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Title: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on June 25, 2007, 07:08:39 AM
Just thought I'd share a pic of my new friend I picked up from the SPCA on the weekend. I've been renting for the last six years and haven't been able to get a pet, so when I finally bought my own condo last month, I decided it was time. I both dogs and cats, but I couldn't get a dog with my schedule, so a kitty it was.

She's a long haired silver tabby, about two years old. The pound named her Harmony, and everyone I've mentioned it to thinks its a ridiculous name for a cat, so I'm going to keep it. She was picked up as a stray, and was so matted that they spent an hour cutting the mats off of her. Its about half grown back so she looks like she has a Mohawk the length of her back.

Great thing about getting an adult cat as opposed to a kitten, is you get a chance to see what kind of personality they have up front. This cat is insanely friendly, loves attention, doesn't scratch, and took all of an hour to decide that she owns both my coach and my bed. And the floor as well I think.

So um, yea. Support your local SPCA.

(http://www.bunkphotos.com/Pictures/_MG_6132.JPG)

(http://www.bunkphotos.com/Pictures/_MG_6134.JPG)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: MrHat on June 25, 2007, 07:10:19 AM
Congrats, she's a cutie.

Wish I had gotten a kitty instead of a puppy, but my puppy is so damn cute.  The daycare expenses are astronomical.

Anyways, more pics please!


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on June 25, 2007, 07:55:35 AM
Good find. I second picking up adult cats at a shelter. One of my favorite cats of the many we've owned was a battered old tom cat who we renamed Jones. At the shelter, he was up on his perch, unfazed by the stream of stupid cooing humans coming in and out. He'd seen some action, since he was missing half an ear, but he wasn't vicious at all. He was just too cool to be violent. We only got to keep him for 3 years, since he died of the usual hyperthyroidism.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: HaemishM on June 25, 2007, 08:37:01 AM
Good for you. Adopting stray pets is a great thing.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on June 25, 2007, 08:49:47 AM
I take it the SPCA is something like the Humane Society? I really want to get a Shih Tzu, but the humane society only wants to get rid of Pit Bulls because of the stupid by-law that was put in place. I'd get a cat, but my roomie is allergic to them and Shih Tzus have "real hair" and don't get the normal pet dander business.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: murdoc on June 25, 2007, 08:57:34 AM
My wife and I had the same problem, we wanted to adopt a dog from the SPCA/Humane Society, but they were all seemed to be mutts or larger dogs that shed.

We ended up getting a Bichon Havanese that we named 'Kenobi'.

I have a ton of pictures of the little guy, just no where to host them at the moment.

I'm not a fan of 'toy breed' dogs, but we put a bunch of research into them and found one that wasn't yappy, isn't scared of it's own shadow, and is great with kids. So far, he's exactly as advertised.

Edit Uploaded some pictures.


(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1131/622731005_8683f04bbd.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1107/622730991_59edc7cd3d.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1253/623854894_b70f82cc6c.jpg?v=0)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on June 25, 2007, 09:01:01 AM
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Doubles as the local pound, animal control, etc. And yes, there are lots of pitbulls and pitbull/rottie crosses at ours too.  

Only down side of going to the SPCA, is now I have these urges to go volunteer, walk the dogs, whatever. I know its a great cause, but I really don't have the time to invest.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 25, 2007, 09:33:56 AM
We've always taken in strays. Living in the country, someone's always dropping animals off. Kinda sad, but they make for good pets, usually. My mother has two rescued cats, one was an adult and is super-scaredy cat, but also super lovey-dovey to the few of us she trusts. The other was a kitten but is crazy spastic insane.

I can't have animals right now  :cry: Because of my apartment, not some restraining order thingy. I do have our library cat, though.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Miasma on June 25, 2007, 10:34:34 AM
pics
In case you are as fearful of the intarweb as I am you should know your phone number seems to be visible in the last pic.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: murdoc on June 25, 2007, 10:35:06 AM
pics
In case you are as fearful of the intarweb as I am you should know your phone number seems to be visible in the last pic.

DOH

Thanks


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Samwise on June 25, 2007, 10:53:50 AM
KITTEH!  I am jealous.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Yegolev on June 25, 2007, 11:32:06 AM
If my wife didn't adopt strays, I'd be dead in a ditch somewhere.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on June 25, 2007, 12:55:38 PM
If my wife didn't adopt strays, I'd be dead in a ditch somewhere.

OH SNAP!

I'm going to keep checking the humane society for Shih Tzus and hopefully by the time I move I can find one to adopt. I'd hate to go pay some idiot for a puppy.

Murdoc, is your dogs hair the nice kind that doesn't mess with allergies? That dog is damned cute.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on June 25, 2007, 01:17:06 PM
Every animal my sister has, except for one parrot, is a rescue.  Iguana, dove, dog, whateves.  No cats, though.  Both her son (who has asthma) and her hubby are allergic. 

