57 Our chickens made it through the minus 21 degree temps!!!

Much reading made us wary of heat lamps and such in the coop, as potential fire hazards, or loss of electricity once they become acclimated to warmer temps can be deadly also....

They'd been through minus 2 a few weeks back so we felt they could handle it. But -21 was extreme for this area. We held out until the coldest night and put the heat lamp in. Coop was lowest at 12 degrees.

We fed them their feed gooped up in oils and peanut butter during the coldest of the days. They are little furnaces. The little poopy dears blessed us with half a dozen eggs a day in spite of the chill.

Chickens know how to be chickens better than we know how to be chickens. The heat lamp gets removed tonight.

Posted by: Derak at December 24, 2022 03:52 PM (Av8cj)

58 MERRY PUPMAS!
CATTY NEW YEAR!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 24, 2022 03:52 PM (Kd4bG)

59 I just want to get this non-pet thing off my chest--Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is not a Christmas song.
And it's Angels We Have Heard on High not Angles We Have Heard on High.
I apologize for that but, yes, I do feel better.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:53 PM (VdGjU)

60 If you live in cold country, it's best to get the breeds with the "rose" comb (the flat combs, not the tall upright kind.) They can get frostbite on the combs. The rose comb breeds were bred for cold country.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 03:54 PM (uz3Px)

61 And it's Angels We Have Heard on High not Angles We Have Heard on High.

C'mon man. Don't be obtuse.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2022 03:56 PM (DOrlJ)

62 Nyah!

Twas the night before Christmas and Leona had traffic duty.

We were merry all night long acquiring lots of bling.

Xoxoxo - The Buaku Gang.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2022 03:57 PM (1nfzE)

63 Merry Christmas AOP. You still in Apache Junction?
Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 03:41 PM (VdGjU)

Yep. Until Spring. The Sun is shining, and the door is open.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 03:58 PM (tkR6S)

64 The "comb" function on a Chicken is sort of like a car radiator on an engine. A heat exchanger.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2022 03:59 PM (DOrlJ)

65 I can't find my Russian fur hat. I asked Paisley if she ate but she's playing innocent.

It's kind of amazing how much that dog means to me m

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 04:01 PM (VdGjU)

66 Can't be but 15 degrees here.

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2022 04:01 PM (xhxe8)

67 MartiniFarmer, the hung Christmas tree was a stitch.

No inside tree this year. I put solar-powered lights on a little cedar in the forest. It looks so sweet out there by itself, blinking softly in the dark.

Cat is not pleased.

Posted by: creeper at December 24, 2022 04:01 PM (cTCuP)

68 And you could go with Brahmas, which have feathers down their legs. I've seen pictures of roosters with frost bitten combs. Never was in cold enough weather for it. We always used deep litter in their shelters in the winter. They basically live on a compost pile. Of course, they were out of the shelter during the day.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 04:02 PM (uz3Px)

69 The "comb" function on a Chicken is sort of like a car radiator on an engine. A heat exchanger.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2022 03:59 PM (DOrlJ)

Some of their dinosaur ancestors had similar features.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 04:02 PM (tkR6S)

70 Can't be but 15 degrees here.
Posted by: Skip

It ain't warm, that's fo' sho' !

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:03 PM (T4tVD)

71 Merry Christmas Notsothoreau !

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:04 PM (T4tVD)

72 We have Easter edgers, australorps and Idaho gems. Their combs are all different, some small and tight, some big and floppy.

Seems like no damage. I read that cold is not the issue, but dry and draft free is the best way to keep them. Also, the watering situation needs to be such that their wattles don't get wet. Seems we covered all the bases and I'm so pleased they seem none the worse for the wear.

Posted by: Derak at December 24, 2022 04:08 PM (Av8cj)

73 Merry Christmas to you too, JT! It's up to 24 degrees here with a low of 10 tonight. Supposed to be in the 40s tomorrow.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 04:09 PM (uz3Px)

74 It's 23 degrees here in the TVA rolling blackout state. Two of my older cats have been outside a couple times, enjoying the sunshine.

