Pet Photos thread where too much is never enough.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Odd that a godless atheist would do such a kind thing, isn't it?

[Shell B]

Pets are a completely selfish endeavor on my part. I enjoy the snuggles.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Pets are a completely selfish endeavor on my part. I enjoy the snuggles.

Sort of like waking up with eleven kittens sleeping on your back and your wife feeds you breakfast in bed?

[DodosAreDead]

I've fostered a turtle for a few days. Found the poor guy trying to clamber up a foot high median on a busy road. Dad had to stop the motorbike, run across traffic, grab him, and run back to the sidewalk. Tried to put him in my backpack for the rest of the ride, but he wiggled his way out of my hands and off the side beneath tin sheets into a live construction area. Whoever told you turtles are slow is wrong. That was one fast mfer. Had to go into the construction site, convince the workers to poke around into the little deep gap he'd gotten stuck in. Finally found him and brought him home. Now he lives in a family friend's natural pond with three other turtled and no roads, at all.

[Shell B]

Turtles are definitely fast! They choose to be slow a lot of the time because of the whole body temperature regulation thing, and they can be slow in cold weather, but they will book it. I had a Russian tortoise that would haul tits whenever we brought him outside.

[Whateverist]

I've fostered a turtle for a few days. Found the poor guy trying to clamber up a foot high median on a busy road. Dad had to stop the motorbike, run across traffic, grab him, and run back to the sidewalk. Tried to put him in my backpack for the rest of the ride, but he wiggled his way out of my hands and off the side beneath tin sheets into a live construction area. Whoever told you turtles are slow is wrong. That was one fast mfer. Had to go into the construction site, convince the workers to poke around into the little deep gap he'd gotten stuck in. Finally found him and brought him home. Now he lives in a family friend's natural pond with three other turtled and no roads, at all.

Thats-a-nice.  I like a happy ending.


When I was in middle school and starting high school I lived in Maryland just outside of D.C.  Our backyard backed on a mile deep bit of woods which I tromped through all the time.  I ruined a lot of karma bringing home box turtles and black snakes, but those were in my speciesist days when human amusement counted for more than it does now with me.

[DodosAreDead]

Turtles are definitely fast! They choose to be slow a lot of the time because of the whole body temperature regulation thing, and they can be slow in cold weather, but they will book it. I had a Russian tortoise that would haul tits whenever we brought him outside.

The more you know...

[Shell B]

Good to know if you're dealing with a snapper.

[Whateverist]

Pets are a completely selfish endeavor on my part. I enjoy the snuggles.

That is so true of me too.  For all my complaining about breeding more humans because of the resources we consume and take away from wild creatures, I have to admit that my two dogs also demand resources.  And I too am plenty selfish enough to admit I am happy to pay that price.  

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I've been spending the morning deleting downloaded files from my computer.  This video I downloaded to youtube.  I enjoy seeing Fletcher here even though he was pretty old and slowing down.  And Heidi as a younger dog is fun for me to see too.

Lia's parents built a house just north of Tamales Bay state park in California.  It was great to stay with them in this rustic environment about an hour and a quarter from our place.  I would never want a second home to keep up  but I sure enjoyed visiting them. They're both dead now and the 12 homes in this community have been reclaimed by eminent domain to the park systems.  

The Duck Cove road was a mile and an eighth long.  Lia's parents were the only full time residents and her dad did a hell of a job maintaining the road.  There was a locked gate near a dairy at its beginning.  This video shows the road from the water towers above where the houses were to the carport of Lia's parents place.

[Silver]