Ace of Spades Pet Thread, January 11

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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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Thinking about trying some watercolors?

Cats in watercolorpic.twitter.com/JQhyiURx9t
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 6, 2025

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Considered a pet turtle or tortoise?

baby turtles are so cute 🐢 pic.twitter.com/J3RtbjjSg9
— why you should have an animal (@ShouldHaveAnima) January 6, 2025

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Have you given up on keeping that squirrel out of the bird feeder?

A man in Australia built a mini picnic table to feed the birds and little animals.

This little squirrel definitely appreciated it and had his lunch on it.

[📹 Katie Canzanese]pic.twitter.com/ZREdaThTua
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) January 6, 2025

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A Sheep that needed a Dog at Work

Amazing dog herding a field of sheeppic.twitter.com/X0ywpF2PVi
— The Random Guy (@RandomTheGuy_) January 8, 2025

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A Dog at Play

The friend plays very well 😍🏐
Credit: galtie_tmt - https://t.co/ZuVk4SXHT4
— Pet Paradise (@Pet_Paradise0) January 6, 2025

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Meet The PetMorons

Hi!
A last Christmas photo before the tree came off its pedestal (due to puppy destruction possibilities):
In the foreground, Edison, our 14-year-old Shih-Pom rescued from a shelter when he was 20 months old, and on top Tucker, our 1-year-old Morkiepoo who was rescued from a puppy mill when he was 14 weeks old. Tucker has given Edison new life and Edison has given Tucker an older dog to trust. It’s a beautiful bond.
Debra in Naples, FL

Love that photo of those two charming friends together. They are so lucky to have each other and you!

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Gioia, the AoSHQ Swiss Guide Dog, is featured on a calendar page with her dog play group palz. She's the big one in the center.

* * * Thank you for sharing your pets and pet insights 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 4

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 03:19 PM

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1 Puppy is Clifford???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 11, 2025 03:21 PM (YTktQ)

2 Have you given up on keeping that squirrel out of the bird feeder?

Squirrel Boss!
https://youtu.be/vKcruJ36BfM?si=JcYJ-P9vj1-Hf9yT

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 03:22 PM (JazRo)

3 Happy Caturday everyone
The turtle gives me a chuckle, had a dream this week that giant turtles were taking over the planet. These turtles were like Godzilla size, hundred feet high and hundreds long. There was no place to run away.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 03:25 PM (fwDg9)

4 Is that a vizsla puppy up top? They are such beautiful and sweet dogs, but super high energy.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 11, 2025 03:25 PM (zddDv)

5 A Crossman slingshot can do that.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 03:25 PM (YeGMU)

6 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at January 11, 2025 03:30 PM (sAmhv)

7 Childrin of Coler, gays and transgendern peeples are being burned out of there houses in LA and all yew can be talk abouts is animels.

This is be disgusting and we needs to help these poor peeple that are suffering becrause of Trump's policies !!!!!!!

This is be why we needs Presdent Obama back in the Whyte House !!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at January 11, 2025 03:31 PM (qTDvI)

8 Tortoise goes by color and not by smell?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2025 03:34 PM (63Dwl)

9 Can tortoises feel their shells?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 03:38 PM (YeGMU)

10 My little 6-pound Chihuahua is a God Send.

My little buddy can calm me down with all that is happening in the world.

She loves to go on her walks and struts like a horse......

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at January 11, 2025 03:38 PM (A2iSa)

11 I came in from shoveling snow yesterday to find Jasmine and Penny curled up in my office chair.

The numbers were on their side, so I used my backup folding chair for a while. It's not as comfy, but I didn't want to disturb the two kitties. Penny is nearly twice as big as Jasmine.

Right now, Penny is curled up on my desk, Jasmine just moved to the cat tree in front of my desk, and Allie is snoozing on my futon.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2025 03:39 PM (BpYfr)

12 9 Can tortoises feel their shells?
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 11, 2025 03:38 PM (YeGMU)
Sure, just tap a snapper’s shell.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 03:43 PM (jgmnb)

13 Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT

But is it Mary Clogginstein from the woymns health clinic Brattleboro, VT ? Accept no substitutes.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 03:45 PM (JazRo)

14 Woof! Great pet thread K.T. Thank you.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at January 11, 2025 03:46 PM (iAdx3)

15 I went to the shelter to get a cat
A do run run run a do run run.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 03:48 PM (JazRo)

16 Hello, Horde! The TiFW cats were very happy to stay indoors the past couple of days, due to cold weather and what passes for snow in our part of Texas. The sun is out today and temps are warm enough that the indoor/outdoor cat wanted to go back outdoors.

