I know this is a little different, but I think it would be fun to see our members' furry friends and pets, and show them some love!
So if you have dogs, cats, reptiles, amphibians, what have you, please share!
This guy is Gibson. He was my good friend for a long time, achieving Eternal status in 2015. Gone, but not forgotten! It's been a long time and I've been thinking about adopting again. Miss having a companion around.
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Its great to see people with their best friends, unfortunately my best friend is no longer with me.
He lived 18 great years but a stroke got him 😞
But here's some pics in his tribute.
Thanks for starting this thread - I'm a huge animal lover! Gibson is adorable - looks like he was the best boy.
Here are my two current best pals; Buffy the Standard Poodle and Baby Triceratops the setter. Buffy just turned 5 and Baby is 13.
My pets are a bit more wet than the ones posted so far...
Allow me to introduce the biggest ham you will ever meet. My puppers.
Alright everyone, here are a couple of pictures of our dog. Her name is "Aloha", she's half Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog and half Labrador. She's about 60 pounds, 9 years old, and is the most gracious, gentle dog ever! She is soooo mellow...and quite, sometimes I think she is a cat!
This is our cat. We're not sure exactly how old he is, our best guess is around 18 years old. He's a Balinese, sometimes called a long haired Siamese. Yeah, he's got their infamous yowl.
In retirement, I do cat rescue activities. I have a 'Cat Tuesday' every week and I feed feral cats in the morning, cats in adoption centers in the later part of the day. It's rewarding and it gets me out of the house for a while.
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These are my girls! The white with black spots is Oreo and her little sister is Aria
Donald has insisted that I post a few more pictures of him and the other cats that are in residence. He is such a loving cat.
@Ashley_AMD You've got that right - not a care in the world. They get three square meals at our house (well, round meals because their food dishes are circular) and maybe some playtime too.
There is a story behind Tiger......thanks in advance for asking. He showed up maybe 4-5 years ago as a stray, looking for food and water. I started putting out a food dish and he started sticking around. Eventually I put out a cat bed by our front door and he would spend some time there. He let me get close to him (but no petting) and I was happy when he was around the house. My other cat rescue friends convinced me to trap Tiger and check to see if he had been fixed. It's the old Trap, Neuter and Release (TNR) routine you see. So we trapped him after a few days and he went to a vet to be checked. Turned out that he was already fixed, he had been microchipped and his registered owner lived about a mile from us through the woods that are behind our house (there's a creek down there too). He had been missing for SIX YEARS from their house. They still had his mother and his sister. His real name was Kobe. So they got him back and I was both happy and sad. I became friends with his owner on Facebook, but we didn't really interact much. They went back to their old methods of letting him go out when he wanted, as he didn't like being inside a house all day.
Fast forward six months from the time that I trapped him, and who shows up at our door? It's Tiger (Kobe) again! He came back to me. Now I knew this was meant to be and when I contacted his owner, they said I could go ahead and keep him as he obviously likes it here more than with his mother and sister cats. So that really started a closer relationship between Tiger and myself. He started to trust me and he would sit on my lap while I brushed him on our front stoop. A few years ago another cat showed up (a black one we now call Blackie) and after a few months of aggression between him and Tiger, they became good buds. They each have a heated cat bed on our front stoop during the winter months. They also get three square meals a day. Blackie won't sit on my lap but now he does let me pet him when I bring out food. They both like cat treats of course.