We have a cat in the neighbourhood who is trying to adopt us, however.  It got in the house once and stops by every day or so.  It has no tags but is wearing a flea collar.  It looks well taken care of still so I have no idea if someone has abandoned it or it's just a new neighbour's outside cat.  The lack of any tag is sort of concerning.  It's lovely and very affectionate, almost dog like affection.  I gave it water a couple of times on really hot days but I don't give it food.  I have no idea what it eats and there's probably enough varmint in the woods around here to keep it eating if it has been abandoned.  If no one pays attention to it when it comes on our deck, it tries it's best to look adorable until we say hello.  Unfortunately, I don't want a cat.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: murdoc on June 25, 2007, 01:31:18 PM
Murdoc, is your dogs hair the nice kind that doesn't mess with allergies? That dog is damned cute.

Yup, he's hypoallergenic. We have to have a dog that doesn't mess with allergies.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on June 25, 2007, 01:47:16 PM
The balder, the better.  I hate dealing with dog hair.  I'd go for those Chinese Crested dogs but I don't think I'd have any luck at the pound.  Also, they're only about a foot tall and I'm sort of clumsy.

(http://www.thepamperedpup.com/dog_breeders/ChineseArchieMagic.jpg)

I have strange taste in handbags, too.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 25, 2007, 01:48:51 PM
We have a cat in the neighbourhood who is trying to adopt us, however.
My fiancee was feeding her friend's cats while her friend was taking care of her mother (the friend's mother) while she was in the hospital. Anyway, she noticed one cat went missing. When the friend came back, the cat was shaved down and had a new collar with a phone number.

The neighbors had kittynapped her cat, sent it to the vets and slapped a collar on it. In two weeks!

Then they held the cat hostage for the medical fees!


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on June 25, 2007, 01:51:52 PM
Why would they shave a cat?  (no pussy jokes)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Yegolev on June 25, 2007, 02:00:14 PM
Disguise.

Whenever I take an animal to the vet before returning it to the owner, I don't try to charge them for the bill.  That's just being a dick.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: FatuousTwat on June 25, 2007, 09:42:44 PM
MY CAT IS MISSING!  :cry: She has been gone for about 2 weeks. I put up fliers and she has a microchip/collar... Starting to lose hope.

Also, I had an old woman kidnap my first pet kitty... *SOB* (I knew it was an old woman because he would dissapear for a few days, then come back smelling of Red Door or some shit)

These forums are dredging up some bad memories... First swarms of cave crickets, now kitty napping? What's next? Oh please don't let it be bees covering my head again.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Chimpy on June 26, 2007, 06:17:18 AM
These forums are dredging up some bad memories... First swarms of cave crickets, now kitty napping? What's next? Oh please don't let it be bees covering my head again.

Is this you?
(http://www.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2005/09/16/bees5.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 26, 2007, 06:27:40 AM
Why would they shave a cat?  (no pussy jokes)
I'm guessing the fleas.

But then again, they had a shaved cat when they moved in a couple weeks ago. I wonder if they kittynapped that one, too. I'm on to them.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on June 26, 2007, 07:11:43 AM
Thanks Murdoc! Now I'm stuck with a decision. Before I was quite content with getting a Shih Tzu. Now I just don't know :heartbreak:

(http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images14/ChacyBearWoolyLay.JPG)
Chacy Ranior - That dog is just so damn adorable.

(http://www.puppyparadise.com/Breeds/shih-tzu_tomjpg.jpg)
Shih Tzu - They're cute too. I like the short hair look.

And then there's Murdocs breed. God damnit.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: murdoc on June 26, 2007, 07:42:26 AM
The short hair look is pretty much up to you. I know with our dog there's a show cut, and then the puppy cut. If you're showing your dog (which we most certainly are not doing) you have to leave the hair long. Ours will always have a puppy cut, so quite short all over.

I'm super happy with our puppy. Smart dog, amazing with kids, has a sturdier, more muscular frame then most toy breeds, and a great personality.

Sorry to jump into a SPCA kitty thread, but I'm like a new parent showing off their kid.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 26, 2007, 07:55:11 AM
Though I've always adopted strays and troubled pets, when I can finally have pets again I'm going to get breeds for once. I'm definitely getting a Russian Blue for a cat (I think the fiancee is going to get an orange tiger cat). Then we're considering a dog and I'd really like to get an Akita and get it trained properly.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on June 26, 2007, 08:53:04 AM
We have a cat in the neighbourhood who is trying to adopt us, however.  It got in the house once and stops by every day or so.
We have one like that, too.  She stops by for a bit of loving, enjoys the AC for an hour or so, then goes on her way.  After a month of this I found out she is the landlord's so now I joke she is coming by for an inspection.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Miasma on June 26, 2007, 09:03:30 AM
Chinese Crested dogs are winning awards nowadays. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070623/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ugly_dog_contest_9)  Get one of them.

(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2159/uglydogcd9.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on June 26, 2007, 09:16:12 AM
I saw that the other day.  Poor thing.  Still, an animal doesn't have to be beautiful to love it.  Evidently, Chinese Crested are very affectionate.  I'd prefer one of the cute ones but it's not set in stone.  I also would prefer a rescue but I don't think I'll find one there.  In any case, if/when I get a pet, it'll probably just happen.  One thing I'm sure of, though.  Anything over 15 lbs must come with it's own clean up crew.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 26, 2007, 09:35:01 AM
Err...really, I'll stick with the Akita. Here's an Akita pup:

(http://www.breederretriever.com/photopost/data/683/akita_1.jpg)

They are great loyal dogs when trained, and also great guard dogs. I'd like that for when the fiancees goes for long walks by herself.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Paelos on June 26, 2007, 09:55:45 AM
I'm a fan of Austrailian Heelers personally.

