Summer's Shenanigans

When we found our little kitten (Chichieto, or Cheech for short), he was only 4 to 4.5 weeks old, which is almost too young to be away from his mommy. But, he was abandoned, so we didn't have any choice. One of the funny things the he developed is his love for our fuzzy, cheetah print blanket. He immediately took to it and whenever he sees it, he can't help but run over to it, gently grab it in his mouth and start nursing on it. He usually does this for about an hour or until he falls asleep (with the blanket still in his mouth).



He got a little nervous when I shot this video of him, but normally, he is going off with the kneading and he purrs like crazy. It's obviously soothing to him, sort of like when a kid sucks it's thumb. So cute!

Labels: Animals, Cats, Funny, Videos

We've narrowed down the names for our kitten to the following six. Pick your favorite!

Sleepy time!

I think Stefan may have been trying to breast feed the poor little guy...

Labels: Animals, Fun

We were just trying to go to dinner and we ended up adopting a kitten...We were driving down a dark highyccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccAΩ≥≥≥AA... Okay, let's try this againd...0...(the kitten keeps walking across my laptop. Sorry!) Any how, we were driving down a dark highway on our way to dinner and this little guy was sitting in the middle of the road:

No, I don't have huge feet, the kitten is just muy pequeno!

Labels: Animals, Cats

For those of you who don't know, Kuta is my dog, BFF and bodyguard. Kuta is a 9 year old Australian Shepard and I welcomed him into this world, the very day he was born. My mom used to be an Australian Shepard breeder and Kuta's litter was the last litter that came out of On Q Australian Shepards (my mom had already retired from dog breeding, but when I was 20 years old and ready for my 1st dog, she made it happen :). ) As I mentioned before, I was there when Kuta was born. From the moment he was born, I held him. I was there every day. Before he could see or hear (puppies can't see or hear for the 1st two weeks of life), he knew my smell. At two days old, I held him while his tail and duclaws (thumbs) were cut off (brutal, I know, but 99% of Australian Shepards have their tails docked). I carried Kuta around like a little lapdog until I could no longer lift him (he grew into a 70lb super Aussie) and have loved every second that he has been in my life. In return, I have the most loyal bodyguard a girl could ask for.

For most people, Kuta is a big pain in the ass. Not because he's an annoying, dumb, slobbering, yappy, hairy dog, but because his life revolves around protecting me. And he is VERY, very smart. People don't get it, but there are Kuta Rules in my house.

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Kuta

While I'm in San Diego, I've been staying at my brothers house occassionally. Today I was getting ready to go into work and was going through my luggage. The shirt I wanted to wear was a bit damp and I figured that my lotion or something leaked on the flight, so I stuck it up to my face to sniff it out and see what broke. Oh. Cat piss. Nice. My brothers cat decided to piss all over my clothing and in my new suitcase.

I've never really been a cat person (although I like all animals), but this is the clincher. Cat are just gross. Actually, I take that back. Any animal that lives 100% of its life indoors, and shits and pisses in your house, is disgusting. Don't you think it would be gross if I kept a box of my dogs crap and pee in a box in my bathroom? I don't care what kind of fancy litter box and expensive cat litter you use, if you own a cat, you house smells like shit (and piss). You don't notice it because you live in it and you're used to it. Gross. Animals are not meant to live indoors.

Labels: Animals

I want a tiger pig!





These pictures are actually for real (no photoshopping). They were forwarded to me with this story:

"In a zoo in California, a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of tri plet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.

The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother's cubs, perhaps she would improve.

After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the rightage to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans" that could be
found quickly, were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops?"

Since I'm one of those, "don't believe everything you hear" types of people, I did some snooping and found out that the pictures of the piglets dresses up in tiger stripes, hanging out with a grown tiger, ARE actually real, but the story behind it is not.

The tiger/pig pictures above were taken at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand where, unlike most zoos, it offers circus-like features such as the mixture of adult animals and the young of very different species in the same enclosure.

