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TDS pets thread with added ooomph!

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Oh nothin just takin a load off in this comfy hand I found.

Also that is a hair tie mark from a brand new never used hair tie I put on my arm this morning and took off 2 hours ago. -.-

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The eyes move but the head doesn't. <3
 
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^^ Sooooo cuuute!!! =D <3


4sak3n, thank you so much for sharing those photos of Regus with us <3 My boyfriend and I are going to get a German Shepherd pup soon, they are such a wonderful breed. Regus sounds like he was such a sweetheart :)


stardust.hero said:
Are they yours or a friends? I just love birds, I have only had a cockatiel as a pet. I just looked up rainbow lorikeets and they look stunning.
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Yep, rainbow lorikeets are stunning alright!! BUT they are very loud, very messy and very very cheeky!! They are pretty smart, but they're like ADHD so they're just completely insane most of the time =D

S.M.F.G said:
^ these fellas wild ones, they visit for a feed of bread or fruit about every once a forghtnight...
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That's awesome dude! Loris are so cheeky and fearless huh, they'll just come right up like they own the place =D
P.S just stick with the fruit as lori food by the way, that's all they need to eat :)


Here is my cheeky rainbow lori, named Buzz
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Yep he sure is pretty :) But he can be a downright c%#t a lot of the time!!! He's bitten me pretty badly a few times :( Like I said, they're like an ADHD child, and they are very difficult to discipline! They are pretty intent on doing whatever they want, and if you get in the way, you're pretty likely to get a nip.

Back when I was a vet nurse, one of our clients brought him in to our clinic. He'd fallen out of the nest and the mama bird had taken off. So I hand-reared him from when he was about 5 days old. He didn't even have any coloured feathers yet so I didn't even know what species he was! But after about a week he started to get these little electric blue feathers on his head, so I knew he was a rainbow lori :)

Rainbow lorikeets are EVERYWHERE in the wild here in Australia! And a lot of people breed them too of course because they're reasonably popular pets/aviary birds. There are a few massive flocks of them in my suburb, and we can always hear baby loris in the trees in spring and throughout summer :) The babies have a very distinctive sound, but perhaps it just stands out to me more because I hand-raised one, so that little baby lori sound is permanently imprinted on my brain hahaha.

Loris aren't as big as African Greys. Buzz is about 23cm from head to the tip of his tail (and he's small for a rainbow lori). Scaly-breasted lorikeets (which are just as abundant in the wild as the rainbows) are a bit smaller, around 20-25cm long.
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I always find it funny that I refer to Buzz as a "he", because in reality we have NO idea if he's male or female! Male and female rainbow lorikeets are exactly the same in appearance. The only way you can find out the sex is by x-raying their pelvic bones, or by doing a DNA test on a feather. So for all we know, Buzz could be a Buzzette. Although he's never laid an egg...I dunno.
 
Which one, my one, or the green one? They're both pretty cool IMO! I would like to get a scaly-breasted lori, as I've heard they're a little more placid than the lunatic rainbows =D
 
Me too :) <3

And yep, our animal house is something that has to be seen to be believed :D The bird is definitely the ruler of the roost, then Toby (the silver tabby in the last video), then Sushi (my other cat, not featured in any videos, she is above any of that nonsense ;)), then the dog =D
 
A cat named Sushi? That's too funny. I have a family friend who used to have a cat named Sushi. She had a hooked tail. They rescued her from some alley in Japan. Someone obviously took a knife to the poor cat before they took her in. She was so spastic, but came to really love company after a lot of love and care (I call lies about her being above that..but what do I know?). What is the dog's name?..Fraidy cat?
 
I can't believe there are birds with those vibrant colors flying around free outside. That is wild. The movie of Smoodge and Buzz is too cute. Smoodge was all up in his carrot business and he was like NO! You have so many animals. I can't wait until I get a bird again. I was looking on pet finder and most of the birds up for adoption have plucked out their feathers. Obviously from being neglected. It's so sad. I've only had a cockatiel so I emailed a lady at a rescue by us and she's supposed to be matching us to a gentle guy to help ease us into a bigger bird.

