The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I think I sometimes live like tomorrow will be my last day, so I kinda understand your husband. Prepare for the worse and hope for the best.

That is amazing your hen still lays eggs. If she was a human she'd be in the tabloids, " Elderly Lady gives Birth."

I can't live without dogs even though losing them destroys me. We recently have taken on a stray kitten. Dogs are definitely better. She's super smart and active, and very independent. I'm glad she's outside.

 

[speckledhen]

Dogs are definitely better. She's super smart and active, and very independent. I'm glad she's outside.

I hear that. It was so much better when Finn stayed outside all the time, but he kept getting into scraps with one particular new cat in the area and I got tired of treating wounds. He goes out all day, but we make him come inside by 6 p.m. and stay all night. Night is when the worst stuff happens, it seems. A wound on his side that we at first thought was a puncture from a fight turned out to be what we think was from a BB gun. I think someone was hearing him fight with some cat and just shot into them and he was hit. It healed up fine with antibiotics, but the BB is still inside. Hopefully, it's just copper. Hasn't seemed to have affected him at all. We can't keep taking him to the vet every catfight. He's been neutered since two weeks after he came to stay here, but he was over a year old and still defends his territory with a vengeance. He's a smart cat, as cats go, but I also much prefer dogs. I understand them better. They irritate me less.

 

[1muttsfan]

Even if the pellet is lead it will not harm him. Lead in the stomach is dangerous, as the acid environment there causes it to break down and be absorbed. When lead is in tissue, it is encapsulated by the body, and in that neutral environment is not absorbed in toxic levels.

 

[speckledhen]

Even if the pellet is lead it will not harm him. Lead in the stomach is dangerous, as the acid environment there causes it to break down and be absorbed. When lead is in tissue, it is encapsulated by the body, and in that neutral environment is not absorbed in toxic levels.

I figured as much, but we kept an eye on him for awhile after it healed over. I hate that someone shot at him, but if tomcats were fighting, I could see someone just shooting into the fray haphazardly to stop them. Poor Finn, he doesn't go far from the property lines anymore, as far as we can tell. He's too close by when we call him. But, keeping him inside at night has cut way down on the cat drama. Of course, he doesn't get to hunt nearly as much as he did, sadly.

 

[h2oratt]

CAT DRama, lol

We have possum drama here.

 

[robhuncor]

Cynthia, are you likely to be affected by the coming hurricane? Are you "battening down the hatches"? The weather diagrams looked like there was a possibility of it heading right your way. I hope you stay safe - and all the others on here that might be in the path of this storm!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I was wondering the same. Hopefully she is safe.

 

[speckledhen]

Cynthia, are you likely to be affected by the coming hurricane? Are you "battening down the hatches"? The weather diagrams looked like there was a possibility of it heading right your way. I hope you stay safe - and all the others on here that might be in the path of this storm!

I was wondering the same. Hopefully she is safe.

The path shifted southward so that we are in it, however, they say by the time it gets to us, winds will have gone down to around 40 mph or so, so it will be like most of our storms here in the mountains, I think. It will just make an inconvenient mess, I'm predicting, downing some firewood for us to gather and cut up.

 

[speckledhen]

The current path veers away from us again, but will hit Robin (wekivabird) directly. We are right at the NC line, pretty much dead center N. GA, just east of where TN/NC/Ga come together

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

The current path veers away from us again, but will hit Robin (wekivabird) directly. We are right at the NC line, pretty much dead center N. GA, just east of where TN/NC/Ga come together

I was happy to see it lost some of it's strength. Sometimes they pick up speed. Hopefully you don't get too much rain. Interestingly enough is the hurricane has trapped us in a warm sunny weather pattern. It's too hot for me so I hope it moves along so I can get on will some fall weather.