Pictures of my pet/s

[SandyB]

Nope Morag sleeps throught the night .. thats after playtime .. she just started with tina now .. growling and cajoling her into play ..  then its activity and then flop down ..

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

She's looking quite a bit bigger already. Granny D is collecting all these photo's.

[SandyB]

Yes growing .. gets lots of small meals througout the day .. and now she also doing a lot more  napping ..  supposed to be rest for growth after activity .. milk teeth starting to look  a bit raggedy  .. so  in the near future those sharp needlelike things will disapear and  no more painfull   chewing of the hands and ankles and toes ..

[Bertie Horak]

Remember, there's a tooth  for dogs too, hey!

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

@ Bertie Horak - Here's something you will laugh at, my gran who is 86 while in hospital, the side of her face was swollen and her sister who is about 78 said to her " Cath, is it not your wisdom tooth that is comming out 
Julie and I just lookied at each other and peed ourselves laughing.    Shame 78/86 and still waiting for their wisdom teeth.  202

[Bertie Horak]

@ Paula - 

I had a case of a lady who got a wisdom tooth at 76!  So don't laugh too hard!  Suddenly appeared under her denture!

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

  gosh she's a late developer 

My grans was a stone in her spit gland that actually worked it's way through her gum and popped out into her mouth?

[Bertie Horak]

@ Paula - I've seen that too - quite cool and easily removed with immediate relief!  It's called sialolithiasis - there's a new word for you?  Very common in the parotid gland (the one that swells when you have mumps).  Its duct opens in the cheek next to your first big top molar and is visible with the naked eye if you go look in the mirror.
Yeuch - what am I teaching you?

[Paula Gottsch (Willson)]

"Yeuch - what am I teaching you?"





"sialolithiasis" sounds like some or other STD!  (do you get danger pay?)

[SandyB]

Guess what auntie D ... Morag had her first swim today ... has been curious about the  fishpond especially  Shogun  the huge Koi .. this afternoon  leant  too  far forward  and sploosh in she went ..  immediately  went into doggy paddle mode ..  so at least she got natural instinct .. she has been playing all  over the garden .. gettting really dirty ...   .. a towell dry and she in fine form , in fact not even truamatised by her  adventure ..   Tina not in the mood for playing as she hurt a paw chasing after a cat   so she chasing us around and chewing feet ...

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

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[Cherry (Alcock)]

Had a very sad day yesterday; we had a cat here at the business school that wandered in and just adopted us.  We mooched food from various vets and he was well looked after and loved by most people here.  Yesterday we found him collapsed and screaming with pain and unable to walk as his back end didn't function.  Rushed him to a vet who diagnosed Saddle Thrombus; a blood clot that cuts off blood flow through the aorta and is usually indicative of heart disease.  We agreed that although it could be treated (expensively) it would recur and if it happened over a weekend for eg, he would be in terrible pain that it was kinder to put him down.  Very, very sad and real feeling of mourning at the school!  Hopefully, another feral cat will wander in from the V&A Waterfront and adopt us.

[SandyB]

Indeed sad  Cherry  , we  the ones who have to make the choice .. ..  years ago our  one male cat  Sylvester  had the same thing ..  cvame  home  and found him  back legs paralyzed  and yes  sreaming in pain.. rushed him to vet ..   they gave options  .. I took the one of trying .. one hell of a gamble ..  they put him on blod thinning  drip . for a couple of days  and  after two weeks of  stay at the vet I got him back ..  back legs still paralyzed  . but at least his  rear  section was  not  icy  cold  as  it  was when  the blood clot  struck ..   it took  almost  5 months of rehabilitaion  before he  walked properly again // every day  we lay him down and massaged  the  legs and then pushed them ..  meanwhile he was  quite happy  .. only  had to be  picked  up to  go up steps .. he would  drag  himself  around .. manageing to get up to do his  ablutions ..  mst amusing was the  going down the steps  .. one would  hear the  floppy  legs  going  doof  doof as he went down .. when  he needed to  come  back insde  he would simply call   . if  no  reponse he  would  go into the  small  kennel we put  outside  for shelter .. anyhow  therapy  slowly became  short  wobbly  walks   between  two  people  and  then   one day he did the  surprise thing  and  got up and  walked  without prompting  wobbly  but  within a week got all the  muscles and  nerves talking  to  each other properly ..  Cherry  you took the   best choice there  what we  did was  not  easy  and lots of days we  felt despondent  and  wondered if we had made the right choice ..  but  yes  thats life   we  make  choices  and take  gambles .. some  pay off  some  dont ..

[Michael Alexander]

Wayne WIlson asked me to put the following images up for him, not sure if these are his pets or what, but here you go Wayne...add your comments....   

[Michael Alexander]

With some comments..."am going to send you a few pics of my latest children,i spend about 3hrs a day with them,hope you are getting some of the emails that i am sending you,regards WAYNE WILSON."