Kindred Spirits

In response to:Heroes and Bikinis

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:25:32 +0200

I hate animal cruelty too, i feel deeply about it.

In response to:Nomenclature

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:57:58 +0100

Awwww you are lucky to see the racoons

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:02:50 +0200

Finding great animal pet names is one of the most enjoyable parts of settling in with your new animal. Names help establish an identity for your pet, and begin helping create a bond between you and your animal. We love our pets, and name them all sorts of lovable, cute, funny and tough names, depending on their personalities and ours!
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Alice

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In response to:Beholder's Eye

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:28:26 +0100

Hi MsAnthrope,

How are you?

I read with pleasure your poignant account of life with Frankie.

In response to:Call Me An Animal

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:19:24 +0100

Bull Shit... This entire post is retarded and you all desirve to be shot...

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:57:47 +0200

MY FAVORITE WILL ALWAYS BE FLICKA!!!!

JULIE.

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:50:21 +0200

The only good horse name I can think of offhand is Seabiscuit - and only because I read the book about that horse.

Kindof a cute name for a legendary racehorse though!

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:58:58 +0100

native dancer...I like it

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:12:37 +0100

Which?

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:11:37 +0100

No, Trigger is stuffed and on display at the Roy Roger's museum wherever his ranch was in California. I always found that distasteful and disrespectful, but he was dead, so I'm sure it doesn't matter, anyway. Gene Autrey's horse was named Champion and Tom Mix's was Tony. Dale Evan's horse was Buttermilk, but I don't think they stuffed her. And except for Flicka and Black Beauty and The Black Stallion, familiarly called "the Black" as I remember, all of whom started as books those are about the only horse names I can call to mind right now.

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:21:17 +0100

That's an excellent name for a horse

In response to:More Really Great Animal Names

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:51:21 +0100

That's a coincidence as I was looking at this the other day:
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/famehors.htm

I'm not much of a horse person but I loved the half-rememered story of Commanche (ironic name which is why I sort of remembered it) the only survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Famous race horses are here:
http://www.horse-races.net/library/links-famous.htm

The only horse I really remember is Roy Roger's 'Trigger' which is 'on show' in Missouri if I remember rightly.

In response to:What's in a name?

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:49:12 +0100

What a lovely post. My first animal was a dog called Bimbo - very un PC these days. No idea why my parents called him that. One of our nicest cats was still called Kitten even when he was grown up. He didn't seem to mind. Our only surviving cat is called Boo because Gareth brought him home as a surprise for us. He was the runt of the litter and no one wanted him but he has proved to be a real survivor and even in relatively old age is still going strong.

In response to:What's in a name?

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 01:32:08 +0100

Whenever I get an animal, I study the animal and watch for their personalities to shine through...I had a dog named Anna, Molly, Sam, Lucy, Genevieve, Lassie...I have had a cat called Muffin,Tristan, Jesse Jane, Mouse, Peso, Ubu, and I have had fish simply called fish..I have had birds call Fred and The Four Amigos.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:48:56 +0100

Mon fils, Tu dit vrai. (not sure that's right) many people live in cages of their own creation and will never know the joys we experience with our foxes and birds and 'possums, et tout.

I have nothing against having caged animals, especially birds and marmosets, which need to live so. I just don't like having them because of the time, etc. in caring for them; also the cats would never, never leave caged creatures alone in my house. I remember when my Daddy had Chico there was a cat who constantly wanted to sit on top of his cage and watch him, even when Chico would run upside down in the cage and bite his toes.

Once he knocked the cage over when he jumped on it and after that my Daddy had to be very careful to shut up the cage in a room the cat couldn't get in if no one was to home.

It is so nice to hear from you. More than nice, wonderful! comme une mere.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:57:23 +0100

lovely story, i can so well understand u words....
remenber the fox, yes we have the same problem all over the world, we ( humans) don`t care about animals or living species...
i relish in the same while i don`t have a attic and live in a tiny flat in london, i have a bird nest box outside and i feel so gratefull to have black birds nesting every year at my windows.
so it was the same with the baby fox, i often think about him...
keeping pets in cage that a difficult one for me, as i have some, my marmosets.
but at the same time, i think this is a conforting thing and i sometimes wonder, the debate of cage or not?
but all i have to do is look around and all i see is so many poor souls cage too...
saying this does not means i beleive u should replicated uself the same, but what is freedom but most of all, to be free?
all in love,
like a son
Herve xxx

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:43:44 +0100

I just think you love them and perhaps somehow they sense that and do you no harm. I would much rather not hurt anything but animals need to recognise my human rights as well - as I said somehow we need to achieve a balance. In the end we are living in what is best described as their space.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:48:27 +0100

I don't do celsius well, but I'm thinking that that means about 10 farenheit? I live in Austin, TX. Yes, do read about Chico, a long lived parakeet who lived with us from the time I was a little girl. Just look at the list of tags on the side of my blog and click on the one that says "parakeet" and it will take you right to it.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:25:23 +0100

I am in Canada...it was minus 23 degrees celsius today...yikes...i wish I was with you, where you are! Where are you living right now?

yes, budgies are also called parakeets...my birds are quite comical and comforting!!! I love the canary singing...wonderful and yes, I will go back and read your post...have a wonderful day...

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:54:26 +0100

Where are you? I had assumed the CA in your blog address stood for California, but now I am guessing Canada. If so, I really envy you, as I'd like to be almost anywhere but here and Canada is at the top of the list.

I think what you call budgies are what we call parakeets, but I'm not sure. To read about my experiences with them read my blog, "Caring for the Healthy Parakeet".

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:51:11 +0100

P.S. To reassure you, the rat who once lived in my house for two weeks before being caught and returned outside caused absolutely no damage, nor disturbance.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:49:07 +0100

At least you take actions to discourage and not to destroy, which seems to be the universal human reaction. I realize that I am not like the majority; perhaps in a past life I was a research scientist/animal torturer and must in this life expiate that guilt by feeling constant pain over all the creatures that suffer and die at the hands of man.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 13:05:40 +0100

I would love to have summer 9 months of the year. Sometimes I think I am living in the wrong part of the continent. I enjoy the sound of my birds - 4 budgies and 1 canary - who delight my heart and my mind by their chatter and song all day.

Have a great day.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:29:28 +0100

Not quite so sure about this Laura. Leaving food outside here attracts rats and I am not so keen on them. We had Squirrels in the loft but had to deter them (by blocking the gaps and using noise emitters) as they were using the glass fibre for bedding, chewing the wires and we were worried about the water supply. I love animals very much but in an artificial world we need to create a balance. We put nuts etc. out for the birds but I think the Squirrels get most of them.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:02:30 +0100

No all I got was the title. Just going to have some breakfast Laura and will read it properly. I was up late this morning and am still catching up.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:57:26 +0100

Love the pic. Don't know if you actually read the blog because after I typed the title I accidentally hit something that made it post before I wrote the blog and then I had to go in and edit to add the text.

In response to:Cold hands, Warm heart?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:35:43 +0100

Or even better, warm hands, warm heart.

In response to:I'm making a list

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:26:47 +0100

Yes, my last exhusband objected to sleeping with cats. I still sleep with the cats.

In response to:I'm making a list

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:09:55 +0100

It is amazing how ignorant people can be. I much prefer the company of my animals. have a great day,

In response to:Worse Than Bark or Bite

Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:04:10 +0100

Feisty dog!