Pets, Photos and such Options

[Ramirez]

My parents recently unearthed this picture and sent me a copy, so I thought we could share pictures of our pets and maybe share any amusing stories about them. This little guy was caled Ollie. We took him in after a family over the road got him from a rescue centre and they said he wasn't getting along well with the dog they already had. He came with his name and it seemed kinda cruel to change it since he knew what it was.

He also came with a huge appetite. While at the house of a family friend, he decided to jump up on the table when no one was looking and dispose of a plate of sausage rolls and most of a victoria sponge cake. He was noticably fatter... you could actually see that he was fatter... and threw up about 5 minutes later because his body just wasn't designed to take that much food.

Shame he came down with a cancerous tumor in the end... he was only 8 and since he was in such good health (he'd still got as much energy as he had the day we got him aged 2) other than that, I reckon he'd have hit 11-12 no problem.

[Ibis]

TMM ... she was very vocal and yet we could never get her to do the Bluejay Rebel Yell! We tried and tried to demonstrate it in our own stupid human way, but she actually never remembered hearing it in the wilds and apparently couldn't reproduce it without some previous reference.

She would not stay outside nor would she fly away from Cain, although she flew all over in the house. Cain would climb with her in hand high into the cedar tree and try to get her to fly back into the wild but she'd never leave his hand ... although she was fascinated with outside and often watched it from a huge picture window looking out upon the birdfeeder in the cedar tree.

She also loved to find and hide things. Such little eagle eyes - god forbid you ever drop a pill on the shag carpet, she'd eat it immediately if you did. She owned a little tin mint container with glass beads inside and her favorite color beads were turquoise, bright blue, greens & orange. Then she'd hide her beads ALL OVER the house. She also loved to place dried lavender flowers in my long hair, one time she put a peanut at the top of my braid on the back of my head and I forgot & went to work. A girl at work saw it and everyone was flipping out laughing when I told them how it got there.