(http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images9/Austrailian_Blue_HealerBuddyLee.jpg)(http://www.pups4sale.com.au/acd_red_heeler_02.jpg)(http://kleymeyer.typepad.com/photos/post_pics/blueheeler.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Chimpy on June 26, 2007, 10:16:16 AM
Chinese Crested dogs are winning awards nowadays. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070623/ap_on_fe_st/odd_ugly_dog_contest_9)  Get one of them.

(http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2159/uglydogcd9.jpg)

Shocking resemblance to Stripe (http://members.tripod.com/~BartmanGold/stripe2.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on June 26, 2007, 11:25:45 AM
Akitas are beautiful dogs, but I need an apartment dog.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on June 26, 2007, 11:31:13 AM
A former roommate of mine had a Blue Heeler. Really smart dogs, a nice size, and they basically don't shed.

Comedy moment when I was at the shelter to get the kitteh was watching a smaller woman trying to take one of the dogs for a walk - a Burnese Mountain dog. Fuck those boys are big.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 26, 2007, 11:37:43 AM
Akitas are beautiful dogs, but I need an apartment dog.
Jack Russell Terrier!


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: MrHat on June 26, 2007, 12:22:21 PM
I fucking love my cairn terrier.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 26, 2007, 12:37:26 PM
Is that like you monkey love your cat?


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Furiously on June 26, 2007, 12:39:45 PM
I'm a fan of Australian Heelers personally.

Are they poisonous?


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on June 26, 2007, 03:09:01 PM
I had a friend who bred Akitas.  She loved them but always issued warnings when people bought them.  She said that if you get a rescue and you don't know what the dog is like, that you should be very wary of getting one if you have children or smaller animals.  Her favourite customer was adult men with no families.  Of course, she is a bit of an old slapper so that might have something to do with it.  They have lovely eyes, though.  The dogs, I mean.  Not the men.  Well, maybe they did but I never met any of them so I don't know for certain.  I would have an Akita or a Chow if they weren't so damn fuzzy.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Xanthippe on June 26, 2007, 03:57:56 PM
If I was in the market for getting a dog, I'd get a Tibetan Terrier (http://images.google.com/images?q=tibetan+terrier&ndsp=20&svnum=100&um=1&hl=en&c2coff=1&safe=active&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&start=40&sa=N).  They don't shed, although they need to be clipped.  They're medium sized and not yappy.  Big dog personality in a small body.  And they are very cute.  I've seen 3 of them in the past few weeks.

I think my next dog will be one of these.  I already have a dog, though - she's a golden retriever/standard poodle mix.  Great dog, but large - and she sheds.  But she's wonderful.  Plus two cats and two kids.  Another dog is just too much for now.

Tibetan Terrier will be my old lady lap dog.



Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: FatuousTwat on June 26, 2007, 04:10:38 PM
These forums are dredging up some bad memories... First swarms of cave crickets, now kitty napping? What's next? Oh please don't let it be bees covering my head again.

Is this you?
(http://www.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2005/09/16/bees5.jpg)

Might as well have been... I wasn't wearing a hat though.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on June 26, 2007, 05:21:51 PM
Jack Russell Terrier!

Oh god no. I've had one before and that bastard was insane. Just bounced off the walls, chewed/humped everything it could and had a fixation for pissing on laptops.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Paelos on June 26, 2007, 09:51:14 PM
Jack Russell Terrier!

Oh god no. I've had one before and that bastard was insane. Just bounced off the walls, chewed/humped everything it could and had a fixation for pissing on laptops.

Jack Russels pee on everything, and can be extremely mean. This tends to happen if you put them with families who don't play/walk/entertain them a lot. They are very high energy dogs.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Abagadro on June 26, 2007, 10:25:39 PM
Little dogs suck. We are watching my brother-in-law's Chacy for a week and it took off tonight by shedding its collar. Ran like a bat out of hell for three blocks before we lost it. Mass grid search ensued (the LDS neighborhood phone tree is a sight to behold I'll tell you that much) and it was found 2 hours later after it just walked up to my wife a few blocks from my house. Fucking rat.

