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SimonM Wrote:

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> Our old cat used to sit too close to the fire

> sometimes in it's later years, we'd have to nudge

> it when it started smoking, poor old thing

>

> The other thing you need to be wary of if this

> happens is the upstairs neighbour charging down

> and demanding poor old Tibbles takes her weed

> outside...B)


True, it did help her arthritis though....

computedshorty Wrote:

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> Wrong picture here they are in background.

> Originally I had five but they kept having

> Goslings, they put out their beaks as if they

> would peck but very seldom did they would pull at

> my clothing though, and Susie pull off my

> buttons.

> When the eggs hatched all the females looked after

> the young I always wondered how these clumbersome

> large birds did not trample those minute yellow

> fluff balls.

> There had been five youg born overnight in the

> shed, I saw them in the morning, later I heard

> lots noise coming from the field I thought that

> somebody was trying to steal some, I found them

> all with their heads pecking in the pond I had

> made it was about half a metre deep,I realised

> that the gosling had gone to the water with the

> geese but being only a fluff ball had absorbed the

> water and drowned,I lay on my chest on the muddy

> ground with twenty one angry geese pecking me, and

> foraged around in the muddy bottom, I found one,

> held it by its legs and swung it around, lots of

> water came from it whether it was from inside or

> out I dont know but it strugled to life, I found

> all five and recovered them all I tucked them

> inside my shirt to warm, them went home and put

> them in the airing cupboard with the door half

> open. I was happy to think that they had not

> drowned, I brought one of the geese home put it in

> the garden shed with them for a week to grow

> larger before returning them to the gagle. I am

> told that the reason they recovered was because

> their lungs had not become fully relient on air as

> they were so young. I had at that time about 74

> animals just as pets.



Blimey, well done! Was this in London?

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