They both belonged to our late daughter and the one who likes to go outside reminds me so much of Michelle with her love of nature. The other one was half feral but has decided over the years that it is quite nice belonging to hoomans - you don't have to scrounge for food, you don't have to defend your territory, and there is always a warm lap or soft bed to take a nap on 😊❤️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at January 11, 2025 03:51 PM (SRRAx)

17 I have two posters of those Japanese watercolor cats in my trailer.

The new plastic cat shelter seems to be a hit. I think it's because it's a box. They can be stacked. I should get another to replace Mr Trouble's.cardboard box. Hank was in it today. There is a heating pad. I am hoping Hank will keep using it. I have to put the dry food insideit or the grackles will eat it

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 11, 2025 03:51 PM (NQtI0)

18 Lucy the Fink is currently making biscuits on the blanket on my lap, but is carefully avoiding actually settling down on my lap.

I have to be patient.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2025 03:55 PM (mT+6a)

19 LOOSIE DA FEENK!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 03:57 PM (JazRo)

20 *chuckles*

She most certainly is.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2025 04:00 PM (mT+6a)

21 Yay pet thread!

We had enough snow to blanket everything. Daisy the energetic Malinois seems to enjoy it. She insists on playing her daily game of fetch, but the tennis balls she brings back and drops end up as snowballs. A couple have got lost in the snow. They'll show up when it thaws. Or when we mow again.

Ugh. Before I could hit post, the old black cat came into the room and proceeded to hackhackhack. Nothing came up but a little bit of spit. Thank goodness.

Pets are such a blessing.

Posted by: mindful webworker - owned by the animals we keep at January 11, 2025 04:01 PM (AVHzE)

22 Two guys came across a dog licking itself. One of them said, “I wish I could do that.” The other one said, “I’d suggest petting him first”. …

Posted by: Dr_No at January 11, 2025 04:01 PM (ayRl+)

23 I am in awe of people who can make art with watercolor - whenever I tried it in art class, I always ended up with a wet brown mess on my paper. I realized long ago that my talents lay elsewhere, and I am perfectly okay with that. Our daughters inherited artistic talent from Mr. TiFW's side of the family, and they are/were all quite good at it. Even Rebecca draws better stick figures than I can 🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at January 11, 2025 04:01 PM (SRRAx)

24 No blah blah blah

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 11, 2025 04:02 PM (rF6Os)

25 Enjoyed watching several neighbor dogs playing in the snow this week.
Dogs love snow.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 11, 2025 04:02 PM (dg+HA)

26 Lovely photos.

What is a Morkie Poo? I assume it’s some combination of poodle and something else?

My husband has a long running comic “‘bit” about combining the names of dog breeds and coming up with a name that may not exist This makes him laugh. He will like the name “ Morkie Poo.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 04:02 PM (R08Gd)

27 I'm lying on my sofa in a patch of sunlight and Lily is sprawled on top of me purring. We're reading "The Fellowship of the Ring".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 11, 2025 04:09 PM (kpS4V)

28 Two guys came across a dog licking itself. One of them said, “I wish I could do that.” The other one said, “I’d suggest petting him first”. …
Posted by: Dr_No at January 11, 2025 04:01 PM (ayRl+)

One guy said, Dang, had to put Fido down last week.
Other guy: Was he mad?
First guy: Well he wasn't any too pleased.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 11, 2025 04:13 PM (W/lyH)

29 Mr Senegal parrot quietly picking seseme seeds off of his barbari bread. Happy.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 04:18 PM (JazRo)

30 Pray for all the pets, domesticated animals and even the wild animals in Los Angeles who are in dire need today. It is a horrible situation.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 11, 2025 04:21 PM (c6hLR)

31 Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 11, 2025 04:21 PM (c6hLR)

Thanks for that mention. I will pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 04:22 PM (R08Gd)

32 Good afternoon. What is the funniest habit your cat has ?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 04:27 PM (0wWvl)

33 I'll start. I had a bottle raised kitten that would help me feed the horses. When the feeding was done she would do a headfirst somersault into the feed bucket and then put her paws on the rim and get carried back into the barn.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 04:34 PM (0wWvl)

34 30 Pray for all the pets, domesticated animals and even the wild animals in Los Angeles who are in dire need today. It is a horrible situation.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 11, 2025 04:21 PM (c6hLR
10-4 on that, my friend.

Posted by: Eromero at January 11, 2025 04:35 PM (jgmnb)

35 What is the funniest habit your cat has ?

He likes to go to the basement and yell at the walls.

