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Steezo I'm late to the party commenting on this but your cat is the most ridiculously and hilariously fluffy thing I have ever seen. He's like a haystack with a face! Is he a particular breed (like a Birman on HAIRY HAIRY STEROIDS) or is he just a mix of every single fluffy cat plus cotton trees and candy floss?
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Shifty Pony posted:I'm pretty sure you've got an exhibitionist streak too. You just let your fat cock run around in the yard where anyone can see it. I do recall a recent picture with your enormous cock just flopped right out on your lap. Also Super can't you just... verbally bullrush your mum and say "you actually know worse than nothing about dogs, please give this dog back/give this dog to me before you ruin the life of another living creature." I mean holy hell  I like dogs but I know how much time and investment is required for a happy pup, and I don't have that time so I don't have a dog. Why does she have a dog if she gives no fucks about it's well being?...would she notice if you put a stuffed toy dog in the crate and made off with the real one?
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Aug 7, 2012 06:37
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I sing songs to my kitten about how whiny he is and wax lyrical about how hard a life he must lead as a spoiled kitten princess  There's a reason I never said anything in the few videos I posted. Edit: \/\/\/ Congratulations! Now just a short wait until you have a squirming, wriggly little ball of energy to dote on 
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Aug 9, 2012 09:55
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lovely cellphone pic but... lesson learned...bread must be put away, not left on the bench.
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Aug 10, 2012 10:42
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Another alternative is to give her a peg mohawk - start at the skin between her ears and put two or three pegs down the back of her neck. It's painless and it's kind of like a super-scruff, our vet taught us how to do it when our pill-adverse cat needed to be pilled twice daily for a fortnight.
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Aug 16, 2012 21:14
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Two cats only, which I guess is pretty standard, but grew up with a German Shepherd and if I got a dog it would be another larger breed. I have an inexplicable dislike of small dogs which is a shame since my husband loves them. He also loves our kittens and has been spotted cooing "who is a fatty, who is a tub!" at them on rare occasions.
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Aug 23, 2012 01:48
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Yeah that sounds a hell of a lot like a possum. They're nocturnal and often do stupid things like bumble out in front of cars. They're relatively common where I live but if you live in a suburb away from bush land you don't often see them. When I lived by a bird sanctuary I could hear the little fuckers on my roof all the time.
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Aug 28, 2012 12:29
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Shifty Pony, have you tried a covered litter box? Not a top entry one, but one with a roof and a cat flap to enter it. We got one because our kittens also liked to explode litter in all directions. It keeps most of the litter in the box and there's nothing for Purrcy to hang his rear end off. Cat-It have decent sized boxes - we bought ours to accommodate a 9kg male ragdoll so it's quite roomy.
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Aug 30, 2012 06:08
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Jumping on the all dogs are puppies bandwagon. This got me an especially amused look from the owner of a local pony-sized St Bernard I got to pat one day.
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Kiri koli posted:I don't get a lot of dog chat around the office (academics are more often cat people, in my field anyway), but just now a girl in my department posted about how she just has to have one of these puppies: Sweeeeeet they even have discount puppies, I'ma get me a bargain!  ...  I also love that their guarantee section entirely consists of "YOU WILL GET NO REFUND UNLESS YOUR PUPPY'S ORGANS ARE GROWING ON THE OUTSIDE OF ITS BODY also we have no responsibility for the health of the puppy after 17 days" - they aren't even pretending that their puppies aren't genetic trainwrecks. Is it even possible to tell if a puppy has hip displasia after two weeks? Bash Ironfist posted:All those dogs in that link look like they just want to die. Dachuahua Terrier
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Nov 8, 2012 11:37
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Skizzles posted:just gonna leave this here It is a gargoyle squatting on a plum.
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Pretty Cool Name posted:Went with a friend to pick up her new kitten today, this is cactus: Ahhh Cactus the impossibly tiny kitten! I forget how small my cats once were and then I see an itty bitty picture like that.. One of Hugo's litter mates died this weekend apparently a fatal reaction to anti nausea meds injected by the vet to treat a bit of vomiting. It's kind of scary how quickly and unexpectedly these things can happen.. Hugo got fussed at a LOT last night.
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kaworu posted:In any case I miss the Hugo and Decoy thread I honestly do, you should post some pictures of your lovely cats! Here, in small hope of some level of reciprocation I shall post a picture of my own catte, the Lovely Ms. Jackie in a rare moment of, uh... not being shy about her enormous front paws. Who am I to deny a Hugo fan? Similar apologies about photo quality, one day I'll get a real one but that day is not today. Since it's summer and they spend most of the weekend romping around the garden I might be able to take some nicer shots later. Hugo says MY TOES ARE MADE OF BEANS.   Decoy's in disgrace after catching a massive brown bird and dragging it inside while it was still alive and shrieking. Ugh. Bastard has learned to stalk without jingling his collar.
