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Hi everyone let's see a picture of your fur babies ❤️or pets

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  • brujah81
    brujah81 Community member Posts: 56 Courageous
    Hello, This is my Furbabie Junior He is a year and a half old, he is a Bengal.
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Community member Posts: 1,439 Disability Gamechanger
    @brujah81
    Very handsome boy. Bengals get quite big, dont they? Cant recall ever seeing one but I knew someone who had one once.
  • brujah81
    brujah81 Community member Posts: 56 Courageous
    hes about 6kg now so hes quite big and thats at a year and an half.. the picture above is from last year.. let me see if i can find a more recent picture.. hes my baby i dont know what i would do without him. I Think we are all like that with our furbabies
  • Chloe_Scope
    Chloe_Scope Posts: 10,586 Disability Gamechanger
    These pictures have all made me so happy!  <3

    Thank you everyone for sharing your adorable animals and welcome to the community for those of you who have just joined us. :)
    Scope

  • brujah81
    brujah81 Community member Posts: 56 Courageous
    looking at photos of furbabies is good when when you feel down or low.
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Community member Posts: 1,439 Disability Gamechanger
    @brujah81
    Yes I'm a big animal lover, love my pets. They come first, always. I have 5 dogs, a cockatiel and tropical & goldfish (pond and tank).
    Did you see the Cinnamon Trust thread btw?
  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Community member Posts: 1,439 Disability Gamechanger
    @brujah81
    There is a place near me with therapy horses where you can go and just handle the horses, grooming them, leading them, feeding etc, interacting (no riding).
    Good for confidence building and social interaction, also depression and anxiety.
    I need to look into it more as I'm on the autism spectrum, also have depression and anxiety, so would prefer to socialise with horses than people to be honest!
  • Ryley98
    Ryley98 Community member Posts: 4 Listener
  • Ryley98
    Ryley98 Community member Posts: 4 Listener
    The rabbit is bob he is a bit of a weirdo and likes to sit on my shoulder like that idk why lol. And the two rats are oskar and stormi they are my 2 beautiful baby girls and all 3 of my pets give me strength to keep going lol 
  • brujah81
    brujah81 Community member Posts: 56 Courageous
    i havent seen the cinnamon trust thread will go find it now..
  • Chloe_Scope
    Chloe_Scope Posts: 10,586 Disability Gamechanger
    @Ryley98, your animals are so sweet! Thank you for sharing. :)
    Scope

  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Community member Posts: 1,439 Disability Gamechanger
    @Ryley98
    Agree, dont know what I'd do without my pets, especially the dogs. I used to work as a pet carer and that was just brilliant. I'm guessing Bob is a house rabbit? Love rats. They are so intelligent. Even the wild ones here, drinking and washing their faces at my fish pond. In the summer I've seen them swim into it to nick the fish food!
  • Waylay
    Waylay Community member, Scope Member Posts: 973 Pioneering
    @brujah81 So gorgeous! I'd love to have a Bengal, but I wouldn't be able to keep up with one (or afford one!)

    @Ryley98 Love the ratkins! I had a wonderful rat named Tadpole the Warrior Princess 20 years ago while I was in uni. She was lovely, and would hang out under my (long) hair for hours, along the back of my neck. She'd also stand on her hind paws on my shoulder, holding onto my ear, when she wanted to look at something. She was such a good little companion.

    She almost died multiple times:
    #1: T was 1 of 3, and unbeknowst to me they were infected with a respiratory disease when I got them. I came home from class to find 1 dead and the other 2 very sick. The other one died on the way to the vet, but T held on and got antibiotics in time.
    #2: T grew a benign tumour, which the vet was hesitant to remove because rats often don't survive surgery. Unfortunately, the tumour just kept on growing, and when it was about 2/3 the size of Tadpole, we had to have it removed!! 
    She survived the surgery no problem, and when the tumour regrew, she survived a 2nd surgery to remove it again!

    #3: The "Warrior Princess" bit got added to her name after I got my first kitty, Kozmo. Koz was terrified of everything, including Tadpole, but eventually worked up the courage to approach T's cage. T was an escape artist, though, and was having none of this whole "cat in her space" thing! She wriggled between some bent bars which I hadn't noticed yet and launched herself at Kozmo. She landed on Koz's face and proceeded to cling on and scratch and bite while making the most godawful sound! Koz knocked her off before I could intervene and ran in terror! (Koz only received a couple of scratches on her nose, but for the rest of T's life, Kozmo would walk as far away from T's cage as possible when she had to pass by.  ?)
    Unfortunately, Koz knocked out one of T's eyes in the process, which the vet had to remove. This didn't seem to bother Tadpole one bit. Warrior Princess!

    Tadpole lived to almost 4 years old. 
  • Waylay
    Waylay Community member, Scope Member Posts: 973 Pioneering
    My beautiful 1.5 year-old, Nemi. :)

    My other cat, Trouble (3 months older than Nemi and related in some complicated way) is very difficult to take pics of, so here's a bad one of the 2 of them:

  • Bettahm
    Bettahm Community member Posts: 1,439 Disability Gamechanger
    @Waylay
    Love your Tadpole tale. She was quite a girl! Rats unfortunately have a pretty bad public image which is such a shame as they are such intelligent creatures. Your story has reminded me of a friend I had at school who used to let her white mice walk about on her! She would put one on her shoulder and he'd go from there! 
  • brujah81
    brujah81 Community member Posts: 56 Courageous
    @Waylay Trouble looks very much like my previous kitty called Timmy. Bengals can be ridiculous prices. Junior didnt come with any paperwork so he was only £250 which is still alot of money but he is worth every penny!
  • kittykat55
    kittykat55 Scope Member Posts: 25 Courageous
    That his is my oldest boy who we rescued when he was 5 weeks old. He’s a big softy and loves to go out and bring us presents home. He has a loud bell on his collar now so he can’t now 
  • kittykat55
    kittykat55 Scope Member Posts: 25 Courageous

    This is my biggest boy who is a 10month old bengal who weighs 16.5lbs already he is always near me especially if I’m having a bad day ?
  • kittykat55
    kittykat55 Scope Member Posts: 25 Courageous

    Then we have Ivan’s brother Boris he always sleeps by my feet ?
  • kittykat55
    kittykat55 Scope Member Posts: 25 Courageous

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