Sounds like a winner to me, I can see one in my future. Stoked.
As @Chrin says.. super chilled. Ours gets on with everyone and everything.. They are clingy though so you do have to be prepared for them following you absolutely everywhere around the house at all times. If you are fine with that then you are winning with this breed.
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Yeah I’ve just had to adjust my life to generally take a dog with me anywhere or only go out on my own for a few hours at a time.
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Thanks for the kind words!
My girlfriend and my sister took me to this immersive Tintin exhibition for my birthday last year and we all got a poster there as some kind of souvenir. L’Etoile mystérieuse isn’t my favourite but it had the colour palette that matched my flat best.
The cat kinda fell from the sky. He seemed lost or abandoned, we rescued him last year and he’s been staying here ever since. He’s super grateful. I love him so much.
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Oh that’s cool. I went to a Tintin exhibition at Somerset house in London in 2015 or 2016.
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Got my first dog as an adult in August… we had been toying with the idea of a dog since the beginning of the year. We did various rounds of applying for rescues and got nowhere, but then we dog sat for some friends and the next weekend we came across an advert from a breeder in the country about a litter of cairn terriers on Saturday evening… Sunday morning I drove out with my oldest to meet the only female in the litter. 3 hour drive later, picked her up and knew it was meant to be.
So, now we have Ripley tearing around the house…
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Found this little parakeet huddled by the kerb in the road on a busy bypass. I think it had been hit by a car. I picked it up and drove it to my house a couple of miles away. I phone the vet and the receptionist said to put it in my garden - it sounded like she was discouraging me from dropping it at the surgery. I think they put them down. Anyway I did that. It couldn’t fly but it managed to climb over the fence into next door. I couldn’t find it then. An hour later my daughter saw it sitting on the roofs of the garages to the rear of our house, and there was a second parakeet with it. Another hour later and I saw the two of them fly away. What puzzles me is, how did its friend find out where it was? Was it nearby when I picked it up? Did it follow the car and hang around? It’s a mystery.
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It’ll be one of the gang members that brought it here in the first place. They won’t leave it alone until they’ve worked off their debt. Send em back I say! There’s barely enough seed for proper British birds but these foreign birds turn up and get driven around the country and treated like royalty. Fuckin liberty I tell ya!
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The parakeets flew in to our local park last summer, they run the place now. And this summer they’ve spread their wings as far as the big bunch of trees outside my back yard. Squawking all hours of the day and night. Pretty sure they’re in cahoots with the Albanians who run protection on all the local small businesses. But I have no proof.
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Put stairgates in for daughter over the weekend and finally kicked my dogs out of our bed and downstairs after 7 years in the process.
1st night went ok minus 4 am barking. Woke up this morning to a shit in the floor.
He’s not sorry
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What happened to your beard and hair bro. Grow it all back dammit
Also, cats are the best. The heelflip of the pet world
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Hair? 
Cat looks lovely
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He had sooooome hair. Not a lot granted. More than me
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Awesome! 
What’s her name?
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Nya (pronounced Nia) named after the only female in Lego Ninjago Masters of Spinjitsu. Obviously. Because I have an 8 yr old obsessed with Lego
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To be fair ninjago is sick. I had to take my eldest to the cinema to see the movie when it came out (it was alright actually)
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Its the one Lego thing my nippoer doesnt give a shit about.
Day off, up at 8.15, fed my cats, went to the coop in order to feed my hens, found two of them lying on the ground, dead, one headless, and two of them were missing. A weasel or a fox managed to enter the aviary and kill all my babes during the night, which had never happened before. Not a good way to start the day.
I’m devastated. I have chickens like a lot of people have cats or dogs, they’re my pets, I love them so much. The oldest I had was over 5 years old, had adopted her before Covid. She was absolutely gorgeous, pretty affectionate, still laid eggs like a fucking legend. They were all so beautiful, had their lovely unique personality, spread so much love, joy and happiness to me. I’m gonna miss them so much.
Cleaning the coop, getting rid of all those feathers everywhere, trying the clean the blood stains on the ground was pretty brutal. I had to do it in order to try to accept what happened but let’s be honest, I can’t really process the news.
It’ll get better with time, and I’ll adopt many more, but right now I just hope I’ll be able to watch something on Netflix, not think about this too much and sleep tonight, because I’m feeling pretty empty inside, equally stressed and exhausted if that makes sense.
aw man so sorry. you’ve talked about them before. foxes are gnarly and always find a way in. my dad’s coop had to have fences dug like a metre into the ground to finally stop them
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