Washingtonians

[RustyHen]

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Thank you CGG ! that was great!

 

[cmsdvm]

Entries close Aug 30 for the first Tabletop Show in the Pacific Northwest.

The premium book is out for the Western Washington State Fair- better known to us damp Washingtonians as The Puyallup Fair. Here is the link: http://www.thefair.com/_assets/editor_uplo...011_Poultry.pdf
Birds check in Wed pm Sep 7 and go home Sun Sep 11. There will be a serama TT show Friday night and the open show will be judged Saturday morning. Seramas will be judged twice and will pay 2 entry fees of $2.50 each. We have lovely glass rosettes and a REAL serama judge (Don Nelson) and we want everyone to come who is within driving distance! We expect this to be a one time opportunity at this fair. Please come if it is at all possible. Each exhibitor who enters a bird also gets 3 free tickets to the 8th largest fair in the US-normally a pricey ticket- so you may want to enter multiple birds under multiple exhibitors if your family needs more tickets. I live about 20 minutes away from the fairgrounds and can come up with an extra bedroom or transport somebody's birds if it would help. The fair takes good care of the birds during this time, locking cages to prevent theft, and I will be the veterinarian checking in birds and keeping an eye out for any birds with contagious conditions who should be turned away. The fair also offers a very popular junior poultry show Sep 22-25 (fitting and showing on the 24th, conformation judging on the 23rd) but this is the only time there will be a TT show for seramas. We will have different divisions for junior and open birds.

The entries are all on-line and are a little confusing. Follow the directions and enter your serama in the bantam division for the caged show Saturday, then go back and add another entry for the table top show instead of bantam. This will come to $5 per bird. You pay on-line as well. The 3 tickets each exhibitor receives also entitles one to free parking in the bronze or silver parking lots. Here is the information on parking I got from the show secretary:

 Silver Parking Lot – FREE
Location: 900 block of 9th Avenue SW
Availability: 7 days a week - First come / first park
Bonus: Easy walk to Red Gate (3.5 blocks), open 7 am –12:30 am
Requirement: Fair photo ID, three-day punch card pass, or one-day exhibitor ticket (promotional
ticket not honored)


 Bronze Parking Lot – FREE
Location: 400 block of 9th Avenue SE
Availability: 7 days a week - First come / first park
Bonus: Easy walk to Gold Gate (3 blocks)
Requirement: Fair photo ID, three-day punch card pass, or one-day exhibitor ticket (promotional
ticket not honored)

I can be contacted at [email protected] or 253 208-1708 with questions.

 

[Ogress]

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I'm sorry. I know some cats really enjoy going outside, but it makes me nervous, and I don't have nearly the predators you do.

We used to keep our cats indoors, but now we have a house with 32 exterior doors (we have glass doors instead of windows), and it was heartbreaking to lose our cats when a door is accidentally left open. (We lost 2 in 04 due to doors left open and another that same year because Morty pushed out a windowscreen; - that was the hardest loss, my 9yo, 20lb Maine Coon that I had raised since he was a kitten - the only kitten I have ever had, Morty and his brother Chester who we lost earlier to health issues). With so many doors, some are bound to be left open at times (usually blown open by the wind when a closed door has not been properly latched). Since 04 we have only adopted older cats, mostly from the Spokane area, that are listed as indoor outdoor as we figure these cats have experience outdoors and are not city cats (city cats don't last very long out here either from what I have heard). We generally have had good luck with the Spokane cats, often losing them to kidney failure. DH has a soft spot for sorry looking cats. We once drove down to a huge no-kill shelter in Oregon to pick up what we were told was an 8yo one eyed cat who had lived at the shelter for 5 years - adopted and returned several times because he pees in houses, and he was forever trying to escape when the door was opened at the shelter. (He couldn't be caged so they let him run around. many of the shelter cats were caged or in big community rooms with lots of things to do, but Jasper did not get along with them, so he ran loose at the shelter) They said they changed their rule about indoor only because of him. They also told us that he hated cats, kids and dogs. Well, Jasper was just a love! He did pee EVERYWHERE though. The shelter had him on kitty prozac for the peeing, but a closer exam by our vet revealed the cat was very old, nearly blind from glaucoma, and a he had a terrible case of kidney disease - he said numbers like his hed never seen on cats that could walk! Well, Jasper refused to eat his kidney food, so we just fed him what he wanted, and let him go where he wanted. He tolerated my other cat and loved our dog Willow (who we had found that same weekend we got Jasper - Willow had a head injury, so she was indoors wearing her cone of shame.) Jasper and Willow always slept snuggled together; he also let my daughter push him around in a doll stroller. I sent photos to the shelter. Jasper lived for 18 months before he gave up eating and I had him put down. His last 2 weeks he dropped half his body weight! But those 18 months were great. He and Willow were best buds and explored everything together. They'd be out in the yard hunting mice together, and when we took Willow on walks, Jasper would run along with us! Jasper knew Willow would defend her, so he would taunt the neighbor dogs by sitting on a rock in full view calling out the them, and when the dogs ran toward him, Willow would chase them off then Jasper would weave between Willows legs, and jump up on his hind legs to butt his head up to Willow's chin. When Jasper died, we burried him in the yard, and Willow would not leave the gravesite for nearly a week. She was so sad. But then we went camping and after that Willow seemed to froget about Jasper.