Going to Christmas Eve service at 4:00. Merry Christmas, everybody.

Posted by: skywch at December 24, 2022 04:10 PM (uqhmb)

75 By golly I love dogs.

Posted by: That NLurker it comes in pints? at December 24, 2022 04:10 PM (VdGjU)

76 Merry Christmas to you too, JT! It's up to 24 degrees here with a low of 10 tonight. Supposed to be in the 40s tomorrow.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

jeepers ! I could work on my tan !

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:11 PM (T4tVD)

77 MegaRoy has been a very good kitteh with the Christmas tree. Never ince in his 11 & 1/2 years has he ever attempted to climb it. He does like to hide under it and ambush the unwary drunkard on occasion.

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah everyone.

Posted by: BifBewalski at December 24, 2022 04:11 PM (3CCua)

78 Easter eggers. Argh auto correct. They are apparently a buff Orpington cross.

The egg colors we are getting range from pink, rose, baby blue, olive green, and blue green.

The family are getting a dozen eggs each for Christmas.
They are really quite beautiful! Gifts from the girls.

Posted by: Derak at December 24, 2022 04:11 PM (Av8cj)

79 I woke up to 69° this morning. Furnace filter was full and had shut the unit down.

So I dragged my ancient ass to the garage and brought the stepladder in. By some miracle of good fortune I had a clean filter. Furnace now running fine and it's 75° in here. And I didn't fall off the ladder even once.

Cat went out. I'm sure that's temporary.

Posted by: creeper at December 24, 2022 04:12 PM (cTCuP)

80 Daschund through the snow. LOL.

Great pet pictures!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:12 PM (vH/6k)

81 I have a Russian style fur hat, rabbit fur. Wore it today to store

Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2022 04:14 PM (xhxe8)

82 Posted by: JTB at December 24, 2022 03:08 PM (7EjX1)

Wasn't that sweet and thoughtful of them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:14 PM (vH/6k)

83 Skip @ 81- did you get the feets along with the hat?

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 04:16 PM (z3WCn)

84 Merry Christmas to you and yourn, Fen !

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:16 PM (T4tVD)

85 Skip @ 81- did you get the feets along with the hat?
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 04:16 PM (z3WCn)

Feets status: unlucky.

Posted by: The Rabbit at December 24, 2022 04:18 PM (tkR6S)

86 Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:16 PM (T4tVD)

Thanks; Same to you and all here who celebrate Christmas and Happy Hanukkah (I"m sure I'm spelling it wrong ) to our Jewish posters too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:18 PM (vH/6k)

87 Beautiful pet morons! So happy to see them

Posted by: CN at December 24, 2022 04:18 PM (Zzbjj)

88 ho ho ho Merry Christmas

I went through the blizzard with a cat with no name, it felt good to be out of the wind.

ha ... my barn cat is very friendly, did not want to be inside though, even after ten below. He left my little heated shelter during the worst of the cold, thought I might lose him to the -10 high winds.

I improved his shelter and after a day he returned late the second night, after midnight (I have a camera on his spot) ... would not come in, but meowed. .. I think he just wanted his night milk, slurped it up then slept in the shelter.

About ten years ago I lost an adopted stray (Monroe), I recall his last day when he meowed at me from under the porch, but would not eat or come out. Kinda a haunting memory, but that is how things seem to go at "the end".

Merry Christmas ... Bo lives. (Bo I guess is his name, black cat with white spot under his chin, like a formal bow tie)

Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2022 04:18 PM (Cus5s)

89 I've seen those called "Americaunas". They used to be Aracaunas. I had green eggs, never the blues. I like to have Marans too, so you get those chocolatey brown eggs. Can't have chickens any more so I am feeding the outside birds (and probably shouldn't be doing that). We have doves here, woodpeckers and cardinals. Lots of others I don't recognize. I should get a bird book.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 04:19 PM (uz3Px)

90 "Daschund through the snow. LOL."

