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(busselton mail.com)		Against all odds, Squid the cat turns 97 (cat) years old. This article seemed appropriate as we celebrate another birthday this weekend - Caturday's one and only Alien (busseltonmail.com.au)		745
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lethological_lassie		2012-04-01 10:52:04 AM

shortymac:
He also eats those pill pockets perfectly around the pill and spits it out. :(

Former outdoor cat is too smart

Sneaker can do that too! How do they do that with no fingers?!!

laulaja		2012-04-01 10:52:26 AM

Fine-ally. Did say april fool on prev pg...
akimbotoo, echo yr statement on hiring tech from vet clinic to come mind Feline Overlords when Away. We do that too. She also feeds a feral colony near a Meijer store in next county north.
Conga-cats to Bangor Humane Soc for placing all adoptable pets, too.; tnx for that linkie, JohnBuck41.
Thought I retained Dingleberry Moose's direct d-drs, but am not finding it now. This just in case I still don't locate it --
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StranahansBarracuda		2012-04-01 10:55:34 AM

I'm late, I'm late, for a VERY IMPORTANT date!
Happy Birthday Alien!
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Salem Witch		2012-04-01 10:56:10 AM

I don't have any mooses or dingleberry pictures. But we loves our Dingleberry Moose.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Dingleberry Moose!

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yobbery		2012-04-01 11:15:38 AM

Today also marks the start of grass cutting season at the Yobbery household.
Not sure why I'm bothering, the lawn is a freaking mess and really needs professional help.
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yobbery		2012-04-01 11:18:09 AM

Simplex_X-L		2012-04-01 11:22:29 AM

I see Flickr conveniently introduced a new feature just in time for today...

/HBD, AlienDandelion and Dingleberry Moose!

Simplex_X-L		2012-04-01 11:29:07 AM

laulaja		2012-04-01 11:30:09 AM

Forgot about quite useful tool in myfark, ProfileSeek. BangZoom, hey presto.
Some cat pix from Baby Shower for Critters on someplace like Care2Causes. Contribs for it may be made to www.HarmonyFund.org. Which I believe isn't a singing-support org.
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Kitten from Greece
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Cat from Serbia
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Answers my earlier query re typing to right; now I know!

laulaja		2012-04-01 11:31:35 AM

opps guffed, forgot to tag #3 as Cats in Turkey.

professional_vampire		2012-04-01 11:36:36 AM

Happy Birthday, Dingleberry Moose!

yobbery		2012-04-01 11:38:52 AM

laulaja		2012-04-01 11:46:06 AM

Too much Short Term Memory Fail.
Speaking of moose, I wonder if I might fetch in "I Can't Come to Work Today" rcvd earlier this week from a quite veteran barbershopper that includes a stack of maybe aw-worthy pix.
But a feline meanwhile --

This from the BBC.

genebone697		2012-04-01 11:46:15 AM

Agent Paper: Stumbling in bleary eyed after a hard day of shopping with my Mom. She's like a force of nature when she's hunting bargains

Happy birthday AlienDandelion & Dingleberry Moose!

Is your Mom a petite Irish lady by any chance? We could be distant cousins! My Mom is also a shopping demon; she had the magic 30% coupon for Kohl's last weekend and was determined to get through the entire store. Wore me out completely.

/also wishing extra Happy Birthdays to Alien and DingleberryMoose!

laulaja		2012-04-01 12:34:54 PM

Imagine having this happen on your front lawn.Sorry, I can't come in to work today...
Naubinway MI is about 40 mi W of the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper Peninsula of MI.
#1 graphic was actually header for St Ignace Times, thought I had but don't.
Hello Boss,
I can't come in to work today.
There was a moose born on my front lawn and the Mama won't let me out of the house!
Baby moose 12 hours old born in the middle of downtown Naubinway MI
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In my 33 years in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula , I have never seen a newborn baby moose.
The mother picked a small, quiet neighborhood, and had her baby in a front yard just off of US 2 at 5:30 AM.
Allen and I were out bike riding when we came upon the pair. The lady across the street from this house
Told us she saw it being born. We saw them at 5:30 PM.
So the little one was 12 hours
old.
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old.

