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New addition to the family - Jago, just 3 months old, 'arrived' Saturday 14th.
He's so cute! Is he your only cat or do you have others? We adopted two and let me tell you they never cease to entertain.
he looks terrified of the camera
He's actually a she :)
Our last cat passed away about 3 years ago - she was 19 years old, and the one before that was with us for 15 years. We really missed having a cat around the house, and got this one from a shelter. We had to wait until she had the last of injections before we could get her, although we picked her out from the litter not long after she was born.
The name Jago is from a heroine character in a series of SciFi books by C.J.Cherryh which Mrs.B and I are somewhat addicted to.
I stand corrected! She is cute!! Get ready to hide all of your yarn and stray papers. You and the mrs did right to adopt from a shelter. Both of our cats are shelter cats as well as the very first one we got who passed away a year ago.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 16, 2013, 01:52:21 PM
he looks terrified of the camera
Its a typical cat 'who, me?' expression after being told off for trying to bat leaves off the plant!
Congrats on your new addition!
Quote from: bob48 on September 16, 2013, 01:54:33 PMin a series of SciFi books by C.H.Cherryh
A proud alum of my high school :)
(tho a few years before I was there)
Congrats Bob! Jago is beautiful. We have two long hair black cats that looked very much like your new addition when we got them. Just be warned though...our she-cat's #2 output could melt your armour :o. We think we've narrowed it down to feeding her moist tuna/salmon cat food. She's now restricted to the chicken, turkey, etc...
Steve, we are still experimenting with the input/output stuff - atm it seems she like quite moist food, and we have to watch her diet for another couple of months before we can try her on 'human' food.
She is a classic longhair (so she has quite short legs). Its difficult at this stage to see how big she will grow. After being with us for only 3 days she seems very settled and content, and at this moment is asleep on my lap.
Cats are terrorists. Is the conclusion I've come to in my interactions with our Siamese.
Congrats. Every house needs a demanding Queen presence who has no value added when it comes to the household chores except to make more chores such as cleaning the litter box and feeding the eternally uppity Queen.
I love the saying 'Cats don't have owners, they have staff'.
Quote from: bob48 on September 16, 2013, 05:16:43 PM
I love the saying 'Cats don't have owners, they have staff'.
It's true. It's also true that they sleep all day just so they can annoy you at 3 a.m.
Well done bob though I suspect any counter based gaming you had planned is dooooooooomed
^That's what the big sheet of plexi will be for. Consider it a 'save game' menu option.
A bottle with water and vinager mix works well to train the little ungrateful fur balls too. :D
That pic isn't saying, "Who, me?," it's saying, "Oh SHI*! What have I gotten myself INto!?!?!?!" Seriously, Bob, congrats to you and the Mrs. I've owned cats before (more properly, as has already been observed, been owned by cats before) and my patience for them has waxed and waned through the years.
After my last two cats pitter-pattered off this mortal coil (one at 19 years old and one at 20) I swore I would not get another one. However, now that I've moved into my new house I feel my resolve starting to wane. At this point, it is only the number of a-holes who exceed the speed limit along my street (because it functions as a commuter shortcut) that keeps me from adopting another shelter cat.
stop being a pussy, a new cat would be puff-fect.
how the hell does Bawb start a cat thread with no punnery? :o
^I'm too hungover to make the effort.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 16, 2013, 07:39:30 PM
stop being a pussy, a new cat would be puff-fect.
Not if my kids find him/her splattered across our front lawn. Kittens are cute, eviscerated ones... not so much.
I can't believe I just typed that. Now I have to get the imagery out of my head....
Bob, Congrats to your new feline friend 8)
its good to have at least one pet around
had a tomcat for 16 years, couldn't stand his natural death late 1999, no more pets for me for a while, now the cute little dog of the ExpensiveOther™ is my best friend since 2009 :)
Quote from: Bison on September 16, 2013, 06:26:34 PM
A bottle with water and vinager mix works well to train the little ungrateful fur balls too. :D
on a 3 month old kitten?
thats cold man!!!!!!
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Quote from: Bison on September 16, 2013, 06:26:34 PM
A bottle with water and vinager mix works well to train the little ungrateful fur balls too. :D
on a 3 month old kitten?
thats cold man!!!!!!
I didn't say put the kitten or the bottle of vinegar solution in the freezer.
Congrats Bawb. I would love to get a cat but I'm afraid our Kaiser would use it to clean his ears and then dispose of it unceremoniously. Right now we can have only one Kaiser.
Congratulations Bawb. She's a cute little bugger.