If my German Shepard got a hair up its ass like that it would just run 15 feet and then dare me to come get it and a game of "I'm faster than you" would ensue with the end-game being me turning around and walking home with it following at my heel.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on June 27, 2007, 06:13:48 AM
Well, the kitteh has officially gotten over the lethargy of being spayed. Decided to play a game of pounce on my feet while I'm asleep and then run laps around the room at 4:00 AM. Good thing I get up for work at 4:30.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on June 27, 2007, 06:42:11 AM
She said that if you get a rescue and you don't know what the dog is like, that you should be very wary of getting one if you have children or smaller animals. 
Definitely. The one my band had was professionally trained and responded to commands. I spoke with a few people about the breed and they all said we were lucky to have such a specimen. Thus my disclaimer line about getting it trained. When they are trained, they are wicked nice dogs...who will chew the leg off anyone messing with my girl. Literally.
If my German Shepard got a hair up its ass like that it would just run 15 feet and then dare me to come get it and a game of "I'm faster than you" would ensue with the end-game being me turning around and walking home with it following at my heel.
Had a shep with my last girlfriend (she got custody :(). We got him as a very small pup (abandoned by his feral mother, I know his feral sister lived in the woods behind our house). We also had a totally buff and ripped cat (mixed breed, white shorthair). The cat was a hunter, would take out squirrels and whatnot. The cat used to terrorize the poor puppy, beat him up and chase him around, but he had fun mostly. It was hilarious when he got to be an adult because you'd have this big shep being chased around the house by this normal sized cat, she would get close and then rear up so she was just running on her back legs and beat him on the butt with her front paws. Those two were wicked cool.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on June 27, 2007, 01:30:25 PM
Dogs that grew up with cats when they are puppies are funny.  They'll always think cats are bigger than them.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Paelos on June 28, 2007, 09:07:16 PM
Dogs that grew up with cats when they are puppies are funny.  They'll always think cats are bigger than them.

Cats are the biggest bitches. Which makes the other real bitches less bitch-like even though they were bitches by birth whereas cats are just bitchy.

Or something.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on June 29, 2007, 06:21:22 AM
(http://www.umami.co.nz/images/entries/06/04/07/evil-monkey.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Strazos on June 29, 2007, 07:08:29 PM
Good Luck finding a Shih Tzu at a pound....they're a pretty pricey breed.

They make awesome pets...mostly. They tend to upchuck sometimes, and can also have kidney problems. Lost one a few years back to kidney failure.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Samwise on June 29, 2007, 10:06:35 PM
I want a Maine Coon.

(http://peter.stillhq.com/jasmine/blog/ny-maine-coon3-tn.jpg)

Closest I can legally get to having a pet mountain lion.  And a hell of a lot less maintenance.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on June 30, 2007, 06:41:42 AM
They always remind me of bobcats.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on July 01, 2007, 06:52:45 AM
If only my roomie wasn't allergic to cats I'd get a monster cat. I'd even walk it. No one expects your cat to be monster sized.

Straz - Yeah, I know they're near impossible to find at a pound. The running price around here from greedy people is $400 - $450. But, I have seen a couple people doing the whole trying to get rid of puppies as fast as they can. Which is free minus the cost of shots.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Pococurante on July 01, 2007, 05:15:49 PM
(http://www.sfgate.com/n/pictures/2005/09/16/bees5.jpg)

Um well here anyway when it is harvest time.  Pasteurized honey is simply sweet paste.  Despite the short shelf life local honey is "alive" and has impressive health benefits.

Best cat and dog I've ever sheltered came from kill shelters.  Bless those folks - I'm too much a pussy to kill animals for a living.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: bhodi on July 01, 2007, 06:25:58 PM
All shelters are kill shelters.. those that aren't just ship them elsewhere to have it done.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Xanthippe on July 10, 2007, 08:46:03 AM
They always remind me of bobcats.

Reminds me of a local news story sometime in the past few years.  Some lady hit a cat on the highway, and pulled over to see how it was.  It was unconscious, so she picked it up, put it in her car and drove it to a vet hospital.

When she got it there, it turned out to be a bobcat - who died soon thereafter. 

She is so lucky that it did not wake up in her car.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 10, 2007, 10:54:02 AM
They always remind me of bobcats.

Reminds me of a local news story sometime in the past few years.  Some lady hit a cat on the highway, and pulled over to see how it was.  It was unconscious, so she picked it up, put it in her car and drove it to a vet hospital.

When she got it there, it turned out to be a bobcat - who died soon thereafter. 

She is so lucky that it did not wake up in her car.

That would make the Tommy Boy deer scene look tame.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on July 10, 2007, 12:24:16 PM
I want a Maine Coon.
I was thinking Russian Blue but looking through a cat breed book last night I think I will have to get a Maine Coon. I've known a few people who've had them and they are superkitties.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on July 10, 2007, 02:29:26 PM
I once had a bobcat almost hop in an enclosed stand with me.  Thankfully it noticed me trying to get its attention and turned around.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 10, 2007, 04:06:44 PM
I want a Maine Coon.
I was thinking Russian Blue but looking through a cat breed book last night I think I will have to get a Maine Coon. I've known a few people who've had them and they are superkitties.

We have a Maine Coon- I don't think he is full blooded, but he looks just like all the pics I see. He may have been crossed with a bison or something though- he is a large kitty. Even larger than normal Maine Coons. He is also scared of his own shadow.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 10, 2007, 06:07:37 PM
I didn't get the dog from the SPCA, because it is practically impossible to adopt Belgian Malinois dogs from shelters without horrible, horrible problems.

My cats: (http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/6664/miltondantemk3.jpg)

My dog: (http://img482.imageshack.us/img482/449/linkstretchha3.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on July 10, 2007, 07:14:56 PM
I like you because your bathroom looks very, very clean.   :-)  And that doggie is especially adorable!


