Pets and Other Animal Friends II

[bentgyro]

Had friends that camped at a trailer park that was overrun with rabbits and they said that the screams
made by the rabbits when an owl took one, were terrible.

[doodler]

I'd never heard it before. But we do have a lot of bob-cats in the area and they have a very unique scream when they are in season, tryng to attract mates. Sounds like the woods is infected with ghouls!

[doodler]

At least I think it's the bob-cats.
Maybe the woods ARE infected with ghouls!

[morrobay]

Dogs are weird.  For the past month, Buddy has been acting really strange, he wouldn't sleep on the bed but started sleeping under it, he would hardly come up on the couch, but was sleeping under a chair...I thought he was pissed 'cause CC is here.

Sunday I moved back into the master bedroom, i had been sleeping in the guest room because I didn't like the new bed I bought........so I switched the beds, and he's been sleeping on the bed ever since.  He's even sitting next to me on the couch, and coming up for pets and bringing his toy.

Over the weekend I bought another crate, more a soft-sided carrier, which I noticed too  late didn't have a place to hold a water dish, so he just had to be careful...but it's pretty big, he stayed in it yesterday.  They're both being crated (CC always was, since she can climb over the baby gate) because I'm tired of cleaning up dog pee in the bathroom everyday when I get home from work.  Then this morning CC went in her crate and Buddy followed her in and curled up in the bed.  I'll have to work out bedding arrangements when I get home, so if they are going to stay in there all day, she has a bed, too.

But dogs are weird...

[bentgyro]

Was at the Vet's yesterday to pickup some special food for the cat, when an absolutely beautiful yellow lab bitch
was led out to her family.  She had a cone on and a shaved and stiched up side with a drain tube hanging out.
The family is from the next town over and a cougar had jumped into their yard and attacked both of the familys dogs.
It killed one and started to eat it right in front of the family's small children.  A terrible tragedy for all of them.
I must say though, that even with all her war wounds, the bitch was lovely, very calm when she got
 to her family and walked our not pulling on the leash.  She had a nice head, proper size and solid on her legs.
Unfortunatly we have cougar stories in this area often and when we start seeing missing cat photos posted, we know
one is in the area.

[doodler]

Cougars are so reclusive it's unusual for them to willingly be around people. How awful for the family.

[killersmom]

We just had a mountain lion end up in a steep culvert in Santa Cruz on Thursday. It had to be tranquilized and then was caught and checked over and released back high up in the Santa Cruz mountains.

[doodler]

We have black bear all over the place and they occasionally wander on over to the city limits and cause panic. My vet, who lives even further into the sticks than I do, has a whole family of bears who camp out in her yard and are often on her porch. She feeds all kinds of animals out at her place and they all seem to get along with each other. In my area, we don't have cats bigger than the bob-cats, which are a fair size and could definitely handle a dog as big as a Cocker.

[killersmom]

When I lived in Texas, we had a Manx cat who mixed it up with a bobcat, and the Manx actually survived. We did have to take the Manx to the vet for a 4 inch spread of claw marks on his butt, though.

Here we have possums and skunks, but that is because the house is a block away from the foot of San Bruno Mountain that is too steep to have houses on it, so it is just open land that goes straight up.

[doodler]

That's prime real estate here in Tennessee!

I had a friend who lived in AZ and bought 30 acres with a house and barn here for right at $100,000 sight unseen and was thrilled.
Until they moved in and saw they had about 5 acres of pasture with another 5 of hilly woods and the rest....
And often the flat turned into a lake in a heavy rain.
My road is washed out today after the rain. But you have to give up something for everything you get and, for me, the privacy is worth it. Another month-6 weeks, my deer will bring the babies by for me to take a gander at. Can hardly wait!

[killersmom]

Yes I miss the deer we had in Texas.

[doodler]

It is SO hard to get a decent, much less good, shot of a black dog, I just have to post this.



This is 18 months old Dewey who lives in Georgia. He has a Wheaten Terrier mom and an APRICOT standard Poodle dad
(7 of the 10 pups are black.) Dewey has the build of I don't know what... incredible depth of chest (he's neutered and
has never been used for breeding... which deepens an animal's chest) and his thighs and ass look like they belong on
Apollo Ono! He's in his customary short coat... you can see by the hair on his tail that he also has a tremendous coat.
His mom says he is starting to get some silvering through his black.