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Donāt eat the sunflower, Niko!
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This is Pepe.
His owner sometimes takes him for a stroll (Pepe sitting pirate-style on his shoulder, no less) which is why I met him at a local cafƩ a couple of weeks ago.
Pepe is 39 years old and a rescue animal. He lives with seven other rescue parrots. The couple who take care of them have an understanding with the local animal shelter; they take over when birds from deceased owners end up at the shelter.
They were able to check Pepeās ID ring and establish his age and that he wasnāt captured in the wild.
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Is everyone else seeing that a bunch of the images in my previous posts are broken/missing?
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Yes. Iāve been seeing a lot of missing images all over the BBS for the past few days.
@FGD135, youāve reminded me that I came across this yesterday -
It took a while to understand just what I was looking at. 
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If I remember correctly there were some messages on the BBS about them āimprovingā file storage or something. Wonder if weāre casualties of that.
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You do remember correctly, or else we were both hallucinating.
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Iād like to think Iām the sort of person who shares, but I donāt remember very clearly.
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Yes, things are apparently still broken on the back end. 
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Yeah, some seem broken to meā¦I depend on your kitty photos to keep me sane during these trying times!
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@codinghorror Help!
Images are uploaded, seem to hang around for a day or two, then vanish, see above.
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Thanks @schleifer! It seems to be some and not others. I know a lot of the files I upload are pretty big, in fact in past iterations too big, could that be a factor?
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Update on JingleCat and the shaving option. Alas, there will be no shaving. A minor source of comedy is withdrawn.
She does like the Love Glove (and omg, that is the worst pet product nameā¦). Thank you for the suggestion, @Ratel and @Wayward. But I now have a bit more information on her, thanks to the sharp-eyed groomer and some image searches.
Jingle will continue to get bigger. For a couple more YEARS. Sheās probably not Maine Coon nor Norwegian Forest Cat. Sheās most likely an unpapered Turkish (Kurdish) Van. Top pic is a breed standard (CC attribution, Inkeri Siltala, from Flickr), bottom is Jingle laying claim to my current fabric. They could be from the same litter. (Yes, Iām gonna sub her DNA, and Ninjaās. We need more cat DNA in the databases.)
And thatās great: Vans are dry alpine cats, a landrace breed (i.e. not human manipulated) who self-domesticated and bred to live at 5K feet, in a semi-arid climate, with freeze-your-butt winters and sweat-off-your-body-weight summers. Few health problems, generally long-lived. Sheās gonna be fine in the Rocky Mountain foothills as long as I keep her away from coyotes. Vans also like water. (Yup. We have fountains for the babies for a reason.) And theyāre protective of their humans. (Oh, yeah. She growls at anyone who isnāt us. Poor letter carrier & UPS lady.) But sheās not done growing at all. Girl Vans top out around 12-14 pounds, at around 3-4 years old; boy Vans push 20 pounds. I should expect her to be around 45 inches nose to tail when sheās finally done. Totally unexpected.
Which, of course, leads to questions about how six month old Jingle ended up in an over-crowded Roswell NM shelter. (She got swapped for adoption to Denver Metro.) Vans are not common cats, but one of the three US breeders is between Albuquerque and Roswell. Jingle has a dark spot on her nose and the black mark on her hip, which exclude her from show conformation. That may be the explanation, and if so, then Iām delighted I have her, and furious that someone made that judgement. Or maybe Jingleās Mom got some boom-chicka-wow-wow without proper authorization, or sheās a local sale subsequent generation.
But it turns out that shaving her isnāt a good idea. She doesnāt have an undercoat, and her coat evolved specifically to manage her body temp. I wonāt make her shiver (except when I bathe her.)
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Our local shelter seems to have a steady stream of Siamese kittens that donāt quite meet breed standard. This is how we came across our Derpasaurus (this is his nickname) and tangentially how we found The Tailless Wonder (also a nickname). Breeders suck, and they donāt have the slightest understanding how awesome their cast-offs can be as pets.
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A Great egret, A. a. egretta , in Rio de Janeiro.
I really like the way these beautiful birds can stand sill for long periods just waiting for the right time to catch a fish.
I took this picture two years ago when I was leaving the building where I work. This egret was trying to catch a fish in the pond of the University.
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nice shot!
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