What your pet did to make you smile today!

OldNotWIse · 05-12-2013 09:49AM

Came home from the vet.

Vojera · 05-12-2013 10:49AM

I posted a few days ago that my guinea pig, Snoop, was sick. Well she's MUCH better now, she's like a completely different piggy.

Also, I got a new baby, called Persephone, and she's living with Snoop and four other pigs. Sephie was a bit shy at first but she has chosen Snoop to mother her, so they sleep together and Snoop licks her ears and face and grooms her a lot. AND Seph took food from my hand this morning! She's only been here four days, which makes this amazing progress. Yay!

Also, for your entertainment, this is Snoop making faces:

OldNotWIse · 05-12-2013 11:01AM

Such a cute pic. She actually looks like she has done something wrong lol

Layinghen · 05-12-2013 07:59PM

Yes it's a real oh oh face:D

Gorgeous little piggy.

cailleach an airgid · 05-12-2013 10:03PM

My Pangur has started a new game of bringing her toy (stick with string and rattly ball on the end (minus the feathers it came with) - the toy was SEVEN EUROS but has paid for itself, she loves it) - anyway, she drags the whole thing onto my lap and meows expectantly, starting me out of it - as if to demand I play with her. I thought it was something only dogs did, but she does seem to like a bit of fetch...

Anyway, the poor aul pet, I'm working late on something (mitching on Boards to be fair), she has had about an hour and a half of energetic play this evening and I need to just do human things for an hour or two and can't play...

So she's having a bit of a sulk... I shouldn't laugh at her but she's hilarious - like a teenager!

SillyMangoX · 05-12-2013 11:00PM

I'm eavesdropping on my mom talking to the cats in the next room and heard this ''Don't you dare, no, don't do it, please stop. If you do it I will murder you... awwwww feck yuck!!!!''. Turns out Peach was stalking her so she could like her eye brows/lashes. Anyone else have a freak of a cat obsessed with eyes? :pac: :pac:

boomerang · 06-12-2013 01:03AM

She had a go at sleeping in the small fella's bed...

OldNotWIse · 06-12-2013 09:28AM

SillyMangoX wrote: »

I'm eavesdropping on my mom talking to the cats in the next room and heard this ''Don't you dare, no, don't do it, please stop. If you do it I will murder you... awwwww feck yuck!!!!''. Turns out Peach was stalking her so she could like her eye brows/lashes. Anyone else have a freak of a cat obsessed with eyes? :pac: :pac:

No but one of ours is obsessed with licking human heads, especially just at the forehead hairline. She'll climb up on the back of a chair to do it.:P

Jazbee · 06-12-2013 10:31AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

No but one of ours is obsessed with licking human heads, especially just at the forehead hairline. She'll climb up on the back of a chair to do it.:P

Awww my dearly departed cat used to do that, she would sit behind my oh and plant her paws on either side of his head and lick his entire hair clean! (This is when he had hair lol!) Was the cutest thing, he wouldn't be able to move for at least an hour!

gimmick · 06-12-2013 12:35PM

Whispered wrote: »

I was shopping today and found tennis balls for 40c each so I got ten of them. I brought them home and tipped the bag over in the sitting room. Harleys face was priceless. He ran around trying to get as many as possible into his mouth, in the process not managing to hang onto even one. He was so excited his whole body was wagging. So cute.

Went straight to this

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Aglomerado · 06-12-2013 01:00PM

cailleach an airgid wrote: »

My Pangur has started a new game of bringing her toy (stick with string and rattly ball on the end (minus the feathers it came with) - the toy was SEVEN EUROS but has paid for itself, she loves it) - anyway, she drags the whole thing onto my lap and meows expectantly, starting me out of it - as if to demand I play with her. I thought it was something only dogs did, but she does seem to like a bit of fetch...

Anyway, the poor aul pet, I'm working late on something (mitching on Boards to be fair), she has had about an hour and a half of energetic play this evening and I need to just do human things for an hour or two and can't play...

So she's having a bit of a sulk... I shouldn't laugh at her but she's hilarious - like a teenager!

