Ace of Spades Pet Thread, March 8

Remember to watch the cats.
Daylight Savings Time could be an "issue" for them (or an excuse).

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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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Know your animals:

Like school!
A farmer was checking his cows before taking them out to graze. 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/JI6nxCPrai
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 20, 2025

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Small acrobat:

oh just a pigeon doing backflips, nothing else! pic.twitter.com/daFmZdykt7
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) February 24, 2025

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Indoor bird:

The scream of anger every time he gets removed

[📹 morpheus.134]pic.twitter.com/29swiN3ei9
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 8, 2025

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Meet The PetMorons

This is Winnie. I met her when I was helping to drive her from her racing life to her foster home and she decided that I was going to adopt her, thankyouverymuch. Her she is, acting like a typical greyhound and finding the best napping spots.
-NR Pax

Winnie looks comfy. So sweet.

"she decided that I was going to adopt her, thankyouverymuch" -- Love that.

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We just had to put our 13 year old labradoodle to sleep this last week. She had bone cancer in her right shoulder and stopped walking because of the pain. She was really my dad’s best friend and we lost him last Father’s Day so this was the last piece of him that we had left. She was the most gentle dog, never outgrew being a puppy; in fact, she thought that was her name. I am going to send a couple of pictures, one with her best friend 17 year old cat Tutti Fruitti.
Nan in AZ

So sad that you have lost your beautiful pup and your father. Give Tutti Fruitti some extra love for us.

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I think my granddogs, Archie and Frank, love me more than my human grandchildren do. Conservative Hippie

Well, it's possible. Granddogs have a special kind of love. Though the love of grandchildren also has special qualities.

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

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From nurse ratched. Transient Orcas put on quite the show last Sunday. The whole beach community was out taking pictures, appreciating these magnificent creatures and gasping as a poor little grebe got munched. Too bad the silly little bird forgot he could fly.
If you look hard in the second photo, you can see a tiny little dorsal fin in between the two adults. Yes!!!! A baby!

I see it! I see it!

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Thank you for sharing your pet photos and stories 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, March 1

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 03:16 PM

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1 The labradoodle looks just like my sister's dog. He recently got out of his puppy phase, but he likes to revert to form on occasion still. Sorry for your loss

Posted by: Farquad at March 08, 2025 03:22 PM (CFMhl)

2 am I really first?

see the webcam: https://tinyurl.com/y77k9c9b

Posted by: catman at March 08, 2025 03:23 PM (3Kepb)

3 nope!

Posted by: catman at March 08, 2025 03:24 PM (3Kepb)

4 Lol, the bird in the sink is funny.

Although, I wouldn’t consider that plate all that clean given how much he handled the bird.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 08, 2025 03:25 PM (l3YAf)

5 Meow

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at March 08, 2025 03:26 PM (sAmhv)

6 Disinterested FDA Director at March 08, 2025 03:25 PM

I was sort of thinking the same thing. Although if the bird is the only other resident in the house . . . .

Posted by: KT at March 08, 2025 03:27 PM (xekrU)

7 What a beautiful greyhound rescue story!

Posted by: Eternity Matters at March 08, 2025 03:28 PM (yT7Wa)

8 Fabulous pictures Nurse, just outstanding.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 08, 2025 03:28 PM (Znw75)

9 Nan in AZ, I am sorry for your loss. We had to put down one of our dogs last year because he got osteo in his right front leg and at his age, the only good option was keeping him comfortable as long as we could.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025 03:29 PM (lXCUP)

10 Was this the same orca encounter?
https://tinyurl.com/yznb4af5

Posted by: Bird watcher at March 08, 2025 03:29 PM (xtKM4)

11 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2025 03:30 PM (fwDg9)

12 7 What a beautiful greyhound rescue story!
Posted by: Eternity Matters

It gets funnier. Before she left on the next leg of her trip, I sent a picture to my wife with the subject "So you said you wanted the next one to be a girl..."