"we're gonna need a smaller sled".

Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2022 04:20 PM (Cus5s)

91 Posted by: JTB at December 24, 2022 03:08 PM (7EjX1)

So sweet!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 24, 2022 04:21 PM (Kd4bG)

92 If I had to work at Starbucks I'd probably hang my self from their indoor tree with cups as decorations, because their idea of Christmas songs are "Santa Baby" and "Boogie Woogie" Santa" and others played on a loop. nothing remotely related to Christ's birth, not surprisingly. Forgive me; I'm rather tired.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:21 PM (vH/6k)

93 Our cats, when they're inside don't mess with our tree. For one, it's artificial and it's decorated with all clear crystal ornaments. They'll sit by it, but they don't mess with anything on it.

Weird.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2022 04:21 PM (Q4IgG)

94 I should get a bird book.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Yep; used bookstore or flea market .

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:22 PM (T4tVD)

95 Isn't 'Bo' short for 'Boy'? Ain't sayin' nothin', just sayin'.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 04:23 PM (z3WCn)

96 If I had to work at Starbucks I'd probably hang my self from their indoor tree with cups as decorations, because their idea of Christmas songs are "Santa Baby" and "Boogie Woogie" Santa" and others played on a loop. nothing remotely related to Christ's birth, not surprisingly. Forgive me; I'm rather tired.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:21 PM (vH/6k)

"Santa Baby" is really a satirical song that mocks the greedy, grasping sugar babies, and by extension the commercialization of Christmas.

Posted by: The Rabbit at December 24, 2022 04:27 PM (tkR6S)

97 off, sock

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 04:27 PM (tkR6S)

98 Merry Christmas vmom !

Posted by: JT at December 24, 2022 04:27 PM (T4tVD)

99 Bless the beasts and Morons. I will have to stay up tonight to see of the cat can talk at midnight.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 24, 2022 04:27 PM (yQpMk)

100 "Isn't 'Bo' short for 'Boy'? Ain't sayin' nothin', just sayin'."

idk, little Bo Peep, lost her sheep ... I always thought that was a girl, but maybe I had it wrong the whole time. Maybe Bo was a tranny?

Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2022 04:27 PM (Cus5s)

101 Posted by: The Rabbit at December 24, 2022 04:27 PM (tkR6S)

Well, thanks, but I still don't like it and mocking the commercialization of Christmas seems oddly inappropriate for Starbucks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:29 PM (vH/6k)

102 Well, thanks, but I still don't like it and mocking the commercialization of Christmas seems oddly inappropriate for Starbucks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:29 PM (vH/6k)

Starbucks is run by dimwitted people.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 04:31 PM (tkR6S)

103 My dentist has the kitten channel on in his waiting room, not really 100% kittens, but other non-human folk as well. I could watch it for as long as it takes Avatar tape to flap around.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 04:32 PM (z3WCn)

104 Almost napped through the pet thread again. Daisy dog was gonna let me. But my internal alarm said get up.

Yesterday, Daisy pushed past me out the door and took off like a bolt of lightning, dashing through the snow. She didn't leave the home acres, but she was all over. She'd rush by me, hear me call, look at me, and dash off again at top speed. Well, it was her first snow and she's still such a puppy, and she did eventually just walk in, frozen and exhausted.

