It’s always so “NICE” when the cats ‘HELP’ with the sewing! I love the way they hold the patterns down for you – not necessarily where you want them – but held down nevertheless.
I also had the dogs ‘HELPING’ with the vegie garden protection scheme!
I love them all to bits but just sometimes …..
i can sit in my hothouse and look out now (new clear polycarb walling).
guess who is busy just outside ?
- its willy wagtail – going from here to there and catching a dozen small somethings while i watch.
go willy – best insecticide a gardener could have.
I have a dog that is a fully qualified concrete retension technician.
Ever since we got him none of our concrete has escaped.
We don’t willys (willies?) in our yard very often. Not enough open space. I have put a bird bath (bad place probably on the corner of my veg patch; but right outside the lounge room window). There has been a willy come in every so often in the afternoon for a bit of a splash.
We have a pardalote couple in the back yard. About the size of a man’s thumb, but a voice like a opera singer. You can hear them over the traffic and the crows. Same three notes all day long – pip-de-peep, pip-de-peep. Cute, but bl**dy annoying after a while. They eat gum tree aphids or something of that nature – sap suckers that live on gum trees.
I think when I eventually get the front end planted with more grasses and flowers the smaller birds will come.
Oh nothing like a spare paw to give a person a hand. Love it when making a bed as we love to plat parachutes as I spread the sheet up in the air.
Or sort out a cupboard and we work out where everything needs to go.:D
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Longy said:
I have a dog that is a fully qualified concrete retension technician.
Ever since we got him none of our concrete has escaped.
Oh that is just so cute.
Ducks are great helper if you have a shovel or garden fork in your hand. I so have to watch it, when turning compost….just don’t want to stick a garden fork through a friendly webbed foot:(
Clancy loves to stand on top of the compost heap when I am turning it……LOL
Actually the dogs are the quality controllers. They watch VERY CLOSELY everything that is done to make sure it is up to standard.
Crinkle said:
Actually the dogs are the quality controllers. They watch VERY CLOSELY everything that is done to make sure it is up to standard.
Had to pop the cats into our bedroom today……… they knew too much about antenna stuff and the guy felt threatened…..LOL
Crinkle said:
Actually the dogs are the quality controllers. They watch VERY CLOSELY everything that is done to make sure it is up to standard.
dont think my cattle dog does that likes his bed and to watch the goats alot. Don’t think he likes my chooks. He hasn’t been near there pen yet. but they been in the house paddock near him dont think he minds.
I just had one of the feline helpers helping me on the keyboard of the computer. Problem is she can’t schpell viry will.
Lucky1 said:
Crinkle said:
Actually the dogs are the quality controllers. They watch VERY CLOSELY everything that is done to make sure it is up to standard.
Had to pop the cats into our bedroom today……… they knew too much about antenna stuff and the guy felt threatened…..LOL
ROFL!!
Crinkle said:
I just had one of the feline helpers helping me on the keyboard of the computer. Problem is she can’t schpell viry will.
Im not a kiwi but no kiwi jokes
Longy said:
I have a dog that is a fully qualified concrete retension technician.
Ever since we got him none of our concrete has escaped.
Well ours has been trained to keep elephants away. She is very good at it too. We have never seen an elephant.
Hahaha
Our cat helps with the vacuuming. She crawls under the quilt and makes sure the sheets don’t get sucked up ;-)
Isn’t it amazing, no matter where they are they have the same conscientious duty to service!
pomolo said:
Longy said:
I have a dog that is a fully qualified concrete retension technician.
Ever since we got him none of our concrete has escaped.
Well ours has been trained to keep elephants away. She is very good at it too. We have never seen an elephant.
SueBk said:
Our cat helps with the vacuuming. She crawls under the quilt and makes sure the sheets don’t get sucked up ;-)
LOL, what would you do without her !
Harley & Rebel helping me survive a hot day in front of the a/c
Harley making sure Abby doesn’t fart in my face…….. what a trooper he is..
Harley & Lucky making sure the blanket doesn’t fall off the lounge.
Lucky1 said:
Harley & Rebel helping me survive a hot day in front of the a/c
When we moved the kitchen (we swapped the kitchen and dining rooms around) Smoosh made sure we put everything back in the right cupboards.
