Pets Thread (contains pictures)

[Liluri]

I've been trying to snap pictures of Anu, but she's too busy exploring and such. Thank goodness for the children and pets setting on my camera.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2258666449_1f114d996c.jpg (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2157/2258666449_1f114d996c.jpg?v=0)

And Kai is coping well with the new arrival so far

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2257802752_b77ecfeda6.jpg

[meliora]

They are both adorable! :D I just got a new camera, so I will definitely post pictures here as well.

[redbark]

Ooh Ooh... I also want to see Darscilla's new budgie twins!

Yoohoo Darscilla....

[Liluri]

They are both adorable! :D I just got a new camera, so I will definitely post pictures here as well.

Thank you :) I look forward to other pet photos, I'm sure there's lots of cuties out there!

[Liluri]

Ooh Ooh... I also want to see Darscilla's new budgie twins!

Yoohoo Darscilla....

Yay baby budgie photos, yes please.

[Darscilla]

Your wish is my command!:happy:

Click the Pics!

Not very good quality, just a quick snap of the twins...
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1091/twinszp0.th.jpg (http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=twinszp0.jpg)

And one with their Uncle Skye on the right:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/600/budgiesva8.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=budgiesva8.jpg)

And not exactly a pet, but look at this beauty I caught sunning itself in my garden yesterday:
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5195/butterflyts5.th.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/my.php?image=butterflyts5.jpg)

[Nastasska]

She's a darling:whoohoo:

[Pegasus Marsters]

Omg Anu is so cute! I want to snuggle her! ^.^

Darscilla, the twins are so cute and tiny ^.^ And Skye is a beautiful boy!

[Liluri]

Darscilla (http://chatter.thebeautybottle.com/member.php?u=1049) those budgies are cute, wish birds weren't so incompatible with cats!

Pegasus Marsters (http://chatter.thebeautybottle.com/member.php?u=189) she is very smoochy :)

[Shermie Girl]

Liluri, Anu is so adorable. And Kai looks totally mellow and sweet.

Darscilla, cute birds, all three.

[squiggyflop]

jack the schnoodle doodle! lol this is him last year as a puppy
my friend is holding him
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/kidmol/babydog2.jpg

[Darscilla]

Liluri, I was so busy trying to remember how to post pics, I forgot to say your kitties are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. I love the look of mischief on Anu's face. Great name , by the way... does it have a meaning?
Squiggyflop, Jack is everything I love about little dogs :soppy: Love him!

[mira-chan]

Nicki, Her lady higness of the house, who helps me work on my comuter (or read LHC) of course. :kitty::lol:

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g30/kitsunethief/cat/june07thistired.jpg

[Islandgrrl]

My fur babies: http://www.iwgd.com/dog/

Isn't it just sick that my dogs have their own website?

[Liluri]

Liluri, I was so busy trying to remember how to post pics, I forgot to say your kitties are B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. I love the look of mischief on Anu's face. Great name , by the way... does it have a meaning?
Squiggyflop, Jack is everything I love about little dogs :soppy: Love him!

Thank you :) Yes Anu means (http://wordsmith.org/anu/anu-name.html) lots of things. I generally call my cats a Celtic name and something regal, after all they are regal animals :)

Thank you Shermie Girl (http://chatter.thebeautybottle.com/member.php?u=209) :)

[Darscilla]

Here's Dylan relaxing in the garden this afternoon:
***clickable***
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9533/dylanau9.th.jpg (http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dylanau9.jpg)

He's the biggest of my eight rabbits, weighing in at over 10lbs. He's also mummy's brave soldier: a couple of weeks ago he had to spend some time in the veterinary hospital, which is why the fur around his eyes looks a bit funny (the vet had to shave it). I really missed him, but I'm delighted to say he is back to his old self now, and was able to enjoy some chocolate drops on his 4th birthday last Saturday :whoohoo:

[Pegasus Marsters]

My goodness Darscilla, he's a big bunny indeed! He's beautiful and so fuzzy! He looks very cuddleable! ^.^

