Tell me about your pets.

[whippoorwill]

What are they, what are their names, what’s their story?

[Benjamin Grimm]

A dog, Sophie, and a cat, Trixie. Sophie will be 17 in September, and Trixie in December. Sophie is really showing her age, but she's alert and still has an appetite. I know that any month now I may have to make the difficult decision, one I've thankfully been spared with all but one of my previous pets. I hope she goes naturally, but there's no guarantee of that. After these two are gone, no more. I don't want to be in a position where I'm approaching eighty and also caring for elderly pets.

[metirish]

Wow that's amazing BG, you obviously take great care of them.

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Yoshi our Shiba Inu , 11 months old and a wonderful loving dog , he just got neutered and is wearing a cone , but he's doing great with it, and the vet says it will come off this coming Monday

[kcmets]

Kappy, pictured left, is a dog. He's almost 3½ years old. He (and his brother
Charlie who lives next door) are from Texas and are super mutts. They are
rescue dogs -- they rescued us.

- Kappy can do 0-60 in 5.3 seconds.
- They both love the hose, if either of us put on a hose
even when they're inside all hell breaks loose.
- Kappy is off-the-hook crazy. Charlie is a trained service dog
and doesn't require to be leashed.
- I imagine many of you have seen pics of them both on facegram
and instaboob...

[whippoorwill]

I have five cats. Our oldest is Marnie who is 17 this year. She came to us from the SPCA along with Bennie (whom we lost last summer). She’s doing pretty well considering her age and the fact that she’s refused vet visits for about 8 years now.
She’s black and white.

Next are Willow and Patchouli, mommy and daughter, whom we found in the yard about 12 years ago.
Patchy was prolly born that summer and Willow maybe the winter before.
There were also two other little ones, a girl and a boy, who are now in other homes.
Willow and Patchy are a beautiful silver gray.

Next is Smudge, whom we got in 2013 along with her brother Rusty. Rusty sadly died quite young and broke our hearts. Smudge missed him but loves her Daddy (Mr Cooby)
How ever she hates me.
She is a pretty calico!

Our baby is Cotton who pretends she is a Turkish Van but was found along a creek in the next county, not in a pedigree pet shop.
She does however love water and fearlessly bends in and drinks out of our pool.
Cotton was a devil child but she was too damn cute to give up on. We got her flea ridden little self at about four weeks and she just turned four years old.
Still wakes me up once or twice a night for a kiss and cuddle
She’s a beautiful white and Orange with a thick furry striped tail

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Saturn (top) and Mars each turned 13 this summer.

Saturn put on a lot of weight since this picture--it's not diet, he's just really big-boned (22 pounds). He's super mellow and friendly, set in his ways (he has to have everything as he likes it) and has begun to exhibit signals of being 13 and overweight (mostly struggles climbing and descending stairs, and sometimes getting all the way into the litter box).

Mars is as sprightly as he has ever been. He's athletic, lovably stupid and easily terrified. Attacks Saturn when his back is turned. His skill is meowing on command.

[whippoorwill]

I love when cats talk when you want them to!

[Benjamin Grimm]

My Trixie is very conversational. Whenever you talk to her, she answers with a meow. (Although she sometimes says "mert".)

[cal sharpie]

My cat, Bezukhov, talks quite a lot, especially around 7am when he insists on being fed. He is also somewhat of a ladies man - whenever any woman comes into the house he will sit next to her purring and will induce them into petting him.

[Edgy MD]

I have that same skill.

[MFS62]

Not pets per se, but these were our back yard visitors tonight.
Later

[Edgy MD]

We're down to one dog, and it's kind of ridiculous how indulged she is. She kind of looks like this.

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We're kind of treating the bunnies in our back yard as pets also.

[The Hot Corner]

My son likes to say that our pets are broken. We have 2 cats that my wife and I took in.

Mooch is a short-legged, black and gray tabby with only one good eye and has Feline HIV. He roamed our neighborhood as a homeless cat for 3 or 4 years. I started feeding him when I noticed him trying to eat the bird seeds in the grass beneath our bird feeder. It took almost a year of feeding him to win his trust. Then a much bigger (and apparently tougher) tomcat arrived in the neighborhood. I found my new buddy bleeding and wounded one morning when I went to feed him. That is when w took him in after getting his would patched up. He lives upstairs in the kids old bedrooms and enjoys sunning in the large Palladian window on the balcony. He has become a total lap cat. He is my reading buddy.

