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The Tail of the Cat and the Yarn
We all know cats love yarn, and anyone who crafts with yarn knows that cats are their best ‘helper’. I have had multiple strands of yarn unexpectedly cut by sharp teeth or tangled in kitty paws and balls of yarn gathered under couches by my roommate’s cat.
By Kayla Morehead5 years ago in Petlife
Loose Leash Walking
When Stella grows up, she will be a therapy dog. But, we have a lot of work to do to get there. Stella is a sweet and good natured dog. She loves everything and everyone. She is full of excitement and ready for new adventures at the drop of a hat (which is in fact true - she loves a dropped hat or sock or glove. Best game ever! ) Shakespeare’s words ring true for her: “O brave new world that has such people (creatures/experiences) in it!”
By Dana Watts5 years ago in Petlife
Cats Say Meow
Devon Rex These cats have big ears and their bodies are thin. They look a bit unusual. They can quickly learn tricks and love to have their humans around. These cats are referred to as people-orientated snugglers that enjoy cuddling up to their owners at night and will wake them up with hugs, kisses and purrs of affection in the mornings. Devon's love to have cat toys tossed at them and ten-fold return the love their owners shower on them.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Petlife
I Don't Hate Cats, But I Adore Dogs!
Cats intrigue me, interest me, and I love seeing them doing their sleek and elegant thing, but I don't love them, and don't rate them as my favourite creatures. Dogs will always be my favourite, they were what I always wanted, when I was a child, and they're the creature I've shared my home with for almost all of my years since leaving my childhood home.
By Carolyn Cordon5 years ago in Petlife
Our Messed Up Pets
After the first 2 parts of this series covered cats, this one has to do with a poodle named Sugar. My oldest daughter had wanted a dog for quite a while, but her mother was not skeptical and her father was passionately against it. Her saving grace was that her grandmother wanted her to have a dog so she could do 4-H with her aunt and uncle. And so, we adopted Sugar.
By Ron Kretschmer5 years ago in Petlife
Jurassic Era Survivor
In November 2020, I took my first masked and shielded flight, from Scandinavia to East Africa, I was headed for "the bush," Randlien Wildlife Management Area of Tanzania. This travel was going to be spent in the company of animals in their natural habitat. I imagined "the big” and "the scary.” You know, the usual unusual; trunks, horns and fierce canines. I never could have guessed an itsy bitsy raptorial critter would show up begging for a selfie. As a result of our unexpected encounter, I came to appreciate the intricacy of biological cycles necessary to hold nature in check, even since dinosaur times.
By Kimberly Hampton Nilsson5 years ago in Petlife
Pets, I've Known A Few ...
Childhood Pets I remember my childhood as being a life with animals in it for sure, but the animals were not cute and cuddly, dogs or cats I could sit on the sofa with. The animals were tall, and they didn't live in the house, or or even on our property, they were horses, and lived in stables elsewhere. My father was a harness racing trainer, and the horses, though I could certainly pat them, were not sooky creatures, they were athletes, trained to go as fast as possible, so they could compete and maybe win, against the other horses in a race. I liked these horses though, and had my favourites, over the years, including my own horse, with I eventually received from my dad, a chestnut mare too slow for racing, and not good enough to use for breeding. I called her Ginger, and enjoyed riding her, for a couple of years. Then I got a job, and Ginger disappeared from my life. The pet I really wanted as a child was a dog, and our household eventually did get that dog I'd craved for years. He was a Beagle named Schnoopy - he was an adult dog, and when he became ours, we just called him Snoopy, without the 'Sch' just 'Sn', and as he was a Beagle, he rarely came when called, unless there was food involved! My brothers and I used to go to the Torrens River, near our house, and would bring home creatures we found there, and often brought home frogs, which spawned in the river, and then tadpoles would come forth, growing legs to become the frogs we captured and brought home, with no way to keep them, really. It's probably stretching the term 'pet' a little to include these poor creatures as pets, but we cared enough to have brought them home ... One more 'pet-like' creature from the river we brought home, was a little kitten, a grey scrap of feral cuteness, that we named Sox, on account of his white socks on his four feet. Feral born, abandoned by his mother, Sox never became a sooky pet, he was a tom cat, whose main interest in life seems to have been girl cats ... Another creature we had as kids was a blue-tongue lizard, this was a pet for my older brother mostly, I was a little wary around the creature, because the rumour was that if one bit you, you wouldn't be able to make it let go, so I kept my distance. It was an attractive looking creature though, with its stripes all along its surdy body. I don't remember whether this pet lasted very long, but my adult knowledge tells me it wouldn't have stuck around in winter, but would have been hibernating instead. I have a vague memory of mice too, pet ones, or maybe just one, but am unable to recall any real details, so it may have been a pet belonging to a friend. I can't really imagine my mother welcoming mice into our home ... In fact, we didn't really have many pets inside our house as children. My father felt dogs and cats should stay outside, but Snoopy did become an inside pet eventually, before he died.
By Carolyn Cordon5 years ago in Petlife
How to Throw Your Dog an Epic Birthday Party
Be grateful that your dog is turning a year older! Spoil them while you can and love them hard. We got Wrigley, the cutie pictured above, as an 8 week old puppy and this was his first birthday with us! His birthday is exactly one day before mine so I love my Scorpio boy. Here are all the things we did to prepare and plan for my (not so little) puppy's first birthday party.
By Alyssa Jordan5 years ago in Petlife
Horus Plays The Guitar
I am delighted to introduce Horus. He came into my life like magic. I never intended to go cat hunting. Our London pad was already filling up with various animalistic ambiences. One looses track at times when one loves animals so much. Gets carried away. The more the merrier. Just one of something you love from the animal kingdom seems rather selfish to me. Personally speaking animals like to have friends.
By Black Dog Productions5 years ago in Petlife
