Our pets

[FrankZ]

Our niece and her husband both assure us he is not fat. He is all soft and squishy, then he tenses and you can feel the muscle.

Both girls are just over 7 pounds so a little ahead on the schedule but not much.

 

[caseydog]

Our niece and her husband both assure us he is not fat. He is all soft and squishy, then he tenses and you can feel the muscle.

Both girls are just over 7 pounds so a little ahead on the schedule but not much.

I now have my 90-year-old mom's dog, and my mom spoiled her, and gave he a lot of food she should have never had. It has been a real challenge. I want her dog to be happy, but she is seriously overweight, so I have to balance her happiness with her health.

CD

 

[Kathleen]

A close-up of Mance's paws. Even this photo does not do them justice. The girls are 7.2 pounds each, which is still big for six months. Wow...I really need to clean and condition the leather on this love seat.

Mance loves water. He will sit back and use his paws to throw water all over the place. When I take a bath, he loves sitting on the edge of the tub and playing in the water soaking the entire bathroom. Today, he played in the water and then, for a moment, I thought he was going to jump in the tub. He leaned in and suddenly changed his mind. By then his balance was off and he plunked in to the water. Jumping out, he ran off to dry himself. I don't feel he cared that he got wet as much as that jumping in was not his immediate idea. Then, he slept for the rest of the day.

 

[taxlady]

Oh my, those really are big paws and that boy is already weighs 10 lbs. Uh oh.

 

[GinnyPNW]

Years ago, a friend had a Parakeet that liked to watch her bathe. Until one day when he decided to land on a pile of bubbles...and sank. He was fine, but the bath ritual no longer held his interest.

 

[dragnlaw]

According to my Vet many years ago she mentioned one of the biggest injuries (and subsequent deaths) for budgies/parakeets is in the kitchen. Should they fly over boiling liquids, (water/stews/etc) or try to land on the edge of the pot and they fall in.