Pet StoriesWhen one of my cats was younger and a lot fatter, he came bowling in from the garden with an almighty crash. Looking slightly stunned, he'd arrived into the kitchen having ripped the cat flap from the door and was still wearing it as a cat-tutu. Did I mention he was quite fat?
In honour of Jake, a well loved cat, who died on Wednesday, tell us your pet stories and cheer us up.
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chthonic, Fri 8 Jun 2007, 9:15)
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StinkyIn addition to a chocolate craving iguana, I also have the meanest foul-tempered Greek tortoise I am aware of. As regularly traumatizing his cagemate, Gamara, is not enough, he will also go to great lengths to assert his dominance over any other creature in his space. Bombshell, the iguana, for instance, often has to deal with this tiny terror slowly chasing her around the cage bottom whenever she cares to descend from the heights of her heating lamp. When on the loose, human toes are also tempting targets for vicious weak-jawed nips; the giant bipedal bastards need to be put in their place, after all, and the tortoise seems always quite intent on letting us know who's in charge. Even the girlfriend's rats have suffered the turtley wrath of Stinky, one taking a rather unexpected bite across her pink tail while out and about. There's nothing quite like watching a tortoise sneak up on an unsuspecting white rat and giving her a solid bite in the rear. Quite the bully, our dear Stinky; he gets a lot of solitary confinement...
(, Sat 9 Jun 2007, 4:43, Reply)
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