Posted by: Ronster at January 11, 2025 04:35 PM (y3x9a)

36 My cat Dexter (16y o domestic short hair) will cuddle with me on my lap. Inevitably I will need to get up as I am not a statue. I say "excuse me, Dexter I need to get up" and he will look at me and make a meow sound that sounds exactly like
"WHYYYY??"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at January 11, 2025 04:37 PM (c6hLR)

37 Just got back from our Saturday walk in the park, today featuring snow. Elvis met an 8 month hold Australian Cattle Dog/Australian Shepherd mix. Elvis is pretty fast but that dog is on another level. Cute too.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2025 04:38 PM (LkLld)

38 I never once been jealous of sheep ranchers. Dirty job indeed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 11, 2025 04:39 PM (IG4Id)

39 KT,
Thanks for the gardening and pet threads. The petmorons are always a delight and Tucker and Edison make my heart melt. That video of the watercolor painter both fascinates and annoys me. Fascinates because it shows what can be done with a few simple brush strokes. (Think of the Shepard illustrations for the original Winnie-the Pooh.) Annoying because they can see patterns for the brush work that I can't.

Posted by: JTB at January 11, 2025 04:39 PM (yTvNw)

40 Afternoon, pet folken,

Good afternoon. What is the funniest habit your cat has ?
Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025

To date, Stirling the big black cat has produced two cute but annoying tricks. Twice he has managed to push the button on my window A/C to turn it on (and that is a neat trick, as it is not an actual button that protrudes, but a flush spot on the panel marked "On"). And then, last night in zipping around, he leaped atop the small bookcase I keep by the door, stretched up, and flicked off the light switch there, plunging my couch lamps, and me, into darkness.

As yet he has not figured out how to turn on the water tap in the bathroom sink, though he's watched me do it hundreds of times.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

41 Maybe a Maltese-Yorkie-Toy poodle cross?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 11, 2025 04:42 PM (bss/y)

42 Maybe a Maltese-Yorkie-Toy poodle cross

Now, that is quite a combination! 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 04:44 PM (C9rAF)

43 Funny cat habits:
Our cat sleeps perched on hubby's bottom every night. She started this as a small kitten, and is almost 5 now. When hubby is out of town, I put a pillow under the covers for her.

Posted by: Scarymary at January 11, 2025 04:44 PM (zddDv)

44 All are extra adorable today

Posted by: LASue at January 11, 2025 04:44 PM (lCppi)

45 Wolfus, give it time!

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 04:45 PM (0wWvl)

46 If he doesn’t know the names of an actual breed mix, he makes the name up. “is that a sheedoodle?” Maybe that’s an actual name - a mix of a sheepdog and a poodle. Anyway, it’s a great gift-to be easily amused by things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 04:47 PM (C9rAF)

47 Ben Had, a stray cat turned up at my parents farm years ago. A little standoffish but would hang around and watch what was going on.

The house was very old and didn't have AC so my folks slept with the windows open including the one over the bed. One night the cat got up on the roof of the screen porch that was under their bedroom window, climbed through and curled up on my father's chest as he was sleeping. This turned into a nightly event.

My father named the cat PITA, Pain In The Ass. But he secretly liked the cat.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2025 04:50 PM (LkLld)

48 The same kitten that did the bucket trick also liked to ride in the truck. She would get in and stretch out on the dashboard. I would let her go on trips to the bank and they kept treats for her.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 04:51 PM (0wWvl)

49 My cat’s funny habit.: he comes in the door from the outside he’s been in many times before and he”a really cautious and will jump straight up in the air about a foot and take off. I have no idea what causes this. Also he will beg to go out- this morning for instance. It was about 24 degrees and there was a bit of snow on the ground . He must have out there for about ten seconds.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 04:51 PM (PU+wj)

50 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 04:41 PM (omVj0)

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2025 04:53 PM (PU+wj)

51 JackStraw, what a fun story. Love the name choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 04:54 PM (0wWvl)

52 Pray for all the pets, domesticated animals and even the wild animals

Saw video of a rescued cat with scorched whiskers. A wild bird with scorched feathers. A mama puma crossing the road followed by two cubs. Reminds me of the "fire cats" saved from the Berkeley/Oakland fires of the 90s.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 04:54 PM (BGeGB)

53 Other cats I've known and their habits: Big red Arizona as a kitten captured the then-Mrs. Wolfus No. 2's little stuffed Pegasus, would play roughly with it and carry it around in his mouth as if it were a prey rat. Years later, when it was just him and me, I'd hear some soft squeaking from the living room at night and would creep out -- to find the now "adult" and "settled" big cat playing with his stuffed toy. He'd look at me with a "busted!" expression and trot away from the toy . . . only to do it again a week or so later.

