7 posts tagged “animals”

but I have to get going so that I can load up the car with stuff, stop at some lady's house to drop off a catalogue, mail out something important, drive across the city to pick up my b/f after work, then drive an hour and a 1/2 to my parents house and hope it's not dark by then, unpack the car, relax and visit and sleep...... then wake up and help my mom with the party....

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Relaxation.... I can feel it...

Here are some videos that made me laugh today.  Yay for that at least.  They're all with chirping birds.  I think the sound amuses me or something.  I love Pixar.  The penquin one isn't Pixar, but it's just as well.  That one is potentially annoying and reminds me why I'm still undecided about having kids.  :P

Do you have a pet? What kind of pet do you own, and why did you choose it? 
Submitted by Brendz.  

HAH
I think I already made that clear, but I don't think I've put them all in one post or explained why I 'choose' each of them.

In order of appearance in my life, we have Kitty, which you can view various pictures of in the video to the right (which I've posted in the past here).

She appeared in my life 5 years ago.  For some reason, I really wanted a cat, so I went to the animal shelter and they had SOOOOO many.  It was really hard to decide.  I probably should have held off and waited for a cat to 'choose me', or something grand like that, but no, I'm shallow, and choose her because damnit she was cute and had polka dots on her belly.  I love her more than I love most of the people in my life.  lol    She is cute and cuddly, and bitchy when she wants to be, and somewhat anti social.  Kinda like me.  :P

Next we have Speck and Dusty.  They're my dwarf hamsters.  I've had them since last October, so I suppose in dwarf hamster years, they're getting old now.  That makes me sad.  They're so damn cute too.  I choose them, um, also because of the cuteness I suppose.  I wanted a little fuzzy creature and every time I was at the pet store it was harder and harder to move on without one.  One day I finally said 'damnit, I'm getting some!'.  I actually drove across town twice (took an

hour of my time) to get these guys because I wanted a very specific cage and one particular store didn't have it.  It's a completely pink cage and some proceeds went to breast cancer research.  It was cute.  You can see it in the Kitty video.  I wanted female hamsters, because I was concerned about the males fighting, but I think putting two males in a pink cage 'softened' their demeanour  ;)  HAHA jk.   I wasn't able to get females because the store that had the cage only had males.  Geez.

Anyways.  They're really fun and cute.  They now have two cages actually that connect to each other with a tube so they have some extra room.  The other cage is blue and purple and green (in case they're feeling masculine, they can hang out there).   I thought of their names on the way home from the pet store with them.  Speck is the white one with the markings ('specks?' :P) and Dusty is the brown one.  I think the names are fitting.  These pics are from when I first got them, but they haven't changed much.  ;)

Then we have fishies.  They have no names.  I had an aquarium a few years ago, with some awesome fish in it... but when my boyfriend at the time and I broke up he got it.  I'm pretty sure he just left it behind somewhere, which kinda pisses me off because I had to get a new one for myself and he pretty much just threw the old one away.  But whatever.  I'm not sure I'll keep the fish after I move anyway, but they're kinda neat.  I have more than what's in the pic, but fish are hard to photograph.  lol   I try not to get attached to fish.  The really neat ones don't seem to last long.  lol

As for why I chose them, I suppose because I like aquariums, even though they're a lot of work.  They're calming and pretty.  The type of fish I chose were for 'beginners' and I chose them for their ability to get along with each other.  The ones in the tank now I believe I got some time last winter.  I don't remember exactly when.

Finally of course we have Spencer.  We got him this April and he's been pretty freaken neat.  :)  I wanted to get a dog again for a long time, and living in a townhouse, instead of an apartment, made me finally feel like I had some room.  Sadly though, we have to move back into an apartment, and I don't think it's fair to have large dogs in apartments, so he's going to be staying at my parents house.  They have LOTS of room, and another dog that he'll be able to play with.  I'm glad I'll still get to see him.  We chose him because of his appearance and demeanour.  He seemed pretty mellow (for a puppy), and has proven to be very intelligent, and very friendly, if not occasionally a pain in the butt.  :P   Rather than reposting pics, I direct you to all my previous posts tagged Spencer. If you don't feel like filtering through all those you can just check out the one of me introducing him and announcing that we got him here.  Ahh memories.

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"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
~ Anatole France

Well, not quite, but lots of wildlife in this post.  I forgot that I hadn't updated about Mother's Day.  Seems old news, but it was still fun.  My parents came into town and we all (them, myself, my b/f, my brother, my sister in law, my nephew, the dog) went to Springbank Park for a picnic.  It was fun.  We got a great picnic table, away from everyone else (thus quiet), yet in the shade and right next to parking!  Score!  After that, we went for a walk along the Thames River for about an hour.  It was a nice day.  Here are some highlights:

We fed the squirrels and chipmunks some peanuts (as clearly seen in the squirrel pic).  I'm sure it's one of those unspoken rules to not feed the wildlife, but everyone knows that everyone does.  Especially the wildlife.  They know the spots with the benches and hang out there waiting.  It's amusing.  One of the chipmunks ate out of my brother's hand even.  They're so cute.

Another highlight (or lowlight, depending on who's asking), was these random people who were... well... see for yourself:

Wtf?  I also got a pic of 'Darth' hugging a little girl.  I can not express how WRONG that is. So out of character!  :P  Anyway, the kids seemed quite amused.  When the 'group' started to walk over to the kids they got really excited and started screaming and stuff, and one kid actually ran up and bowed to them, which is that last picture there... hahaha  It was so funny.  Kids are so weird.  But it works great for them, because they have an excuse.  They're kids.  Adults?  They're just weird.

