Just a mini update on our new rescued cat, named her Nya. She’s being very (maybe too well) well fed now and very pampered here at her new home. She’s got strange behaviours for something that’s been badly treated, she craves human physical contact and hates being alone so we call her the velcro cat.
She’s been microchipped, flea treated, vaccinated, spayed etc and the vet guesstimates she is around 18 months old.
It usually goes the other way with rescue animals that have had a traumatic start to their lives, so that’s really encouraging that she likes human contact and sounds like she’s already socialised in that regard.
Yeah it is odd. Poppy is from a dog shelter and she couldn’t care less about other dogs but she LOVES people and spends all of her time at the park interacting with the humans and not the dogs. She also hates being on her own and will follow me all over the flat, loving to sleep between my legs when I’m on the sofa or in bed so needy lol but not what we had expected whatsoever when we got her from the shelter.
Other shelter animals I’ve met and interacted with were definitely not like Nya and Poppy.
After sleeping on it and chatting to the vet they assured us the absolute right thing was to sadly get rid and spay her so we went on that. It wasn’t nice and still didn’t feel right at all but we went on their advice in the end.
He tore a hole in our duvet and buried one of his treats in it.
Edit: @YJYUX we’re not really sure what to call that color! His coat is baffling. It’s kind of gray and brown at the same time. I may pull the ultimate privileged white millennial move and DNA test him. I’m just so curious.
I remember a time one of our family dogs stole a box of chocolates when left alone. She dug up carpets all around the house burying the chocolates. Really smart dog though. She once escaped the house by getting out of an upstairs window, sliding down the sloping roof and then jumping down a single story into the garden. She could also open doors by jumping up and using her paws to open the latch.
You said it was pitbull mix if I remember right. I reckon he looks part Lab or golden retriever (basically the same breed)
Yeah Wally is a little too smart. He’s figured out how to jump the safety gates, open doors and snatch food from the counter and hide it. He also chewed a hole in my favorite pair of hipster skinny jeans.
My missus has one of these vibrating exercise boards, I was working in the kitchen, I heard several bleeps from the front room and walked in to see Max doing his daily workout,