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I am LMAO at all the comments on my "two-headed" kitty! :D They do look similar...although the female is a tad bit chunkier than the male...and the male has a bit more white in him (paws, face & belly). They're like an old married couple. ;)
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So my sister just moved homes in Denver after 12 years, and their sweet little kitty Tonks just disappeared. Having read Tulip's experience, I suggested she leave her number with Humane Society, Animal Control, and all local shelters, plus post something on Craig's List. Plus neighborhood flyers.
He is really a special little guy, and I hope they get him back. If there is anything else they should be doing, please let me know and I will forward it to her. I lost a wonderful cat after a move, and it broke my heart for a long, long time. I'd like to spare her family the same pain, if possible.
It's possible that the cat will make it back to the old house. Maybe your sister could ask some former neighbors to keep a lookout for the kitty.
Sorry to hear :(
I agree that the cat likely tried to go "home" and they are pretty good at knowing where that is. So if she can keep an eye out, post fliers, alert the vet's offices and shelters, etc on the "way home" (take a straight line, add a buffer to it) she might get lucky. Having the old neighbors keep an eye out would be very smart as well.
I went to the spca tonight looking for a cat for my parents. I certainly didn't think I'd be coming home with a chihuahua named Howie!!
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he doesn't have red eyes, by the way, and I'm only taking him for the evening. He's dwarfed by my cat!
OMG! I love Howie! What a great name too. :D
Badger, do you still have your foster dog from Taiwan? Does she like Howie?
Yeah, right. And I was only fostering these two next to me right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by badger
Howie sure is cutie...
no, Mandy's at another foster home where she's doing alright. She was quite overwhelmed by the sounds/sights of the city (I live smack downtown with a lot of traffic) and she wasn't doing well. She never managed to pee outside and she eventually started to pee/poo inside. If I lived in a more quiet neighbourhood and wasn't working full time and could help her with her socialization I would have, but she was just going backwards with me.Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
Howie's curled up in a ball on my lap right now, he is SO small - size of a kitten! and no, I really can't keep him. It's funny, though, because I finally made up my mind that I'm not ready for a dog for a while and in comes Howie. But honestly, he's such a good little dog he'll have no trouble finding a home.
He's adorable and its great you can give him a foster home. little guys like that have a hard time in shelters.'Quote:
Originally Posted by badger
Howie, great name.
Tulip said:Denver Fire Department found the cat in downtown Denver (!), almost exactly halfway between the old house and the new. The microchip identified her. Tonks is on her way home!Quote:
It's possible that the cat will make it back to the old house. Maybe your sister could ask some former neighbors to keep a lookout for the kitty.
That is great news!! Cats often try to get back "home" when they are moved.
Very pleased to hear kitty is homebound! I'm confused though.. the fire department looks for lost cats? :confused:
Max
Glad everything worked out with the kitty :)
Have you guys seen this? http://www.thedogoutdoors.com/
For riding with your dog. I've thought about getting one.
Those have been debated at length here. To me it looks like an accident waiting to happen, but there are people who use them.
Sorry I should have done a search. :) I usually take Nanook to places where she can run loose. I think your dog would have to be really well trained to run well on one of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
ah, correction. My sister told me it was actually the "firehouse animal care" vet, not the fire department who connected the dots and found Tonks' family. I thought the involvement of a large metro fire department a bit extreme, too, but, well, she is quite the kitty;).Quote:
Very pleased to hear kitty is homebound! I'm confused though.. the fire department looks for lost cats?
Max
it always makes me sad to see a lost animal poster.
Tonks is one lucky kitty.
Glad Tonks is on her way home. Was she named after the Harry Potter character? I love that name. My kitty is currently anticipating the return of egg nog season. She has to have her own (a tiny bit in a little cup) or she won't leave us alone. She dips her tiny paw in and licks it off a little at a time. It takes her all evening but she relishes every drop.
Hugs to you and your kitty.
Deb
That is so cute!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by blackhillsbiker
I was getting Tonks confused with Toonces
Darn that youtube.
i really don't think a remote control and PBR would be out of place here
My boys were tired today... :p
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aaaaawwwww. They look like canine cannon balls. :)
awww they are so cute!
Yeah for Tonks! Excellent news! Good ol' microchips! That reminds me that I haven't gotten one for my rescue kitty who stayed! I'll have to drag her into a local clinic and get her vaccines and microchip (I work at the ER, and we don't carry either -- kind of feel helpless that way!).
Cute pics of the boys, papaver! They look like lots of fun.
Yesterday I was working in a store where they were holding a cat adoption event. One of the torties looked almost exactly like my dear departed Dinah. I gasped when I saw her.
If I didn't have these dogs that cat would be here right now.
Yes, Tonks is named after the Harry Potter character and is appropriately magically lucky.
Papaver: I love your Bostons! Is the brindled one also a Boston? I have decided after much contemplation that my beloved Sweetpea whom I got through a pitbull rescue in Portland, OR, is actually a "Boston Bull." I thought her secondary breed may be French Bulldog, because she definitely resembles one, but the underbite, the ears, the weird little tail, her soft coat, and especially her very playful personality tells me she is more likely a Boston.
Her she is playing hard with her best friend Queenie
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No Bert is a French Bulldog, Baziel is a Boston (but I think his mom fooled around with a french smooth talker :D )
what dog? I don't see a dog.
I don't think we'll be taking any walks in the woods. It's hunting season :eek:
Howie Wowie the wonder chihuahua found himself a home! not with me, though. I must say he was SO cute and so sweet it was hard for me to take him back, he wiggled his way into my heart pretty quickly in 2 nights! But he was in his new home within the hour, so I'm hoping he's being spoiled rotten by his new family.
And Mandy the Taiwanese dog also found herself an awesome home where the woman stays home all day and has heeps of dog experience. Couldn't ask for a better home for her.
Terrific! Thanks for all you did for both of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by badger
same here... it's like war over here... :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
$100 here
Do I really want to know?Quote:
Doggie DNA test
$100 here
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Here's one for $60. (I knew I remembered seeing it in the SkyMall magazine last week.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
Does anybody really do this?
A woman in my dog training club did. It was all for fun, and partially driven by the rarity of mutts in the club. We made a contest out of it. The dogs that were suggested by the test were rather 'out there' as far as the dog looks.Quote:
Originally Posted by divingbiker
I don't want to know - I'm 100% sure Murphy is a purebred mutt and I'm 75% sure Finn is a shiba-beagle cross.
Those tests also only do selected breeds (and don't include shiba's, for example).
I love my mutts, and I love them for being mutts.
Lunacycles - you have a beautiful and I think potentially purebred mutt. - I'll PM you with my paypal addy for the $60 :p
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I'm sure Roxina is Dachshund and another longer-legged terrier type but Gingerella looks like the muttliest of mutts. I'd like to say Chinook but I doubt it. She has a very thick coat and an undercoat, hates the water but loves the cold.
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I had always figured Chevy was mostly-rottweiler, and other parts unknown. Now that I've been looking at Petfinder a lot and see so much of his face in staffordshire terriers, I think he may have had a bit of that thrown in there. He was smaller than the typical rottweiler (80lbs) so that makes sense. He had the cutest bow-legs, though.
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