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Need , My son has a pet iguana, Rico. He has several bandanas. He won a pet costume prize at a bar last year. I couldn’t believe he took Rico on a leash to a bar.
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Bridger,

Awwww! So cute! Hey, I live in New Orleans. We have a guy that walks around the French Quarter with his iguana! There used to be an older woman that owned a duck that followed her everywhere! She died a long time ago.

Well, when I was a kid I got bored watching my hamster just spinning his wheel in his cage.

I took my kite string and made a noose for a collar and tried to walk him. I didn’t want to strangle him so I made it loose.

Anyway, my hamster escaped. My mom freaked because he was missing for three days.

One Sunday morning I heard her screaming just before leaving for church. My hamster was snuggled up in her high heels!

She called out for me to come and get my hamster. I was thrilled to see him. She was relieved too.

She said that she hadn’t slept for three days thinking about him crawling on her when she was sleeping.

Mom wasn’t exactly a fan of my hamsters! I had three of them. Hahaha 🤪
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"Shell38314,"

Not only do we lose out on so much being caregivers but, especially this year with the pandemic and our ability to do all the things we enjoy doing freely. The other way I guess I look at it, is living in the "present" (no pun intended) while we're able. Who knows what will be a year from now.

I'm glad your SO got you that cute little Christmas tree, lights and all hoping to bring you some good cheer - putting it on your dresser so you can see it while watching TV or being on the forum is perfect!

Now about that snow......even if it didn't melt in transit, where we live it would melt in a couple of minutes!

I have one of those deep hunter green with burgundy and gold trim velvet tree skirts and that's where our little doxie loves to lay - under the Christmas tree!! One year, she took three of her kibbles and placed each one under the tree - I told my husband, she's giving each of us a gift :)
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Nobodygetsit
I have seen those tree skirts. They are very pretty. That is so sweet of your doxie.🐶

My kitties use to love sleeping under our Christmas tree, but sense moving in with my mother they don't do it anymore. In fact, they all are acting weird and have been for years now. My avatar is a picture of my cat Shadow under our Christmas tree, but that picture was taken back in 2015. That is the last time she has laid under our tree. In fact, she has came out of our basement for a year. If Shadow is on the 1st floor and hears any noise from the 2nd or 3nd floor she hid tails to the basement. I miss all my kitties under our tree. And yes, the whole Covid thing has made this year harder on me with not being able to live freely. The little tree does makes me happy. Isn't it funny how some of the little things can bring you joy, but I have to be honest, I still feel like a Grinch! A smiling Grinch...if that makes any sense?💚
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Bah humbug, but not new for me.
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Wine and cheese and cognition, just in case anyone is interested.

https://nypost.com/2020/12/16/drinking-red-wine-and-eating-cheese-could-reduce-cognitive-decline/

Might have to switch from beer.
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Shell: How sweet!
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"Shell38314,"

Shadow looks so pretty under the tree on the red tree skirt. That's funny that your kitties used to like sleeping under the Christmas tree too. I know what you mean about missing them doing that because this is the first year our doxie hasn't been under the tree. I don't know if it's because she's now deaf which means she's got some new peculiar behaviors too. It's kind of like when little kids do and say the cutest things and then they grow up. I wonder if for some reason she never got used to living at your mom's house or maybe it's just aging.

Every now and then something small happens and I think to myself, gee this is so nice and I'm reminded how it doesn't take much to get joy out of something simple.

Hey, the Grinch smiled - took him awhile but, in the end - he did!
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GardenArtist: You're welcome. Thank you! That's a great idea for kids and elders. Actually I have turned into my mother. My mother loved to give and receive greeting cards. I do as well.

In a non related topic, my mother was a helpmate well into her later years. She was the person who went the extra mile. Two friends in my hometown required help and of course, I was up for the joy of helping them.

