Ace of Spades Pet Thread

Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thank you for stopping by. Relax and enjoy the world of pets.

K9s in action.

The intelligence of dogs. Son of a B!tch, my dogs aren't even listed. H/T Hrothgar

DUH, NO KIDDING. Dog ownership associated with longer life, especially among heart attack and stroke survivors But, it is nice to know that science agrees with me.

I've always said "Every kid should have a pet." Here is why.

Warning: Possible Dusty Room Boy who loved watching dogs during chemo visits given ‘dream corgi dog’ H/T Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Despite their actions. Your cat loves you. H/T KT

Regular commenter and all around good cheese head Maud'dib submitted this photo of his new Black Lab pup "Benny". No other information provided. Puppies are adorable!!!

Long time lurker. AoS is my go to site every morning. Love the Pet
Thread. This is my three year old rescue kitty Coco. (daughter named her
as in Coco Chanell) with her buddy a three year old dwarf pug named Happy. Happy is a service dog as well as a therapy dog. He spends many days at the Reno
airport along with 29 other teams in Paws 4 Passengers. - Intruder Driver.

Great work ID. How wonderful that you folks spend that much time assisting people. Pretty cool that you rescued a cat as well. They appear to be super-duper friends. Thanks for supporting the AoSHQ.

This is Lover Boy. A neighbor's cat who, aside from being well named, has adopted me because I feed birds and he has ambitions.

No luck so far though.

Winston, dreg of society

On a side note Winston, I do appreciate your patience with this dork Cob. Quite the the adventure you have going on there with Lover Boy.

I don’t know if these guys qualify as pets or not. A few years back, the XO gave me about ten pots of mums for my birthday (September). I clumped them tightly around a big pot, then enclosed them with a couple rows of landscaping bricks. Come spring, it turned out about half of them had survived the winter. About that time, I noticed a whole flock of newly hostaed preying mantises crawling around the big central pot. Evidently, these two decided the mums made a terrific home and stayed all summer. They’d come out when I watered the mums, looking a little miffed that they’d gotten soaked. A few time, I deliberately watered the mums just to see them. I never named them, but figured I was housing and feeding them. (All the garden bugs they could catch and eat.) They were a lot of fun for the summer months, but vanished with the cold weather. I keep looking, but no other mantises have taken up residence. - Captain Josepha Sabin.

If they are critters, you like them and take the time to share with us, they will make the AoS Pet Thread. What a shame they or their ancestors never returned. You have to love insects who eat insects.

Another installment from the great white north, where our leader not only wears blackface, but black arms, torso & legs too.

Our pack has appeared in this hallowed column before & I thought it may be of interest to share our experience with our four rescues. We previously had pure bred dogs & were unsure of what to expect with our first rescue, for example would the dog come with baggage requiring extra care or attention? I suppose that happens with some animals but it’s not been the case with any of ours.

We got Candi, our first in 2015. She has a classic Jack Russell look & was found in an abandoned shed in Kentucky, on a property that had been repossessed by the bank. She was skittish & understandably slow to trust initially but has turned into a loveable little sweetheart.

Molly, our second, also in 2015, is a Jack Russell mixed with who knows what from Ontario. She sits funny, has a cute little underbite, ears that flip inside out when she runs & a face like a meerkat. The original owners both worked so she spent most days alone in a bathroom & then was too energetic for them when they returned after work. When we heard the story of this puppy being alone for much of her short life I thought she may have issues but from day one she’s been the happiest dog we’ve ever had & my companion when I putter around the property. Molly would have made a great farm dog because she has endless energy & loves to work.

Sally, a street dog, also from Kentucky, came to us in 2016. Since she’s mostly beagle & cannot resist a scent she has to be on leash when outside which isn’t often because she prefers to sleep 20 hours a day. When we take her for a walk she can be hard to drag away from a good sniff because she splays her legs out with her belly near the ground making her hard to move like a sumo wrestler, hence her nickname Sumo-Sally. Street dog habits are hard to break. When sally poops she scouts around for a rare bit of concrete instead of the abundance of grass or forest like the others.

Our most recent addition was Maggie in 2018. She’s a PappiJack (Papillon/Jack mix) purchased as a puppy by an elderly man who, soon after, passed away. Despite being half the size of the others she thinks she’s twice as big & deserves to be the boss. She has giant papillon ears that never flop & looks like a gremlin from the movie. Sometimes she’s the good gremlin, other times the bad one but she always tops the scale on the cuteness meter.

We feel very fortunate to live in such a beautiful place & are glad to share it with these little critters. They truly enrich our lives.

One last thing, I’ve been banned by the Missus from visiting the Jack Russell Terrier Rescue Ontario web site. - Brian

What a great video clip Brian. Thanks for sharing with us. Quite the household you have there. What Missus Brian doesn't know won't hurt her, amirite?

That Deplorable SOB Van Owen here.

This past week my BIL brought home a 6 week old Bull Mastiff puppy. Talk about cute as an (un)speckled pup! She weighs less than my Colt Light Weight Commander right now, but the breeder says she will double in size every two weeks. Dam and Sire are both around 200 lbs, so I believe it!

Hey Deplorable SOB Van Owen please tell your BIL that he has a cute puppeh. How can such a cute little puppeh grow so big. Thanks for sharing this with us.

From Dingbat
Our beasts awaiting dinner. Not staged. Minoux (age 13) the asshole (don't touch me) cat. Tibby (age 13) the Tibetan Terrier. Bruno (age 8) the Lab that won't retrieve and hates the water. He just got out of the Cone of Shame recovering from dog ACL surgery. That menagerie is into us for about $5K this year! But, they're worth it. PS: we're full time RV'ers. Love the Pet Thread. Thanks for doing it.

Thanks Dingbat for the photos. Best wishes and speedy recovery for Bruno. And good luck with the rest of the crew.

Fluffy The Terrible. Caught as a young feral in the 'hood in DC. Had a litter soon after we caught her. Placed all the kittens quickly as they were all cuties... She lived at the shop, and became the terror of the area. Rats, mice, sneks(!!) and the occasional bunny. She never tangled with the raccoons, and she tried to figure out the deer.
We closed the shop August a year ago. Living in the city is not kitty safe, so she has transitioned to being an indoor kitty. Her last companion kitty died in the beginning of summer. That was Fang, also caught as a feral, we had had her 17 years, who knew how old she was.
Fluffy is about 6 now...
Jesse in DC

Wow, what a great week of submissions, wonderful links and awesome pet photos and stories. Thanks folks. If you sent something in and it hasn't made the Pet Thread yet, hang on, it will.

If you have something to share with us, please contact us at petmorons at gmail dot com.

Have a great week and see you next Saturday.

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