Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 26

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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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Rescued penguin saying goodbye

pic.twitter.com/3xDZSNh4o1
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) April 21, 2025

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Gorgeous mom and her baby. pic.twitter.com/JdXFapcxDm
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) April 18, 2025

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Who grooms your dog?

Easily the cutest thing you’ll see today 🐶 pic.twitter.com/Fkjq0HLHEI
— Critically Thinking & Drinking 🧐🥃🧉🍸🍹🤪 (@TheCriticalDri1) April 21, 2025

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A disabled dog was gifted a custom-made wheelchair crafted by Mercedes-Benz. pic.twitter.com/FxCuHyxvpg
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) April 21, 2025

Courtesy Hrothgar:

SisterH had a disabled Corgi with add-on rear wheels that was incredibly mobile!

How great!

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Meet The PetMorons

Conor greets the spring
Hrothgar

Conor looks like a happy dog! But we would expect him to be happy, wouldn't we?

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Meet our one-year-old Australian Cattle Dog mix (Red Heeler variety) who was named Piper by our granddaughters. She came to us at three months of age after having been found abandoned at about 6 weeks old on the nearby Navaho Reservation in Utah. A rescue group called Underdogs took her in, fostered her and rehabbed her for several weeks. She has fit in well with our senior citizen Australian Shepherd Buckley who showed up on the Pet Thread some years ago. They spend a lot of time rough housing and play fighting. He teaches her all his old bad habits and she teaches him a few new ones of her own. All in all a positive lift for the old boy.
She stands about 16 inches at the shoulder and weighs about 50 lbs. She has freakishly long legs. She is not the smartest dog I've ever had but the d'awwww cuteness factor is off the charts. Who's a good girl?regards, muldoon

Wow. You're right about the cuteness factor. That portrait is remarkable.

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NR Pax:
On the left is our dog Kroger on the right is our guest Shanti. As you can see, Kroger was sharing his bed under protest. Thankfully, no squabbles broke out from it.

Great photo. It can be hard to share . . . .

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This is the last entry we received for the Pet Thread from jewells45 (November 2, 2024 post). She sent us information on rescued dogs at:

Shep's Place Senior Dog Sanctuary in Independence, MO

Making jewelry, often for members of The Horde, was one marvelous connection Jewells had with AoSHQ, but it certainly was not the only one.

She was also remarkable for her dedication to senior dogs in need. Many of us looked forward to her updates.

From Jewells:

This is Brody, a rat terrier we rescued from the Independence MO animal shelter. He's 15 years and is a cuddle bug.
It felt like things had stagnated at Sheps's over the past year or so but I think things may finally change. JJ finally got adopted and was the reason we could never bring a small dog into the mix. He found the perfect home. Then sadly Roscoe and Hope both crossed the rainbow bridge. They were our 2 invalids.
We have also begun earnest fund raising to make big improvements to Shep's including an expansion of the original building. The cost is $900,000 and we have raised about $200,000 so far. I'm hoping to sign up to volunteer very soon.

Jewells was thinking about the future of Shep's Place and the dogs served by the volunteers there even as her health declined. Donations from members of The Horde have been suggested in several posts here at AoSHQ. Check in the comment thread below for specific information on donations already underway.

Jewells has introduced us to quite a few loveable senior dogs at Shep's Place over the years. We're going to miss you and the sweet dogs, Jewells.

Here are a few more, from July 6, 2024:

From Jewells:

These three cuties are the newest addition to Shep's. Again, they went straight to foster so I'll never get to meet them darn it! Maudie is 12, Augie is 11 and Chug is 8. Their owner passed away. We are hoping to adopt all three out together.

What adorable doxies! And they are not all the same. Thanks for sending the great photo, Jewells!

And we also met her own grand pup, Moose. He knew when she didn't feel good and tried to make her feel better. Good boy, Moose.

