For Older People with Sense

chabba

fish, this is not a place any of us would choose to be but it iw a great place to be when we need it.  Look forward to getting to know you better.

QCA

AJ, that's the greatest news I've heard in ages!  By the time I'd read a couple of sentences I was already smiling--I'm just so happy for you! 

Welcome fish.  Glad to have you, although of course not for why you're here.  Chime on in anytime.

Well, I do buy lottery tickets, occasionally win something on a scratch-off and the biggest thing I ever won was $5000, twice!  But the tax man cometh, to be sure!

Chrissy, your house is beautiful. Thanks for giving us a bit of its history.

barbe1958

Leah, Alliston is 20 minutes from Toronto, but as Lassie said, there are a bunch of us who do a great lunch!! Keep us posted on your trip!

Lovely story on your house Chrissy.

QCA, buy your tickets in Canada, they are tax free!!!

Elisimo

pt - love it, love it, love it!

chrissyb

PT that pic made my day......love it!!



Fish welcome!! Love having new girls pop in and join our little family!!



Gosh I wish I could make it to the lunch/dinner!! It would be fantastic to meet you all!!



Have a great day all!



Love n hugs. Chrissy

SoCalLisa

Oh, AJ that is so good to hear..stable boy is a handsome devil!

Dilly

Great news AJ!!! Lisa is right.

Isabella4

AJ, so glad your scans are now showing stable. You must be over the moon.

Mentioning the moon here somebody called today and said I must be affected by the moon...cheeky madam !!..because I call one of my tomcats Gloves. I know it's a stupid name, but over the years you tend to run out of names ! He is a lovely big lean cat, a dark tabby ( the one who recently pee'd in my handbag, which I'd left on the doorstep for a couple of minutes !!!) He's about the most friendly of my cats, and I'm always threatening to 'turn him into a pair of gloves' for his misdemeanors...little devil. Anyone with anymore stupid cat names ?

Autumn (Fall) has hit here all of a sudden, everything looks lovely with all different shades of orange, and there's a real nip in the air. A 'light snow ' warning is out for this w/end...just what I need.

Am in the middle of trying to wean a litter of puppies that do not want to be weaned. I wouldn't mind if there were just 4, but there are 7 to argue with. Their coats are stiff with milky cereal, I shall have to bath each and every one next week, when they get the hang of eating properly.  Have another 2 litters due this week....so that's my spare time between now and Christmas sewn up.

I went with DD, and 2 x GDs to see the Lady Boys of Bangkok on Sunday...quite a show. Fabulous looking 'women,' fabulous makeup and costumes , long, long legs and tiny waists !  We were seated very close to the stage, it was a cabaret type setting, tables , drinks and Thai food...nice! The 'boys' kept coming into the audience, and prowling about for 'victims' I was quaking each time they passed our table. No way would I have got up, tho' many did. We were assured they were men, but where they hid their bits and bobs I do not know !! GDs were tickled pink looking to see where everything was hidden!

Isabella.

QCA

Oh Isabella, I love it--bits and bobs!  That's too funny!  We are currently catless, but over the years we've had Vincent, Boris, Samantha, Barnaby, and the last one, Sherlock.  Boris lived the longest, 19 years, and all the others lived 13 or 14 years with the exception of Vincent, who I believe was taken by someone.  DH is rather enjoying us not having a litter box and does not want any more cats, so I haven't pushed it too much since it always fell to me to change it.  Anyhow, glad you had a good time and got out for a bit. 

Gingerbrew

Good stories friends!     

I have named some of my pets after passed on relatives. No one would know it though and it seemed just nartural to me.  Gloves is a good name and like me, no one would know quite how the cat got his name. I still chuckle about your purse Isabella!    

I have never gone to such a show myself but I have worked on some of the costumes over time.  The bits get tucked up backwards. I don't have any idea how they would keep them there though!   

Laters all

Ginger

barbe1958

Any "man" that can tuck his bits and bobs up and backwards isn't a "man" for me!!!!

Our last recent batch of cats was: Benson, Hedges, Booie, Bogie (one over par in golf), BeBop. When we were little we named them after liquers - Kalhua, Tequila, etc.

chabba

Kalhua and Tequila remind me of a friend who moved to a 5 acre "gentleman's farm" when their boys were ages 6 and 7.  They bought 4 steer, planing to butcher one and  sell the rest.  They named them Budwiser, Rainier, Olympia and Coors, all names of beer.  The kids wanted to get two more so they could have a six pack. 

Wren44

One of the kitten foster parents gives the litter names matching a theme. She says she can then remember, oh those were the candy bars. I have pretty ordinary names for mine. Liebchen (later called PC), Feliz Navidad (found in a donation box at Christmas), Samantha, Marmelade, HP, Lola and Mocca. The shelter volunteers name stray cats after observing them for a few days. It just seems wrong for a cat to only have a number.

chrissyb

My grandnephew was given a little ginger kitten for his birthday a few years ago. He was so pleased as it was what he had been asking for. My niece told his because the kitten was his he would have to give it a name so after thinking for a moment this little voice says 'Mouse'. Niece thought he was pointing out that there was a mouse in the house but no, grandnephew called his cat, Mouse.

Isabella4

Chrissie, I have a little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Mouse ! She's just so tiny, probably only weighs in @ about 8-9 lbs, when she should weigh about 15lbs.

