Yeah only been here a week and has become the new ruler of the house, lol..
Kinda funny when i first loaded the page, the Halloween spider was crawling right by his paw in the picture, looked like Buddy was trying to catch it, lol.
He did catch a lizard in the house yesterday.. Lucky for him i saw it before Buddy could do any damage lol.
Technically Buddy isn't "new", at least not to me.. I've been taking care of him for about a year now. Someone abandoned him at my warehouse at work (happens a lot, i have about 20 cats i feed everyday at work) and Buddy had been living in my shop since the middle of last summer, and we had become very close.
Last week i showed up to work and he was nowhere around all day.. Started to get worried so i searched around for him and eventually found him in our pipe cage hiding under the pipe racks.. Another cat had attacked him, and injured his back leg, he couldn't walk on it.. So i took him too the vet, she found the wound on his leg, and even pulled a claw out of it. But he had an abscess in his leg, so i took him home to recover, and after a few days was able to convince my family to let me keep him. So hes gonna live with me from now on.
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Yeah only been here a week and has become the new ruler of the house, lol..
Kinda funny when i first loaded the page, the Halloween spider was crawling right by his paw in the picture, looked like Buddy was trying to catch it, lol.
He did catch a lizard in the house yesterday.. Lucky for him i saw it before Buddy could do any damage lol.
Technically Buddy isn't "new", at least not to me.. I've been taking care of him for about a year now. Someone abandoned him at my warehouse at work (happens a lot, i have about 20 cats i feed everyday at work) and Buddy had been living in my shop since the middle of last summer, and we had become very close.
Last week i showed up to work and he was nowhere around all day.. Started to get worried so i searched around for him and eventually found him in our pipe cage hiding under the pipe racks.. Another cat had attacked him, and injured his back leg, he couldn't walk on it.. So i took him too the vet, she found the wound on his leg, and even pulled a claw out of it. But he had an abscess in his leg, so i took him home to recover, and after a few days was able to convince my family to let me keep him. So hes gonna live with me from now on.
When I sold stainless I'd get dogs like that and eventually rehome them. We had a choco lab once. Lucy. She had heartworm and a beat up eye. She hated staying in our fence alone. Eventually was stolen twice and she got a good home. I forgot about the theft story until just now. I'm a dog guy. I've had a few cats. My current one is extremely aggressive to everyone else. I wish I could get him to stop.
Alright, you asked for it. A friend of mine said the colors reminded her of Halloween, so this should be an appropriate time of year to post this video here. My cat makes an appearance at both the beginning and the end of the video. (And yes, my Fiero makes a cameo appearance as well.)
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This was just an experiment. Recorded with a Wyze Cam v2 security camera (connected to a USB power pack) in Night Vision Mode with Infra-Red lights turned on... and then some "Heat" added in post-production. Next time I'll turn off the date stamp! lol
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Jonesy, you have my admiration and respect. Any animal is precious. I am not a cat guy but they serve me well. They patrol my property ridding it of rodents even though they are not mine. They are very interesting creatures to watch. They stalk in stealth and finnaly pounce on it's prey. Excellent tree climbers. I have seen some scare off my 99 pound Doberman.
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Originally posted by Patrick: Alright, you asked for it.
I adopted this little guy a couple days ago. Well, it might only be temporary; he belonged to an older lady who was living in a facility because she has early-onset Alzheimers, and when she had a very bad fall a couple weeks ago she went into a skilled nursing facility for therapy. The plan is, if she does well and can go back to the original facility, she can have the cat back. But knowing how these things develop, chances are I might have the cat permanently. Anyway, he is 14 and is super loving and friendly. Well-behaved too. Been a few years since I had a cat!
A better look at my cat from the video above. My nickname for her is The Terminator. No rodent is safe in my yard. She earns her keep!
Snow? Not a problem!
She was helping me work on the car here (observe her footprints on the strut tower)... and just as I took this shot, a bunch of snow fell from the big cedar tree overhead.
And no, it doesn't snow here a lot. I just happen to like these shots taken in February of 2019.
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Originally posted by cliffw: Jonesy, you have my admiration and respect. Any animal is precious. I am not a cat guy but they serve me well. They patrol my property ridding it of rodents even though they are not mine. They are very interesting creatures to watch. They stalk in stealth and finnaly pounce on it's prey. Excellent tree climbers. I have seen some scare off my 99 pound Doberman.
Here's some of my cat pack at work, coming to get breakfast.. Yeah i love animals in general, but am especially fond of cats. I've always been good at making friends with cats and gaining their trust. This is only a few of the cats i take care of at work, there is about 20 in total. They are all fixed, and had their shots.. I get that done pretty much as soon as they arrive. Most of them are very friendly and enjoy pets and cuddles like any other cat, and they keep me company, and entertained while im working in the shop. Especially Buddy as we are super close, but he keeps me company at home now. Down side to all this is people in town know i take care of strays, so anybody that wants to abandon a cat tends to do it at my shop. I try to find homes for as many as i can, and its usually pretty easy for the young ones, but once they are adults, its much harder to find homes for them. But i do what i can. And for those that live their lives in my shop, they all have their own beds, blankets, boxes and other things to play with. Plus my warehouse is quite big and they love to climb all over it. I give them the best lives i can.
Breakfast time! Nibbler sleeping on my desk. Hotshot sleeping on the overalls display. Jude saying good morning. Emmy greeting me in the morning. This is Custard.. Hes been with me the longest, 13 years now. This is Millie.. Shes Buddy's sister. Found her a home a few weeks after her and Buddy where abandoned at my shop.
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This is only a few of the cats i take care of at work, there is about 20 in total.
Wow, full props to you for being so kind to them all.
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She is gorgeous!
