Our pets

Woo Hoo, way to go Kathy!

Pets: My dog is Nikishka Kazan (Nikki) a 13 1/2 year old Siberian Husky. My son's dog, that practically lives with us is a 9 month old Golden Retriever named AddyMay (Addy). Photos on my page.

Our dog is a black lab mix puppy only 8 weeks old named Ebony. We also have an 8 year old cat, black with some white, named Wilsey & another grey & black tabby cat named Jack who is 5 years old. Have plenty of pics of Ebony on my page, but none of the cats. Guess I should try to add a few!

We have two dogs, Vizslas, also known as Hungarian Pointers, named Callie and Sadie. They love the outdoors, very much match our active lifestyle, and like all Vizslas love to be covered when they sleep!
Callie is 7, very smart, always entertaining, runs like a deer, and likes to eat Post-it Notes (which is very hard on a list-maker like me!).
Sadie, her half-sister, is 9, and is our ''dog of a lifetime.'' She is just starting to slow down, but she is the sweetest and most-loving animal we have ever known.
I don't know how we will ever get along without our girls.

kathy, bruce and i have a 10 year old ausi. shep. named boomer, 2 cats one 8 years, and 1 six months lil'bit and lizzy, 3 birds jack,diane, and the kid. and a tank full of cool fish. our pets seem to have filled our 'empty nest' after our kids moved out. we sure are attached to them.

We have 2 dogs. Max is a Lhasa Apso/Shih Tzu cross. He is 6 1/2 yrs old and he has only one eye. He got attacked by a bigger dog abt. 4 years ago. Nuka is a Siberian Husky. Her full name is Benden's Nukatchiaba. Nukatchiaba means my younger sister. She is 5 months old.
We also have 3 cats. Grey and George are sisters. They are around 16 years old. I'm not sure what they are. Pockets is part Siamese and she is 12 years old.
There are pics of Nuka, Max and Pockets on my flickr.

Pete and I have a bearded collie cross - not at all sure who Daddy was, but he was some sort of lurcher/greyhound/wolfhound ...she sure can run!! She was born in Oct 1996, and we brought her to our house in Radstock, England, when she was 6 weeks old. She had a big argument with the hot water pipe - kept biting it because it burned her, then polished off the rest of the eggs Mornay when we left her at home whilst we were in the pub a week later, and left the rest of our supper on the table! She came over to France with us via the Tunnel in 2001 (where we could stay with her), as we didn't want to leave her in the car alone on the 90 minute ferry crossing. She is a lovely, quiet character, now. We take her everywhere with us, including restaurants, where she immediately goes to sleep under the table. One day, I will try to show you a picture of her on Flikr.

Hi everyone - We have a 13 year old dog. Her name is Clara. She is a German Shepherd/Doberman mix. She has been a wonderful dog. The vet is amazed at how healthy she is for a dog her age. She lives outside and gets lots of exercise. Jenny has a bunny, Rosie. She is on my Flickr site.

boomer our doe is a real help to me personally. he is a service dog, always on duty. he can detect seizures. its amazing how he knows that. he goes with me EVERYWHERE!!! groceries,church, stores, airplanes.....everywhere i go, he goes.
he has saved my butt on several occasions. boom is a 10 year old aust. shep. i couldnt ask for a better friend. we're TIGHT, that dog and i.

Hi! I have pictures of my kids that mind (better than the 2 legged kind, anyway) on my page. Brutus and Sierra are littermates, born June 10, 2002. They are Golden Retrievers, Sierra weighs 55-60# and Brutus weighs 80-85#. They had originally joined a Golden mix named Princess, smaller, she weighed about 50#. Sadly, Princess has gone to the Rainbow Bridge after 16.5 years. Miss Priss is our cat. She looks black, but is actually ''shadow'', faintly striped. She is a longhair, so she is actually half the size she appears to be. She also has some Siamese blood in her, so she earned her name. Leggs the frog passed on to the great pond a few years back. Everyone gets along, and hair is considered a condiment at our house!

I forgot to say, Priss is almost 10, birthday July 19, 1997.

We have a Siamese cat, her name is Pyewacket and she is ten years old. She has attitude like you wouldn't believe but very protective of me. I could do almost anything with her but, other than my wife, others should keep clear.

3 dogs we rescued Taffy, Pebbles and BamBam, one miniture doxie Joey, one African Grey Parrot Polo, 5 lovebirds (all have names) one cockatiel JayJay Morgan Horse...Pekoe Hackney pony....Piper. I work to feed and take care of them all.

have 4 cats and an aviary full of budgies
2 of the cats are brothers we have had from birth that I think are 6 years old .. Patch and Tigger.
we have an all black stray cat that adopted us about 15 years ago and is getting very old ... his name is Rambow cos we also had a black cat called Rocky at the time he arrived. Rocky has since died.
and the 4th one is daughters cat that she couldnt have in rented property after moving ... a doctored female fluff ball called Maggie.
we would love to have another dog but the motel has no fenced in area and our beautiful scotch collie was hit by a truck many years ago and died, his name was Laddie .... and I still miss him enormously ..