My 4 month old kitten Murph has decided that Fetch is a great game too. She has a little catnip toy that she likes to pick up in her mouth and run around with it. She discovered last week that if she dropped it near me I would throw it for her. So I wore her out!

She's also got a devilish streak. Any time I settle down to do any work involving paper or books she is on them in a flash, sticking her bum in my face. And if I decide to watch a foreign film with English subtitles, that's when she thinks in front of the TV is the nicest place to sit.

Mrs Garth Brooks · 06-12-2013 07:32PM

I hide the dog treats in my bedside locker to prevent other people from over feeding my dog.

Caught my dog today trying to open the drawers on the bedside locker.

aonb · 06-12-2013 09:07PM

Brought my Youngest Simple dog in the car today for a big walk around Punchestown, with a friend and her dogs. Left my others at home - too old to walk for that long anymore. Youngest Simple Dog isnt used to being on his own (without a wing man!). Had a great walk - very subdued sticking close to me dog. Back in the car, went into Naas to run errands. Young Simple dog in car ON HIS OWN - very unusual for him. Back to the car. Another lot of errands. Back to the car. Open the door. Young Simple dog LAUNCHES himself into the air landing in my arms quivering with happiness. Think he doesnt 'do' in the car on his own???? We went straight home for FFFOOOOODDDDDD! Hes snoring on the sofa since - too much excitement for 1 day!

Pumpkinseeds · 06-12-2013 09:26PM

Jazzy our former feral is mad about our little 10 week old foster kitten Molly. He rattles the pet gate outside her room to let us know when he wants to play with her and jumps over it:rolleyes: when the bedroom door is open. It's lovely to watch them playing together, they're still a bit edgy around each other so there's the occasional swat at each other.

Molly gave my hand a lick and after that I got a nose boop. Oh and our own 4 are fascinated with the Christmas tree. It's lovely to have Toby and Poppy with us it'll be their 1st Christmas with us. I'm hoping to be able to have integrated Molly to them so she can explore the rest of the house instead of being cooped up in 1 room.

OldNotWIse · 09-12-2013 12:07PM

Halfcat graduated from under the table to the sofa last night. An extra inch of trust every day. Delighted at this delicate progress! :P

cailleach an airgid · 09-12-2013 12:20PM

Silly Mango - mine loves licking my eyes as well - it's not pleasant! Particularly first thing in the morning - I wonder if it's they're a wee bit salty from the taste of tears? (not that I'm crying :-) just the regular eyes doing what they do!).

Pumpkinseeds · 09-12-2013 01:36PM

Jazzy came back to bed with us this morning and used my chest as a pillow while balancing his butt in the crook of my elbow, he was having a real purr fest. Molly is becoming a real little cuddle monster, I'm looking forward to bringing her down to the living room for a while towards the end of the week so she can explore a bit more.

fredweena · 09-12-2013 09:29PM

My alarm cat finally got used to my new routine for work. Wakes me up at six every morning just in time for the shower. Wasn't too impressed when he failed to recognise yesterday as Sunday and also failed to appreciate that I had a RAGING hangover. Still love him though (sometimes!!).

Pumpkinseeds · 09-12-2013 10:04PM

I've been taking up the bowl of nuts every night before we go to bed so that Felix is hungry enough to eat his breakfast with the painkiller hidden in it. So now he's taken to padding my head in the early hours of the morning and giving me little nippy kisses on the arm. The whole ' I love you, now feed me'. We have to take the nuts up during the day when he's awake to get the antibiotic into him then.

rannerap · 09-12-2013 10:08PM

I was getting ready in my bedroom earlier and umi ran in. Gave me a kiss. And ran straight back out again

she came back a few minutes later and crawled up my back and sat on my shoulder while I went about my business. She's obsessed with sitting on shoulders, hopefully she grows out of it before she is full grown

Pumpkinseeds · 09-12-2013 10:17PM

We've never had a kitten as young as Molly, she's about 11/12 weeks now, the youngest we had was 6 months old and that was 16 years ago. Looking at her and Toby together you would think they were father and daughter:) He's very good with her. For some reason Felix is refusing to acknowledge her existence.

