What pets have you had? Post pics of your pets, previous or now. Why do I love my pet so much?

[pseudoid]

My beloved Anatolian/Kangal, Bulut

Neighbor had a humongous Anatolian Shepherd, but looked to be slightly different than Bulut [<<cool name, btw].
Per Wikipedia, there supposed to be a subtle difference between the Anatolian and the Kangal shepherds [<<which are not really a shepherding breed].

Anatolian Shepherd Dog is the name used in the United States to describe dogs descended from regional Turkish livestock guardian dogs, particularly the Kangal...

imo; sounds like the Kangal is the original issue...

 

[sarumbear]

Neighbor had a humongous Anatolian Shepherd, but looked to be slightly different than Bulut [<<cool name, btw].
Per Wikipedia, there supposed to be a subtle difference between the Anatolian and the Kangal shepherds [<<which are not really a shepherding breed].

imo; sounds like the Kangal is the original issue...

Kangals are shephard dogs. I can assure you that. I saw them all over the mountains of Turkey, shepherding. That’s were I learned about them.

There’s a confusion in the breeding world between US and UK on the names, Anatolian and Kangal. That’s why I used both names.

 

[pseudoid]

Kangals are shephard dogs.

You are making me lose more faith in wikipedia
It makes a differentiation between "shepherding" breeds from "guarding" dogs. It states that they hang with the sheep (guarding?) rather than herding them in the fields. >> I am NOT arguin'... just sayin'!

BTW: I had to try 3 times before getting the right spelling for that word (shepard, sheperd, shephered, shepherd)

 

[sarumbear]

You are making me lose more faith in wikipedia
It makes a differentiation between "shepherding" breeds from "guarding" dogs. It states that they hang with the sheep (guarding?) rather than herding them in the fields. >> I am NOT arguin'... just sayin'!

BTW: I had to try 3 times before getting the right spelling for that word (shepard, sheperd, shephered)

I’m not a shephard hence wouldn’t know the difference between guarding and shepherding. All I know is that those are the only dogs you find up in the mountains of Anatolia around lots of sheep

 

[TheBatsEar]

Bladder snail:

Three Macropodus concolor females:

Two flies, making sweet, sweet love:

Strange plant that grows on my balcony:

One of my plant soups:

 

[sarumbear]

After the handsome boy, how about my princess? She was even called accordingly: Victoria

 

[TLEDDY]

A quotation from Mark Twain:

”If you find a starving dog, rescue him and nurse him back to health, he will not bite you!

That is the difference between men and dogs…”

I would extend that opinion to all of our beloved pets…

 

[xaviescacs]

She had a pretty tough life on the streets...

Well, not anymore...

 

[ryanosaur]

Always been a cat person. I’ll post up some photos when I have a chance to convert them from my phone.
We have 4 feral-born beasts right now. All born by the same queen, 2 different litters, 1 year apart.
Fairly certain the father was different.
We started feeding the Mom, Lucky, a feral Calico who came along and was hunting in our yard and garden when she was just past being a true kitten, still pretty small.
She didn’t really want to get to know us. Lucky will occasionally sniff our finger when we feed her, but will absolutely not tolerate any attempt at touching. Roughly 1 year older than our beasts, she sadly is showing signs of nose cancer and has recently lost an eye.
We trapped her once after the third litter of kittens and got her fixed. She will not go near a trap now.
And so we care for her as best we can, respecting her right to exist as she wants. There is plenty of food here when she comes along, and sometimes she shelters under our breezeway, deck or under the little house our landlord built for his second wife.
Otherwise, she lives in a hay shed next door, I think.

 

[Ricardus]

Spike

 

[ryanosaur]

This is Lucky, Iggy and Poppy almost exactly 8 years ago:

Iggy, now (more or Less)...

And Poppy...

 

[ryanosaur]

There was a litter in between, but Lucky only brought them by here, once.
However, 1 year after Iggy and Poppy were brought to us, Lucky came back with these:

We affectionately called them the Hooligans.

The Calico kitten (Kali) escaped when we tried capturing her to get fixed. The black kitten (Lil Jax) had a neurological issue chalked up to wasting kitten syndrome and had to be put down (we tried saving her but she just wouldn't come around fully.)

Lucky we got fixed, along with the other two who subsequently adopted us.
Marmalade:

And Sparq:

And that's the Kitty family.

 

[Plcamp]

 

[Doodski]

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Such big ears.

 

[Plcamp]

His name is Elwood…he lives with his brother Jake. They are 75% Blue Abyssinian (Blues Brothers) and 25% Siamese. And great temperament.

They are my best buddies.

 

[Boris Badinov]

Pickles (L, my sidekick) and Romy (Romanov, the wandering dog)

 

[blueone]

I didn't want a cat; my wife did. But the cat really likes me, and there aren't all that many creatures on the planet that feel that way, so I've warmed up to Annie.

 

[ryanosaur]

I didn't want a cat; my wife did. But the cat really likes me, and there aren't all that many creatures on the planet that feel that way, so I've warmed up to Annie.

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That happens.

 

[levimax]

 

[Snoopy]