Thanks guys. It really is nice to have a moggie around the place again. It did take a while for us to take the plunge again, as it is painful to lose a pet that has become a part of your family, but we decided that the pleasure they bring more than makes up for the painful parts, and we do have some happy memories of the our previous owners cats.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 16, 2013, 07:39:30 PM
stop being a pussy, a new cat would be puff-fect.
how the hell does Bawb start a cat thread with no punnery? :o
I was within a whisker of doing so.............
and within the hours, this place'll be littered with poorly conceived cat humor, written in rambling sentences, each with a subordinate claws
Who? us?...as if we would.....
so its no good catawauling about it.
Well we were pussyfooting with puns.
Catastrophically so.
I think BB is just being catty with us Bawb.
purrrrfection!
Its a good think Smuck knows how to shave hairballs.
Time for a paws with all the punning
Before someone throws a hissing fit...
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here's ours
just picked him up today
he's only 9 months old, too...
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Both are adorable, though I suspect bob's would win in a fight.
Yes, seriously. Cats fight dirty. ;D
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 20, 2013, 09:20:55 PM
here's ours
just picked him up today
he's only 9 months old, too...
Damn; BIG puppy! What breed is he?
Great Dane
lmao - pack hunter of the night, killer by the moon and ummm user of a unicorn pillow when hes had a busy day!!
^Geek...have you been eating those......strange mushrooms again?
actually that was taken around 2130 local last night as we were getting kids to bed. the flash on the camera is just damn good
Love Great Danes. Never owned one, but, the two on my route are awesome!
Love Great Danmes. Never owned one, but, the two on my route are awesome! ;)
the ones Ive known have been awesome. I just wish they had twice the lifespan.
Our first one made it almost to 12 years old, which is really long. This guy's only 8-9 months, so he'll likely be around for a while.
Jago plays WoW with Mrs.B
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Quote from: bob48 on September 23, 2013, 04:38:03 PM
Jago plays WoW with Mrs.B
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Theres a pounce imminent or at least some aggressive paw waving
Every time I see that little ucker my no-new-kitten resolve wavers just a bit more. :-\
This will be undone with bob's 'and here's how mrs bob cooked him' pic with bob proudly grasping his cat baster......
.....Don't even go there!
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^^^ that's all the funnier with Star's sig line
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 24, 2013, 07:04:32 PM
Every time I see that little ucker my no-new-kitten resolve wavers just a bit more. :-\
Go for it. Just don't buy it in the Home Depot parking lot out of the back of a van from a Russian. Trust me on this one.
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Quote from: Staggerwing on September 24, 2013, 07:04:32 PM
Every time I see that little ucker my no-new-kitten resolve wavers just a bit more. :-\
Go for it. Just don't buy it in the Home Depot parking lot out of the back of a van from a Russian. Trust me on this one.
No wonder you move so much. Was it fully grown when neighbors started to disappear or did it still have a ways to go?
Zey leek freesh feesh!
What do you get sold to you by a Russian from the back of the van in the Home Depot parking lot? You get a devil cat is what you get.
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This is Lu. She has a serious attitude problem.
Quote from: MikeGER on September 23, 2013, 01:00:28 AM
Love Great Danmes. Never owned one, but, the two on my route are awesome! ;)
I see what you did there :)
Quote from: Bison on September 24, 2013, 09:40:51 PM
What do you get sold to you by a Russian from the back of the van in the Home Depot parking lot? You get a devil cat is what you get.
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This is Lu. She has a serious attitude problem.
Dude, cat's don't have attitude problems, they have staff who don't know their place.
LOL.
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Just to test your resolve a little more, Stagger......
That's just downright mean. :(
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^My resolve...
I'd take another photo but I'm not crawling under the bed to get a shot of the lazy bastard getting in it's sleep before it's nightly exercise routine.
^That's shootin' some dirty, dirty pool right there. >:(
'Scuse me, gotta go- got sumpin' in my eye...
Just go pick out your new house master. You'll be happy you've made the decsion. Pets are one of the joys of life. Even rude, disrespectful, demon spawn Siamese.
Quote from: Bison on September 26, 2013, 11:39:32 AM
....Even rude, disrespectful, demon spawn Siamese.
Isn't that
every Siamese cat? When I was a kid, a buddy of mine had a Siamese that would jump up on the door frame every time the door bell rang. Then jump on yer head with claws out as you came through the door. >:( After first few times you learned to open the door without stepping through so the spawn hit the floor and not your scalp!
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 26, 2013, 11:35:43 AM
^That's shootin' some dirty, dirty pool right there. >:(
'Scuse me, gotta go- got sumpin' in my eye...
s'funny Stagger, me and the missus just watched it and we also found we had 'sumpin' in our eye'........
Siamese are good cats but they are very talkative especially when they want something and yes they can also be unholy terrors.
I don't know what the hell happened today. We left the house to go walk around a little festival. Next thing I know we are talking to a dog rescue group and we ended up leaving with this guy.
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We named him Coal who is an 11 week old black lab.