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 10, 2007, 07:18:38 PM
My girlfriend took the picture right when we moved into our current apartment. I didn't even know that the picture existed until about an hour ago :)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on July 11, 2007, 06:27:50 AM
And here I was going to criticize how daintily you were holding the camera in that picture.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 11, 2007, 11:24:22 AM
Since Chimpy made this for me and it he was from the SPCA:

(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/1259/iseewhitedz4.jpg)


His name is Milton, and I am a shameless bumper of my own cats.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: voodoolily on July 11, 2007, 12:18:43 PM
I want a Maine Coon.
I was thinking Russian Blue but looking through a cat breed book last night I think I will have to get a Maine Coon. I've known a few people who've had them and they are superkitties.

We have a Maine Coon- I don't think he is full blooded, but he looks just like all the pics I see. He may have been crossed with a bison or something though- he is a large kitty. Even larger than normal Maine Coons. He is also scared of his own shadow.

On the contrary, we have a (supposedly) full-blood Maine Coon who's a bit wee for his breed. He's only like 13 or 14 lbs. But he still has the important traits like personality and intelligence (for which they are bred).


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 11, 2007, 01:12:27 PM
Pics pls! I will have to take some more of our leviathan and post them.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on July 11, 2007, 01:40:20 PM
If I get a pup, it'll probably end up being a rescue.  I'm a sucker for a sob story.

(http://www.carloneworld.it/images/4_Humor/Jpg/william-wegman-puppies.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on July 11, 2007, 02:03:24 PM
His protuberance has an eerie similarity to your avatard's outie.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Strazos on July 11, 2007, 07:02:20 PM
My buddy recently got a SPCA pup. I lent him a book. Puppy promptly tore the book in half when he stepped out to smoke.

Oh well, new copy for me, I guess.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: voodoolily on July 16, 2007, 09:13:54 PM
Playin' possum (http://voodooandsauce.com/001.jpg)

Yummy! (http://voodooandsauce.com/010.jpg)

Monorail cat v3.0 (http://voodooandsauce.com/011.jpg)

Files way too huge. Click link instead.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on July 16, 2007, 10:46:59 PM
(http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v48/124/21/227300287/n227300287_152202_8808.jpg)

KITTEH!. We saved him from being put down awhile back. He's a very dominant cat and the people had 2 more that he brutalized. He had to be kept separate from them or else he'd knock them silly. I saw it first hand when my older brother dumped his ex-girlfriends cat off at my place one time. Man did he pummel the shit out of that cat. I love him muchly!  He has so much personality. What with the drinking from cups only and eating straight from the bag of food.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 17, 2007, 03:55:04 AM
Pls 2 Eyebleach?


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on July 17, 2007, 07:58:43 PM
I only reply to people who make sense. And Schild.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 17, 2007, 08:20:27 PM
Sorry, I was adding a caption to your cat. I think ICHC.com is funny. :)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 17, 2007, 10:10:29 PM
My two cats, also taken from a shelter. Their mom was nearly feral and was mistreating them, so they had to be taken away from her at an early age. They're a abysinian and tabby mix. The one on the left with the suspicious glare is the girl, the bored looking one is the male.

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1186/843447318_605bea3f5f_o.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Margalis on July 17, 2007, 11:54:22 PM
Those cats are too cool for school and they don't take shit from anybody!


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 18, 2007, 01:28:24 AM
Actually, they're complete spazzes, but they know how to keep up appearances when there's a camera around.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: NiX on July 18, 2007, 10:31:16 AM
They look soft.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on July 18, 2007, 08:34:57 PM
(http://iria.chem.uh.edu/f13/Juliet with Amy 03.jpg)

Juliet the Spook.  A neighborhood cat who loves us so much we're a second home.  I don't know how she obtained her human, but since it's effectively a second parent adoption I want to show her off.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: rk47 on July 18, 2007, 09:08:16 PM
Pink eyes? or is that just a camera thing?


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: bhodi on July 18, 2007, 09:44:41 PM
That looks like a seal point Siamese (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_%28cat%29), so it will have blue eyes. The redeye is definitely camera flash.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on July 19, 2007, 02:36:28 PM
Yes, she has very blue eyes.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Trippy on July 19, 2007, 04:29:50 PM
Sorry, I was adding a caption to your cat. I think ICHC.com is funny. :)
Yes, definitely a caption-worthy picture.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on July 20, 2007, 01:38:22 PM


Juliet the Spook.  A neighborhood cat who loves us so much we're a second home.  I don't know how she obtained her human, but since it's effectively a second parent adoption I want to show her off.

Pretty cat. I've always found it funny how some cats seem to just decide that they live in mutiple houses.

Oh, and off camera flash is your friend. :)





Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Hayduke on July 21, 2007, 06:13:05 PM
Portuguese water dogs are attractive dogs that don't shed so that might be a good idea if you don't like shedding, but still want a real dog.  My neighbor has one and they're beautiful dogs when trimmed right.  I personally prefer real dogs (not yappy small dogs, or dogs with inbred deformities).  I've got a lab right now who works well because he's very calm, and somewhat indifferent to other people and dogs.  Labs are big dogs, but can work fine in an apartment if they're well socialized at an early age.  One of the cooler dogs I had in the past was a bluetick coonhound (wasn't living in an apartment then).  But he was sort of neurotic and a total escape artist, personally I find their barking hilarious but it's really loud.