 

[Ogress]

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I'm sorry - I hope Cheddar returns. If he has disappeared for weeks at a time, there is still hope, but it is also August; the month that we see the most "Lost Pet" signs posted in our area.

When I have felt that heavy feeling in my heart in the past, it usually is not a good outcome. Char is mute - she's been missing in the house before by sneaking into a kitchen cabinet unnoticed and then I close the cabinet. She's been locked in bedrooms and bathrooms. This time we know it is not the case because we let her out, and we checked everything. At night we only let her out to use the outdoors for her litterbox, and she always returns in just a few minutes. I think a bobcat must have smelled where she was relieving herself and then hid in the bushes to wait.

 

[Ogress]

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So sorry- we're only a month and a bitout from loosing Zathras, and no matter how distracting the kittens are, the absence is still noticible.

I've been looking at Kittens online. DD and DS have been asking for kittens since we lost Fern to kidney failure a few months back. DH said he'd like to try kittens next as he is hoping for a few years of good health before we deal with the cost and heartache of kitties with health issues. I personally would like something between 1 and 3 years old as they likely won't have the issues of the old cats we usually adopt. DH wants to wait at least a month before we get more cats, but I am looking at these:



http://nwsource.kaango.com/ad-adorable-kittens/19465027

 

[broodytood]

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Thank you CGG ! that was great!

We were just at Westport last Saturday and saw a guy on a bike pulling a skateboard with a long rope. Perched atop the board was a very happy bulldog! They were doing tight corners and big circles! That dog was never even close to losing his balance even for one second! It was amazing!
And man did the kids get a kick out of it!
Great vid!

 

[broodytood]

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So sorry- we're only a month and a bitout from loosing Zathras, and no matter how distracting the kittens are, the absence is still noticible.

I've been looking at Kittens online. DD and DS have been asking for kittens since we lost Fern to kidney failure a few months back. DH said he'd like to try kittens next as he is hoping for a few years of good health before we deal with the cost and heartache of kitties with health issues. I personally would like something between 1 and 3 years old as they likely won't have the issues of the old cats we usually adopt. DH wants to wait at least a month before we get more cats, but I am looking at these:



http://nwsource.kaango.com/ad-adorable-kittens/19465027

Sorry to hear of eveyones losses!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I so wish we could come. That is the week of our local county fair and we are already registered. DD has 3 seramas...but it would be fun to just watch and learn. sounds like fun.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

My golly miss molly what has happened to all of the night crew??? Hope they are all OK !!!

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Thank you CGG ! that was great!

We were just at Westport last Saturday and saw a guy on a bike pulling a skateboard with a long rope. Perched atop the board was a very happy bulldog! They were doing tight corners and big circles! That dog was never even close to losing his balance even for one second! It was amazing!
And man did the kids get a kick out of it!
Great vid!

I've seen the dog on a skateboard before but not surfing and sledding. I figured he just did it because he had been trained to do it but he actually enjoys it! He even puts his paws on the ground and pushes off to pick up more speed!