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Dec 10, 2012 09:04
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kaworu posted:Yay it's Hugo! And he's just as cute as ever! For some reason Hugo really is one of my favorite PI cats (at the very least my favorite Antipodean cat) and I would steal him away in a second if I could, seriously Nope, Hugo's only trap is when you pick him up and about 70% of the time he'll start trying to kick his back claws into you because he's not thrilled by bring carried. That belly fur is looking particularly soft because he had just let me go over his entire body with a slicker brush - he even lets me extend his legs to brush right under them. And correct on the black/pink combo, although his feet look a bit darker in general because he'd just been tromping around in the garden. And yeah he really doesn't meet the docile ~breed standard~ because he not only defends himself when attacked but also is a pugnacious little snot, and screams like a banshee and attacks if a strange cat comes into the house (although he's much more chill about the garden). Now that he's almost Decoy's weight their squabbles are a lot more balanced and it is generally a coin toss as to who ends up on their rear end. They're still total buddies though and cat piles are a regular thing.
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Does he spring a trap when you try and pet and/or nuzzle that lovely soft-looking belly-fur? And it looks like his paw-pads are a combination of black and pink (best combination ever) is that correct? Anyway yeah he's a cutiepie. I hope he and Decoy are still best friends and make cat-piles. Although I imagine that Decoy is forever the dominant force in the relationship based on my memories of the previous thread.
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Dec 28, 2012 11:28
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So I had to take my cat back to the vet today because - after ripping all his claws down to bloody stumps at Christmas because I don't even know - half a frickin' paw pad cracked off. Vet cheerily informed me that this was normal given the injuries he'd managed to inflict on himself, and that the same pad on the other foot was about to go too - "it might be a bit oozy!". Now he's dropped that pad too, and somewhere in my house are two crusty loving cat oozy whateverthefuck discarded paw-pads which I am sure I will find by standing on them. His paw is indeed oozy, and he's zooming around the house with severe cabin-fever trying to stick his  on everything I own. 
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That cat is rad! Like a rancid mongrel version of Hugo. I suppose there is literally zero way of Moses not eating his face if he's around for any length of time is there. Maybe your parents could take him and maybe Gumbo is too stupid to eat him 
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So at the moment we have a multi-millionaire businessman in our city mistaking wealth for importance, and he has been dominating headlines by hiring out halls to basically preach poorly educated bullshit about how terrible the SPCA is and how cats are native-bird-killing death machines. I don't deny that cats catch birds, but the way he's talking every single cat survives exclusively off a native diet and catch fifteen birds per day. Quite aside from the fact that he's choosing to ignore the significantly higher impact of other introduced predators in the area (possums, I'm looking at you), he is also firing wild pot shots at the SPCA, claiming their TNR programme is actually "encouraging cats to breed even more" (???), somehow providing these wild deathmachines with top notch medical care 24/7 so they can continue their reign of terror far beyond the lifespan of a normal wild cat and is somehow, magically, adding to their numbers. He has also non-ironically made Wanted posters of the local SPCA board members, basically calling them crazed killers of birds. In a nutshell, he's calling for a ban of cats in an entire suburb, for everyone to cover their cats in bells and keep them inside 24/7, and for no one to ever buy a cat ever again. He is graciously allowing those with cats to live our their natural lives, so we don't have to euthanise existing pets. Aside from the sheer idiocy of this guy, I've been laughing because far from being a ruthless killer of birds, Hugo can't even catch a toy mouse without overshooting by at least a foot. The only living thing he has ever caught is a bumblebee, which ended as you'd expect. But today, TODAY, I heard the "mrr! mrr! mrr!" of a successful kill and opened the door to find............... ........Hugo bleating excitedly around the bread crust he had FEARLESSLY hunted from somewhere, prancing and dancing around like he'd just felled the mightiest creature in all the lands. He then cheerily bodyslammed it and rolled around until the crumbs were all through his fur. Killer of All The Things, that's my Hugo   For the record - my cats are collared, chipped, are only allowed outside when we are at home and are kept inside at night. The window for them to catch anything is minuscule.
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My family has always named their pets people names - growing up I had a GSD called Josh and a black cat called Sebastian. I've carried on the tradition with Hugo, and my next cat is likely to be a Bruno. My husband named Decoy so that doesn't count. My suggestion would be to call him something short and easily twisted into something else. Decoy mostly gets called Decoy, the only nickname he has that is based on his actual name is Doodlebug (unless you count Dickbag, but they both get called that when they're being naughty). Hugo, however, as a list of nicknames the length of my arm because it's so easy play with - Hugert, Hugort, Hugonort (Huguenot), Hyoog, Hoog, Huge-o (when lifting him), Hugie, Hugette and Hugorino to name but a few.