Somewhere I’ve also got a photo of her making sure the sink has been washed out properly.
Like every good friend should! Harley is a gorgeous looking cat; and obviously has a wonderfully friend spirit to match ;-)
Lucky1 said:
Harley & Rebel helping me survive a hot day in front of the a/c
I can’t quite see you there, Lucky, but Harley and Rebel look worn out so they must have been helping you heaps.
Lucky1 said:
Harley making sure Abby doesn’t fart in my face…….. what a trooper he is..
ROTFPIMP!
SueBk said:
Like every good friend should! Harley is a gorgeous looking cat; and obviously has a wonderfully friend spirit to match ;-)
Oh he’s adorable….. daddy’s little faithful boy:) Helps make me a cuppa every night.
I can’t quite see you there, Lucky, but Harley and Rebel look worn out so they must have been helping you heaps.
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yeah they were on their lunch break……
Little Millie picking out the spuds for tea that night.
Lucky1 said:
I can’t quite see you there, Lucky, but Harley and Rebel look worn out so they must have been helping you heaps.
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yeah they were on their lunch break……
Oh you guys are cracking me up ……………….
A baby Millie putting her Poppy to good use.
Lucky1 said:
Oh nothing like a spare paw to give a person a hand. Love it when making a bed as we love to plat parachutes as I spread the sheet up in the air.Or sort out a cupboard and we work out where everything needs to go.:D
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Timmy loves bed making too.
Millie learning to knit….
Cadbury making love to her ice brick…… while scaring her mum to death.
Bubba Louie said:
Lucky1 said:
Oh nothing like a spare paw to give a person a hand. Love it when making a bed as we love to plat parachutes as I spread the sheet up in the air.Or sort out a cupboard and we work out where everything needs to go.:D
I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Timmy loves bed making too.
How beautiful our little helper are…….
Slackers…… must be Rebel’s & Lucky’s RDO
lol you guys are making me Laugh.
Our cat (Smoosh, because she’s so smooshable) is a wonderful guard cat. It’s a bit hard to capture in a photo though. If you haven’t visited at least three or four times you would never know we even owned a cat. She feels its her duty to protect our belongings, so hides under the quilt or in the bookcase to stop would be thieves.
If she happens to be outside in her cage when newcomers arrive she bolts back through the kitty door at a million miles an hour; checks over her shoulder; and then heads for which ever valuable she’s protecting today.
Of course, there are some false alarms with garbage trucks.
Making fur, so mum needs to clean again…….bad helpers
My budgie helped me today. He watched me vacuum up all his seed husks and feathers from the floor under his cage. Then he turned into a whirling dervish and laid a whole new carpet of clean white feathers down.
Little Darling :)
I think Millie knits as well as my purries spell. Actually my purries are Pepper, a tortoise shell and Phranc, black and white. Phranc is short for ‘Frankly my dear I don’t give a dam’ !!
orchid40 said:
My budgie helped me today. He watched me vacuum up all his seed husks and feathers from the floor under his cage. Then he turned into a whirling dervish and laid a whole new carpet of clean white feathers down.
Little Darling :)
ROTFL…. our budge now called “Rocky” does that too…….far too often if you ask me. Threatened to vac him up today.
Crinkle said:
I think Millie knits as well as my purries spell. Actually my purries are Pepper, a tortoise shell and Phranc, black and white. Phranc is short for ‘Frankly my dear I don’t give a dam’ !!
LOL, I love it!! Phranc, I mean.
I had a Cadbury. Another tortoise shell. Lived to 16.
Lucky1 said:
orchid40 said:
My budgie helped me today. He watched me vacuum up all his seed husks and feathers from the floor under his cage. Then he turned into a whirling dervish and laid a whole new carpet of clean white feathers down.
Little Darling :)
ROTFL…. our budge now called “Rocky” does that too…….far too often if you ask me. Threatened to vac him up today.
I threatened to put Chalky outside for the butcher birds.
Have you noticed how much joy our helpers have brought to us here???
Having animals or helper, furkids or feather kids…brings so much joy to what can be a sad world to a person.