More info on the tiger pigs at Snopes.com.

Labels: Animals, Weird

Kuta was being clutzy this morning and accidently stomped on Monkey, which sent her into attack mode. The dumb bitch tried to eat Kutas face and tore into his eyebrow pretty good before we could separate them (1 second later).




Can't we all just get along?!

Kuta could definately use another stitch or three, but I really don't trust a Puerto Rican vet that I don't know to put Kuta under anesthesia (no offense to Puerto Rican vets, but Kuta is old and has had some weird health problems). So, Stefan and I are keeping the wound clean and hopefully it will heal okay. If not, I'm flying Robin down to PR to teach Stefan and I how to stitch up a dog face...

Arg. F&$^ing Monkey. I'm not down with overly aggressive dogs and Monkey (an English Staffordshire Bull Terrier) just has that in her blood. If anyone could break the aggressive tendancy it would be Stefan and I, but we've had no luck.

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Health, Kuta, Monkey

Since my bodyguard is in Puerto Rico, I've rented a little protection while I'm in San Diego. Meet Junior!



He's actually a 160lb (at least!) Bull Mastif and he is ENORMOUS. I've seen a lot of dogs in my day and I've never seen a dog this big and strong. His head is twice as big as mine. I hope he doesn't eat me.

Labels: Animals, Dogs

Stefan took this photo of Kuta as he was managing the excavation of the PR property.

I love my boy. You couldn't ask for a better dog/partner in crime. He really is amazing once you actually get to know him (you'll hate him if you're not a "dog person". He's way too smart and protective of me, but that suits me just fine :) ).

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Funny, Kuta

I took Monkey to the vet today and her butt problem was exactly what I thought (gotta love the internet). Her anal sacs were full, which gives dogs a very uncomfortable feeling. Victor the vet tech, did the honors of putting his finger up her butt to "express" her anal gland ($20, well spent...) and even he seemed a bit grossed out when he was explaining to me that Monkey's sacs "were very full".

The vet also gave me a perscription for anal cream and I'm supposed to "apply a thin layer to rectal area twice daily for 10 days". WHAT? They didn't even give me any rubber gloves to go with the Monkey anal cream. Christ.

Stefan, I am Fex Ex-ing Monkey and her anal cream to you. She's YOUR dog, you know...(she's only our dog when she does cute stuff...).

Anal cream. Are you f-ing kidding me?!

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Funny, Health, Monkey

Look at this cool zorse! This is Eclyse and her mom is a horse and her dad is a zebra (Apparently they were accidentally introduced and mated at a ranch in Italy. Whoops!). Nonetheless, she's beautiful!

I saw this picture in a magazine and thought it was photoshopped, but it's 100% authentic. She looks like she should have a unicorn horn!

Here are is the story of Eclyse the zorse on Yahoo News

Labels: Animals, Horses, Weird

Monkey has been obsessively rubbing her butt on things lately (the bed, the wall, a post, a tree, a chair, my foot...you name it, Monkey has probably tried to rub her ass on it...), so I was searching around the internet to see what might be her problem. From what I've found, it seems like her "anal sacs" need to be emptied.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060923113835AAPyqHl

Excuse me? What?! I am not sticking my finger up Monkey's butt in search of her anal sacs, thank you very much! After reading the article above, these people are talking about emptying their dogs anal sacs like it's like giving them a bath. WTF. I have had dogs since I was born and never in my life have I ever had to stick my finger in a dogs butt.

Off to the vet with her...

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Monkey

Go 'head girl, get your freak on...

Labels: Animals, Funny, Videos, Weird

There is no work service today so I decided to catch up on my domestic duties. I shaved and washed Kuta:

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Funny

Someone (I think it was my mom?) sent me these cool photos of fish painted on this couples faces:






Either these people are very creative (and have a lot of time on their hands) or they've been tripping on acid for a week straight...You decide. ;)

Labels: Animals, Art, Funny, Weird

Monkey has decided to protest my sentence, by rolling over and playing dead until I'm vindicated!!

