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Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
This is the place for casual discussion about our pets.
Photos are welcome, show us your pet(s) and tell us about them!
My wife made a little gif of my ugly ass dog (turned 13 yesterday) wiggling his dumb little ears; so here you go: One Dobby-ass looking hideous pigbeast of a pup.
I love him so damn much.
That’s… not that ugly. The eyes aren’t too bulgy, and the coat pattern is actually quite nice.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beerholder so I have to assume that you and @caliper were either drunk, blind, blind-drunk, or liars when you made your comments and I will not stand idly by while you two dare compliment my pup!
He looks like a turd drying in the sun, but that's fine because he's my turd drying in the sun. [that sounds weird...]
I'm with @nukeman, I've seen worse looking dogs. His proportions look alright.
Also, don't poop outside. Dogs do that.
Dawwww... I love "ugly" dogs. If my family wasn't so adamantly against it my next one would probably be a Chinese Crested for exactly that reason. :P They're so paradoxically cute! What kind of breed is your boy?
13 is pretty dang impressive too. My very very first dog made it to 14 years old, and probably would have survived for at least another few years if not for him somehow escaping the yard one day while none of us were home, and getting run over. :(
He's amazing. Too smart for his own good, loves to cuddle, everything is awesome, and loving Colorado. His ugliness is compounded by the fact that he didn't always have the white spot on his face, that is vitiligo that developed about a decade ago, rare enough that his vet at the time marched a parade of students into look at his ugly mug. He also has "witch's moles" on his face and neck with long black hairs growing out of them, and lumpy fatty deposits that come and go; he's like an oil painting, much better viewed from a distance.
He's a Chiweenie (Chihuahua/Dachshund) and no signs of slowing down, two walks a day (although in the colder weather up here we keep them under half a mile during the winter), and lots of "killing (plays fetch, but goes in the other room to growl and attack the toy because he doesn't want me to witness the brutality).
Sorry to hear about that, unfortunately a memory I also share of a childhood pup.
Hah, so the exact opposite of my last dog. ;) I loved Quincy, but good God was he ever a big dummy. :P He did so much stupid stuff (like eating his own shit, rabbit shit, random mushrooms he'd find, black walnuts which made him have tremors, etc) that I had to remain vigilant whenever we were outside. :/ It also took me longer to train him to do the basics (sit, stay, paw, come, etc) than any other dog I've ever had. But at least he listened well, so when I told him to stay, he did, or yelled "leave it!" if he took off after something (like dropped food, or the squirrels/rabbits that frequented our yard) he would immediately stop in his tracks. He also loved to cuddle too, but at 85lbs of pure muscle it wasn't exactly the most comfortable thing for me when he would plop down directly on top of me while I was lying on the couch or in my bed. :P
Thanks, and same to you too. Sadly it's an altogether much too common shared experience amongst us dog lovers. :( Here's hoping that autonomous vehicles can helps solve that at some point though, or at the very least reduce the frequency it happens.
p.s. Speaking of Colorado, how are you enjoying it so far? It's a lot colder than Texas, especially right now, I imagine. :P
He's balanced out by our cat, who is an idiot. We make jokes that he's an orange cat from a printer that ran out of ink (he's striped gray) with one braincell between him and his tail and the tail has it most of the time. Jokes that he can only count to one, we sing to the animals and his songs get dumbed down, etc.
All dogs are lap dogs if you're brave enough or can't get out of the way fast enough. My aunt had a beer keg of a Rottweiler that was paired with a 9lb dachshund, the rotty looked as intimidating as can be, but was sweet (and dumb) as any dog can be, got bossed around by the little hot dog. The latter was a lap dog of course, so the former decided she was also a lap dog whether you wanted her to be or not.
Loving it. It's delightfully magical here in so many ways.
Definitely colder, but hasn't been too "bad" (I like the cold, much more than heat, so wouldn't call it "bad" pretty much any time here) so far. The biggest change is the temperature swings, back in Dallas a normal day the temp swings 15°F from the high to the low of the day, here it's double that every day and it gets chilly fast when the sun goes down. Since I can put on more/warmer clothes to battle the cold, but could only get so naked to battle the heat in Texas, I don't mind. Did move insulating and heating the garage up my list of projects though. Blacksmithing in the cold ain't so bad, working on cars with frigid fingers isn't all that enjoyable.
How are things in the Great White NorthTM with you and yours?
Also: If you see a whiskey called New Riff, skip it. Tastes like nothing but clove, cinnamon, and peppercorns, like someone tried to make a fancy version of Fireball.
