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I wouldn't say that my cat is like me... The only similarity me and my cat have is that we are both whingy little farts when we are hungry...
My little W. Axl Rose the cat bites my hand and nose when he's hungry. My little Slash the cat pokes me on the back of the neck or back with his fingernail when he wants attention in the middle of the night.
 
You got another named Izzy?

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Funny you should ask. A stray turned up for a few days and he was to become Izzy Stradlin, but alas he didn't stay. Also missing a Duff McKagan and of course a Steven Adler.
 
I thought I’d posted on this thread ages ago, but can find it…. So here goes.
Running backwards from present day.

Current canine, Bridie ( as in Forfar) as seen on my profile.
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One rabbit, only recently down from two. Both named after my wife’s grandmothers.
One Guinea pig

Previous.
Another 2 guineas, a hamster, named Badger.
Decker the dog, 5 budgies in total over the years, another hamster, Chewie and 3 goldfish, bubbles, blossom and buttercup. Named by our eldest daughter who was 4 at the time.
 
A Black Pug owns me as her pet.

I've worded it like that because from the moment she was born, most of her marbles are missing.
She wont be trained, wont be told and carries on each and every day like she owns the planet.

Up to 2 months ago we would walk around the Church, then on the day of that Royal king thing, the side door of the church was open, before I could do anything she had shot through the door and a commotion began from within.
I stuck my head through the door and was horrified to see her jumping over peoples laps as they sat on their pews.
She ran up and down at least 60 peoples laps until I unstuck my head out of the door and ran away.

I stood under a tree way back from the church, with vision of the side door and the main door.
127 seconds of standing there, because all I could do was count. She appeared out of the front doors with 5 people in toe.

A few weeks later she did the exact same thing, but this time at a funeral. Luckily the vicar caught her in time, she must of run to him first because he is was at the front of the congregation, so this side door was behind him.

But what impressed me was the vicars speed, he's not exactly built like a ninja, but he had the moves of Bruce Lee and plucked her from the ground and up into the air.



We don't walk down the church anymore.
 
I wouldn't say that my cat is like me... The only similarity me and my cat have is that we are both whingy little farts when we are hungry...

Haha. Well there you go.

I think maybe I am like my dog. Apparently I look sleepy most the time and I wolf down food at the speed of light.

I was going to say something about where my dog likes to lick...but I suspect that is inappropriate for a professional forum like this.
 
update on our menagerie. in addition to the 6 females (5 bred by us, 1 a rescue) we have 2 survivors of a litter of 3; 1 had a fatal reaction to vaccination) now 10 weeks old and ready to go to new homes, but the current financial squeeze is making it ditfficult to find a buyer with the readies.
 
Current count is three rescues - two cats and nearly 10st of German Shepherd. All taken on over lockdown, one of the cats was RSPCA, another was handed in to a local vets as an abandoned kitten about two weeks old - fitted in the palm of my hand and had me up all round the clock doing 2hr bottle feeds! He's now a 6kg bruiser of a skilled hunter. German Shepherd was also RSPCA, from what we can figure out had been locked up in a garage and neglected for the first five years of his life, very triggered and un-socialised. He's now a huge teddy bear with me and we can rough play like lunatics having gained trust..... but strangers beware!
 
Current count is three rescues - two cats and nearly 10st of German Shepherd. All taken on over lockdown, one of the cats was RSPCA, another was handed in to a local vets as an abandoned kitten about two weeks old - fitted in the palm of my hand and had me up all round the clock doing 2hr bottle feeds! He's now a 6kg bruiser of a skilled hunter. German Shepherd was also RSPCA, from what we can figure out had been locked up in a garage and neglected for the first five years of his life, very triggered and un-socialised. He's now a huge teddy bear with me and we can rough play like lunatics having gained trust..... but strangers beware!

I took in a German Shepherd many years back as her owner was planning to send her to the USPCA. Gaining her trustng was no problem, but took about a year to get rid of her bad habits and fully trust her. I loved all the dogs I've had equally, but there's something special about German Shepherds - highly intelligent, exceptionally loyal and scare the living sh*t out of arrivals in the yard by just standing still.

My father eventually took her as I'd only planned keeping her a few weeks, to save her from being put down. He had many dogs over the years, but was in bits when she eventually had to be put down due to health issues. I don't think he'd ever fully appreciated the bond between man and dog - the others were pets, whereas she was a companion.
 
Current mutt is 14 years old, and beginning to fall about a bit at the rear end, so we're beginning to realise he won't last forever. He fell down the stairs just after Christmas, so now there's a plywood gate blocking them off.
Thought his time was up a couple of months ago, when we found weeping tumours around his rear. Took him on what we expected to be a one way trip to the vet, but it turned out the tumours were benign and operable, so one arm and a leg later (ours), he's back as he was again, although looking ridiculous with a bald rear end and tail in contrast to the rest of his scruffy long coat.
Over two years later, and he's still going. Hardly a tooth in his mouth and wobbles all over the place when he eventually struggles to his feet. Half blind and half deaf (although he can always hear me put my cutlery down on the plate at the end of a meal), but still seems to be enjoying life.
 

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