A cat who originally was my son's (until he joined the Marines 4 years ago) named Nemesis but will answer to cat, bozo, kitty. A parakeet, named Snowy who likes to give kisses to see if you were eating crackers. A half a dozen zebra finches, nameless, my husband's and a flock somewhere near us (he hasn't got the idea that if he leaves the door open, they'll fly out.)

I think we're the oddballs in the bunch--have only one dog, a rescue dog, part german shepherd (coloring) and mostly Alaskan Husky named Jazz She is 5 y/o now, doesn't bark unless really riled; she loves to run,but is very timid (which drives me crazy). She belongs mostly to our son and my hubby, but she follows me everywhere. If I can ever get any pictures on flickr, hers will be one.

Houpette is my dog. She was given to me on my birthday 15 years ago when she was just 6 weeks old. She is a white poodle with apricot undertones. Difficult to classify her size as her mother was a white toy poodle/bichon cross and her father was what is called a moyen caniche (poodle) here and apricot coloured.
She is playful still, though for shorter periods. She has had surgery for torn cruciate ligaments (both back legs) a few years ago. She has bilateral cataracts, so her vision is impaired, her hearing is almost gone but luckily I can whistle which is about all she hears now. She also takes hormones daily for'lady dog' problems. But if the postman, a gendarme, or in fact, anyone comes to the house she suddenly becomes a doberman, teeth bared, growling, and attacking said intruder.
When she arrived we already had 3 cats(at one time we had 5) they have all now passed on each at about 15/17 years old.
Am dreading the day Houpette goes

Until February this year I had a shetland sheep dog called Lady (my avatar)she was nearly 14 when we lost her. I don't think I could every find another dog as perect for us.
We still have a Jenday conure called Koyaa, who is very messy and noisy. Two rabbits, a black and white Dutch and an albino Netherland dwarf. Pond fish, two tanks with tropical fish and one tank with Dwarf puffer fish.
I would loved to have another dog but think that there would be a jealousy problem with Koyaa which would make her noisier than normal

Hi, pet lovers. We've got three cats--an 11-year-old Ocicat named Holmes who weighs a slight 6 3/4 pounds; Spike is a ginger cat, and he's six; Arthur is our baby, a 4-year-old Maine Coon. We were once the proud owners of Sherlock, a ginger cat who died of kidney disease at 16; Watson, who escaped out our back door when we weren't looking (and we still long for him to return, three years later); and Moriarty, (Holmes' brother) who was a gorgeous chocolate ocicat who died of injection-site cancer when he was only eight. We've been blessed with lovely pets and love them all.

Our dog is Simon, pictured in my Avatar. He is 12. Other pictures of him on Flickr. I have a set called Our Pets. Simon wandered into our yard when he was around 1, jumped up and put his paws on me, wagged, and said, ''Can I live here?'' Also pictured in Our Pets is Maggie, the little black shaggy 1/2 wire haired Terrier, 1/2 Dachshund that we lost to old age about a year ago. My daughter has 3 dogs also pictured in Our Pets, Virgil, the bulldog, Sansa, the tan pup, and Winnie, the Basset Hound. We also have guppies, ... but I never named them.

For any of you cat owners who may be curious to know the equivalent age in human years of your cat's age here's a website where you can find the conversion. Celia from Toronto sent it to me once when we were talking about our cats.
http://cats.about.com/cs/healthissues/a/agechart.htm

I have three Golden retrievers, Murphy 8 years old my big boy, Kelly 7 years old my little girl, and Sandy 6 years old my 'big' girl ( because she is so tall and weights 90#) They are truly a blessing and I love them like they were my children. Also one small gray tabby cat named Oliver 15years old. My Son in Law has some more exotic pets, a Ball python, several corn snakes, and at last count three lizards.

Hi ,the visitors of my page have seen the picture of my dog Borris ,it is a poodle terrier,next month''june ''will finish its 6 years ,i brought it from Ukrania when he was 2 months old .it is very clever and hyper ,loves people and likes to play .

Mamacita2/PA: I have a 5year old Carin Terrier named Jazz. He is such a wonderful little guy likes to think he is the only dog in our community. He has a way about him that as I walk him, and we meet others or he spots them jogging, etc, he somehow gets them to take time out to stroke him and scratch his ears. He pauses in front of all of the houses of his favorite people. I have always had dogs, but this is 'my Dog'! Since I have been trying to lose weight, he walks with me, happily Most Carins weigh between 13 and 15 lbs, but the breeder told us Jazz would be larger than that. We expected 18-20 lbs...but , he wound up weighing 33 lbs and the vet put him on a lifetime diet of a 1/2 cup of kibble, and 1/2 cup of green beans, twice a day. For treats he has raw carrots and/or sliced apples. He is thriving, healthy and happy and LOVES to eat. He has also lost over 5 lbs since we have been walking. He soon will look like Toto in Wizard of OZ, but he knows he'll never live in Kansas..lol He is really a gift of love everyday! His picture is on my flickr site, but I need to put more of them on there...one day! He's a dark silver gray with some red highlights, He is also non-shedding which is nice. Many think he looks like a Scottie without the floppy ears(his stand up)because of his size. Kathy's dog avatar before Ebony, looks like Jazz's face...a real cutie.

Thanks Kathy for the pet page. We have 2 cats, 5 and 4 years old. they are long hair domestic grey tabby striped mother and daughter, Scooter and Screech. YES we knew they were girls, but they earned thier names. As a kitten, Scooter would lie on her side, reach out over her head as far as possible and grab the carpet with her claw, and 'scoot' herself along the floor. She still does this!

Scooter was a young mother, was already pregnant when we carried her to be fixed. She almost had her first kitten in my lap, cause every contraction, she would leave her birthing box and climb on me! We moved her box to the sofa with plastic under it and I sat beside her, stroked her and made her stay in the box. After first kitten came, oh my what a change, NO time for me, it was all about the kittens. In no time three kittens, all natural bob tails like her. About 30 minutes later, Screech announced loudly to the world that she had arrived, and earned her name. Screech still 'talks' loudly when she wants something and you will get her what she wants, cause she will not hush!

They are indoor/outdoor cats and we ooperate the doors for them. They both hunt and I get lots of 'presents' from Scooter. I prefer the dead ones. One photo of Screech as kitten in Flickr, more later.

MizTricia, Alabama USA.

Long hair domestic cat, SCREECH, age 4 grey tabby striped.

Long hair domestic cat, SCOOTER, age 5, Grey Tabby striped.

I read the directions AFTER I made my comment, OOOPS!

We have the twins born 6/6/6
Skinny Tabby cat - Soldier
Tubby Tabby cat - DJ
We also had Long haired Ginger Cat Jeff - unfortunately he was knocked down and killed on April 13th.
Pics on my FLICKR also some of our previous cats.

I have a just-turned-two Springer Spaniel - Mocha. She is spoiled ROTTEN, but she is just a wonderful dog.
Jeanie and I currently have Bubba, her mother's 12-year-old Golden. Our niece is going to 'adopt' him sometime this summer.
At that time I will begin gently lobbying for a companion for Mocha! Maybe another Basset hound (those of you who I have e-mailed would know why, and others could probably figure it out from that!), but almost any dog will do.
I also have a 6-foot concrete gorilla in the front yard, does that count (you can see him on my page)? And we have a wooden Basset hound marching up the roofline of our house.
The neighbors are waiting anxiously to see what I will come up with next.

Our current pets are Diablo, a 23 pound, 7 toed black cat. He's getting up there at 14 years old, but still rules the roost. The newcommer is Rusty Ray, a pekenese and rat terrier mix who is cute as a button. I've never been fond of small dogs before, but he stole my heart. Our puppy boy just turned a year old and is still only 12 pounds. As hard as he tries, he just can't entice the cat to play ball with him, but they do play chase. I'd post some pics, but I'm still waging battle with Flickr.

We have Ben, a Red Cloud Kelpie (Australian sheep dog) and Patchez, a 'bitzer' that looks like an enormous Jack Russell. Patchez is recovering from cruciate ligament surgery and Ben is on anti-seizure medication. And I thought kids were expensive

Tow dogs - Tom & Jess
We are a dog mad family. After a row one day my husband said that it was either him or the dog - lucky he didn't hold me to that. Probably would have chosen the dog 'cause I don't think I could have been happy living with anyone who could try and make me live without my dogs and besides, he could always find another spouse but its not so simple for a dog [besides it was my son's dog]. We are now up to dog's number 2 & 5. Number 1 passed away 13 years ago, number 3 passed away christmas 2005. She has her own little plot down in the bottom of the yard where she helps my fruit trees bear fruit. 'Old Tom' seems to have been with us for ever - a very robust little bitzer with short legs and a curly tail who thinks he is a great dane. He is somewhere between 13 & 15 - we've had him 11+ years. He was 1-2yo when he adopted us. The 'puppy', Jess, is a kelpie X - I think the X may be whippet because she is very fine framed and goes like the wind. She is nearly 2 years old now and rules the roost. Spends a lot of time 'heeling' poor old Tom - I think these instincts in working dogs are very hard to submerge.

