Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 18

Courtesy EJ

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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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Thought about having little fishies in your back yard? Maybe some mosquito fish in the summer? You could make up some stories with the kids or grandkids.

A beautiful miniature fisherman and his floating house pic.twitter.com/Ubk5Ik1iPD
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 11, 2025

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Have a trampoline?

happy squirrel 🐿️😁 pic.twitter.com/JnKp6J2BJp
— Nature is Phenomenal (@AnimalGeoLife) October 11, 2025

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Meet The PetMorons

Hello. This is my Cat, on the deck rail one evening. Took the shot with a flip-phone and was surprised at how well it turned out. Cat's true identity will remain secret, LOL.
Love the pet thread, it's one of the highlights of my week!
-- JQ

Thanks, JQ! What a perfect photo for the season!

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Zack from Hilton Head Island
Rich

Zack just melts your heart, doesn't he?

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&&&

Name is Sejong, we took him in when my sister spent a week in the Hospital, and I couldn't leave a month old kitten alone at her place
Then my wife fell in love with him.
He is about three months old, and is growing like a weed, and unfortunately is still at that stage of being part velociraptor.
The old lady cats are not sure what to do about him besides complain.

Kindltot

What a charmer!

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This is Aliy a Silver Lab in Anchorage.
I post as Mudshark

What a beautiful dog! And already retrieving!

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

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, Oct 11

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 03:24 PM

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1 Critters!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 18, 2025 03:27 PM (u73oe)

2 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2025 03:28 PM (+qU29)

3 Everything loves a trampoline.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at October 18, 2025 03:28 PM (2QL9g)

4 PETZZZ

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 18, 2025 03:33 PM (z9w8r)

5 Awww, beautiful pet morons!

The squirrels on the trampoline was great. I love seeing wildlife having fun with our toys.

I have done a cat update #336 on our cats for anyone interested.

https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx

Expecting severe storms soon. So glad the kittens are no longer outside.

Posted by: Joyenz at October 18, 2025 03:35 PM (2F0/Y)

6 Zack looks like a large stuffed animal.

Posted by: m at October 18, 2025 03:38 PM (RuTUS)

7 Seen a few trampoline videos with different wild animals bouncing on them. To me shows animals can have fun as well.

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2025 03:47 PM (+qU29)

8 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at October 18, 2025 03:47 PM (sAmhv)

9 Sejong is a lert.

Posted by: Eromero at October 18, 2025 03:48 PM (NYK5k)

10 Woof!!! Love the pet pics. That photo by JQ is beautiful. Have a great weekend all.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 18, 2025 03:52 PM (e7fyg)

11 Got a couple of Moron pets wandering around TXMOME. The horse named George is free to roam around and stopped by Weasel’s safety briefing yesterday.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at October 18, 2025 03:53 PM (/jGcj)

12 >>>This is Aliy a Silver Lab in Anchorage.

How regal!

Posted by: m at October 18, 2025 03:55 PM (RuTUS)

13 Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel

uh-oh

Posted by: m at October 18, 2025 03:56 PM (RuTUS)

14 >>>>>Got a couple of Moron pets wandering around TXMOME. The horse named George is free to roam around and stopped by Weasel’s safety briefing yesterday.
Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at October 18, 2025 03:53 PM (/jGcj)
********
Since you are a Perfessor I’m guessing you have to deal with the other end of the horse otherwise known as students. How did George do?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at October 18, 2025 04:00 PM (e7fyg)

15 I've been through the desert
On a horse named George

I dunno, it just doesn't "sing."

Posted by: m at October 18, 2025 04:02 PM (RuTUS)

16 Looks like Corsicana got rain. Stay dry Hoard!

Posted by: Case at October 18, 2025 04:05 PM (9HFDU)

17 Great photos of the pets and what a striking photo of your cat, JQ.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2025 04:08 PM (PFs9e)

18 So one of the dogs we are babysitting was feeling really hyper and playful. She was grabbing every toy she could and throwing them around.

