Unsecure chicken perches

[coco]

Ever had one of those days with your pets. It started off this morning when spraying a chicken I got Ukadex all over my hands Yeuch, then i got a mouth full of fish water whilst cleaning the fish out and to finish it off my lovely white fluffy dog came in looking like she had been wallowing in a mud bath. Don't you just love your animals, well most of the time anyway.

[Gertie]

Mmm, fish water!! Sounds like a good day all round then! Whatever would we do if we weren't cleaning up cat/dog/hen/fish poo!!

 

I felt like that once or twice when I was washing & blow drying my poorly chickens bottom twice daily. But I wouldn't change it for the world...I love my pets & caring for them.

[Olly]

Yes, I thought something along those lines when I went to get into bed at 1.30 am last night/this morning, and discovered a neat pile of sick on the carpet. At least it wasn't on the duvet ..... my life would be very dull without cats.

[Redwing]

I love all my pets, I cant imagine a life without pets

[Lesley]

I can......I never was a pet person......

 

A bit like children really...........and now I couldn't imagine life without either

 

We were woken by the unmistakable sound of a dog being sick yesterday morning - bang went the extra hour in bed ............I could knit an extra puppy from the hair that Tali is shedding.........I vaguely remember the colour of the utility room floor.......and the white goods used to be white.......

 

......and of course, like my children, I only like my own

[Snowy]

I vaguely remember last August when our Westie Dennis died and I said that I was looking forward to no more dog hair dust bunnies. Now I must sweep up a dogful every day and am cursing the day I bought a white kitchen as it is always more of a pebbledashed effect. Come back Dennis all is forgiven! But I wouldn't be without these two springers now - they are so mental they give me at least one good laugh every day (except maybe yesterday when Candy decided to run at me so fast, then couldn't stop or change direction because of the mud, and crashed into my legs. I've got bruises! )

[Seagazer]

Not sure that was going through my head as I had Augustas (chicken) in my shower room trying to get hardened bits of chicken poo and bedding off of her nails. Then this morning when I took Cookie to the vets as she has an ear infection, which needs ear drops and squishing. Her ear stinks and its

 

Then of course I have another trip to the vets booked for tomorrow for Sophie to have her thyroid blood tested (again)

 

Yes I really, really love my pets (although not Dave so much if you read the King/Queen mouser thread) - only joking

[Gertie]

Oh but how could you not appreciate a daily mouse spleen or liver as a heartfelt gift!!!

 

Dave sounds like a champion (if you don't like mice). Happily I cannot report any more 'gifts' or still life from Bert.

[coco]

to finish things of yesterday I went out in the dark to lock the chooks away and put my hand right in a big sloppy present one of them had left on the roof ofthe house for me. also i spent ages looking for the cat yesterday and worrying where he was last night with all the fireworks going off. OH opened his car this morning and the cat jumped out, he must have been in there since yesterday lunchtime, after a quick feed he dissapeared again.

[beach chick]

that's cats for you! darling little things... I do love them, especially my Salem who sleeps on the pillow immediately above my head every night - honestly if you look at the pillow you'd think I was going bald overnight because of the amount of fur there!!!

[Seagazer]

Oh but how could you not appreciate a daily mouse spleen or liver as a heartfelt gift!!!

 

Dave sounds like a champion (if you don't like mice). Happily I cannot report any more 'gifts' or still life from Bert.

 

Luckily hubby gets up first so cleans up any internal organs left out for us overnight

[Gertie]

Wow, what a great hubby. I'm usually first up so get to discover the gruesome gift. However, last week my partner discovered the rat. He wrapped it in kitchen paper & (at this point you'd expect me to say - put it in the bin) left it on the kitchen floor! Upon my return I found the parcel & decided to look at the gift - when I opened the paper there were a million hideous grey lice making a bid for freedom from the dead rat. They crawled on my hand. It was revolting!

[Seagazer]

Wow, what a great hubby. I'm usually first up so get to discover the gruesome gift. However, last week my partner discovered the rat. He wrapped it in kitchen paper & (at this point you'd expect me to say - put it in the bin) left it on the kitchen floor! Upon my return I found the parcel & decided to look at the gift - when I opened the paper there were a million hideous grey lice making a bid for freedom from the dead rat. They crawled on my hand. It was revolting!

 

Yikes that sounds absolutely disgusting. I might have to divorce my hubby if he'd left the rat for me, I'm bad enough with mice let alone rats with lice.

[beach chick]

oh gertie...

hope you have thought of some way he can make it up to you!! why on earth didnt he put it in the bin?

[Gertie]

Erm...I am not sure. I think he mumbled something about being in a rush.

 

Ideas that come naturally to me don't seem to come naturally to him...like disposing of dead vermin IMMEDIATELY!!!!

 

Oh well, we'll have to work on that one. I guess I should be grateful that the lice were contained in the kitchen paper and not lurking in my kitchen!

[Alis girls]

Would it though - we'd be better off, house and garden would be cleaner and you wouldnt get woken by cat every morning at 5am wanting out. No I wouldnt be without - we'd have been infested with mice and no eggs every day and no elderly bun to cuddle.

[beach chick]

2 patches of cat sick this morning - one on the kitchen floor, can handle that. the other is upstairs on the landing carpet... I am letting it dry a bit before finding a knife and some kitchen roll to clear it up!!

[Seagazer]

My cats always head for the only bit of carpet when they're going to be sick, beastly things. Sophie was sick a couple of times at the weekend, she ran for the stair carpet but I managed to catch her and get her back downstairs, where she was sick over my feet

 

Dave decided to take his latest victim upstairs last night but thankfully hubby managed to get it off him before he started chomping.

 

I'm going right off my pets....

[beach chick]

and seagazer, why do they always have to run backwards when they chuck up?!!

[Seagazer]

[beach chick]

one Christmas, years ago, when I was about 12, my dad and I decorated the tree on Christmas Eve. we were just standing back, congratulating ourselves on how gorgeous it looked, and our then Siamese ran in from outside. He took one look at the tree, promptly threw up all over the carpet immediately in front of it and went straight back outside!! little b&gger, but it made us laugh for years...

[LauraJ]

Our cat went through a phase of bringing in tiny little mice and giving them to our puppy to eat

I work from home and my pets keep my laughing all day... Yesterday morning the dog was snoozing on his bed, the cat tiptoed right up to him and shouted the loudest 'meow' you have ever heard. By the time the dog had got over the shock, the cat was half way up the stairs! Oh how I chuckled.

[beach chick]

5.15 this morning. oldest shakes me awake: "Mummy Stanley's got a bird on the landing and its flapping and it's NOT DEAD!"

so I haul myself out of bed, find cat sitting over this poor little sparrow which is lying on its back, one leg twitching very faintly. I pick it up - surprised to find its not comatose but actually quite sparkly eyed and put it out on to the flat roof outside the landing window.

whereupon it promptly flies straight back in again and halfway down the stairs!!! luckily I managed to grab it and get it outside again before Stan got his claws back into it. it wasnt there later, so I guess it flew off to survive another day.

in the days BC (before chickens) I'd have had to get a towel to pick it up, I was so scared of birds...

[Rhapsody]

I was once having an in-depth talk with the Equine Vet when my little StaffXWhippet trotted past with an entire Deer leg in her mouth, hoof s"Ooops, word censored!"ing along the ground... we lost the thread of the conversation somewhat!

[The Dogmother]

I like that Rhapsody

 

Apropos Stanley with the bird.... when Ruby caught her first rabbit (no, I wasn't hunting ) Rosie said 'Mummy, Ruby's got something in her mouth.. it has ears!'. Just doing what hounds tend to do.