Ace of Spades Pet Thread, Aug. 19

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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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Pet Art

Saw this posted on a doorpost on our walk in Sonoma this morning. -San Franpsycho

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Dog Art, Happy Dog

This image dates back to 1991 and a simple afternoon visit to Audubon Park's Simon Gumbel fountain & wading pool one sticky summer day. This lucky puppeh was just sitting there enjoying the cool and made a great image that embodies the simplicity of happiness. Things don't need to be complicated and/or expensive to be enjoyed - a cool pool on a hot day is oftentimes enough - as it was for this Happy Puppeh. I don't know the breed, but I'd take a SWAG (i.e., a 'guess') that it's likely to be in the Retriever family. As always, use as you deem Right, Fit, and Proper . . . enjoy.

(Dr_No)

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The Horde comes through with more great Pet History:

The turnspit dog is an extinct short-legged, long-bodied dog bred to run on a wheel, called a turnspit or dog wheel, to turn meat.

Referred to as the kitchen dog or cooking dog, the first mention of these little dogs was made in 1576. By 1850 the dogs had become scarce and by 1900 it seemed as though there were none left.
Turnspit dog - Wikipedia
- fd

Meet The PetMorons

After the terrible year we had, we decided to get a puppy. This is 10 week old Lincoln. He is a Weimaraner obviously. This is our third Weimie and yes he has his crazy times. But he has made my husband and me smile, and he is a cuddle bug. He plays with our daughters dobermans and runs them around the yard. He is always up for a ride and loves the rv. We start traveling in September so he's going to be a good travel buddy.
Peggy

Lincoln looks like a great dog! Legs too long to be a turnspit dog. Travel buddy is better!

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This is Sasha, a wonderfully polite extra fuzzy tabby cat that I adopted in her golden years. She was about 10 or so when I got her, and she hung around for another four years, so I guess she liked me. She's been gone for quite a long time, but I still think fondly of that ol' bag of hair.
Once in a blue moon, I post as Ask Mr. Lizard. Most of the time, people already said what I wanted to, so I lurk.

Thanks for sharing Sasha's photo and story. A beautiful cat!

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We recently had to say goodbye to our little rescue Borzoi girl Musya. She had reached the wonderful age of 13 years and 9 months old.
She came to us from a terrible situation and was in bad shape when she arrived. With care and attention she recovered, but her age and health (heartworm positive) meant she could not be rehomed and so she lived out her life here. For the three years Musya lived with us, she hit the jackpot: she was treated exactly as our own homebreds, with clean water, all the nourishing food she could eat, bones, toys and treats, shelter, a comfortable bed, kind words and ear noogies. She fit in well and was the perfect lady, never giving us any trouble at all. Sadly, there was always around her an air of anxiety, as though she was scared the good life she was leading was an illusion that might disappear at any moment.
She was tiny but sassy. One evening big Dan trotted down to visit her and she let him know in no uncertain terms who was boss. It was funny to see the huge hulking boy beating a flustered retreat before the fierce little girl. It's too bad that she could not have lived her whole life with us because we could see she would have been a real firecracker.
Rest well, sweetie. And wait for us.
Hadrian the Seventh

So sorry to learn about the loss of Musya. It sounds like she was full of personality, and could have had more personality under better circumstances. I wish she had had had more time with you, too. Such a sweet face.

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KT,
We have had pets our whole lives. Early on in the Mr. & Mrs. endeavour we got our first pet Rex, a Belgian Shepherd. He was a wonderful companion, caring and careful around toddlers, in addition to being a trickster. We continued on in the same approximate size dogs until we had to put down our last one. About three years ago Mrs. asked to go to a shelter in a neighboring county to look at and apply for a stray. Skeeter has a gypsy soul, I am convinced someone read him Kerouac and Ginsburg while he was encamped at the shelter. He has a wandering soul along with the heart of an assassin. He is a stone cold killer of anything from lizards to rats to rabbits. Elevation is the only thing keeping the squirrels safe, otherwise I would have tails littering the yard. After all that he is a sweetheart who loves his mama and really just wants a scratch behind the ear.
Here he is at the dog park. He has to be on the "Big Dog" side as he terrorizes the old ladies lap dogs.
Best,
rdohd

Great photo of another dog full of personality!

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Notes: Would the parent of the pet with the name containing "Moo" please provide a name for yourself so we can post your information?

Wildlife adventure next week, I think.

UPDATE: Can you love someone like a good ol' dog? Think about it.

Thanks to Roger for sending this in.

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What a wonderful collection of pet stories today. Thank you for sharing your pets with us.

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, August 12. 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.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:20 PM

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1 Good looking doggos and kitters.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 19, 2023 03:22 PM (Zqeqr)

2 yo

Posted by: REDACTED at August 19, 2023 03:22 PM (us2H3)

3 Referred to as the kitchen dog or cooking dog

We had one of those. Tasty.

