OT: I love my pet

[BadMotoWeazal]

We got this little guy almost a month ago from the Humane Society here in Birmingham. He's a Chihuahua/Miniature Pinscher, a little over a year old. He loves my wife, my lab hasn't killed him yet & he's good with the kids. Been working on his potty training & he's coming around.... It's hasn't been too hard to get him to use those ears & that walnut sized brain.

 

[mattola]

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

 

[mattola]

 

[pixburgher66]

Stuck at work? Bored? Does your company have lenient website control? DO YOU LOVE KITTENS?! I give youuuu....KITTEN CAM!

Ripley's Kittens on Livestream

 

[higgyfan4]

Stuck at work? Bored? Does your company have lenient website control? DO YOU LOVE KITTENS?! I give youuuu....KITTEN CAM!

Ripley's Kittens on Livestream

yes, yes, no, yes and awwww....

 

[pixburgher66]

yes, yes, no, yes and awwww....

I've spent a shameful amount of time on this since I left my actual kitten at home. *sigh* I miss that fur ball.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Can't post the link right now (work restrictions) but there was a great article that I found today about a homeless guy in Ireland jumping off a bridge into a river and giving mouth-to-mouth to save his pet rabbit who was cruelly thrown into the water by some asshole.

If you can find the article it's worth a read.

 

[mattola]

 

[mattola]

Can't post the link right now (work restrictions) but there was a great article that I found today about a homeless guy in Ireland jumping off a bridge into a river and giving mouth-to-mouth to save his pet rabbit who was cruelly thrown into the water by some asshole.

If you can find the article it's worth a read.

Dublin man jailed for throwing pet rabbit into river | The Sun |News

A CRUEL man has been sentenced to four months jail for throwing a homeless man’s rabbit into a river.
John Byrne, the animal’s owner, jumped into the River Liffey, Dublin, to save Barney the rabbit after he was snatched from his arms.
The 37-year-old gave Barney the kiss of life but sadly he was too late and his pet died in his arms.

“I wasn’t going to leave him there,” he said.
“I had to get him, I had to jump in to get him. Barney died in my arms. I got him under the bridge and gave him the kiss of life.”
They were both rescued by fire fighters and within days John was awarded a Compassionate Citizen Award for helping an animal in need.

Anti-cruelty ... John's pet died in his arms
John, who has lived on the streets for 23 years, also said how shocked he was to see Barney swimming around in circles.
Gary Kearney, 20, pleaded guilty at Dublin District Court to animal cruelty and torture. He also admitted breach of the peace during the incident on 3 July 2011.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Dublin man jailed for throwing pet rabbit into river | The Sun |News

That's the story, though I read it from a different source that points out that the rabbit died but he brought it back to live with the mouth-to-mouth.

The other one (that I can't link) also has a quote from the guy saying "Barney [the rabbit] could have died that day."

So the rabbit definitely survived for the happy ending.

 

[mattola]

somebody have a holy hand grenade handy?

 

[mattola]

 

[higgyfan4]

*sniff*

Loyal dog continues to attend mass at church where owner?s funeral was held | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

 

[mattola]

man that is heartbreaking. that picture looks strange but I believe the story.

 

[higgyfan4]

 

[mattola]

found on reddit today. nice

It's freezing (-33 Celsius with windchill) in Montreal and this cat mom and her kitty found refuge in my parent's solarium.

Wild cats - Imgur

 

[mattola]

Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker personally responded to a tweet for someone to help a dog left out on the freezing cold!
It all started when a TV news crew spotted the dog out in the cold. Hours later, when they passed by the same spot again & saw the dog still outside, freezing, they started tweeting the mayor.
People began re-tweeting the messages, and soon enough the mayor was on the scene with the shivering dog.
He not only scooped the dog up and took him to safety - he called the owners & told them it was unacceptable to leave the dog outside in the freezing weather.
You rarely see that kind of personal attention in the big city. Way to go Mayor Booker! “This is brutal weather, this dog is shaking really bad and you just can’t leave your dogs out here on a day like this and go away and expect them to be ok. Hypothermia on any animal including a human animal will set in pretty quickly. So this is very sad, you can just feel the dog shaking pretty badly,” Booker said.

 

[mattola]

 

[puckhead]

That's adorable. ---^