Nice! Glad you're finding it to your liking. And yeah, we've been lucky up here too. It's been an insanely mild winter. And the few times it has dropped below zero, it hasn't stayed there for long. I'm a bad Canadian since I'm not a huge fan of the cold anymore. I used to love it back when I could ski, but now my knees are shot, so I can't do that anymore... and the cold makes my bones ache... so I've been glad it hasn't been that cold. Silver lining to climate change, I guess. :P But my BiL and nephew hate it, since they've only been able to use their backyard rink a few times so far.
Pretty dang good, all things considered. We sold our house which was insanely hard work and super stressful. We are moving closer to my sister, nephews, and BiL in Jan, which is going to be awesome. No more hour+ drives to spend time with them anymore. They will only be 10 min down the road from us.
The new place is great too, and within walking distance of a ton of awesome restaurants, amenities, and stuff. Our current place is an awesome house, but there is absolutely nothing within walking distance of it, and I don't drive. So I am really really looking forward to the change of location. It's been far to long since I was within walking distance of a pub with live music. ;)
We've been slowly moving most of our stuff to the new place, but we're getting a moving company to move all the big stuff. We should have it all done within the next few days, and then we move in on Jan 7th.
TBH, that sounds kinda nice to me, LOL. My favorite tea has cloves, cinnamon, and pink pepper corns in it. So that flavor profile is right up my alley. :P
Like backyard skating rink or a pond that freezes over or something? Is that a thing Canadians have?
There's an ice rink in town, the park across the street has two ponds that freeze over (thin ice), but I've never skated and never saw anything more than a puddle freeze over back in Texas. In the next two months there's ice drifting up in the mountains that I'm going to try to go to, first time anywhere near a frozen body of water that can actually support the weight of a person, let alone multiple cars.
Nice! Still in the middle of nowhere middle-Canada then, just actually closer to "civilization" now?
You monster. It's supposed to be a rye heavy mashbill, which I don't mind at all as I like rye, but this just did not work for me. Doesn't help that I despise the fake cinnamon flavor of Fireball (and everything fake/hot cinnamon) and have bad memories of the first and last time I ever did Fireball.
It's a half-size hockey rink, complete with sideboards, lighting, nets, and seating. They spend a lot of money and time setting it up every year, but several years in a row now it's not been cold enough for long enough for them to really make use of it. :/
LOL, yes it is. I'm honestly surprised you've never heard aboot it. ;) It's pretty common all over Canada, although climate change is kinda messing that up. :( Growing up we always made a rink in our backyards every winter too, although they were never as impressive or elaborate as my BiL's setup. Ours were just a big rectangular box made using 2x4s with a giant plastic sheet to contain the water/ice, a hockey net on one side, and that's it.
Less in the middle of nowhere now. Waterdown is a semi-rural community (24k pop) just 10-15min away from Hamilton, which is a pretty big city south of Toronto on Lake Ontario.
p.s. I'm with you on Fireball being disgusting. If New Riff has that same fake cinnamon flavor then I prob wouldn't like it much either.
Sorry to tell you, but that’s not an ugly dog. That’s a mighty fine, cute dog!
Maybe this is not casual discussion, but anyone have any experience dealing with older cats - specifically litter related issues? My big boy is around 17 now, and refuses to bury his business anymore. It's leading to a lot of tracking, constant litter-concrete inside his back paws.
Initially I was concerned it may be something more serious, but his blood work came back fully clean. It could be arthritis, but I'm not sure I want to dive down that path just yet.
Mostly I want to know: Advice on litters that absorb urine faster or drop it below the surface somehow.
Advice on clearing the gummed up litter between his rear toes. I've never bathed him. Is that the solution? I tried a semi-firm brush and it'll knock loose the fine bits but not the core of the gunk.
Maybe just try a different litter?
Another option is an automatic litter box. I have owned two CatGenie litter boxes, and I can recommend them wholeheartedly. The litter is reusable and not clumping, so it’s possible that it wouldn’t stick between his paws as much. And since it can clean the box immediately after use, him not burying it is also not a problem. The only drawback is it’s incredibly expensive, but it is a quality product and support is good. Support has been happy to stay on the phone to troubleshoot issues with our first box that was long past warranty.
If you are interested, it might be good to get a refill box of their litter and see if it solves those issues (just use it as disposable litter temporarily). If it does, then go for the whole box.
We switched to this Tidy Cats pellet litter system for our older cat for the same reason (we got the bigger version since we have a younger cat as well) and it's been working well for us the past year and a half. Much less litter tracked all over the house.
https://a.co/d/15Yo8po
Automatic litter box as others have mentioned for the covering. My wife got our cat a "litter mat" which is a silicone double layered mat/rug that has a hollow honeycomb texture on the top and a solid layer on the bottom, placed it so the cat has to walk across it when leaving the litter box and the design kinda makes their toes spread as they walk across it and drops the loose litter into the bottom. Has helped with litter tracking quite a bit if using the clay/finer types. Don't know if it'll work with the pellet/newspaper type of litter though.