Posted by: Barky Obama at August 19, 2023 03:23 PM (ynpvh)

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We had one of those. Tasty.
Posted by: Barky Obama at August 19, 2023 03:23 PM (ynpvh)

when they tell you to "bone the dog"

you did

Posted by: REDACTED at August 19, 2023 03:25 PM (us2H3)

5 My heart aches for those who said goodbye to a pet.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 19, 2023 03:26 PM (VdGjU)

6 Happy Caturday everyone
I do love reading pet stories, even sad ones.

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (MOY79)

7 Excellent pets today!
Hadrian, may the good Lord above bless you for taking care of the borzoi.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (MeG8a)

8 So I asked the neighbors dog what's that on top of the house?
He told me "roof! roof!".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (UkV2l)

9 It's been about a year and a half since we put our orange kitty (aka, Best Cat Evar) to sleep.

I'm strongly considering that it might soon be time to acquire a new orange kitty.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (tnWU2)

10 4
We had one of those. Tasty.
Posted by: Barky Obama at August 19, 2023 03:23 PM (ynpvh)

when they tell you to "bone the dog"

you did

Posted by: REDACTED at August 19, 2023 03:25 PM (us2H3)

What's wrong with boning a dog, you dog-faced pony soldier!

Posted by: Joey O'Biden at August 19, 2023 03:28 PM (ynpvh)

11 Lincoln looks like a great dog! Legs too long to be a turnspit dog. Travel buddy is better!
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10 weeks old? Looks like the sort who will be having college basketball recruiters visiting the home soon.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:29 PM (tnWU2)

12 And beautiful pets. Moron pets are the best

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 19, 2023 03:29 PM (VdGjU)

13 The turnspit dog

In the pic the cat is loafing while the dog works.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 19, 2023 03:30 PM (AGEGB)

14 Those cats in the painting ain't right.

Posted by: fd at August 19, 2023 03:31 PM (vFG9F)

15 Starry Night cats....whiskers don't grow on the back of cats' heads.

Posted by: with all possible dispatch at August 19, 2023 03:32 PM (nakGR)

16 The cats in the Starry Night appear to have whiskers ... on the backs of their heads?

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:32 PM (AOrJZ)

17 Yeah, the cats are mutants; so, normal cats.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 19, 2023 03:33 PM (AGEGB)

18 13 The turnspit dog

In the pic the cat is loafing while the dog works.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 19, 2023 03:30 PM (AGEGB)

As is right.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:33 PM (AOrJZ)

19 Those cats in the painting ain't right.
Posted by: fd at August 19, 2023 03:31 PM (vFG9F)

Well, they're orange, so yeah.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:33 PM (tnWU2)

20 Musya looks like she was an absolute sweetheart

Posted by: 496 at August 19, 2023 03:34 PM (Bf+P4)

21 Starry Night cats....whiskers don't grow on the back of cats' heads.
Posted by: with all possible dispatch at August 19, 2023 03:32 PM (nakGR)

Heh, I didn't notice. We can't blame Van Gogh, but yeah, now it's impossible not to see what a disaster that pic is.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:35 PM (tnWU2)

22 Really great photo, Dr._No.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:35 PM (AOrJZ)

23 15 Starry Night cats....whiskers don't grow on the back of cats' heads.

Posted by: with all possible dispatch at August 19, 2023 03:32 PM (nakGR)

Cats have whiskers all over their bodies. If you look closely, they have these longer "tactile hairs" on their legs as well.

https://is.gd/tBGcuZ

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 19, 2023 03:36 PM (ynpvh)

24 I'm strongly considering that it might soon be time to acquire a new orange kitty.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (tnWU2)
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One will no doubt show up when you are ready...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 19, 2023 03:36 PM (BpYfr)

25 Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:36 PM (AOrJZ)

26 If it was Picasso, sure, put the whiskers wherever you want, but the man cut off his own ear, died broke and unknown. He deserves more respect than that.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:38 PM (tnWU2)

27 So I asked the neighbors dog what's that on top of the house?
He told me "roof! roof!".
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (UkV2l)

I just realized Paisley has lots of ways of talking. I'm just not smart enough for her.
She has three barks. She growls. I've never heard her snarl but she probably ca. She whistles. She chuffs and she grumbles. Finally she does try to talk with lots of roo roos.
Plus there's lots of body language.
I wish I was smart enough.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 19, 2023 03:38 PM (VdGjU)

28 cut em some slack, that picture was painted ears ago

Posted by: REDACTED at August 19, 2023 03:38 PM (us2H3)

29 I'm strongly considering that it might soon be time to acquire a new orange kitty.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (tnWU2)
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One will no doubt show up when you are ready...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 19, 2023 03:36 PM (BpYfr)

You might be right. What I'm hoping is I can get one that looks close enough to BCE, and maybe has some of his personality, so as to confuse his brothers when he shows up, like a ghost from their past.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:40 PM (tnWU2)

30 So I asked the neighbors dog what's that on top of the house?
He told me "roof! roof!".
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (UkV2l)

He shoulda said DiMaggio.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:41 PM (tnWU2)

31 8 So I asked the neighbors dog what's that on top of the house?
He told me "roof! roof!".
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 19, 2023 03:27 PM (UkV2l)

Santa Claws

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:46 PM (AOrJZ)

32 My cat Dexter is now 14. He's slowing down, just like me. Sleeps 18 hours a day (I sleep about 6). I was thinking of getting a younger cat, then a local black cat starting hanging out in my yard. It won't approach me yet, but yesterday it caught a mouse in my yard and it played with it for about 15 minutes. Such a joy to see the youngster frolic about, mercilessly tossing the poor rodent high in the air, catching it on the way down. I laughed.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 19, 2023 03:47 PM (MeG8a)

33 The tiniest of the three orange cats in the painting, the one on the right, MIGHT be looking at us, given the placement of its legs.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:49 PM (AOrJZ)

34 Had an extra dog for a day this week. Adult female black lab reported hanging around by a neighbor. Sure enough, late evening, while tossing a ball for Daisy the excitable Malinois, suddenly there's a big black lab. No collar. Daisy and the Lab tussled a bit, but nothing serious. I easily dragged Daisy to her short tether on the porch. We had an old collar from dear old Gimli's day that slipped on over the Lab's head and hooked her up. The pups could get close enough to each other to play, although Daisy was much more into it than the aloof Lab.