My dog Kroger took issue with her grabbing his head and we had to quickly intervene.

Posted by: NR Pax at October 18, 2025 04:09 PM (7xrfc)

19 Unofficial mascot of Bowling Green State University- a pudgy cat-and also how he helped one of the team players. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/nhakwnup

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2025 04:10 PM (PFs9e)

20 Posted by: m at October 18, 2025 04:02 PM (RuTUS)

I been through the desert on a horse named George

It felt good to get out of the gorge.

Sorry. it was all I could do on the spur of the moment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2025 04:13 PM (PFs9e)

21 George passed the safety briefing. He was wandering around the parking area this morning trimming the lawn.

Posted by: Perfessor Sqiurrel at October 18, 2025 04:15 PM (/jGcj)

22 I was afraid that Corsicana would get rain. Any toads come out?

Posted by: KT at October 18, 2025 04:16 PM (7vIsy)

23 Happy Félicette Day!

Félicette, The First Cat In Space

"On October 18, 1963, a cat named Félicette went where none of her feline ancestors had gone before: nearly 100 miles up into the sky. Riding in a container in the nose of a rocket, the slim tuxedo cat soared through the atmosphere, then landed safely back on Earth a quarter of an hour later."

The first cat in space was sent by...you guessed it...the Fwench!!

Posted by: pawn at October 18, 2025 04:17 PM (HqYKt)

24 19- Typo. Meant "Bowling Green State University football team."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 18, 2025 04:21 PM (PFs9e)

25 What's with tattoos on the kids that work in the grooming rooms at Petco and PetSmart?

I walked our six-year-old 19-1/2 pounds red-headed tri-color corgi Lily into Petco yesterday for a wash and nails, and was greeted by four well-decorated ladies. Arms, necks, and who knows what where else.

They were warm and friendly, and loved meeting Lily. I told them hey love your tats, can I tell you about body decor?

I had been reading that wonderful book "1491" which tells all about who lived in north and south america before the Columbian discovery, and told them about what the pilgrims observed. I know, I know, pilgrims came way after 1491, but the author needed to go there to establish some points about the mindset of the locals.

The indian men were tattooed on their arms, and most of the young braves and kids shaved their heads of hair, front hairline back maybe to mid-head, and entire right side (to keep hair away from bowstring, left if left-handed), and the remaining lock, rear and other side, was long like a horse's mane.

Face decor, and this was not warpaint, just decor, often consisted of a wide black stripe from chin up face and to hair line.

The girls though this cool.

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 18, 2025 04:21 PM (zeLd4)

26 I been through the desert on a horse named George
It felt good to get out of the gorge.

Sorry. it was all I could do on the spur of the moment.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

You did better than America; "George" and "Gorge" rhyme.

"Name" and "Rain?"

Posted by: mikeski at October 18, 2025 04:25 PM (nhCoE)

27 What's with tattoos on the kids ~~that work in the grooming rooms at Petco and PetSmart?~~
Posted by: M. Gaga

Your question was too specific, so I FIFY.

But I don't know the answer.

Posted by: mikeski at October 18, 2025 04:28 PM (nhCoE)

28 @22 KT.

A cold front moved through the Dallas/Fort Worth area bringing wind, rain, lighting. The front moved through Corsicana and surrounding areas. Hope everything's ok.

Posted by: Case at October 18, 2025 04:28 PM (9HFDU)

29 Afternoon, pet-tish people,

JQ, the silhouette of Cat looks very much like that of my late black Wolf and a couple of my other longhairs. And Kindltot, Sejong looks not a little like gray Dagny La Sibierienne.

Fenelon mentioned this morning that she saw a big handsome Siberian cat at the vet the other day, but didn't catch his name. There's a long tradition (since they came to America in 1990, at least) of giving Siberians Russian names; hence my own "Tatiana Romanova" and "Chekov." I broke with that by giving Dagny a Norwegian name. Though I did tuck "Sophia" in there, for her Russian-named mother.

