My new puppy! (And a Cat Cannon) [Image Heavy]

[Samwise]

Kitteh!

[rattran]

I always liked the name Dagmar, and she was the only one I got to name.

I rescued her from a rescue society who was poorly treating their cats. She'd been in a cage for 6 weeks, hadn't been dewormed, had a few infected cuts. The people at Petsmart were quite helpful when I brought the bolt cutters in and liberated her and about a dozen other neglected cats. She's a good cat, though she drools out of a hole in her cheek that my vet couldn't stitch.

[ClydeJr]

Here's Lucas, the 16 lb behemoth.


Here's Phoebe. We adopted her as a stray in the middle of last year. She has hypno-cat eyes that say "Feed Me!"


Unfortunately she came with baggage. Turns out she was a couple weeks pregnant when we found her.


Sorry about the cheesy LOLcats and Warcraft captions. I used these pictures to help find homes for all the kittens.

[Signe]

I had a great aunt named Dagmar.  I was nearly named for her.  Thank God they named me Signe instea...  umm...  never mind.   

[rattran]

I'll name my next pet Signe. Probably be a rat though.

[Signe]

I love rats.  And bugs.  And ginger cats.

[Reg]

Ginger cats have souls right? The no soul thing only applies to people hopefully.

[Sky]

Fiancee wants a ginger cat. I want a maine coon or something like a russian blue (there was a russian blue that used to sleep with me as an infant, so I'm imprinted on them :P)

I think the coolest cat name I've heard lately was Skillywidden, named after a song by my favorite period music band, Cantiga. I named a neighborhood cat Mr. Bartholamewmew J Squinthorpe, because he was aloof and squinty. He disappeared last year   

[voodoolily]

You can get the best of both worlds and have a blue maine coon like my little Bock!

[Soukyan]

You can get the best of both worlds and have a blue maine coon like my little Bock!

Pics please!

[voodoolily]

Can you not see the image in the post? It's in your reply, too.

[cmlancas]

I have lolcats posted in other threads, but here they are again because they are  :



and



Oh, that's my girlfriend too. I'm not dainty.

[Sky]

Can you not see the image in the post? It's in your reply, too.

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We're sorry, this page is not available. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please go to pictures.sprintpcs.com in case you are using an old bookmark, which is no longer valid.   

[WayAbvPar]

You can get the best of both worlds and have a blue maine coon like my little Bock!

Maine Coon + little = does not compute.

[Soukyan]

Can you not see the image in the post? It's in your reply, too.

Actually I cannot, but there have been some network issues at work the past couple of days, so my guess is that it could be related to that. The page completed loading, but no picture. I can see all of the other pictures, however. Odd.

[edit]Not my workplace after all. I tried going directly to the link for the picture and got the following error message:

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We're sorry, this page is not available. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please go to pictures.sprintpcs.com in case you are using an old bookmark, which is no longer valid.

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[voodoolily]

Does this work?

Also, he was the runt of his litter and so he's only 15 lbs.

[Soukyan]

Yes, that one works. That's a beautiful cat.

[Sky]

Nice! Looks like our library cat, who is probably 15lbs if not more (though it's all FAT, she has many snack stations).



She's all doped up today, I forgot I left a container of catnip on my desk and she was plowing through it a few hours ago. Dazed and zonked out now. (That pic is from summatime, I'm in my winter cubicle instead of my posh summer office, heh)

Geldoned to add:

[Signe]

My kitties have their own bathroom, complete with seagrass rug in the tub.  I'm a wee bit OCD about keeping their area clean.  I use a corn based litter which is soft on their little feeties, nearly dust free and it doesn't stick to them.  I change the litter and wash the poopy box about every two weeks... if I can hold out that long.  I don't want to chance having odour problems.  I was wondering about those automated litter boxes like
Cat Genie or Litter Maid, or am I better of doing what I'm doing now.  Anyone ever use them or try them?  I've held off because I wonder about things like smells and exactly how clean I can get them. 

