Kevin's Watch

We have new additions to the menagerie,2 Russian Tortoises.They are 8 years old,but have an average lifespan of 50 years,they are yet to be named as they will be presented to the rest of the family on Christmas morning.My wife and I have built a 5x5 enviroment for them out of an old bookshelf positioned on its back lined with linoleum with a layer of sand and dirt,burrows made of flower pots,a small pool made of a meat tray,several rocks,and a heat lamp.This in addition to 3 cats,my fat black lab Marcie,and our puppy Shrek.Thankfully the shelled guys eat turnip greens,dandelions and such as that stuff is much cheaper than a 50lb bag of dog food every few weeks.Pics to follow.I am sure that there is already a pet thread,but well here is another.

HOW COOL! Can you post some pictures of them?

my surviving cat, Raymond Denmark

Aww...he's a cutie Lucimay!

thanks! he is cute isn't he? doesn't he look like a kitten still? that cat is 13 years old!!!

Our 9 year old cat, Patton.

My brothers cat, Uzi, is 17 years old! Your cat is a cuties, Luci!

our dog Sonny

All pets are cute!! I have a pic of my dog, Baxter in the album!

My rat Firecracker.

My other rat, Kitty.

dlbpharmd wrote:Our 9 year old cat, Patton.

Wow! He must be related to Sybil. She's fatter but other than that......

Here's my 4 year old cat, Ariel. She's showing poor table manners.

our dog Sonny with his new bone

Haley as a kitten (she's 18 months now). Doesn't she have the most interesting patterns of stripes and swirls?



My roommate's cat Maia (left) and Haley together.

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Thankfully the shelled guys eat turnip greens, dandelions and such as that stuff is much cheaper than a 50lb bag of dog food every few weeks.

WTF? No wonder you keep inviting me over! Well, you can forget it now, bud!

We have two kitties again, now. Morgan (aka the Lady Morgana) is almost two. She's all white except for one or two grey hairs on top of her head.

Last weekend, we adopted Tom (aka Piglet) from the local shelter. He's five months old, mostly black except for a white patch down his nose, on his chest and tummy, and nearly all of his toes. He's a cuddle-cat, very sweet. Right now he's got an eye infection, so he's quickly learning the joys of having goop squirted on his eyeballs three times a day. Poor guy.

I'll try to talk Batty into posting pics. She's far more technologically advanced than I am....

The girls also received a pair of hairless rats as Christmas gifts this year. I am not fully onboard with the idea of rats...so Batty took 'em back to school with her. As long as the RA doesn't find out, everything will be cool.

dANdeLION wrote:

Sunbaneglasses wrote:Thankfully the shelled guys eat turnip greens, dandelions and such as that stuff is much cheaper than a 50lb bag of dog food every few weeks.

WTF? No wonder you keep inviting me over! Well, you can forget it now, bud!

Naw,they much prefer the tender,green shoots to the tough old greens.

Marcie,5 yr old black lab,good dog:


Shrek,about 3 and a half months old,found in Walmart parking lot starving at a few weeks old(after worming,lots of puppy food and scraps he is now quite fat).Good dog:


Shelly and Sherman,Russian Tortoises:


Smoke,Pumpkin,and Bob,the porch cats:

Aww. . . looks like you have a nice menagerie there, SBG! I love all animals, but am espcially partial to cats. Bob is a girl, right? I understand that the gene that makes cats calico almost never is carried on the Y chromosome.

Anyway, darling pets you have there!