What did your pet(s) do today?

[Chad]

Hi,

It was like 105 degrees in Texas today so my cats napped all day with the occasional pet and kiss break. Now that the sun is down I will be surrounded by purring kitties positioning for love and affection.

Chad

[lusciouskiwi]

Nabiya went to the groomers today for a shampoo. I just had to buy her the sleeveless red teeshirt that says "If you think I'm cute you should see my mama". *grins*

And my cat sat curled, purring, on my lap for a whole 10 minutes this evening! Too tired to look for the shocked emo face.

[Soft*Silver]

today we discovered a litter of 3 kittens! Yes! And they are aout 3 weeks old. One orange, one white, and one tuxedo!

We adopted a lil stray kitty, Teeny Tina, from my daughter, who found her on her front porch. They kitty would not go away, so my daughter took her to the vet, got her shots and made sure she didnt have leukemia. The vet said she wasnt pregnant and wanted her to put on some weight before they spayed her. We took her, and were waiting for our local shelter to run their special on spaying kittens. She is an indoor cat..she is never outside.

So my husband who has the basement as his cave, heard some mewling down there. We have two side rooms in the basement, and upon investigating, found the orange one had fallen out of the nest Momma had made for them. And then he discovered the other two!

Holy moses! Three kitties! Well, they are ALL going to get spayed or neutered when the shelter runs their special ($5 a pound per animal, max $25 for cats)And we are keeping them all. I dont trust what the world would do to them. We have heard there are people who adopt in our area, for medical research. We are also in the middle of a dog fighting ring. And to make matters worse, the police uncovered a man who was adopting small animals to torture. Yeah, they arent going anywhere...

[SaltyButch]

My Dax should be recognized as a therapy dog, he has made me feel better so many days I have lost count. He snuggles up with me when I'm reading and just want to be quiet...today was a rough day..and as soon as I walked in the door he was there eagerly waiting to kiss me...he started playing with his toy and we then went and played ball. I'm not sure who got more out of it, him or me...but I feel better and he is contented.

[Jesse]

Today, Sadie and I spent some time together teaching her how to pick up her "babies" and put them back into her toy box. She says that she much prefers them to be scattered all over the living room, so I reminded her of the electric monster on wheels that vacuums the carpet, and mentioned how I'd hate to see it eat one of her "babies." Training progress picked up nicely after that conversation.

[Hollylane]

I bought one of these a few weeks ago:



but for some reason didn't use it with Chessie until today. WIN! This thing is AWESOME! Chessie was unable to bring himself to drag me down the street!

I'm also going to order a few of these:



because no matter what I do, my indoor cat food bowls are bringing in sugar ants. I'll let you all know if they work, because I am certain I am not the only one who has this problem.

[RockOn]

Both inched over and became a little snuggly against me about 4:30 a.m.

It was just the right degree of snuggling, I did not get roughed up at all. Kelly weighs 57 pounds and Kevin is at 104.

They don't intend it but their rowdy snuggling can become quite painful sometimes.

[Sweet Bliss]

Nothing like a predawn "WE HAVE TO PEE!!!!!" Whine and shake the bed fest.

Discovered roomie let both alpha cats outside before going to bed. I do not allow cats outside at night alone. Last cat fight with feral males almost cost Buddie her life. If I hadn't kept looking for her the infection would have killed her. You would think after spending almost two grand it would occur to someone to freeking pay attention to her responsibility to protect her charges.

But nooooooooo. Freeking grow the freek UP ALREADY. GEEZUS.

Okie dokie, done virtual screaming.

Inside voice, inside voice.

[Rockinonahigh]

Lately we have had some pet kidnaping going on hear,last week in a town not far from hear someone as driveing around the neighborhood then started picking up dogs that were out on the streets and in peoples yards if no one looks like they were home.What got them caught was an abservant neighbor who was walikng her dogs notices the strange car picking up a neingbors pet,she got the licence plate number and discription of the jeep as well as the person driveing even took a picture with her cell phone.She approached the car and demaned the driver to give back the next door neighbors dog.While doing this the police drove up and arrested the theif,all the dogs got back to theire owners by the end of the day.The person who did this is now in the city jail I do hope this isnt the end of it cause the perp should do time for breaking into someones yard to get one of the dogs.Im not shure what the law says about pet naping but I do hope something is done.This has happened to other folks but this is the first time someone got caught.
All the pet owners in my negihbor hood have now organised a watch to hopefuly keep this from happning hear,every one has provided a pictire of theire pets cats included,now all the fences are up graded plus now have looked gates.Locks only keep honest folks honest but its a start.

[Sweet Bliss]

Neighbor comes over to greet us this evening ......

N: you need to keep your cat Buddy at home at night!

Roomie : oh? Why is that?

N: she came over and got in bed with our friend ....

R: really?

N: ya, she shit all over him while he was passed out from drinking and fell asleep on him and the shit!


We explained that Buddy is not allowed out at night. The big grey feral male must have done it.
Maybe he drank the last beer.

[Chad]

Hi,

When I get up in the morning one cat must go outside for a territory check immediately (screaming at me). One cat must have breakfast right away (screaming at me) and the baby kitty laughs while I run around the house playing nursemaid to the other two cats.