They were apparently promoting some event that was happening the following weekend (which was now this past weekend, and I missed it because I was out of town). It was to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the first Star Wars movie.  Wow.  Who's old here?  Admit it.

Speaking of out of town, this weekend was the long weekend up here in Canada (you weirdo Yankess have it next weekend).  :)  I had to work Saturday, which blew, but at least it was slow (aka, boring) that day.  So I didn't really get a 'long' weekend, but Chris and I, and the cat, and the dog went to my parents house for a visit.  We drove the scenic route on the way there, which was nice.  I like it at my parents place.  It's so quiet.  I definitely want a house out of the city, out in the country, once I get into 'house' mode.  Sunday was chiiiilly, and kinda windy (we had wanted to have a bonfire, but weather conditions disagreed) but today was beautiful and warm.  We let the dog outside most of yesterday, and almost all of today.  Kept him on a tie on so he wouldn't take off, but still, he enjoyed it.  Ever since we got home about 4 hrs ago he's been resting in his crate.  haha  Cute.

Here're more highlights of wildlife there including KITTIES (though kitty-mom is hiding them a bit... d'awww... mommies...): Which reminds me that we saw another mother cat (there are 3 barn cats at my parents house, all females, all of which had litters this month... wtf?) move her kittens to a new spot.  Cutest thing ever = little kitty dangling from mother cat's mouth as she trots them across the grass whilst kitty mews all "mom, wtf"ish.  No pic of that unfortunately, but just imagine the cuteness.  IMAGINE.

And, thus we reach the part where like any good animal parent, I give you various pics that are probably cuter to me than they are to you.  Here, the dog:
:)  I also took some videos of him running around playing 'fetch', or rather 'throw, get, and don't bring back', but they're kinda long and I'm not feeling up to waiting for them to upload.  haha  He kept running out of the shot anyways.  Though, one video does show a time when he ran a little too far and reached the end of his tie on length, and it jerked him right off his feet.  It was only hilarious because he didn't hurt himself (and because sometimes, falling down is just damn funny).  We let him run around off leash (no tie! FREEDOM) through the uncut foot-high grass too, which he really seemed to enjoy eating as much as jumping around in/over.  I think it was good for him to get in full on sprint mode for a while as he ran back and forth between Chris and I.  We were testing his ability to run towards us when we called him.  He did pretty well considering I judged us to be about 50-70 metres away from each other (don't ask me what that is in feet,  I'm Canadian damnit).

Anyways, I will seriously try to update more often, as I've had a lot of things pending in my mind to discuss, but I like to keep my posts generally one topic..... HAHAHA ok, anyone who's read my blogs for a while knows that's crap, but I'm GOING to try from now one to keep them one (ish) topic.  Or at least somewhat related (aka, the wildlife/pic/weekend adventures theme in this one).

I've got a lot to update about, and I'm not sure where I should start, though I suppose I could just go chronologically.  I'll split it into more than one update so as not to overwhelm everyone.. lol

First, last weekend, which I spent visiting my parents.

Their house is still my 'home away from home'.  The only place I can truly relax and forget about everything else in life for while.  I was really stressed out about having to go back to work this week (which I did today, more on that later), and the fact that I was still really stressed out about other things during my 'time off', which was frustrating. 

Anyways, my parents have turkeys on their farmland, which are quite amusing.  Being that it's 'spring' time, the males have decided to fight amongst themselves which is almost frightening to watch.  I did catch it on video, but it would take far too long to upload, and it'd probably be kind of disturbing.  hah  They've not killed each other yet, but they have drawn blood!  ew.

On the other end of the birdies in spring spectrum, they've also got some ducks on the farm, who've laid a bunch of eggs!  How cool is that?  There's about a dozen eggs there, and as you can see, they're being attended to quite nicely.  I hope they have little ducklings soon, because if they do I might have to go visit more often.  lol

And another springtime event is PILE O' KITTENS!!!!! OMGGGG  They're SO CUTE.  I also have a video of them, and you can hear the kittens 'mewing' too.  They were born while I was there (on Friday evening/night we think).  God, I love kittens.  There are 6 of them there.  So gorgeous.

The guy on the right is who we believe to be the father.  He's pretty handsome, don't you think?  He's from down the road (isn't how that always goes?).  You can't see in this pic, but he's got a bobbed tail.  Being that he's pretty fluffy, it's absolutely adorable!

So yeah, not much happened with me that weekend, but a lot happened with everyone else!  lol  I leave you with a couple pics of blooms coming up around my parents' place too.  I think I'm going to get them an apple tree for their anniversary next month.  We saw one at the store today which had blooms on it and it was gorgeous.  That may seem weird, but they already have cherry trees, a pear tree, walnut trees, a great lilac bush, etc.  I dunno... it just seems appropriate.  Anyways, I must say, I'm liking May 2007 so far!!  More on that later  ;)

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It's spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~ Mark Twain

Show us your pets.
Submitted by Prakash Daniel.

oooo yay!  An easy one!  haha
I've already shown my pets on here I think, but I don't think I've put them all in the same post.

So, mostly for the benefit of those who know me on livejournal *waves* I uploaded some short clips of my fishies, Dorothy and Spike.

They're cute.
:)

That is all.