We waited a week to pick her up because she had to be cat tested. I have a picture from when she's in the foster home. Cat climbed into bed with her and she was looking very puzzled about this.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025 03:31 PM (lXCUP)

13 I sent a picture on Monday for inclusion in the pet thread - did anybody get it?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 08, 2025 03:32 PM (SRRAx)

14 It gets funnier. Before she left on the next leg of her trip, I sent a picture to my wife with the subject "So you said you wanted the next one to be a girl..."

We waited a week to pick her up because she had to be cat tested. I have a picture from when she's in the foster home. Cat climbed into bed with her and she was looking very puzzled about this.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025 03:31 PM (lXCUP)

Did you have to pay extra for the Cat Scan? Hopefully not; medical tests are expensive.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 08, 2025 03:34 PM (VNX3d)

15 Happy Caturday everyone
Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2025 03:30 PM (fwDg9)

Just in cast you missed it....

Last night's Cafe had a young candidate for Thor, Dog of Thunder, at the end of the content.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 08, 2025 03:37 PM (VNX3d)

16 Did you have to pay extra for the Cat Scan?

Part of the deal. And the fun part was one of the cats we had actually liked her and he normally loathed our dogs.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025 03:37 PM (lXCUP)

17 Beautiful pictures of the orcas, nurse!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 08, 2025 03:40 PM (SRRAx)

18 I thought I was brave for raising a rather disagreeable black cat with kleptomania type issues. Then Nurse Ratched shows us her pet Orcas. Show off!!!

Posted by: Orson at March 08, 2025 03:44 PM (dIske)

19 Now we know why Nurse was sooo angry with the fog earlier this week when an Orca alert went off.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 08, 2025 03:44 PM (VNX3d)

20 Critters!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 08, 2025 03:48 PM (2UnvF)

21 Woof! Beautiful pets, sorry for your loss Nan in Az. Winnie looks like a wonderful companion.Thanks again for the pet thread K.T. And to all who share their pictures here.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 08, 2025 03:51 PM (31HUx)

22 Love the pet Morons as always, and share the grief for those who have passed on.

That guy doing roll call on the cattle was hilarious! As was the bird.

I saw a video where a cockatoo-type bird was in a screaming fight with his owner. I thought, I would have to kill that bird.

Never been a pet bird person, so when I moved in with Tim that was something new. We were at the table one night, and the bird was perched on the chandelier overhead (filthy, OMG). I casually asked, "So how long do parakeets live?"

As it turns out, until the cat's 4th birthday.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 08, 2025 03:59 PM (w6EFb)

23 Cool orcas, Nurse - I see the baby!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 08, 2025 04:02 PM (w6EFb)

24 No orcas here in ETex.

However earlier today I was serenaded by a chorus of probably 100+ cows and calves mooing at me for their feed (these are on Other Neighbor's property). The goats stayed at the far end of their pasture and the chickens were disturbed enough to start moving back in to the coop.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 08, 2025 04:05 PM (Vqx30)

25 Tutti Fruitti needs some belly rubs!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 08, 2025 04:06 PM (FdWkT)

26 You know, Orcas are sorta assholes.

Just sayin'

They drown baby whales and eat penguins.

Posted by: jsg at March 08, 2025 04:06 PM (UJ+K5)

27 There is a reason why cockatoos either get rehomed or wind up in the garage. They are very loud.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 08, 2025 04:07 PM (7PR43)

28 10 Was this the same orca encounter?
https://tinyurl.com/yznb4af5
Posted by: Bird watcher

YES YES YES!!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 08, 2025 04:08 PM (FdWkT)

29 26 You know, Orcas are sorta assholes.

Just sayin'

They drown baby whales and eat penguins.
Posted by: jsg

The are alpha predators. It’s what they do.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 08, 2025 04:10 PM (FdWkT)

30 The are alpha predators. It’s what they do.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 08, 2025 04:10 PM (FdWkT)

Yeah. Super smart. But still assholes.

Posted by: jsg at March 08, 2025 04:11 PM (UJ+K5)

31 When I lived near Monterey, CA I had the chance to see Orcas up close... for work. The outfit I was working for at the time, NOAA's Marine Fisheries Service periodically went out into Monterey Bay to do a census of these marine mammals. A smallish boat, like a tug, but equipped with various "things" to observe, record underwater.

