I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Alpal

That's often what happens when parents insist on an arranged marriage!

BarbaraA

{{ATHENA}} great pix of your babies! And Claire! Yours are so sweet. Love kitties! YramAl, yours didn't show up.

bluedahlia

Athena, adorable!

That goes for the kitties too.  Wish I could have one but my allergies would finish me off.

AnnNYC

Athena, love your pictures and stories.  The sweetness in Athena's face makes me think of a "Kitten" (we call her "Kitten" though she's 4 years old) who I am an "auntie" to -- she's a mostly-white Siberian.  I'll see if I can post a pic.  All my life, I've seen resemblances that no one else sees -- a photo of an owl in the World Book when I was a kid that no one else could see looked just like Grandpa!  A girl in kindergarten who looked just like my ring-finger-fingernail would like if you drew a face on it!  Stuff like that!  (I learned to mostly shut up about this!)  But the sweetness in Athena's eyes looks so much like Audrey ("Kitten" -- who is staying at my house right now for a month) -- what a sweetheart.

konakat

Awwwww -- sweet kitties.  Great names!

lewing

Too funny, Athena.  And Claire - I also had a cat named Puffin!  She was my first cat, a stray that I adopted.  (The little boy in the flat above mine started feeding and playing with her, but couldn't keep her because his mom was allergic.  So after a week I relented and took her in, and she was with me for 17 years.)

Anonymous

WhiteRabbit wrote:

At this point the courts have already ruled it unconstitutional.  The executive branch Obama/Holder were appealing that ruling.  Not making the determination themselves ... just deciding if they wanted to challenge the existing judiciuary ruling.  They are merely dropping the appeal.

Actually, the way I read this section of Holder's explaination, these are newly filed lawsuits that have not yet been ruled on.

"These new lawsuits, by contrast, will require the Department to take an affirmative position on the level of scrutiny that should be applied to DOMA Section 3 in a circuit without binding precedent on the issue. As described more fully below, the President and I have concluded that classifications based on sexual orientation warrant heightened scrutiny and that, as applied to same-sex couples legally married under state law, Section 3 of DOMA is unconstitutional."

The way I am reading this, new lawsuits have been filed in juristictions that don't already have binding precedent on the books, so the President and the Attorney General got together and decided not to defend the law against the lawsuits because they think it is unconstitutional.  That seems like overstepping their duties to me. 

YramAL

Yes, I know my pictures didn't show up. I don't know why-they show up in the preview but not the final post. Like I said, you'll just have to take my word that she's cute.

Mary 

rosemary-b

Mary

Don't feel bad. I didn't even try to post pictures of my cutie. I can't deal with the stress of uncooperaive computers.

1Athena1

Thank you all for your comments on my pictures. As for so many of you, it is very hard for me to think of when and how to have another pet. I live in an apartment so would never have pets under these circumstances. If I lived in a big, big house that always had people in it, and if there were more than one pet so that each animal could keep the other company, I would do it. Even then, replacing Camilla and Athena, and the happiness and love they gave me the honour of experiencing, is impossible.

Anonymous

Cute puppies and cute pictures

He/she is back !  I came in and that cute little pink nose was pushed up on my glass door.  Very hungry

1Athena1

Oh, what a relief Erica!!!

Claire, your litties (that's what I call them) are adorable!

Alpal

Erica - so glad he's back. I know it's a he because he was out carousing last night!

konakat

Erica -- what a relief!  Bet he's hungry after gallivanting all last night!

Anonymous

Thanks.  Yes that is him in avatar

konakat

He's so cute!!!

suemed8749

All the pet pictures and stories (domestic and wild!) are so entertaining! Athena - I also had a German Sheperd addicted to sticks. Every day, I'd take him down to the river and throw his stick-of-the-day out in the water over and over again. He'd always bring it back to backseat of the car with him where he kept his collection. (This was in my 68 Chevy days - literally holes in the floorboard and a back seat dedicated to a large wet dog and his sticks.)

Anyway - the car started to reek of something even nastier than usual, so I cleaned out his stick collection - and discovered that one was a deer's leg! This was in western Colorado where the hunters cleaned their kill down by the river. I kept a closer eye on what he was stashing under the seat after that.

1Athena1

Sue -lol! If there were deer's legs in our corner of the planet, I am sure Camilla would have done the same thing.

1Athena1

May all of our pets, living and dead, have as blissful a night as this....(sorry about the size of the picture)

 

GG27

How great is it to come to this thread after being away all day & see all the sweet animals, domestic or not.  Glad the pink nosed fellow is back & all your pets are beautiful.

Anonymous

Erica - So glad your little one came home. Whew...

bluedahlia

Speaking of animals I have a joke.....

This man takes his monkey to a bar.  The monkey starts eating everything in sight.  Nuts, cherries, popcorn, olives, etc.  Made his way to the tables and started eating things off  the plates.  Heads towards the pool table, picks up a cue ball and eats it too.  The man gulps down his beer and excuses himself, takes the monkey, and leaves.

Two weeks later, he and his monkey go back to the same bar.  The monkey picks up a nut, sticks it up his butt and then eats it.  He picks up a cherry, sticks it up his butt and then eats it.  The bartender looks at the man and asks "What the heck is he doing".  The man says, "He wants to make sure it fits".

Anonymous

OMG, floralgal, I cried when I watched the movie "Born Free" and you made me cry again.  I've seen Christian (the lion) video before.  Cried then and cried now.  There's a longer version of it also.  I my memory serves me right I believe he died.  I'd have to go back and watch another video, but I do believe the men were interviewed sometime after that and they confirmed he died.  Anyway, I love animals!

ananda8

Erica,

Great news.  Are you sure the little one is a "he"?  You could end up with a lovely possum family.

bluedahlia

Did my joke scare everyone away?

1Athena1

Only the "right" people, I hope!

 'Morning, Blue!

bluedahlia

Morning Athena.  I couldn't stop laughing when Ray told it to me.  I told him next time ro give me a "pee alert".  I know....I'm nuts!

River_Rat

Bluedahlia, ROFLMAO!

leggo

It's -43 degrees here today and I let my doggy out to pee. Too cold (even for what we lovingly refer to as our living area rug). Cried to get back in and subsequently used my son's packpack as his toilet! Nice. How in the world am I going to get the pee smell out of his books?

Anonymous

'Nature's Miracle' really is a miracle for getting the pet urine smell out of most things, but I've never had to try it on books.  It is sold in pet stores.  We work with a rescue group and have had over 20 foster puppies in the last few years in addition to the two permanent boys who are in my avatar, so we do have some experience with accidents.

Cold weather is the enemy of housetraining.  -43 is way too cold for me.