(I still have Pegasus atop my bookcase. He needs wiping down with Woolite or something; he's over sixty years old and is grey rather than white.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 04:55 PM (omVj0)

54 My (wifes) cat will not tread on the spot his sister passed away on. He'll walk up look at it and jump over it into the next room. He really hasn't been the same since her passing.
He secretly loved her.

Posted by: Reforger at January 11, 2025 05:01 PM (xcIvR)

55 We had a boxer pibble cross that my mom named Ole after Ole and Lena jokes. I would sometimes step outside and the fine Ole and the indoor/outdoor cat curled up together and Ole always had a 'busted curling up with a cat' look on his face when he knew I'd spotted them.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 11, 2025 05:01 PM (CKOCg)

56 My boyhood cat, Rusty, was different with each of his humans; he'd sit with me, play rough (but never too rough) with my brother, sit on my mother's lap (and bring her mice he'd killed, leaving them on her chair at the dinner table), and sucked up beautifully to my father. That was a trick I, with my supposedly higher IQ, never learned. But Rusty would hide when anyone older than I was would come over. And he adjusted that as I grew up; he didn't stay stuck at my age twelve, but shifted with the years.

Then I brought Li'l Bit home. At first there was hissing and so forth. Then Rusty realized this was a girl and a kitten, and they became friends . . . and they swapped "jobs," so that *she* would vanish when strangers came, and *he* would sit out and be brave.

When he passed away about three years later, my mother said Li'l Bit spent the day trotting around the apartment and patio, apparently calling for her vanished buddy. It must have been that, because she only did it for the one day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 05:01 PM (omVj0)

57 Mr Trouble is so happy to get to sleep inside when it's cold. He just acts grateful. I block him off in the living room, since Fanny sleeps in the bedrooms. The other morning, he managed to come in and lay down by the bedroom. I knew this because my dog was up by my head on the bef and Fanny was on my side. I managed to get them all sorted out. Hank does not seem interested in the house although he does like to be petted a bit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 11, 2025 05:01 PM (NQtI0)

58 JackStraw, what do you do with Elvis when you have to travel?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 05:01 PM (0wWvl)

59 Depends on the trip, Ben Had. There's a woman here on the island that does dog walking and will take dogs for overnight stays so if it's a short trip he stays with her. For longer trips he stays with my ex and gets spoiled even more than I spoil him.

No kennels.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2025 05:05 PM (LkLld)

60 Time to bundle up against the wind and feed the horses. Its not super cold but I have a cold and feel very wimpy.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 11, 2025 05:05 PM (CKOCg)

61 The little dilute calico I mentioned in 56 had a trick. On Mardi Gras Day in '74, the bar that shared our apartment's back wall had a fire. It was quickly put out, but the firemen got Mom out on the street, and for some reason chopped a couple of floorboards out of the bedroom floor -- which, with cross beams, was our living room and kitchen ceiling. The landlord never got around to fixing it.

Li'l Bit discovered it made a fine short cut from upstairs to the kitchen. Every day she'd drop through the opening, land next to a lightbulb on one of the built-in kitchen shelves just below, and jump down to the kitchen counter and thence to the floor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 05:07 PM (omVj0)

62 Lucy the Fink has different but consistent napping places. Mid morning nap is in the nest of her cat tree in my (our) bedroom. Pre lunch nap is in the heated crook of her cat tree downstairs.
Post lunch nap is on me bed Early evening nap is on a rolling carry on piece of luggage under my bed. Pre bed nap is back in her nest upstairs.

She is very particular about time/nap/ place continuoum.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2025 05:09 PM (mT+6a)

63
Cute cat habits.

Not a habit, just a story. I was taking a Thanksgiving-through-Christmas vacation in my hometown, so I had to take my cat with me because it was too long to leave him alone or rely on a cat-sitter. So I had him at my mom's for all that time, and when it was time for me to leave with him, she OBJECTED. "He has a routine here, he's happy, he doesn't like to travel," she said very firmly.

So she gained a cat.

