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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1775 on: 27 June, 2022, 12:39:53 pm »
Looked out of the window to see Catticus walking around the garden with a magpie in his mouth.

Which was fine, until youngest son got up and opened the front door. Cat (plus magpie) promptly came in. The magpie proved to be still alive and escaped.

So I have just had an exciting time trying to expel a magpie from the house. As I rapidly discovered, a magpie is a sufficiently large bird to do a significant amount of damage. Anyway, I managed to persuade it to fly back out of the front door, closely followed by a frantic cat. Once outside, the magpie flew off and Atticus slunk back inside, being sufficiently affectionate to show that he wanted a bowl of food to replace the meal of bird he had just lost.

Last night we found a dead magpie in the dining room. Judging by its state, it had been there for a few days (the dining room doesn't get used very much). Catticus obviously has a thing about magpies.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1776 on: 19 July, 2022, 08:42:49 am »
A neighbour has a cat called Benny. Benny likes dogs and generally gets on with them. Today Benny dared to get close to Indi, our German shepherd, by walking along the fence that separates our dog from our tortoise. Indi who has always barked at cats decided it was close enough and caught Benny, shook him like he was a rat, and let go of him. Luckily Benny made good an escape, with a few puncture wounds I'm sure.
I don't think Benny will like dogs too much anymore.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1777 on: 22 July, 2022, 10:38:19 pm »
Probably hunting, she brought in a (dead) fledgling (a sparrow I think) about half an hour ago.
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1778 on: 22 July, 2022, 11:00:34 pm »
Snoring and farting.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1779 on: 27 July, 2022, 08:12:23 pm »
We thought the birds were eating all our strawberries but I just caught the dog pulling them off the plants and eating them.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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« Reply #1780 on: 27 July, 2022, 08:23:47 pm »
Yes.  We never manage to harvest any raspberries that grow less than 1m from the ground.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1781 on: 27 July, 2022, 08:30:07 pm »
That's the first time I have caught her with strawberries. Should have known though as she used to do the same with gooseberries from next door when they had a plant that trailed over our wall and she will seek out brambles on a walk.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1782 on: 27 July, 2022, 10:20:52 pm »
A co-shirker's dog is fond of strawberries.

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1783 on: 08 August, 2022, 12:31:10 am »
Snoring and farting.

Am I your pet?

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1784 on: 12 August, 2022, 04:49:10 pm »
Not right now, she moved, but recently she has taken to making sure doorways don't change size while she sleeps.

Which wouldn't be so much of a problem if I hadn't had a massive injection of steroids in my foot on Tuesday afternoon.



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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1785 on: 18 August, 2022, 07:41:00 am »
Chasing sheep and growling at buses.

She's not a large cat, still growing, but not large.

Maybe I shouldn't have given her a Viking name.
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1786 on: 25 August, 2022, 05:27:36 pm »
Don't know because I just dropped her of at the kennels  :(
Now I feel like a complete heel even though its a lovely kennels in a beautiful place in the countryside and she will be fine.

First time we have been on holiday in three years and I had forgotten how difficult it is to leave them.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1787 on: 25 August, 2022, 08:57:59 pm »
Wondering why we're in this pub.
Like, why did we drive all that way, when we could have just walked 100 metres down the road as usual?
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1788 on: 26 August, 2022, 10:39:00 am »
Emitting stress farts, not eating or shitting.


We've had visitors, more or less continuously (2-3 days between each) for the past 4 weeks. First lot were very chilled out old friends and he was happy and normal.
Next lot were not so chilled and dog refused to eat for the last two days of their visit.
The ones currently here have two small hyperactive misbehaving children and he's really not happy.
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1789 on: 28 August, 2022, 10:27:59 am »
When our water supply switched to heavily chlorinated Rhine water the other week the parrot refused to drink it.  Fair enough, so do we. We then tried him with Contrex and Aldi's Rocheval that I get for my cycling bottles & the coffee machine, but he refused that as well.  He also refused bottled water at room temperature.  Then MrsT gave him water out of one of the small bottles of Contrex we keep in the bedroom, and he drank that.

Why? She worked it out: we usually top up his pot with tap-water that we take over to his cage in a small Contrex bottle and pour into his pot through the bars.  The beast wanted his own wee bottle, just like a cantankerous toddler.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1790 on: 02 September, 2022, 04:43:46 am »
Striking just one more pose on the way to Fort Mac with a convenient backdrop


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« Reply #1791 on: 02 September, 2022, 02:07:43 pm »
That is a heck of a backdrop.

Is that the region you will be working in? Looks like challenging conditions for flying an eggbeater.
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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1792 on: 02 September, 2022, 02:47:07 pm »
No, this is Mt Robson in the middle of the Rockies. Northern Alberta is flat and full of trees. Many many many trees.

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1793 on: 03 September, 2022, 12:28:44 pm »
The dog tricked us into two breakfasts this morning.
She's spent most of day sleeping it off.
Admission.  I'm actually not that fussed about cake.

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Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1794 on: 03 September, 2022, 02:06:58 pm »
Good dog.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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« Reply #1795 on: 11 September, 2022, 09:13:39 am »
Harbouring a fur ball, if her lack of usual appetite is anything to go by.
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« Reply #1796 on: 26 September, 2022, 09:57:19 am »
One of our two geese died over the summer  :( so, to keep the remaining one company, we rehomed two rescue geese (Buddy and Jovie) last weekend.  The newcomers seem to have settled in nicely, although they're proving rather difficult to drive into their hut at nighttime!  Rather strangely, I found that Jovie (who is Toulouse x Embden) had made a nest in the corner of the paddock and has been laying eggs (they usually only lay Feb-May), which I'm taking to be a good sign.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1797 on: 26 September, 2022, 10:06:28 am »
Sleeping outside my office door. Which opens outward.

Then acting very upset when door pushes him aside.
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ian

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1798 on: 26 September, 2022, 11:10:12 am »
LMC is annoying my wife. Which means she's sending me updates about what the cat is doing by the minute. Which is, by proxy, annoying me.

Re: What is your pet doing right now?*
« Reply #1799 on: 29 September, 2022, 10:19:55 pm »
Gassing me.

I'm stuck in an hour-long meeting with a Very Important Client.

Dog is in office with me and emitting Old Dog Farts that would kill a tardigrade, let alone a cockroach.
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