You have to name them early or they cannot practice ignoring you when you try to call them.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Well yeah true enough - I wouldn't want the Cat Protection Society round at my house!

I have a pet Dove, fitting into the "bird" category nicely. Unfortunately, she seems to have inherited the intelligence of the "plock-plocking" deceased Dodo... she thinks she's a goose. She HONKS, incessantly. You would imagine a dove as a docile, serene, peaceful image of love and harmony. And yet... I give you my idiot-bird, whom I love, despite her many faults :)

Awwwe! I like doves.
Especially the crunchy bits.









Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Hmmm I have a cat that quacks - does that count?

That is a matter of a pinion.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Who's a pinion? I'm a pinion! Seriously, who's a pinion, and when?

Birds of a feather, I think…

Crackers, the lot of you!

A pinion is just a very very pointy onion with angels dancing on it.

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

how many angels?

That depends.

(round of applause)

So which part of the pinion is this flock of angels?

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

The bit with the gear drive...

So far, the score is - house Rabbits 1, pet pussies ... unlimited number of. Previous to Bills and Newbie I did have a cat, and he was about as un-Dodoish as you can get. Not vicious, not thick, just a very very good ratter; and smart as they come. Then again, he was a Maine Coon - maybe they breed dodos different over there ...

Guess I'm out on a limb here, along with dove fanciers, the occasional dog owner and a pony hugger! Actually, I think the dodo sound is 'pluck pluck' in the books, but my pet is definitely a plook plook kind of guy. Reading the books again, I reckon lady rabbits are much more like Pickwick, whereas unneuteured males are more like her first-born offspring. After they've had the chop they get all Pickwickian. I did try changing Bill's name, but he got all confused and forgot where he'd put his food bowl, bless him.

Must admit, amongst the contenders so far, the Shetland pony gets my vote - but only because I have first hand experience of what vicious little burgers they can be. My ex's gelding used to get bullied by one in the paddock, till he picked it up by the scruff of the neck (no, really!) and chucked it half way across the field. He wasn't called Hamlet though.

We got our current cat from Cats Protection - they called him Abel. But he is really "a fine cat, ca very fine cat indeed.2 So we call him Hodge. Which rhymes with podge which describes him very well. Then of course Hodgy rhymes with dodgy, which is also a very good description!

Previous cats were Spitfire, (found abandoned on a skip) because she was. Hedwig, (from Cats Protection) because she looked like an owl. And Colditz,(also from Cats Protection) because she tried to escape and I didn't really want to stand in the garden calling "Stalag 13"................

I don't know, could be quite catchy! It would be quite funny if you were angry STALAG 13 COME HERE! I just have a really funny image of someone shouting that!

Thanks J_Z Shetlands smell manners and take full advantage of them by being little demons! I am glad your bf's gelding decided to stand up for them selves, my pony had the same problem with another shetland previously - then he learned to be a bad so and so and use his size to full advantage! Updata on dodo esq mini shetland - we are having spirited philosophical discussions about the merits of walking on the end of a lead rope, not bucking!

The poet/comedian Les Barker called his dog Mrs. Ackroyd.
He says that when he stands in the street calling for her, lots of old ladies come to his door.....

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

I still intend to name a dog Spot, just to use the line from Macbeth.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland