Off Topic Share your Pets ... Let's see those Pet Pictures!!

[raenndrops]

We currently have 3 dogs and 4 cats.
Doggoes:
Bailey Boy - 15-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer/Border Collie mix.
Oscar Lee - 5-year-old Black Laborador mix.
Buddy J - 6-year-old Chihuahua
We lost 2 senior dogs in the past couple years (a 17-year-old dachshund named Zoey Elizabeth and a 13-year-old Pomeranian named Charlie Bear).

Here Kitty Kitties:
Oreo Cookie - 12-year-old black shorthaired ... recently diagnosed with cancer in her shoulder, but doing well
L'il Smokey - 11-year-old gray shorthaired ... biological sibling of Oreo, but from the next litter ... she looks like her father.
Piper - Grey tiger calico foster cat
Swayzee - calico foster cat
We are fostering a friend's 2 calico cats because she was living out of a semi most of the time.

We lost Oreo Cookie's littermate brother Gizmo Franchesco (Gizzy Franks) 6 years ago. He had neurological issues from a fight with a coyote. He was also black. When we first got them they were 6 weeks old, and Bailey Boy thought he was their kitty mama, lol. He took great care of them when they were tiny kittens.

We lost the orange tiger kitty, Sunny Alexander, in 2021. He and Oscar were best friends.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I have a boxer/pibble mix (or at least that's my best guess -- he was a rescued stray wandering around rural North Carolina) named Darwin. At 15 years old, he's blind and deaf and incontinent and needs help getting up and down the stairs (hence the harness in the photo), but he's taken good care of me through the years and was the world's best wingman when I first met my wife, so I do my best to keep him happy and comfortable like the good good boy he is.

I don't have a picture at the moment, but we also have a tortie cat named Phobos. She aspires to be an elegant, graceful, deadly apex predator, but she is in fact a complete goofball (albeit one who is extremely adept at catching mice and delivering them to us in the middle of the night).

 

[raenndrops]

I Boxer/pibble mix (or at least that's my best guess -- he was a rescued stray wandering around rural North Carolina) named Darwin. At 15 years old, he's blind and deaf and incontinent and needs help getting up and down the stairs (hence the harness in the photo), but he's taken good care of me through the years and was the world's best wingman when I first met my wife, so I do my best to keep him happy and comfortable like the good good boy he is.

I don't have a picture at the moment, but we also have a tortie cat named Phobos. She aspires to be an elegant, graceful, deadly apex predator, but she is in fact a complete goofball (albeit one who is extremely adept at catching mice and delivering them to us in the middle of the night).

Does Phobos deliver the mice to your bed, the floor by your bed, or the walkway you take way too early in the morning (when it's still dark), lol?
Over the years since we moved in next to a junkyard, we have all 3 delivery methods by different cats. But L'il Smokey likes to play with them ... and if they stop playing back with her, she leaves them where they stopped ... watches for 5 minutes to see if they change their minds ... then goes back to her spot on the table.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Does Phobos deliver the mice to your bed, the floor by your bed, or the walkway you take way too early in the morning (when it's still dark), lol?
Over the years since we moved in next to a junkyard, we have all 3 delivery methods by different cats. But L'il Smokey likes to play with them ... and if they stop playing back with her, she leaves them where they stopped ... watches for 5 minutes to see if they change their minds ... then goes back to her spot on the table.

She usually drops them -- still alive-ish -- on top of us while we're still asleep, and then chases and plays with them while we frantically try to catch them.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Ok, I know @raenndrops and I can't possibly be the only chalkbucketeers with cute furballs.

LET'S SEE SOME MORE!

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

Unfortunately my mom's too scared of dogs for us to get one. I'll definitely have a few when I'm older though. But until then I'd love to see more pics and hear more stories too

 

[GymCAMom]

Kitty one is a stray we got as a kitten that is now 8!
Kitty two is a stray we got as a kitten that is now 7!
The dog is also a stray, who is now 14-15 years old and starting to show his age.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Kitty one is a stray we got as a kitten that is now 8!
Kitty two is a stray we got as a kitten that is now 7!
The dog is also a stray, who is now 14-15 years old and starting to show his age.

The sombrero <3

 

[traininghard]

This is my first time posting, so if I break any rules, please let me know!
I have one dog, a six pound Chihuahua/Miniature Pinscher mutt named Peanut. We adopted him almost eight years ago now, when he was 2-3 years old. He's getting to be a bit of an old dog now, but still acts like a puppy! Other than that, we have some fish, but Peanut is the only furry critter in our house.

 

[oliver5a5]

Your home sounds full of so much love and memory. Sunny Alexander’s story hit hard. And Bailey Boy being the kittens’ “mom” is the cutest thing ever.

When one of mine got older and started struggling, I talked to someone through Wellness Wag just for guidance on comfort care. Didn’t feel clinical, just supportive.

You’re doing amazing by them.

 

[Geoffrey Taucer]

Friday was Darwin's last day.

We gave him chicken and rice for breakfast, a big chunk of salmon for lunch, spent most of the day lounging outside in the most glorious weather I've seen all year. He had a chocolate peanut butter cup right before he went under, and passed away with his head in my lap.

All dogs are good, but Darwin was exceptional.

 

[raenndrops]

We currently have 3 dogs and 4 cats.
Doggoes:
Bailey Boy - 15-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer/Border Collie mix.
Oscar Lee - 5-year-old Black Laborador mix.
Buddy J - 6-year-old Chihuahua
We lost 2 senior dogs in the past couple years (a 17-year-old dachshund named Zoey Elizabeth and a 13-year-old Pomeranian named Charlie Bear).

Here Kitty Kitties:
Oreo Cookie - 12-year-old black shorthaired ... recently diagnosed with cancer in her shoulder, but doing well
L'il Smokey - 11-year-old gray shorthaired ... biological sibling of Oreo, but from the next litter ... she looks like her father.
Piper - Grey tiger calico foster cat
Swayzee - calico foster cat
We are fostering a friend's 2 calico cats because she was living out of a semi most of the time.

We lost Oreo Cookie's littermate brother Gizmo Franchesco (Gizzy Franks) 6 years ago. He had neurological issues from a fight with a coyote. He was also black. When we first got them they were 6 weeks old, and Bailey Boy thought he was their kitty mama, lol. He took great care of them when they were tiny kittens.

We lost the orange tiger kitty, Sunny Alexander, in 2021. He and Oscar were best friends.
View attachment 9249View attachment 9250View attachment 9259View attachment 9252View attachment 9253View attachment 9254View attachment 9255View attachment 9256View attachment 9258View attachment 9257

Update: We lost L'il Smokey in late May out of nowhere. She went to sleep one night and never woke up. Oreo Cookie (the one with cancer) held on until the Tuesday after YMCA Nationals. in late June. I had been loving on her, and she was fine when I let the dogs out to potty. 20 minutes later, I let the dogs back in, and she wasn't on the table. I looked around, and she was on the ground 1/2 behind the table and 1/2 behind the refrigerator. We think she had a seizure.
We weren't going to get any more cats ... until a friend had 3 litters born within a month in July. My sister picked out ONE kitten, Sassy Pants. Her friend said we had to take her "partner in crime," too. As long as they were both girls, that was fine. We named the "partner" Tiger Lilly.
We got them on September 27. On October 6, we had to change Tiger's name to Tiger Not-a-Lilly ... because something appeared overnight.
They are thick as thieves, but they are so fun. Tiger is 4 weeks older than Sassy. At their first vet visit, Tiger was 3.2 lbs and Sassy was 2.2 lbs. They are both growing well