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  • #32
    Trinity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,662 ✭✭✭Trinity


    Jules wrote: »
    I also rent it depends on the type of pet you have too! But my landlord knows im a vet nurse and i told him i woul dbe having pets in from time to time and only for a few days at a time!

    I didnt know that! I'm impressed :D


  • #33
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Lovely picture Jules :)


  • #34
    North&South
    Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭North&South


    Here's 3 of ours on a typical morning!

    We've also recently acquired a 3rd Basset boy, & we have a very old black cat - who's really the boss of the whole pack!

    Atypicalafternoon.jpg

    And yeah, we rent too! A lovely 4 bed house on an acre.... but the landlady's cool about the pets, because she's seen that they're not left to chew the house up! :D


  • #35
    Clare Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    North&South wrote: »
    Here's 3 of ours on a typical morning!

    We've also recently acquired a 3rd Basset boy, & we have a very old black cat - who's really the boss of the whole pack!

    Atypicalafternoon.jpg

    And yeah, we rent too! A lovely 4 bed house on an acre.... but the landlady's cool about the pets, because she's seen that they're not left to chew the house up! :D

    Oh my God! Cuteness overload! That's such a great photo.


  • #36
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    I had a really tough week in July, and my parents thought they'd cheer me up by buying me a puppy. It was the best decision ever. I drove to the hills of North Wexford and brought home little Zak. He's a Westie-Bichon cross and the cutest thing ever! He's now 13 weeks old

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    He has taken to sleeping on his back, when he's on the couch.

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  • #37
    Jules
    Registered Users Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Jules


    Meet my latest friend

    Alfred.. or Fred for short! Him and his brother Albert were left in covered in ticks very very wild and not very well. We had to separate them to make a little mre friendly and he seems to be coming around. Rusty doesn't mind him either!

    20pa9eg.jpg


  • #38
    Curvy Vixen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭Curvy Vixen


    Jules there must be no space for humans in your house!!!! How are things at the vets?


  • #39
    Lil' Smiler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Lil' Smiler


    Jules wrote: »
    Meet my latest friend

    Alfred.. or Fred for short! Him and his brother Albert were left in covered in ticks very very wild and not very well. We had to separate them to make a little mre friendly and he seems to be coming around. Rusty doesn't mind him either!

    20pa9eg.jpg

    oh my god!!! how cute!!

    Looks like my old kitten Elmo! Aww!! Now that has cheered me up :D


  • #40
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    I can't have pets where I live and I'm constantly at my mum to get a kitten or two (I don't live far from the folks' place) but she's very reluctant as she and my dad have a holiday home that they like to head off to whenever the fancy takes them. What do you guys think? Would it be bad form to leave a young kitten or two alone for the day? (Obviously I'd go out to my folks' place whenever they're away and they never head away for too long - three days max - but I am obviously working all day). There was always at least one cat in my parents' place up to about two and a half years ago when our beautiful Russian blue died :( and then they bought the holiday house so no replacement. I really miss having a pet.
    I'm ok on the dog front as I regularly mind and walk my brother's gorgeous girl :)


  • #41
    Red Hand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Dudess wrote: »
    I can't have pets where I live and I'm constantly at my mum to get a kitten or two (I don't live far from the folks' place) but she's very reluctant as she and my dad have a holiday home that they like to head off to whenever the fancy takes them. What do you guys think? Would it be bad form to leave a young kitten or two alone for the day? (Obviously I'd go out to my folks' place whenever they're away and they never head away for too long - three days max - but I am obviously working all day). There was always at least one cat in my parents' place up to about two and a half years ago when our beautiful Russian blue died :( and then they bought the holiday house so no replacement. I really miss having a pet.
    I'm ok on the dog front as I regularly mind and walk my brother's gorgeous girl :)

    Cats are happy as long as they are fed.:) Plus, they usually do their own thing for most of the day (and night). As long as the cat is fed every day, there shouldn't be much to worry about. Our stray at home, that we took in, goes missing once a month with her feral "boyfriend" for 4 days at a stretch. So we would have the opposite problem to you...she deserts us for her holiday home every month.:)

    Out of interest, do Russian Blues cost much or are they a common breed? I've always liked them from pictures.


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  • #42
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    So, when you're hand rearing baby kittens, do they tolerate cows milk? Or are they like little people, where formula is a better idea?


  • #43
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    Cats are happy as long as they are fed.:) Plus, they usually do their own thing for most of the day (and night). As long as the cat is fed every day, there shouldn't be much to worry about. Our stray at home, that we took in, goes missing once a month with her feral "boyfriend" for 4 days at a stretch. So we would have the opposite problem to you...she deserts us for her holiday home every month.:)
    Cheers Jeremiah. Yeah I know cats are extremely independent but kittens though... I've never had to leave them alone for long before. The last time we had really young kittens I was only out of school and my mum was working but only part-time.
    Out of interest, do Russian Blues cost much or are they a common breed? I've always liked them from pictures.
    Think they're a fairly rare breed but we had two over the years and got them both for nowt. Just lucky. They're so stunning.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
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    tallaght01 wrote: »
    So, when you're hand rearing baby kittens, do they tolerate cows milk? Or are they like little people, where formula is a better idea?

    Why are you asking?


  • #45
    Jules
    Registered Users Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Jules


    Cats cannot break down lactose like humans and you have to feed like a special sma for kittens. Puppies have the same kind of stuff.

    Cat or kitten you should never give them cows milk.


  • #46
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Can you give cow's milk to adult dogs?

    Jules, what would you say to my question above about leaving young kittens alone?


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