Fortunately, she had a chip, which gave us a name, and Daughter looked on the book of face and found a guy reporting his missing Lab, under that name. So she went home. She had to have gone five miles to find us, though. We couldn't have kept her. Her name was Maisey, and that just wouldn't work with Daisy!

Lab slipped the tether three ways. Unhooked from the stake. Unhooked the tether from the collar. Also slipped the collar off. Each time, she just showed up at the front door. Didn't really need to tie her up, I guess.

Boy, was her bark louder, deeper, and more constant than Daisy's. Pretty nice doggie.

Ony the cat was wary.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot diggity dog at August 19, 2023 03:50 PM (WXgbp)

35 Beautiful pets, wonderful stories. Thanks for posting K.T.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at August 19, 2023 03:50 PM (XySbR)

36 Thank you for the Pet Thread, KT. It's always a pleasure to read about PetMorons, and enjoy the week's art/videos.

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at August 19, 2023 03:52 PM (hBG3V)

37 The tiniest of the three orange cats in the painting, the one on the right, MIGHT be looking at us, given the placement of its legs.
Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:49 PM (AOrJZ)

Yeah, I think you're right. Whoever did this, no doubt just plugging in digital content, isn't very talented.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 03:52 PM (tnWU2)

38 Love the pic on top!! Kittuhs gazing at Rembrandt.

I think it's Rembrandt. Anyway, Meow!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2023 03:52 PM (sAmhv)

39 32 My cat Dexter is now 14. He's slowing down, just like me. Sleeps 18 hours a day (I sleep about 6). I was thinking of getting a younger cat, then a local black cat starting hanging out in my yard. It won't approach me yet, but yesterday it caught a mouse in my yard and it played with it for about 15 minutes. Such a joy to see the youngster frolic about, mercilessly tossing the poor rodent high in the air, catching it on the way down. I laughed.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 19, 2023 03:47 PM (MeG8a)

Did Dexter see the cat-and-mouseplay?

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:53 PM (AOrJZ)

40 Dexter slept thru the entire show.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 19, 2023 03:56 PM (MeG8a)

41 Love the pic on top!! Kittuhs gazing at Rembrandt.

I think it's Rembrandt. Anyway, Meow!
Posted by: Puddleglum at

I believe it's Starry, Starry Night by Van Gogh. But I don't claim to be bright.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 19, 2023 03:57 PM (VdGjU)

42 Would hang!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2023 03:57 PM (NpAcC)

43 Van Gogh, not Rembrandt. They're both Dutch. (shrugs)

I didn't notice the whiskers on the back of there heads. Huh. Mutant kittuhs!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 19, 2023 03:58 PM (sAmhv)

44 I've got Starry Night on the screen, too, and the one here is a takeoff on it, not reproducing the original.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 03:58 PM (AOrJZ)

45 Sasha looks so much like my Dorkie Dork (long story) whom I lost to tragic circumstances in 2019. (She was the subject of my June, 2020 guest pet thread column.) DD was a little, formerly feral but totally sweet cat who finally came up to me after years and then realized being a kept kitty (with roaming privileges) was an awesome way to live. I miss her too.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2023 03:59 PM (KAi1n)

46 We've gathered a new cat, a male tabby about 1 year old. Wife named him Alfred the Great. He loves chasing the cicadas - last night he was sitting under the garage light where they buzz by and he jumped about 4 feet into the air to snatch one flying by.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 19, 2023 04:00 PM (X8UMK)

47 Maybe the painting here is AI.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:01 PM (AOrJZ)

48 Beautiful pets y'all.
Hugs to all that have lost a beloved pet.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 19, 2023 04:02 PM (NpAcC)

49 Posted by: Barky Obama
Posted by: Joey O'Biden

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

Hordelings gotta Horde, though, I guess.
_________

Thanks for the petthread, KT.

💔 to all those who have lost their critter companions.
_________

Once in a blue moon, I post as Ask Mr. Lizard. Most of the time, people already said what I wanted to, so I lurk.

I can relate to that. Horde mind, as they say. Comment anyway; you might have a new angle on something. Or at least you won't be invisilurking.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot diggity dog at August 19, 2023 04:02 PM (WXgbp)

50 Hadrian, what a lovely memoriam and such a sweet face

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 19, 2023 04:03 PM (RIvkX)

51 The tiniest of the three orange cats in the painting, the one on the right, MIGHT be looking at us, given the placement of its legs.
Posted by: m at August 19, 2023

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Good point. Even more of a mutant, then, with no eyes or face!

Afternoon, all! Sasha the late longhair was a beauty -- brilliant eye color.

