Pets

[Airbrusher]

Well we all seem to be normal everyday people who share the common thread of Ecigs and I bet most of us have pets. Maybe it would be fun smallest (mostly) member of our families and share a little story about them.

This is Sasha our 4 yo rescue. My wife is a second grade teacher (I know, I know the last woman you would expect to be married to a guy who paints flames and skulls for dinner food...)and at her school someone dumped momma cat and all the kittens for them to find. Sasha was the runt and last one to be saved. We had a 17 yo cat already and my wife calls me asking if she could bring this one home. With some trepidation I said yes not knowing how the much bigger older cat would do. Well she came home and captured all our hearts. The older cat... Sidney lived a few more years and finally succumbed to her age so now we have Sasha.
... And yes she is the real lord and master in this Manor.

AB

I shown you mine now let me see yours...

 

[316lvm]

These are 2 of our 4 dogs and our cat.

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This is Pugsley Addams. Puggie for short. He has a broken left ear. He and his litter mates and mom were at the end of our driveway when some in a pickup truck decided it would be fun to run over them. Puggie took off and was missing for about a month. He ran about 4 miles through woods and farmland crossed a highway and wound up at a farmhouse.

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This is Mr. Elwood Peabody. Boots or Bootsie for short. He was the runt of a litter of 13. Momma kept kicking him out of the whelping box, so we wound up hand feeding him. It wasn't until the pups started walking that we noticed he had a deformed hip and leg and couldn't walk. I started physical therapy with him and now he gets around pretty good. We also noticed that his vision isn't the greatest either, but that doesn't stop him!!

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Boots and Stitch chillin' in the basket.

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Boots and Stitch. Stitch was a farm kitty. He was initially destined to be a farm kitty or at the bottom of the creek in a burlap sack. We changed that of course.

 

[316lvm]

What happened to my pics?

 

[316lvm]

Pugsley

Bootsie

Boots and Stitch

 

[Ardeagold]

I have...a lot. LOL

You should be able to see these even if you're not on Facebook. Believe me, I'm doing the thread a favor. LOL

Just click on the link to go to the album(s). Then click on the first photo to enlarge. Click upper right to progress through the album with the larger photos.

A bunch of 'em (but not all...they should be labeled under the individual pics) from this winter

December 2010 | Facebook

And last winter

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=141687&id=668626438&l=00009b289a


Our newest baby, Frankie:

Frankie and me! | Facebook


This should do it for ya!

April-May 2010 | Facebook

 

[316lvm]

Sasha the airplane kitty!! She's just too cute Airbrusher.

Ardeagold - Yes, you do have a lot of dogs! Are those 2 New Foundlands? Awesome dogs, so huge and yet so gentle. Loved your albums.

 

[viktor]

A cat

and a dog

 

[Ardeagold]

Sasha the airplane kitty!! She's just too cute Airbrusher.

Ardeagold - Yes, you do have a lot of dogs! Are those 2 New Foundlands? Awesome dogs, so huge and yet so gentle. Loved your albums.

LOL, yeah a few. We have 6 Newfoundlands. The black and white is a Landseer Newfoundland (Landseer is the color/pattern).

The puppy is now 8 mos old and weighs...gulp...111 lbs! He is so goofy looking...tall, leggy, skinny, that I've stopped taking pics for a while. Two are rescues.

And we have 5 Goldens, one Toller, one Am Bulldog and an inherited Chihuahua. (Most are rescues. My showdogs are all Newfs)

Oh...and 5 rescue cats! ha

 

[Airbrusher]

Thanks for sharing your littlest (Mostly Ardeagold hehehe) family members. I grew up on dairies and farms in Upstate NY and also the Mojave Desert. Animals have always been in my life.

 

[Ardeagold]

I love all animals!! Thanks for starting the thread Airbrusher. Your Sasha is very sweet and looks totally comfortable and happy! LOL

That shot of Bootsie and Stitch is great, 316lvm! And Pugsley is a cutie pie! I had a cat named Pugsley that was ill when we got her a few years ago. She came here with ripped up ears, partially blind, and in horrible shape. We had her for about 4 years, and then she passed away last year. She had been an indoor/outdoor cat, I believe (more outdoor), but wouldn't have survived long in the condition she was in. Poor girl.

