Show us your pets!

[indysteel]

DH has been teaching our new adopted kitty Sheba to fetch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoHLcs0qiGg

How funny, Lisa! Our kitten does the same thing, with the exact same type of balls. She loves them, and goes up and down the stairs with me just lke Sheba. I especially love it when she carries the ball in her mouth.

Last night, the kitten knocked a cake pan half full of cake with icing onto the floor. DH had walked away from it for a minute to bring me a plate of the cake in the family room. It took us a half hour and half a roll of paper towels to clean all the dark chocolate icing from the floor. What a mess! I think it was God's way of telling me that I have no business eating cake right now.

[divingbiker]

Something about an HDTV must make the pictures much more visible to dogs, because Sammy is constantly barking at dogs on TV now. I caught him in the act in this one.

[emily_in_nc]

Something about an HDTV must make the pictures much more visible to dogs, because Sammy is constantly barking at dogs on TV now. I caught him in the act in this one.

Oh, that's funny!

[marni]

There is nothing as enduringly funny to me as watching a cat try to pounce on wood floors.

Unless it is watching Tux,the armpit projectile shedding, 25 pound Maine Coon with hair 2 " long growing out from between the pads on the bottom of his feet come running full tilt down the stairs and trying to make the corner into the kitchen. He usually ends up flat on his tummy and spinning in a circle several times, after which he stands up, turns his back on everybody, washes briefly and then sits with his back firmly to the world, ears turned slightly back and the very tip of his tail twitching in that FU gesture which cats use to show disdain.

[jessmarimba]

I am planning on tearing the carpet up on my stairs...I have a feeling my time is coming for that reaction. Skunk (my maine coon) routinely slides into walls downstairs when she's hunting her stuffed mice.

My sister's dog, on the other hand, has figured exactly how far away she needs to sit when running on wood floors so that she can slide to a stop at your feet sitting down.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

A nice portrait of Sheba this evening.

Just look at what you can get for free at your local animal shelter...
your very own Egyptian Goddess!

[indysteel]

Sheba is gorgeous, Lisa. My Henry Cat asked if he could get her number, please!!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Sheba is gorgeous, Lisa. My Henry Cat asked if he could get her number, please!!!

lol! Thank you.

Sheba says to tell Henry sorry but she's 'not that kind of girl'. lol

[indysteel]

Poor Henry; he's heartbroken!

Sheba is a great name for her. She's so regal.

[oxysback]

Extra points to Sheba for choosing a complementary fabric to lay on. She's gorgeous!

[marni]

Extra points to Sheba for choosing a complementary fabric to lay on. She's gorgeous!

Cats don't need points for that. They do it instinctively. Wish I were a natural born instinctive fashionista. Most days I'm lucky that the colors don't put someones eyes out. The cats have learned not to let me catch them sniggering.

[roadie gal]

Sheba is beautiful!

I had a Maine Coon that had that same sense of dignity. If he did something that we laughed at he would show us his back end and stalk off to somewhere we couldn't find him. Of course, that made us laugh even more.

BTW, here's Riley, the female cat, sharing my morning coffee with me (pardon me if I've posted this one before).

[TsPoet]

Sheba is beautiful!

BTW, here's Riley, the female cat, sharing my morning coffee with me (pardon me if I've posted this one before).

Love it. I'd be a little afraid of the extra trouble a caffeinated cat could cause, though.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That Riley in the coffee is too much.

Poor Suki (aka Pookie)....she had a rough day!
She was an abuse rescue kitty from the shelter and when we adopted her 1 1/2 yrs ago she was only about 3 yet had very poor teeth due to her earlier infections and malnutrition taking its toll...she would always have poor teeth, but otherwise now healthy.
Her last checkup revealed some bad dental/gum issues, so today she went in for a major plaque cleaning and two of her teeth had to come out as well. A canine and a molar. They also told me she was already missing severl tiny front teeth and another back tooth. But this extraction should help her overall mouth health and the plaque removal is good too. They had to knock her out to do all this of course- valium followed by gas!

Now she's back home, and seems ok- she ate a big bowl of soupy food and is resting happily, still on pain killers. She's snoozing on her fave pillow now...tiny drops of blood on her chin.
I have more pain killers to give her over the next three days, plus she's on antibiotics now for 14 days to clear up the mouth while she's healing.
Sheba has strict orders not to bother Sukie for the next two days....but will she behave? (NOT)

Poor little thing! But I'm hopeful she will soon feel much better than before she had the teeth out. My baby! (this photo was from a year ago)

[smilingcat]

Riley is cute and helping himself to morning cup of joe

And Sukie, noticed her clipped ear. Was she part of catch, spay and release program then decided she was suited as a pet?

I've had full grown rescue cats who made my house as their last forever home. And yes many of them do have really poor dental health. Sukie is no different. She is doing fairly well from sound of things though... Some of my adult rescue toms lost almost all of their teeth. no teeth in the front between the canine, only one or two molars left... But surprisingly they do quite well with dry food.

For those with older cats and bad teeth, tell-tale sign that their gum is hurting is when they prefer dry food over wet food. Wet food gets stuck in cavity and its very painful. The cats will mouth the dry food and swallow whole. If your cat is doing this, then its a sure sign that the kitty needs dental work immediately.

I only have one Tom who came to me more or less fully grown right now. He was just under a year old when he came home with me. I love him to pieces. He also keeps order in our pride of 10 cats.