Big black Stirling was sleeping with me during my nap just now. Then he followed me out and slid into my lap, nestling in the crook of my arm and tilting his big head up for petting. He doesn't stay long on my lap at any one time these days; he's too grown up to act like a kitten that way. But he's hardly aloof.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 18, 2025 04:32 PM (omVj0)

30 Great pet pictures today!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 18, 2025 04:36 PM (fsolL)

31 A cold front moved through the Dallas/Fort Worth area bringing wind, rain, lighting. The front moved through Corsicana and surrounding areas. Hope everything's ok.
Posted by: Case

It's still hot here. We got a squirt of rain. That's all.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 18, 2025 04:40 PM (3xZyM)

32 What breed is Zack?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 18, 2025 04:45 PM (63Dwl)

33 Sejong looks like he might be Maine Coon, or part Coon. The size of his ears and the tufts inside are very Coon-ish. He has a lot more white on his face than Dagny does; she looks much wilder, in some ways like an Asian Pallas's Cat, than does the average house feline.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 18, 2025 04:51 PM (omVj0)

34 Today we went to a church rummage sale and then a outdoor market in the suburban town just to the southwest of us. No pet stuff that I could discern -- at least none worth bringing home.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 18, 2025 04:58 PM (omVj0)

35 One of our outdoor cats was inside last night. They'll sometimes come inside, if for no other reason than to check stuff out.

He stayed for 5 hours.

On my chest. While I slept. Sort of.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 18, 2025 05:10 PM (Q4IgG)

36 Stirling sleeps with me nearly every afternoon, and most mornings when I wake I find him next to me. Dagny will show up on the bed about half the time, afternoon or morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 18, 2025 05:13 PM (omVj0)

37 Martini Farmer--winter's coming

Had a partly-outdoor hunter cat that would do the same when the weather changed.

Posted by: skywch at October 18, 2025 05:14 PM (uqhmb)

38 Sejong is full of mischief. Tabbies usually are.
*looks sideways at Lily, who's up to something*

JQ, I love your "Feline at Sunset" photo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at October 18, 2025 05:16 PM (kpS4V)

39
It's cold and windy here today. I got under the three blankets on the bed and my dogs burrowed under the blankets, right next to me.

Ahhh, it was wonderful and warm.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 18, 2025 05:16 PM (3ek7K)

40 If it's cold enough, my inside and outside cats can co-exist in the living room. Will be cold tonight.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 18, 2025 05:22 PM (kUxzU)

41 Trump can't stand fogs because he doesn't understand unconditional love I've for jim is transactional usually involving money.

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at October 18, 2025 05:27 PM (NPgbR)

42
Notsothoreau,

Any snow yet? We've had dustings here. Nothing major yet, thank goodness.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 18, 2025 05:28 PM (3ek7K)

43

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 18, 2025 05:30 PM (63Dwl)

44 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at October 18, 2025 05:32 PM (+qU29)

45
We don't get fog here. The air is so dry. Fog is spooky.

Posted by: fourseasons at October 18, 2025 05:32 PM (3ek7K)

46 Zack from Hilton Head is a standard poodle

Posted by: Rich at October 18, 2025 05:37 PM (oJb+b)

47 No snow. And this may not be a killing frost

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 18, 2025 05:39 PM (kUxzU)

48 Zack is a Silver Standard Poodle

Posted by: Heidi at October 18, 2025 06:03 PM (oJb+b)

49 Squirrels jumping on trampolines! (with apologies to the Man Show)

Posted by: Toxic Jeff at October 18, 2025 06:16 PM (qVlaK)

50 Fen, I live in Bowling Green OH and can promise you that any mascot from BGSU would have purple hair, a nosering, and a mask (even when outside or alone in a car).

Posted by: Cowboyneal - the Other Jewish Carpenter at October 18, 2025 07:32 PM (/jWPx)

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