I don't know much about cats, but in general I prefer pets with personality so they're not a good fit.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: voodoolily on July 21, 2007, 06:43:59 PM
No one said anything nice about my kitteh. I assume that means no one bothered to crick rinky. Here he is again!

(http://voodooandsauce.com/playin_possum.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on July 21, 2007, 07:43:24 PM
Cool.  A dog with dreads. 

(http://www.nextdaypets.com/directory/breeds/images/1100214.jpg)

VDL, your kitty is adorable.  All the cats and dogs in this thread are adorable. (the man with bees on his face, not so much) And I've met several kitties with great big personalities, although I generally like puppies better.  That cat that wanted to adopt us was as affectionate as any dog I've met.  She seems to have found enough homes to keep her occupied, too.   :-)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on July 22, 2007, 09:27:46 AM
Juliet often acts more like a dog than a cat.  Probably because she was raised with them.  When her owner is out walking her dog, Juliet will trot along side.  I've only seen her afraid of one of the dozen dogs in the complex, too.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 22, 2007, 09:42:35 AM
My aunt lost her cat of 3 years to a pack of roaming dogs in her neighborhood. Your fears may not be unfounded :/

I think your cat is a cutie, btw. I love it when they do the dead cockroach :)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: RhyssaFireheart on July 22, 2007, 12:27:12 PM
No one said anything nice about my kitteh. I assume that means no one bothered to crick rinky. Here he is again!

Did your cat just get done rolling on the carpet or did he lose a fight with a power socket?  :-P

EDIT - Holy hell.. I need to make sure I actually read my previews first.  Typos FTL.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Tale on July 22, 2007, 02:57:06 PM
Did you cat just get done rolling on the carpet or did he lost a fight with a power socket?  :-P

I thought the problem was that someone had driven a black stake through the cat's head. Maybe it was just my eyes.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: voodoolily on July 22, 2007, 05:51:20 PM
Maine Coons are famous for sleeping in odd positions. Prolly stems from their lineage as farm cats (catching some zzs on any number of uncomfortable farm equipment). He like playin' possum.  :-)

Bock is also very dog-like in his behavior - very loyal, follows me around the house/yard/neighborhood. I had him leash-trained when he was a kitten, but didn't stick with it. My favorite quirk of his is that he chirps instead of meowing.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: bhodi on July 23, 2007, 06:07:20 AM
Pre-captioned image for you, enjoy!

(http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/6799/iceicesp4.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 23, 2007, 07:36:49 AM
Please, allow me to start the inanity.

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/876609620_b2506c9c4c_o.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Rasix on July 23, 2007, 09:15:16 AM
Here are my cats. I have too many. Let me show you them.

(http://home.comcast.net/~tescobedo/max_tom.jpg)

There's Max, who is part Maine Coon. Acts like a dog.

(http://home.comcast.net/~tescobedo/jasmine_ivan.jpg)

Jasmine and Ivan.  Jasmine is a polydactyl, so she's got 6 toes on her left paw and 7 on the right.  Ivan is evil.

(http://home.comcast.net/~tescobedo/evil-harry.jpg)

And finally, Harry, looking rather evil and animatronic. Great cat, good hunter, and very nice.

All gotten though the Humane Society or other rescue operations.



Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 23, 2007, 09:17:02 AM
Very nice cats. I'd love to have that many cats, but with two, its already cruel and unusual punishment (for us humans).


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on July 23, 2007, 09:17:57 AM
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1266/877076484_725946b455.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 23, 2007, 09:21:31 AM
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There's Max, who is part Maine Coon. Acts like a dog.

Does he follow you around room to room? I see you are getting some snuggle time- my Maine Coon refuses to lay near or on me unless my wife isn't home. I am clearly 2nd fiddle.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 23, 2007, 09:40:17 AM
Quote
There's Max, who is part Maine Coon. Acts like a dog.

Does he follow you around room to room? I see you are getting some snuggle time- my Maine Coon refuses to lay near or on me unless my wife isn't home. I am clearly 2nd fiddle.

Same with my male cat. Mom's the favorite, I'll do in a pinch.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Rasix on July 23, 2007, 02:00:38 PM
Quote
There's Max, who is part Maine Coon. Acts like a dog.

Does he follow you around room to room? I see you are getting some snuggle time- my Maine Coon refuses to lay near or on me unless my wife isn't home. I am clearly 2nd fiddle.

Yep.  If he's awake he's likely in the same room or setting next to me.  Wife is upset that he sits close to me now instead of her.  He also responds to his name and will come if called.  Cat just adores any affection.  He'll ram his head under your hand if you stop petting.

Quote
Very nice cats. I'd love to have that many cats, but with two, its already cruel and unusual punishment (for us humans).