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

We call them crows although they may be ravens. Picture is from my car going down my driveway. They landed about 20 feet from my car. I stopped and took pictures because one was playing with a stick and one had a piece of bread, which means a neighbor is feeding them. I hate them!
NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker

So, to the rest of The Horde, what are your thoughts about crows and ravens? Like them around? Wish they wouldn't scare off other birds? Do they ever intimidate your pets?

Why do you think the neighbor is feeding those crows?

We get crows, along with other birds, in our yard. The crows are usually the boldest birds around the garden kitties.

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Thank you for sharing your pets with us.

I am going to be in the hospital for a little while, but 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 time, 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, April 19

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 03:13 PM

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1 Surf's up, dude!

Posted by: Tennessee Tuxedo at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM (63Dwl)

2
This morning, on the day she was to be shown in Best of Breed competition at our National Specialty, hard-luck Diana came out of the RV awkwardly, wrenched her back and lamed herself. Her Majesty couldn't do anything but pull her from the competition. It's a great disappointment for us, but we hope she recovers quickly and fully.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM (QnmlO)

3 Meow

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at April 26, 2025 03:19 PM (sAmhv)

4 After many days of false forecasts, today we are finally getting rain. Lots of it.

Daisy did get out to run & fetch before the storm started, but now it's not outside play time. Not her favorite weather.

Hello, petz people.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ony cat wants equal story time at April 26, 2025 03:20 PM (+bW3+)

5 Critters!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 26, 2025 03:21 PM (2UnvF)

6 oh no Hadrian! that is so sad to hear!

hope she recovers quickly!

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

7 Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM

Sorry about the injury at competition time. How disappointing!

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 03:24 PM (xekrU)

8 Rescued penguin is cute!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 26, 2025 03:25 PM (rm+Rw)

9 so my first ever cat has been an education. first dealt with food and environmental allergies (a whole lot of them too) and that was two years or so of weekly immunotherapy injections for him

now just a bit ago he went a bit crazy around bedtime, trying to pee and just squeezing a bit out, I called the 24 hr ER vet and they told me to get there ASAP

his ultrasound and X-rays were clear of a blockage or anything obvious so I chose not to have him admitted for further testing/procedures and treat him with some meds and take him to the normal vet yesterday.

that's going ok but the meds really knock him out and it's a little scary. that said right after his first dose he peed like a racehorse so.

I'm too nervous still to sleep I just check on him constantly the poor thing! hoping we'll both be calmer after the 10 days of medication ends, I dunno.

I'm a little freaked out by this. allergies sucked but they weren't going to kill him or anything.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

10 Beware the Penguins.

Posted by: Archer at April 26, 2025 03:28 PM (IDphi)

11 I watched nature in action a couple of years ago in the Pentagon courtyard. A squirrel had gotten himself a tasty Baby Ruth candybar wrapper with some leftover candy still on it. A couple of Ravens were ganging up on it but the squirrel fought back, hard. It had acquired that Baby Ruth wrapper and it wasn't giving it up for any critter. Not sure the outcome as I went back inside. The only thing that was missing was National Geographic theme song playing in the background.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at April 26, 2025 03:29 PM (sAmhv)

12 Seems to me that the little penguin in the video should have some friends.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 03:30 PM (xekrU)

13 Great videos up top. The penguin release is kinda sad. Tell me there were other penguins nearby for it to join.

Enjoyed the pet pix as always. Thank, KT. Hoping for your good health.

The comments as of this moment are white boxes on gray background. I kind-of prefer it for readability.

Posted by: mindful webworker - but 'white box friends' doesn't have the same ring at April 26, 2025 03:31 PM (+bW3+)

14 Black Orchid, good luck. Being a pet parent is nearly as stressful as being a human parent. You're doing a great thing.

Posted by: Archer at April 26, 2025 03:31 PM (IDphi)

15 Everything is proceeding as we have foreseen.

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 26, 2025 03:32 PM (PiwSw)

16 14 Black Orchid, good luck. Being a pet parent is nearly as stressful as being a human parent. You're doing a great thing.

yeah I'm still second guessing not having them put him under and take a real good look? but with that there's always the potential for complications...