My dogs are my kids now. I have 4 Basset Hounds named as follows;
Dudly Doright is my older male. He is about 8 years old and is an offspring from my Kennel.
Bentley is 4 years and I adopted him two years ago. He was being given away by his owner cause he wouldn't stay home.
Penelope, AKA Mamadog, was adopted by me this past January. She and dog 4 were abandon near St. Joseph, Missouri. She was expecting and had a hugh abscess on and above her right eye. it was as large as a softball. A day with the vet and a lot of follow up cured her.
Dilbert is a pretty little boy, about 2 years old and was also abandon with Penelope in Missouri. I believe he is Penelope's pup.
We all live here with several cats also.

We have 31 Suri alpacas (no, they are not named after Tom Cruise's daughter). Suri alpacas have fleece like dreadlocks, it is like silk and the animals look magnificent running across the paddocks with their silk curtains of fleece glistening in the sun. Their colours range from white, to fawn, to caramel and mahogony. Their registered names include Vanilla Surprise, Cinnamon Spice, Honey, Toffee Twist and Minty. We're hoping for Butterscotch Ripple and Ambrosia this year.

I have a ferret. Her name is SusieQ and she is an escape artist. For an animal that is not supposed to be able to survive on its own outside, she has done it 4 different times, once during a snow storm. The longest she escaped for was 2 1/2 weeks before we saw her and used a live trap to catch her again. She loves us to pieces, she just loves outside more! :)

I also have 2 dogs. They are Australian shepard and Border collie crosses. I have a cat named Jake, who happens to be a girl...
I have an older horse (20) named Banner who took all three boys through their high school rodeo careers.
My other horses are younger: Smokey (8); her half brother Choco (4) and he is mine, I am not giving him up to the boys. Spur (8), Goldylocks (6) Mouse (8 or 9, I don't remember) and Misty (7 or 8) All of them are rope horses, either heading or heeling. Smokey does both. Choco will too when his training is complete.

I have a 1 yr old chocolate lab mix named Sky,he looks like all lab except for his speckled tongue and his tail tends to curl over his back like a chow,thats what we think hes mixed with.
a 3 yr old maine coon cat mix ,he weighs 20lbs,he was abandoned at our property and the boy's were camping and he came in to camp so we named him Camper.
a 30gal. aquarium with tropical fish mostly tetras the neon and black tail and I also have a goldfish pond with 7 goldfish and there is 3 frogs living in it at the time and we love them all

I have Reggie the wonder beagle -six months old now. I got him the day bofore my 50th in January. He is a clever little chappie. He has learnt to open the doors. We have lever handles and the outward ones were easy. He has now learnt to open the doors that pull in as well. We can't just shut him in the laundry now when we go out for a while. We have to leave him outside.
He is very affectionate and likes to fall asleep on my lap at night time, we always have a morning cuddle while I have my first cuppa. I never realised how much time you can waste playing with a dog. We love him though and can't imagine life without him.

VICTORIA, time playing with your pets is never wasted time! It feeds the soul, makes us more understanding and tolerant, soothes the nerves, calms the troubled, lowers our blood pressure, and extends our life. All this and it is FUN!

MizTricia - I couldn't agree with you more!!

I have two cats & a dog. The dog, Ben, is a Rottweiler/ Blue Cattle dog cross we got from the RSPCA almost 7 years ago. He was to replace the Black Labrador/Cattle cross pup that we had that unfortunately drowned in our fish pond on our daughters 12th birthday. My husband came home from work and found him, he had escaped from his pen while we were out. We also had a Border collie/cattle cross that we had to have put down last year, he was 13 but failing in health. My real loves are my two cats. Mintie is a long haired siamese, not Himalayan but has long fur and like a chocolate point. He is currently sitting on my lap needing me with his needle sharp claws! The other Milo is a Burmilla/Siamese cross (which is Burmese chinchilla cross)He is our Garfield only he is a fawny grey colour instead of orange. Mintie is our Houdini and can open sliding doors. THey get shut in our shed at night and he has worked out how to jump up and hang of the handle of the sliding door, put his back feet to the side and push against the door frame to open the door! Unfortunately they are not allowed in the house, my husband was told by a naturapath that he should avoid cats because he had an allergy to them. THey had been living in the house for 12 months since they were kittens with no ill effect on him but then they had to go out! Fortunately we work from home and our office is outside with the workshop so they get to sit on my lap or sleep on the spare chair while I am at work.

Just 1 long haired Akita Named Keno, wonderful dog but kind of aloof. Never had a dog quite like her, She is about 8 yrs old now, we named her Keno because the week before my wife got her she won $10,000.00 on a .25 cent bet on keno game in Nevada picking 8 numbers out of 8, really a long shot.