What joy you gave to others by sending greeting cards. Yes, I remember Kilban's cats. How great it is how you use rubber stamps. I do recall those. Back in the day, I used sealing wax when corresponding with 10 international pen pals.
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"gladimhere,"

I'll be reading that article -

Finally, something I enjoy - red wine and cheese is now good for something!
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Glad,

Alternate! Wine on Sun, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Beer on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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I have been doing folk dancing on Zoom during the pandemic. When there is a waltz, I dance with my stuffed bear.
The first time I did that, half the people on the screen disappeared and I was confused. They all came back with stuffed animals and one guy had a plastic Godzilla toy.
Somebody just sent my stuffed bear a Christmas card. LOL
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😍😂😍
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My wonderful MIL knitted our cats Christmas sweaters. We put them on and they hated them, sulking and cringeing, but they were too tight to get off again. We had to cut the cats out of them! On a separate note, we wasted several hours yesterday, looking for one of the cats who had gone missing. Turns out he was asleep under the Christmas tree. Grrr....
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"Chriscat83,"

Ohhh, how cute that your MIL knitted your cats Christmas sweaters but, not so cute that you had to cut them out of the sweaters! Our doxie never liked us putting anything on her. I had bought her a dark green plaid coat to keep her warm on walks - no go!

I'm glad you found your cat - how can you be mad at him when he was "innocently" sleeping under the Christmas tree???

On a sad note - for the first time ever I opened up our mailbox the other night when we were walking our dog and in it was a glossy 5x5 postal card of someone who did a "special mailing" for a fairly large area regarding her cat still missing with two pictures, description and a reward. She wrote some other things and I felt her desperation. I felt bad all the way home. She even said "PLEASE KEEP THIS CARD."

I would love to have found her cat, give it to her and say "Merry Christmas" (I would never take a reward - how sad that people have to be bribed). I've been tempted to text her and ask if her cat was ever found. :(
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NobodyGetsIt, always very sad when you hear or read of a missing pet. I've had this happen to me before and it is very distressing. I still believe though that the joy of having animals outweighs the pain of losing them, whether that's wandering off or just through old age or illness. And I love my cats even though they drive me crazy at times!
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"Chriscat83,"

It is sad and I always get upset when I see signs posted on light poles, on the cluster mailboxes and even sometimes when we would go to coffeehouses (pre-COVID days) and see them on their bulletin board.

Our dog being newly deaf is now having separation anxiety whenever I leave the house or room and my husband has to work from home and put up with her barking for me - so he's being driven "crazy" at times too. In fact, he's complaining about her as I type!

Your statement is true about the joy of having animals outweighing the pain of losing them and I think that can be applied to loved ones as well. As the saying goes "better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all."
I've never had to put down a pet as my childhood dog drowned in our backyard pool. I just hope our dog, whose bed is beside ours, will go peacefully in her sleep while I'm there.
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NobodyGetsIt, yes, my two cats are elderly and very clingy too, plus the clingy elderly mother, so there is not enough of me to share round! You will be sad when your dog does go, but she will have had a good life in a loving home...
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"Chriscat83,"

Were your cats always clingy or is it because they are elderly? Like Chloe will be 14 in January - I definitely think it's her being deaf but what I'm wondering is if with the pandemic and a lot of us being at home more than ever if that's what part of the problem is. Prior to COVID, I was always running around doing stuff, going places etc. and she was home by herself and usually was in her bed whenever I got home (I do feel kind of bad for being gone a lot now that I look back). It'd be interesting to know if the pandemic has caused some of this plus I know they pick up on our stress and anxiety too!
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NobodyGetsIt, my cats have always been high maintenance but think that's because I worked from home, so they knew I was always around to cater for their every need!! I definitely think if you're out at work they are more self sufficient and I do feel they pick up on any home stress, so I'm sure the anxieties and home working during the pandemic have made them clingier than ever!
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Maybe I have been "enabling " them!
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"Chriscat83,"

Yes, I can see always having worked at home and your "catering to their every need" creating little high maintenance prince and princesses - lol!

An "enabler" - now there's a thought :0

Like you said and I know I've read many times how much animals are in tune to how their owners are feeling. Mine is so sensitive that when I rush around like a "pinball" as my husband likes to call me when I'm multi-tasking, she feels it. I've been trying not to do that as much so as not to cause her stress.
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Oh, and my two little cat "princes" have heated beds. Am I going too far? Or just crazy?
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"Chriscat83,"

WOW, they have it made with you and it's no wonder they are clingy! Going to far? No; crazy? meh - lol!

