Another pet thread

[Eos]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: eos
More:

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/colin-m/Cats/DSC00098.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/colin-m/Cats/kleo-dof.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/...n-m/Cats/2004-12-26-close-paw01-lg.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g229/colin-m/Cats/2004-12-26-caeser-03-md.jpg

That' 4th picture - his mouth looks weird. But, he's a sharp looking cat (caeser hi picture)

Thanks. He was mid yawn when the shutter opened up.

 

[DrPizza]

HomeBrewerDude... can I borrow your cat for a week or two? Ours has gotten quite lazy. Our golden retriever has caught far more mice than the cat has. I'm sure I've got more that need to be killed.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
HomeBrewerDude... can I borrow your cat for a week or two? Ours has gotten quite lazy. Our golden retriever has caught far more mice than the cat has. I'm sure I've got more that need to be killed.

heheh, she would be happy with that arrangement.

do you get milk from the goats?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude

Originally posted by: DrPizza
HomeBrewerDude... can I borrow your cat for a week or two? Ours has gotten quite lazy. Our golden retriever has caught far more mice than the cat has. I'm sure I've got more that need to be killed.

heheh, she would be happy with that arrangement.

do you get milk from the goats?

Well, actually, the two goats (Heart and Droopy) were bought on a whim for that purpose. My wife and I were at a livestock auction, a few nubians (breed of goat) came up for sale. Before the bidding had ended on one of them (Droopy), we had discussed, "hey, why not try raising 4 or 5 of them for milk - we could make goat cheese (one of our friends had given us some on a few occasions - it was excellent) and goat soap.

Saw 2 rats in our barn tonight - darn it. I thought they were all dead. Set out more poison. It's scary using poison - if a rat is carrying a piece through an area where the other animals can get to it, and gets startled, I could end up with a very sick pet. It's next to impossible to avoid rodents on a farm. We went a whole year without a single one, now it's a pita to get rid of them.

 

[DrPizza]

Re: pot bellied pig in an apartment: I couldn't say for certain as I've never raised a pot-bellied pig before. They're pretty easy to care for. Pigs (despite what most people think) prefer to stay relatively clean. The reason people see them wallowing around in mud is to cool off (they don't sweat). We have one pig, approaching 500 pounds. She used to dump her feed and water trough into the hay and roll around in it, making a huge mess. After I started giving her a couple of cold showers when it was really hot out, she quit doing it. She wasn't trained to, but always does her business in the same place. The only warning I'd give about pot-bellied pigs is that you have to be VERY VERY strict with what you feed them. They will easily grow to be several hundred pounds. (I saw two pot-bellied pigs at auction; the auctioneer started at 100 apiece and was laughing... in the end, it dropped down to 50 cents for the pair and the place was rolling with laughter. They both had to be 300 pounds. Whoever owned them thought he was getting rid of them... no luck for him.