Animal Soul Mates...

12 Dec '06 7:28 am

Bambi, my tender heart, THANK YOU for this! You are the personification of what I believe of little children growing up together with animals, sharing this special love-attachment with their own parents! You just don't imagin how blessed and lucky you are!

I just loved every detail of your animal soul-mate stories! And all photos are lovely, especially Wooster's! Concerning your narrative, it is so expressive of your deep feelings of your life experience! It is so heartwarming this humans-animals love-story! You can hear of such stories with all sort of pets, horses, sheep, pigs, ducks, foxes,... elephants (!!), tigers, wolves, bears, and many other "wild" forest animals! Even dolphins! So many films have been created based on such stories!

Concerning the photos I sent accompanying my own pet stories, only some of Jeani's , Tsika's , and Tina's are taken with a digital camera, during the last three-four years. All the rest are very old photos -- except of that one of my Moraki, taken by Alexandra's traditional good camera. I just ...took a photo of each of these old photos , using my digital camera, cause I do not have a scanner. And these old photos taken by an old "pocket" camera of Codak, became ....digital ones! I love this modern digital Art!

Thank you, again, Bambi!

12 Dec '06 10:12 pm

Thank you Liza, you are so kind! Smile

You're right, though - because my parents encouraged it, I and my brothers and sister all grew up with a deep understanding of animals which we have all carried on into our adult life.

Your idea of taking a photo of a photo is good; I'm lucky in that I have a scanner on my desk at work which is handy! Very Happy

So, whilst getting ready for work this morning I had a bit of a dig around and found this lovely photo of Misty and Sherry, taken while we were on holiday a few years back, so I brought it in with me and scanned it to share with you. I know there are many more somewhere, I just didn't have as much time as I'd want to be able to look through all our photos (there's a whole drawer-full and I always get a little side-tracked when I do this, what with all the reminiscing! Very Happy

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13 Dec '06 9:08 am

Lovely photos. I particularly liked the one of Jeeves. That's a hoot! Very Happy

Although we didn't have cats or dogs as we were growing up, we did however have gazillions of guineapigs, an assortment of rabbits, 1 pet lamb and a couple of budgies. Not to mention all the baby birds we brought up. The usual orphans or ones who'd fallen out of nests etc, etc..

We used to feed the seed eaters finely milled porridge, mixed with water and fed on the end of a matchstick.
The insect eaters would have clumps of soil brought in so the babies could peck at the bugs.

We always had a battle to get them ready to 'leave the nest' before we set off on our summer holidays. Smile

13 Dec '06 9:51 am

Anna! I am impressed! All this description and procedure of birds caring and feeding with such a special love and attention! It is so amazing! So tenderly and wonderfully amazing! Dear me, one never stops learning!

My personal bird experience is filling my bird feeders with grains I buy. 3-4 times I have saved small birds , who my cats brought and presented to me ....victoriously (in the house), still alive in their mouths...2-3 other times I have saved some lovely baby mice...But although I was shocked in such circumstances , I never turned against my animals..The Cats/Felines are meat-eaters and excellent hunters. They are created like this by the Source, the Creator! Humans became meat-eaters over the years, and now they are still hunters, just for fun! Killing for fun....Or for profit...That's why so many wild species all over the planet Earth have disappeared or have become so few ...

Bambi! What lovely photo of your beloved friends! Who knows, maybe during the last years of my life we decide having such a companion, a dog like yours... The problem arrives when they have to be alone during vacations or trips...That, I will not stand, neither them...Cats are quite independent , even the strongly human-attached , like my Tsika...

13 Dec '06 10:42 pm

Anna, I’m also impressed with your bird-caring exploits! I remember before my parents moved to Devon, there was a beautiful robin who would always be in their garden and, when they were eating their lunch outside (which they did at every given opportunity), he would perch on the other side of the table and gobble down little bits of cheese and other treats put out for him.

Unfortunately we don’t get many birds in our garden (probably because of the cats!). I try to encourage them with seed, and I recently bought a contraption which has wire mesh sides so, when you put a slice of bread into it, the birds can eat it through the wire; but there haven’t been any takers yet – I’ve thrown away two whole slices of bread so far, neither of which had even the slightest peck-mark on them. Sad

Liza, we’ve been very lucky so far with our cats in that they haven’t brought us many “gifts”. The exception has been frogs – our next door neighbours bought some tadpoles for their two young boys who watched them grow into frogs, but we found one dead in our garden once and another, Jeeves brought into the house. Hubby took it away from Jeeves but it was too late – or so we thought! The next day, hubby saw something moving in the bag where he’d put the frog and it turned out he was alive! Very Happy

Later that day, however, I found Jeeves once more with a frog, so I carefully prised it away from him and took it back next door.

That was a few months ago and since then we haven’t had anything, so fingers crossed! Mind you, our two seem to be much more interested in insects – daddy longlegs, spiders, flies, etc!! Rolling Eyes