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Makes it really tough to use your front door!
What a place we live in, that we may still see such a sight.

Last pic wouldn't, reckon it may hv been final straw. My kin in MI UP live where such a thing can happen, & likely has. One of upload codes was "More Birthdays", revealed by click on Am Cancer Soc (Official Sponsor of Birthdays) logo.

laulaja		2012-04-01 12:43:09 PM

#1 frm above
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final frm above

John Buck 41		2012-04-01 01:04:15 PM

laulaja: Imagine having this happen on your front lawn.Sorry, I can't come in to work today...
Naubinway MI is about 40 mi W of the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper Peninsula of MI.
#1 graphic was actually header for St Ignace Times, thought I had but don't.
Hello Boss,
I can't come in to work today.
There was a moose born on my front lawn and the Mama won't let me out of the house!
Baby moose 12 hours old born in the middle of downtown Naubinway MI
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In my 33 years in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula , I have never seen a newborn baby moose.
The mother picked a small, quiet neighborhood, and had her baby in a front yard just off of US 2 at 5:30 AM.
Allen and I were out bike riding when we came upon the pair. The lady across the street from this house
Told us she saw it being born. We saw them at 5:30 PM.
So the little one was 12 hours
old.
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Makes it really tough to use your front door!
What a place we live in, that we may still see such a sight.

Last pic wouldn't, reckon it may hv been final straw. My kin in MI UP live where such a thing can happen, & likely has. One of upload codes was "More Birthdays", revealed by click on Am Cancer Soc (Official Sponsor of Birthdays) logo.

That's amazing.

josmonkeys		2012-04-01 01:17:19 PM

tigerose: maxheck: Max's method for pilling a cat:

(this being Fark, it's probably going to sound like a rape scene, but...)

* mega snip* this is how I pill Eli. But I gotta tell you I have had kittehs who swallow, and then spit out the pill! Sneaky little buggers!

Honestly, I ask the doc if there is a shot. To me it is worth the cash not to have to brave Eli's claws..which need to be trimmed.....

Watch out for the bitey teeth!

My owie-paw-due-to-over-long-dew-claws-so-I-bit-my-hoomin brat:

I'm not sure why she looks so grumpy there, but at her age (going on 16 hoomin/81 kitteh years old) she's allowed to be grumpy. She's being conciliatory and asking for pettings and treats again. I guess I'm forgiven for trying to make her comfortable.

lethological_lassie		2012-04-01 01:18:23 PM

laulaja: In my 33 years in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula , I have never seen a newborn baby moose.
The mother picked a small, quiet neighborhood, and had her baby in a front yard just off of US 2 at 5:30 AM.
Allen and I were out bike riding when we came upon the pair. The lady across the street from this house
Told us she saw it being born. We saw them at 5:30 PM.

Makes it really tough to use your front door!
What a place we live in, that we may still see such a sight.
.
This is SOOOO Amazing. Thank you for sharing with us! You are a lucky group of people to be able to share this with the Moose Mommy.

laulaja		2012-04-01 01:44:07 PM

JohnBuck41 & lethological_lassie, we don't live in UP of MI, just have kin who do. This was shared in Cinti OH & nearby (?) by a quite veteran mbr of Plumbicon's barbershop harmony chorus, long-time quartetter who's unfortunately becoming too old & weak to stand on either the risers (for chorus) or the floor (for QT). He's pushing 90!
Where JohnBuck41 lives, this could happen too. She who sent this out very first lives in downtown Naubinway MI, on N shore of Lk MI.
Cleared Out the Lazy Caturday quite-old file of much that wouldn't open any more. This is one that would:
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Lazy Caturday was on Cute Overload. Sing-cerely doubt the vid attached to this is retrievable;
didn't try but will.
It was also minutely too big & Fark graciously re-scaled it for me

kevinboehm		2012-04-01 02:04:31 PM

laulaja		2012-04-01 02:11:28 PM

Vid definitely not retrievable, as suspected.