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:32 PM (Pv3Rg)

17 Chug is a fantastic name.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 26, 2025 03:33 PM (O7YUW)

18 Hadrian, tough news about Diana. Hope she'll be okay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - arf at April 26, 2025 03:35 PM (+bW3+)

19 My sister's dog saves her not only from delivery trucks but *also* low-flying aircraft. And birds. We're working on reducing the threat level from Defcon-Eleventy but it's a slog. (He's a good boy. Just needs a hobby.)

I have an extended family of crows I feed peanuts, but only on request--no piles of food. For one thing, rats. For another, it gets me interaction. They call each other when I give the signal. Right now it is baby time, so all the adults are off busy dealing with nests and hatchlings. I sometimes get the moody teenagers showing up, one or two at a time, to complain that nobody is feeding them and everything is boring.

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at April 26, 2025 03:35 PM (FlJsV)

20 It doesn't surprise me that Muldoon's red heeler was found on a Navajo reservation. That breed seems like one that Navajos would choose. Kinda surprised that she was found abandoned.

Posted by: KT at April 26, 2025 03:38 PM (xekrU)

21 Woof!! Beautiful pets as always. That GSD pic at the top made me laugh. Thank you all for sharing your friends/companions with us and thank you K.T.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at April 26, 2025 03:38 PM (ntko6)

22 The other day, we had a mountain lion on our block a few houses away. Beautiful animal. I wish I took a picture.

Posted by: Archer at April 26, 2025 03:38 PM (IDphi)

23 I sometimes get the moody teenagers showing up, one or two at a time, to complain that nobody is feeding them and everything is boring.

We had a baby crow in the driveway that had been booted out of the nest because apparently crows do that to their youngsters. I went to the garage, grabbed a handful of kibble and left it close by while the parents were yelling at me.

Fast forward a few months later and we had close to forty crows in the trees in our house. Word gets around.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 03:39 PM (lXCUP)

24 Ciampino's Rescue Kitties

Still accepting donations towards the unkindest cut of all

There's another photo update #307 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 - RIP Jewells at April 26, 2025 03:41 PM (sPQoU)

25 The top photo is hilarious!! Reminds me of the attitude of Gretel, the mini dachshund that was our family pet growing up. A hundred pounds of attitude in a ten pound body. Between her sentinel duties and looking for snacks she spent much of her time on her back inviting tummy rubs.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 03:44 PM (yTvNw)

26 Tell me there were other penguins nearby for it to join.

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He wasn't lonely for long.

Posted by: Leopard Seal at April 26, 2025 03:45 PM (2UnvF)

27 "My sister's dog saves her not only from delivery trucks but *also* low-flying aircraft. And birds."

Our dog ignores most birds but she HATES vultures. (We Texans call them all buzzards.) They periodically land on our roof and she goes berserk barking at them until they fly off. I have no idea where the hate springs from, but it's been consistent since she came to live with us nearly 4 years ago.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 26, 2025 03:46 PM (FEVMW)

28 Tell me there were other penguins nearby for it to join.

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He wasn't lonely for long.
Posted by: Leopard Seal at April 26, 2025 03:45 PM (2UnvF)

Burp!

Posted by: Orcas at April 26, 2025 03:46 PM (IDphi)

29 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 03:46 PM (ypFCm)

30
*glooms*

Well, Miss D is not yet three years old. Her mother Delilah was almost 6 when she won the National in 2021 and her grandmother Lacey was 8 1/2 when she won it in 2006. So Diana has lots of time.

Borzoi are slow to mature and she won't be really competitive for at least a year. Her sister Rosalind is returning with HM and we'll be showing her to her championship. If Ros and her half-brother Zeus finish, their dam Delilah will have five champion offspring to her credit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:48 PM (QnmlO)

31 Sabrina!

Hope to see you in a couple weeks!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 03:50 PM (mT+6a)

32 Precious the Bichon is feeling her 17 years with some limping and slower movements. But she still wags her tail when we go for (slow) walks and prances a bit when we get home. And she has no problem waiting at the top of the stairs when one of us comes up from the 'salle de fromage'. That's the cheese room for non-Frogs. Most people call it a kitchen.

