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We represent the Lollypop Guild! The Lollypop Guild!  The Lollypop Guild!  Spent the past week cat-sitting for my dentist. There were theoretically three cats, but the only one that I saw was Daphne the Munchkin. And in further pet nonsense, this is currently in our garage.   My father and I found her wandering the parking lot of the lake/wetland/reservoir area where we go walking. I'll be taking her to the Humane Society tomorrow - my parents don't want her and I can't keep her, as I'm starting grad school this fall. She's a lap kitty  .
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Need more pics of munchkin cat. 
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Jul 24, 2012 04:50
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Skizzles posted:Need more pics of munchkin cat. I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.    
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Jul 24, 2012 05:11
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Looks just like my Animal!  Animal was white with a seal point nose and tail as a kitten, she looked just like Daphne when she was a young 'un.
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Jul 24, 2012 07:40
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Anyone know a reputable website that sells Timberwolf dog food? We have a client who's local store stopped carrying it so she has to drive pretty far to buy it, now.
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Jul 24, 2012 12:02
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I'm really interested in the coloration on those two, that subtly mottled effect. Is it basically a tortoiseshell siamese combo?
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Jul 24, 2012 12:03
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Andrias Scheuchzeri posted:I'm really interested in the coloration on those two, that subtly mottled effect. Is it basically a tortoiseshell siamese combo? According to the note left by her owner, Daphne is "mink colored", which is apparently a variation of siamese. Cat Color Genetics posted:Another set of mutations of color has been introduced with the Siamese and Burmese cats from Asia. The Burmese carries the gene for Sepia color (cb) and the Siamese carries the gene for Pointed color (cs). These are alleles at the albino (C) locus; when they are combined (cb/cs), as in the Tonkinese, "mink" colors are produced.
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Jul 24, 2012 12:41
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Yay! My application went through without a hitch. Look at who I shall be meeting up with on Friday: I hope she likes me.
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Jul 24, 2012 16:14
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How handsome! Congrats.
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Jul 24, 2012 16:18
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More awful craigslist pet things!  Hm, a live animal for a sweet rear end dagger or a "music thing". And it's for their 2 year old. Sounds legit.  e: it didn't break tables in the preview 
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Jul 24, 2012 18:11
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Argh I've had my own poopocalypse today. A cat pooped outside of the litter box, which none of them have ever done before. I went around investigating my cats and found a smelly, horribly poop covered culprit. Why did it have to be the only long haired cat, whyy? He suffered the tragedy of a bath. A disgusting, messy bath. His butt is red and he's really sensitive about it being touched, so he must hurt. Vet appointment made. Cleaning everything that has been touched by poop. So much poop.  I feel so cruel for bathing him because he looked so sad. He's such a sweet boy and didn't even try to bite or scratch me, just sadface escape attempts. Ugh he's my favorite little boy, why is there something wrong with his butt?
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Jul 24, 2012 18:43
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WolfensteinBag posted:Anyone know a reputable website that sells Timberwolf dog food? We have a client who's local store stopped carrying it so she has to drive pretty far to buy it, now. Don't know of one, but it's worth asking Petflow to carry it, they have an item request dealy.
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Jul 24, 2012 19:25
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It took two trips to the shelter and a stop at the township office to get a voucher, but stray kitty is now safely ensconced at the Human Society. Now I just have to decide if I'm brave enough to call in this evening for an update.
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Jul 24, 2012 20:21
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Up the road from my house is a gnarled old apple tree in the middle of the median of a busy road. Every year I watch the apples fall on the ground and rot or roll into the street and get squished. It seems so wasteful! So this year I decided to hike over there and collect some. I ended up with about a pound of tiny, firm, bittersweet apples. They weren't good to eat out of hand, so I decided to bake them into something. Husker approved.  He wants them so bad
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Jul 24, 2012 22:55
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Random dog question. How common is it for a dog to not be able to wake up quickly? I'm used to most dogs just popping up the instant you walk in a room, but my dog has these weird stages where he'll whimper and twitch in his sleep and when I try to wake him up, it requires a lot of effort, loud voices, and paw or ear tugging/squeezing. He never bolts up either, just kind of opens his eyes and looks dazed for a second. I'm wondering if I should see a vet about it.
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Jul 24, 2012 23:48
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How old is he? My older dog has been like that since we got her when she was four, but she's become an even heavier sleeper as she's gotten older.
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Jul 24, 2012 23:50
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I'm not sure to be honest, the shelter we got him from 2 years ago said he was 10, but I have no idea. Vet says he's between 4 and 8 (I don't think they had any idea either). Hasn't had this problem until about 6 months ago. I'm not too worried about it, just trying to be cautious in case it's something I need to keep an eye on. Other than that he's healthy.
