I have an 8 year old cat, named New Cat, who really doesn't like our chickens. Our dog, Lucy, doesn't like them either. So the dog and the cat have decided to team up. While the dog eats their food, including things like lettuce and tomatoes and oatmeal, which she would never,ever have eaten before, the cat has taken up lying on their eggs. Yesterday I was babysitting for a friend's son, who was out of school for Christmas vacation. We planned to spend the day making Christmas cookies, so when he came over, I told him to go get the eggs. He said the cat was on them. So I had to lift up the cat, while he grabbed the eggs. We are a strange family, lol. Merry Christmas everyone.
New Cat has decided to set on eggs
LOL Love it.
Merry Christmas
lol, that's a great story!
merry Christmas
Our pets are a never ending source of amusement.
lol i love that! My cats always keep me entertained.
Yesterday I was talking with a lady on Byc and she showed me a pic of one of her chickens sitting on eggs with a skunk, he hubby removed the skunk which never sprayed him, twice and both times the skunk came right back. Can't be a pet she said cause the neighbors are twenty miles away. I would never have believed it if I had not seen the pic myself. Hay, also I have a small sebright bantam hen. I have had her for two years and today she started crowing, I've heard of it before but never seen it until now and she throws out her chest just like all my other roos. It has now become a funny farm...LOL
Nutmeg my little Modern Game/ something else mix hen that raised up chicks this summer.. crowed after her babies hatched.. for a good 2 weeks. I know she's a girl. I've seen her lay an egg. :) i was a bit worried at first.. Funny Farms are the best!
This little sebright still lays egg, I just can't hardly believe she is laying and crowing. She sounds like a new rooster just learning. I though I was crazy when I first saw who was doing it. Hay
Women's lib!!
Hi Katie59: Women's lib? Sounds more to me like Henopause...LOL. Welcome to DG. I used to deliver propane all over Woodinville for a couple years. I liked the area. Hope you'll stick around the forum, lots of wonderful people here. Hay
ROFLMBO . . . thanks, Haystack. I do love it - I'm really between Duvall and Woodinville. I lurk around here from time to time and I'll be sure to check in.
No livestock for me - my friends joke that I'm unable to leave any animals outside . . .
Sounds as tho the little Seabright may have a few too many male hormones in her system. That happens more than most people think. If you have a flock, gaggle, whatever of birds that are all female or all male at the proper season for mating you will see mating type activity.
Oh Hay,
The chicken and the skunk story is so funny. Many years ago I rescued a German Shorthaired Pointer from the pound. He was trained for hunting, but gun shy, so they dumped him. Well I had him for a couple years, then bought a bunny. He followed the bunny around for at least 3 days, pointing very sharply at her. When he realized we weren't going to shoot her, despite his best pointing efforts, he decided to eat her food. Charlie was eating alfalfa pellets, and lettuce, kinda like Lucy. Then a feral tom cat showed up, moved in and fell in love with the rabbit, and would stand guard while she ate. You can never tell who someone is going to fall in love with. Remember the cow and the moose in Vermont.
Cow and moose? Do tell!
There was a wild moose who wandered into a field with a cow, and fell in love. He spent the entire winter with her. They had pictures of it on TV. They were pretty inseparable.
Great stories. Our animals make life a three-ring circus.
Ellie! I love these crazy stories. I remember last year watching animal planet and there was a two episode story of a lion, with a fawn. And that lion would trip the fawn so it would fall and then he would lick that fawn just as though it was one of his cubs. The exceptions to the natural rules of things makes me shake my head. It's one thing to have a skunk and a hen take to each other, but then the hubby removes the skunk twice and the skunk never sprays the guy. You know who in their right mind would ever pick up a wild skunk? Spray!!! I'd be worried about being bit and the skunk having rabies. I wonder if this wasn't their own pet skunk? The more I think of it the more it smells to me...LOL
My mom used to say, "It takes all kinds, said the lady as she kissed the cow." It was something that was said to her as a child. Little did she know that her daughter would take to animals so. I've done my share of animal kissin'. I'm pretty much as crazy as these critters!!
LOL! Looove that one ;)
That was great Katie59: Makes me believe you are one of us and you fit right in on this nutty forum.
Thanks for the welcome. Maybe I'm home . . .
Several weeks ago I dropped the lid to a water container and my donkey, Lawrence, picked it up and started chewing on it. I didn't want him swallowing it so I opened his mouth and slid my fingers in there searching around for the red plastic cap. Bright huh? He has a funny feeling little tongue in there, not what I expected. Suddenly, realizing where my fingers were, and feeling his teeth above and below, pictures of severed bloody fingers raced through my mind.
This poor donkey, he doesn't know what to think of me. When I screamed and jerked my hand away he was as shocked as I was. The next second it was as if he was shaking his head saying, "What is she going to do next, this poor pitiful creature that doesn't have much sense? She is funny though, I guess I'll keep her around for amusement."
lol....insert hand, then scream....it does rather have a theatrical sorta sumpin' sumpin'...
Katie!!! You were not meant to be a wandering star, Welcome home. Sometimes it's difficult to know where we fit in, take me for instance. I would never have believed this is where I belong, 99.5% women here, myself, and once in a while George, and Country gardens. None the less here I am and as strange as it may seem all the ladies on this forum have treat me very kind and made me feel like I'm home. So Katie pull up a chair, jump in the conversations and I'll grab you a cup of hot chocolate. Trust me you'll not be bored nor ignored. Who could ask for a greater gift, than the gift of being home. Merry Christmas. Haystack
Welcome Katie! I feel the same way about this wonderfully crazy group!
I've been on DG for a couple of years now and I can say that this is officially the friendliest place I've been. I love the craziness. I was just telling the dogs and cats about you all last night . . .
Oh help!!! The dogs-n-cats are BOUND to have heard vicious rumours. They are simply NOT true!! That is to say...well...you had to be there...it's all very misleading...
We didn't do it, honest!
So far, I don't think they've heard anything vicious, but they do seem to have heard something. Won't spill the beans, though.
I don't know about porkpal, but I did it.
And, if I get the chance, I'll do it again....
Well, I COULD be corrupted...
Safety (and anonymity) in numbers, eh?
LOL I may have don it to. Have no chickens just a weird dog. LOL
Any chance we can get a picture of the kitty on the eggs?
Every chance in the world, Katie...but whether you'll get an authentic pic or some dreamer's fabrication...lol....no telling who will post what pic of which kitty on whose eggs....
Hee hee.
As long as it looks realistic, I'll buy pretty much anything and be happy. I WANT to believe in fantasies . . . :-)
If I can get my camera to work, and figure out how to post it on my computer, I'll definitely send you a picture. I'm rather computer illiterate. But I think I'm as smart as my cat, and almost as smart as my old cat.
Oh my, is that cat broody? Gotta see a pic of that!
K. Looking forward to it. You can do it!
Welcome to the nut house, Katie. We are harmless and very entertaining.