Comments on: Pets don’t always win prizes

By: Pet Monologues

Pet Monologues — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:01:12 +0000

Caw to art! #2…

Caw to art! is an effort to showcase pets and animals in an ARTFUL manner. A photograph, fine art, a scribble, sculpture. A poem, a monologue, a short story, motion.
Submissions
Resonant Enigma submits Meh-heh-heh
Tom Varisco Designs submits “Ber…

By: brom

brom — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:41:01 +0000

We have a new pig.(Latest posting on my Flickr, via the blog) The weather is so bad that she is spending her quarantine in with us!

A friend of a friend decided it was a good idea to get some pigeons to live around his house. After a few cycles of breeding the things were becoming a pain. So, he caught them all, took them to London and let them go in Trafalgar Square on his way to work. Lunchtime he gets a call from his wife… “I thought you were taking those pigeons today”

By: Beta Mum

Beta Mum — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:57:47 +0000

M&M (I prefer Smarties) - Hannah wants a horse. She says it can live in the shed and eat the tiny patch of grass. I quite like cats but Mike doesn’t.
And now we have guinea pigs we have to think of their safety!

Scruffy Mummy - actually one of our guineas is more terrified of life than the other. But luckily Hannah has taken over that one, while Ben roughs it up with the braver one. So they do get equal attention.

By: Scruffy Mummy

Scruffy Mummy — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:44:46 +0000

I think there is something werid about pets in the city frankly!! It should be outlawed - particuarly those horrible pit bull things - one savaged a cat near my house and I saw another lunge at a lovely guide dog! I think the city and it’s restrictions drive animals mad - there isn’t enough space for territorial animals!

Guinea Pigs are strange creatures - a friend of mine has two and one is ok but the other one is really introverted and strange. We’ve nicknamed it the socially excluded one - because it’s strange behaviour is just leading it to be rejected and socially excluded by her daugher and all her daughters friends who continually pet and play with the other one. So poor little ’social exclusion’ is getting even werider!

By: Mutterings & Meanderings

Mutterings & Meanderings — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:11:01 +0000

You need to get big, proper pets…

I have a horse and two cats. Wouldn’t be without them.

By: Beta Mum

Beta Mum — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:37:21 +0000

Omega Mum - thanks for your kind comments.

I did think of including another tale I heard of a hamster that was buried becuse the owner thought it was dead, which then dug its way out. It was only hibernating.
But I’ve heard this before and reckon it’s apocryphal.
Like the ice cream van story, it always begins “a friend of mine….”

Dulwich Mummy - we’ve just acquired some sea monkeys - another thoughtful birthday present for my daughter.
We’ve put the eggs in and it says on the packet “if you’re over 35 you should use a magnifying glass to see them, until they grow bigger.”
What kind of bloody pet is that?!

By: dulwichmum

dulwichmum — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:33:56 +0000

I am not kidding, I have had enough of this entire pet business. I had to get rid of my darling “Krug” Persian cat because he was constantly releasing cute field mice, frogs and pigeons into the house (also he destroyed the roof of my husbands soft top car with his tallons), upsetting our super au pair. Now I am left with a window ledge full of ’sea monkeys’, a worm farm, and an ant farm. When will this torture end?

I hear good boarding schools admit at seven? Roll on Winchester I say…

By: Omega Mummy

Omega Mummy — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:20:43 +0000

I’m enjoying your blog no end and reckoned you had to a writer…..so was pleased to be proved right.

One of my friends works in a vet’s surgery. If you think bad things happen to pets at home, she’s got several tales involving cats in the freezer and hamsters fished out of waste bins that make entertaining listening.