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This is Samuel a little after Christmas 2013. He is looking a little ticked in the picture because what he really wants, more than anything, is to clean my ears and I won't let him. He has his elbow in my throat in an attempt to keep me from moving my head around. He is probably not too sure about what the camera is doing getting in his face but that is a minor distraction from his goal of the moment.

After several attempts to get at my ears (after the pic was taken) he steam-rolled my head almost toppling the lazyboy backwards.
 
I currently live with the brown spotted bengal cat in my avatar. Her name is Artemis and yes, she likes to snuggle. Can you hear her purr from where you are? It's loud. We also have a silver spotted bengal named Apollo. He has attitude, and thankfully has "siblings" to keep him from being bored. He has the brains and the brawn to ahem, entertain himself when bored. We also have a retriever/collie cross names Helios. (anyone spot a trend?) He is an SPCA mutt who is an awesome dog. Boots, my first dog was a corgi we got when I was in high school.

Here is the photo evidence. The cats are in their favourite position.... sweet.jpg IMG-20110327-00027_3.jpg
 
Naman said:
Hey Jae, What is the significance of your avatar?
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Naman said:
Hey Jae, What is the significance of your avatar?
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(I most recently preached - today actually - on Psalm 91. An image from the Psalm is the metaphor of God protecting his follower as a bird protects her offspring. In the Bible God is likened at least once to an eagle - protecting its offspring under its wing.)
 
Nice. Thought maybe it was a reference to this (Isaiah 40:30-31) but that one is even better.

Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

 
pinga - getting into garbage isn't a bad habit for a lab - it is inborn, part of who they are. They'll eat anything and everything. Our neighbour wondered what was disturbing her compose heap at the back of her garden until she saw our lab digging through to get all the vegetable scraps she had folded in. She (dog, not neighbour) also liked raiding my garden and snipping off the peas. She was well fed in the house.

I've had both a Springer Spaniel and a Lab. I can't decide which I liked best -- the high spirited, energetic, wall-climbing Springer or the eager-to-please, steady, reliable Lab. The Lab was with me longest and more recently, so I guess she wins - but my eyes light up whenever I see a Springer. Maybe a Springer for the younger me - and a Lab for someone closer to the age I am now. I still miss Pepper.
 
With the kids we had the usual tanks of fish, hamsters, budgies, snakes, snails and ducks. They were wonderful, Because we had a pool , mallards would visit and lay eggs. If they paid them in the garden that was up to them. If they laid them on the patio, I hatched them in an incubator. Great fun


We have had a dog since we bought our first house. I never had one as a child.

Always Bouviers. This is her covered in icy snow getting a Christmas tree. Maggieimage.jpg
 
Growing up - we always had lots of pets. Dogs - cats - hamsters - gerbils - mice - a rat - a guinea pig - a raccoon - and a chicken called our place home at various times. Plus - we had working animals living with us. My dad was a magician so he had doves and rabbits.
 
So, this is my buddy Baxter:

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He's a shih-poo (mom was a shih-tzu, dad was a poodle) and on September 1 he'll be 15 years old.

And these are our budgies, Blueberry and Lemon:
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They were pretty young when we got them a few months ago from the Niagara Falls Humane Society.
 
My two current fur babies are a pair of ten-year-old kitties, Calvin (brown, male) and Lita (grey, female). In my teens, I also had a dog named Holly. At different times I have also had a goldfish (Whoopi Goldfish), a hamster (Rarazz) and a gerbil (Spyro).

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We're down to 4 tetras. One of my guppies died too :(
Chemguy got some more fish - 9 of them. Some of them have been breeding too. I was hoping we could keep a large baby fish, but we can't find it anymore. I saw some being birthed today, not sure if they will last or not. Chemguy wants most of them to be eaten. If we can get a few to a decent size though, I want to protect them.
 
He wants the babies to be eaten due to the numbers that we will have otherwise. There's a limit to how many fish can be in a tank. We saw a baby the day after getting males & females in there, and there has been births since! They have 20-40 fish at a time.
 
We had to treat the fish for ick, a parasite that came with the mollies. The medication is hard on the fish, we are down to one neon tetra and only one of my blue diamond guppies has survived. His tail was pretty much all gone, but I'm hoping he's going to recover. We were actually confused for a bit, when we were down to 2 one had a really bad tail, the other was healthy. The next day we could only find one with a bad tail and couldn't find the other for a while, he was dead and caught in the filter. We think it's the healthy looking one that actually survived.

Chemguy got some more fish and has placed them in a smaller isolation tank so we don't need to treat the entire tank again if they are sick. Some platys, I forget what they are called, black fan or black fin or something like that, and one white molly to replace the dead one. We already have some baby platys :) I'm hoping with only 4 fish in the little tank some of the babies might survive. He hasn't picked up the baby net thing yet.

I want some more guppies, as I'm down to one fish and he has a bunch!
 
Chemguy got all of the adult fish out of the tank. We had 2 swimming babies and a very dead baby at that point. One was coloured like the parent fish, the other clear. I took a look today, I can only find the clear one, the other might be dead or hiding in the plants. It's gotten a bit bigger and now it's looking very much like the molly. I'm wondering if both the molly and the platy gave birth within days of getting them now!

Hopefully both of these little guys will make it :)
 
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