Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 20

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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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me trying anything pic.twitter.com/Zh1v9oMqUG
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) January 14, 2024

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2500-year-old Scythian horse armor
reconstructed in the Altai Mountains in Siberia.

Troy and ancient civilizations

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🤣🤣pic.twitter.com/lzrX5FtoSy
— Figen (@TheFigen_) January 15, 2024

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Cat that cracked the matrix pic.twitter.com/iR38E2k37n
— Why you should have a cat (@ShouldHaveCat) January 15, 2024

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Meet The PetMorons

Hi! This beauty is our new addition Hazel. She's a yummy chocolate kitty with green eyes. We haven't had a cat in 20 years, so it's been fun. Thanks for all the kitties on the pet thread, it put the idea in my head!! Happy New Year everyone.
J.

What a sweet thing! She looks happy in her special kitty holder.

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Robert the Cat
Just thought I would send another pic, thanks.
BeckoningChasm

Robert looks thoughtful there.

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Lab Adore Longtime Lurker sent in the following:

For years I have been a longtime lurker on your Pet Thread website.
Finally, I cannot help myself to expose our final family member before
my spouse and I no longer can out-survive anymore pets/family members.
Our entire marriage included Labradors. Our final member Ellie (Queen
Elizabeth) has been showcased in our Christmas Cards to family and close
friends. It's been somewhat a hobby of mine to improve it with each year.
This is a picture of my latest effort.

The enclosure caption was,

I encourage other pet owners to give this a try.
It is personally gratifying.

Yours truly, Ellie.

Great idea, Lab Adore Longtime Lurker! And Ellie, you sweetie.

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Mike from Cold Fury relates a story about losing this little guy, Baby Bun-Bun, who slipped out the door:

Fortunately, the power of prayer and the smell of wet food seem to have brought him back to his siblings.

They are all adorable. Thrilled that they are back together again.

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On the left is our guest Rose and on the right is Winnie. Rose was returned from her first home and we fostered her until she went to her new forever home. She comes back every so often to be babysat.
The two are pointing out that it is time for breakfast.
-NR Pax

What great friends!

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We got an update on last week's post about Memphis, who was expected to leave her family soon:

For your information, Memphis crossed the Rainbow Bridge last Sunday, about a day after we sent you her picture.
We miss her terribly.
Thank you again for posting.

Sorry to hear that you have lost her, even though we knew it was expected. Keep in touch with us.

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Thank you for sharing your pets and your thoughts 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, January 13. 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 03:37 PM

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1 Nice Pets Y'all!...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 20, 2024 03:38 PM (R/m4+)

2 I would like a treat.

Posted by: m at January 20, 2024 03:39 PM (p0NY/)

3 Doggeh is badumdum-dum

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 03:40 PM (TX2EM)

4 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 20, 2024 03:41 PM (fwDg9)

5 Kitty Patrol Update:

Penny -- Snoozing in my bed
Jasmine -- Dozing on the cat tree in my office
Kaylee -- Napping in her cubby hole in my closet
Allie -- Sleeping in my recliner in the library
Hexie -- Passed out in her kitty bed on my couch in the living room

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Pet Thread...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2024 03:42 PM (BpYfr)

6 Pscittice Phlebotomist is jealous, saw me giving some feral yard cats Temptations treats. One even said a friendly meow!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 20, 2024 03:43 PM (uYJK1)

7 So, update: The feline oncologist says there's a slim chance that maybe it might not be cancer but some other kind of growth on Dewey's tongue. She has him on a regimen of antibiotics and steroids. He's improved, but the healthier he gets, the harder it gets to catch him and give him the antibiotics and steroids.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 20, 2024 03:43 PM (9yUzE)

8 Go Dewey!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 20, 2024 03:45 PM (uYJK1)

9 3 Doggeh is badumdum-dum

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A snow eating badumdum

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 20, 2024 03:45 PM (TX2EM)

10 Armor would be ceremonial, I'd think. In actual combat it would obscure vision, sight over the horse's head, annoy the shit out of the horse while it is already spooked by the screamin and the blood and the dying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2024 03:47 PM (di6C2)

11 RIP Memphis.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2024 03:48 PM (di6C2)

12 Mike, I'm so glad your story ended so well even if you feel like you aged about ten years.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 20, 2024 03:49 PM (kOfU/)

13 ‘Animals is people too.’
- some professor used to be on black and white tv.

