Mushy's Menagerie

[Mushy]

Animals past and present. I'll try to post pictures that I don't think anyone that might stop by has seen. But there will be some familiar faces obviously.



This is Travis. He is albino - not a TRUE albino, mind you. But it doesn't make him any less prone to sunburn so he is strictly an indoor-only bunny. Which is what any bunny I ever have is. =)

Unfortunately, I've been wanting another rabbit, and I wouldn't mind a guinea pig. But for now, he's the only one I have and he's my first. I did get a free rabbit for buying his cage, and my dad insisted I take the rabbit, but two males in one cage? No way! So I gave that one to my little cousin. If I had had two cages, maybe I would have kept Patches too (I didn't name him, she did). But that wasn't the case and not an affordable option.



Holly is camera-shy! No, not really. She was cleaning herself. It just turned out to be a really cute picture!



*sings*
"And you don't mess around with Jim!"
(Jim Croce...hehe.)



Mercedes and Sydney cuddling together! This one is probably the most-linked image, but to me it just never gets old. Mercedes rarely is very cuddly towards other animals, but it was a very cold day when that picture was taken.



If I didn't already have a bird named Linus (he's not mine anymore - he really didn't bond with me to the point he would become anxious even if I fed him. This was before I had cats, so I guess I don't know why he would have reacted that way.) I would have named this cat Linus. She used to carry this blanket around with her. Haha.

And yes, that's the type of carpet we're ripping up now. Icky, isn't it? It was like that if not worse with the people who lived here BEFORE... =/ Minus the pet fur everywhere. LOL.



Travis again!



Holly as a kitten. She opened up that container herself. I used to keep her toys in it. I don't know how it even held up, being that she was in the top drawer and not much was underneath it to hold it up!



Mercedes had to be held down for this picture - this is her as a kitten. At that time, she was a very active little thing and wouldn't sit still. This and the one before it and the next one are low quality because tehy were taken with a camera phone...



Lezlie and Mercedes managed to bond very well when they were little. Lezlie is the only animal that will put Mercedes in her place if she attacks her. Lezlie is nothing but a big wimp, but she's definitely a mother - firm and loving and protective. =)



To this day, we have no idea how she did this.
Also a camera phone piccie. Silly Mercenary~ (her nickname)



I caught a good picture of Mercedes before we ripped up the carpet! LMFAO.



Sydney in the backyard.



Can you tell what breed she is? We only guess.
Maybe white German Shephard, Golden Retriever, or Husky.
And when she was little it was more apparent, but she does have some greyhound traits.

Problem is, those are all BIG dogs. Her? She's medium and weighs about 42-ish lbs.




Pup mutt!



Our old family dog, Belle. She passed on a few years ago. Holly took it really hard. She sulks when you mention Belle's name, too.



LOL PAIGE BUTT.



Holly likes Red Lobster. =)



PET PUMPKIN. JK, JK. He was very messed up looking, and even worse since he's decaying in that. It was so great I had to take a picture!



She looks like she just slurped someone's brains out.



The moments that will never happen again. =(
Those two hate each other most of the time. They rarely bother to get along and no they NEVER cuddle like this.



Again, no idea how she did this...



Paige.
Paigent Agent, Pigeon, Pudge-Pudge, Pidgeon Midget, Doximoron - dog of a million nicknames, this one.





This was Christmas. He hopped up on his cage himself.
Wish I had a good scanner for multiple reasons. One being that I have one of him begging at the dinner table. LOL.



Now the three dogs are easier to um...get picture of together. Haha.


ANother reason I'd love to have a scanner is that I have a few rare pictures. One of a mouse my brother had that I loved (we never got pictures of any of the others). SHe was adorable and sweet!

I also had a few leopard geckos, but the only one I managed pictures of was Perth. Since Rogue, Enigma, and Mercy all passed away before I could ever get pictures of them.

I also have some of my cockatiel and when I was in high school, my brother had a Green Conure. =)

[Chris]

These are awesome! Of course there are a few I have seen before - the one of Sydney and Mercedes never fails to make me go "Awwwwwww". Mercedes has sure gotten herself in some weird positions! It is absolutely amazing how flexible cats are. They can get in the oddest places.

That 2nd pic of Holly just kills me. She looks royally pissed about something. (Was Daddy being mean and witholding food? ) Love the Jim Croce reference. Loves me some Croce too.

Travis....what can I say? That is the cutest wabbit ever! I hate you couldn't keep both, but maybe it was better that way since they are both male. (As I type this, there are 2 wabbits romping around in the rain in the back yard.)

Is that Mercedes with the blankie? That is just too adorable! Linus would have been the perfect name. (So sad about the birdie, but that probably worked out for the best as well.)

That is so sad about Belle. It isn't fair that animals don't live long. A friend of mine said she felt it was that way to help us learn about and deal with grief. I am not sure how I feel about that one. I have lost a lot of animals, but I still can't deal with grief any better. Poor Holly. She misses her friend.

That pumpkin is amazing!!! I love it! Too bad they don't last, either.

Paige is adorable. I just want to rub her ears and give her a hug.

Hard to tell about Sydney. I don't know dog breeds real well anyway. But that smile is adorable.

That carpet isn't so bad. At least it isn't some hideous color like neon green or some weird texture like astroturf!

Great pix! Thank you so much for sharing them!

[Chris]

And with Lezlie, that maternal instinct is amazing. Sounds like one of those stories you hear on the news where one type of animal adopts another. I love when that happens.

[Mushy]

Lezlie let Paige suckle on her. She was spayed as a pup, and Paige was old enough to eat dry foot, and yet Lezlie put up with it. They are the "beagle brigade" since they stick so close together. Lezlie is half rott and Paige is half dauchsund (explains the short stubby legs and the nickname "Doximoron"). =D

Glad you love the pictures! I love my kids. And yes, Daddy got the camera too close to his precious Holly's face without turning off the flash! Fortunately her eyes are okay, but that explains the look. But it cracks me up anyway.

And Mercedes is QUITE the contortionist.
Linus is a beautiful budgie though. ;-;

Trust me, I had to have Travis and Patches together for a short time while I called my cousin. Bad idea. Rabbits will fight, too, but in this case Patches had jumped on Travis and started humping. Travis was running away and couldn't escape - he flipped out so I ended up carrying him around. Blatant favoritism, but I had picked him out. Not the other one. I had pretty much been handed the other one without a choice - and my dad said it would be a good idea. I wanted ONE rabbit at that point, so I was upset to have to take a second in that circumstance. ;-;

I don't think it helps us deal with grief any better. I don't think it made me view human death with any understanding than I did before I had animals. I feel that the healing that our pets give us is all that I need, and I think in a way that makes it all the more painful for me to deal with their deaths.

The bond we have with people and pets in our lives is something I think is natural for us to grieve over. And pets grieve too, as we both know.

[LesFity]

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