Surprisingly large animals. I learned they will follow the migrating California Gray Whales for thousands of miles as the whale calves are one of their food sources.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 08, 2025 04:14 PM (Q4IgG)

32 So how would Orcas fare against Zombeavers?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2025 04:15 PM (bLS2J)

33 You know, Orcas are sorta assholes.

Just sayin'

They drown baby whales and eat penguins.
Posted by: jsg at March 08, 2025 04:06 PM (UJ+K5)

An orca once bit my sister. She got better.

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at March 08, 2025 04:15 PM (l3YAf)

34 I'm calling this my Paisley's 7th birthday. So lift a glass in her honor.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 08, 2025 04:16 PM (kTd/k)

35 Afternoon, Pet Folken! Nan, sorry for the loss of your Puppy the labradoodle. But Tutti Fruitti is a beautiful buddy for you too.

KT, I may have a new pic of Dagny La Siberienne for you soon. Linda snapped a pic of her draped in a Mardi Gras feather boa. However, the head and shoulders part, toward the background, is kind of blurry. We're going to try and pose her with it again and get a clearer shot.

Nurse, the orcas, "killer whales" as they used to be known, are impressive creatures. I have a short story of a near-future America where we have come to realize they are sentient, and through technology that translates their whistles and clicks, can talk to them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:17 PM (omVj0)

36 >>You know, Orcas are sorta assholes.

>>Just sayin'

>>They drown baby whales and eat penguins.

And sharks. Particularly their livers.

But rarely attack humans.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2025 04:18 PM (LkLld)

37 Big black Stirling on this first really warm afternoon of 2025 is curled on the cushion next to me, while Dagny the Aloof is in my Mission chair.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:19 PM (omVj0)

38 36 But rarely attack humans.

"Hey, come on! That human looks helpless. Let's just-"
"Carl, no. If an orca kills a human, then every human within one hundred miles of here will hop on boats and slaughter all of us. Don't do it."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025 04:21 PM (lXCUP)

39 You know, Orcas are sorta assholes.

>>Just sayin'

>>They drown baby whales and eat penguins.

And sharks. Particularly their livers.

But rarely attack humans.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2025

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I've read that there is no authenticated case of an orca actually attacking human beings. Now that could be because they realize we're fellow sentients; or because they are careful to kill humans *only when no human is watching* and there is no chance of being caught -- which is also proof of intelligence.

Or maybe the word has gone out that we don't taste very good. Another indicator of intelligence; maybe, somewhere in all those clicks and whistles is a kind of MeatReviews.com.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:22 PM (omVj0)

40 I'm calling this my Paisley's 7th birthday. So lift a glass in her honor.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 08, 2025

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Will a mug of iced coffee do as well?

Big Stirling will be three, as I account it, next week; and little Dagny will hit the same milestone around the 22nd (I have the exact date on her pedigree).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:24 PM (omVj0)

41 But rarely attack humans.
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"Hey, come on! That human looks helpless. Let's just-"
"Carl, no. If an orca kills a human, then every human within one hundred miles of here will hop on boats and slaughter all of us. Don't do it."
Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025

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That's just what I envision!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:25 PM (omVj0)

42 There have been more Otter attacks on humans than there have been Orca attacks.

That's the fact, jack!

Posted by: Ollie Orca at March 08, 2025 04:27 PM (Q4IgG)

43 Originally, Moby Dick was supposed to be an orca armed with a rocket launcher, but Melville felt it was too unrealistic.