She just never grew, I daren't sell her @ the normal 8 weeks, because she only looked like a month old puppy. She was tiny, ugly, had quite a big head, a long pokey nose, and a very 'whippy' tail. I expected her to die. Her coat never grew, but her legs did, what a sight !! I called her Mouse, and she's just over 10 now, and a right little madam ! I'd never part with her, but I swiftly shift her out of sight if any prospective puppy buyers want to come in the house and see my 'family'

Isabella.

chrissyb

Oh Isabella she sounds lovely!! I adore the wee ones in the litter and always try to get them if I'm choosing. To me they seem to have the best personalities.

Alyson

Morning all,

Back to reality. Well that is if you can call a 4th birthday reality then engagement party tonight.

Had such a wonderful time in Australia will post pictures later.

marywh

QCA-this is my first time on this thread, but happened to see you are from Monroe-Im from Stanfield, but my husband is originally from Monroe and we lived there for a few years when we first got married. We still own rental property down there and still go down there three or four times a week. Its a small world.

chrissyb

Hi Mary and welcome!! Nice to see you! Hope we see more of you.



Love n hugs. Chrissy

gardengumby

about the animal names.  One year we raised 3 pigs for butchering.  They were so cute when little that we didn't want the kids getting too attached, and forgetting that the end purpose was meat.  We named them Ham, Bacon and Sausage.

chabba

Love it gumby!

Dilly

Gumby, we raised 2 pairs of pigs - with the same issues you had, they were "meat"... so the first porkers were Sweet and Sour,

and the 2nd pair since one was black and one white, were Salt and Pepper.

My Himalayan cat was AnnaPurrna.

We had a flock of Rhode Island Red chickens and of course the top rooster was Robert Redbird.

QCA

Welcome Mary!  Glad to have you- I know Stanfield well.  Looking forward to getting to know you.  (I'll PM you.)

Elisimo

Hi Mary, welcome to our little corner of the world.  Good to see you, but sorry for the reason you are here.

I live in Raleigh, NC closer to Wake Forest than downtown Raleigh.  I have been hoping for a chance to meet some NC girls.  I have only lived in NC for about 12 years and I am not sure where Stanfield is.  If you are ever this way let me know you are coming and maybe we can meet somewhere.

Chrissy, I can hardly wait until April!  BarbA, just a couple of weeks and I will be there!  So excited with everything that is going on and having the opportunity to come see you both and Shells too!

Isabelle, I had a little female black Cocker Spaniel named Shoebox when I was little.  When I first got her my Dad said she was so little she would fit in my shoebox so that became her name.  My sister had a cat named Burger. I don't know how she came up with that name but then she was only 4 when she got that cat.  I generally pick the smallest of a litter or the one that nobody else would want and they seem to pick me too.  My Daisy dog was the runt of her liter and I think she picked me more than I picked her.  My DD#1 gave her to me because I was the only one that she would ever come to.

Joy and blessings, AJ

chabba

In our 46 yrs of marriage we have almost always had at least one dog and all but one of them lived at least 15 years and one made it to 19, she was 7 months old when we adopted her and was the only one we bred.  It was her runt that will always be my special dog.  She was bred twice, 2 days apart.  We think he was conceived the second time, his early development was 2 days behind the rest.  The vet wanted to put him down.  She had to have a ceaserian because #1 puppy was breech.  The vet kept them untill she was out of anesthesia to the point of it being safe to nurse the the pups and they had their first meal.  Runt was too weak to suckle.  I insisted on trying to save him so he gave me instructions on what, how and how often to feed him, starting as soon as I could get him home.  I had to force feed him untill he was strong enough to suckle on his own, probably at last 36 hours, every 2 hours.   He also told me that Heidi, at  7 pounds, could not metabolize enough milk to feed three much less four so I would have to supplement at every feeding. It didn't quite work out that that way.  I did not have to force feed Runt after the first 24 hours for one thing. 

First, after the initial feeding she would come to when it was time and then run to the kitchen.  A couple of times I had fallen asleep but she woke me up right on time.  Then she would run back and have Runt out of the nesting box for me.  When I started feeding him she would go nurse the others. The last time I went to feed him she had him outside the nesting box where the others were still sleeping and he was nursing. When he was through she picked him and put him in a corner of the box and fed the others.   She always gave him a head start until he got strong enough to fend for himself, which he did very well. 

He earned his name, Tiger.  I hadn't been able to give him a name until I knew he would live.  We had a special bond that I've never had with another pet.

barbe1958

WOW! What a great story Chabba!!!! Gives me goosebumps that animals are that smart!!

SoCalLisa

That is a wonderful story,

I love it

chrissyb

How cute! The survival instinct is very strong in everything.

chabba

Just a couple of days ago I found a picture of Heidi and her 4 pups taken at one of the annual family reunions we used to have for her.  I'll have to find someone to scan it and post it to the internet for me so I can post it here. 

Some friends from OR had stayed the night before because we were all planning to go to an air show the next day.  Heidi wasn't due for another three days but we had arranged with SIL to pick her up a couple of hours after we left and keep her while we were gone. They went to the show while I stayed and took her to the vet.  When they got back an saw the pups They immediately fell in love with the one I already called Amelia (air show, Amelia Earhart).  Bambi chose my BIL as his person and FIL adopted Teddy Bear.  When the OR friends came to visit the in-laws always brought their dogs over for a visit.

chrissyb

I love hearing about how animals choose their humans. We as a species are conceited enough to think that we are the ones that do the choosing..........in most cases this is not true. Animals know who will suit them best.

For many years my mother bred Australian Silky Terriers and when people would come to choose she would ask them to sit on the floor and wait until the puppies came to them. Within minutes there would always be one that would climb on the lap and make itself comfortable. Nine times out of ten that is the puppy that was chosen by the prospective human.