Seeing Pudsey died recently, I know how hard it is, my Boxer died last year and there isn't a day I don't think about her, miss her like mad.

 

I have a Weimaraner atm, have had 2 boxers 1 tan and 1 brindle, Doberman Pinscher, rabbits, guinea pigs and fish.

 

Would love to have another Boxer, they are my favourite breed of dog.

 

 

 

Can't be arsed with dogs or cats

 

Each to their own and that

Did you strangle it with a lemon floor wipe?

no but saved £60 and bought another for a £10

Had a black cat "Harvey". Lived in a cul-de-sac for 5 years. Very cocky. Could hold up "traffic" in the close by sauntering and swaggering across the road. Top "dog" in the neighbourhood. Nobody messed. Great pet.

 

Moved house to a busier main road. Kept him in for a month. Slowly began letting him out here and there at the back. All ok.

Then one night, knock at the door from some woman who asked if we had a black cat as she thought she'd just hit one but it had run off.

 

Spent a good few days searching for him. Thankfully he turned up in the neighbours garden under some tree. Reckon he probably died not long after being hit. Managed to get to some safety. Glad we found him though. Would have hated that uncertainty. We went straight off our house at that point. Felt like we'd brought him to his death.

 

Replacement "Poppy" is a feisty bugger. But she only goes out at the back, knows no better and we presume she never ever wanders onto the front road.

Traf- just been to see the people about the tortoise.

He's a big un they've had for 18 years. The reckon he may weigh up to 100 lbs.

Anyhow, they don't leave him for more than a day- as he eats fresh veg, anything uneaten has to be removed before it goes off.

Additionally you need someone available if the electricity goes off for example, so alternative arrangements can be made for heating.

 

Apparently there are tortoise "kennels" who will look after them whilst you're away; they are guarded about doing that though as apparently all reptiles can get very stressed easily.

 

In short they reckon you need someone to come in and attend to it daily, or kennels if necessary.

 

Apparently there is a tortoise trust who will offer more advice.

Anyone who lived around Astley Bridge/Oldhams Estate in the mid-70's might have known Charlie The Chow

 

He was a street dog in Salford and the mechanics at my Dad's van hire business on Bury New Road (near Strangeways) used to feed him and they locked him in at night to guard the vans and trucks

 

The business went under so we inherited him. Vicious get who used to escape and roam Oldhams at the head of a pack of other roaming dogs. Had our phone number on his collar so residents used to phone all the time for my mum to collect him. Everyone knew him

 

Broke my heart the day he had a stroke and thrashed around the floor. Struggled to cope after that at the thought of a pet. Bought a golden lab. Took that years later to be put down. Never again. It's too much going through that

Putting a slight happier spin on this.

 

On Sunday my mum adopted a rescue Cavalier. She's five years old and had spent all her life in a crate on a puppy farm. Never been outside, never been in a house and never interacted with another dog apart from one of her many pups that she has churned out over the years. Her back legs are extremely weak due to having no muscles as she's never walked anywhere.

 

She's not yet dared to venture into the living room and won't eat out of a bowl having been used to just having food thrown onto the floor.

 

There are some heartless bastards around who just see pets like this as money-making machines.

 

Having said all that, Annabelle is now embarking on the start of a hopefully happy life alongside mum's other dog who she will learn from and become best friends with.

Top dogs Cavaliers! Me mum had one who was brilliant and lasted to 11, but the day came when I had to help her take it to the vet in Daisy Hill to be put down. Right after the injection she wagged her tail - must have been overdose of opioids kicking in. As my old mum had a dodgy hip then I tired to lighten the mood by looking at the vet and asking do you do "buy one, get one free" and looking at me mam. Didn't go down well with either of them! But I've still got the dog's collar and  name tag as a keepsake and I wish she was still about.

A few years back the bloke next door - who I knew was moving house - looked pissed off and when I asked what was up he said "remember that old cat we had that died a few years back and I buried in the back garden"? "Well the missus is insisting I dig it up and take it with us...."