Posted by: Orca Facts at March 08, 2025 04:28 PM (l3YAf)

44 That is a cool video of the orcas! What an amazing sight 😊❤️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 08, 2025 04:29 PM (SRRAx)

45 Or maybe the word has gone out that we don't taste very good. Another indicator of intelligence; maybe, somewhere in all those clicks and whistles is a kind of MeatReviews.com.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:22 PM (omVj0)

If you are kayaking in Resurrection Bay or Prince William Sound, and the orcas show up, be very wary. They like to whack into kayaks for fun, which isn't fun if you are the one in the kayak. I expect orcas do what they do because they can. It's not like they can lay around and watch tv.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2025 04:32 PM (K2hug)

46 Originally, Moby Dick was supposed to be an orca armed with a rocket launcher, but Melville felt it was too unrealistic.
Posted by: Orca Facts at March 08, 2025

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And Amazing and Astounding, the SF magazines, were eighty years in the future.

Personally I'd rather read a story about a killer whale assassin who uses a rocket launcher, a member of the dreaded Terror Pod of the North Pacific, than Melville's weighty epic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:33 PM (omVj0)

47 Well, no accounts of orcas attacking people in the wild - I seem to recall a couple of fatal attacks on trainers at a couple of different Sea World parks a few years ago.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 08, 2025 04:33 PM (SRRAx)

48 Some of the petmorons reminded me of some of ours. The labradoodle looked so much like Argyle, a standard white poodle. He and his brother were our first pups. And Archie and Frank make me think of how Precious, who was about 15 when we adopted her, would have looked when younger. Sweet thoughts and memories.

Posted by: JTB at March 08, 2025 04:35 PM (yTvNw)

49 Well, no accounts of orcas attacking people in the wild - I seem to recall a couple of fatal attacks on trainers at a couple of different Sea World parks a few years ago.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 08, 2025

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Right -- and that is an artificial environment, where the orcas are being "employed," so to speak, for human entertainment. Those incidents could have been the cetacean equivalent of a USPS employee going postal.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:36 PM (omVj0)

50 We weren't available for the gardening thread. Your write up about community and the snow crocus appearing on the day of your mom's funeral was lovely and special. So sorry for your loss but you clearly have wonderful memories of her love.

Posted by: JTB at March 08, 2025 04:39 PM (yTvNw)

51 Originally, Moby Dick was supposed to be an orca armed with a rocket launcher, but Melville felt it was too unrealistic.
Posted by: Orca Facts at March 08, 2025

LOL. FenSpouse is one the couch beside me and he is reading "Moby Dick"( He also read it in college. ) He is on page 371 of 625.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 04:41 PM (YoTD4)

52 Thanks, JTB.

Posted by: KT at March 08, 2025 04:43 PM (xekrU)

53 Great pictures and Winnie is so cute! Sorry about your Labradoodle, Nan. What a lovely dog!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 04:44 PM (YoTD4)

54 LOL. FenSpouse is one the couch beside me and he is reading "Moby Dick"( He also read it in college. ) He is on page 371 of 625.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I give him credit. Had to read it in high school. It was a real slog.

Posted by: Tuna at March 08, 2025 04:46 PM (lJ0H4)

55
I give him credit. Had to read it in high school. It was a real slog.
Posted by: Tuna at March 08, 2025

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I would like to re-watch the film version penned by Ray Bradbury with Gregory Peck as Ahab. As a boy I saw it on the ABC Sunday Night Movie, but not since.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 04:49 PM (omVj0)

56 38 36 But rarely attack humans.

"Hey, come on! That human looks helpless. Let's just-"
"Carl, no. If an orca kills a human, then every human within one hundred miles of here will hop on boats and slaughter all of us. Don't do it."
Posted by: NR Pax at March 08, 2025 04:21 PM (lXCUP)
_________________________________

The stories I could tell....the stories I could tell (shakes head)

Posted by: Union of Independent Vampires at March 08, 2025 04:51 PM (dIske)

57 Well, no accounts of orcas attacking people in the wild

They leave no evidence if attacked in the deep woods.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 08, 2025 04:53 PM (TpOb7)

58 26 You know, Orcas are sorta assholes.

Just sayin'

They drown baby whales and eat penguins.

Posted by: jsg at March 08, 2025 04:06 PM (UJ+K5)
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They eat seals too.

