Oh, sorry, I have no way of sharing pics of my little aquatic friends, but if you go to youtube, there are vids of dwarf African frogs in tanks with fish. LOL
Post by CottonGinWaste on Nov 13, 2014 18:29:03 GMT -6
Wonder if there'll be a thread re sustainability? Got >30 chickens, 11 guinea fowl, ~35 rabbits, 2 cows, 1 guard dog. No 'house pets' currently, but maybe again someday.
Senona - totally suggesting a Shih Tsu (sp). Coolest small dog (as long as you're paying for a pet), maybe help you avoid comparisons with Bo-types and Max-types. Would your husband let you keep a dog if someone else gave it to y'all? (Notice the pleural giftees)
Wonder if there'll be a thread re sustainability? Got >30 chickens, 11 guinea fowl, ~35 rabbits, 2 cows, 1 guard dog. No 'house pets' currently, but maybe again someday.
Senona - totally suggesting a Shih Tsu (sp). Coolest small dog (as long as you're paying for a pet), maybe help you avoid comparisons with Bo-types and Max-types. Would your husband let you keep a dog if someone else gave it to y'all? (Notice the pleural giftees)
2 cows? Thought it was just the one Sounds like you guys are getting homestead
I haven't the foggiest idea about him and dogs One minute he's like cool with it, then it's like 'what do we need a dog for' -- just depends on what mood I catch him in but he does seem to be softening some on the subject
Lately I have stressed that I really would like one so it would give me something to do other than the usual crap Plus I miss going for walks...having a dog gives the perfect excuse to go walking without getting hassled from passers by
But if it was a 'gift' I'm pretty sure he wouldn't turn it down, especially if the little tyke was cute, marked pretty [not all white] & pretty eyes that would suck him in when he looked at him!! LOL And not all boney-like either. Max had meat & fur!!
I know he likes labs, that's the thing but.........we'll see
Of course, I might hear about it later on but hey, I can handle that Probably wonder if we were in this together...LOL
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ETA: No, think I'll pass on Shih Tzu's, not my cup of tea, so to speak Just looked them up...not the one I was thinking of
Last Edit: Nov 16, 2014 18:31:22 GMT -6 by Deleted
We used to have 3 cats, but 2014 decided it was going to be the Year of One before it ended. Our eldest cat died earlier this year, he reached the ripe old age of roughly 24. Those fluffy black cats appear to have longevity going for them! He was the neighborhood stray we took in when he was around 5-ish, I had him for 19 years. My husband constantly used to joke that he was a zombie, or that he was going to rename him Lazarus ("He was MIA for 4 days. I'm going to start calling him Lazarus")He was the most patient, mellow cat I'd ever had, he put up with everything from my younger brother dressing him in my doll clothes, to in the past few years, 2 kids dragging him all over the place. The only time he ever got "mean" was when I'd trim his nails. He's make all kinds of noise & lightly nip at me. That was about as iffy as it got with him, lol.
Our middle cat, a 10 year old tortie, was a shelter adoption when she was 2. We had to euthanize her a few weeks ago due to a nasty hemorrhage in her stomach (that was a horrifying barf puddle to find) and early-stage cancer. She was ... a challenge. She had been seized from an abusive owner as a kitten, who beat & starved her, so she was simultaneously hostile, and yet borderline annoyingly/desperately overly-affectionate (albeit cautiously) for a few years. She eventually outgrew that, she just needed a forever home to get comfy with. The desperately overly-affectionate thing she never did shake, that was an engrained psychological thing, "LOVE ME, LOVE ME, PLEASE LOVE ME!!!" That's why she spent over a year & a half in a shelter, no one wanted her with her issues. We figured hell, we'll give her a try, she deserves somewhere to go. She also had food allergies, and eating issues (kitty bulimia & food defensiveness) She liked to think of herself as the Alpha cat, but our oldest usually mustered up the energy to wallop her into place once in a while. Never mess with the geezers, lol.
Our youngest, an Orange tabby was another neighborhood stray, sort of. At an old residence, one of the neighbors moved out and dumped their two kittens outside (jerks) In the middle of the night. In the middle of a FL January squall. His sibling kitten was hit by a car, and he was up a tree yowling his little butt off. It took us a while of coaxing & freezing in the rain, but we eventually got him down & inside. He got out our door in a panic later when it was opened, took off like greased lightning. He bee-lined it into the engine of our car at the time. My husband spend about half an hour on his back in a muddy, oily cold puddle of rain trying to get him back out so he wouldn't kill him starting it up in the morning. Nearly 9 years later, they're inseparable buddies. He greets him at the door every day when he comes home, he even has bark-like chirps to convey things to my husband (so they kind of have their own little language going on the cat doesn't use with anyone else) When he's home, the furball's always on his lap. Always. or shadowing him around the house, they're rarely out of sight of each other for long. And, no shocker here, to this day, he hates being cold. We moved from a tropical climate up to a northern winter one, and let me tell ya, this is one miserable cat. He won't even look out the window for long (the cold filtering through bugs him) Every time we head out the door, he looks at us as if to say "Are you CRAZY! It's cold out there!" He spends a lot of his time huddled up under a warm blanket now, rotfl. The heater makes no difference, he knows it's cold.
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