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 03:52 PM (w34GY)

14 Speakin' of dogs, I just got another Nikki Haley flyer in the mail. Third one so far. And third one in the garbage.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 03:53 PM (9yWhg)

15 Arf! ARF-ARF-ARF-ARF-ARF! grrrr ARF-ARF!

Posted by: mindful webworker's dog Daisy, at the slightest real or imagined provocation at January 20, 2024 03:54 PM (BmwFL)

16 Willowed
OT sort of. I checked out the blurb about the space heater ad on our home page, the Musk heater. For absolutely hilarious unscientific bullshit we have:
"The materials we use in Ultra Air Heater are the best conductors in the world. Normally you have to force electricity into heat, but since our proprietary conductors have the electrons(electricity) moving so fast on an aSamic level, as soon as they hit the heating plates they instantly turn to heat since they have carried more energy with them."
1. Best conductors are Gold, Copper. So this is a goldmine pr just copper?
2. '.... force electricity into heat.' Not really, it's the other way around, you normally get unwanted heat from an electric current. Ask AMD or INTEL.
3. See, these electrons have backpacks so they can carry more energy than what Physics tells us they have, you know, like the Wetbacks/mules bringing in drugs.

Posted by: Ciampino - Who writes this crud?! at January 20, 2024 03:55 PM (qfLjt)

17
Great PetMorons, the luckiest pets in the world. Hug them close.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 20, 2024 03:57 PM (MoZTd)

18 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 20, 2024 03:58 PM (sAmhv)

19 14 Speakin' of dogs, I just got another Nikki Haley flyer in the mail. Third one so far. And third one in the garbage.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 03:53 PM (9yWhg)

In one of them important primary states?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2024 03:59 PM (di6C2)

20 "Great PetMorons, the luckiest pets in the world. Hug them close."

Not to hear mine tell it. "The oppressor was fourteen seconds late opening the door for me! I can see the bottom of my bowl!"

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 20, 2024 04:00 PM (9yUzE)

21 In one of them important primary states?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Virginia

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:01 PM (9yWhg)

22 Beautiful Pet Morons today! Sorry to hear about Memphis.

I have been able to get to the lake, which has frozen over. Jake was do happy to get to go again. Last two days have been in the low teens with wind in the 20s. We don't stay long.

Fanny is still enjoying the warmest room in the house. Mr Trouble is grateful to get to come in. He's had some cabin fever and I've had to encourage him to go out. He slipped back in twice today without me seeing him!

Still finding a dead bird or two out there. Filling up the bird feeders twice a day. Trouble likes to go and lay on the food pile under the feeders. I think it improves his hunting odds.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 20, 2024 04:04 PM (L8hCM)

23 I’m S.C. born and raised, N.O. on Nikkie Hailey.

Posted by: Eromero at January 20, 2024 04:04 PM (w34GY)

24 Beautiful pets as always.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 04:05 PM (kSHhA)

25 One of the outside kitties that adopted us, Rose, has been inside now for several days. She's a very sweet cat. This morning I found her curled up in the bathroom sink. She looks old and I suspect that she may have been some elderly person's kitty that either got abandoned or dumped when the human went to a home or passed away. Could also have gotten locked out from the house when that happened and nobody went back for the cat.
The Calico, which may be pregnant, was last seen Wednesday. On Thursday we set the trap but only caught Rose (she was out briefly).
No sign of a couple of older kittens/cats that have visited once or twice. We do have a very accessible crawl space which is out of the wind and warmer. Mr Gray has been around. If we catch him he'll be neutered, then in bad weather he can come inside if he wants.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cat-wrangling is not easy at January 20, 2024 04:06 PM (qfLjt)

26 Kitty Patrol Update

With that much snooze-vibe going on, how is it you're not napping, too, Perfesser?

Posted by: mindful webworker would certainly be snoozing at January 20, 2024 04:08 PM (BmwFL)

27 That Scythian warhorse is something else. Looks like an ibex.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:09 PM (9yWhg)

28 Kitty Patrol Update

With that much snooze-vibe going on, how is it you're not napping, too, Perfesser?
Posted by: mindful webworker would certainly be snoozing at January 20, 2024 04:08 PM (BmwFL)
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I did my morning snooze earlier today...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 20, 2024 04:10 PM (BpYfr)

29 I had AI draw a cats and dogs version of Star Wars. It didn't quite succeed.

https://shorturl.at/juJMX

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 20, 2024 04:11 PM (9yUzE)

30 Why is there a reference to Troy under the Scythian warhorse picture?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:15 PM (9yWhg)

31 Last night, 3-4 the four house khets decided to sleep with us in the bed. Dewey, medicated before bedtime, hid in the closet and pouted.