Feline criminals Stirling and Dagny are here with me; they usually sleep alongside me when I nap, and during part of the night as well. This week I registered Little Dagny with TICA this week, and I downloaded her three-generations pedigree. Man, those cats got long names. Stirling has no pedigree, and so I've created him "Duke of Vicksburg."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:03 PM (omVj0)

52 Oh, and Labor Day will mark one year since I adopted Dagny. It seems longer, somehow. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:05 PM (omVj0)

53 In the pic the cat is ~~loafing~~ supervising while the dog works.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 19, 2023 03:30 PM (AGEGB)
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There

Posted by: The Kats at August 19, 2023 04:05 PM (RIvkX)

54 We've gathered a new cat, a male tabby about 1 year old. Wife named him Alfred the Great. He loves chasing the cicadas - last night he was sitting under the garage light where they buzz by and he jumped about 4 feet into the air to snatch one flying by.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 19, 2023 04:00 PM (X8UMK)

Oh! That's something else about being here in AZ. I hadn't heard the stereophonic cacophony of cicadas since I moved out west, and for reasons I don't understand, I find it glorious.

All the natural critters I encounter in this part of the country, they've got an appeal I wasn't expecting.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:06 PM (tnWU2)

55 The painting's on this website, here, along with other weird stuff!

https://www.instagram.com/p/
Cs_nicRNrnw/?____index=1

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:07 PM (AOrJZ)

56 My little Chihuahua is great medicine to escape the daily news about Biden and all the problems....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 19, 2023 04:07 PM (y9QBQ)

57 Yay pet thread!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 19, 2023 04:08 PM (5iFFd)

58 Oh! That's something else about being here in AZ. I hadn't heard the stereophonic cacophony of cicadas since I moved out west, and for reasons I don't understand, I find it glorious.

All the natural critters I encounter in this part of the country, they've got an appeal I wasn't expecting.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023

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Burt, which do you find glorious: the mentally-unsettling, mind-destroying clatter of the cicadas, or the blessed freedom from it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (omVj0)

59 I think the horrible Tortoiseshell is kinda nasty-ing her way. She's getting skinny, drinking a lot, generally being bitchy but not clawey like she's always been. I think she might be 15? Pretty good run for a rescue street cat. Sent me to the doctor three times, the one she hid from me 3 days after hooking me in the upper lip while shaving.
At least she understands consequences, she just generally didn't care.
But she's getting old and I'm not spending a pile of money on a cat that's been living on borrowed time for 15 years.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (/BBNv)

60 with all possible dispatch: Starry Night cats....whiskers don't grow on the back of cats' heads.

Dang. Here I was thinking what a cute idea, and now I can't unsee those.

Vincent goofed big time. (hah)

Posted by: mindful webworker - hot diggity dog at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (WXgbp)

61 Man, those cats got long names. Stirling has no pedigree, and so I've created him "Duke of Vicksburg."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:03 PM (omVj0)

Hmmm, General Stirling Price was the Confederacy's main man in Missouri. Former Governor of the state, he kicked arse until he met a much larger force at Pea Ridge (across the line, in Arkysaw). I know he kept on after that elsewhere, but to me the war for Missouri was over at Pea Ridge.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:11 PM (K3zG1)

62 Doz cats be trippin.

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 19, 2023 04:11 PM (SUc4N)

63 Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023

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Burt, which do you find glorious: the mentally-unsettling, mind-destroying clatter of the cicadas, or the blessed freedom from it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (omVj0)

Good question. I think it's mostly nostalgia. We didn't have them in Colorado, where I was. They just showed up a couple weeks ago, and they are deafening when you pass whichever tree they're all occupying.

I may find them less appealing when they start flying around. Cicadas fly like Asians drive.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:13 PM (K3zG1)

64 Vincent goofed big time. (hah)
Posted by: mindful webworker - hot diggity dog at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (WXgbp)

Pretty sure that's why he cut off his ear, once he realized he put the whiskers on backwards.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:14 PM (K3zG1)

65 Man, those cats got long names. Stirling has no pedigree, and so I've created him "Duke of Vicksburg."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:03 PM (omVj0)

Hmmm, General Stirling Price was the Confederacy's main man in Missouri. Former Governor of the state, he kicked arse until he met a much larger force at Pea Ridge (across the line, in Arkysaw). I know he kept on after that elsewhere, but to me the war for Missouri was over at Pea Ridge.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023

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Rooster Cogburn named the cat who lived at his digs after Price. I thought the spelling was "StErling," though. Stirling's name came from British race car driver Stirling Moss, Stirling shave products, and Rattray's Stirling Flake tobacco (which I've never tried -- it's prob. too strong for me -- but I liked the name).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:15 PM (omVj0)

66 I wish our pets had a longer lifespan. So much joy but so much sorrow when they leave us way too early.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 19, 2023 04:15 PM (Xrfse)

67 my bichons are 7.5 and 5.5 years old

they will be my last pets, non-human that is

Posted by: REDACTED at August 19, 2023 04:17 PM (us2H3)

68 BurtTC: Pretty sure that's why he cut off his ear, once he realized he put the whiskers on backwards.

Ha!
The problem of being a psycho perfectionist.