Duchess is a gray feral cat I caught and took in as a kitten. She showed up on our back porch as a little puff of gray fur. She weighed roughly 1.5 pounds and was 4-5 weeks old when I caught her. The Vet said she was obviously a sickly kitten that the mother cat kicked out. She is truly a one of a kind. She has a disproportionately small head, only 3 toes on her front paws, no upper canine teeth, and is missing half her tail. She has the run of the house, other than Mooch's upstairs suite of rooms. Duchess is my wifes personal shadow.

I feed two feral cats (surviving members of Duchess' family) that I trapped and had spayed. They are truly feral and mistrustful of all humans so I give them food and water and let them be.

[kcmets]

I miss Kasper.

Drove by the place where we left him today and cried.

[whippoorwill]

😿

[Fman99]

This is Wilmer (orange) and Cookie (torty). Named after Wilmer Flores and Cookie Carrasco, naturally.



They are litter mates, a local shelter put us in touch with a woman who lives in our neighborhood who shelters new litters and helps find the kittens worthy homes. They had six siblings, three other orange cats and three other torties, that were all adopted in pairs. Two of the siblings were adopted by my wife's friend Nicole.

Cookie is the more dominant personality of the two. Like most torty cats she's got an independent streak and is more likely to cause mischief, knocking things over and clawing at furniture, carpets, etc. Her favorite thing is to wait for you to notice her and then face the other way and stick her rump high up in the air to be petted. I call her "Butt Cat" now.

Wilmer, her brother, is more docile, and better behaved (he uses the scratcher to scratch). He is bigger and sleeps more and is easily startled. But he's also more inclined to pay attention to visitors and try to get them to pet him. Cookie gives the side-eye to basically everyone in the world besides the four of us who live here.

They're not really lap cats but will occasionally sit next to someone on the couch. My son is Wilmer's favorite, he's the only one who Wilmer will let him pick up.

We adopted them soon after moving into our current house. Our previous cat Mookie lived 19 years and covered the entire duration of time in both of our previous two houses. We miss him.

[kcmets]

I was allergic to cats most of my life but it's seemed to have run
it's course. Last Thanksgiving at my friend's sisters house her cat
was parked on my lap climbing up my arm and draping herself on
my shoulder and I had no reactions. Years ago I'd be breaking out
in hives, itching and scratching and having my throat swell up.

I feed a feral cat that looks like Wilmer. He hates me. Hates Kappy
even more. He likes kibble in the bowl by the garage...

[whippoorwill]

Feral cats are funny. I have had some that I couldn’t get near and one, Midnight, that became very close to me after a while.

When she went lame we brought her inside for the last few weeks of her life.

An absolute darling

But yes, they’ll eat their food 😻

[batmagadanleadoff]

I was allergic to cats most of my life but it's seemed to have run
it's course.... Years ago I'd be breaking out
in hives, itching and scratching and having my throat swell up.

Holy moley! Are we like secret identical twins? I'll guarantee that my allergies were way worse than yours no matter how terrible yours were.

[metirish]

Yoshi goes back to the Vet this morning, he should get the cone removed, we will all be happy for that , stitches look good

[dgwphotography]

As many of you know, this is Max:

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Frankly, Max saved me. Over 10 years ago, we saw Max at an adoption event held at the local Petco, where our daughter worked at the time. I had never had a dog, and everyone was shocked when I agreed we should bring him home. Three days later I was laid off from my job, on the same day my mom and I met with Connecticut Hospice to put my dad in hospice care. In the span of two weeks my life changed forever - I lost my dad, I lost my job, and I found Max. To say that he got me through the toughest time of my life is an understatement. He's around 13 now, and there's more and more gray around his face, but he's still my baby boy, the best friend I've ever had.

This is Ronni:

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seven years ago, We saw her at another adoption event from a rescue in Georgia. She was dumped with her litter of puppies, and she was laying there in her crate all depressed when all of her puppies were adopted, but she wasn't. I brought Max to see how they would get along, and we brought her home. She has basically become Max's annoying little sister, and has taken over watchdog duties letting us know when UPS or Amazon arrives - LOL

[metirish]

Beautiful dogs , I've always enjoyed your pictures of them ( in fact I remember when you switched to iPhone you posted a picture of Max to show how amazing the camera was )

[dgwphotography]

Thanks Irish - I remember that - I was amazed when I switched.

[kcmets]

Max has been a photogenic favorite here for both KB and I for many years.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Max is well-dressed, too. Glad he was able to bring comfort!

We have a black cat named Cookie Rojas after our favorite Mets coach. She is two years old and follows Tug, the black cat we had for just shy of 20 years. It was tough to lose him. Really tough. But Cookie is fun and quite the companion.