Smart Dog

Saturday, August 7th, 2010 10:26 pm
mothwing: Gif of wolf running towards the right in front of large moon (Wolf)


Ever since we read this comic Crocky and I wanted to see how Dax would do on an intelligence test. We both never even knew that there was such a thing as intelligence tests for animals, and I'm still agog. What's the point? o.O I can sort of see it for service dogs, but for pets? Who cares?

Meet Dax, my mother's hunting dog.



He is a Pudelpointer, and we already know that he passed the German character test required to allow him in public without a muzzle or a leash in designated areas with flying colours, so I was not too worried about his performance.

But I was still curious how well he ) would do on the test. )

So he is still the smartest. ♥


My cat probably isn't. Sev. )

Day 8

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 01:32 pm
mothwing: A wanderer standing on a cliff, looking over a distant city (Book)
Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television program
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy

Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad

I miss my cat.

I miss my cat. :(

Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobbie of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 7

Monday, December 7th, 2009 01:20 pm
mothwing: A wanderer standing on a cliff, looking over a distant city (Book)
Day 01 → Your favourite song
Day 02 → Your favourite movie
Day 03 → Your favourite television program
Day 04 → Your favourite book
Day 05 → Your favourite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy

Sev and Dax

Our pets. ♥
I've grown up with our dogs and our zoo, and the time I've been living with Crocky is the longest time I've been without pets. I miss living with animals, and I get sad whenever I think of all the poor animals at the shelter. I wanted to volunteer at the local shelter so I could help making their lives better, but volunteering is not as easy as I thought it would be - they don't seem to take volunteers who help out with the pets, apparently, and since I'm broke I'd rather donate time and walk the dogs or pet the cats than money.

Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobbie of yours
Day 21 → A recipe
Day 22 → A website
Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy

Molly

Friday, August 3rd, 2007 04:20 pm
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Morrigan (Molly)
1998 - 2007

Molly, the lovely little black rabbit.

Molly has been ill occasionally for years, with strange fits of sneezing occasionally (though not rabbit flu), and most notably a seizure in June 2004, but she always got well again, and the vet was always able to reassure us that everything was fine with her. Always. Until today, when I noticed that she had difficulties breathing when I gave her her breakfast, which she did eat with an appetite. Still, she kept breathing through her mouth, and it seemed to give her considerable difficulty.
When I clipped her claws she panicked completely, which was very unusual, because she is not new to having her claws clipped, so I put her on the floor to calm down, but she did not. Her breathing became worse and worse, and she died while I was on the phone with the kindergarten, telling them I could not come because I had to go to the vet's. I wish I had been there, it was a question of minutes, and the thought that she must have suffocated is horrible.

The worst thing about this is that Crocky, who fed her two days ago, said that Molly's breathing had sounded strange. When I checked on her that night she was fine again, but I could have done something if I had gone to the vet immediately that night. She usually did sneeze when her cage had been cleared out because the dust from the hay got in her nose, and sometimes over a period of days, and her breathing occasionally sounded strange because there was slime in her nose, but it always went away again. It sounds as though it has really been rabbit flu this time, and that can be cured if you act immediately - and can be fatal if not.

Pictures

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007 12:16 pm
mothwing: A wanderer standing on a cliff, looking over a distant city (Book)
I may not be able to post any entry longer than three lines at the moment, but maybe I can post pictures?

My amazing cat:



Meet Sev )

Kitty Christmas!

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006 12:23 pm
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Of course, the whole redecoration is only done for the pleasure of my cat. And the fact it's christmas means, of course, that there are lots of ribbons for him - and that's the point, really, isn't it?

Cat and ribbon (8) )

I love him. Of course, playing with him comes at a price, and thus I've got scratches on my hand - hey, it's his ribbon, serves me right.

Will go and work on some term paper now. 

Yay.

Morrigan

Monday, June 7th, 2004 09:01 pm
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I was going to make an entry about my birthday, which was really great, but there is something which is too disturbing to think about that right now. I'll add the entry I was going to make later on.

On Sunday morning at 2.30 am, my rabbit had a seizure. It was horrible, she was just tossing and thrashing around in her cage. I thought she was going to die.
I was just going to call the emergency number of a vet when she stopped and just lay there, breathing too fast, eyes rolling around wildly, heart racing.
My mother-the-biologist didn't know what to do, either.

In the morning Molly was alright again, still moving rather jerkily, but apart from that, everything was ok. She hasn't had another seizure since.

Today, we went to the vet to see what she's got. With many "ah"s and "uhm"s he told me that my rabbit is suffering from the "louping ill", or Drehkrankheit.

For whatever reason, I thought that was an ailment usually associated with sheep. But she's got it anyway, and only 2 out of 20 rabbits are cured.
Which means that my rabbit is most probably going to die in the next two weeks and is also very likely to have another seizure.

The worst part about this is that other animals can get the germs as well, but what effect it has on them hasn't been discovered yet. Or if there is any, in fact. Some scientists - three teams worldwide, that is - believe that there is a connection between the germs an a chronic inflammation of the kidneys. The others are apparently quite cueless.
Great. How very reassuring.

Our family includes Sevvie, the tomcat, Dax, the dog (Pudelpointer), Quirrel and Domino/Utnapishtim, the two guinea pigs and Koko, the budgie. I don't think I'll have to worry about the zillions of guppies, but what about Sevvie, Dax and the pigs?

I so hope Molly will be alright again. She is six and a half, which is not exactly young for a house rabbit, and it is not a painful illness, either. She's only dizzy at the moment because her sense of balance is affected, apart from that she is perfectly alright again.

Today is really a crap day.

To make things worse, June will be a Crocky-free month. She left today, and we Hamburgians will only see her again in July.
Living in the Middle ages must have been better, all your friends weren't that far away. 180 kilometers. Alright, it is not that far, but... it feels like a lightyear to me right now. *sigh*

Alright, then. Will try to feed Molly her medicine now. She hates it and takes revenge by scratching and biting me enthusiastically.

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