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025 04:54 PM (KjLnc)

59 Last evening I was discharged from a 9-day hospital stay. When I got home I sat in my chair and within 30 seconds Bailey (tabby), who normally sleeps with me and with whom I have conversation head rolls, blinks and head rubs, was on my lap in his favorite position. Then Shadow, 20 pounder, came to greet me. When I laid back to rest, Squeak came on my belly - her usual spot (she is tiny).
Today I've had a string of them, even ones that don't come to me (yet).
Wonderful welcome home from beings that show true love and emotion. Like dogs do too. Any mammal except deceptive humans.

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025 05:02 PM (KjLnc)

60 "I would like to re-watch the film version penned by Ray Bradbury with Gregory Peck as Ahab. As a boy I saw it on the ABC Sunday Night Movie, but not since.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere "

My favorite version. The beginning with the preacher (Orson Wells) sets everything up.

Posted by: fd at March 08, 2025 05:03 PM (vFG9F)

61 I got to do the Puget sound orca boat once, it was amazing. Their pods are almost tribal; the mothers and calves stay at the center, the matriarch scopes out the boat and makes sure she knows it before the rest approach, and there are always a couple of “soldiers” (young males) patrolling their perimeter, keeping track of whatever is moving out there. It’s not a stretch at all to consider them sentient.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2025 05:03 PM (h8QI+)

62 If you've only ready Moby Dick once because you had to, it's worth revisiting.

Posted by: fd at March 08, 2025 05:04 PM (vFG9F)

63 Posted by: Tuna at March 08, 2025 04:46 PM (lJ0H4

You read it on high school?Wow! I guess you're not 29 😉because who knows what they're reading now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 05:07 PM (BNZxh)

64 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another photo update #301 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's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025 05:10 PM (KjLnc)

65 From nurse ratched. Transient Orcas put on quite the show last Sunday.

Great pics, Nurse!

I saw Transient Orcas open for Mike Keneally & Beer For Dolphins at Seamonster Lounge in 2000.

https://youtu.be/lJxhRaPGvEA

Posted by: mikeski at March 08, 2025 05:10 PM (DgGvY)

66 Wonderful welcome home from beings that show true love and emotion. Like dogs do too. Any mammal except deceptive humans.
Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025

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When smart and affectionate black cat Marie-Antoinette lived with me, she always greeted me at the door, even when it was not dinner or breakfast time. Once I went on a business trip for about four days and arranged for a reliable neighbor to come in and feed her.

When I got back I walked in, put down my suitcase, and saw Marie at the end of the couch. She let out a long meow that could only have meant "Where've you *been*????"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 05:11 PM (omVj0)

67 63 Posted by: Tuna at March 08, 2025 04:46 PM (lJ0H4

You read it on high school?Wow! I guess you're not 29 😉because who knows what they're reading now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 05:07 PM (BNZxh)
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Well it's still called Moby Dick but .......

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025 05:13 PM (KjLnc)

68 Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025 05:02 PM (KjLnc)

Glad you're home and that's a lovely story about your cats Pynchon the cat will often come up and snuggle against me if he senses I'm upset or not feeling well.and lying down.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 05:14 PM (42Vb+)

69 You read it on high school?Wow! I guess you're not 29 😉because who knows what they're reading now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Well it's still called Moby Dick but .......
Posted by: Ciampino

* golf clap *

* sad thoughts that it might be true *

Nah..... * golf clap *

Posted by: mikeski at March 08, 2025 05:16 PM (DgGvY)

70 You read it on high school?Wow! I guess you're not 29 😉because who knows what they're reading now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Just a little over 29. LOL. Had to read "The Scarlet Letter" and "Red Badge of Courage" that year also.