A few years back the bloke next door - who I knew was moving house - looked pissed off and when I asked what was up he said "remember that old cat we had that died a few years back and I buried in the back garden"? "Well the missus is insisting I dig it up and take it with us...."

You'd be amazed how often this happens. It's always the Mrs and kids ganging up on the bloke who's not having any of it ????

You'd be amazed how often this happens. It's always the Mrs and kids ganging up on the bloke who's not having any of it ????

Do you charge extra for that?

Few years ago I met my then girlfriend. She had a jack russell probably age about 11. Hard as nails she was. In younger years she had done things like ligament damage but still was going strong

 

Built up a good friendship with the dog and even as she got older and had illnesses where you thought 'this is it' she battled through it. She had cataracts and would bump into things but would carry on as if nothing had happened

 

Unfortunately I split up with the misses and a few weeks later she rang me to say that the dog had died after her liver packed up and there was nothing the vet could do

 

Even though I had only known her for a few years out of her life I was absolutely distraught

In my former career I worked for a firm that had unit on a pretty desolate industrial park. 6 units and a reclamation yard opposite that was all fenced off. They had a German shepherd as a guard dog. The cunts would leave it out all day and Night. Only had a little Hut to sleep in. It looked fucking mental but one day I chanced my armour with it. Basically lay flat on my belly and got closer and closer. Next thing he's sniffing about my head haha sound as fuck he was.

 

I ended up taking food for him every morning before we set off to wherever we were working. I even took him some on Xmas day as I knew no fucker would be about.

 

The company that owned the yard ended up moving and they took Shane with em to the other side of preston. I was fucking gutted.

Traf- just been to see the people about the tortoise.

He's a big un they've had for 18 years. The reckon he may weigh up to 100 lbs.

Anyhow, they don't leave him for more than a day- as he eats fresh veg, anything uneaten has to be removed before it goes off.

Additionally you need someone available if the electricity goes off for example, so alternative arrangements can be made for heating.

 

Apparently there are tortoise "kennels" who will look after them whilst you're away; they are guarded about doing that though as apparently all reptiles can get very stressed easily.

 

In short they reckon you need someone to come in and attend to it daily, or kennels if necessary.

 

Apparently there is a tortoise trust who will offer more advice.

 

 

Thanks for that. 

I'm actively looking for someone to come and tend to her daily or somewhere I can take her whilst we're away.

Thanks for that. 

I'm actively looking for someone to come and tend to her daily or somewhere I can take her whilst we're away.

Theres a few business's cropped up where folk either come to your house on a daily basis or you can drop the pet off and they look after it - nowt in it dosh wise.

Trouble is the ones i know are Bolton/Wigan areas,whereas you're an East Lancs mon now i think? I'm sure there will be people running similar set-ups in your area.

Just seen a dead badger with a pool of blood around it's head

 

Proper sad start to the day

Just seen a dead badger with a pool of blood around it's head

 

Proper sad start to the day

 

Once saw at badger's torso on the A55 coming out of Wales. In a traffic jam. About 200 yards down the road.... saw the head. Now that was a bit harrowing.

Where was that?

 

I'm assuming it was at the side of the road. Shame.

bacup ish

 

200 yards from a primary school

 

hope somebody moves it

They'll eat it up there.

 

Sometimes cunts that kill them illegally, dump them at the roadside to make it look accidental.

They'll eat it up there.

 

 

Only after they've shagged it

Only after they've shagged it

Quality. Got me proper chuckling.

Theres a few business's cropped up where folk either come to your house on a daily basis or you can drop the pet off and they look after it - nowt in it dosh wise.

Trouble is the ones i know are Bolton/Wigan areas,whereas you're an East Lancs mon now i think? I'm sure there will be people running similar set-ups in your area.

 

The place we send the dog to has recommended a place in Burnley, so I'm going to check them out.

How much will you have to shell out?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry, couldn't resist

Was never a cat person until we had a couple of Russian Blues. Absolutely beautiful but couldn't just let them wander around like normal moggies.

Love a Russian blue

Our cat had its leg off a few weeks back after being attacked by a fox.

 

Not an animal person but she's proper moping around now - feel really sad for her!