Dogs & Cats (and anything else?)

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  • fish357
    fish357 Posts: 304
    @aprazer402 Cats and dogs are both pack animals. Neither, in my experience, has a particular affinity for its own breed, but if their humans are gone for long periods of time, a companion is nice. My dog and cat now get along well and even play sometimes, although Figgy (the cat), at 12 months old, absolutely whomps Louis at 17 years old.
    Cats do a lot better alone, because they are so independent, but any living thing needs love, and lots of it. Just my humble opinion.
  • joecoulson
    joecoulson Posts: 4,943
    My cat plays with the dogs.
    Every morning all three run down the hallway together for breakfast.
  • CH46E
    CH46E Posts: 3,591
    Sadie and Sam. Little PITA cats! ;)

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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,515
    We've had up to four cats at once. With that group, none of them were siblings. I'll say that before we picked up the fourth, three was a bad number. One was always the odd man out. We now have a pair of sisters. They're great! Out of all of them, I feel the females have been more affectionate toward us.
  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,582
    Wow! Ryan! That's a lot of cats!
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,147
    ^^^^ So what time of day does all h e l l break loose! :)
  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,582
    My current canine companion
    https://vault.myvzw.com/webcs/cJP0vagYGQ

    One of my buddies at work
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    Gustard X26 Pro DAC
    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)


    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,934
    edited September 2020
    This is my 9 year old 15lb adult male tabby cat named Paws, who I love:

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  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    audioluvr wrote: »
    My current canine companion
    https://vault.myvzw.com/webcs/cJP0vagYGQ

    One of my buddies at work
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    You work at Jurrasic Park?
  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,411
    L.A. Zoo?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,411
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,010
    Milito wrote: »
    Marley is our 5th American Cocker Spaniel. Our last two have been rescue's, Marley and Maggie. Marley is a hunter, he's already caught a possum in our back yard.

    At my son's house in Austin.

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    Here's a 3rd and 4th Cockers, Marco and Maggie at Christmas. No longer with us.

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    Our first Cocker with our son, mid 80's.

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    I remember that parking garage. My brother had one and it was pretty much in every single waiting room we went to (family Dr., Dentist, hospital...)
  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    aprazer402 wrote: »
    ^^^^ So what time of day does all h e l l break loose! :)

    Around 5am, Payton, who is the social misfit of the bunch has to be escorted back to her room (guest bedroom).
    Shortly after that, a few of them will start their morning "hunting" rituals which leads to us no longer really being able to sleep so one of us will get up and feed them their morning meal.

    After the morning meal, there is some zoomies for about 15-20 minutes and then naps for the the next 5-6 hours.

    Then the cycle repeats for evening meal.

    Vincent and Diamond have a sumo wrestling match while meals are being prepared with Diamond usually coming out on top...usually quite literally as she will sit on Vincent to keep him from getting back up and attacking.

    Wilson and Anthony will try and imitate them but Anthony has no teeth and weighs about half as much as Wilson while Wilson doesn't really know how to "fight" and usually ends up laying on his back with Anthony in a headlock while ferociously bathing Anthony's head.

    Penny just disapproves of everyone and everything...she is our HR cat, after all.

    Angelica would like nothing more than to watch the world burn because then it would be warm and she likes laying on the sun-blasted mid day driveway (only time she goes outside).
    "Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."

    "Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    The "get that damn camera out of my face" look.

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  • audioluvr
    audioluvr Posts: 5,582
    L.A. Zoo?

    Oregon zoo. Currently working on the polar bear exhibit. The elephants are about 50-100ft from my crane. In the mornings, before work starts, I talk to them and then they follow me around and watch what I'm doing. They are clearly boored.
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    Belles 21A Pre modded with Mundorf Supreme caps
    B&K M200 Sonata monoblocks refreshed and upgraded
    Polk SDA 1C's modded / 1000Va Dreadnaught
    Wireworld Silver Eclipse IC's and speaker cables
    Harman Kardon T65C w/Grado Gold. (Don't laugh. It sounds great!)


    There is about a 5% genetic difference between apes and men …but that difference is the difference between throwing your own poo when you are annoyed …and Einstein, Shakespeare and Miss January. by Dr. Sardonicus
  • oldrocker
    oldrocker Posts: 2,590
    Resting in the sweet spot listening to some tunes as she had a rough weekend stalking the pesky squirrels.

    Not much stalking today as were getting some rain and since her Majesty does not like getting her feet wet, they get a pass today.

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  • mrbiron
    mrbiron Posts: 5,711
    ZLTFUL wrote: »
    aprazer402 wrote: »
    ^^^^ So what time of day does all h e l l break loose! :)

    Around 5am, Payton, who is the social misfit of the bunch has to be escorted back to her room (guest bedroom).
    Shortly after that, a few of them will start their morning "hunting" rituals which leads to us no longer really being able to sleep so one of us will get up and feed them their morning meal.