Daisy got some early presents. Daughter got her a seasonal neck scarf that makes her look so hip. Son bought her a harness - she chewed her way out of the last one, months ago, in a matter of a minute; this one is not so easy for her to bite. Son took her for a nice walk to try it out. He also bought a spray bottle of "Bitter Yuck!®" - a chewing-discouraging substance. She's been pretty good, but sometimes her jaws have a mind of their own.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Christmas Webworkshop from 2016 (vid 11:00) at December 24, 2022 04:33 PM (VAWTJ)

105 Bo Peep is an archaic name for the game of peekaboo.

Posted by: skywch at December 24, 2022 04:33 PM (uqhmb)

106 If I had to work at Starbucks I'd probably hang my self from their indoor tree with cups as decorations, because their idea of Christmas songs are "Santa Baby" and "Boogie Woogie" Santa" and others played on a loop. nothing remotely related to Christ's birth, not surprisingly. Forgive me; I'm rather tired.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

At the store yesterday, that 80's pop song "Christmas Wrapping" was blasting. I think I saw one clerk wincing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2022 04:33 PM (IyrhE)

107 Our cats of the past never knocked the trees down or tried to get up into them. They did bat off some low hanging decorations one year. This year we have a a towel rack with lots of arms sticking out (It is a tradition now because the idea came from son about 18 years ago) and the cat is completely disinterested.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:33 PM (vH/6k)

108 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2022 04:31 PM (tkR6S)

They may be; I must say they were very pleasant and wished me a Merry Christmas and said "Thanks for coming in."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:35 PM (vH/6k)

109 Ony cat says I have to put in a word about her. The old gal is really getting into teasing young Daisy dog. She'll lurk under a chair and jump out hissing; Daisy will jump, do a play-bow, and often bark. Sometimes they chase a little.

A couple of days ago, I really messed with their heads, as I got each to play with an end of the same piece of string. Great interaction, brief but funny.

That's my 2¢ worth of kibble. Now I'll go read the post & comments.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Christmas Webworkshop from 2016 (vid 11:00) at December 24, 2022 04:36 PM (VAWTJ)

110 Afternoon, folk! Sorry I'm running late. I've got to wrap presents in a bit, and that requires extracting 2 kittens from the living rooom. If there's one thing that attracts cats more than Xmas trees, it's wrapping paper and a human trying to do something purposeful with them!

Smudge the Maine Coon looks to be the "classic" tabby pattern: stripes on head, legs, and tail, and the rest looks like a marble cake in the middle.

Miso looks just like Miss Linda's late white shorthair, Annabelle, who was rescued too: She was one of a pack of cats roaming the apartment complex after Katrina. She was dominating bigger cats. Even after Linda took her in -- she was wonderful to humans, but hated other cats.

Robert the big black cat, and the one in the "I must murder it" meme, both look much like my big black Stirling.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 04:37 PM (KAKDL)

111 https://t.me/readovkaworld/5529

Posted by: MikeNew2 at December 24, 2022 04:39 PM (Tjlyq)

112 Seems all the more vulnerable strays at my mom's former retirement home made it through okay. One more night of below freezing . I wish I could say the same about me. Just determined I lost my water heater. Unable to re-light the pilot probably because no gas is being fed to it. I can't smell any gas when I hold down the pilot light button .

Posted by: polynikes at December 24, 2022 04:39 PM (KLWiP)

113
The "comb" function on a Chicken is sort of like a car radiator on an engine. A heat exchanger.
Posted by: Common Tater

Like the "fin" on the Dimetrodon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2022 04:42 PM (63Dwl)

114 Partway through comments. Daisy is telling me it's the warmest part of the day (25˚

and we need to walk. So we will.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Christmas Webworkshop from 2016 (vid 11:00) at December 24, 2022 04:43 PM (VAWTJ)

115 Good afternoon, horde. Look at all those lovely Christmas pets!

*That's ok, Stella I wanted to sit up here. Really.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2022 04:44 PM (OX9vb)

116 I want to put in a good word for a kindly "cat lady"- but she only has two cats at home along with a husband and son in Folrida. However, she feeds strays at some elderly man's house every week, several times a week and gives him food to feed them too I She made up about 10 cat homes with lots of blankets inside and covered w plastic by the doors so they can get in them from the cold. The cats are using them. I helped her further weatherproof them yesterday and today I saw cats using them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:45 PM (vH/6k)

117 As a boy we had a big red-with-white tabby named Rusty. He was still a kitten at Christmas '65, and Mom was worried about the tree. That afternoon we missed Rusty; we hadn't seen him in a while, and he certainly could not have gotten out of the patio. Surprise, surprise: He was curled like white cat Miso under the tree, snoozing. He never attacked the the tree or tried to climb it.