Makes them such wonderfully loved helpers in my books:D
pomolo said:
Longy said:
I have a dog that is a fully qualified concrete retension technician.
Ever since we got him none of our concrete has escaped.
Well ours has been trained to keep elephants away. She is very good at it too. We have never seen an elephant.
I just had this mental image of Zeezee chasing marauding elephants.
This is Timmy and Youngest Son.
Bubba Louie said:
pomolo said:
Longy said:
I have a dog that is a fully qualified concrete retension technician.
Ever since we got him none of our concrete has escaped.
Well ours has been trained to keep elephants away. She is very good at it too. We have never seen an elephant.
I just had this mental image of Zeezee chasing marauding elephants.
You know size isn’t everything!
your cat looks like toby seamouse :) the cat dislikes me.
OOO which one is Timmy? Just joking.
SueBk said:
Our cat (Smoosh, because she’s so smooshable) is a wonderful guard cat. It’s a bit hard to capture in a photo though. If you haven’t visited at least three or four times you would never know we even owned a cat. She feels its her duty to protect our belongings, so hides under the quilt or in the bookcase to stop would be thieves.If she happens to be outside in her cage when newcomers arrive she bolts back through the kitty door at a million miles an hour; checks over her shoulder; and then heads for which ever valuable she’s protecting today.
Of course, there are some false alarms with garbage trucks.
Timmy’s a bit like that with strangers but once he knows you watch out. He loves it when we have a houseful of son’s mates sleeping over, lots of beds to choose from.
Miss Kitty.
We didn’t plan on having two cats but when Mum went into a home we took her. She lives a life of luxury because my sisters agreed to put some money aside from Mum’s estate to help care for her. She gets twice yearly geriatric checks with a cat specialist and recently had two teeth pulled and the rest cleaned. She’s about 13 but you’d never know it, the vet says she as fit as a cat half that age.
Someone must have wanted there photo take while you where out in the garden.
She gets twice yearly geriatric checks with a cat specialist and recently had two teeth pulled and the rest cleaned. She’s about 13 but you’d never know it, the vet says she as fit as a cat half that age.
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More than likely why she is so fit and healthy….. good clean living:D
Miss Kitty is beautiful.
Lucky1 said:
She gets twice yearly geriatric checks with a cat specialist and recently had two teeth pulled and the rest cleaned. She’s about 13 but you’d never know it, the vet says she as fit as a cat half that age.
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More than likely why she is so fit and healthy….. good clean living:D
Lucky1 said:
Have you noticed how much joy our helpers have brought to us here???Having animals or helper, furkids or feather kids…brings so much joy to what can be a sad world to a person.
Makes them such wonderfully loved helpers in my books:D
The Man doesn’t like cats. In fact, when we were in Perth, he tried to talk me out of wanting a cat by getting me two rabbits. I hated those monsters. Then we had a border who came with a cat; a cat that had personality and then some. (Used to fetch balls of paper; in fact scrunching up a piece of paper would bring him running.) Then we had the disaster cats. I wanted one, he got two; it didn’t work.
The Man has maintained all along he doesn’t like cats, but reluctantly agreed with me that the house seemed unusually quiet without one.
Now, who is it that feeds her bits of prawns and fish AT THE TABLE? Who is it that picks her up and has face-to-face, heart-to-hearts? Who was it that first turned a tap on for her, so that now she won’t drink still water? Not me. But he still doesn’t like cats ;-)
I am grateful that Smoosh doesn’t help me sew. She does test the ‘snug-ability’ of quilts once they’re finished; but two cats mentioned used to test the resilience of the wadding. They never twigged that wadding isn’t actually very resilient, and it will generally fall apart very easily when examined with claws and teeth. And Mum hates unpicking her quilting to re-wadd almost finished quilts!
Smoosh does help supervise my gardening from her cage. And she regularly checks whether the herbs are still okay. Think she’s a bit put out that the coriander has decided to fall AWAY from the cage instead towards it. She’s not real good at scaring away the birds though. Earlier in the year we had a flock of maggies (think we counted 14 one day) that used to come for tid-bits. They’re shocking teases; they’d land on top of her cage and she would pelt out of there in a big hurry.