[Darscilla]

My goodness Darscilla, he's a big bunny indeed! He's beautiful and so fuzzy! He looks very cuddleable! ^.^

Yep, he's a gentle giant (the neighbours once mistook him for a dog!) Imagine trying to rock him upside down to zonk him out, though, like we were talking about in the helpful hints thread! :boggle:

[Pegasus Marsters]

I don't even know if i'd be able to lift him, Darscilla. I imagine you'd get mad strong arm muscles though! ;)

[Darscilla]

Hope its OK to keep posting here, but with 8 bunnies, 10 guinea pigs, 3 budgies, 2 gerbils, a chinchilla and a tank of sea monkeys, I've got a lot to share ;)
This post is about my new chinchilla, Chilli. My last chinnie, Chico, died on 11th of January, during the night after my mum's funeral. I do not have words to describe how much Chico meant to me. He was my baby... I couldn't have loved him more if he had actually been my own biological child. It left a tremendous void. I was not really placed to take on another chinnie, even though I desperately needed one, as I am struggling financially (and chinnies are a lot of money to buy) and you can imagine how much turmoil there has been since my mother's death at Christmas. And I sort of already have my hands full, furbaby wise...
But then my pet shop heard about Chilli, who was looking for a new home. His previous owner had died around the same time as my mum of exactly the same condition. Chilli was going through the same thing I was, and I saw it as a sign that fate had brought us together to help each other. Nobody could ever replace Chico, and I'm sure Chilli still misses his previous mum, but we are definately bonding with each other and we are making each other happy every day.
Chilli is extremely athletic and energetic, in fact this is the first time I have got him to pause long enough to take a quick snap of him, so make the most of it!
Click the chinnie!
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8955/chilliqy1.th.jpg (http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=chilliqy1.jpg)

[Pegasus Marsters]

OMG your furbaby chinnie is so beautiful. I love him. Look at that face! ^.^ I'm getting a chinchilla soon. You're so lucky to have so many pets and enough time and dedication to really take care of them. I wish I could. We had guinea pigs till last year when they died and my mother is hoping to get some more soon. ATM we just have the 4 kitties and my bunny.

[cruztacean]

I announced in another thread that I lost my sweet Holly to a car accident. She was hit by a car at the home of Mike's cousin, after zipping past him before he could stop her. I wasn't there. It happened a few days before Christmas, but Mike waited until afterward to tell me so that Christmas wouldn't be ruined for me.

Holly always did tend to be hyper. I miss her terribly, but I recognize that it was an accident, and nobody's fault.

Now to cheer you up. Does anyone remember the story of Alex? He was a little bitty kitten I acquired shortly after my breakup with Big Jim, who some people on LHC were familiar with. Out of pure spite, while I was in the hospital, Big Jim had notified the owner of Alex's mother that I was abusing Alex. It wasn't true, but the young man (someone my daughter was dating at the time) didn't want to take any chances, and confiscated Alex. Even after finding out that the story was false, he still didn't want to give Alex back. This is the major reason my daughter stopped dating him.

Well, he had a change of heart, not with my daughter (good!) but as far as Alex is concerned. He is back in the family, living with my daughter. Of course, he's not a little bitty kitten any more, but as you can see from this picture, he's adorable.:soppy:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a124/Cruztacean/Alex001.jpg

[harley mama]

This is our Cookie. She is a sweetie. Now, if I could only convince her to stop shedding all over the place!

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p64/maknana/41507copy.jpg

[ilovemycop]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/cyodice05/SN850110.jpg

Adrienne with her big ol ears


wow...sorry about the big old picture lol

[Liluri]

Darscilla (http://chatter.thebeautybottle.com/member.php?u=1049) that chinchilla is a cutie, and I love the name too. I'm sorry that you lost Chico, my recently past cat meant the world to me too. And it sounds like a special bond for you and Chilli too.

Man I wish I could have one as a pet in Oz.