Posted by: mindful webworker - dog-earing pages at August 19, 2023 04:18 PM (WXgbp)

69 Burt, which do you find glorious: the mentally-unsettling, mind-destroying clatter of the cicadas, or the blessed freedom from it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023
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Good question. I think it's mostly nostalgia. We didn't have them in Colorado, where I was. They just showed up a couple weeks ago, and they are deafening when you pass whichever tree they're all occupying.

I may find them less appealing when they start flying around. Cicadas fly like Asians drive.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023

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To me they mean hot humid weather is here, which I hate. When the rare miracle occurs and the humidity drops, they shut up. I think that rising-falling roar must be the last sound a loony hears before he gets out on the Interstate, floors the gas pedal, and shuts his eyes.

Their absence was yet another reason I liked CO.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:18 PM (omVj0)

70 At least she understands consequences, she just generally didn't care.
But she's getting old and I'm not spending a pile of money on a cat that's been living on borrowed time for 15 years.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (/BBNv)

We had one tortie, long-haired. Had her shaved one time, and it was astonishing how small she was, when her hair was cut off.

She was quite timid, but she had this thing where, when the orange boy (BCE) would torment the black cat, who was even more timid than she, the tortie would follow the fracas, like she was she was running toward a train derailment, to see all the blood and fire and general chaos.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:19 PM (K3zG1)

71 Will have to see how Mr Troubles deals with the heat. May have to drag him in to cool off a bit. He has a regular routine, comes by for food several times and asks for pets. He doesn't want to come in, even though I let him back out. But it's not cold yet.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 19, 2023 04:20 PM (ouTlx)

72 Rooster Cogburn named the cat who lived at his digs after Price. I thought the spelling was "StErling," though. Stirling's name came from British race car driver Stirling Moss, Stirling shave products, and Rattray's Stirling Flake tobacco (which I've never tried -- it's prob. too strong for me -- but I liked the name).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:15 PM (omVj0)

Looks like you're right. The general had an e there, not an i.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:21 PM (K3zG1)

73 Baby Dagny has sprawled on the cushion next to me and is inviting me to stroke her belly. Big Stirling has leaped up and is grooming her head and neck.

I'd occasionally catch Wolf and Chekov, two big mature boy cats, doing the same thing.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:21 PM (omVj0)

74 Nah, after 10 years I'm like, WTF. I'm not spending a million dollars to keep a companion alive when there are always so many more.
And everyone knows all dogs and cats go to their own Heaven.
My friend? Blue, the rescue cattledog is at this moment running around like an idiot chasing cows.
Hissy Fit will walk up to Saint Peter and claw him in the face.
They'll be fine.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:22 PM (/BBNv)

75 To me they mean hot humid weather is here, which I hate. When the rare miracle occurs and the humidity drops, they shut up. I think that rising-falling roar must be the last sound a loony hears before he gets out on the Interstate, floors the gas pedal, and shuts his eyes.

Their absence was yet another reason I liked CO.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:18 PM (omVj0)

I'm sure that's it. They're associated with the humidity. Seems the grasshoppers more or less disappeared around the same time the cicadas started their symphony. Not sure if that's related or not.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:23 PM (K3zG1)

76 I wish our pets had a longer lifespan. So much joy but so much sorrow when they leave us way too early.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 19, 2023 04:15 PM (Xrfse)

I've become more philosophical about it all over the years, generally. Give them a good life, for as long as we can.

But the BCE... wish he was still here. Maybe even more than the ex-wife.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:25 PM (K3zG1)

77 Greatest use of Vincent's Painting since Don Mc Lean's song. Thanks KT.

Posted by: Eromero at August 19, 2023 04:26 PM (z3WCn)

78
One more note about Musya. She quickly became attached to me. When I went into her pen, she would rush over and bury her face against me ("schnoobling", we call it). She'd talk to me too and was always excited to get her evening biscuit or weekly bone.

It's an unfailing source of amazement to me how the Borzoi we've rescued from some truly horrific circumstances, who come to us unsocialized and frightened out of their wits, are almost always recover and are able to learn to fit in with life here. Might be a lesson for us bipedals.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2023 04:26 PM (MoZTd)

79 I miss all my cats. Each was my friend in a different way from the others, but I loved them all.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:28 PM (omVj0)

80 Cicadas! They are super regional, there are maps and everything! If you grow up with them you assume they are everywhere they are not! They're highly regional and many places have no idea what you are talking about

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:28 PM (/BBNv)

81 Hiya

Posted by: JT at August 19, 2023 04:28 PM (T4tVD)

82 Great pets !

Posted by: JT at August 19, 2023 04:29 PM (T4tVD)

83 All the passed cats are buried in the yard, Blue is in an urn.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:30 PM (/BBNv)

84 Might be a lesson for us bipedals.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2023 04:26 PM (MoZTd)

True, but history has shown we’re resistant to learning that lesson.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at August 19, 2023 04:30 PM (XySbR)

85 It's an unfailing source of amazement to me how the Borzoi we've rescued from some truly horrific circumstances, who come to us unsocialized and frightened out of their wits, are almost always recover and are able to learn to fit in with life here. Might be a lesson for us bipedals.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2023

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I doubt I've ever rescued a cat from a truly horrible environment. Big black Wolf had been left behind by his so-called humans when they got evicted, but he was making a living going door to door for handouts and no doubt killing vermin. He wasn't mistreated that I knew of, and he didn't act like it. The late Marie-Antoinette, we were told, was thrown on the street when her human died, and was rescued soon after, but she'd clearly been the queen before that happened.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:32 PM (omVj0)