Posted by: Tuna at March 08, 2025 05:20 PM (lJ0H4)

71 Coming home. I had a German Shepherd that I rescued from not an abusive home but one that never had any time for her. Age was catching up to her and I knew she wasn't going to live much longer. I had to go out of town for a week and when I got home I sat down and held her in my arms and she peacefully passed as I held her.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2025 05:21 PM (mB6WH)

72 There is a reason why cockatoos either get rehomed or wind up in the garage. They are very loud.

Saw an adopted Moluccan cockatoo who had been removed to a garage with only a radio for company. Bird sounded like someone tuning an AM radio dial. Sorta amusing but sad.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 08, 2025 05:26 PM (TpOb7)

73 Glad you're home and that's a lovely story about your cats Pynchon the cat will often come up and snuggle against me if he senses I'm upset or not feeling well.and lying down.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025

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Little long-haired tuxedo cat Oreo did that twice when I came home from oral surgeries. I toppled into bed, and she leaped up and settled right down by me. She was not one to sleep with me -- though she liked my lap -- so it was unusual.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 05:27 PM (omVj0)

74 I had a German Shepherd that I rescued from not an abusive home but one that never had any time for her. Age was catching up to her and I knew she wasn't going to live much longer. I had to go out of town for a week and when I got home I sat down and held her in my arms and she peacefully passed as I held her.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2025

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Who let all this dust in here . . .?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 05:28 PM (omVj0)

75 Ben Had

Got dusty in here.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at March 08, 2025 05:28 PM (TpOb7)

76 Moby's Dick?

Or not a whale but an 'anaconda'?

Posted by: Ciampino's version of a camel's hump at March 08, 2025 05:28 PM (KjLnc)

77 Posted by: Tuna at March 08, 2025 05:20 PM (lJ0H4)

Yes , we read "The Scarlet Letter" and "Tef Badge of courage" as well and to get back to animals again we also read "The Call of the Wild" about a sled dog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 05:30 PM (42Vb+)

78 Commisar, here too everytime I remember her.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2025 05:30 PM (mB6WH)

79 We had a Moluccan, in the garage with an Umbrella cockatoo. I had it yell when I was right next to the cage. Beautiful bird. They got him a mate but he tried to kill her. When we rehomed him, to my husband's nephew, he wound up getting a second male. That worked out okay.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 08, 2025 05:31 PM (7PR43)

80 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip i at March 08, 2025 05:32 PM (fwDg9)

81 Amazing when your cats show real affection. When Arizona the part-Coon was ill with diabetes, he had to spend several days at the day clinic and nights at the overnight pet hospital, and I transferred him back and forth before and after work. I came over to see him on Sunday, and when they carried him in to the exam table, he looked at me, stepped over, bumped his head against my chest, and *stayed there* as if hiding -- as if saying, "I *hate* this place! Take me *home*!"

Okay, I'm anthropomorphizing. But it sure seemed like he was truly glad to see me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 08, 2025 05:32 PM (omVj0)

82 I sent a picture of The White Cat and me earlier this week - Paul caught us catnapping. White Cat was looking up at the camera, somewhat miffed that he had disturbed the sweet deal that she had going on at that moment 🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at March 08, 2025 05:33 PM (SRRAx)

83 Hobby thread is up!

Posted by: Moonbeam at March 08, 2025 05:33 PM (HZszs)

84 But one of my favorite books about animals is "The Silent Meow" by Paul Gallico in which a cat gives instructions on how to take over a family. The version I had had photographs. It's a funny book. I didn't read it in high school but I think my grandmother give it to me as a 12 year old.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 05:35 PM (42Vb+)

85 My neighbor and friend Donnie is suffering. His little girl dog, a white poodle mix, small, maybe 20 pounds if healthy, has not eaten in over two weeks.

She's 14 and Donnie has had her from when she was a baby. She's his baby.

She is skinny as a rail, in no apparent pain or discomfort, except she's wasting away. I is likely she won't be able to get up and walk in a week or so.

Donnie has spent over $1,200 for three vet visits and there is no solution. He had a hard time getting her to take some prescribed meds.

When is the time to say good bye and give her a needle send-off? And how soon after, if you do, get another dog? For us it was almost five years.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 08, 2025 05:55 PM (KiBMU)

86 Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 08, 2025 05:55 PM (KiBMU

I'm sorry. What a difficult time for your friend.and his beloved little girl dog. I think after all that I would just let the poor pup go.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 08, 2025 06:02 PM (qrTq1)

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