Crinkle said:
Miss Kitty is beautiful.
She has what one boarding cattery politely calls “an attitude”. LOL
Really it’s all bluff but she scares a lot of people off. She’ll roll over onto her back and hiss if she doesn’t want to move or be picked up. I just picked her up the first time she tried it on here and gave her a little shake and a severe talking to. Now I’m top cat and she loves me but if anyone hesitates she thinks she’s won and they’ve had it.
Pretty funny to watch really.
Then we had the disaster cats. I wanted one, he got two; it didn’t work.
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Miss Kitty and Timmy don’t get along at all. They have some very vocal fights under the door with her squeezing a leg under to take swipes. Luckily we have two levels with a door at the top of the stairwell.
Goodness knows what we’ll do if they’re both still above ground when we relocate in a few years.
Ours got along just fine. They loved each other and hated us. One of them I’d corner in the laundry tub and pat and pat and pat. He would purr like mad; but hunker down and bolt at the first chance. They were called Brahms and Wagner (our names) and boy did we pick it. Brahms was really quiet and super shy; Wagner used to make a fearful racket to get what he wanted, and was really really pushy.
One of our current cat’s ‘tricks’, which grosses most people out, is she likes to find out what you’ve been eating. She came up to me one day and put her nose right in my face; I opened my mouth trying to avoid being licked. She didn’t actually want to lick, she just wanted to sniff. She puts as much of her snout as possible in my mouth and has a good sniff. Its very hard not to laugh; but if you do you end up with mouthful of cat. And if you don’t open your mouth you get a nose kiss – urgh. I prefer to open my mouth.
SueBk said:
Ours got along just fine. They loved each other and hated us. One of them I’d corner in the laundry tub and pat and pat and pat. He would purr like mad; but hunker down and bolt at the first chance. They were called Brahms and Wagner (our names) and boy did we pick it. Brahms was really quiet and super shy; Wagner used to make a fearful racket to get what he wanted, and was really really pushy.One of our current cat’s ‘tricks’, which grosses most people out, is she likes to find out what you’ve been eating. She came up to me one day and put her nose right in my face; I opened my mouth trying to avoid being licked. She didn’t actually want to lick, she just wanted to sniff. She puts as much of her snout as possible in my mouth and has a good sniff. Its very hard not to laugh; but if you do you end up with mouthful of cat. And if you don’t open your mouth you get a nose kiss – urgh. I prefer to open my mouth.
Timmy head butts when he’s affectionate but Miss Kitty drools, the happier she is the wetter your lap.LOL
She even started sucking youngest son’s finger. Big baby. :)
Miss Kitty.
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She still knows how to suck humans right in too.
Ok, lets see if I have this piccie thing down pat, it’s been a while.
My ‘editor’ checking over my work to see if it’s suitable for the eyes of the forumites.
hortfurball said:
Ok, lets see if I have this piccie thing down pat, it’s been a while.
My ‘editor’ checking over my work to see if it’s suitable for the eyes of the forumites.
lol horty.
LOL Horty thats a great pic :)
Great study of your editor, Horty!
Oh how cute is that editor???? Certanly take the job seriously.
lol thee where you get them from?
My pets ??
The Estate said:
Very cute TheE. One is a Pomeranian but what is the other breed you have there?
half pug and half shit-zoo LOL
Hi thee……cute little helpers:D
Lucky1 said:
Hi thee……cute little helpers:D
Thanks Lucky I have really enjoyed looking at all the critters even if they do fart !!
The Estate said:
Lucky1 said:
Hi thee……cute little helpers:D
Thanks Lucky I have really enjoyed looking at all the critters even if they do fart !!
better go find a pic of me pussy LOL
Looks good Thee.
Hello Cocky!!!!
Lucky1 said:
Hello Cocky!!!!
who’s a pretty boy then LOL
Wonderful photos TheE
The Estate said:
half pug and half shit-zoo LOL
Thanks.
A handsome galah. I love them because they are such galahs.
Millie is home and has had her dinner.:)
pomolo said:
A handsome galah. I love them because they are such galahs.
True, but Nigel like to bite, must have a bit of canninball in him LOL, he is such a caracter when he gets yappin …….