[Liluri]

Nicki, Her lady highness of the house... :kitty::lol:

Ain't that the truth about cats! King Kai and Princess Anu are, I'm sure, on a royal list somewhere. ;)

cruztacean (http://chatter.thebeautybottle.com/member.php?u=1134) I'm sorry for the loss of Holly and Alex does indeed look adorable.

[meliora]

SO MANY CUTE PETS HERE!!! Everyone is adorable :happy: :flower:

Here is Тигр (Tiger would be his name in English) when he was taking a walk with me outside. He was a young stray (about 1 year) when he randomly appeared 3.5 years ago in our backyard and became a pet that came at different times and to feed. Then a short time later 5 hurricanes in a row came through Florida in 2004, and we let him in, of course, so he wouldn't get hurt in the bad weather outside. He is a very sweet, loveable cat, and of course he never left again :grinhappy: I love him very much!

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a34/roseamour9/2008_0211Test0016.jpg

The other 3 did not feel like posing for pictures, kept turning away and moving, getting distracted :lafhard: They are all cuties though, so I will be posting pics when I get them. It proved to be a little more challenging than with Tiger.

[Shermie Girl]

Harley Mama, our dog, Sabryna is a terrible shedder. My carpets can turn black, with all the hair and we burn out a vacuum about once a year, keeping it all cleaned up.

Meliora, I have an orange cat who became a member of our family after being a wild boy, too. He was sleeping in a chair on our deck, and after feeding him and making friends, one day he came in the house and hasn't had any desire to go out, since. :happy:

Here is Sabryna, getting vacuumed by my son.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Shermie_Girl/DSCF1311.jpg

This is Marley, my one time wild boy.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j56/Shermie_Girl/009-1.jpg

[Pegasus Marsters]

Everyone has beautiful pets! I want to snuggle them all.

Ilovemycop: Adrienne has the most awesome ears ever XD

[jel]

Oh, they are all so cute! Especially Chilli the chinchilla and Adrienne of the big ol ears!

But I have a soft spot for ginger cats. I grew up with a short haired orange boy, and when my friend asked me to pick a couple of kittens from her cat's litter, I could only choose Aki and Heki (the others were torties and tabbies). They're not kittens any more:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c131/jel_sher/100_0352.jpg

[Arctic]

Awww... They are all so cute and wonderful! I love all animals! Liluri, do you have any Finnish connections, since both Anu and Kai are Finnish names?

Here is my senior dachshund, Petra. She is now 14,5 years old but this photo was taken in the summer 2006. Look at that face, isn't she just precious!!!

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/LingonberryMist/petra-kieli2006bytero.jpg
Photo is taken by my fiancé and its copyrighted.

[Pegasus Marsters]

Two of my kitties are currently in disgrace. Tigger walked into the room, minding his own business and next thing I knew Minako and Monochrome had attacked him, chased him all over the house and cornered him by the computer. Poor Tiggy was cowering and they were practically screaming at him. He's terrified right now, sitting next to me staring at the door incase they try and get back in. He wont purr for me like he normally does. Luckily it doesn't seem like they cut him, they just pulled out some fur.

[ilovemycop]

thanks pegs and jel :) her ears flop over but when you call her name they come right up and she gets that confused look in her eyes.SO funny..I'm posting another picture of my cat Meatball.I lost my first cat due to a very freaky accident(he climbed in the dryer when I was doing laundry and I didn't see him untill it was wayyy too late.I'm still very sad over that.)and my hubby got Meatball for me for my 26th b-day.Adrienne was the girl to my cat which was Rocky(I absolutely love the Rocky movies),hence the name.

meet Meatball.Jel-I'm on the look out for a fat ginger cat to name her Lasagna,care to give one of yours up?????lol

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/cyodice05/SN850051.jpg


Artic-that's the cutest floppiest doggy!!

