~:~:~:The Doggie Thread!!:~:~:~

catefrances wrote:

yeah im starting to think ill keep cj and get rid of the kids. on the weekend i was cutting back a bush from the fence and cj comes in and drags the cut branches away. so cute cause some of them were as big and bigger than him. and...

... hes discovered bubbles. he cant quite work out where they disappear to. but boy are they fun to jump at and try to catch.



its wet here today. and someone needs a wash.

unlost dogs wrote:

catefrances wrote:

yeah im starting to think ill keep cj and get rid of the kids. on the weekend i was cutting back a bush from the fence and cj comes in and drags the cut branches away. so cute cause some of them were as big and bigger than him. and...

... hes discovered bubbles. he cant quite work out where they disappear to. but boy are they fun to jump at and try to catch.



its wet here today. and someone needs a wash.

Sailor: "CJ, let me tell you a few things about how to REALLY get dirty. Or at least sandy. Very sandy."

haffajappa wrote:

Buttercup the dog adopts nine kittens at Surrey animal hospital
METRO VANCOUVER -- Traditional arch enemies dog and cat appear to have made peace at a Surrey animal hospital where nine orphaned kittens are being fed by the most unlikely of nursemaids.

A two-year-old chihuahua named Buttercup has adopted two separate litters of kittens, five abandoned and four premature, and is nursing them back to health.

Her owner, Lisa Scribner, 37, said Buttercup feeds and cleans them just as though they were her own puppies.

"One of the kittens is almost as big as the dog. We call him Muffin," said Scribner, who has worked as a veterinarian assistant for five years at the Angel Animal Hospital.

The bittersweet tale began two weeks ago when Buttercup gave birth to a puppy named Petey, who died four hours after birth because he wasn't fully formed.

Scribner said it broke her heart to see her beloved Buttercup looking so forlorn.

"She was so depressed," she said. "When I tried to take the puppy she put her paw on my hand as if to say 'No.' She scooped him underneath her and lay on him. It was hard on her and me. She would follow me and whine. She kept looking for him. I don't care what anybody says: she would cry. Her eyes would tear up. She wasn't eating or drinking. It was depression."

But then Scribner received a call at the hospital about five kittens that had been abandoned during the night in a yard in Surrey.

"They were starving. They had been a full night and a full day without food. When we got them they were very weak and meowing," she said.

Buttercup went straight up to the kittens and started cleaning them. And it wasn't long before the wee animals latched on.

"She still had milk and she took to these babies right away. She hasn't left them since and is very protective."

Scribner was concerned about what would happen to Buttercup when the five kittens were weaned and sent to their new homes.

But then along came four premature kittens on Thursday, after the veterinarian had to perform a C-section on the dying mother cat.

Buttercup is now the adoptive mother of nine tiny creatures, and not one of them is a dog. Scribner said her chihuahua seems happier than ever before.


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Butter ... z0pLiFjpvn

That made me cry. So sad and so beautiful at the same time

Austicman wrote:

imalive wrote:

norm wrote:

i still get shit for limiting them to giving one treat a day :roll:

ONE????? :wtf:

Gracie heads right to the treat jar every time she comes in from a successful potty trip.

Over the last couple of months when I was living with my folkes. My mum's alzheimers was getting pretty bad. And of all the sad things about it one of the funny things was that Bubba would get about 20 biscuits a day out of her. Mum would keep her biscuit tin under the coffee table in the lounge room and whenever Bubba came into the room she'd go straight up to Mum for biscuit. Eventually she worked out that if she left the it long enough Mum would forget that she'd given her one and would give her another.
Needless to say that Bubba put on a few pounds in those last couple of months and gets overly excited when we go for a visit to Granny and Granda's place

Sorry to hear about your mum :( (((hugs)))

The biscuit thing is adorable though

Fifthelement wrote:

Nikita after a run on the beach.

DangDang wrote:

This is actually a picture of my cow.

DangDang wrote:

imalive wrote:

"Dog is my co-pilot"

Awesome!

Dog is my co-pilot too!