He hasn't gone near her safe room and even in the car to the vet last week, he was in his carrier beside me on the back seat and she was in her carrier on my lap, he didn't even look at her

Coopaloop · 10-12-2013 07:40AM

I went up for a shower the other morning and left my two pups in the kitchen,we had just put up the Christmas tree and sheba (the real puppy) is totally new to the whole Christmas thing,so i didn't want to leave her alone just in case,cooper would have been fine tho. Anyway i came out of the shower to find this......
I must not have closed the door properly,made me laugh!

Vojera · 10-12-2013 09:16AM

^^^

"It's not what it looks like!"

honerbright · 10-12-2013 12:38PM

I posted recently on another thread that Max was having bad separation anxiety at night time because we all sleep upstairs. Last night we all went to bed and he started his singing nightly song of despair. Called him like usual and after about half an hour he decided to finally brave the big bad upstairs and fell asleep with us

I put that blue cushion down about a week ago incase he decided to ever join us, but clearly he's way too big for it.. and it's from a cat bed which Cinnamon fits perfectly :eek:
(Thats Poppys crate at the bottom of the photo, he was laying beside it when I woke up this morning

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Really proud of how he's coming along. It's a slow process, but he's such a brave little monkey.

OldNotWIse · 10-12-2013 12:56PM

Halfcat has been cheating on us :eek: We're devastated. (:P). Out on the balcony calling her last night and the neighbours were walking into their house with their puppy. One of them said "are you looking for the stray?". We nodded. "We fed her earlier" she said :P I often wondered why she would give us the cold shoulder sometimes and yet other times be practically climbing into the fridge for some ham. :rolleyes:

Pumpkinseeds · 10-12-2013 06:12PM

Jazzy had a great play session with Molly our foster kitten this morning. It's hillarious to see Molly doing the sideways crab walk thing at him, she's about 1.5kg, he's about 5 kilos:D He hides in the big cat carrier and they swat at each other and chase each other around it. I wouldn't leave them unsupervised though.

She's gotten into the habit of hiding behind the bedroom door and trying to run out when we open the pet gate, there's been a few near misses. Felix just made me jump, I thought he was in the back garden, until the Christmas tree moved, he's tucked up underneath it at the back under the radiator.

cailleach an airgid · 11-12-2013 11:17AM

So. As a proud and rather besotted new kitten owner, I have (via my extensive online reading - I'm a PhD researcher currently and must READ ALL THE THINGS) frequently heard you can't train a cat, only train them not to get caught.

So I know that Pangur will continue to sit on the kitchen table when I'm not there, but it would be lovely not to have her up there when we're having our dinner. You know, it would be nice.

I have been saying down firmly and clapping my hands to get her off when she jumps up. This works.

However, I realised this morning that she considers this process a particularly excellent game. A GAME. And she is thrilled to bits to be having such excellent craic, especially considering she has now worked out she can jump from the table onto the sofa.

And I'm so besotted with this little creature all I can do is laugh and laugh and go in for more purry cuddles....

Jazbee · 11-12-2013 01:38PM

I normally crate pup when I'm going out, usually for an hour or so. But I've started a voluntary job once a week for 3 hours, which means I'm gone 4 hours in total with school runs etc. Anyway I left her in the kitchen with her Kong and came back to a clean kitchen, no accidents! So proud! As a reward I'm letting her shred a cereal box

jimf · 11-12-2013 05:44PM

Jazbee wrote: »

I normally crate pup when I'm going out, usually for an hour or so. But I've started a voluntary job once a week for 3 hours, which means I'm gone 4 hours in total with school runs etc. Anyway I left her in the kitchen with her Kong and came back to a clean kitchen, no accidents! So proud! As a reward I'm letting her shred a cereal box

jeez your generosity in the reward dept knows no boundries :P:P

only jokin its a great feeling

Jazbee · 11-12-2013 05:51PM

jimf wrote: »

jeez your generosity in the reward dept knows no boundries :P:P

only jokin its a great feeling

Haha! Wait til you see what I'm getting the kids for Xmas...full cereal boxes

Couldnt give her any treats as she'd had them in her Kong! She does love an auld shredding session..it took me ages to clean that up

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