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Jul 25, 2012 00:05
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Sometimes Koji is the hardest loving dog to get up. You can even pick him up to set him on his feet and if he doesn't want to wake up and go he will go deadweight and just lay back down in bed (read:thump back in bed). Sometimes he'll get out really excited for something but other times we have to literally shove or practically toss him on his feet to get him up. v v
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Jul 25, 2012 00:32
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My cat Chief sleeps like the dead and he's done it ever since he was a tiny kitten. For the first few months it freaked me out to the point where I'd wake up in the middle of the night and hold a mirror in front of his nose just to see if he was breathing. Nowadays (he's six) I like to mess with him by lifting and dropping his legs and pushing him around the bed.
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Jul 25, 2012 00:53
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Bear Rape posted:Random dog question. How common is it for a dog to not be able to wake up quickly? I'm used to most dogs just popping up the instant you walk in a room, but my dog has these weird stages where he'll whimper and twitch in his sleep and when I try to wake him up, it requires a lot of effort, loud voices, and paw or ear tugging/squeezing. He never bolts up either, just kind of opens his eyes and looks dazed for a second. I'm wondering if I should see a vet about it. Your dog is dreaming. It takes a bit to wake someone out of a dream and dogs are the same way.
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Jul 25, 2012 00:56
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This is Maddie, my friend's 8 year old Vizsla, who is adjusting well to having a new baby in the house and not being the baby herself anymore.   Did I say adjusting well? That's the baby's toy. So maybe not so much.  Well, it WAS the baby's toy.  Waiting patiently for a treat: http://youtu.be/y8pZEm_EsCY This is awesome! She's decided it's her job to keep the pool free of leaves, so anytime she spots one floating, she jumps in and scoops it up. Notice her grabbing it while she's swimming, then dropping it on the concrete as she gets out. http://youtu.be/IsoIUj3GjBE Amberlyn fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Jul 25, 2012 |
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Jul 25, 2012 01:13
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What a silly dog I have a feeling that she will be best buds with the kid once she's old enough.
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Jul 25, 2012 02:44
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Amberlyn posted:This is Maddie, my friend's 8 year old Vizsla, who is adjusting well to having a new baby in the house and not being the baby herself anymore. Ahaha, that second video is so adorable. It's like having an automated pool cleaner! Wanna pat that good girl. 
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Jul 25, 2012 03:50
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Bear Rape posted:I'm not sure to be honest, the shelter we got him from 2 years ago said he was 10, but I have no idea. Vet says he's between 4 and 8 (I don't think they had any idea either). Hasn't had this problem until about 6 months ago. Any change in how he responds to voice commands or sounds when he's awake? Andrias Scheuchzeri posted:I'm really interested in the coloration on those two, that subtly mottled effect. Is it basically a tortoiseshell siamese combo? And both of these cats look like they are pointed tortoiseshell cats, yes. I personally would think that the non-Munchkin one is probably tortie + regular colorpoint restriction (aka the 'siamese colorpoint') and the Munchkin is tortie + mink like the owner says. This is based on the eye colors and the progression (I assume that adventure's avatar is the progression). Siamese colorpoint restriction cats start off white and darken, whereas the sepia and mink restricted cats generally start off a little bit darker than the colorpoint ones. The ones with the siamese colorpoint restriction also tend to have deep pale blue to dark blue eyes whereas the sepia and mink are more blue-green/aqua to pale green/green-yellow. Topoisomerase fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jul 25, 2012 |
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Jul 25, 2012 18:27
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The rats left a bunch of fruit chunks and spelt pasta on their top shelf, and I'm cleaning the cage, so I let Husker clean up the leftover food. He is a fan of this.
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Jul 25, 2012 20:06
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Topoisomerase posted:tortie + regular colorpoint restriction (aka the 'siamese colorpoint') This is based on the eye colors and the progression (I assume that adventure's avatar is the progression). Siamese colorpoint restriction cats start off white and darken. The ones with the siamese colorpoint restriction also tend to have deep pale blue to dark blue eyes Yep, my avatar is Animal aging. She was pure white, maaaaybe slightly cream as a kitten. Her eyes have always been pale blue. She was literally plucked off the street and brought to me, I'm sure she is from the common-er end of this colour's background 
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Jul 25, 2012 21:35
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^^^ I'd always wondered about your avatar. How neat! edit: Ahem, ladies~ 
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Jul 25, 2012 21:43
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I sprained my ankle at work last night and have been laid up in bed all day. Rory has been Very Concerned. My boyfriend tried to walk him while I was sleeping and apparently he wouldn't leave the bed
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Jul 25, 2012 22:46
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Some of the dogs got to meet a friend's baby today. Guthrie and Lucy are old hats when it comes to kids and Nori needed the exposure so those were the lucky three! At one point, Nori picked up one of his toys and brought it to Logan, then licked his toes He didn't know what to think of Lucy  Guthrie's tail wagging was super fascinating  And kisses were not welcome  Nori was having trouble understanding why the tiny human wasn't running after him to play.