Your Siamese is going to be delighted! :D
He looks like a pretty cool dog! Congrats on your new addition.
Quote from: Bison on September 28, 2013, 05:34:20 PM
I don't know what the hell happened today. We left the house to go walk around a little festival. Next thing I know we are talking to a dog rescue group and we ended up leaving with this guy.
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We named him Coal who is an 11 week old black lab.
Awesome! He's a good looking dog.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 28, 2013, 06:08:12 PM
Your Siamese is going to be delighted! :D
I suspect she will seek her revenge at about 0230. We do have a 9 year old German Shepard/Plotzhound, so she's used to dogs.
Quote from: Bison on September 28, 2013, 07:11:17 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 28, 2013, 06:08:12 PM
Your Siamese is going to be delighted! :D
I suspect she will seek her revenge at about 0230. We do have a 9 year old German Shepard/Plotzhound, so she's used to dogs.
I used to keep a Nerf Ballzooka handy for when my cat decided he needed to hatch some mid night revenge on us. It got to the point that all I'd have to do is reach for it and he'd bolt. But the first few times were a blast as I'd blindly send Nerf balls hurling his direction.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!BOOM!BOOM!It was awesome.
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Well I sleep with a loaded water bottle on the night stand. The NERF gun is a great idea, but my past history makes me a little shy of a self inflicted NERF injury.
Quote from: Bison on September 28, 2013, 09:46:06 PM
Well I sleep with a loaded water bottle on the night stand. The NERF gun is a great idea, but my past history makes me a little shy of a self inflicted NERF injury.
You're wise to worry about self-inflicted wounds.
More worrisome is wife-inflicted wounds. She didn't appreciate the Ballzooka any more than the cat did.
However, persistence paid off. I explained that if she let me Ballzooka the cat, he'd eventually quit. She didn't believe me, and yelled at me when I ignored her. But the proof is in the the absence of the cat. He eventually realized that midnight banzai charges were a bad idea and quit.
I guess I do miss having a cat for that reason. It was fun Ballzookaing him when he'd wake us up in the middle of the night. I kinda missed it when he quit. Then it was like 15 years of emptying litter boxes. The best times were over too soon.
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Yawn!
^Ha! Great pic!
our cat seems to be OK w/ the dog in the room at this point
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Yawn!
lmfao - thats a brilliant pic - what the hell did you do to him?
She just like to watch Mrs B play WoW, which is obviously very tiring, so she takes a little snooze on the back of the chair. The missus said it keeps her back warm.
thats an eclectic mix of knick knackery you have there sir bob
That's the 'HER' side of the room, this is my side;
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pretty sure the comment still stands ;)
My PC, a glass (empty at present), Saitek X45 Combo, a bookcase full of military books, LnL's Desert Heat in the process of being counter-clipped.....a few odds-and-sods.....what's not to like :-)
ummmm well, shes got attack helicopters and you have a rubber bugs bunny
shamfur dispray
Indeed she has an AH64 and a Chinook.......and yes, I will admit to owning a rubber Bugs Bunny, he being my hero ;)
my moneys on mrs bob and the hellfires
HA!
Have you ever known Bugs to fail, even against insurmountable odds?
Quote from: bob48 on September 30, 2013, 04:52:42 PM
HA!
Have you ever known Bugs to fail, even against insurmountable odds?
That depends on whether the Hellfires he'll be facing were made by Acme.
Quote from: Arctic Blast on September 30, 2013, 05:41:37 PM
Quote from: bob48 on September 30, 2013, 04:52:42 PM
HA!
Have you ever known Bugs to fail, even against insurmountable odds?
That depends on whether the Hellfires he'll be facing were made by Acme.
And if Elmer Fudd is on the cyclic and collective.
Id be more concerned with the frying pan then the Hellfires.
Nice dog,
Bison. Glad to see Coal has found a good home (Siamese hell-spawn notwithstanding). :)
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Yawn!
LOL. That's a great pic.
You guys should stop giving your cats so much weed.
Now we know who wears the cat in the family.
Awesome pic Bob. I'm a big Bugs Bunny fan as well. ;)
So over the summer we adopted another kitten from the local rescue shelter. Her name is Mittens and she just loves to shred papers and torment Mr. Socks who is seen here all tucked in his nice pink blanky!
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^Cute :-)
Tuxedos are the best cats.
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Ha!
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 30, 2013, 03:44:09 PM
our cat seems to be OK w/ the dog in the room at this point
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That is a cat? Reminds me of the Dr Seuss Creature Green Eggs and Ham.
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Ha!
+1 for awesomeness!
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Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 20, 2013, 09:20:55 PM
here's ours
just picked him up today
he's only 9 months old, too...
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I sense a disturbance in your grocery bill
thats not a disturbance, its a black hole.