Cat guy

[ruffryder]

The last couple days the pup has got to go with me to pick up and take momma to work. She loves to go for car rides. She pants though a lot in the car and I keep reminding her she needs to drink more water at home. As soon as we get home, to the water she goes. lol She is fast asleep right now on her Scooby doo pink blankie and earlier she was snuggled next to me and put her paw on me. soooo cute. I'll be waking her soon for a walk to go wee.

yesterday she got a nice oatmeal bath and smells sooo fresh. I call her oatmeal now. haha.

[Hollylane]

While looking at the status of the shoes I ordered from Amazon yesterday, it occurred to me that I may need a shoe safe. I have replaced the shoe below two times now, because Obi finds the straps to be magically chewlicious.

Yes, I realize that I am responsible for the destruction. I know better than to leave them within range of his mouth.

Recently, because Obi is one of two dogs that I share custody of with the ex, I was informed that his step-mother, Allison, had described Obi as a new form of shoe credit card. She says that every time he finds a shoe and destroys it, she gets to utilize the Obi credit card (meaning Hayden's credit card), and buy a new pair of shoes. Apparently, she is not as attached to her shoes as I am.

I think Allison is pretty funny, as long as she does not suggest involving my credit card.

[Contessa]

My mini dapple stole my wallet out of my purse in the middle of the night! I found it in her special hiding spot under the sofa...

[Parker]

When I was outside spraying the yard, Sally wasnt in here chewing on the bedspread or my chair or even my shoes, she was laying in her kennel, chilling.

The door was wide open so she didnt *have* to be in there; but when I came inside and the other 2 came running at me, I washed my hands, went looking for her, and found her in her kennel waiting for me to "let her out."

Such a good girl!

[Hollylane]

A few moments ago, Chessie noticed that his stuffingless fox was on top of the 4 foot high barrister case that my flat screen TV sits on, I just watched in slow motion horror as he stood on his hind legs, tipped the barrister case backwards, and the television crashed upside down onto the floor.

Thankfully the dog, barrister case, and television are all intact. I have no idea why, but they are. I am very grateful. I am also happy to report that I did not suffer a stroke, despite the sinking feeling in my chest and stomach. I hope the neighbors don't think someone was killing me over here, because I am certain that is what the screaming sounded like.

[Tommi]

I have a cute kitten, who has never done anything like this...well, she is over a year old, but still the baby of the family.

She has only chewed two things. Computer power cords, and takes the strap off Croc's to chew.

She did chew through my MacBook power cord, and I caught her gnawing on my work laptop while I was working on it at home. She eyed the iPad cord the other night, so now, all computer cords will be covered in Radio Shack cord protector chew proof plastic, AWAY from one power source addicted kitty.

[Hollylane]

It's 3am in the PNW. 3am. Chessie woke me up, with his endless whining that changes to a higher pitch with every minute that passes without me leaping up out of bed. It took a long time for him to rouse me, because I have had a total of about 6 hours of sleep in the last 72 hours, due to my stomach condition, and my brain probably realized that today is my day off.

Finally, I realized that the non-stop noise was not part of a dream, and I stumbled outside with my boys for an urgent predawn toileting.

No sooner had Chessie entered the yard, when in the pitch black night beside me, I felt him pounce, just as the security light popped on. To my utter horror, I saw that Chessie had a possum in his mouth.

OMD. OMD.

I didn't want either of my dogs hurting another animal, or getting hurt (I've seen possums tear up small animals when I lived in the country, and Obi is not a big boy like Chessie). Somehow, for like the FIRST.TIME.EVER. Chessie got that I was not fucking around, and dropped the animal the second time I told him to "leave it".

When Chessie let it fall out of his mouth, it dropped with a heavy thud. The animal was just lying there motionless, looking for all the world like roadkill. I mean you could not see any breathing going on, at all. Just as my mind kicked into gear, and remembered that it was a possum, and was likely playing "possum", the security light popped back off again.

OMD OMD OMFD.

I started dancing around, screaming, trying to get the light to pop back on because I couldn't see a damn thing. The light popped back on, and the possum was still on its side near my bare feet, but then I could see that he was breathing normally, and was peeking at me from one shiny black eye. The light popped back off again. The dancing and screaming resumed, and when it popped back on again, I saw the long tail of the little critter going underneath my deck. By this time I had both dogs by their collars, Chessie was whining and Obi was snarling at me, and I dragged them both back into the house.

I think I understand now why Chessie keeps getting diarrhea, he is sharing the yard with a wild animal, who likely is the carrier of the bacteria that keeps over blooming in Chessie's bowel. I am really grateful that he listened to me and dropped the possum, and that he has that soft bird dog mouth, and did not hurt the animal. What I am going to do about it, is a mystery at this moment. I do know that I am calling the vet later this morning.

I'm hoping that I will be able to get back to sleep, so that I can think more clearly about it in a few hours.

[Chad]

Hi,

So I was sitting at the computer and my baby kitty (8 years old) was laying next to the computer napping. I heard a smacking sound and looked at the kitty who was sleeping and I noticed that she was making sucking motions with her mouth....haha.

I guess she was dreaming of nursing on her kitty mom when she was a kitten. It was so adorable!

Chad

[BullDog]

The usual: cuddle, lick my face, bark, sleep, play in the yard, lounge on the couch and ottoman.

Right now: cuddling in the thunderstorm.