Nuther From "There", may tell those who follow such things how venerable this save is. From before I ever came here, I'm sure. Critter is a baby stoat. Am reminded of the kids' show on BFBS (British Forces Bcstg Svc, to which we used to listen in W Berlin the lifetime ago. "Uncle Bill" who was an Older Gent then, would relate these tales of anthropomorphised critters. Beavers & badgers were the good guys, stoats & weasels the bad. When their village name rises from the muck that passes for my mind, I'll write it down to relay
(not that anyone would really care).

Zizzowop		2012-04-01 02:32:14 PM

Chimpasaurus: sherpa18: lethological_lassie, akimbotoo, Zizzowop, yobbery: and anyone else I may have missed who is trying to medicate a hyperthyroid cat, I have a couple of suggestions based on my personal experience. While crushing the pills to mix in food is all well and good, it still tends to be a bit grainy. Try dissolving the pill in a little hot tap water before adding to the food.

Dragon hates pill pockets, so I hit upon the simple solution of breaking the pill into quarters so that they would fit into his favorite soft treats. Sure, he still beats me from time to time, but I figure (and my vet agrees) that his getting 3/4 of a pill instead of spitting the whole thing out where I find it a day later is better than nothing.

My 15 yr old was just diagnosed with slight hyperthyroidism. He just started meds and it's half a pill, so luckily I can hide it in a piece of meat and he eats it with no problems. Question though---do any of you know what happens if you don't medicate them for a few days? I'm worried about what will happen during the holidays when we go out of town for the weekend and no one else will come over to medicate him every day.

-Sorry, just saw this and I have an answer for you, if you haven't got one yet. Our senior kitty for a while would get his hyperthyroid meds periodically because I just couldn't bear the process of pinning him down and squirting that stuff in his mouth. What happens? Well, the same thing that happens when he needed it in the first place, he lost more weight. He still, and always, eats like a horse, but because of his thyroid, he doesn't gain much weight. When he gets his regular regiment of meds, we noticed he gained more weight and was a lot healthier as a result. So, if your cat misses a dose or two it shouldn't be a big deal.

laulaja		2012-04-01 02:33:29 PM

Gotta stop posting on own coattails sometime. Pls be sure also to see "baby aardvark born at Busch Zoo" on yr way in next time. Is drawing comments.

Magnifying glasses pls, this IS full size image. Also from Lazy Caturday

John Buck 41		2012-04-01 02:38:51 PM

laulaja: JohnBuck41 & lethological_lassie, we don't live in UP of MI, just have kin who do. This was shared in Cinti OH & nearby (?) by a quite veteran mbr of Plumbicon's barbershop harmony chorus, long-time quartetter who's unfortunately becoming too old & weak to stand on either the risers (for chorus) or the floor (for QT). He's pushing 90!
Where JohnBuck41 lives, this could happen too.

Indeed. Twice in the last few years. Just about a year ago and back in '97. Just a lone moose, though, both times. No births.

CrankyAndi		2012-04-01 02:52:55 PM

Not a cat...but my dogs have been here 7 weeks and it was time for them to learn what it means to live in my house

Hoover had to get fake ears....Dyson came equipped

CrankyAndi		2012-04-01 02:53:53 PM

My princess......reluctant bunny princess

CrankyAndi		2012-04-01 02:55:09 PM

She got really unhappy when she heard the dogs bark....sorry it is blurry but it still made me laugh

CrankyAndi		2012-04-01 02:56:20 PM

Robin has no problem being a princess bunny. Shoot, he was a girl for 2 months before I found out he was a boy. whoops.

reddot		2012-04-01 03:00:15 PM

yobbery		2012-04-01 03:02:49 PM

...and another sign of spring...
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lajimi		2012-04-01 03:07:22 PM

NotSoNiceBunny		2012-04-01 03:36:46 PM

Sorry, no pics yet. I totally forgot hubby has to leave for a business trip tomorrow so today has been getting essentials, ironing, packing, doublechecking he has everything and spending quality time before he's gone for a few days.

I do have the pics on my computer so should get them posted tomorrow.