Actually, she is handling the aches of aging better than I am. At least she is quieter about it.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 03:51 PM (yTvNw)

33 That portrait of Piper is great. What a lovely expression.

Posted by: JTB at April 26, 2025 03:52 PM (yTvNw)

34 It doesn't surprise me that Muldoon's red heeler was found on a Navajo reservation. That breed seems like one that Navajos would choose. Kinda surprised that she was found abandoned.
Posted by: KT

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When we got her, we were told that ACD's are in fact very popular on the reservation, but that usually males are preferred, and females will often be abandoned or dropped off anonymously at homes of families known to work with Underdogs, knowing they will be picked up.

News to me that red heelers are also known as Queensland heelers and were originally a cross between a standard collie and a dingo.

She doesn't nip at heels but she will do a gentle bump with her snout on the back of my ankles when we are out walking.

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 03:53 PM (uCfKO)

35 Black Orchud, I did see where you mentioned going to an all wet diet for your kitty. Best idea ever.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 03:58 PM (oXfCm)

36 No cats ! Anti-felineites.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 26, 2025 03:59 PM (/U5Yz)

37 35 Black Orchud, I did see where you mentioned going to an all wet diet for your kitty. Best idea ever.

thanks! I'm even adding water to that it's like soup now! trying anything

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:59 PM (Pv3Rg)

38 Ravens have a great purpose. Clean up crew.

Last fall a grouse splatted itself against our big picture window. The hit permanently etched the glass, wing pattern and all.

Grouse died on the roof outside the window.

Before we could clean up that sorry soul, the ravens took care of it.

Much obliged. Now who's gonna replace my window? Dammit.

Posted by: Derak at April 26, 2025 04:02 PM (UTY9h)

39 Black Orchid, a little extra water for a couple of days is fine but you don't want to go to far in that direction either. Too much water and you will get diarrhea. A wet food that has shrimp / sardines would be best right now.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:07 PM (oXfCm)

40 ‘Well what has the raven to say about when?’

Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 04:09 PM (LHPAg)

41 Jack, the best cat ever, had one blockage, but had a few UTIs after that. Same behavior. Antibiotics will knock out the UTI and there's a good chance that's all your cat will need.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 26, 2025 04:12 PM (cvWHI)

42 ‘Well what has the raven to say about when?’
Posted by: Eromero at April 26, 2025 04:09 PM (LHPAg)

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* Scribbles notes*

Posted by: E.A. Poe at April 26, 2025 04:13 PM (2UnvF)

43 In Alaska ravens are considered spirit animals, and a token of good luck. We like having them around. Sometimes we "Raawwk" at them and they talk back.

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 04:14 PM (uCfKO)

44 Nevermore

Posted by: The Raven at April 26, 2025 04:15 PM (mT+6a)

45 The ospreys have returned to town from their southern vacation. One cruised about 10 feet over my head when I was walking with Elvis down at the park last week. Fun watching them fishing as long as you aren't a fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 04:15 PM (viF8m)

46 Nevermore
Posted by: The Raven

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Can I quote you on that??

Posted by: muldoon at April 26, 2025 04:16 PM (uCfKO)

47 I could've watched that penguin all day long.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 04:18 PM (CQE5S)

48 Afternoon, Pet Folken,

Yes, little Bro did look almost like a puppy after his shearing. Does the hair on certain dog breeds continue to grow throughout life? I thought not, thus the term "fur." Certainly my cats' fur grows only so much and then stops. When Chekov D. Siberian was sheared in '21 to remove some clots and mats in his fur, the fur grew back to where his coat had been before the shearing, but no longer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 04:18 PM (omVj0)

49 Piper is beautiful, Muldoon. How sweet.

It makes me sad remembering how much Jewells loved her shelter pups.