4 is absolute overkill.  2 would be a good number.  With 4 you've got a good chance that one will be a puker (I've got 2), one will have some sort of chronic illness (Harry has manageable upper respiratory problems), you'll get a lot more hair everywhere (my Dyson fills up weekly), the food and litter costs become excessive, and any small allergy problems will be magnified.  Luckily the constant exposure seems to have turned my major cat allergy into a minor one.

Still, despite that, I wouldn't give up a single one.  Helps that none are psychopaths. 


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: voodoolily on July 23, 2007, 03:39:13 PM
Ours is a 3-puker, 3-longhair, 1 occassional pisser household. Only one of our 4 is perfect, but even he is pretty annoying. He insists on being in your lap ANY time you are seated and has punctured several shirts and pants with his incessant biscuit-making.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: bhodi on July 23, 2007, 08:25:56 PM
Behold... The Cheat in his favorite pose. Yes, he actually sleeps like that. All day long.
(http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/8959/dsc00017sm0.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 23, 2007, 08:50:23 PM
verah cute


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on July 23, 2007, 09:10:58 PM
Are you sure that's not a cat skin rug? 


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 24, 2007, 09:47:19 AM
Finally remembered to take a couple of pics this morning. Crappy cell phone camera ftl.

Toby-

(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t11/wayabvpar/Toby124-7-07.jpg)


(http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t11/wayabvpar/Toby224-7-07.jpg)


And his namesake-

(http://westwing.bewarne.com/fourth/images/1WESai02toby.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 24, 2007, 09:50:47 AM
Heh, he looks just as surly as his namesake. I love surly cats.

By the way, I've heard at least one person here refer to their main coon as having 'dog like' behavior. Is this a trait common to the breed, or just happenstance? I ask because one of my cat in the past was very dog like himself. Not scared of anything (mostly because he was deaf as a post), friendly and loyal.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 24, 2007, 12:12:52 PM
It seems like a breed trait. Toby used to play fetch with us constantly, especially with bottle caps. He is a bit lazier now, but still gets fired up around bedtime. I will have to get a picture of him playing in his tent...it is for normal-sized cats and he barely fits in it.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 25, 2007, 02:48:27 PM
I have a DSH that loves to play fetch with a crochet mouse. I'm not talking a half hour of fetch, I'm talking four hours at a time. He used to wake up in the middle of the night and get his mouse and put it on my face, telling me he wanted to play.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 25, 2007, 05:11:00 PM
I have a DSH that loves to play fetch with a crochet mouse. I'm not talking a half hour of fetch, I'm talking four hours at a time. He used to wake up in the middle of the night and get his mouse and put it on my face, telling me he wanted to play.

My sister's cat does that. Except with real mice, spasming in their deaththrows.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 25, 2007, 09:06:50 PM
The cat brings her the once-live mouse dead and expects her to throw it? Creepy.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on July 25, 2007, 11:00:51 PM
and fish, and birds, and voles and pigeons. Not sure about the throwing part, but definately the delivery into bed at 4 am.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: cmlancas on July 25, 2007, 11:03:02 PM
Yikes. It would freak me out to wake up next to a dead animal my cat dragged in.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Sky on July 26, 2007, 07:00:18 AM
I had a good hunter kitty when I lived in the country. She would take down not only mice and birds, but chipmunks and red squirrels. I never saw evidence of a grey squirrel, I was always hoping she would go for the big prize, but they can be pretty tough. Our grey squirrels were ridiculously big because we had about two dozen massive old-growth oak trees.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on July 26, 2007, 08:40:14 AM
When I was little we only had outdoor cats.  There was a bit of property and we were surrounded by wooded area.  We had two patrol cats who kept the vermin away from the house.  Only one of the cats ever came inside... she just loved my mother.  Every now and then she'd come in to leave a perfectly skinned mouse on my mother's pillow.  It was very gross but, after all, it was all in the name of love.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Lantyssa on July 26, 2007, 12:02:47 PM
My old cat brought us live animals.  Usually lizards, but my mom didn't appreciate the baby mouse running around her kitchen.  It was a scene out of a 50's sitcom.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Rasix on July 26, 2007, 01:11:28 PM
My cats have learned that live lizards get taken away from them and put back outside.  I mostly find feet nowadays.

Ohh, and geckos hiss (other lizards scream).  Never knew that, I thought they had brought in a snake.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on July 26, 2007, 01:29:37 PM
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Ohh, and geckos hiss (other lizards scream)

They should have made Silence of the Lizards instead.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Righ on July 26, 2007, 04:07:41 PM
In space, no one can hear lizards scream.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Abagadro on September 22, 2007, 07:11:55 PM
Found out this week that my pooch has rather advanced liver cancer. We are in that excruciating "is it time" stage with her right now. She is definitely not herself but doesn't appear in huge distress and is still eating, so it is tough to say that it is time to go. We don't want her to suffer though.

I'm trying to be a tough guy but end up sobbing like a 3 year old on a regular basis. She is twelve, which isn't too bad for a larger breed dog, but that doesn't make it any easier. So hug your pets, they won't be around forever.