[meliora]

Shermie Girl, Marley is very cute! I love the little tassels on the ends of his ears especially :happy: He does remind me of Tiger, and it's very interesting that his story is similar too. Tiger was very cautious and suspicious at first (judging by his behavior, something bad must have happened to him when he was not living with us yet-he is extremely afraid of men and service vehicles, such as mail or others), so I think that if it wouldn't be for the hurricanes, it would take him longer to feel comfortable enough to come in and to trust us. Now he is the the sweetest cat, but he is still very suspicious of new people.
Your dog is very cute and fluffy! :grinhappy:

Jel, I love orange/ginger cats! Yours are so fluffy too, I want to hug them!

Arctic, Petra is adorable! :flower: She looks very happy.

ilovemycop, the expression of your kitty is so priceless! So cute!

[SchnauzerMom]

Lots of very cute furkids here! Scruffy has to get on it too.

She took over my chair here.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e374/Scruffy51/Scruffy/HPIM0375.jpg

Of course she owns the couch too.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e374/Scruffy51/Scruffy/HPIM0268.jpg

And the bed.
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e374/Scruffy51/Scruffy/HPIM0941.jpg

[Liluri]

Awww... They are all so cute and wonderful! I love all animals! Liluri, do you have any Finnish connections, since both Anu and Kai are Finnish names?

How cool is that, they are also Celtic names, which is where they come from. I'd love to know what the name meanings from Finnish were. :)

[Niniane]

This is my Kai! :puppy:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/Niniane/sonnyandkai2.jpg

Kai means "ocean" in Hawaiian (or salt water, where "wai" is fresh water), I'm curious as to what it means in other languages :)

[Pegasus Marsters]

FYI, Niniane: http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=kai&submit=Go The main meaning that shows up is for it in hawaiian but if you track back through what it's a 'form of' you can find out what it meant to start with.

[Liluri]

Niniane (http://chatter.thebeautybottle.com/member.php?u=170) and what a gorgeous Kai! :) So I googled and found many meanings, including the Finnish meanings of Kai and Anu, very interesting stuffs.

[ilovemycop]

ok,ok,ok...I promise this is the last animal in my house.For now.

I plan on getting either a bird or fish very soon(along with another cat to be buddies with my Meatball)but my husband still needs convincing on it.In the end,I always win...lol.

This is Traffic Stop(hahahaha).She was a stray that was picked up by my husband while at work when he was trying to give someone a traffic ticket.She was a itty bitty puppy then and was trying to knaw on his fingers while he was talking to the offender.She came home,her and adrienne are best buds now after a rocky start and the rest is history!We don't know what she is,just lanky and too cute(except when she sleeps in the bed and her and meatball decide to start fighting when I'm trying to sleep...)

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e303/cyodice05/SN850185.jpg
the only picture i can find of her at the moment.her and adrienne relaxing by their daddy's feet..

[Gemma]

I have babies, too! They're not furry, though. . .

This is my princess, Squishy. I've raised her from a tiny, underfed hatchling to a great big female. She's my favourite because she's the first pet I've raised by myself.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Keller/Scaley%20kids/DSCF0153a.jpg

Next we have our crested geckos. They're sisters. These were taken back when we first got them. They're bigger now, and have lost their tails (it happens with this species, and they don't grow back).

Columbia:http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Keller/Scaley%20kids/s640x480-1.jpg

Magenta (and me with short hair!):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Keller/Scaley%20kids/s640x480.jpg

Then we have the shyest member of the household, Lucy the ball python. This is the only picture I have of her at the moment. She's hiding in my booty-slipper.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Keller/Scaley%20kids/Picture006a.jpg

Speckles is the largest (and oldest) member of our household at 9ft. He's a red-tailed boa constrictor, and very big for a male. He's also a total sweetheart.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Keller/Scaley%20kids/specklesonbed1.jpg

Finally, there's Darwin. He's probably my fiance's favourite since he raised him from a tiny hatchling. Darwin is a blue tegu, carnivorous, and about 4ft long. He's very friendly but you do have to be careful around him when he's hungry. He's kind of like a big scaly puppy to me!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v18/Keller/Scaley%20kids/Darwinonchairweb.jpg

[Darscilla]

<<<gasp>>>> Gemma, how amazing! Squishy is stunning! Is that a harness she's wearing? Do you take her for walks?

