Pets! Pets! Pets! Show me yours........Part Deux

@carl669 adopt one.

@heartny Ha! That has Dyson written all over it.

@mfladd Ava is our new family Kitty. We got her from the Humane Society a week ago. She is everything a single mother with 3 kids could ask for. Note the polydactyl feet!

@DrunkCat I see your agenda, but do you have another pet to post?

@mfladd I call him brony jr

@DrunkCat

my bad. correction: @accelerator That is what I get for posting when tired. But I will also post your very regal looking kitty.

@mfladd Thanks! I need to learn pic posting skills.

@accelerator Kitty is pretty!

@accelerator Talk about photogenic!

@mfladd That is an impressive photo

@mick I know, right?! I can watch these pets all day long. It makes me feel good that these pets are loved and cared for.

Why am I imagining a Pixar film - George and the Gremlins. Sorry for your loss of George, but Georgia is seriously on cuteness overload.

And post your cats. I haven’t even started with my living pets yet.

@mfladd my stepson bob always said, " george and the gremlins" would be a great name for a band!!! lol georgia is a sweetie and smart too. came from a good home… my gremlins, not so smart, but they had a real tough life before i rescued them. pretty sure they came from a defunct puppy mill, as breeder’ s… they have been safe for 12 years now, and they are doing good. but so much damage had already been done…

went through some old pictures tonight looking for pictures of all of my gone beloved pet friends … i loved them so…

@mfladd well, he’s gonna post his pet troll.

@capguncowboy Irk would put that sock-puppet down in a cage match.

@mfladd I have a cat and I don’t like cats so no proud pet picture here.
/giphy cats are the devil

@mfladd I have no pets. But here is me with a kitten.

@denboy Put aside your cat hate. You need to relax and post your cat. Cats are good.

@ChadP Ha! thanks for showing some pet/ceramic love!

I almost forgot @dave. Show us some pets!

@mfladd Here’s a pic of the her at her best, asleep in a basket leaving me alone.

@denboy hahaha - she is gorgeous! Thanks for posting.

@ChadP wait I didn’t have my glasses on (old man eyes), where did you get that kitten?

@mfladd …I…borrowed…it

@ChadP She looks good on you. Time to get one.

@mfladd Thanks for posting the picture for me. I get an error every time.
The picture was taken during a scout youth training in San Antonio. She is sitting in a field of bluebonnets.

@cahuston My pleasure. Seriously. She deserves recognition for her service.

@cahuston Aww, I love regal dogs who wear purple.

@mfladd Awww, so cute!

@daveinwarsh They are awesome. Thanks for sharing your pup love.

@connorbush She is a very pretty pup, with good taste in fruit. But making her carry the basket is just wrong.

@mfladd Ohh noo. Her mom carried the basket We rescued her a couple of months back! We won the puppy lottery. (I say puppy, she is 2 years old though!) Typical parent behaviour!

@connorbush Sounds like you liver fairly close to me. I am about an hour and a half from Buellton.

@conandlibrarian I live quite a ways south (2-3 hours) of Buelton. It was a crazy day trip which also included Solvang! SOOOooOoo, we might be close neighbors.

@connorbush I live south as well.

@conandlibrarian Hmm. That pings me to LA or Ventura county. I lived in each at one time or another.

@connorbush I live in Ventura County.

@conandlibrarian @connorbush you’re making me miss the central coast! Need to make a trip out soon. They started selling 805 randomly in Kroger and we always freak out and buy a ton of it.

@hollboll such a tasty brew

/giphy mmmm

@hollboll 805 is always my beer of choice. It is on tap everywhere here, and I love it!

@tinamarie1974 OMG. she is precious. Soory for your loss. But loved pups are happy pups even after passing.

@mfladd he was a sweet boy. Someone actually abused him, but I treated him like a prince the last 4 or 5 years of his life. I think he passed a happy baby

@tinamarie1974 Grrrrrrr. Who could ever abuse something so adorable? Makes me mad.

@tinamarie1974 I am so very glad he spent his remaining years with you. What a sweet looking guy

@tinamarie1974 Ahhh…yo quiero taco bell, or Margaritas.

@mfladd I worked in Mexico for a stent, so yo quiero tequila

and my daughter just needs to stop growing up. STAUP!!! Stay little.

@mfladd The good news, she got your wife’s looks. The bad news,

She got your wife’s looks.

@mfladd O.M.G. Y’all are seriously good at making beautiful ‘minions’! Congrats
And enjoy every minute of them at this age (trust me on this; teenagers aren’t nearly as much fun).

@compunaut I’m scared.

@compunaut and thank you.