I like the idea of a heated bed. I made a mock one - I got her two deep beds one for the daytime by our computer and one for the nighttime when we go to bed. Each one has those two really soft plush blankets; one I put on the bottom and the other one on top of her. Then I bought a mini heater to keep the room itself nice and cozy warm since this side of the house gets colder.

However, before I ever knew of such a thing, years ago I sketched out a drawing of creating one. Since our Dachshund is often called a wiener dog, I call her a "Chili Dog" in the cold months and a "Hot Dog" in the summer months and therefore I wanted to create a "Chilly Bed" and was still trying to figure out how to make a "Hotbed" - one day I was at a store and saw that there were already similar types of items on the market. I guess we won't be retiring until we're 90!
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Here's a silly but probably accurate dog/cat joke... Every day the owner fills up the pets' food bowls. The dachshund is very grateful. As the owner approaches the dog and fills his bowl with kibbles, the dog thinks” Wow, you do all this for me, every day. You must be god.”
The owner then walks over to the cat and gives her daily food. The cat thinks to herself” Wow, you do all this for me, every day. I must be god.”
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That's funny, Chriscat and I have a feeling there's a kernel (corn) of truth to that as cats are so often seen as very independent and having a certain attitude!

My cousin's cat, Phoebe, is beautiful and extremely photogenic and she looks like she owns the place!

Sometimes Chloe acts like she's part dog and part cat :)
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Last night we all went to out to dinner to celebrate my daughter & dads birthdays (she is Christmas Eve, he is Christmas Day & we leave tomorrow so we won’t see my parents on Christmas this year). I was glad to get my dad out of the house, now that the stents are out of his kidney, he is not suffering from frequent urination. Anyway we had a great time and it was nice to go sit in a restaurant & be served. Indoor dining has banned in my county since mid June (was banned from mid March to mid May and after 4 weeks they shut it down again). On the way home we saw a sight I cannot get out of my mind. We had just come down the hill in to my parents small town and we saw lots of emergency vehicles in the opposite lanes of traffic. As we passed it, there was a large brown horse down in the road and a smashed up car off to the side of the road. The poor horse was still alive :( he was sitting up but obviously unable to get up. Thank God the state patrol wasn’t there yet because I don’t think I could have handled hearing them dispatch the horse. My mom for sure could not handle that. The people in the car were fine, just shook up. I almost took out a horse myself the day we got here. My son & I were driving to the dollar general on the outskirts of my parents subdivision, taking the back route through the neighborhood and we were driving down the Main Street in to the subdivision and all of a sudden there was a brown horse about 5 ft in front Of my car! Just standing in the road When it is dark you don’t see the horses until they are right in front of you. I may have hit the horse if I hadn’t been going 15mph (I was going slow looking for where I needed to turn left). After I saw the horse, I then noticed his herd hanging out in someone’s front yard on the right side. If I had hit the poor horse I know he wouldn’t have survived but don’t know about my car. I really don’t want to find out either!
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Speaking of pets,

Norman is our 85lb Bernedoodle.

He is the sweetest fur baby ever!!

Monday, I let him outside. We live on seven acres . He's awesome about sticking close to the house.
After about 20 minutes, I went to the door to call him in. He was nowhere to be found. After an hour of searching I was panicked and sobbing!! I drove down to the road and searched there too.
When I got back up to the house, there he was!
He had brought back part of a deer carcass. YUCK!!!
I spent the next 20 minutes chasing him down, because he wanted to bring it in the house. He wouldn't let go!
Lucky thing no one was filming me. Between the chasing and me gagging , it probably was pretty comical . Lol
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Glad you found him xray!
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Chriscat,
That is so funny and so true!!

Xray,
I had a cat that would bring his mice in the house if we didn't look at this mouth. He have the mouse in his mouth with the tail hang out!

Yuck is right. He probably thought he could bring it in and you wouldn't mind. Glad that you found him!
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