Pets who "help" us write

[Chase Gamwell]

q-tips and hair bands

Anastacia loves hair ties. You could hide one between a stack of papers in a bag in the closet and she would find it. It's uncanny and hilarious when Astrid is trying to find something to put her hair up with, but discovers that every hair tie she has is on the floor ripped to shreds...

Bagheera loves card board. That dude will chew on it till doomsday...probably why one of his little front teeth is missing and another is crooked...cardboard...

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Anastacia loves hair ties. You could hide one between a stack of papers in a bag in the closet and she would find it. It's uncanny and hilarious when Astrid is trying to find something to put her hair up with, but discovers that every hair tie she has is on the floor ripped to shreds...

Bagheera loves card board. That dude will chew on it till doomsday...probably why one of his little front teeth is missing and another is crooked...cardboard...

Yes, hair ties. They are Oreos favorite, and his eyes light up whenever I give him one of my old ones. They also light up anytime I go to pet him with one on my wrist, or when I'm tying my hair up, or any other time he sees a hair tie. And man can he move when one falls to the floor on accident!

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Ares loves elastic bands, ribbons and shoelaces. He has a fondness for attacking and shredding paper, especially newspaper.

 

[Chase Gamwell]

He has a fondness for attacking and shredding paper, especially newspaper.

God forbid I forget a roll of paper towels where Bagheera can get to it...

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Ares loves elastic bands, ribbons and shoelaces. He has a fondness for attacking and shredding paper, especially newspaper.

Ah yes, Cookie also loves attacking paper, but only if it's been balled up so he can swat it around like he's playing soccer.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

God forbid I forget a roll of paper towels where Bagheera can get to it...

Let's not mention toilet rolls...

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Let's not mention toilet rolls...

Luckily he doesn't go in for those. Apparently they aren't as enjoyable to shred as paper towels...

 

[Jason Byrne]

This is typical Kitty. She thinks there's buried treasure in my writing room closet. As you can see, all that's in there is a mess that she couldn't climb on this particular day. Her face in the last pic says it all. LOL!!

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Any wrinkled blanket or towel on the floor also covers buried treasure.

What about watching TV? Toby will sit on the floor and watch TV with us, a lot of the time...
One particular day, Planet Earth was especially riveting...

 

[Jason Byrne]

Let's not mention toilet rolls...

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Any wrinkled blanket or towel on the floor also covers buried treasure.

What about watching TV? Toby will sit on the floor and watch TV with us, a lot of the time...
One particular day, Planet Earth was especially riveting...
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Lol that's adorable. Neither of my cats watch TV, but then again, Michael and I don't watch much either. We have two shows that we watch weekly, but our internet cost just went up so we don't watch Netflix more than once or twice a month

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Toby will sit on the floor and watch TV with us

I play way too many vidja games, so I typically get lap kitty when I'm doing that.

 

[KG Christopher]

This is a picture of my middle girl, Yasmin and our Dalmatian puppy Cleo. She is a 4.5 months old and a total nutter. If any of you want her, you are welcome. I can arrange to either have her sent live, or I can get her stuffed, I don't mind. She ate my credit card, two of my bank cards, but left my really old block busters video club card intact. I hate her, everyone else in the family love her, but I hate her. She inspires all the negative characters I can dream of. Her name is Cleo, they all wait until I come home to pick up the poos. "Oh look its Dad - pickupthepoos - dad.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

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This is a picture of my middle girl, Yasmin and our Dalmatian puppy Cleo. She is a 4.5 months old and a total nutter. If any of you want her, you are welcome. I can arrange to either have her sent live, or I can get her stuffed, I don't mind. She ate my credit card, two of my bank cards, but left my really old block busters video club card intact. I hate her, everyone else in the family love her, but I hate her. She inspires all the negative characters I can dream of. Her name is Cleo, they all wait until I come home to pick up the poos. "Oh look its Dad - pickupthepoos - dad.

Reality bites, doesn't it. I've already mentioned on other posts my daughter's cat, offically named Don Gato, but known primarily as "The Malevolent Beast From Hell." The cat who viciously attacks if you don't fill his food dish when he says it's time. The cat who spends his nights hurling himself against the front door. The cat who uses his sweet kitty charms to lure people close in order to eviscerate them. He generally wants nothing to do with people, so he doesn't help me write. But he does appreciate the bean bag chair in my office.

 

[KG Christopher]

Reality bites, doesn't it. I've already mentioned on other posts my daughter's cat, offically named Don Gato, but known primarily as "The Malevolent Beast From Hell." The cat who viciously attacks if you don't fill his food dish when he says it's time. The cat who spends his nights hurling himself against the front door. The cat who uses his sweet kitty charms to lure people close in order to eviscerate them. He generally wants nothing to do with people, so he doesn't help me write. But he does appreciate the bean bag chair in my office.
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Yes, gime, gime, gime... I do have a soft spot for Cleo and I know she will grow out of it, its just at the moment, I can take her for a 5 K walk and she will not poo until she gets home, winds me so much. Cats, we have had our fair share of cats but absolutely no way do we consider them pets, just co-habitants who seem to offer very little apart from sarcastic stairs, the odd meo and a pur.