Viktor, cute cat and dog. LOL Do they have names? hahahaha! Looks like "dog" would be happy in all that snow!

 

[316lvm]

Too funny Viktor. Vcat looks like she's smiling and those eyes on Vdog. Could melt your heart.

I too, love animals and have rescued many. (Yes, I do rescue worms too!)

Andrea - when I was a young girl, I was at the base hospital sitting next to a lady who had a broken ankle. She told me she was playing around with her dog when it jumped up and tried to sit in her lap. It sat on her ankle instead. Her dog was a New Foundland!!!

 

[Ardeagold]

Too funny Viktor. Vcat looks like she's smiling and those eyes on Vdog. Could melt your heart.

I too, love animals and have rescued many. (Yes, I do rescue worms too!)

Andrea - when I was a young girl, I was at the base hospital sitting next to a lady who had a broken ankle. She told me she was playing around with her dog when it jumped up and tried to sit in her lap. It sat on her ankle instead. Her dog was a New Foundland!!!

Yes, the injuries suffered by over-exuberant Newfs are legendary in the "dog world". Teeth knocked out by heads coming up for a kiss too fast. Broken nose/split forehead from tripping over one in the dark. Blown knees from them not putting on the brakes fast enough and taking "you" out. Concussion from same. Stitches from owner not letting go of leash when dog takes off to chase a squirrel...and being dragged over a 5' stone wall. Scrapes, scratches and near drowning when teaching them NOT to swim ON you when training them for water rescue. And on and on....... LOL (All of the above are true stories, and yes all of the above still have multiple Newfs!) Gentle giants around children and the elderly...everyone else...watch out!

hahaha They're such babies, and LOVE to be loved, but just don't realize they're so darned big.

 

[viktor]

Thanks for your comments on my home zoo pictures! OK, I'll attach names to the faces The cat is Kuzya, he has three legs (fell from a 9th floor balcony when he was young and stupid). The dog is Julie, a miniature Australian shepherd, very smart, bilingual and disobedient. So here you are

 

[Southern Gent]

her story in a single word: SPOILED


she is ready to go play in the snow....

 

[Kargonet]

We have two Standard Poodles, both males, both rescues.

Axl

Axl | Facebook

Magnus

Mags | Facebook

We also have a Boxer, Schnauzer, one cat and 3 parrots!

 

[Steel]

Spot.

He's pretty chill.

 

[Airbrusher]

Beautiful Steel.

 

[viktor]

Steel, do you take it out for a walk?

 

[Ardeagold]

He's very cool Steel, although I would NOT want to see him in my yard. We're always saving black snakes from our Newf girls. They're reptile HATERS. Will hunt down and kill every snake they can find ... and turtles too. We're forever taking turtles to our upper pond after prying them out of Newfie mouths. If we see the dogs circling something, we check, and if it's a snake, we just place them back OVER the fence, into the woods or field and hope they have enough sense not to come back for a while.

Mira (the ultimate snake hater) got bitten by a Copperhead a couple of summers ago. It paid the ultimate price, but she was lucky. I knew she had a snake, saw it, knew what it was, and immediately called the Vet and got instructions on what medicine to give her (which I had on hand). Within 10 minutes of that snake bite, her chest, right below her neck, had swollen to the size of a grapefruit and she was moving very very slowly.

I've been told it was a good thing it was an adult (it was just about 3' long) since juveniles don't know how to "measure" the venom and they're much more deadly because they just pump it all in at once.

She was fine in about 30 minutes after giving her the meds the Vet recommended, and was right back at the spot she killed the snake.

I have NO idea why Newfs hate reptiles so much. None of our other dogs are like that.

 

[Airbrusher]

When I was young and living in the Mojave I had a German Shepard and something mix named Bart. One morning I heard him barking away when we going out to start the day. Saw him circling something so I ran over and it was a Mojave Green Rattler. Absolutely beautiful snake and dangerous as they come. I grabbed Bart's caller and yanked him back. I was very happy I had on my steel toes that morning, this 3' Rattler rattling way tagged me 3 times, faster then I could comprehend. One of the workers ran over with a shovel and the snake paid the price. He took it out because all the kids were coming out to start their work day.

Crotalus scutulatus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is how we pretty much always saw them along the road. To Clarify, In the 16 years I lived there the one that was killed was the only one I ever saw up close and only saw 3 along the road.

AB