Pets

Nikon Nick · Mar 16, 2009

Hobbes said:
Lazy or not she is still a very adorable cat with a funny expression on her face as if she wasn't very happy to see you taking a picture of her lol. btw why did you name a female cat Oliver?

Interesting story behind that one. When my roommate and I went to get kittens, we told the guy we wanted a male ones. So here's Oliver, I didn't think to look myself. Even the vet didn't check. Then the other cat started growing some balls, buy Olly wasn't. So I checked and WOLLA, girl!

But I've called her Oliver for so long, and it's on her vet papers, lol. I figured if you can name a human male Ashley or Lindsay, I can call my female cat Oliver. :mrgreen:

niforpix · Mar 16, 2009

Hobbes · Mar 17, 2009

Nikon Nick said:
Interesting story behind that one. When my roommate and I went to get kittens, we told the guy we wanted a male ones. So here's Oliver, I didn't think to look myself. Even the vet didn't check. Then the other cat started growing some balls, buy Olly wasn't. So I checked and WOLLA, girl!

But I've called her Oliver for so long, and it's on her vet papers, lol. I figured if you can name a human male Ashley or Lindsay, I can call my female cat Oliver. :mrgreen:

Well personally I actually prefer female cats because they don't get into fight with other cats as often and if they loose a fight they wouldn't run away because they lost their territory lol at least that's what I have heard. lmfao at the comment about male cats growing balls hahaha! At least cats are better at hiding their wangs than dogs lol. Well I still don't get how and why some men have those female names it's not there's anything wrong with having female names but just imaging all the kids making fun of you at school because you have a weird name.

niforpix said:

hahaha! I love to watch cats sleeping course they always keep rolling around trying to get in a more comfortable position or something lol and that cat of yours looks like it got a beard growing under it's chin and it was smiling hahaha

Crazydad · Mar 18, 2009

Here is Thor, the luckiest dog in the world, after his back surgery. Truely a miracle he is still here with us.

Last week, he hurt his back and moving slow, so we took him to the vet and he gave us some meds and told us to watch him carefully. We did so and on Thursday night he was not moving his back legs at all so my wife took him to the emergency vet. They told us he had no deep-tissue pain response (squeezing his pads with clamps) and if he had surgery ($3000+), there was only a 10-20% chance he would ever walk again.

We agonized all night about what to do. Since money is very tight and the odds of recovery were so low, we had made the decision to put him down. Friday morning, the kids all said their goodbyes and we took him to our vet to be euthanized. Our vet did one last check of his pain response and Thor definitely responded. We were referred to an orthopedic vet (didn't know they had those) and after examining Thor, he said there was a 90% chance of recovery. So we went ahead and borrowed the money.

Hard to think he was minutes away from death.

Fraggo · Mar 19, 2009

Crazydad said:
Here is Thor, the luckiest dog in the world, after his back surgery. Truely a miracle he is still here with us.

Last week, he hurt his back and moving slow, so we took him to the vet and he gave us some meds and told us to watch him carefully. We did so and on Thursday night he was not moving his back legs at all so my wife took him to the emergency vet. They told us he had no deep-tissue pain response (squeezing his pads with clamps) and if he had surgery ($3000+), there was only a 10-20% chance he would ever walk again.

We agonized all night about what to do. Since money is very tight and the odds of recovery were so low, we had made the decision to put him down. Friday morning, the kids all said their goodbyes and we took him to our vet to be euthanized. Our vet did one last check of his pain response and Thor definitely responded. We were referred to an orthopedic vet (didn't know they had those) and after examining Thor, he said there was a 90% chance of recovery. So we went ahead and borrowed the money.

Hard to think he was minutes away from death.

I am so glad your puppy is doing much better and is still with us. I do hope he continues to get better and more active.

Crazydad · Mar 19, 2009

Fraggo said:
I am so glad your puppy is doing much better and is still with us. I do hope he continues to get better and more active.

Thanks for the good thoughts. The vet said it would be anywhere from 2-4 weeks before he started moving around and up to 6 months before he is back to his old self.