Lucy who is now 14 and still going. Carter sleeping next to her.
True story: I wanted to name my boy dog “Nemo” and have since I saw “Avalon” as a kid. However, when I got Carter I felt I had to name him after President Jimmy Carter because my brother-in-law-at-the-time was very proud of his dog Reagan and making sure folks knew he was named after Ronald Reagan.
Reagan was a GREAT dog. One in a million.
Years later, when the rescue contact me to tell me they had a dog for me and that his name was Nemo – I was delighted. Didn’t have to change it!
This was my sweet pup Cowboy, he went to the great dog beyond last year (he was 16), miss him a lot. He had odd opinions about raking leaves, was a master tail chaser, and jumped like a god. Last one’s with my dad who also went to the great beyond last year - miss him a lot too.
I’ve posted this before, but I just love it so much. The kitten had just got off of antibiotics, and the nanny dog had taken care of him while he was ill. Brunhilde the dog is getting a well earned rest while Charlemagne the kitten engages in shenanigans.
Our arsehole cat, Bob, with the new kittens… Turns out that the notorious B.O.B. is just a jerk to grown up cats - he is the bestest uncle to the little monsters.
I have a planted tank in various phases of glory and non-glory (less glorious right now, it’s a lot of work). It’s mostly for inverts: red-cherry shrimp, japanese algae-eating shrimp, and a few other freshwater shrimp species, so the fish are tetras - small mouths, fewer shrimp casualties.
BoingBoing was complaining I was hogging the thread (and, to be fair, I totally am), so I delayed posting.
If I lived somewhere a little cooler where the ground wasn’t solid limestone I’d be all over a koi pond. I have container ponds for now, but just keep mosquito fish.
If you want to try shrimp, the red-cherry shrimp are really easy and cool - they look like little lobsters. They’re very tolerant of varying water conditions and breed easily so you can build a colony pretty quickly, just throw in a few new ones sometimes to preserve genetic diversity.
(slightly evil aside) They also make leaving a fish tank on vacation easy since the fish will have RCS fry to snack on if you don’t have a feeder timer - big fish will just eat the parents, though. Full disclosure: I have a feeder timer, though the shrimp fry are still preyed upon sometimes even though I have a ton of moss for them to hide in.
OK you guys, please don’t make this fun and awesome thread of posting pet/animal pictures a debate over whether pet possession is slavery. Please do start a new one if you want, though, it’d be fun to watch in a context where pet/animal photos didn’t get lost in the melee.
