I don't mean the pesky kind that eat your wiring and pee in your basement. I mean pet rats. Or mice. Or hamsters, or ferrets, or any other lil' fuzzy critters. It's going to hit 100 in Seattle this week. (I know, big whoop to you Zonies.) But we don't have A/C, and little critters can overheat and die very quickly. So, sharing a wee tip with you.

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Our ginormous, fugly, 8-year-old goldfish Pig died today. He'd been poorly for the past couple of weeks.

I'll miss the creepy old guy.

Get your mind out of the gutter, you.

I have a good friend who doesn't own dogs. He doesn't dislike dogs, he just likes cats better. That's fine. But sometimes, he cracks me up by saying, upon entering my house, that he's not used to the smell of dogs anymore, and he kind of wrinkles his nose. Now, my dogs have regular baths. Neither of them are ( Read more... )

Some people are too stupid and/or mean to live.

Seriously, what kind of an asshat does such a thing to helpless kitties? This is one of the most ridiculous (not to mention sadistic) things I've seen in a long time.

Since we're on this subject, I may as well vent about "body modifications" in animals in general. I wish the U.S. would make it illegal ( Read more... )

I love my Animal Planet channel. I do. But sometimes they come up with the most RIDICULOUS crap ( Read more... )

Yes, this IS the documentary about the guy who died pulling the Enumclaw Love Train. To put it bluntly, some dude died of internal injuries from being fucked by a horse. It was big news here in Washington last year. Also the butt (so to speak) of many, many jokes. I found the whole incident pretty hilarious, in a disgusting kind of way. I mean, ( Read more... )

So my dogs go freakin ballistic at 5AM. Standing on the couch, barking at the wondow hysterically. Goddamit, I say to myself. What the hell is out there? So in typcial horror movie victim fashion, I grab my flashlight and go down the basement stairs to see what's outside ( Read more... )