Conference vaxcat::friends

    
    Ok, I'll start it off, but you really had to be there to appreciate 
    this one.  If only I had a video camera this day.  
    
    Tom and I were in the yard raking leaves.  We have alot of leaves and
    the piles get pretty high.   Our neighbor had a golden retreiver and we
    have an adopted golden.  The dogs were being their usual selves and
    running around the yard playing tackle, when the neighbors dog starting
    from across the yard, ran full blast and leaped into a pile of leaves
    and disappeared.  Our golden just stood there in amazement, "where did
    she go?"   About 10 seconds later she came blasting out of the other
    side of the pile, but it really was the funniest thing.  
    
    Wen

    
    	MISERY---Tamey's pot-bellied pig--- was spoiled.  He used to sit
    	at the refrigerator door and beg for grapes...
    
    	Well, one day he got into the trash in the kitchen and I yelled
    	at him to go to his room...his room being the bathroom... so off
    	he trotted!  He was real quiet so I figured he was asleep or 
    	pouting so I went to check on him and the sight was comical.  There
    	he was, this 70 pound black pig sitting in the middle of the 
    	bathroom totally wrapped in toilet paper... he went and unrolled
    	the toilet paper just like a 2-yr old would... hehehehe....I went
    	to get my camera but he got up and ran after me before I could snap
    	the pic.  

    
    
    	I was sitting down in the kitchen of my parents house during a
    really bad ice-storm one night. Just outside the window in the kitchen
    is a bird feeder. Now the cats had a habit of jumping from the deck
    onto the birdfeeder and meowing to be let in through the window (which
    we did). Well, one of the cats was still outside during this storm and
    decided he wanted in. All I saw from the kitchen table was just a flash
    of white (white cat) as the cat slid off the icy roof of the birdfeeder
    and into the side of the brick chimney.
    
    	laughed so hard my stomach hurt for the whole night...
    
    
    chico

We had ducks for a couple of years and the kids really enjoyed them. They used
to follow us around the yard. One day we were sitting at the kitchen table and
the ducks decided to get up on the front steps and peck at the screen and quack.
My daughter let them in and they trooped through the house to the dogs' water
dish (a rectangular plastic basin) and promptly got a drink. Eventually one
climbed in and "bathed". Once they were done they curled up near the sink and
kept an eye on the dish. The dogs and cats never bothered them and they didn't
back down for each other. It got to be a regular thing for them to come
"knocking" at the door once they realized that the dogs had fresh water inside.
The other funny habit was that I could quack and call them. If they were off in
the woods foraging I could quack and they'd come back (I used to do it when I
fed them). When it started getting light in the morning and I'd be getting up
for work, if I coughed or made too much noise, they'd start quacking until I
went down and fed them. I miss the ducks...

CM

    
    	We used to have a chicken and she didn't know she was a chicken.
    	Her name was Henrietta!  When we fed the dogs and cats, we'd call
    	them and she'd come running across the yard and eat too.  She liked
    	their food!  Then when we fed the horse, she'd run down there with
    	us and eat Starbuck's food too!  In the winter we'd find her curled
    	up in the old shed with the dogs and cats...ALL of them in one
    	big pile with Henrietta on top and in the middle of it all!!! 
    
    	;^)

    
    	We had this big orange tom cat (Pumpkin) and he was friendly with
    	the dogs too.  Everyone once in a while, the dog (Shaker) would 
    	start teasing Pumpkin by swatting her with his paw.  One day I
    	caught him with Pumpkin's WHOLE head in his mouth and he started
    	running towards the frog-pond in the woods.  Minutes later he
    	returned and he sat on the back stoop.  A few minutes after that,
    	Pumpkin return SOAKED....he saunters up to Shaker and YUP, you
    	guessed it, Shaker grabs Pumpkin AGAIN and runs off towards the
    	frog-pond yet another time.  After about the third time, Pumpkin
    	returned but jumped on the well house instead of trying to cuddle
    	with the dog...  it was funny to watch this big black dog with 
    	1/2 an orange cat hanging from his mouth!!! hehehe
    
    	>M<

One of our ducks got stepped on and it's leg broken. Since they were pets, we
taped it up and brought it in the house for a while. It spent a 4-6 week
recovery in our jacuzzi. It would get lonely and quack and be answered by the
ones outside. It would say "good morning" when I got up and would acknowledge us
when we went in to the bathroom. It really enjoyed getting cleaned up in the
shower 8^) The ducks liked the hose as well and they'd line up to take it full
in the chest whenever I was out watering the flowers. If you didn't pay
attention to what they wanted from you, they'd nip at your pants legs or
shoelaces (which is how this one got stepped on). When they were ducklings, our
shepard used to herd them up on the lawn and try to keep them near the house.

    When Living in Arcata, California, We had a duck pond in the apartment
    complex, there were wild, and some tame ducks there.  I picked a
    favorite one, and named her Syliva, she would be the first one there
    when I would "quack" at the ducks, and they came to be fed.  Sylvia was
    impatient, and it I did not give her enough she would peck my pants
    leg, and then harder, and finally get a bit of my flesh in her beak.  
    I was sad to leave the area, but I do not think she would have liked 
    Germany.  The ducks speak German there.
    
    
    Dave�
    
    

    my neighbor's cat (Geddy) likes to wrestle.  So if I am sitting  on the
    floor Geddy will sometimes walk up to me and stare right at me.  If I
    don't initiate anything, he starts -- first he touches my leg with a
    paw, then if that doesn't work he tries pushing.    If that fails, he
    sometimes tries putting his mouth around my hand.  It's quite funny
    to watch, and obvious what he wants.

    
    We now have a cute l'il bunny rabbit...but the cat is scared of it!
    
    Jackie

    
    
    
    that's just an act to curry favour with you Choc..then when your guard
    is down...yum yum...bunny!
    
    Chris
    :)

    I'm not curry flavoured!
    
    ;-)
    
    Jackie_silly

    
    
    I'll be the judge of that!! ( OOooooo er missus)
    
    
    Chris
    :)

    time to go home!
    
    Jackie

    have a good weekend everybody.......note to ya on Monday...
    
    luv
    
    D.
    
    xxx

    
    
    
    Y'all have a great weekend........:-)
    
    
    C
    

    
    
    and all of a sudden...a silence descended on the conference as the 
    children all went home....or most of them....
    
    
    Night folks!
    
    Chris
    :)

    BYeeeeeeeeeeee
    
    Paula

    Im here for a little bit - but then Im going home to do some stuff -
    then Im coming back in........to do some more stuff....
    
    luv
    
    D.
    
    xxx

    
    
    So we get to see you again before we go home over here.....that'd be
    great......:-)
    
    
    C
    

    well I would hope so peeps!!
    
    luv
    
    Darlin'D
    
    xxx

    I've recently moved from the South Island of NZ (Christhchurch) to
    the North Island (Wellington).  And each evening, my 18 year cat walks
    to the gate and sits there looking out over the harbour.  I'm sure
    she's contemplating a swim back to the south.  When we first arrived
    from the UK, she used to walk around in circles, totally confused as
    to where home was :)
    
    The 17 year old hasn't emerged from under the bed yet, but then I'm
    well trained andshe gets everything she needs delivered, so what's
    the hurry!
    

    
    ... So do men!

    HAhahahahahahha!!! like that!

    
    Mind you I guess most men are a form of animal

    Well, aren't we all? That is the question! 80)

    
    Yeh but some of us are worse then others 8-))))

    Mmmmmmm...good point!