You can play no pranks with Skimbleshanks!
He’s a Cat that cannot be ignored;
So nothing goes wrong on the Northern Mail
When Skimbleshanks is aboard.


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Today, we drove 2.5 hours to go pick up our baby black capped conure, who we reserved in January, shortly before he was born.
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I love that title. I’m sure I’ve used it a thousand times over the years. Still, that is indeed what you’ll find behind the link.

Cats, dogs, together!

The players, as usual:

Charlotte, ancient female German shedder.
Crow, 7 year old male Standard Poodle.
Noire, 5 year old female Doberman pincher.

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I joked, after looking at these, that I probably could make a calendar entitled ’365 days of cats in baskets’. Apparently, I take a phenomenal number of pictures of that.

Or, there are several baskets in my house that can have cats in them.

Or both.

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Things are keeping on as they do. Kitten is growing up and becoming a cat. Dogs are being doggy. Birds are being birdy. We got our first trace of snow last night.

And I have a bunch of pictures that I didn’t take off the camera yet again.
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We’re generally pretty slow in introducing cats to parrots, for a couple of different reasons. Kittens, particularly, are challenging to have around parrots since they want to play with everything.

Jelly is DECIDEDLY in that phase, and spends 110% of her waking hours racing around the house, attacking other cats, and generally playing with ( Read more... )

We’ve had our Siamese kitten for nearly a month now, and she’s settled in wonderfully. She’s loud, demanding, extremely smart, growing like a weed, and everything we expected from her. Also, very, very beautiful.

So, now you get some pictures.

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Indeed, our tiny overlord, Princess of all she Surveys has been home over a week. She’s charmed all the cats, taught us her ways, and is even mostly dealing with the dogs. She’s still extremely displeased that she can’t jump on top of the countertop, but she learned today how to get on top of the fish tank, so all is well in the world.

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Last night, after work, we went off to collect Jellylorum from her breeder. After a good long while of talking, she came home, and was petted and loved on before she was tucked in to sleep in the spare room.

This morning, I woke up and checked on her, and she was pretty unhappy with the setup. She hadn’t eaten or used the litter box because she ( Read more... )

So, you should really make sure that when one of your people gets home, you make sure she knows how hard your day is, and carries you around like a baby.


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