Arizona, the red-with-white tabby Maine Coon mix, never knocked over our trees. He naturally tried to steal the ornaments on the lower branches, so we kept the breakable ones up high.

Miss Linda's Marie-Antoinette, the smart black cat, tried to create a scam of stealing lower-branch ornaments and selling them to the other 2 cats as toys. It never worked; they weren't interested once it was off the tree.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 04:46 PM (KAKDL)

118 Posted by: polynikes at December 24, 2022 04:39 PM (KLWiP)

I'm sorry about your water heater.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2022 04:48 PM (vH/6k)

119 And it's Angels We Have Heard on High not Angles We Have Heard on High.
*
C'mon man. Don't be obtuse.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2022

***
We're all pretty congruent here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 04:49 PM (KAKDL)

120 And it's Angels We Have Heard on High not Angles We Have Heard on High.
*
C'mon man. Don't be obtuse.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2022

***
We're all pretty congruent here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 04:49 PM (KAKDL)

I take that as a sine.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 24, 2022 04:51 PM (yQpMk)

121 "Isn't 'Bo' short for 'Boy'?"

With blue-ticks, redbones and the like, it's for
"Beauregard." Which opens some other issues.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 24, 2022 04:52 PM (jYCXf)

122 Oh, and yes, I did get the kittens a Christmas gift. It's one of those collapsible crackly tunnels that they can worm themselves into (and I hope out of) with attendant noises. I can collapse it back up when I go to bed if the sounds are too insistent.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 04:52 PM (KAKDL)

123 > I should get a bird book.
___________

There are bird ID apps for your smartphone. Some will use a photo or recording of their chirps to ID it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2022 04:53 PM (Q4IgG)

124 We have an outsde cat named Mobo, gray with white bib, nose, and paws. Looks like Robert E. Lee sorta. Mrs. E billeted him in the garage for this cold spell and he's one happy grateful cat.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 04:53 PM (z3WCn)

125 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 24, 2022 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

126 There are bird ID apps for your smartphone. Some will use a photo or recording of their chirps to ID it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2022 04:53 PM (Q4IgG)

**************

Shazam for birds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 24, 2022 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

127 When Little Jimmy Boyd recorded "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," the archbishop of Boston condemned it as adulterous, kind of a big deal in Boston in 1952. The 13-year-old singer met with the archbishop and explained the joke, and, Christmas miracle, he got it and Nihil Obstat.

I suppose it's against someone's religion to get a hippopotamus, too. We have a holiday tradition in our family of staying the hell out of Starbuck's.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 24, 2022 04:58 PM (jYCXf)

128 Northernlurker and The Paise.
We sound like a crime solving duo who travel the country in a beat up Camry solving crimes.
Posted by: That NLurker

Would watch!

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2022 04:59 PM (OX9vb)

129 What's the Archbishop of Boston think about that WAP song?

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2022 05:02 PM (iayUP)

130 Angles We Have Heard on High.

Goes up to 11!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 24, 2022 05:03 PM (1gJuC)

131 What's the Archbishop of Boston think about that WAP song?
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2022 05:02 PM (iayUP)

*********

He twirks to it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 24, 2022 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

132 Fen, set phaser to appalled, but I like boogie woogie Santa Claus! Two hour radio show on now of 40s, 50s and 60s RnB Christmas music.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 24, 2022 05:08 PM (1gJuC)

133 Fen,

Let her know that straw is a better choice. I learned that from this video:

https://youtu.be/Q_eiuGdXaFg

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 05:08 PM (uz3Px)

134 'What's the Archbishop of Boston think about that WAP song?'

I think it's awful!

