Pics of your pets (part II)

[gintonic]

sorry to hear that; RIP Toby

 

[Yank]

It is with a heavy heart that we had to say goodbye to Toby this week. He didn't make it to his 8th Birthday. He went from full-on totally crazy waggy dog to paraplegic in less than a week. We'd hoped it was an operable disk condition (apparently quite common) but it turned out to be a tumor on his spine and we had to let him go. We miss him like crazy already. He was such a gentle boy and loved everyone who ever met him.

Poor little guy.

 

[gintonic]

Ziggy on his fav bed (my wife)

2018-02-27_08-13-55 by uh_simon, on Flickr

2018-02-27_08-12-36 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[merlin]

name age breed?

Foo Foo. GT.

She's got her own hammock now. Only 3 months. Seems like a lifetime.

 

[ron]

Gargoyle Gecko

_8507667_DxO D850 105mm Sigma by leon kirkbride, on Flickr

 

[Tarzan]

Someone say camouflage?

 

[AudioAl]

camouflage , I said it !

 

[gintonic]

give a cat the most broken piece of cardboard and they'll play hide and seek

2018-03-10_11-08-42 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[Gromit]

It is with a heavy heart that we had to say goodbye to Toby this week. He didn't make it to his 8th Birthday. He went from full-on totally crazy waggy dog to paraplegic in less than a week. We'd hoped it was an operable disk condition (apparently quite common) but it turned out to be a tumor on his spine and we had to let him go. We miss him like crazy already. He was such a gentle boy and loved everyone who ever met him.

Oh that is so sad, having been there ourselves it's something we never really get over - sleep well, Toby.

 

[Gromit]

Had a fabulous day at Crufts yesterday, just a small handful of images:

Italian Spinone by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Vizslas by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Flat-Coated Retriever by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

All with Sony A7II/Sony FE 85-1.8

 

[ian123running]

It is with a heavy heart that we had to say goodbye to Toby this week. He didn't make it to his 8th Birthday. He went from full-on totally crazy waggy dog to paraplegic in less than a week. We'd hoped it was an operable disk condition (apparently quite common) but it turned out to be a tumor on his spine and we had to let him go. We miss him like crazy already. He was such a gentle boy and loved everyone who ever met him.

That’s such a great photo - he looks like a superstar. Sorry, so sad.

 

[Yank]

Had a fabulous day at Crufts yesterday, just a small handful of images:

The one in the middle is melting.

 

[gintonic]

wondered where they had got to

2018-03-18_06-16-39 by uh_simon, on Flickr

2018-03-18_06-17-09 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[cromodora]

Ozzy, our domestic longhair.

 

[Yank]

Ozzy, our domestic longhair.

Lemme guess, you call him that because he bites the heads off bats?

 

[cromodora]

Ozzy’s quite a hunter but no bats yet.
Presented me dead lizards and moths mostly.
The gifts will stop once he knows I plan on calling our next cat, Ronnie James.

 

[gintonic]

Lemme guess, you call him that because he bites the heads off bats?

Interestingly, one of the previous cats "Gin" was a one cat killing machine and brought a live bat home as a present. Having a bat flying around in your living room being chased by a mad cat is quite something. Eventually, the bat became tangled in the curtains and I managed to extricate it, and release it unharmed. Gin is long gone about 10 years ago - she lived for a good 14 years before her kidneys failed.

Gin is on the right, and still a kitten in this picture. In case you were wondering, that is Tonic on the left - she died at the ripe old age of 21 nearly three years ago, and unlike her sister never caught anything.


DSCN0346A by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[AudioAl]

Wow 21 thats some age , must be that you looked after them well

 

[gintonic]

Wow 21 thats some age , must be that you looked after them well

She had a good life, but was quite unwell when the time came - we were always aware that her quality of life that was pain free was the most important thing. In the last few years she began to have minor seizures, (1 or 2 per year) which as advised by our vet she recovered well from maintaining a decent quality of life, but she had a major seizure a few months before her 22nd birthday, and it was clear she wouldn't recover from.

Here she is in 2013, aged about 18

tonic3 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[Yank]

I had a long-lived tuxedo cat as well, Clyde. He stopped going outside to prowl when he was about 17, and had kidney failure about a month shy of what would have been his 20th birthday, in 2014.