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Mr. Grigsby and Vidalia share a well-chewed cardboard box together.
While I've had twosomes--Ariel and Cumin adored each other from the very start, and Gumbo and Miss Raven have been best friends over the past decade--Mr. Grigsby, Vidalia, and Curio are my first trio of best buddies. Granted, Vidalia will cuddle with anyone who lets her. At times I ponder whether the three could go to a home together allowing us to have more room for fosters. After all, all three have simply fabulous personalities. Who wouldn't love having three best buddies? Then I stop and realize that there's a reason I have them. After all, Curio needs his twice-daily steam baths and lysine to keep his herpesvirus infection under control. And Mr. Grigsby is allergic to standard cat food and who knows what else. I'd hate for others to have to pay for all his vet care when his toes balloon, crack, and end up secondarily infected from using the litter box. And I knew Vidalia was mine when she had a severe allergic reaction to one of the lysine treats I used to give her kitten Godiva. Vidalia's toes were itchy sausages, all pushing out, as her face ballooned. I had to take off her collar and give her a steroid injection. No, Vidalia does not need to go anywhere. What if something happened to her? That's why she stayed. I know what she eats and wouldn't want her diet to change based on which cat food is on sale. That's why I have this threesome for all their days. Don't get me wrong, I love them dearly, but I make a point of only keeping critters that aren't adoptable. I guess, technically, neither Curio nor Mr. Grigsby could easily find a home. And I wouldn't ever want to separate the three. Together forever.
Too bad Curio hadn't crawled in the box with them.
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Ducklings Cuddling BW - Hybrid baby ducklings cuddle and sleep together by the waters edge. Except for one curious duckling which maintains a watchful eye.
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COWBOY CUDDLE-an adventure with Mom and Dad
Happy anniversary to my mom and dad who have just celebrated 35 years of following each other into bizarre and interesting hobbies including Irish and Appalachian clog dancing, week long bike adventures, learning Arabic, and many others. One really fun activity that they participate in most years is performing at Wild West Days in Viroqua, WI where they dress up in costumes and play music and dance. I wanted to do a fun story about them as their cowboy characters chasing each other around their property to share this fun, quirky love that they share and the adventures that they have together.
Winter is the best time to cuddle up... how nice it would be young again and lie besides mom ... but as we grow up and move for work ... somewhere that innocence is lost
Az and Femme cuddle under a blacklight. I miss these guys. They're Arizona bark scorpions. Formerly known as Centruroides exilicauda, they're now back to the original Centruroides sculpturatus name, after being split into two separate species. The Baja California bark scorpion, being the "newer" species, gets the newer C. exilicauda name, while the "older" Arizona bark scorpion gets its old name back.
You should NEVER leave a blacklight on a scorpion long-term. The intense UV rays will eventually kill the nocturnal animal. Some pet stores market scorpion habitats with blacklights because they look cool, but they don't tell you the facts. Long-term blacklight exposure will stress them out. They like it dark.
Here they are featured on UglyOverload.com on June 24, 2007:
uglyoverload.blogspot.com/2007/06/as-you-requested.html
Az and Femme are also featured in the scorpion gallery at About.com's Phoenix, AZ site:
phoenix.about.com/od/arizonapicturesandphotos/ig/Arizona-...
This one turned out really nice. Getting her to stand still and look away without moving her head to see what I was doing was a bit difficult, but in the 10 or so that I snapped off, this one turned out really well.
Why A Favorite?
Well, first of all, she's my daughter. That in it's self is reason enough, but I chose this particular one from the 200 or so shots I've posted with her as the subject because of the expression on her face and the mood that I pick up from the photo. I also really like the lighting.
they fell asleep on the couch together. this is the sort of sister/brother bonding moment greenleaf has been waiting for her whole life.
I haven't done a lot of this lately. And frankly, guys just look like dorks with no woman to complete the pair.
FORT CARSON, Colo.--Staff Sgt. John Mariana, a military working dog handler, and his K-9, Bronco, both assigned to the 148th Military Police Detachment, 759th Military Police Battalion, from Fort Carson, Colo., take a break from conducting security patrols during a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
(Photo courtesy of Staff Sgt. John Mariana, 148th MP Det., 759th MP Bn.)