[Arctic]

Artic-that's the cutest floppiest doggy!!

Thank you :) The photo is not best of quality but the expression is just so funny, I laughed so hard when I saw it for the first time!



Arctic, Petra is adorable! :flower: She looks very happy.

Thank you! I believe she was happy then! I had just met my now fiancé and I think she sensed I was happy :grinhappy:


How cool is that, they are also Celtic names, which is where they come from. I'd love to know what the name meanings from Finnish were. :)

Hello again Liluri! I see you already figured out what they mean: unfortunately there weren't actual meanings behind those names, but quite a coincidence never the less!


Gemma I love your pets! My friend has 3 small snakes and I have held them and they feel so wonderful: strong and muscular. The skin is not cold or slimy like many think.

[Gemma]

<<<gasp>>>> Gemma, how amazing! Squishy is stunning! Is that a harness she's wearing? Do you take her for walks?

That is a harness, yes. :whoohoo: I sort of take her for walks. . . Reptiles aren't like dogs; you put the harness on them and YOU follow THEM around. Squishy doesn't understand the harness. She'll run to the end of the leash and then just run on the spot if I refuse to move. She'll keep that up for about 10 minutes. It's hilarious!

Mainly I use the leash to stop her from running off when I take her outside. Natural sunlight is so good for them and she loves to explore the garden. She's the only one of our pets we can regularly take outside. Speckles is too big to move around every day, and Darwin gets over-stimulated and really hard to control.

Gemma I love your pets! My friend has 3 small snakes and I have held them and they feel so wonderful: strong and muscular. The skin is not cold or slimy like many think.

Thank you!

Yes, snakes aren't at all slimy! They can be cold, though. They're cold-blooded and rely on external heat sources to stay warm in order to digest food, etc. We keep species that don't bask for long periods of time so our snakes are definitely cool to the touch but they warm up quite quickly once they start roaming around.

Darwin and Squishy bask regularly, so often they'll be toasty warm when we pick them up. Squishy gets so hot sometimes (she's a desert critter) that she's like a hot water bottle!

[jel]

Thanks, Meliora and Ilovemycop. I'll have you know my cats are big, strong and fluffy, but not fat! OK, except Aki, LOL ;) I sometimes worry that he's going to get stuck in the catflap, like Winnie the Pooh in the rabbit hole... And as they're named after Greek heroes (Achilles and Hector), the indignity of being called Lasagne would be too much, so I'm afraid I can't help you, Ilovemycop! :silly:

Everyone's furry (and otherwise) babies are precious. Arctic, Petra's expression is so funny! Gemma, is Squishy an iguana? I don't know much about reptiles, though when I was a kid I wanted to keep cobras as pets.

[Pegasus Marsters]

Gemma, your pets are so awesome. I love reptiles but the whole live food thing irks me a bit. I couldn't give them bugs or rodents. Eeep! But I love watching tv shows on them ^.^ If you can get hold of it you'd probably love Life In Cold Blood, it's airing on the BBC at the moment. You can watch the last episode (which is about frogs) on BBC's Iplayer. Next week I think it's about lizards.

[Gemma]

Gemma, is Squishy an iguana? I don't know much about reptiles, though when I was a kid I wanted to keep cobras as pets.

No, Squishy isn't an iguana. :) Iguanas are MUCH bigger. Squishy is a bearded dragon (pogona vitticeps). I'd like an iguana one day, though!

Gemma, your pets are so awesome. I love reptiles but the whole live food thing irks me a bit. I couldn't give them bugs or rodents. Eeep! But I love watching tv shows on them ^.^ If you can get hold of it you'd probably love Life In Cold Blood, it's airing on the BBC at the moment. You can watch the last episode (which is about frogs) on BBC's Iplayer. Next week I think it's about lizards.

We don't actually feed live prey to our animals, except the geckos and Squishy; they get live crickets, locusts, or silkworms. The insects don't bother me now. You just get used to it.

