Loungers' Pets

catsmeow · Feb 7, 2008

HadleyH said:

Cute...look like they are hugging!

oh look got his own fedora.

what a dude!!

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what a great shot. Looks like he's got a glass of absinthe!

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Love these dogs, especially the blue ones

kind of reminds me of ren and stimpy! so cute!

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what a face!

I want one of these! I love Kitties!

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Love this. Sorry you had to put the rattie down. :-(

I love Rats too! I had one that look just like him. Sweetie Rat is in rattie heaven now :-(

By the way, sorry to all the loungers that have lost their little friends.
I love all the loungers pets they are beautiful!

Patrick Murtha · Feb 8, 2008

AmateisGal said:
Mama Kitty - her real name is Katie, but since she's the mama of our other two cats, she's earned the name Mama.

Nice shot!

Mojito · Feb 9, 2008

These aren't my pets, but I wasn't sure where else to put them. Ages ago I mentioned visits to our veranda by Rainbow Lorrikeets - usually in pairs, but occassionally in flocks. Someone asked if they could see a photo - I had a camera handy today when they paid a call (it's been raining heavily so they were out for a feed). Not the most we've had on the balcony, and I couldn't get them all in the one shot, but here they are - this will be a familiar site to some of the other Aussies!

John in Covina · Feb 9, 2008

Mojito said:

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Wow! That's pretty amazing! Very colorful too!

Jerekson · Feb 9, 2008

That is too cool! Hopefully I'll get to experience something like that when I'm down under!

dandelion-vint · Feb 9, 2008

That is amazing to see those birds just show up in your backyard like that! I saw part of a documentary on PBS last week about parakeets and Cockatoos and other exotic birds in the wild. It was just so strange to see them in big flocks acting like regular wild birds in the wild, when we usually only see them as pets.

Mojito · Feb 10, 2008

Jerekson, depending on where you go in Oz, you're almost certain to see flocks of parrots. The Rainbow Lorikeets thrive in suburbia, particularly where there are a lot of native flowering plants (we grow a lot in the garden to encourage them). If you walk under a tree where they're roosting, they'll deafen you with their shrieking. No exageration - I have to block my ears if I'm walking from the bus stop to a friend's house at certain times of the evening under a certain clump of trees. Even a handful of them will set up a ruckus you can't ignore when they land on the balcony. They're not shy - they'll peer in the kitchen windows, hang on screen doors and demand attention, and if you leave a door open some will even wander in the house.

We had a visit from four large sulpher crested cockatoos last month, and I took some food out to hand feed them. The lorikeets were so indignant that I was feeding the cockies that they flew up and landed on my hand so they could have first go.

Once in a blue moon mixed flocks of little and long-billed corellas come out to our headland, but that's rare - although I see a lot of them locally, along with flocks of galahs. We also get king parrots and a couple of types of rozellas, but not in flocks.

I went for a great run on Friday from my workplace in Sydney, part of which skirted along the harbourfront near the Botanical Gardens. I nearly stopped dead in my tracks when I got to Farm Cove - there was a huge flock of white birds, a dazzling contrast to the green lawns that they were prowling on. It was a mixed group of Ibis, seagulls and sulpher crested cockatoos. Wish I'd had a camera - we see a lot of all three species in the Gardens, but I've never seen so many all turning over the grass looking for a nibble.

catsmeow · Feb 12, 2008

Mojito said:
These aren't my pets, but I wasn't sure where else to put them. Ages ago I mentioned visits to our veranda by Rainbow Lorrikeets - usually in pairs, but occassionally in flocks. Someone asked if they could see a photo - I had a camera handy today when they paid a call (it's been raining heavily so they were out for a feed). Not the most we've had on the balcony, and I couldn't get them all in the one shot, but here they are - this will be a familiar site to some of the other Aussies!

What a cheeky lot!! I've always loved the colour of these birds. Great picture Mojito!

carebear · Feb 12, 2008

My puritanical streak says they are too conceited and arrogant in their beauty.

I'd probably be forced to hang a wind chime nearby made of domestic "hot wing" bones, simply to keep them humble and honest.

TessTrueheart · Feb 12, 2008

I'm on a waitinglist for one of those lovely sphynx cats! Can't wait!

Fletch · Feb 12, 2008

kitteh news...

Kitty Foyle is going in for repairs.

She was running a very high white blood count and all tests suggest she has mast cell cancer in the spleen. It's common in old kitties (she is 14, not 10 as we previously thought), and it hasn't spread, so she's having the spleen out Feb. 29. This, we're told, almost always cures the cat.

She has been showing no outward signs of illness, so this should at least buy her a few more years. Of course, if it turns out she has a bunch more cancer than expected, we won't have her brought back to. No unnecessary measures, in other words.

TessTrueheart · Feb 12, 2008

Fletch said:
Kitty Foyle is going in for repairs.

She was running a very high white blood count and all tests suggest she has mast cell cancer in the spleen. It's common in old kitties (she is 14, not 10 as we previously thought), and it hasn't spread, so she's having the spleen out Feb. 29. This, we're told, almost always cures the cat.

She has been showing no outward signs of illness, so this should at least buy her a few more years. Of course, if it turns out she has a bunch more cancer than expected, we won't have her brought back to. No unnecessary measures, in other words.

Oh no, poor Kitty Foyle. I wish you the best of luck with the operation.

AmateisGal · Feb 12, 2008

Fletch said:
Kitty Foyle is going in for repairs.

She was running a very high white blood count and all tests suggest she has mast cell cancer in the spleen. It's common in old kitties (she is 14, not 10 as we previously thought), and it hasn't spread, so she's having the spleen out Feb. 29. This, we're told, almost always cures the cat.

She has been showing no outward signs of illness, so this should at least buy her a few more years. Of course, if it turns out she has a bunch more cancer than expected, we won't have her brought back to. No unnecessary measures, in other words.

Ack! Hope this takes care of the cancer and you're able to enjoy a few more years with her.

Patrick Murtha · Feb 13, 2008

Fletch said:
Kitty Foyle is going in for repairs.

She was running a very high white blood count and all tests suggest she has mast cell cancer in the spleen. It's common in old kitties (she is 14, not 10 as we previously thought), and it hasn't spread, so she's having the spleen out Feb. 29. This, we're told, almost always cures the cat.

She has been showing no outward signs of illness, so this should at least buy her a few more years. Of course, if it turns out she has a bunch more cancer than expected, we won't have her brought back to. No unnecessary measures, in other words.

I'm pulling for all of you, Fletch. We cat guys have got to stick together!

Fletch · Feb 13, 2008

Will xmit all good wishes to Kitty F asap.

MrNewportCustom · Feb 13, 2008

Best of luck to you and to Kitty Foyle, Fletch.

Lee

DeaconKC · Feb 13, 2008

Vesla, our Norwegian Forest Cat, she likes engraved single actions.

Both the ladies of my life.

Retro Rob · Feb 13, 2008

NORMAN the WONDER DOG !

Patrick Murtha · Feb 13, 2008

DeaconKC said:
Vesla, our Norwegian Forest Cat, she likes engraved single actions.

What an exceedingly cool looking cat.

PADDY · Feb 13, 2008

The Boys.

In the garden:

Loungers' Pets

One of the Regulars

Practically Family

One Too Many

One Too Many

One of the Regulars

One Too Many

One of the Regulars

My Mail is Forwarded Here

Registered User

I'll Lock Up

Registered User

I'll Lock Up

Practically Family

I'll Lock Up

Call Me a Cab

DeaconKC

Guest

Familiar Face

Practically Family

I'll Lock Up

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