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y222/Abagadro/JuliesBirthday007.jpg)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: hal on September 22, 2007, 07:36:44 PM
As a former breeder of bloodhounds. 12 years on a large breed , you have been blessed. Ten would be more normal. But they have a personalty don't they? I buried Belvedere some ten years ago (my male bloodhound [stud]) and I miss his presences every day.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Signe on September 23, 2007, 06:14:01 AM
I'm so sorry, Abagadro.  She is lovely. 


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Engels on September 23, 2007, 06:43:47 AM
Having nursed 3 cats through terminal kidney failure & other slow but sure life-ending cat ailments, I feel your pain, Abo. Advice is ackward, but I personally feel that one should keep them around till its clear that they are pretty much no longer comfortable. With my first cat, the one I'd had since I was 8, who lived to be 19, I think I took too long to put her down, in retrospect. I just had a very hard time even contemplating her being out of my life, so I let her cross from uncomfortable to miserable, and that was a mistake I didn't take with the next 2 cats I hadda put down eventually.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: HaemishM on September 24, 2007, 08:54:35 AM
Poor poochie. My condolences, Ab. I know when one of my puppies has to go, it's going to be like ripping off limbs.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: voodoolily on September 24, 2007, 10:27:46 AM
So sorry to hear the bad news, Abagadro. Just keep scratchin' her ears and give her all the pate she wants so her days will be nice, I guess (had a cat who was dealt a similar hand and all I could do was spoil him rotten 'til it was time).


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: WayAbvPar on September 24, 2007, 10:32:42 AM
Sorry Ab. Give her an extra hug for me before you have to say goodbye.  :cry:


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Abagadro on September 24, 2007, 08:59:50 PM
Thanks for all the kind words all.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Falwell on September 24, 2007, 10:53:07 PM
I didn't get my cat through the rescue, but one of the breeders in town had one last oriental short hair that she couldn't sell. So I adopted him at a discount price.

This is Mangy Cat

(http://www.fearbhail.nl/fotos/DSC00210.JPG)


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Roac on September 25, 2007, 05:55:51 AM
I'm trying to be a tough guy but end up sobbing like a 3 year old on a regular basis. She is twelve, which isn't too bad for a larger breed dog, but that doesn't make it any easier. So hug your pets, they won't be around forever.

I had to take our golden about two weeks ago, so you have my sincerest sympathies.  It's one of the more unpleasant things I've ever had to do, and wouldn't wish it on anyone.  All I can suggest is when you make whatever decision, force yourself to mentally stick wtih it instead of going back and forth in doubt.  Sobbing like a 3 year old helps too.  Very pretty dog, by the way.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Bunk on September 25, 2007, 06:40:56 AM
Ab - I still have photos of my dogs on my cubicle wall here in front of me. Both have been gone for over two years. It's the toughest thing about having a pet - but really, it's worth it.


Falwell - I can't decide which is more disturbing in that picture - the evil looking cat, or that chair.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Mrbloodworth on September 25, 2007, 07:33:48 AM



Falwell - I can't decide which is more disturbing in that picture - the evil looking cat, or that chair.

Or the wire fence that surrounds it.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Nebu on September 25, 2007, 07:41:03 AM
My sympathies Ab.  As long as she's eating and able to go to the bathroom, she has time.  When the eating stops is when the sadness starts. 

Best regards in this tough time.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: Falwell on September 26, 2007, 10:11:33 AM
Ab - I still have photos of my dogs on my cubicle wall here in front of me. Both have been gone for over two years. It's the toughest thing about having a pet - but really, it's worth it.


Falwell - I can't decide which is more disturbing in that picture - the evil looking cat, or that chair.

Sir, that chair is the fucking bomb and I will not tolerate any slander towards it. It is referred to as the captains chair and was the guest chair in my den for many many years.

The fence is an electrified anti - hillbilly countermeasure. Honestly, the carpenters put that up when they were working on the floorboards and shelves in the den. They didn't want the pets to get at the fresh varnish etc.


Title: Re: Happiness from your local SPCA
Post by: RhyssaFireheart on September 27, 2007, 07:49:16 AM
Sorry to hear about your dog, Abagadro.  Our first Golden had liver cancer as well, but we didn't find out until the end when he stopped eating and just got very lethargic.  He was almost 10 and had been a very happy and energetic dog up until the last two weeks.  As long as she is still eating and doesn't seem to be in any pain, then I'd say you're fine for now.  As Nebu and a few others have said, when she stops wanting to eat, then it's time.  Staying in the room with your pet will be incredibly hard, but crying always helps.  It's been just over two years since we lost Orion and it still hurts sometimes.

------

On a related to the OP note - I'm heading to my mom's this weekend for a visit and to meet some guy who's giving away his female lab-mix because apparently the new wife doesn't like the dog?  I can't understand that part (how do you miss the dog during the whole dating/engagement thing?).  So I'm going to take my Golden with me so the dogs can meet and see if they get along.  While the husband and I prefer Goldens (this is our second), I have no problems with retrievers in general, plus this one is already fixed, she's 2 years old and weighs about the same as Cayman (~85 lbs.); I'm not going to have to worry about keeping a puppy safe from an older energetic dog either.  So Monday I may or may not be driving home with two dogs.  This should be interesting.