CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[CntryBoy777]

Naw, I'd do the same as you as soon as I get the outer pen separated, but the Dotties like to get in the ducks area under the building and it is very difficult to get them separated and it sends the ducks into a Frenzy. I have yet to see any skirmish between them, but I guess it is my OCD that each inner pen shouldn't be Violated by the other one. Ya know that "Order of Things"? When we changed the water out 2-3 times a day one of the Dottie hens got out before I got the ducks put up. I left her out til I did get the ducks in, then I went and tended to the goats. It was almost dark, so I went in the yard and opened the Dotties door and she ran right in with no problem. All the others had already gone up in the building to roost. I've dealt with chickens quite a bit, so I try to use their "Natural Instincts" to my advantage...

 

[CntryBoy777]

Joyce has problems breathing lying flat, and she is a "TV Addict" and can't sleep without it being on, so she sleeps in it and I go stretch out in bed with no TV, the past few yrs I have found it to be just irritating cause I'm only interested in the news. I gave up sports and senseless shows that are far from Reality....even tho many are listed as "Reality Shows". That is why I cut the Directv. Now there are only 22 channels to flip thru to find nothing on instead of 150... Also, why I am usually around here and respond fairly quickly.

 

[Bruce]

Those be some big cats @Devonviolet !!

We have 3 and I think they total about 32 pounds. All gotten at different times, and about 5 years apart in age. The 2 older ones came from the humane society, the younger one was dumped in front of the house at likely < 6 weeks of age 5 years ago. No way any 2 of them would be sleeping in the same chair.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh, they are so beautiful!! I love the colors and markings, too. Those are good sized cats. Calli will let ya know that she is interested in food too. Tho, she doesn't eat much of anything except her food. There are exceptions, she loves pork and beef and any yeast bread, eapecially donuts, but will only eat a couple of bites. She is only 5lbs and will not eat anything that has any fish smell to it.

 

[Devonviolet]

Thanks @Bruce and @CntryBoy777! We do love our kitties.

Here are a couple better photos of Porter:

Here is Keagan enjoying being held by Dad:

When we lived in PA, we also had Trish, a purebred White Persian, with blue eyes. She came to us as a rescue cat. When we got her, she was 5 years old & weighed a whopping 12 lbs. She and was a butterball! We started feeding her a grainfree diet and in about a year, she lost 5 pounds!!! Almost half her healthy weight. We had her for another 7 years. For the last six years of her life, she weighed 7 pounds.

We were preparing to bring all three cats to TX. Just before we moved, we started finding big pee puddles, in the carpet, around the house. We tracked it to Trish. A trip to the Vet revealed that our sweet little girl was in kidney failure. We made the difficult decision to euthanize her, rather than put her through a stressful move, only to have her die once we arrived in Texas.

Here is a portrait I took of Trish, as she sat next to Keagan in my old recliner. They did sleep together in my chair.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Today I caught the sun touching the roof of the Bird house on its way down. It was still pretty windy today, but more sunshine....temps got up to 77 here today. If it keeps this up the dang wasps will start stirring again. it is suppose to be warm for several more days too. We have to go out tomorrow, so thinking about picking up a few bags of sakrete to set some posts ...make the trip out count for something more than paying a bill. Oh, I got a pic of the ducks lining up to go in tonight I just have to tell the drake to line them up and take them in.

 

[Devonviolet]

I just have to tell the drake to line them up and take them in.

That is just too cool!! I'm impressed!!!

 

[CntryBoy777]

We share more than chairs @Devonviolet .... this is Cheetos, he is an Outside cat, he weighs 15lbs, about the same as his Dad did. The momma only had 3 in the litter. It was the last litter "Fathered" by our 9yr old male, he died just a wk before they were born. So, we gave 2 away and kept one, all 3 have grown to be big cats weighing close to 15lbs each.

 

[Devonviolet]

SO! You have an orange Maine Coon too! Cool!

Most Maine Coons are either gray or brown tabby.

Porter came from a litter of four males. Three of them were Short Hair Gray Tabby's. And then there was Porter. Their mother disappeared when they were 3 weeks old. They were found, in the snow, under a bush, in someone's backyard. Porter was covered in fleas and had nasty mats in the fur on the backs of his rear legs.

I didn't realize he was a Maine Coon Mix until he was about six months old & I saw the extra long fur growing between his toes.

I didn't care what kind of cat I got. I just wanted a lap cat. Porter turned out to be the best lap cat I ever had. He seems happiest when he is in my lap.

 

[Bruce]

Sorry to hear about your Persian @Devonviolet. Hard to lose her especially since the whole move thing was likely plenty stressful on you and DH already.

I had a white Angora. It was my sister and BIL's. She was 2 when they headed for 2 years of shore duty in Hawaii 30+ years ago. They have really strict quarantine laws there and it didn't seem fair to the cat so she came to VT on a plane with me. She was really big .... until she was washed. Wet she was more the size of a large rat.