Good cat catch.
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Iāve never used the Pip search engine. Any good?
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There is also need for a duck, but ducksā¦ Doā¦
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Such wonderful kitties!
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lynx was too obvious, eh?
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Pip was adopted before we had the naming convention.
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Itās rare that I can get all the kitties in the same photo. Here are (L to R) Mr. Stud, Iris, Manny Pearl and Sylvia.
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Mr Stud and Sylvia are older, 12 and 11 years, so they are not interested in any shenanigans. They just want to be warm and lazy.
At less than a year old, Manny Pearl is composed almost entirely of shenanigans, which is why Syliva is looking down at him like that. Luckily Iris is only one and a half, so sheās up for rough and tumble play. It takes the heat off the old folks when Manny wants to play the-floor-is-lava, or look-its-a-real-mouse.
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Aw, Iām getting cat envy. So much floof!
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An old pic, but I came across it while archiving files:
She grew into the ears and the leash, and out of the collar, rather quickly.
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Dang, and here I thought we were pushing the Siamese ownership window with two!
What a lovely lot. I hope to melt all 4 of ours in front of the fire yet this year for a firsty group shot.
[edt] Yay, another Boinger has an old house!
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Hundred and twelve year old house here. You can tell when it gets cold outsideā¦ or warmā¦ or really anything in between. In a way itās a lot like camping, but with warm showers and a fridge.
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Youāre mentioning 5 cats, but I only count 4. Do you have a photo of the missing one?
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My brotherās girlfriendās dog, Jax the German Shepherd. Heās a very smart boy.
His phrase for fetch is āgo find itā. I told him āgo find a stickā, while waving a stick at him. He searched around the yard, but because we had landscaping a few weeks ago, couldnāt find any deadwood. So he ran over to the laurel bush and yanked a branch off of it, and brought it to me.
I cut off the small bits, so that it was a good stick and we played fetch for about an hour.
I dearly miss Toby. Heās been gone almost a year now, and I still occasionally have flashbacks to the night he died. He died in a lot of pain. I thought Iād see him in the morning, but I decided to dick around staying up late, and I was out having a cig when mom and dad threw open the back door, sobbing and told me he was dead.
Toby wasnāt a smart dog, like Jax. But Toby loved me with all he had, and trusted me completely. I miss him, and I miss his deep understanding of me.
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Manny Pearl is a two part name, a riff on the great Minnie Pearl. When he was a 3 week old kitten, and it started to look like heād survive, he made himself heard. From across the house, even, so I started yelling HOWDY back at him. And, he was Minnie Pearl for a couple of weeks until surprise: balls!
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That part of the house in the photo is more than 110 years old, though the newest part (the bit with the indoor plumbing) is only 60 years old.
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You should check out my maker-fu in the maker thread: easy hide-in-plain-sight window draft protectors for virtually no cost. Perfect with old painted window frames (our building was built in the 1880ās, which for Chicago is practically prehistoric).
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Admittedly this is not my cat, and I am not the gentleman cat owner in the background, but I love this pic because itās so representative of the supremacy of a Siamese cat in a household.
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