Jade was standing next to my trashcan. I walked up to him slowly expecting him to run. Nope. He just walked up to me. As soon as I brought him into the house my wife said “Oh shit, not another” We checked everywhere and no one had posted a missing cat. . He remains fearless of anything to this day.

@mfladd Those are some good looking kids! Adopted?

@capguncowboy I think they are mine. Does that count?
Bitch!!!

@compunaut @mfladd Take heart, my teenager is the best thing about so many of my days.

@mfladd

@mfladd If you need an extra shotgun, or just someone to clean their gun around the boys when that time comes, let me know…lol…I truly feel sorry for you cause she is gorgeous. I would feel sorry for other people’s daughters, except I know you’re raising your son to be a gentleman. Others are not…hence the offer to scare her boyfriends straight.

@mehbee The offer is appreciated. Thank you. I think as a dad I am just more protective of my daughter - I don’t even want to see a boyfriend come to the door (in the future).

@mfladd so cute!

@mehbee Oh lord, so much doginess. I should have known you would have so much pet love.

@mfladd Animals are better than some humans…lol…not all but some.

@mehbee Condolences on your loss. But as I have said before, if they were loved they know it in passing. Malcom know this.

“knew” I need to take my ass back to typing school.

@mehbee nothing like having a fur baby fall asleep on or near you.

@mfladd I agree and I have peace because I know he had a cushy life!

@cahuston Isn’t it the best! He was feeling down that day and the only thing that made him happy was getting the couch with daddy and snuggling. When he was done with his nap, he got down and was a happy camper again.

@conandlibrarian And then post them. They are soothing to the soul. And I know you will love them so much.

@conandlibrarian Hey dummy, you left a word out! You forgot “want” in the last sentence.

@conandlibrarian You need to be nicer to yourself, bitch. Grammar shit happens. We care only for the meaning of your post.

@conandlibrarian Yeah, I got a cat. Then I felt he was lonely, so I got him a cat.

@capguncowboy Yes you will, because otherwise I will beat you. I love your pet posts.

You have so many pets - which I love. It makes me sad I will have to own you in fantasy football.

And is that your daughter? Because she is gorgeous, my friend. Keep the shotgun close. Damn boys.

@mfladd yeah, that’s one of them anyway. My shotgun is always within a few steps.

I’ve got some good lookin’ kids. They take after their momma

This is our youngest, Molly, on her first day of Kindergarten

This Anna on her first day of second grade, my Daniel on his first day of 3rd grade

I found this picture of my wife’s cat, Dot. She’s 10 years old now, but still looks and acts like a kitten. She has the softest fur of any cat I’ve ever seen. It’s like rabbit fur. She also takes the stinkiest dumps I’ve ever smelled.

Found another one. This is Vanellope – another rescue kitty. She’s about a year old now. She’s the laziest cat of all time. Eat and sleep. I’m kinda’ jealous

Here she is chillin’ with Dot

@capguncowboy Ahhhhhh. thanks so much for the kid pics. Daniel, Anna, and Molly are so awesome. Dot is also great (does not look 10). And how could you not love a kid that says “hello, Lysol”

@capguncowboy Gold, and you know it.

@capguncowboy This is one household overflowing with love and fun! Gorgeous kids, lovable pets and your descriptions of each were great…

@presbypenguin Cute puppy! She looks a lot like my brother’s Boxer mix

@presbypenguin Than you for that collage That last pic has Scooby-Doo written all over him.

p.s. you are a handsome/beautiful couple.

@presbypenguin “her” - sorry.

@tinkertime So much awesomeness. Sorry for the loss, but you did good. That is one handsome pup you saved.

p.s. He was ready for a rap battle!

@mediobarkre Our first GP! So cute. Daughter/pet love I know. Thanks for the link! Sundae is awesome!

Bella is my baby. She was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension last year after getting altitude sickness during our yearly trip to the mountains. She is doing a lot better than her cardiologist expected (as in, she’s still alive).

So, if you’ll indulge me…

Being a model:

Eating her favorite food:

Her first snow!

Stomach upset during the long move led to doggie diapers. Doggy diapers are a thing, guys.

@emilyap Kaiser’s a little cougar! Dead ringer!

@PocketBrain My god, he sure thought he was a cougar. He was the strongest cat I’ve ever had - he’d try to bite my hand and grip my wrist between his paws, holding on while I lifted him off the ground and swung him back and forth.

Big - twenty pounds of (mostly) muscle.

Stubborn.

Bella adored him. When Kaiser got tired of playing with her, he’d just lie down on her head.

@emilyap Thank you for those pics. Kaiser is such a cougar. I am glad Bella is doing we because she fucking adorable. Also much love for Maggie and Rosie!

