The Pets Thread

Lucy_Gothro · January 16, 2019, 8:26pm

I just saw this - please accept my sincere condolences. <3

Lucy_Gothro · February 9, 2019, 7:12pm

Note the extreme close-up;

TobinL · February 9, 2019, 7:53pm

Not really a pet. There are 3 that know me, this one was not gonna let me get too close but it is good weather to spoil them with kitty kibble.

Lucy_Gothro · February 11, 2019, 11:14pm

You…you are their pet.

TobinL · February 11, 2019, 11:43pm

But they are not kitties. I started feeding them specifically after I noticed them finishing up the kibble from a now gone kitty who wanted to be outside as much as possible. She would come in at night, mostly, and request to go out for litterbox trips even in the rain.

gadgetgirl · February 11, 2019, 11:54pm

Looks like a crow? If so, smarter than a kitty (much as it pains me to say that). Probably smarter than humans about some things, too.

Lucy_Gothro · February 12, 2019, 12:07am

You’re still their pet.

TobinL · February 12, 2019, 12:27am

Indeed it is. There are 3 that hang around nearish during the day and know I am a total softy that will feed them.
Corvids in general are amazing smart creatures.

Let just say they have me trained.

Lucy_Gothro · February 13, 2019, 7:19pm

A friend of mine in Oz sent me this book:

I think I’ll read it again.

Lucy_Gothro · February 17, 2019, 4:39pm

Luke, about a half-hour ago.

Wisconsin_Platt · February 26, 2019, 1:18pm

I had half a dozen tree rats out on the deck this morning. They know a sucker, so I went out to feed them and two of them didn’t even run too far away.

No pics of this morning, but here is a fluffy one from this weekend.

kxkvi · February 26, 2019, 1:39pm

Vould zee zhentleman like a thin way-fair?

Franko · February 26, 2019, 2:49pm

aww, that’s not fair – he’s puffed up because it’s probably cold!

Wisconsin_Platt · February 26, 2019, 4:21pm

Yes, it was cold.

No, that is not all fur.

kxkvi · February 26, 2019, 6:38pm

Nutty is awful cute, tho. (We call 'em Nutty in our neighborhood.)

Lucy_Gothro · March 7, 2019, 6:50pm

Franko · March 7, 2019, 7:13pm

if i fits, i sits!

Lucy_Gothro · March 7, 2019, 7:40pm

“Frah-gee-lee…it must be Italian!”

kxkvi · March 10, 2019, 8:07pm

Speaking of foreign languages . . .

I distinctly heard Talia say “mow-oon-blet” right after eating. The m, n, b, and t were faint, as cats don’t articulate those letters clearly, but the L was very distinct–I suspect due to licking her lips while speaking.

She says very weird things.

ETA: Being a Russian blue may have something to do with it, maybe.

smulder · March 11, 2019, 2:42am

It really blew my mind when they were on The Colbert Report – halfway through the interview I realized The Colbert Report was exactly like a hoax talk show that Devo would have invented in order to be guests on, and also Devo was exactly like a hoax band that The Colbert Report would have invented in order to have on the show. It was like an infinite regress of ironic deconstruction.