Posted by: Mrs Slocumb at December 24, 2022 05:09 PM (iayUP)

135 Last weekend on my shopping trip I had on Way sp? FM for Christmas tunes. I got annoyed that they were playing mostly pop music secular Christmas songs and found the KLOVE station. Who were also playing secular Xmas tunes but at least were half or more carols and hymns. I suppose the attack on Christmas has advanced to the point that regular stations don't play anything Christmas related until maybe a few on Dec 24th and the Christian rock, pop? whatever stations were responding to listener requests. What I get for being too cheap to pay for sirius XM or put a tunes app on my phone.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 24, 2022 05:11 PM (3cGpq)

136 No inside tree this year. I put solar-powered lights on a little cedar in the forest. It looks so sweet out there by itself, blinking softly in the dark.
Cat is not pleased.
Posted by: creeper

Sounds beautiful. Merry Christmas, creeper! Hope you are past the sickness.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2022 05:12 PM (OX9vb)

137 My cat is now sulking by the back door, having to sleep on the dog's coat on the floor. She keeps chewing on her skin. The vet gave me an anti-bacterial foam to use and I just put some on her. She will give up some time and come out and steal my chair again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 05:12 PM (uz3Px)

138 Poor Kitty, Notsothroreau. Critters don't understand why we don't want them chewing themselves raw. But as you say, she'll get over sulking about the foam.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at December 24, 2022 05:18 PM (3cGpq)

139 Would PPV to see the performer of WAP song explain the joke to the Archbishop. Even the one they have now.

Couple of our carbuddies joked around about "Santa Baby" last week, as the line about wanting a '64 convertible came up. Someone noted, it doesn't say which '64 that would be. What if it was something dorky? So I pulled up images of "64 convertible" and looked at over a hundred. Surely, I thought, the cars that were roundly mocked in those days would make a lousy gift. So we checked out Valiants, Falcons, Ramblers...

Nope. They were, at worst, cute as a button. Not a one of them you wouldn't scooch something else over in the garage to make room for. All you have to do is survive.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 24, 2022 05:19 PM (jYCXf)

140 Santa Baby 64 convertible? Caddy, please!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 24, 2022 05:22 PM (1gJuC)

141 Okay! Presents wrapped with cats out of the way; very little wrapping paper wasted (though they can play with the remnants). I almost ran out of Scotch tape, though.

We're going to Christmas Eve service at 6:30 at her church. I've gone with her in recent years, but not in '20 and '21 since the church -- or at least the priest -- was all in on The Sniffle Scare, closed down for a while, and insisted on face diapers and on everybody sitting far apart, even up in the balcony. The church is beautiful, though, not only at Christmas, but right now they have the manger scene with half-size animal and human figures all nicely painted and detailed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 05:23 PM (KAKDL)

142 I still don't like it and mocking the commercialization of Christmas seems oddly inappropriate for Starbucks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

They don't know that - I think that's what they call irony.

Merry Christmas, Fenelon. Merry Christmas to all; God bless us every one.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Christmas Webworkshop from 2016 (vid 11:00) at December 24, 2022 05:24 PM (E78bp)

143 Santa Baby 64 convertible? Caddy, please!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at December 24, 2022

***
Or a Chrysler Imperial, or Chevy Impala Super Sport, or Corvette Sting Ray, or . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 05:24 PM (KAKDL)

144 Merry Christmas you fargin iceholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 24, 2022 05:26 PM (Zz0t1)

145 I had a 65 Impala SS convertible. Man what a car. Red, Cragers, 327 and 2 speed Powerglide. It shifted to high at about 80.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumb at December 24, 2022 05:27 PM (iayUP)

146 All of us in Brattleboro wnats to wish Presdent Obamama a Merry Christmass and a Hoppy new Yeer. We love you and miss you.....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 24, 2022 05:27 PM (RGDlH)

