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I swear there's no abuse happening in this picture. I'm the only one who can pick her up without fearing for my safety but she still dislikes it and totally made the picture better:



She's half chow half German shepherd. She's slightly aggressive with everyone but me. She lives with my dad now so I see her everyday.

Her name is Rosalind

When she swung her head back she gave me a bloody nose. I looooove her.

Rosalind is gorgeous, I wants one!

Everyone calls her beautiful but most people are afraid of her. She's never bitten anyone, she just shows her teeth etc. When she was quite young some neighborhood kids opened the fence and left it open, and she went missing.

Four months later we got a call(my dad made a tag with our home phone etched into it) from a guy that lived six blocks from us. She'd been under his house and refused to come out, but his granddaughter had been feeding her and eventually gained her trust enough to get the tag.

She was malnourished, eaten up by ants, and living under a house for four months. She was never normal or a "good dog" again. My father and I refused to have her put down just because of the behavioral stuff. She recovered physically but she's screwy in the head.

She's different, but I've never had a problem with her aggression or anything, she trusts me fully. I have no idea why.

That's really sweet, it's strange how animals like that sometimes just randomly pick one person to trust. I have a cat who is really screwy in the head; she can be aggressive at the worst times but normally is just VERY flighty - she will run away from nearly any sound, person or other animal. But, much like Rosalind and you, she *completely* trusts me and adores me to the point of neediness. I think it's because she doesn't trust anyone else enough to properly socialise so she gets it ALL from me. As annoying as it can be sometimes I find it very sweet

The person who first said "Curiosity killed the cat" was undoubtedly right. We have 4 adorable kittens at home now, as we were about to call them in for the night we realized one was missing. He's a bit daft and easily misplaces himself, but he's adorable.
He's the white one looking to the left on the picture.

Anyway, I later found him lodged between two very heavy iron beams that are stashed on a shelf outside near our garage. The poor thing was stuck and it took us a crowbar to manage to get him out. No harm other than pure stupidity happened to the cat.

^ Glad the kitten was ok.

My new/current cat is about a year old and is also daft that way. A few days ago she climbed a 10 foot high wooden post next to the garage and then jumped onto the garage roof. And then couldn't get down. So I got out a ladder and brought her down (and she doesn't like to be held so it involved a little clawing).

Since she could do that again at any time, I figured I could try to teach her to use the ladder. Anyway, she was a fast learner and can now climb it both up and down! (It's learning at a flatter angle than normal, so it's more like stairs than a ladder.) My next project is to build her a permanent cat ladder.


For anyone who is interested, this guy has a blog about cat ladders from all around the world:

http://catladder.blogspot.com/search?up ... s=30%26m=1

Another of my spiders. I changed the substrate in all of their homes and so I got to see this one out of its burrow for the first time in months. She's quite a bit bigger than she looks in those pictures - probably about 4cm legspan. Her abdomen is looking really swollen at the moment because she ate a lot recently. She's probably due for a moult sometime soon as well. edit: the reason I say she is due for a moult is a combination of the very swollen abdomen and the fact that she is looking a little baldy at the moment - new world tarantulas often shed their urticating hairs prior to a moult.



edit again: Another of the spiders was kind enough to kick a bunch of hairs at my hand when I was moving her to the new box. They are actually quite painful; the pain is comparable to a nettle sting, maybe a bit worse.

when she was a little nugget



my sassy girl now, sticking out her tongue at me

Some frequent visitors in the yard.

Is the third picture down a black bear? Quite a scary visitor to have if so!

Yes . If I leave the garage door open, bears will on occasion try and come in to steal the trash containers. But they normally try under cover of night so this was a rare daytime encounter. I happened to have a camera and took a quick pic before shewing him away from behind a barely open door to the house.

This is a question for cat lovers.

Has your kitty ever gone missing when you want to take it to the doc? (And you have taken pains to not give it any clues?)
This seems to be fairly common for kitties.
I'd just like people to say whether they have experienced this???

Yes this has happened. We've had to cancel vet appointments. I don't know if she figured it out somehow or just happened to take an extended stroll/nap somewhere on those days.

Thanks, I hope to collect these anecdotes, along with theories of how this happens. (The Missus' theory is that we exude a stress pheromone that kitty can pick up on.)

They have you phones tapped and listen for the word vet and hide.