RIP sweet lady.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 04:19 PM (mT+6a)

50 I have a question. Our cat , Pynchon, is training for the "Door dash Olympics" and wants to go out at any opportunity. I think I asked this last year. We need to get a good flea collar. Whatever we had last year we needed to replace because it made him really uncomfortable and he scratched a lot. I can't recall what we ended up with .Is there a good collar to get in a pet store or is something I should get from the vet? Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 04:21 PM (E+ZXg)

51 Black Orchid, you mentioned your Bengal cat earlier this morning. I'm glad he's doing well. My recommendation of a water fountain still holds, if you didn't see it earlier: the sort of thing that you plug in, fill the reservoir with water, and then the water recirculates through a filter. You have to replenish the water every day or so. The moving water seems to attract a cat and get him to drink more often. Not expensive either in purchase price or power consumption. Even so, it'll be worth it if it prevents kidney or urinary problems.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 04:22 PM (omVj0)

52 Beautiful group of pets.

Sitting outside right now, there’s a striking young male cardinal either trying to seduce a mate or working to elect the next Pope.

It does sound like he’s saying “Erdo”

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 26, 2025 04:25 PM (I8nLU)

53 Personally I would never put a collar on a cat. Capstar pills are cheap and very effective

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:25 PM (oXfCm)

54 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 26, 2025 03:18 PM (QnmlO)

Aww, poor Diana. Hope she's doing better soon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 04:25 PM (SJYYw)

55 Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:25 PM (oXfCm

Thanks. It that available in a pet store?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 04:26 PM (SJYYw)

56 Decades ago the vets' thinking about urinary blockages in male cats was that ash content in even wet food could lead to problems. I carefully selected low ash % canned food for big red tabby Arizona. He still developed the problem when he was about six, but it never recurred. He always drank from a bowl of fresh water.

UTIs are another story. As I mentioned earlier, big black Stirling developed just such a case when he was about six months old. (I asked him where he'd been partying to pick up such a thing, but he declined to answer.) He's been fine since.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 04:26 PM (omVj0)

57 9 so my first ever cat has been an education. first dealt with food and environmental allergies (a whole lot of them too) and that was two years or so of weekly immunotherapy injections for him

now just a bit ago he went a bit crazy around bedtime, trying to pee and just squeezing a bit out, I called the 24 hr ER vet and they told me to get there ASAP

his ultrasound and X-rays were clear of a blockage or anything obvious so I chose not to have him admitted for further testing/procedures and treat him with some meds and take him to the normal vet yesterday.

that's going ok but the meds really knock him out and it's a little scary. that said right after his first dose he peed like a racehorse so.

I'm too nervous still to sleep I just check on him constantly the poor thing! hoping we'll both be calmer after the 10 days of medication ends, I dunno.

I'm a little freaked out by this. allergies sucked but they weren't going to kill him or anything.
Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

Sending you tons of extra strength I found lying around here.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 04:27 PM (CQE5S)

58 Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 26, 2025 04:25 PM (I8nLU)

I love male cardinals. Not in any inappropriate way, I mean. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 04:28 PM (SJYYw)

59 Posted by: Black Orchid at April 26, 2025 03:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

Sorry. That sounds very hard. I hope rough places are made smooth for both of you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 04:31 PM (SJYYw)

60 Come to think of it, Marie-Antoinette the smart black cat (RIP) suddenly developed a blockage one day when she was about six. I'd seen the symptoms and rushed her in, even though she was a female cat and this was supposed to be a male cat problem.

It turned out Marie was way ahead of her time: a gender-fluid cat. *She'd been born male* but her little batteries had never descended, and so all her vets in the past had mistakenly "assigned" her as female.