/Happy Birthday Dingleberry Moose

laulaja		2012-04-01 03:39:55 PM

reddot, I truly regret we let ourselves be spoofed. But for MI UP it seems perfectly logical! Reckon I need to send ole Bill Cates the linkies you included, that didn't blank (unless that makes them spoofs in themselves? dunno, wl ck out first as I didn't do with moose birth tale/tail).
kevinboehm who lives in Dee-troit typed above that deer have so performed there. Deer live right next to us; we see 'em when coming home late at night, several at a time, in ours & adjacent yards. Never had a fawn drop in our own yard, at least not while we were up to see it. There are fairly dense thickets behind the residential lots that'd work better.
Besides baby aardvark at Busch Gardens (not Zoo, sorry), there's also the sorta predictable Cadbury Surrogate recipe thread up right now. Commented there in another commercial threadjack that Michael's Arts & Crafts doesn't carry egg forms. Someone within story said eBay has forms. I rang up Michael's & they don't. Hobby Lobby or other craft places may, but HL aren't there Sundays. Meant to attempt a much-lower-calorie version but haven't yet. Bet one cd use pyrex or similar egg cups; choc coating may be optional.
Also regret WallOfText just ensued. Back to subject!
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Now how comfy is this. Believe this to be one of stars of old vid that wouldn't recover.

lethological_lassie		2012-04-01 04:06:22 PM

reddot:
You've been spoofed. I remembered this one from a couple of years ago. Cute moose photos are real.............but not from Michigan.

http://www.stignacenews.com/news/2007-10-25/Opinion/Moose_Calf_Photo s_ Not_Authentic.html (new window)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/moosebirth.asp (new window)

DOH! I keep forgetting what today is! I am not nearly as gullible when April 1 is a work day. Great one, though!

sllink1		2012-04-01 04:14:36 PM

Shakespeare's Monkey: Bailey is 19. The biggest challenge is keeping her eating. She gets Whiskas in the foil pouch,
but she often just licks the gravy off and leaves the meat. Wish I could solve that one.

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Don't know if you got a response or not (I'm really late to the show here), but Sherpa gave me a tip about this: My cat, Chloe, does the same thing. Sherpa suggested mashing it up with a fork and heating it up JUST A LITTLE. The smell comes out for them. My Chloe may have tooth issues which keeps her from the chunks. I don't know. But she's healthy.

laulaja		2012-04-01 04:23:03 PM

l_l, the moose birth tale showed up on the 28th, so sure didn't LOOK LIKE Apr Fool. Can't account for some folks' sense of timing tho.
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Brought in the Ago by either MaggiesMom or MidniteMargaritas.
Saved with only initials, so coulda been either.

lajimi		2012-04-01 05:00:09 PM

laulaja		2012-04-01 05:12:28 PM

Followed by a Rather Prior lajimi post.

sherpa18		2012-04-01 05:57:47 PM

sherpa18		2012-04-01 06:00:37 PM

now that my ISP is back up to speed...

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yobbery		2012-04-01 06:00:56 PM

an Alien tour themed tennis match from a previous thread
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sherpa18		2012-04-01 06:03:40 PM

and this would pretty much illustrate the tech support response...

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yobbery		2012-04-01 06:03:48 PM

...and another.
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sherpa18		2012-04-01 06:06:49 PM

Where is everbuddy?

yobbery		2012-04-01 06:12:41 PM

sherpa18: Where is everbuddy?
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It'll pick up. We're just getting ready for dinner here.

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predle		2012-04-01 06:12:52 PM

sherpa18: Where is everbuddy?
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I'm almost here - not feeling too good but I'm here - when I can stay conscious anyway

predle		2012-04-01 06:15:33 PM

This is pretty much how I'm feeling today

yobbery		2012-04-01 06:15:40 PM

predle: sherpa18: Where is everbuddy?
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I'm almost here - not feeling too good but I'm here - when I can stay conscious anyway

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sherpa18		2012-04-01 06:16:40 PM

yobbery: sherpa18: Where is everbuddy? It'll pick up. We're just getting ready for dinner here.

Well, then would this be appropriate? :o)

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