I will post some new pics of my Pampered Pussies when Righ tidies up his computer so we can transfer all of them. 

PS  Don't know why but my kitties take no mind of catnip.  I've tried and they don't seem interested at all.  They are NOT like me at all!

[cmlancas]

I wonder if the modify button could be replaced by a Geldon button. Perhaps that's a little too flattering, though.

[Signe]

Geez... where can I go to find a Geldon-bashing free thread?

[voodoolily]

My cat Desmond didn't care for catnip at all until he was about 4 years old.

As far as the automatic kitteh tools go, I've never used the robo-boxes but the cat water fountains are very cumbersome to clean out (think q-tips and toothbrushes) and the water gets scummy and gross if not kept scrupulously clean.

[WayAbvPar]

Geez... where can I go to find a Geldon-bashing free thread?

All you can stomach!

[rattran]

Oscar is down to his fighting weight of 22 lbs right now, but when he was at his peak of 25, he broke an automatic litter box. Jumped on the sliding scooprail while it was moving.

As for the water fountains, I use a drinkwell fountain. Reasonable to clean each week, uses replaceable carbon filters. And it keeps the cats from turning on the bathroom faucet full blast in the middle of the night.

[WayAbvPar]

I would be just as happy to have my cat turn the faucet on in the middle of the night instead of setting up camp on my wife's chest and meowing in her face. Unfortunately, he loses interest as soon as he is sated* and would forget to turn it off again.



* this is how you can tell he is my son.

[Reg]

What's with you people's stupid cats? Don't they know enough to drink out of the toilet?

[Signe]

Yeah, Righ said the old ways are the best too, and I think I agree.  We have two cats and what if they want to use the robo-poopy-box at the same time?  We'd be out several hundred bucks.  Magenta is very small and narrow but Lister is growing so fast that I swear I can see him expand. 

[Soukyan]

What's with you people's stupid cats? Don't they know enough to drink out of the toilet?

I am insistent on keeping the toilet lids down at all times when not in use, so no, the cats do not drink out of the toilet. But the cats would only bother me if they needed something, mostly because I didn't ignore them. As for the faucet thing, Dagmar loved to drink out of the faucet and really enjoyed to romp about in the tub when there was a shower running. He also would play fetch ad nauseum with those little "real fur" mice. I swear he was half dog. So Dagmar was always good on water, and Henry was like a camel. I swear he rarely ever drank water, but when he did...

Did I mention cats are awesome?

[Soukyan]

Yeah, Righ said the old ways are the best too, and I think I agree.  We have two cats and what if they want to use the robo-poopy-box at the same time?  We'd be out several hundred bucks.  Magenta is very small and narrow but Lister is growing so fast that I swear I can see him expand. 

Friends of mine had the robo-litter box and it was more of a pain than a standard old litter pan. Had to use little plastic bags that were made to fit in the pop catcher for easy cleaning, and it still managed to get litter all over the place. Plus, you could never keep a good amount of litter in the bottom it seemed, so it was like skimping on litter which is bad if kitty gets a good piss going on.

[cmlancas]

I have this one.

It rocks.

[WayAbvPar]

Toby helping his mama shop online:

[NiX]

New pictures of puppy and kitteh:


















To explain: It's all of a sudden plummeted to something like -20 with wind chill here and the puppy insists my hardwood floors are a better place for him to shit on instead of the cold ground. This was our solution and it's working.

[Signe]

I JUST WANT TO RUFFLE EVERYONE'S HAIR NOW!

[DarkDryad]

We had to put down my 15 yr old JRT this past weekend. He got run over when he made a dash for the  furry tree rat across the street. Sad days at the DD house indeed... RIP Sport. 

[Signe]

We had to put down my 15 yr old JRT this past weekend. He got run over when he made a dash for the  furry tree rat across the street. Sad days at the DD house indeed... RIP Sport. 

I'm sorry.