86
Cicadas! They are super regional, there are maps and everything! If you grow up with them you assume they are everywhere they are not! They're highly regional and many places have no idea what you are talking about
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:28 PM (/BBNv)

We had a 13-year emergence when I lived in Ohio. Cincinnati and Butler County were inundated with them, but we scarcely saw any at our house in Warren County.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 19, 2023 04:32 PM (MoZTd)

87 Dagny has wedged herself between my leg and the cushion. She's being awfully affectionate. She's plotting something!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:33 PM (omVj0)

88 74 Blue, the rescue cattledog is at this moment running around like an idiot chasing cows.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:22 PM (/BBNv)

83 Blue is in an urn.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:30 PM (/BBNv)

?

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:34 PM (AOrJZ)

89 I hate cicadas. They are out in full force now and the noise is deafening. I can literally hear them inside of my house!

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 19, 2023 04:35 PM (5iFFd)

90 When Blue got so sick he couldn't walk I scheduled his out in my home. I cried like a child.
Some weeks later I had a dream, it was in a verdant field, and there were cows. Blue was there, running around. He ran up to me, then did not hesitate: he ran off into the field which turned into a cloud, and he was gone. I have not seen him since. He never came back.
I'm like, THAT'S IT!?
Ungrateful shit head.
Well, I do wish him well, but really.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:35 PM (/BBNv)

91 Cicadas! They are super regional, there are maps and everything! If you grow up with them you assume they are everywhere they are not! They're highly regional and many places have no idea what you are talking about
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:28 PM (/BBNv)

I didn't realize that, and didn't even know they were missing when I was in Colorado... until they showed up in force here 2-3 weeks ago.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:37 PM (0OsH7)

92 Little part-Persian Oreo seemed to be the most uncertain about whether she'd be liked. She always came to my lap with a diffident air, like "Is it all right if I sit on you?" I didn't know her when she was young, though. The mild shyness might have been due to age, I guess. She was not frightened of me when I adopted her; I scooped her up and held her for several minutes right at the start, and she seemed quite pleased to be there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:37 PM (omVj0)

93 Blue's body was cremated at the insistence of the Ex Wife, so his ashes are in my daughter's closet.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:37 PM (/BBNv)

94 If I saw cats with whiskers out of the back of their heads, I'd slap the fuck out of them.

Come to think of it, I'd slap any normal cat anyway because they love it.

Here kitty, kitty.. *slap*

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 19, 2023 04:37 PM (KVGVf)

95 Blue didn't hang around he had a field of cows.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:38 PM (/BBNv)

96 ?
Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:34 PM (AOrJZ)

Must be a big urn.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:38 PM (0OsH7)

97 Sasha, the wonderfully polite extra fuzzy tabby cat, looks like she was doing what she loved!

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:38 PM (AOrJZ)

98 74 Blue, the rescue cattledog is at this moment running around like an idiot chasing cows.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:22 PM (/BBNv)

83 Blue is in an urn.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:30 PM (/BBNv)

?
Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:34 PM (AOrJZ)

Motorized urn ?

Posted by: JT at August 19, 2023 04:38 PM (T4tVD)

99 Northernlurker--

Our Luna has quite the sound vocabulary, too. She knows we don't like her to bark--she has a REALLY loud bark--so she makes all kinds of other substitute noises. Mostly she whines if she wants for something but she has all kinds of puppy "question" noises.

I'm not smart enough to understand her nuances either, but I'm getting better.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at August 19, 2023 04:39 PM (fTtFy)

100 Come to think of it, I'd slap any normal cat anyway because they love it.

Here kitty, kitty.. *slap*
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 19, 2023 04:37 PM (KVGVf)

I think you mean strippers. It's easy to get cats and strippers mixed up.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:39 PM (0OsH7)

101 100

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:39 PM (AOrJZ)

102 Miss Linda swears she still dreams about Chekov the late white-and-black Siberian. I had a home vet administer the last rites, so to speak, to him about 18 months ago; best thing I could have done, for him to go simply to the Long Sleep amid his toys and with his people.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:40 PM (omVj0)

103 Aha:

74 Blue, the [deceased] rescue cattledog, is at this moment running around [in heaven] like an idiot chasing cows.
Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:22 PM (/BBNv)

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:42 PM (AOrJZ)

104 Blue was cremated and the ashes are in an urn in The Kids closet. Not my choice. However in the one dream he was like, FUCK YOU! And took off to his afterlife so

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:42 PM (/BBNv)

105 100 Come to think of it, I'd slap any normal cat anyway because they love it.

Here kitty, kitty.. *slap*
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 19, 2023 04:37 PM (KVGVf)

I think you mean strippers. It's easy to get cats and strippers mixed up.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:39 PM (0OsH7)

... at the Pussycat Lounge. For example.