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Speaking of insane rescue people: on Facebook today I saw a post by Paw Justice in another city warning cat owners that some douchebag has been laying out poison-laced cat food the length of a street because they're a loving rear end in a top hat. Most of the comments were of your usual "Oh my god that's awful, I can't believe anyone could do that" variety, and then up popped your common garden insane-small-town-animal-ladies. Aside from the perennial "MY FURBABIES THEY ARE LITERALLY MY CHILDREN, ALL OF THEM, I AM THE FURMOTHER", one person blamed foreigners because "you know that Koreans kill dogs in front of people, and if you complain they poison all your cats (this is a true story it happened to a friend of a friend)", with further corroborating evidence from another poster with "China skins cats you know." Then there was another person going...off on a...big spiel of text....like this.... about how cats are terrible and how anyone who helps strays is a murderer of birds (meh, probably true), and then in a further post asking for advice on how to discourage stray cats from coming to her house "Anyone know how to get rid of them?? I have three that keep showing up so I feed them every night but they keep coming back??????? So confused???? I don't want them in my garden or by my house, how do I make them go away???"
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When we fostered kittens from the rescue I got Decoy from, I was surprised how well it all worked given that the kitten coordinator is basically a hoarder (the kitten rescue is her house) using her hoarding powers for good - all the kittens leave eventually. She supplied all the Royal Canin, and technically all the litter (horrible paper pellets we had to stop using) and told us to put any vet bills on the rescue tab. We kept them for a month, but it was easy to give them back because we'd focused all our efforts on "help them grow and socialise them to give them the best possible chance at being adopted quickly." One was adopted within days, and the other was at the shelter for another 3 weeks before being adopted. We were really happy to hear they both found homes. I toy occasionally with the idea of fostering again, but dunno how my cats would take it given we came home to find Hugo deathstaring at the kitten's door every single day, and when they cried for attention Decoy would turn into a hissy shitbag. Cohen's a really gorgeous pup too, although you probably knew that. Tamarillo fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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 Aw yeah, fleas in my underwear drawer. Thanks Hugo.
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Greasecats are the saddest cats. There are a grimy cats like this on the way home except they are actually owned by people, they just get fed utter poo poo. About a month ago I went to visit my grandparents in their retirement village and there was this big black and white tom cat who decided to move in with a lonely old widow - she doted on him and could probably only afford the budgetest of budget brand food and he was the roundest, most greasiest ball of gross ever and left a layer of grime on my hand after I finished patting him. At least he was getting reliable food from somewhere 
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Just LOVING the experience of living next door to a pair of retarded new puppy owners. The puppy shrieks A LOT, their approach to training consists entirely of "SIT! NO! SIT! NO! NO! SIT! NO! SIT! NO! SIT! NO! AAAAAARRRRGH SIT! NO!" and they snatched Hugo off the fence and shoved him in the new puppy's face to, I assume, get him used to cats. I approve in principle with the idea of getting dogs used to cats but hey, way to ask me first before grabbing my cat to use in your loving retarded haphazard approach to dog ownership you cunts. E: \/\/\/ I wish that was my next door neighbours Honestly, I think dogs are rad and would not mind living next to one except that these guys are oblivious assholes and they are going to turn this pup into a neurotic, untrained mess.
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Zenithbliss posted:Yeti Dog Artie is so ridiculously, over the top cute. Nothing you own will ever be free of white hair again. Do you rub your face in his side and go "BRRRRRRRRRRRRR"? Because I think that is what I would do for at least five minutes every day. We had a couple up the road from us with a Samoyed. They'd take the dog on walks and every time I saw them the dog was prancing along going "I AM ON A WALK IT IS THE BEST THING EVER TODAY IS MY FAVOURITE DAY!" and doing big swishswishswishes with it's huge poofy tail.
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Welp, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Hugo just climbed to the very top of his brand new 6ft cat tree, went "blerk!" and as my husband and I turned to look at him he power-spewed all the way down it, hitting almost every layer and the floor but somehow miraculously missing Decoy, who was asleep on one of the lower levels. After a moment of stunned silence, he did one final "blergh!" for good measure then huffed off. He's fine, he just ate his food too quickly so at least he's not ACTUALLY sick but....dude, did you HAVE to climb up to the top of the tree before spewing everywhere? 