Thanks, I'll tell her.
She used to be my neighbor's cat a half block away, but she decided she preferred the quiet solitude of my yard with just me... as opposed to a household of two adults, two kids, and three pups. (Apparently she was born to a feral cat, which might explain why she doesn't like being around a lot of activity.) When the neighbors discovered she had moved in with me five years ago (I thought she was a stray!), the husband and wife gave her to me with their blessing. I could tell the two kids were none too pleased, but the cat wanted nothing to do with them. Anyway, the cat's happy with the arrangement, and so am I.
The neighbors had of course already given her a name. I kept the name, but changed the last letter. It's now Hutzpaw.
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Wow, full props to you for being so kind to them all.
Eh, i don't really see them as just animals. They're my friends. Each one is so different personality wise. Each one greets me every day in their own way. Custard is always waiting by his dish for his food, gives me some old man sounding meows, with a few head bumps. Emmy runs across the parking lot every morning to me and just flops down at my feet wanting belly rubs. Stuff like that.. Makes my day. I get a lot of support from the other shop owners around as well. Pretty much everyone likes my cats. Local news even did a story on them about 10 years ago, and interviewed me, lol. Where i live and work is a very old part of town, where it first started actually. Think Mayberry from Andy Griffeth and you'll get the idea. Were all a close nit little community where everyone knows everyone, and i get food and money donations from them and customers from time to time.
Eh, i don't really see them as just animals. They're my friends.
I know just what you mean. During the height of the pandemic shutdown, when I wasn't seeing anybody for extended periods of time, my cat was great company (and still is). Non animal lovers will probably snicker at that... but hell, I don't care.
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Were all a close nit little community where everyone knows everyone, and i get food and money donations from them and customers from time to time.
Excellent!
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I found Scooter in the middle of the road on a busy hi way coming home from work.I don't know if someone through her out of a car or what. Her ear was bleeding and she had blood in her eye. Found an emergency vet on Sunday memorial weekend. Turned out she had a cut on her ear and was dazed.
I found Scooter in the middle of the road on a busy hi way coming home from work.I don't know if someone through her out of a car or what. Her ear was bleeding and she had blood in her eye. Found an emergency vet on Sunday memorial weekend. Turned out she had a cut on her ear and was dazed.
Thank you so much for saving her.. What a little cutie.
I guess I didn't realize that's what they were called. Makes sense Tux the Linux penguin. Just never thought about it. He surely is possessive and mean to others though. He gives a lot of love to me and the dog, so I guess that is what matters.
I guess I didn't realize that's what they were called. Makes sense Tux the Linux penguin. Just never thought about it. He surely is possessive and mean to others though. He gives a lot of love to me and the dog, so I guess that is what matters.
Yeah cats can be temperamental, they choose their friends with great care, and usually only trust a few. I'm still trying to get Buddy to warm up to my family, but so far he's only interested in hanging out with me. He's not mean to them or anything, just a bit skiddish of them..
Mine is a Friday cat. Gets along with me and Jane (and the dog) well, but will NOT come inside. I rescued it from living in the National Forest back at our old place in E Texas, and she was a true hunter. If it moves, and smaller than her, she is GONNA kill it. Came bringing us a fresh killed still bleeding hummingbird not long ago. Picky eater. Will eat dry cat food but will not touch any kind of can cat food, but you put some people type canned Tuna (Sorry Charlie, water packed only..won't touch oil packed Tuna) in front of her and she'll go to town on that.
Being a rescue, I have no idea how old she is. She had one litter not long after we kinda domesticated her and then we had her fixed. I think we have had her since 2018. Already mature then.
2 seconds after I snapped this picture, the dog nose flipped Cat out into the pool. I jumped up but Cat swam like a fish and clamored right out on her own. I never knew cats could swim.........
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This is Carly. Your average Tabby Cat although we refer to her as a shed cat as she was born under our neighbors shed. We were able to rescue her and her brother Charlie (Charlie & Carly) when their momma disappeared one day. She is 16.5 years old & is still quite the athlete. Jumping up on things 4'+ high is no problem. I've had many cats over the years but none are as totally affectionate as this one.
I like mostly ALL animals...have had my share over the years...but I have to say, no way I'll ever keep up with the "Jonesy"!
You're a good man sir....as with all here who keep and minister to our "lesser" creatures.
"Dogs have masters....cats have staff." We have two at the moment, maybe I'll get a pic soon...they are both "long hairs"...and they put out enough "extra" hair to assemble a third cat every couple of weeks!
According to a dying cat priest (Noel Coleman), "the sick and the lame" cat people did not go on the arks with the rest of the cats, and were left on Red Dwarf to die. Two of these cats were the Cat's parents, a female "cripple" and a male "idiot" who ate his own feet. Over time, the rest of the cat people died off.
Danny John-Jules as the Cat: A humanoid creature with cat-like teeth who evolved from the offspring of Lister's smuggled pet cat Frankenstein. The Cat or simply "Cat" (who is never given an actual name) is self-centered and concerned with little other than sleeping, eating, and fawning over his appearance, and tends not to socialise with other members of the crew in early episodes. Over time, he grows closer to his crewmates and becomes a useful part of the crew. Unlike his human companions, he has a "cool" sounding pulse, six nipples, and colour-coordinated internal organs.
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It's great to see all the pic's of your cats, my own tuxedo cat died the first week of October, her name was Penny. She was adopted by my son as a kitten, but gravitated towards me. She was more of "dog" than a cat, as she followed me around and was never more than a few feet away from me at all times while I was home. We have not decided whether we will be getting another yet, but if we do, it will be 2.
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It always feels like punch to the gut when they pass away. Sorry for your recent loss of Penny.