147 So we checked out Valiants, Falcons, Ramblers...

Nope. They were, at worst, cute as a button. Not a one of them you wouldn't scooch something else over in the garage to make room for. All you have to do is survive.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 24, 2022

***
Yup. Cars with actual styling and windows you could not only see out of, but could rest your left forearm comfortably on the door as you piloted the car with the big steering wheel. Chrome outside, aluminum trim inside, actual room for 4 adults or more (even Falcons and so-called "compact" cars of the time had plenty of room).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 05:27 PM (KAKDL)

148 Oh darn, off pussy loving sock.

Posted by: fd at December 24, 2022 05:28 PM (iayUP)

149 Had a friend with a '64 Rambler that someone had painted flames on. Would enjoy having a Rambler again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2022 05:29 PM (uz3Px)

150 I had a 65 Impala SS convertible. Man what a car. Red, Cragers, 327 and 2 speed Powerglide. It shifted to high at about 80.
Posted by: Mrs Slocumb at December 24, 2022

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My dad bought a '66 Super Sport coupe new in late '65. I don't know what size engine it had; he wasn't a car guy. I doubt it was a 327. He complained that it sometimes stalled when driving in slow city traffic.

I got 2 utterly useless but fun lessons in driving it. What a smooth car.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 05:29 PM (KAKDL)

151 Nood hobbies.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2022 05:31 PM (ju2Fy)

152 Dagny the Siberian is sitting on the ottoman at the living room window. Something is getting her attention; maybe a squirrel trying to keep warm. Big black Stirling I don't see, but I know he came streaking out when I let them out of the bedroom.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 05:31 PM (KAKDL)

153 Noodus hobbyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2022 05:32 PM (KAKDL)

154 Among many cars, I had a '64 Rambler. A station wagon. I regretted its 195 engine (used more oil than gas), and eventually it lost a tooth out of the flywheel gear that engages the starter. Ramblers did not use a fender liner, so would in time (not that much time, if you remember that era well) develop a line of rust on the top of the front fender. And that was it. That was the entire list of vices, right there.

The front seat would fold back flat, so that the entire passenger compartment became a double bed. There was a name for that feature that is not usually used here. It made Ramblers popular for "camping."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 24, 2022 05:37 PM (jYCXf)

155 64 Valiant 2dr hardtop 273 V8, 4spd Hurst shifter, run like striped-ass ape.

Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2022 05:42 PM (TkO4P)

156 Cats and Christmas trees pix at Bluebird's today.

bluebirdofbitterness.com

Posted by: mindful webworker - click for Christmas Webworkshop from 2016 (vid 11:00) at December 24, 2022 05:42 PM (VAWTJ)

157 S,Lynn SW Idaho...
You grow Hops?

Posted by: birddog at December 24, 2022 05:51 PM (uAI4S)

158 '63-'64 T bird, drop top. Nuthin ever like it before, nor after.
Longest piece of chrome on any car ever built...
About 20 years ago I took my 15yo son to Las Vegas for the Rockabilly weekend, a buddy of mine was showing a couple of cars there, and getting married to a young beauty he had met there the year before. I gave my son the choice what to do with the next week...head for the Rockies, yellowstone etc...or San Francsico to do some sailing stay at my buddies ranch/shop. He chose SF...out behind my buddies barn was a '63 t-bird, white/white, drop top...a rich Marin girls dad had bought it for her, they dropped it off when the tranny went. He then bought her a new mercedes convert. 4 years passed, She was willing to take $1500 for the Bird, I had the cash in pocket, considered buying it, having Nic fix it, then give it to my son when he turned 16yo. Regret deciding not to ever since.

Posted by: birddog at December 24, 2022 10:20 PM (uAI4S)

159 #157 birddog-no, our farmer neighbors do.

Posted by: S.Lynn at December 25, 2022 12:53 AM (MCRc+)

160 We had this cat that climbed our Christmas tree twice never knocked the tree down

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 25, 2022 01:10 AM (FLiOE)

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