The blockage was cleared up and never recurred. But we couldn't change her name. What were we going to call her, "Murray" Antoinette? And to this day we still call her "she."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 04:31 PM (omVj0)

61 Fen, I found them at Atwoods . They do carry it at Walmart.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:31 PM (oXfCm)

62 >>I love male cardinals. Not in any inappropriate way, I mean. 😉

I've got a boatload of them. Regular customers at my bird feeder.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 04:32 PM (viF8m)

63 My big boy kitty loves cardinals too. He left part of one at the door this morning.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:34 PM (oXfCm)

64 Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:31

Thanks very much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 26, 2025 04:36 PM (E+ZXg)

65 63 My big boy kitty loves cardinals too. He left part of one at the door this morning.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 04:34 PM (oXfCm)

Good boy!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 04:39 PM (CQE5S)

66 Here's a view of one of the happy couples. Hopefully, there will be baby soon.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7rw985

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 04:39 PM (viF8m)

67 66 Here's a view of one of the happy couples. Hopefully, there will be baby soon.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7rw985
Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 04:39 PM (viF8m)

Super!

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 04:48 PM (CQE5S)

68 As usual, BluebirdOfBitterness.com has two Caturday posts. Today including a bunch of funny furry feline memes.

Posted by: mindful webworker - meow at April 26, 2025 04:48 PM (+bW3+)

69 Conor: much-loved, much cool.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 04:52 PM (CQE5S)

70 Hrothgar, Connor looks adorable.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at April 26, 2025 04:59 PM (yTvNw)

71 Personally I would never put a collar on a cat. Capstar pills are cheap and very effective
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025

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I'd try it, Ben, but I'm not sure even my good-natured cats will accept a pill. Is there a topical you've found to work? I tried two treatments of PetArmor and it hasn't done much. Advantix? FrontLine? Revolution?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 05:01 PM (omVj0)

72 what are your thoughts about ~~crows and~~ ravens?

It's an easier season when they only annoy me twice.

Posted by: DaveA - Stihlersfan at April 26, 2025 05:04 PM (FhXTo)

73 Tough crowd. I like crows. They have personality.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 26, 2025 05:06 PM (viF8m)

74 Wolfus, giving them a pill is not that difficult. Cats are much more sensitive to topicals than dogs. Will your cats let you pick them up?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 05:07 PM (oXfCm)

75 >>>NR Pax:
On the left is our dog Kroger on the right is our guest Shanti. As you can see, Kroger was sharing his bed under protest. Thankfully, no squabbles broke out from it.

From just the photo--not looking at your description--I don't see clues about who is the bed-owner and who is the guest/interloper.

Posted by: m at April 26, 2025 05:09 PM (CQE5S)

76 Finches have their gold coat on.
Wrens are back.
Waiting for the grosbeaks to visit.

Posted by: DaveA at April 26, 2025 05:09 PM (FhXTo)

77 jewells z"l

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 05:10 PM (RIvkX)

78 That was a very lovely memoriam

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 26, 2025 05:10 PM (RIvkX)

79 One of our gaming friends adopted a new babycat yesterday. Everybody, say hi to Emet

https://is.gd/06BHqv

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 26, 2025 05:11 PM (DIweC)

80 Wolfus,
Lucy gets oral medication every day twice a day.

I pick her up, put her next to me, pry her mouth open and drop a pill on the back of her tongue.

Not difficult.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 05:11 PM (mT+6a)

81 76 Finches have their gold coat on.
Wrens are back.
Waiting for the grosbeaks to visit.
Posted by: DaveA at April 26, 2025 05:09 PM (FhXTo)

My guess is down her by the bay we have about 1100 types of birds.
There is shit flying down here like Jurrassic Park.

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 26, 2025 05:12 PM (gbOdA)

82 Wolfus, giving them a pill is not that difficult. Cats are much more sensitive to topicals than dogs. Will your cats let you pick them up?
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025

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Sure; Stirling is big but lets me hold him for a time, and Dagny kicks sometimes but frequently holds still. My experience with cats and pills has been unfortunate. If there were a way to wrap the pill in some food they like -- but I've tried those pill pockets, and they don't work easily.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 05:13 PM (omVj0)

83 nurse, yep. If I have to deal with one that is fussy I just wrap them in a towel, put them head facing away from me in my lap, open their mouth from the interdental space and place the pill far enough back they have to swallow

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 05:16 PM (oXfCm)

84 Used to have a kid's book, Little Bird Tweet, with illustrations. Would "read" it to my Senegal. He would go Wheee! for every page except the crow page. Then he would blow raspberries and say Arrrgh. Crows were mean to him that time he ran away from home.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 26, 2025 05:18 PM (0zUq5)

85 Little tuxedo cat Oreo had to take pills once. I'd get it in her, I'd think she'd swallowed it, and then p-tooey, out it came. It took three tries to get it actually down her gullet. And she was a very placid cat.