The outside cat that divides his time between the neighbor's yard and ours is taking advantage of the khet shelter I built in the backyard shed. I call him Yardley. He used to be very stand offish, but now he will brush against me on his way to the food I put out for him.

Park Kitteh (PK) is still uncaught. I feed her nightly. She trusts me enough that I can pet her, but she bolts if other people come near. She must have some form of shelter because she's surviving the single digit weather. Still need to trap her and get her spayed but will have to be patient.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 20, 2024 04:16 PM (9yUzE)

32 Thanks for the Pet Thread, KT. Great looking group of moronimals.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2024 04:16 PM (ju2Fy)

33 Aww, some real cuties today!
My adult cat gets called many names but will only respond with a meow to his real name.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 20, 2024 04:17 PM (MeG8a)

34 Lucy the Fink is ten this month.

She's her own entity. I am privileged she seeks my attention and gives me lovies.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 20, 2024 04:18 PM (4PLHt)

35 That Scythian warhorse is something else. Looks like an ibex.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:09 PM (9yWhg)

Starts singing;;

Old Macdonald had a farm E-I-E-I Ibex....

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2024 04:18 PM (T4tVD)

36 Robert the Cat looks very focused. Something's captured his attention.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2024 04:19 PM (ju2Fy)

37 i want to tell Mike from Cold Fury that cats LOVE to do that - get outside in terrible conditions and then disappear for a day (sometimes two) just to make you worry.

wish I could post a pic i took of ours yesterday, he insisted on going out in ridiculously cold weather (indoor/outdoor cat) but then caught a mouse desperately scrounging in some spilled birdseed. He had the best time; carried the mouse to the porch and spent 20 minutes tossing it high in the air over his head and then jumping and pouncing. You could tell he was disappointed towards the end when the mouse stopped moving, he would walk up to it, stare at it and then bat it around a few times as if to say "Please move again! we were having so much fun!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 20, 2024 04:20 PM (q3gwH)

38 30 Why is there a reference to Troy under the Scythian warhorse picture?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:15 PM (9yWhg)

I wasn't going to mention it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 20, 2024 04:27 PM (di6C2)

39 37 I briefly had a kitten soon after I came to Northern Virginia. One day I came home to find him playing with a dead blue-tailed skink in the bathtub.

Another time, he came running out of the bathroom with a full roll of toilet paper in his mouth.

I put a stop to both situations quickly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:27 PM (9yWhg)

40 This morning the temp finally hit double digits, with no more single-digit days in the forecast. And the highs for upcoming days are all above freezing!

I've been missing my sunrise walks with Daisy. Looking forward to warmer mornings ahead.
_____

Feeding the Cats, Feeding the Dog
Responses Comparative Study
Brief text webwork from 2015
Linked in nic

Posted by: mindful webworker - Dog and cat pictured long since gone. :( at January 20, 2024 04:28 PM (BmwFL)

41 I mostly call Paisley or Paisley girl. Sometimes I call her Paise or the Paise and sometimes Barky mcBarkersdotter.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 04:29 PM (kSHhA)

42 I like the top cartoon. Our cat's name is Scout, but we often call her Scooter,Scoot, Jean Louise or simply Kitty.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, 3/12 FA at January 20, 2024 04:29 PM (T/Lqj)

43 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another more extensive photo update #224 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
https://is.gd/WQ5JcT

ALSO LIVE STREAMING!! - Now most nights as well

https://is.gd/qyDILz

There's a good picture of the Calico at the first link. If you do look it's #7 and drop a comment if you think she looks pregnant.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cat-wrangling is not easy.... at January 20, 2024 04:30 PM (qfLjt)

44 and sometimes Barky mcBarkersdotter
Posted by: Northernlurker

Are you Icelandic?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:30 PM (9yWhg)

45 wish I could post a pic i took of ours yesterday...
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I know someone who could post it for you. I'll give you a hint: Her initials are KT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 20, 2024 04:31 PM (ju2Fy)