I'm actually very much against feeding live prey to snakes and carnivorous lizards. The most common feeders are rodents (mice, rats, etc) and rabbits; all of which can do substantial damage to reptiles. When you cage an animal, you give the prey no where to run to, and that's when accidents can happen. I've seen far too many blind and/or dead snakes in my years in the herp community to ever advocate live prey.

We buy pre-killed (humanely) rodents frozen, and then we thaw them out before feeding them to the scaley babies.

I don't have ethical issues about killing prey, obviously. ;) I eat cows, so my babies get mice/rats.

I have, in fact, been watching that show, thanks! I'm recording it since I don't often sit down to watch TV live. It looks like it's going to be awesome, and some welcome good press for reptiles. :innocent:

[Pegasus Marsters]

Thanks for the awesome info on your babies, Gemma. I'd really never cope with feeding them bugs (I'm too phobic) and I don't think my mother would be happy to have rodents in the freezer. Infact it makes me feel a bit irked out. But I'm happy to watch them at the zoo and on tv and the pet store ^.^

Life In Cold Blood has been really awesome. My only bugbear was that they didn't focus enough on the Red Eyed Tree Frog in the last episode. It's my favourite type of frog ^.^

[Gemma]

Thanks for the awesome info on your babies, Gemma. I'd really never cope with feeding them bugs (I'm too phobic) and I don't think my mother would be happy to have rodents in the freezer. Infact it makes me feel a bit irked out. But I'm happy to watch them at the zoo and on tv and the pet store ^.^

I definitely understand. :) Owning reptiles is a big responsibility since many species need very precise environments. Squishy needs to be able to bask up to a temp of 110 degrees or she'll get sick, and she needs a carefully planned, varied diet of salad and live insects, plus access to UV light. It's a fair bit of work and she's actually one of the easier species to keep!

I had to teach myself not to be afraid of the bugs I feed her. It took quite a while and they still creep me out on occasion. The frozen rodents don't bother me nearly as much. I'm quite casual about having them around, now, though they are in their own seperate freezer for hygeine reasons.

Life In Cold Blood has been really awesome. My only bugbear was that they didn't focus enough on the Red Eyed Tree Frog in the last episode. It's my favourite type of frog ^.^

Red Eyed tree frogs are soooo cute! I can see why they're your favourite. :whoohoo:

[cruztacean]

Here is my senior dachshund, Petra. She is now 14,5 years old but this photo was taken in the summer 2006. Look at that face, isn't she just precious!!!

THAT is an adorable doxie, and a professional looking pic. Does your fiancé do that for a living?

I love dachshunds. I've had two of them in my family: a short hair mini named Yogi, owned by my grandparents during my mother's late adolescence, extending to my early childhood. (He lived to be 11.) Later I got one of my own, a long hair mini, and in Yogi's memory I named him Boo Boo.

[Arctic]

THAT is an adorable doxie, and a professional looking pic. Does your fiancé do that for a living?

I love dachshunds. I've had two of them in my family: a short hair mini named Yogi, owned by my grandparents during my mother's late adolescence, extending to my early childhood. (He lived to be 11.) Later I got one of my own, a long hair mini, and in Yogi's memory I named him Boo Boo.


Thank you cruztacean! You have no idea how happy your feedback made my fiancé! He's an amator photographer but I'm so glad he managed to get a photo of that particular expression of Petra! I'm happy you enjoyed it :)

Dachshunds are the best, nice to hear you have had not one but two dachshunds friends!

I have lot's of photos of Petra, I might post some more later when I get my photos more organized :) Here's couple I had already posted at LHC. These are taken by me and copywrited. Both were taken this winter so she is over 14 years in these.


http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/LingonberryMist/20071107B012.jpg

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc33/LingonberryMist/20071202057_muoks.jpg

[Liluri]

I made it smaller but it's still huge, here's a weird shot of my cats they've come to take my soles away... that shoe. I'm sorry for the bad joke :)

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r48/liluri/131273.jpg