    After the morning meal, there is some zoomies for about 15-20 minutes and then naps for the the next 5-6 hours.

    Then the cycle repeats for evening meal.

    Vincent and Diamond have a sumo wrestling match while meals are being prepared with Diamond usually coming out on top...usually quite literally as she will sit on Vincent to keep him from getting back up and attacking.

    Wilson and Anthony will try and imitate them but Anthony has no teeth and weighs about half as much as Wilson while Wilson doesn't really know how to "fight" and usually ends up laying on his back with Anthony in a headlock while ferociously bathing Anthony's head.

    Penny just disapproves of everyone and everything...she is our HR cat, after all.

    Angelica would like nothing more than to watch the world burn because then it would be warm and she likes laying on the sun-blasted mid day driveway (only time she goes outside).

    What about Baron Vincent VonMew?

    He sounds like the life of the party! 🎉
    Where’s the KABOOM?!?! There’s supposed to be an Earth shattering KABOOM!!!
  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,010
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  • polrbehr
    polrbehr Posts: 2,830
    edited September 2020
    Miss Penelope Iris of Kingswood

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    Not exercising, just jumped up because my servant threw my fuzzy toy up here and thought it was funny enough to capture. I am not amused.

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    Me doing what I do best.
    So, are you willing to put forth a little effort or are you happy sitting in your skeptical poo pile?


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  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    mrbiron wrote: »
    ZLTFUL wrote: »
    aprazer402 wrote: »
    ^^^^ So what time of day does all h e l l break loose! :)

    Around 5am, Payton, who is the social misfit of the bunch has to be escorted back to her room (guest bedroom).
    Shortly after that, a few of them will start their morning "hunting" rituals which leads to us no longer really being able to sleep so one of us will get up and feed them their morning meal.

    After the morning meal, there is some zoomies for about 15-20 minutes and then naps for the the next 5-6 hours.

    Then the cycle repeats for evening meal.

    Vincent and Diamond have a sumo wrestling match while meals are being prepared with Diamond usually coming out on top...usually quite literally as she will sit on Vincent to keep him from getting back up and attacking.

    Wilson and Anthony will try and imitate them but Anthony has no teeth and weighs about half as much as Wilson while Wilson doesn't really know how to "fight" and usually ends up laying on his back with Anthony in a headlock while ferociously bathing Anthony's head.

    Penny just disapproves of everyone and everything...she is our HR cat, after all.

    Angelica would like nothing more than to watch the world burn because then it would be warm and she likes laying on the sun-blasted mid day driveway (only time she goes outside).

    What about Baron Vincent VonMew?

    He sounds like the life of the party! 🎉

    Former barn cat who lost his job (i.e. the owners of said barn let his mouth get infected so bad that he had to have all of his teeth removed which pretty much made his mousing production zero so they sent him back to the shelter).

    The shelter named him Von Mew as he would wander around emitting this little mewmrrrmew mew noise all the time.

    When we adopted Payton, my wife said for me to pick out one of their other "special needs" cats to bring home with her. The choices were 2 mostly blind cats and Von Mew.
    Since we have an open ledge around the staircase that the cats love to chase each other around, I was worried one of the blind kitties would get seriously hurt in a fall and decided we should take Von Mew instead.

    My wife said that he looked like a grumpy old man in his pictures and I said, "You're right...like a Vincent or something."
    She replied, "Yeah! Vincent Von Mew, Esquire!"
    To which I immediately snapped back, "Esquire??!! Why, I will have your guts for garters, you feeble peasant! For that is the notorious pirate-lord, The Baron Vincent Von Mew, Scourge of the Seven Seas!"

    She looked me straight in the eyes and said, "You're an idiot...but that is a great name for him."

    So I guess it stuck.

    He really is a lively fellow for someone who drools excessively when he sleeps and has a goopy eye (for some reason, he has always produced an abundance of tears from his one eye which the vets claim is nothing wrong with him...just weird). But he loves to chase the other cats and gets the zoomies all the time. Since he is also the 3rd heaviest of the bunch, he thunders around the house in the middle of the night like a drunken pirate.

    "Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."

    "Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
  • ZLTFUL
    ZLTFUL Posts: 5,648
    afterburnt wrote: »
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    For a minute, I thought I was looking at a pygmy goat or a miniature pig of some sort.
    "Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."

    "Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
  • afterburnt
    afterburnt Posts: 7,892
    Silly, that's a pedigree "Anything Else"
  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    Before I got my cats I had three dogs at the same time for a few years. By the time I bought a digital camera they were getting up there in age. While gone now they are in my memory.

    OD (2nd dog) on the left, Mighty Medea on the right (1st dog)
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    Pantera (3rd dog)

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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,440
    royalty right there ^^^