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Jul 25, 2012 22:51
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Dogtime. This is Captain Jack. He was about to be euthanized because his overzealous mother basically licked his penis into nonexistence, but my family adopted him and he's quite fearless.    This is Rembrandt. he had the opposite problem- his penis is bigger than any of his legs and when it came out it wouldn't go back in. We got that fixed. he narrowly avoided being named Pickle.   But Tater is my favorite. I found her as a tiny worm-filled puppy abandoned on a curbside.   Tater pretty.
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Jul 25, 2012 22:58
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Hey guys, now you finally can get rid of your lawn mower for good, and replace it with the following animals of your choice!!! http://www.movoto.com/blog/novelty-real-estate/reduce-animal-unemployment-hire-a-goat/ I only need 267 chickens. So that means I only need to order another 259 to keep my lawn properly maintained..... ...and full of chicken poo poo.
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Jul 25, 2012 23:01
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Greycious posted:Hey guys, now you finally can get rid of your lawn mower for good, and replace it with the following animals of your choice!!! It would take me 73 sheep to mow my lawn in a day, only 49 to go. I could make it by next year! Of course I'm not sure how I'm keeping them just in my yard but who doesn't want free lawn mowing?
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Jul 25, 2012 23:57
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It says I would need 12 goats to do my whole property in a day. My aunt offered me a pair of her little myotonic goats as a wedding gift, maybe I should have taken her up on it. Might be cheaper than paying some guy to come out and mow my lawn once a week in the summer...
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Jul 26, 2012 00:21
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I want to hire guinea pigs just so I can say I've hired guinea pigs. 
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Jul 26, 2012 02:02
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RazorBunny posted:It says I would need 12 goats to do my whole property in a day. My goats never touched my grass and just ate all my blackberry bushes and roses and muscodine vines. They're great for clearing brush but mine just lol'd at grass unless I stuck them somewhere where there was literally nothing else to eat but that and hay. Then, they'd usually just eat hay. 
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Jul 26, 2012 02:03
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Superconsndar posted:My goats never touched my grass and just ate all my blackberry bushes and roses and muscodine vines. If I don't force my goats to go outside they will happily sit around the barn all day hoping I will forget to close the grain bin and trying to figure out how to get into the hay I have put up. They have acres of lovely brush and berry bushes but gently caress that they want to sit on their asses and eat grain. Their previous owner fed them a minimum of 2lbs of sweet grain mix a day each so I'm still working on breaking their goony habits.
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Jul 26, 2012 02:14
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Instant Jellyfish posted:If I don't force my goats to go outside they will happily sit around the barn all day hoping I will forget to close the grain bin and trying to figure out how to get into the hay I have put up. They have acres of lovely brush and berry bushes but gently caress that they want to sit on their asses and eat grain. Oh, mine were this bad too. Rather than grazing, they'd butt, kick, bang on, and yell at the door to the room where I stored my hay and grain if I didn't keep them so far away from it they temporarily forgot about it. They also wanted dog kibble and would butt my pyrenees away from his food if I wasn't there to stop them at meal times. One of them got into some paint once, and decided that he really wanted to eat paint from that day forward. If he found anything resembling a paint can he'd kick it while shrieking at the top of his lungs in an attempt to find paint inside. Goats are infuriating because they just go  at you while going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" at 1k decibels if you try to stop them from doing/eating something completely stupid.
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Jul 26, 2012 02:30
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Superconsndar posted:Oh, mine were this bad too. Rather than grazing, they'd butt, kick, bang on, and yell at the door to the room where I stored my hay and grain if I didn't keep them so far away from it they temporarily forgot about it. They also wanted dog kibble and would butt my pyrenees away from his food if I wasn't there to stop them at meal times. So they are even more annoyingly mentally deficient than a lot of the animals we've managed to domesticate, is what you are saying.
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Jul 26, 2012 02:56
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So finding the perfect squeaky toy for George has become a bit of an obsession for me. He's very picky about the sound but now I have a good idea of what he loves. Any time I am in a store with a dog toy aisle I find myself systematically working my way down it, squeaking anything that's big enough. I have developed an ear for squeaks like wine connoisseurs develop their palates. Then once I find a promising candidate I evaluate it carefully, trying to figure out if it will last more than one training session, if it has the appropriate squish factor, if it's big enough for him to really get a good bite on. More often than not, I put it back. I only realized how weird this is today when I spent about 20 minutes doing this at Target. The girl who was stocking the aisle looked at me like I was mad. I wanted to tell her that this was nothing, she should have seen me the time I spent 2 hours toy shopping at Petsmart.
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Reading 2tomorrow's post made me very happy to be the owner of a deaf dog for a moment.
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