 

[KG Christopher]

Cleo was so cute when She came home. I was working in Switzerland, so from a distance I said aaahhh isnt She lovely, but now, she's just a poo machine

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Yes, gime, gime, gime... I do have a soft spot for Cleo and I know she will grow out of it, its just at the moment, I can take her for a 5 K walk and she will not poo until she gets home, winds me so much. Cats, we have had our fair share of cats but absolutely no way do we consider them pets, just co-habitants who seem to offer very little apart from sarcastic stairs, the odd meo and a pur.

At my house, all the animals have to work for a living, and though the cat is a beast to us, he's also a beast to the pests, so I accept him. And I have a soft spot for cats, and his vile nature doesn't keep me from enjoying his company...when he's asleep.

 

[KG Christopher]

At my house, all the animals have to work for a living, and though the cat is a beast to us, he's also a beast to the pests, so I accept him. And I have a soft spot for cats, and his vile nature doesn't keep me from enjoying his company...when he's asleep.

Yes, we live in the country, so the dog is expected to bark, the cats are expected to catch.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

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Cleo was so cute when She came home. I was working in Switzerland, so from a distance I said aaahhh isnt She lovely, but now, she's just a poo machine

THAT FACE!! She's so cute!!!

 

[KG Christopher]

THAT FACE!! She's so cute!!!

I can fedex her to you, live, no guarantee that she will be very cute when you recieve her...or... I can get her stuffed and sent, don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity Nicole.



If you want her stuffed, like this picture, sitting down, will be cheaper...




I think the 'prancing' pose feature will be hard to maintain for the taxidermist and might cost more money, just let me know...

 

[Chase Gamwell]

Reality bites, doesn't it. I've already mentioned on other posts my daughter's cat, offically named Don Gato, but known primarily as "The Malevolent Beast From Hell." The cat who viciously attacks if you don't fill his food dish when he says it's time. The cat who spends his nights hurling himself against the front door. The cat who uses his sweet kitty charms to lure people close in order to eviscerate them. He generally wants nothing to do with people, so he doesn't help me write. But he does appreciate the bean bag chair in my office.
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Sounds like a kitty!

 

[Jason Byrne]

Reality bites, doesn't it. I've already mentioned on other posts my daughter's cat, offically named Don Gato, but known primarily as "The Malevolent Beast From Hell." The cat who viciously attacks if you don't fill his food dish when he says it's time. The cat who spends his nights hurling himself against the front door. The cat who uses his sweet kitty charms to lure people close in order to eviscerate them. He generally wants nothing to do with people, so he doesn't help me write. But he does appreciate the bean bag chair in my office.

Cleo was so cute when She came home. I was working in Switzerland, so from a distance I said aaahhh isnt She lovely, but now, she's just a poo machine

Hahaha... why are the pretty ones always crazy...

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Sounds like a kitty!

I've had cats my whole life--only one has ever been this evil before. We were fostering her for an over-full shelter--we took her back after two weeks because she was really a feral cat, not a pet. It was like living in a cage with a tiger. No one was going to ever adopt that animal.

 

[KG Christopher]

I play way too many vidja games, so I typically get lap kitty when I'm doing that.

Lap Kitty sounds like a character out of Apocolypse Now? or the Deer Hunter?

 

[Jennifer Stone]

This is about as helpful as Ares gets, but at least he looks like a cat and not have the crazy demon eyes. He normally does when I take photos of him.

 

[Carol Rose]

This is about as helpful as Ares gets, but at least he looks like a cat and not have the crazy demon eyes. He normally does when I take photos of him.
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He's so pretty!

 

[Jennifer Stone]

He's so pretty!

I'll have to get some of the other pics off my phone, where his eyes have the reflective glare. He looks like such a demon!

 

[Chase Gamwell]

I'll have to get some of the other pics off my phone, where his eyes have the reflective glare. He looks like such a demon!

He looks like an Ares!

 

[Jennifer Stone]

He looks like an Ares!

He lives up to his name

 

[Quillwitch]

If being sick on the stairs counts as assistance, then our cat is frequently helpful, in large volumes...

My sentiments exactly. When has a cat every done anything good for me? We are but lowly humans.

 

[Roy Donovan]

Great to see others with amazing pets, I wrote my novel with my much loved, and dearly missed, Dolly the miniature yorkshire terrier.
Her continued presence always kept me happy.