Labels: Animals, Dogs, The Justice System

An 11 year old boy shot and killed a 9ft long, 1051 pound pig in Alabama:

Well, it turns out that it wasn't actually a "wild pig", it was a domesticated pig named "Fred". Poor Fred :(

Labels: Animals, Videos, Weird

While I was in Puerto Rico, Kuta went to stay at Rancho Robin (my moms house) and he just returned home today. We all know how much Kuta loves to roll in the dirt after bathing, but he like to kick it up a notch while at my moms ranch. Kutas favorite pass time at Rancho Robin consists of jumping into the horses water trough and then roll around in horse poop....FUN! Kuta knows that getting wet first really makes the horse crap stick to him for a long lasting Eau de Crap...He's so smart!

Kuta smells like poop.

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Funny, Horses

Once upon a time there was a dog named Monkey. Monkey gets very nervous when riding in the car. Can't you tell?!

Labels: Animals, Dogs, Funny, Monkey

Check out how cool this horse is. Her name is Matine and the rider is Andreas Helgstrand:

How cute is that? That horse is totally dancing! Awwwww....

My mom is a crazy horse person and went to Vegas to see a dressage competition, so she was all excited to see the horse in the video above (Matine). Well, unfortuntately, after the owners of this horse chartered a non-stop flight from Europe for the horse, someone forgot to put down rubber mats and the poor horse slipped and fell while getting off the plane and was unable to compete. Matine was the shoo in to win the competition too, which had a $100,000 prize. How pissed would you be if you chartered a flight for your $9 million horse and some bonehead forgot to put down some rubber mats and injures her?! Luckly she's going to be okay, but she was not well enough to compete in Vegas.

So back to how crazy my mom is. Here she is with the "famous" rider Andreas Helgstrand. My mom's a horse groupie...haha

Labels: Animals, Horses

My mom just sent me this photo from way back in the day (1993?).



Here is my mom and I surrounded by 3 litters of Australian Shepherd puppies. My mom bred Aussies (On "Q" Australian Shepherds) to feed and clothe her children, so we ALWAYS had a litter or two around. It was actually pretty cool because we would get to play with the puppies when they were the cutest and then send them off ot their new families. Not to mention, that there are approximately $9,000 worth of puppies in this pic...Cha-ching!

The youngest litter of Aussie pups in this pic is on top of the hay stack and they don't even have their eyes open yet (so they are less then 2 weeks old). Too cute.

This photo also serves as photographic evidence as to how I became a crazy dog person...

Labels: Animals

In an attempt to cheer me up, Stefan sent me a link to this video of fluffy little Australian Shepherd puppies:

It worked :).

It reminds me of when Kuta was a puppy. I would carry him around with me everywhere and everyone would ask me if he was a rabbit. He was quite a cute little fluff ball :)...

Labels: Animals, Videos

Did you know that last year over 100,000 horses in the USA were killed for human consumption! Americans do not eat horses, but for some reason we kill them and ship the meat to Europe and Asia. I don't necessarily agree with the slaughter of any animals, but I had no idea that so many horses were killed and that horse meat was such a big export. Gross.

If you're interested in helping to stop the slaughter of horses, you can do so here:

http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=lobby_home

There are many ways to help stop animal cruelty, so check out The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals if you'd like to help out in any way (or even just learn a thing or two!).

Labels: Animals, Charities

After my discovery of pandas in Atlanta, my mom emailed me these ridiculously cute pictures of the 16 baby pandas that are currently at The Sichuan Wolong Panda Protection and Breed Center in China.

Labels: Animals

Stefan and I were wandering around the gift shop in the Atlanta, Georgia airport during an extended layover, when I spotted this magnet:

Labels: Animals, Funny, Traveling, Weird