“we” should be “well”

@emilyap I had a cat like that - grip you around the wrist and could pick up that way and do all sorts of things. Never put a mark on me when I did that either. Pure muscle.

@kwhittle Ahhhhhhh! Lacey is awesome! Thank you for the adoption pet. I can’t tell you how much I love this post.

@daveinwarsh What? you are putting your dog out with a Bakon sign? Love it! Snow dogs are awesome. And give that “Damn Cat” some love!

@mfladd I thought Chevy should go out and earn his own way. It was a failure as he fell asleep before I could find a street corner for him.
As for the damn cat… I tolerate it. My wife likes it so, that’s that. It never does what it should do & screams if it can see any part of the bottom of it’s damn cat dish.

@capguncowboy Yes (entertain my children)! The kids love these pet pics. Oh lord,

I can not even tell you how much I love that pic.
And fish too. You are a good pet man, Cap. Respect.
Dot rocks!
And condolences to WB - anytime we lose a friend it is hard.

@capguncowboy, I second @mfladd. That’s one of the cutest photos ever. Love, love, love.

@capguncowboy Are you, by chance, an Alabama boy? The name “Wooleybooger” makes me ask this. My paternal lineage goes back to pre-war of independence days in Alabama, and I spent many of my formative years in the northwest corner of the state, as did my wife. We now reside just east of Nashville TN, but visit her family often in Florence, Huntsville, and Skyline.

@Lurker Nope, east Tennessee, born and raised (Bristol area).

Wooleybooger was a name I got from a joke I heard as a kid

My father in law lives in Mentone, just south of Chattanooga, but he’s a transplant from the SF Bay area of California. I think they moved there in the late 90s

@capguncowboy yes fish - cat TV. When my kid went through a fish phase is when I learned that goldfish travel in packs, interact with the world outside of the fish tank, would aggravate the cats likely on purpose, were actually very smart and could live 20 years and get huge if you didn’t kill them in too small a tank (we gave ours away when she was doing with that phase, I found them more work than cats).

@Kidsandliz Yes, aquariums can consume a lot of time and take a lot of work. I had a UV sterilizer on my setup and that helped. Half water-changes every month, check the chemicals, add PH buffer to it, etc.

It’s expensive too. I had African Cichlids, and the food wasn’t cheap, the sand wasn’t cheap, the fish were cheap if you bought small ones, but then the big fish would eat them, so you had to spend to get the big ones. I ended up breeding my cichlids and selling them to a local store in exchange for store credit, so it ended up paying for itself after a while.

Once I got to where I wasn’t cleaning the tank as regularly as I needed to, I sold it. If you’re not going to keep it clean, it’s just gross and makes your house stink. I miss it sometimes, but I don’t think I’d do it again. Maybe. Probably. Yeah, I’d do it again, just not right now.

@Afraxin Tell us more about them. So much dog luv.

@mfladd Odin’s a neurotic ACD who thinks he’s a lap dog. Freya’s a mutt who thinks she pays the mortgage, and based on what we paid for her two leg surgeries she might as well be the mortgage.

@Afraxin But you know you have done good. They luv you for it. May you have many more years with those adorable pups.

@sammydog01 Ahhhhh…first snail. I love the when people post different pets.

@mfladd He’s a lot of fun. Way more fun than those turtle assholes.

@sammydog01

Be nice to the turtles!!!

@sammydog01 Mystery snail? We had some of those in our aquarium and the damn things bread like rabbits. We had about 20 of them when I got rid of the tank a few months ago. They kept it nice and clean though, so no complaints!

@capguncowboy The sign said gold inca snail. I only have one so hopefully no babies. Although I once had a friend who sold his baby mystery snails to pet shops.

@sammydog01 So much love for this post. Don’t have names? WTF?? If you didn’t name me I would cut you too!


Ya goat!

@mfladd

@sammydog01 Hahahahaha! Come at me, sis!

@sammydog01 p.s. I am still laughing over that post. Those turtles look seriously pissed off. Give them a treat, or something.

@lisaviolet Scrawny is certainly an understatement. Hope she survives that without fatty liver.

@Kidsandliz I was told she was emaciated. Yeah, I’d have to agree. She eats, though, and drinks a lot of water. I’m curious to know her kidney values.

When we’ve had cats that drink as much as she does, the cat usually has kidney problems. She is putting on weight, not much, but she’s filling out.

This is Blackie.
We were fostering his mother, Grace, an Australian cattle dog (“Blue Heeler”) supposedly rescued from life at a dog-fighting compound.
On the night the Dallas Mavericks won their only NBA championship (June 12, 2011), Grace gave birth to 9 puppies. We spent all summer finding forever homes for all the dogs; we ended up keeping Blackie because the kids got so attached.

@compunaut I can see why- that face is precious.