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[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Beautiful photos, everyone! Beautiful animals.

[PamNY]

"Man cold" LPH that's funny. I hope that's all it is.

This is Lloyd in his Radio Flyer. We use it for fun as well as real transport since we don't have a car. He is barking to communicate that he wants to go right now; no time for photos.

He has a small tumor on his eyelid, so we are going to the vet tomorrow and hoping surgery isn't needed. The vet's office is not very big. I wonder if they will charge extra for parking our wagon?

[Kerry1976]

"Man cold" LPH that's funny. I hope that's all it is.

This is Lloyd in his Radio Flyer. We use it for fun as well as real transport since we don't have a car. He is barking to communicate that he wants to go right now; no time for photos.

He has a small tumor on his eyelid, so we are going to the vet tomorrow and hoping surgery isn't needed. The vet's office is not very big. I wonder if they will charge extra for parking our wagon?

Good luck to you and Lloyd at the vet tomorrow. He looks quite content in his red wagon!

[Possegal]

I love Lloyd! Had an English bull when I was a kid and I soooo want one again. I loved that dog!

I love all the photos in this thread, even if I don't reply often enough.

[marni]

What beautiful photos! The one of Saki is stunning, what a regal cat and lovely colours.

Our Lyra is either pretty banged up or a honking huge hypochondriac... came in last evening looking in pain, and screamed, hissed and bit if we as much as touched her hind quarters I checked out that all four limbs were working normally, I couldn't feel any swelling in the abdomen and she didn't seem to be going into shock, and the only injury I could find was a smallish bite? at the root of her tail. Worrisome night checking up on her. Today she's eating well, lolling on a wool blanket in front of "her" heater and being spoilt rotten...
Maybe her catfight injuries are like "man colds".

She may have also been "raped" during before or after the cat fight. It isn't always about territories and since male cats have a spikey erectile organ, unless the female is willing it can be a prolonged and painful process. It isn't always females that get it either. In tact males will do it to neutered males as well.

Been through it at least once with my own cats.

Glad she seems to be feeling better

[celticgarden]

Thanks, yes, hamsters are difficult to capture in photos....but she lives up to her name, she's sweet as honey. Soft and loves her nightly trip to the kitchen to get broccoli, raisins or almonds!

Saki is the household celebrity. He's a Tonkinese. After adopting strays my whole life he was a "treat" for myself (who, as a little girl wanted a siamese, a horse, a canary, collies, shepherds the list goes on). Piper and Saki are life long "dreams come true."

Loved everyone's photos, thanks for sharing.

OK, now that I've read about cat raping.....I never thought about that but I guess it can happen....how awful!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Spayed female cats don't get 'raped' or mated with -I thought.

[marni]

no they can't be impregnated, but a mean tom can attempt repeatedly to mount them with involves bites on ears, back and back of neck and anal damage.

Sad but true.

[lph]

Yeah, we do have an elderly cranky tom next door, one I mostly feel sorry for because he just ghosts around here and talks to no-one while our Ms. Diva invaded the place. I was a bit worried she was fighting with the tom kitten up the street, she could do him some serious harm, but apparently he has enough sense to just spit and run away.

Lyra still seems a bit sore but is back to sprawling around like a bored movie-star

[PamNY]

Lloyd went to the vet today and she said we can "wait and see" what happens with the growth on his eyelid. Might need surgery, but maybe not. I'm trying to be optimistic.

We traveled by Radio Flyer to the vet and made many new friends. We passed through what supposedly is busiest pedestrian intersection in Manhattan (twice as many peds as Times Square) and Lloyd-in-the-wagon drew a big crowd.

If I'd thought about it I would have gone another way, but he has an equable temperament and seemed to like the admiring throng. Helped him forget the blood draw, maybe!

[celticgarden]

Now THAT I would have loved to see (radio flyer). Way cute.

[sundial]

Lloyd-- He is quite proud of HIS wagon, lol. Celticgarden, do you have an aussie or a sheltie? Your hampster is so cute! What an interesting collection of furkids.

[sundial]

Logan, aka Mr. Drool, the day I brought him home

A day before New Year's Day I picked up a foster boy named Logan from the rescue that Colin came from. I had wanted to foster since losing our little boy to cancer on 1 December and we brought Logan on board with the intention of giving him a quiet home--temporarily. Logan had been shuffled around several foster homes during a time when several dogs were coming in from puppy mills and abandonment from the housing crisis and I offered to bring him on board. He suffers from dermatocyotosis, aka sheltie skin disease, which is an auto-immune disorder. He had a flare up but with medication and a soft bed in a quiet home, he soon recovered. Logan is quite shy but is slowly coming around and did beautifully when I came home from the hospital after my surgery. He stayed as close to me as he could and would check on my boo-boo daily to make sure I was healing. His favorite friend is Kali and he often snuggles in beside her at bedtime.

[PamNY]

Logan is so handsome. This is the kind of failure I love to hear about.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Sundial, how sweet!