African Violets and Gesneriads: O.T. Pics from MsC's Place, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
MsC: Love all your lil' critters and Ranger is a handsome fella for sure! I'd love to hear about his training. Cart dog? It sounds like a great job for that breed, they are very active aren't they?

Yum ... those Peaches look so good!! Are you going to make a pie? I'd love some vanilla ice cream with fresh sliced peaches mixed in. Gee ... I'm getting hungry!

Rob's Humpty Doo ... even out of shape it's a pretty AV!

Sally: I've seen pic's before of your cute little pup and your little Parrotlet before ... adorable, and your little bird sure looks to have a nice home cage!

I love critters but we are down to just one (almost 16 yr old) kitty and a 150 gal salt water fish tank but I don't consider the fish as pets really. We've had a few birds in the family as well as cats, dogs and fish. When we were first married we had two parakeets that we named Tweety & Sylvester. Tweety didn't live very long but Sylvester lived to be almost 13 and learned his name and would come when we called him. According to the vet 13 yrs was unusual and a pretty long life for a hybrid parakeet, he said 5 or 6 years is generally the life span for them. We had Sylvester bird for about 3 years when we adopted a stray kitten and since the bird knew his name we named the kitten Tweety. Because of the cartoon everyone used to tell me we got it backwards, that Tweety was what the bird should have been called. I'd then explain that the bird already knew his name. Tweety the cat lived to be 24! My husband once had an Indian Ringed Neck Parrot that did not like me at all ... that bird would bite me every chance he got ... another of those one person birds I guess. We had him for @ 8 or so years and then got to working such long hours we gave him to a lady who had a female. She thought he was too old to breed but put him with her female ... they took to each other right away and ended up having a couple of broods.

My husband always wanted a Cockatoo ... can't remember which one, but it's the large white one. They are beautiful birds but I don't think we will add one to the family any time soon. I want a dog!!

I remember years ago my husband coming home from a pet shop and telling me about a parrot of some sort that the pet shop owner was taking care of for a friend who was on vacation. While he was bird sitting he took the parrot with him to work every day. My husband said it was so funny because whenever someone walked in the door of the pet shop the bird would start yelling "Help, let me outta here", "Help let me outta here"! The owner of the pet shop had a parrot of his own that whistled the tune to the Andy Griffith Show! Some birds are so smart.

We had 5 cats in our family for awhile but are down to just the one old gal now. This is our cat "Princess" that we inherited when my mom passed 6 years ago. I've always said her name should have been "Queen" because she sure runs the household!