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:43 PM (AOrJZ)

106 In the Van Gogh picture, do the cats have their whiskers on the back of their heads?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 19, 2023 04:44 PM (CHHv1)

107 When I get to the Rainbow Bridge, there will be more than one cat showing up. I wonder how they will decide precedence and authority. "Back off, Black Cat, he's *my* human!" "Stick a fish in it, Fat Boy, he's *mine*!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:44 PM (omVj0)

108 "She's getting skinny, drinking a lot"

That's failing kidneys. I'm pretty familiar with that. Cats' kidneys are meant to function in the wild where cats don't live as long as they do in captivity. As a result, one of the most common ways housecats die is age-related kidney failure. You can give subcutaneous fluids for awhile but in the end, when those suckers go, there's nothing you can do. It's not an especially painful death if there's nothing else going on.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2023 04:44 PM (KAi1n)

109 The last time I was in between cats, it was following the passing of my beloved cat Max. I would be asleep on my bed and Max would cuddle up to me, starting by walking on my chest in a little circle, then he would lay down. Then, Max passed and I had no cat.
About a week later I went to sleep and dreamt I felt Max's little paws walking in a circle on my chest.
I got Dexter soon afterward.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 19, 2023 04:45 PM (MeG8a)

110 Starry Cats looks like AI. Creepy valley or whatever they call it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 19, 2023 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)

111 Miss Linda swears she still dreams about Chekov the late white-and-black Siberian. I had a home vet administer the last rites, so to speak, to him about 18 months ago; best thing I could have done, for him to go simply to the Long Sleep amid his toys and with his people.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:40 PM (omVj0)

Yes, if at all possible I would recommend doing the deed at home, with someone who knows what they're doing.

When the vet was getting her work together, he was in my arms, with his head buried between my arm and chest. I know it was because of the pain he was in, but egad was it the gentlest, most trusting thing he'd ever done in his life.

And when he was gone, I caught a glimpse of his eyes, even though the vet tried to avoid me seeing him that way. Still, I'm glad I did. Made it more... real?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:45 PM (TOvGn)

112 n the Van Gogh picture, do the cats have their whiskers on the back of their heads?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 19, 2023

***
They do, and Ellery Queen would be ashamed of me for not noticing that until comments 14 and 15 above pointed it out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:46 PM (omVj0)

113 Blue: "You know, you were almost put down twice for nipping little kids and you were a total dick the entire time, the only reason you experienced Life On Earth is because you looked like Dog from The Road Warrior and I'm a terrible person."
"So, you might have been a little more grateful."
He was not.
Bye!

Posted by: LenNeal at August 19, 2023 04:46 PM (/BBNv)

114 uncanny valley

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:47 PM (AOrJZ)

115 I make nice wood coffin encased in metal for 3 cats we have buried in the yard

Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2023 04:48 PM (MOY79)

116 Thank you to all those who take in rescue dogs and cats.. My "retired" Husband works part time for a non-profit shelter that takes in animals from Mexico and the Central valley in CA..... The poor animals that come in have been so poorly treated it breaks My heart.. They have lots of volunteers who walk, foster and vets who repair any problems they have ... We have one of the dogs... A Golden doodle who had been a breeder in a puppy mill.. Luckily she's young and the sweetest thing.. I'll get off my soap box now LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2023 04:50 PM (bs+z0)

117 That's failing kidneys. I'm pretty familiar with that. Cats' kidneys are meant to function in the wild where cats don't live as long as they do in captivity. As a result, one of the most common ways housecats die is age-related kidney failure. You can give subcutaneous fluids for awhile but in the end, when those suckers go, there's nothing you can do. It's not an especially painful death if there's nothing else going on.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2023 04:44 PM (KAi1n)

When BCE was younger, he had kidney problems, and we saw the behaviors. Trying to void his bladder, unable to do so, drinking a lot, getting thinner.

We managed to get him surgery that rerouted his plumbing, and he never had any problems with it after that. Living about another decade before developing a brain tumor. Had we gotten to the point of kidney failure... yeah, it would have been lights out. They don't do kitty kidney transplants.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:50 PM (TOvGn)

118 116 Thank you to all those who take in rescue dogs and cats.. My "retired" Husband works part time for a non-profit shelter that takes in animals from Mexico and the Central valley in CA..... The poor animals that come in have been so poorly treated it breaks My heart.. They have lots of volunteers who walk, foster and vets who repair any problems they have ... We have one of the dogs... A Golden doodle who had been a breeder in a puppy mill.. Luckily she's young and the sweetest thing.. I'll get off my soap box now LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2023 04:50 PM (bs+z0)

Pretty good soap box!

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:51 PM (AOrJZ)

119 115 I make nice wood coffin encased in metal for 3 cats we have buried in the yard
Posted by: Skip at August 19, 2023 04:48 PM (MOY79)

A suggestion... Don't watch/read Pet Cemetery by King... {{{shudder}}}

Posted by: It's me donna at August 19, 2023 04:51 PM (bs+z0)

120 Oh! That's something else about being here in AZ. I hadn't heard the stereophonic cacophony of cicadas since I moved out west, and for reasons I don't understand, I find it glorious.

All the natural critters I encounter in this part of the country, they've got an appeal I wasn't expecting.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023

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Burt, which do you find glorious: the mentally-unsettling, mind-destroying clatter of the cicadas, or the blessed freedom from it?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:10 PM (omVj0)

We were back in Japan a couple of weeks ago and I always find the Japanese Cicada Summer Song to be a restful delight.

Very different from the Summer Cicada Chainsaw Buzz Battle we get here in Texas.

You can almost always get a good idea of what the cicada song in Japan sounds like from any anime or movie set in the summer.