And of course moar of my little little spider monkey Lito.
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and Belle being a creeper
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Jailbird Beebee, her personality shines through on this one. She has quite the untamed spirit.
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I really love that pic of Beebee, her lips are just screaming "BOOOORING!!" when she's locked up like that =D

I've always loved animals but I never had a companion of my own because when I was a child, neither of my parents would allow it. Then when I aged and moved on my own, I never had the guts to adopt a dog because I was so depressed I thought I would only bring misery to the poor being, I thought really low of myself. Now that I've been with 'hoff a couple of months I see I couldn't have been more wrong... but I understand why I was scared. I'm kind of proud of the fact that the girl who's been with the dog all of it's life really thinks 'hoff has improved drastically recently, becoming "good old 'hoff" again and even better than that. I've never read/known anything about training a dog and I literally had zero experience with dogs prior, I don't think I've even walked a dog before. I'm not too good with humans either, always been kind of an outcast socially. Somehow though, it seems like I have a knack for dogs. Most of the time I just know what he's thinking and more importantly why he's thinking it. Unlike humans, they're just so predictable! Animals don't lie either... Sure they might try to trick you into getting some attention but I really wouldn't call that lying or decieving.

We had to give him the regular medicine for parasites yesterday and the girl told me he never ever took it so well. I never saw the process before in my life and it looked horrible! I mean, the drug came in a syringe that you were supposed to stick deep inside the dogs mouth and just force him to swallow it... no wonder dogs hate it! What kind of an idiot came up with that idea pfft. It went really fine though and 'hoff was just a little hesitant at first, but everything was back to normal right afterwards.

On a sidenote, doggie dreams are damn cute and every time 'hoff has nightmares I get this urge to go wake him up by petting him and telling everything is OK and blabber some yadayada to him. Yeah I know I'm an idiot haha.
 
OMG n3o, those videos are unbelievable! I am so relieved that I saw them in the privacy of my own home where no one could here me talking nonstop baby/animal talk to the "actors". Smoodge was a one of a kind for sure.<3 May I just add that I covet the wood of your floor?;)

FnX, here's a song for you (and all the others who have saved/been saved by a dog) http://youtu.be/Gs-Ltx8ZApQ (Nellie McKay--Dog Song)<3

And this is kind of crazy to post a 20 year old picture but I was looking for one of our dog Inkita Aja and found this one of me with my 3 boys in the days before school for either of the human ones--just total freedom to play in the woods, the water, the dirt--whatever! Heaven for a kid and heaven for a dog and heaven for me. The boys grew up with Inky by their sides throughout their whole childhoods. (He died in my older son's senior year in high school.)
 
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FnX you sound like a great pet parent. He is so lucky to have you. I was never allowed to have dogs around in inside the house. Dogs were always regarded as "outside" material. I was always a dog lover. It's great to finally be independent and be able to finally have what you wanted all along, right? To have your best pal right next to you all the time. I sure love it. You need to post more pictures of Hoff!

Herb, that picture is so fantastic. What a blast from the past. You look so young and slightly devious in it with that grin :P. Hippie Herbie. I love all of the pictures you have of you and the boys. Especially of Caleb. he's always holding the animals. You can totally tell he was the animal lover of the two boys. I love that you fostered that through their childhood by having family pets. I know that was so enriching to them. I hope I can be the same kind of parent as you and teach my children the joy animals bring.
 
Here are a couple of photos of my raccoon, Lucky. I posted his photo quite a while back when he was about two months old. He has grown a lot since then. He's about 8.5 months old now.

Here he is in the top of the closet yawning. I barely missed the shot of his tongue sticking all the way out.

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He can also stand and walk a little on his hind legs without any kind of support. I love him so much and he has so far been well behaved(if you don't count destroying things as bad behavior). He bites, but they are just play bites that don't do any damage and most of the time don't cause any discomfort.

I'll post a couple of photos of my Blue and Gold macaw (Baby) later after I get some good shots of him. He still looks the same as he did before so I want to make sure to get good poses and lighting when I do it so it won't be just like the last photos I posted of him.

n3ophy7e said:
^^ Sooooo cuuute!!! =D <3


Here is my cheeky rainbow lori, named Buzz
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That is a beautiful bird! Like the name too.
 
OMG the yawn picture is too precious. He looks very dog like in that picture. And the picture of him looking up at you. <3 Tell me what it is like to own a raccoon? Do they have dog or cat like personalities? I must know more! I just loooove him.
 
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