I'd hate to buy $40 worth of pills and find it impossible to get them down the cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 05:19 PM (omVj0)

86 Wolfus, I'll bet you could get Miss Linda to help you. You're only talking about doing this one a month to six weeks.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 05:22 PM (oXfCm)

87 The best present for Mom on Muther's Day is a Brattleboro FART Tube with there picture on it.

She be loves it and it be a collecters idem.

Gets thim while they last.....

Posted by: Mary Cloggionstein from Brattleboro,Vt at April 26, 2025 05:24 PM (3vVOG)

88 I had to give Lucy iv fluids twice a day for months after her acute kidney injury.

We wrapped her up in a towel, one kid held her, we hung the iv bag on the door and I poked her. We had to keep her still for 7-8 minutes while she got her fluids.

After that, pills are easy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 05:24 PM (mT+6a)

89 nurse, I'll bet you are a whiz at finding a vein. I'm lucky because because I can use an 18 ga. needle to IV the horses with

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 05:29 PM (oXfCm)

90 I love crows and ravens. At our place in Florida I feed the crows in the morning. They sqawk and then fly in and eat and chat with each other. They left me a shiney penny on the step of our rv. At least, I want to think it was them. They have never bothered our pups. In Utah, the ravens would land in our daughters yard but their doberman would chase them. I also love the magpies we saw in Montana and Wyoming. I would love to get to know them.

Posted by: Megthered at April 26, 2025 05:31 PM (IIgic)

91 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 26, 2025 05:31 PM (ypFCm)

92 Wolfus, I'll bet you could get Miss Linda to help you. You're only talking about doing this one a month to six weeks.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025

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Oh, she'd help. I'm not sure a squad of Green Berets would be enough, though. I tried gently prying Stirling's jaws open just now as he lounged on the counter top, and he resisted.

Is it possible to crush these Capstar pills up and put them in the cats' food?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 26, 2025 05:31 PM (omVj0)

93 From just the photo--not looking at your description--I don't see clues about who is the bed-owner and who is the guest/interloper.

Perhaps Kroger's annoyed expression does not come through well on the picture. But at least he shared.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 26, 2025 05:32 PM (lXCUP)

94 Wolfus, there lies the problem. You have to firmly hold the cats head and raise it and do it the attitude that this is going to happen.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 26, 2025 05:33 PM (oXfCm)

95 94 Wolfus, there lies the problem. You have to firmly hold the cats head and raise it and do it the attitude that this is going to happen.
Posted by: Ben Had

This is exactly it. Approach with the attitude of, “hey dude, this is going to happen,” and they sense it.

Ben Had, I didn’t have to find a vein, it went intradermal at the nape of her neck. Pretty easy actually.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 26, 2025 05:38 PM (mT+6a)

96 Well, he may not have made a ripple but Emet is very kewt

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 26, 2025 05:41 PM (wfTSj)

97 Piper's coloring is beautiful. Like whorls in wood. I am sure she is a good girl.

ACDs are a blessing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 26, 2025 05:55 PM (bss/y)

98 Hi Mom, here is your gift for Mother's Day

Not Jewelry and not flowers but a......................

Brattleboro FART Tube with your picture on it...........

What do mean I am an Idiot and get the F**k out of your house and never come back ????

Posted by: Allota Fagina at April 26, 2025 06:42 PM (cctO4)

99 KT I hope you feel better soon!

Posted by: isolden at April 27, 2025 08:21 AM (dB99g)

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