46 Charlie is occasionally called "Char-Char" "Gordita" "Imouto" and when she gets really clumsy, "Char Char Binks." She gets the worst nicknames.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 20, 2024 04:31 PM (9yUzE)

47 Great pets everyone !

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2024 04:31 PM (T4tVD)

48 Are you Icelandic?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January

No. I just like the sound of that.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 20, 2024 04:32 PM (kSHhA)

49 Lab Adore: It's hard giving up on dogs. The XO and I had dogs for almost fifty years. But when the last one died, we had to accept that there would be no more. We wanted to get another GSD puppy, but that would have been a fifteen year commitment, and we knew neither of us would live that long. Also, we were planning to sell the house with the very spacious fenced in yard. GSDs are not apartment dogs. You have my deepest sympathy.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at January 20, 2024 04:32 PM (6TzTY)

50 >>Why is there a reference to Troy under the Scythian warhorse picture?

They didn't get those warhorses all dressed up for nothing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 20, 2024 04:34 PM (ZLI7S)

51 The XO and I had dogs for almost fifty years

So, I guess you're not really 29.....

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2024 04:34 PM (T4tVD)

52 I won't go into any detail, lest it give away my secret identity, but the dog we had when I was growing up went through a similar transmogrification of names similar to that portrayed in the cartoon up top.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:36 PM (9yWhg)

53 52 Sorry, I used "similar" twice.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 04:42 PM (9yWhg)

54 Everyone who worked at the circus had a "nickname".

Some of 'em changed names whenever we crossed state lines. One poor bastard got called "Johnny Badbreath" the day he got hired. It stuck.

Posted by: Dark Force Thirsting For Power at January 20, 2024 04:48 PM (QY+6a)

55
themorningnews.org/
article/the-non-expert-dear-santa

Choire Sicha
(pride of Western Mass),
BEST STORY ever,
featuring Personality-Laden pets

Posted by: zigzag at January 20, 2024 04:49 PM (T40fX)

56 I saw a couple cat videos recently that were a bit disturbing. There are people that are trying to get cats to communicate in English. Now, I know what you're thinking. They are mimicking sounds and have no concept of meaning. And, I'd agree with you until one popped up with a cat sitting outside a bathroom door (owner inside)...and the cat was very clearly saying "Let me in."

This seems ludicrous to me, even as I'm typing it...which may be why I find the whole premise disturbing. I don't want my cat ratting me out.

Posted by: Orson at January 20, 2024 04:50 PM (dIske)

57
https://shorturl.at/eINP2

Choire Sicha
"the non expert" feature

Posted by: zigzag at January 20, 2024 04:52 PM (TMGej)

58 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Currently not STREAMING - PC we use for that, its monitor went flying (one of the kittens) and the video cable is now giving problems so a fix will be attempted.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cat-wrangling is not easy... at January 20, 2024 05:02 PM (qfLjt)

59 "The English Patient" is on for all those who are dying to see it again. I'll keep an eye out for "Death In Venice" for you all.

Posted by: Ciampino - Cat-wrangling is not easy.. at January 20, 2024 05:04 PM (qfLjt)

60 I don't want my cat ratting me out.
Posted by: Orson

It's the feline mafia. Just keep up with your monthly payments to the racket.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 20, 2024 05:05 PM (9yWhg)

61 51 The XO and I had dogs for almost fifty years

So, I guess you're not really 29.....

Posted by: JT at January 20, 2024 04:34 PM (T4tVD)
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Well 29 in base_29 is 67 decimal right?

Posted by: Ciampino - Cat-wrangling is not easy. at January 20, 2024 05:11 PM (qfLjt)

62 Nood hobbies

Posted by: Ciampino - Cat-wrangling is not easy. at January 20, 2024 05:13 PM (qfLjt)

63 Darn I missed the pet thread. Buckley update… He still alive…

Posted by: lin-duh at January 20, 2024 05:50 PM (QBwwm)

64 https://twitter.com/i/status/1746957613089071308

Fish tank with an inner viewing area for kitteh.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at January 20, 2024 06:42 PM (setIA)

65 So sorry to hear about Memphis. :-(

"If they don't allow dogs in heaven, I will go where they go". -Will Rogers

Posted by: SmokyMtVol at January 21, 2024 06:56 AM (930y1)

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