Show us your pets!

[Trekhawk]

Oh so many cute doggies to look at this morning.
Thanks for sharing.

[bmccasland]

Here's Calypso in her evening activity - watching the hundreds of crows coming in to roost on the roof of the hotel and adjacent office building. We're on the top floor of a 4 story building so the crows sweep right by to the tree tops out our window and off the roofs. Watching the crows come in every evening, I can see where Hitchcock got his inspiration for The Birds.

[colorisnt]

Here is "my" dog. He's our family dog. Lives with my parents and had an accident recently where he screwed up his back. He's okay now and recovering, but Dover is a bit of a nut. He's a rescue that was used in a puppy mill for breeding. He came to us from Alabama where he was being fostered. He's adorable, basically.



keep showing the cute pictures! I don't need a dog, but boy do I want one!

[badger]

I don't need a dog, but boy do I want one!

I know what you mean!

I've heard Cesar Milan say "you don't always get the dog you want, but you get a dog that you need".

[lunacycles]

NickiSue,
Thanks for adopting an older animal!! I used to work at a senior animal sanctuary, and dogs over 5 or 6 are in general really hard to place, yet the vast majority of them have a lot a lot a lot of life to live and love to give.

[tulip]

Divingbiker, Belle is beautiful! Thanks for adopting, everyone!

[ikkin]

Rudy...my handsome, sweet boy. 1 year old French Brittany. I LOVE this dog.


Rudy and his "sister" Maya, our four (??) year old Alabama shelter dog.


YAY DOGS!!

[bmccasland]

Hi, I'm Herald and I spent the day with a special vet who took very good care of me, even if he did rub nasty jelly on my belly. For some reason Mom is sad, all I heard was ".... eat anything he wants ..... medicine for the upset tummy." I love cuddling on Mom's shawl, and will cuddle with her this evening to try to tell her that things will be alright. I'm almost 17, and Branwen, Erin, and Nala were younger than me when they crossed the Rainbow Bridge. Maybe I'll even find Butters over there. We've missed him too. I'll be strong for Mom, so she can be strong too.

[emily_in_nc]

{{{{{{{{ Beth }}}}}}}}

So very sad...know you'll treasure however many moments you have left with Herald.

[jessmarimba]

Awww

When Pixar was sick the only thing she would eat was turkey from the deli sandwiches at Wawa. So that's what I ate, day after day, and picked little pieces off for her.

Herald loves you and he's lucky to have had you for a mom. I'm going to give my kitties an extra hug tonight for him.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I actually mix up his wet food with a tablespoon or so of water and mush it up like a puree; he gets more fluids that way.

I do the same thing always with my two kitties. 3 tablespoons of canned food mashed up with a tablespoon of water. Always a good move to keep their fluids up.

Speaking of which, my Pearl is going through some difficult kidney issues right now (she almost died of it when she was 5, and now she's 10). We are back to giving subcutaneous water shots to her every day to try to flush out the toxins.

I so hope Ruthie gets better quickly! She's so special.

[nancielle]

Rudy and his "sister" Maya, our four (??) year old Alabama shelter dog.


YAY DOGS!!

Rudy looks especially proud of himself here . It also looks like he had been having fun in some water? Maya is very pretty. I love black dogs.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I'm happy to report that a second trip to the vet and some new medications have Ruthie back to normal

Wonderful news, I'm so glad to hear it!
Keep sneaking that tablespoon of water mixed into her canned food- i have found this keeps the kidneys healthier in all my cats.

Pearl is hanging in there...licking up small amounts of soupy pate textured gourmet canned food, and drinking a little now and then. As long as she can eat we are optimistic. We are giving her the maximum recommended dose of water injection every day- trying to keep the toxins flushed out so she will become less nauseous and heal sores in mucus areas (which leads to further non-eating of course). The more water she gets, the better her chances...though an overdose is to be avoided too as it stresses the heart. Ever since she almost died of kidney poisoning 5 yrs ago (that Chinese pet food scandal), we've had to periodically battle her kidney problems off and on. Much of the time she does well with no treatments at all, but then she gets into a minor crisis mode and we have to start the water shot therapy. We've been lucky to be able to turn each crisis around for the past 5 years, she's 10 now. Hopefully she'll get better again this time.

Here's Pearl sleeping on the top of a scratching post, looking dreamy soft as only pearl can do....

[bikegurl]

My family has 2 black standard poodles. They are brother and sister, and we really only own the girl *Nora*. The boy *Horatio* was bought by our neighbors, but he was too much for them to handle at the time (a poodle puppy, and a baby and a move..just too much ) so they gave him to us until they want him back. I don't think that will happen anytime soon, if at all
They love water (especially Horatio) you can see him swimming away in the first pic, with his sis getting all frustrated and confused with the concept of water. (they do hate baths, though)
You can see them running through the buckwheat growing on the empty lots behind our house. That is a good way to release some of their excess energy. That is my handsome boy, freshly shorn, in front of the book shelf.. I don't have a close-up picture of his sis right now.....but she is quite cute - very dainty.

[nancielle]

This is the little cat I took in in August. He's going by the name "Ghost" now because he just sort of appears wherever I am (also known as Stealth Kitty, Braticus or Brat Cat 2.0)



(You didn't really want this to be upright, did you?)

Here are Hunter (aka Widget or Brat Cat 1.0) & Chloe in their usual bed-hogging positions.



(Wait, you mean you wanted to sleep here too?)