Similar story happened with Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel designer for the fashion-challenged). Someone dumped their cat on him on their way to the airport for a trip of several weeks. He'd never had a cat before and said WHAT IS THIS I can't do this! When the friend came back a few weeks later and said "I'll take the cat now," Lagerfeld said "Oh no you won't." He had designed various accessories for the cat including a silk bed, renamed it, and generally become a cat person. The friend never got the cat back.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 11, 2025 05:10 PM (lCaJd)

64 Two nice photos of our outside Mr Grey who we brought in from the cold. He's probably the Cheese family's dad. See either link below.

Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another photo update #292 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 OR http://tinyurl.com/4pak97f6

Posted by: Ciampino - love the cat & dog pic at January 11, 2025 05:11 PM (i0xsb)

65 Edison and Tucker look very comfy, Debra in Naples. Cuties! Cats in watercolor is cool. Thanks for the Pet Thread, K.T.

Posted by: scampydog at January 11, 2025 05:11 PM (41CYW)

66 The two dogs - what a sweet picture, something to treasure for ever.

Posted by: Ciampino - love the cat & dog pic at January 11, 2025 05:12 PM (i0xsb)

67 My yuge orange tabby Rufus will lie on the closed toilet lid, reach his long front paw down into the cat fountain nearby, get water on his paw tips, then lick the wet tips thoughtfully. Then repeat, several times.

Posted by: skywch at January 11, 2025 05:12 PM (uqhmb)

68 For years the late Chekov D. Siberian would not sit on my lap. Then somehow Linda found that he would sit on a lap if a cushion were placed on it. So our routine became, he'd come over and give me The Look, and I'd put my sofa cushion on my lap. He'd leap up and settle down for petting.

(He also would nip my fingers or hand without warning if I didn't stay alert. Yes, as Linda says, "he never broke the skin," but it was startling and annoying. He must have nipped me once a month for twelve years. You can do the arithmetic.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 05:13 PM (omVj0)

69 Does the sign language interpreter introduce the dyke fire chiefs by making a v sign with her fingers and sticking her tongue between?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 05:14 PM (BGeGB)

70 Blonde Morticia, how great that is. Your Mom sounds like a good lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 05:15 PM (0wWvl)

71 My yuge orange tabby Rufus will lie on the closed toilet lid, reach his long front paw down into the cat fountain nearby, get water on his paw tips, then lick the wet tips thoughtfully. Then repeat, several times.
Posted by: skywch at January 11, 2025 05:12 PM (uqhmb)
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My cat Allie also drinks from her paws. She'll stick a paw into the water fountain and then lick the water off that instead of drinking directly from the fountain. I don't understand it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2025 05:19 PM (BpYfr)

72 My big boy kitty has to hold my hand when he sleeps with me. He holds it both his paws.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 05:20 PM (0wWvl)

73 Perfessor, I've wondered if it's because Rufus sees me using my hand to eat or drink

Posted by: skywch at January 11, 2025 05:22 PM (uqhmb)

74 My big boy kitty has to hold my hand when he sleeps with me. He holds it both his paws.

Are you sure it's not an otter?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for interpretive dance and festiv at January 11, 2025 05:22 PM (BGeGB)

75 The late Tatiana Romanova, a Siberian like Chekov and Dagny, not only used to sit under my reading lamp, but would "worship" it -- she'd clasp her front paws around it and hug it, as if basking in the warmth. She'd also sprawl atop the stove -- well after I stopped using it of an evening; she never risked being burned -- as if she were cold, even in summer. She never was robustly healthy, I discovered later. Maybe she really did have poor circulation. I didn't know; she played hard and worked out like an athlete in training for the Olympics.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 05:24 PM (omVj0)

76 skywch, maybe he likes warmer water?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 05:28 PM (0wWvl)

77 Commisar, he is another bottle baby and I think he has mommy issues

Posted by: Ben Had at January 11, 2025 05:31 PM (0wWvl)

78 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2025 05:31 PM (fwDg9)

79 Miss Linda is coming over soon, and we're going to walk over to the Chik-Fil-A in the shopping center behind where we live. I'd thought before we went there the first time that, given the neighborhood, it would be a dump. But no; it was as clean and seemed as well-run as any one I've visited.

Vastly more important, from the feline thugs' point of view, is that it's dinnertime. I've been giving Stirling a probiotic powder mixed into his canned food. Dunno if it's having any effect, but he gobbles it as he usually does with any food.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2025 05:35 PM (omVj0)

80 Thanks for notes of appreciation for Edison and Tucker. A Morkiepoo is Maltese-Yorkie-Poodle. I think we used to call mixes like this mutts. Love the group shot and all the wonderful stories in the thread.

Posted by: Debra T. at January 11, 2025 05:38 PM (DXKUS)

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