OT - Pictures of Pets (2023)

BeanHead

@johnmitchell she is always snooting around under the eggs, occasionally trying to even eat small bits of charcoal 🤢. And yes, @Gulfcoastguy she would at least have it pulled off into the woods and mostly consumed by the time I extracted her. 

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

Today’s pic of Otto, courtesy of his handlers at the doggy daycare joint:

Looks like he’s in the penalty box!

Gulfcoastguy

Got my doodle his summer shave today. A new groomer I would have left a bit more on the top of his head but not bad overall.

hoosier_egger

On watch duty

BeanHead

As always Lewis is super hopeful she will get a snack from the BGE. Tonight it might be a sticky guava chicken thigh….

hoosier_egger

The daycare opened their pool today. He must have spent a lot of time in it. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Not mine, but they were at a shop today I stopped in. 5 month old pups.

Gulfcoastguy

Made an appointment for my Sheepadoodle tomorrow a.m. The yearly shots and exam.  Dr Vetstein will bug me to whack his nads off again. I still don’t see the need for it even at 2 1/3 years old.

alaskanassasin

DoubleEgger

fishlessman

Gulfcoastguy said:

Made an appointment for my Sheepadoodle tomorrow a.m. The yearly shots and exam.  Dr Vetstein will bug me to whack his nads off again. I still don’t see the need for it even at 2 1/3 years old.

My older pup will be14yo next month, it's not happening

alaskanassasin

They gave my pup the Covid vaccine among others…

BeanHead

Stuffed this woodpecker yesterday for the museum collection. It was killed by a cat. PSA if you have cats keep them inside and away from wildlife. OMG the stitching I needed to do to keep its wings and head on… glad it will make it to the museum not the trash with the damage. 

Gulfcoastguy

I initially took “stuffed “ the wrong way. 

JohnInCarolina

BeanHead said:

Stuffed this woodpecker yesterday for the museum collection. 

Time and temp?

BeanHead

Time and temp?

Killed on 4/24 at three in the afternoon, so in Texas I would guess 87° indirect for 30min before it was tossed in the freezer. Also no rot smell so props for a quick freeze. 

dbCooper

Earlier today, a wore out hound dog . . .

Ike

BeanHead said:

Stuffed this woodpecker yesterday for the museum collection. It was killed by a cat. PSA if you have cats keep them inside and away from wildlife. OMG the stitching I needed to do to keep its wings and head on… glad it will make it to the museum not the trash with the damage. 

We saw a cardinal laying in the road about 30 years ago.  I told my wife how awesome it would be to get it stuffed and mount it on a tree.  She got  out and got it and said it wasn't hurt, I said the sob is dead, to which we both laughed.

We took it home, wrapped it and put it and put it the freezer.  Everytime someone would come over, we would come over we would tell them that story and would laugh about us having a dead bird in our freezer, until about 5 or 6 years later someone told us that a taxidermist wouldn't  touch because it was the 'State Bird' and he and we would both get in trouble.

You can take a city boy out the city, but that doesn't make him country.

BeanHead

Great story (and wife)! 

DoubleEgger

Nice morning to be chilling on the retaining wall. 

zaphod

Ike said:

We saw a cardinal laying in the road about 30 years ago.  I told my wife how awesome it would be to get it stuffed and mount it on a tree.  She got  out and got it and said it wasn't hurt, I said the sob is dead, to which we both laughed.

when we cleaned the windows, this year, we didn't do the insides of the main level but still got some bird strikes on the clean glass.  One when we were standing right by the big kitchen window. looked out on the lawn and saw a starling all bent up lying there. looked later and he was gone. "Not dead yet" sort of thing.

When we cleaned the insides a week later we saw a big  smudge on the outside shaped just like that bent up starling i spotted on the lawn. That was a hell of a hit.

fishlessman

DoubleEgger said:

Nice morning to be chilling on the retaining wall. 

thats weird, i saw my first box turtle yesterday crossing the road. an elderly couple stopped and was helping it get to the other side. just dont see those up here, never saw one before

hoosier_egger

fishlessman said:

DoubleEgger said:

Nice morning to be chilling on the retaining wall. 

thats weird, i saw my first box turtle yesterday crossing the road. an elderly couple stopped and was helping it get to the other side. just dont see those up here, never saw one before

There’s definitely a turtle saving season here in Indiana. Fun fact, always place a box turtle on the other side of the road in the direction it was headed. They only roam about 1sq mile. Also, don’t relocate them. It screws up their Waze

Gulfcoastguy

I think that they are usually looking for a lady turtle. Or maybe they are leaving one?

Legume

Only the males walk around?

BeanHead

The females walk around to find a place to lay eggs. 

Gulfcoastguy

Yep the males just smash and dash.

DoubleEgger

BeanHead said:

The females walk around to find a place to lay eggs. 

The wife and I saw one laying eggs underneath a Hick’s Yew hedge in our yard last year. It was really cool. 

shtgunal3

Gulfcoastguy said:

Yep the males just smash and dash.

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