I'd like to have a CD of Japanese Cicada Song along with the Gentle Rustling of a Light Summer Breeze running through a Bamboo Forest for times when I just want to shut down and relax.

Make it so, environmental sound folk!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2023 04:51 PM (QzZeQ)

121 I've seen enough stupid ass AI mistakes to assume those cats were painted using stupid ass AI.
Stupid ass! It's what's for breakfast!

Posted by: with all possible dispatch at August 19, 2023 04:52 PM (nakGR)

122 Starry Cats looks like AI. Creepy valley or whatever they call it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 19, 2023 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)

Good point. I hadn't thought of that, but you're probably right. AI generated.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:52 PM (TOvGn)

123 Man, those cats got long names. Stirling has no pedigree, and so I've created him "Duke of Vicksburg."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 19, 2023 04:03 PM (omVj0)

Hmmm, General Stirling Price was the Confederacy's main man in Missouri. Former Governor of the state, he kicked arse until he met a much larger force at Pea Ridge (across the line, in Arkysaw). I know he kept on after that elsewhere, but to me the war for Missouri was over at Pea Ridge.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:11 PM (K3zG1)

Later in the war Price took a force from Southern AK on a big sweep through Missouri to the Missouri river until driven back near Kansas City. Retired back down south after that.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2023 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

124 I'm not sure how bad Jake's original home was. Pretty sure the wife verbally and physically abused him. He still gets scared when I yell at the computer. And he spent much of his time alone in the yard. It's been a hard journey to get to where we are. But he understands a lot more of what I say to him. I can make sense of his barking most of the time. I can get him through thunderstorms. But I think he needs to be an only dog even though he'd probably enjoy company again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 19, 2023 04:54 PM (ouTlx)

125 I'm looking forward to MadisonTheCat meeting Mineola Minnie the Minikat, who has two more weeks in quarantine.

Posted by: Eromero at August 19, 2023 04:55 PM (z3WCn)

126 I'd like to have a CD of Japanese Cicada Song along with the Gentle Rustling of a Light Summer Breeze running through a Bamboo Forest for times when I just want to shut down and relax.

Make it so, environmental sound folk!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2023 04:51 PM (QzZeQ)

Youtube has granted your wish.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:55 PM (TOvGn)

127 Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:55 PM (TOvGn)

Your hash is close to being TopGun; maybe (mazel) tov gun!

Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:57 PM (AOrJZ)

128 OldCat, Marshall Rooster Cogburn's big orange tomcat was namedGeneral Stirling Price.

Posted by: Eromero at August 19, 2023 04:57 PM (z3WCn)

129 Later in the war Price took a force from Southern AK on a big sweep through Missouri to the Missouri river until driven back near Kansas City. Retired back down south after that.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 19, 2023 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

Hmmm, I've visited the Confederate Memorial and cemetery, I'm not sure if Price was involved there or not. It was a small battle, but the last time I was there was probably 25-30 years ago, so I don't remember the details.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 05:00 PM (TOvGn)

130 Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 04:55 PM (TOvGn)

Your hash is close to being TopGun; maybe (mazel) tov gun!
Posted by: m at August 19, 2023 04:57 PM (AOrJZ)

Heh, it changes pretty much every time I walk away for a bit, or maybe even if I just sneeze.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 05:02 PM (TOvGn)

131 Bodging up.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 19, 2023 05:05 PM (TOvGn)

132 A few weeks ago the Late Great Stormy came to me in a dream.

She came and sat beside me as she always did.

And after a while of me scratching her behind the ears, she started talking to me.

Unfortunately, I rarely seem to remember whatever it is that it said to me in dreams. But, it seemed very important to Stormy.

She probably wanted one of those smoked dried pig ears that she loved so much.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 19, 2023 05:07 PM (QzZeQ)

133 97 Sasha, the wonderfully polite extra fuzzy tabby cat, looks like she was doing what she loved!

Yep, when she wasn't sleeping bonelessly in my lap, she loved posing for pictures. I forgot to mention that while I never saw her smoke, she had a three pack a day voice.

Posted by: Ask Mr. Lizard at August 19, 2023 05:13 PM (lntoH)

134 KT, thank you so much for the Pet Thread. Great pics of beautiful moronimals and such wonderful stories. Always brightens my day.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 19, 2023 05:31 PM (mci7b)

135 Oliver is a dog lover which gives this song added meaning.

Posted by: germanshorthaired at August 19, 2023 05:37 PM (hGap6)

136 I still can't get over how much Sasha looks like Dorkie Dork.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 19, 2023 05:47 PM (KAi1n)

137 136 I still can't get over how much Sasha looks like Dorkie Dork.

It's possible they were the same cat, just in two places at once.

Posted by: Ask Mr. Lizard at August 19, 2023 05:55 PM (lntoH)

138 Just checked. My Bosworths are on my much neglected Spindlitis site, as well as Sundays spinning.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 19, 2023 05:57 PM (ouTlx)

139 I kinda like the "painting" except for the poor little faceless kitties... with their heads on backward... AI sux.

Would be cool to redo it, just without the rear-facing whiskers. If I knew how to p'shop, would do it myself because I think I'd really enjoy looking at something like that.

Posted by: JQ at August 19, 2023 07:02 PM (Gkog9)

140 Eyeless cats with their heads on backwards.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 19, 2023 08:40 PM (Mzdiz)

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