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Hey Sadie...Saaaadie...it's FLOOF-OFF TIME. That's right, it's winter time and extra thick ragdoll ruffs are all the rage right now.    (Hugo says no more)  (And Decoy just because, though he will never ever win any floof-off competitions)
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Cesar Milan has invaded my city and there are a bunch of interviews going up on news sites and the comments make me so angry I want to scream a lot. I can't believe some loving people ggaaaaaaAAAAAHHHH Including some loving muppet who insisted that choke chains were called check chains (all those milan haters made up the 'choke' name and its just not true!!!) and were gentle and loving and the best way to control your dog and wtffffffffffsjdffjdksjsjajsjdjfj
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I think I broke my cat with clicker training. I taught them that click means treat, then taught them to stand on their hind legs to get treats. Now whenever I use the clicker Decoy starts spinning in mad circles on his hind legs , hopping and staggering about waving his front paws on the air. I tried to teach him other tricks but the second he hears the click he defaults to trying to walk around on his hind legs like a people and is so excited about TREATS that he doesn't pay attention and won't calm down enough to do anything else. Hugo bolts over when he hears the clicker, stares, then flops on his side like a fainting goat  Such a muggins.
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 Decoy just picked up one of those really big and thick knotted rope dog chew toys from the neighbours and carried it back over the fence to our yard. This rope toy is almost as big as he is, but nope gotta get that toy over the fence and back home! Poor next-door dog is going to end up with no toys. It's not the first time Decoy has run off with one of his toys. Fake edit: aaand as I was writing this he snuck up and reared up to steal a bread bun right off my plate.
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Shnooks posted:My new cat has a cold and wont eat. We took him to the vet and he had a fever so he's on antibiotics now and still won't eat. Eat, stupid cat t 1. Put wet food in microwave 2. Heat until it smells so bad you want to gag 3. Check it's not so thermonuclear that it will burn your cat 4. Serve
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Emotional Vegan posted:and they can be outside as much as they like and eat mice and birds and spiders and whatever else they come across. i’m pretty sure it’s gonna work because cats like to catch things that move, and mice, birds, spiders, and lots of other things are frequently spotted moving these days.  They like to catch them sure, but not necessarily eat them... As an owner of a cat who is allowed outdoors when we are at home, he eats exactly NOTHING he catches. He only hunts for fun - although if he was dying of malnutrition from retarded-owner disease, maybe he would eat a thing.Also some cats have negative hunting abilities. I'm pretty sure that if I told Hugo "welp, you're an adult now, time to hunt for your own food" he would die in about three hours.
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There is a story in the paper today about a batshit insane woman who spied on a family in the town she was holidaying in and decided that on the basis that a) the purebred husky was blowing its coat therefore 'was not groomed' b) the purebred husky was walked on a lead and not allowed to run free as nature intended and c) the dog was chained to a kennel when tiny children who were scared of dogs were visiting; all of this meant that the dog was being horrifically abused and instead of calling the SPCA for a welfare check, her only option was to steal the dog in the middle of the night and drive it 7 hours to her house and try to register the dog as hers. The frantic owners managed to track her down after putting flyers everywhere, Facebook page etc and drove 7 hours to reclaim their dog. Police said that the lady had good intentions therefore they wouldn't prosecute. The boyfriend of the dog snatcher joined the Facebook page to scream unintelligibly about how a well cared for dog wouldn't moult so much. The whole situation is a clusterfuck of I don't even know what and makes me want to go home and hug my pets.
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Because she thought the dog was suffering~~~!!! There are now lots of people going "oh yep, my neighbours have a TV I don't see them watching often, looks pretty neglected to me! Better go rescue it, good intentions and all!" And yeah it makes no loving sense, and I think the owners are investigating legal options and filing a complaint with the police investigation. Good intentions have exactly nothing to do with it, and its unusual for the police to be so subjective about something. The woman got a warning, but no charge. She was stupid enough to like the Facebook page and publicly identify herself though so I think she's on the receiving end of a little vigilante outrage herself. Tamarillo fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jan 22, 2014 |
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Sooo Facebook tells me that a childhood friend who now lives in the middle of a busy city just got....... ~ A CUTE FLUFFY POLAR BEAR PUPPY MAREMMA!!!! ~ and one of her friends was also excited because omg she has a 6 month old maremma too and she's so cute but gosh so big!! .... I haven't actually really talked to her in a few years so am trying very hard to just sit back and watch the fireworks rather than pipe up with "oh wow I didn't know you moved to a farm!". I checked the breeder's page wondering who the Christ would give a maremma to someone with that living situation and whole the vast majority of the pups go to farmers (phew) when they have excess puppies they appear to go wherever they find homes (oh wait) and the breeder was also enthusiastically recommending the breed to an interested person asking if they'd be a good companion animal for their elderly parents (oh poo poo). I feel sick for that poor dog with any luck it has no drive and will grow into a fat lump that does nothing..
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