pet post pitstop

Stop! Is your dash low on pet posts? Well here is the perfect place to top it up! Come and look at some good animals for a bit :)

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I'm Sparrow, I live in Aotearoa New Zealand, and my pronouns are she/her!

Hello and welcome to my pet blog!! If you like cats, dogs, chickens, guinea pigs, and/or bugs, this is the place for you!

My cats are indoor cats, they are only outside with supervision.

Here's a quick introduction to all my animals :) (a bit outdated)

Skittles

My oldest pet! She's a 13 year old tortie who I got as a kid when my cousin's cat had kittens. She's very playful and loves cheese, grass, and sunlight.

Birthday: 7/10/11

Doctor Who

Aw little guy!!! Doctor Who was named after the tumblr guidelines, which state that you can't use irrelevant tags on a post - such as posting a picture of your cat under the doctor who tag, unless it is named Doctor Who. So I named him Doctor Who. He's a little baby rescue cat and I love him so so much. He's the sweetest baby ever to me, but is terrified of everyone else. He is also a menace. And also a HIMBO.

Birthday: 17/11/22

Paprika

My first ever pet dog! She's a Russell terrier cross rescue pup. She's so smart (maybe a little too smart) and full of energy and love (especially for other dogs).

Birthday: 5/11/22

Chickens

Cleaning up my pinned, so here's my new post to introduce the chickens! PLEASE NOTE!!!!! Although I consider my chickens to be pets and mos

PLEASE NOTE!!!!! Although I consider my chickens to be pets and most of them may never be culled, they are also livestock!! I will be processing some birds! If you don't want to hear talk about culling or eating chickens, please block the tag #animal processing

Guinea Pigs

Whiskey (brown, less white), her sister Scotch (brown, more white), and Scotch's babies Bourbon (blond, less white) and Gingerbread (blond, more white). Whiskey and Scotch were rescued from a bad situation, and Bourbon and his brother Gingerbread (both neutered) were born shortly after. Whiskey is the most shy, Scotch is a bit shy and sassy, and Bourbon is my submissive little boy, and his brother Gingerbread is the boldest and friendliest :)

Bugs

We have beehives on our property! I also just generally love bugs and often keep some as pets!

Other

My dad has cows that I might post about occasionally.

Also!! I will occasionally post about my plants. Not very often though!

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Animals I plan to get within the next year include: frogs, mice, quails

Animals I plan to get within the next 5 years include: rats, rabbits, ducks, more guinea pigs, and a golden retriever

Animals I want but have no current plans for include: ferrets, a reptile, pigeons

Animals I would love to have but I may or may not realistically be able to get anytime in the foreseeable future include: a falconry hawk

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She just got told she's fat (she did not care)

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Forgot to mention but The Babachook joined my neighbour's flock!

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Cleopatra died last night :( no idea why, she seemed perfectly healthy until yesterday when she started slowing down

[thatsbelievable]

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Cat distribution system...

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So Screams had very small testes which I suppose explains why I thought he was a pullet at first. I expect it was probably the same with Daisy. I guess some of my boys just take a much longer time to sexually mature than others.

Even at the end he had a pale face and small comb. Quite interesting to see to be honest.

[homeofhousechickens]

I think we should all give our chickens horse-like names for fun

Beepers horse name would be something like "HHC Are you Beeping?"

HHC standing for home of house chickens usually whoever owns or bred the horse has the farm initials up front. The name itself has to be under 20 characters and that includes spaces and punctuation but of course this isn't serious haha.

So let's me start my list

Beeper- HHC Are you Beeping?

Greenie- HHC Green with Envy

Ibis- HHC Bin Chicken

Princess Cream- HHC Bossy Beauty

Sassy- HHC Rootbeer Diva

Sugar- HHC Sweet Cookie

Muffin- HHC Mellow Pastry

Joy- HHC Almond Delight

Oreo- HHC OH OH Oreo!

Twist- HHC Twist and Shout

Feel free to do your own chickens (i want to see!) Or suggest ones for my birds 😆

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I'm not overly familiar with this tradition so I may get some things wrong but I will try my hand 💪

If I'm taking this seriously I might use FVH for Foggy Valley Homestead, which is the name I would probably use if I considered myself a farm. But.. PPP for Pet Post Pitstop is funnier, so...

Fluffybutt - PPP Gentle Giant

Star - PPP Shooting Star

Ash - PPP Fiery Phoenix

Nettle - PPP Pretty Princess

Hooter - PPP Thirsty Firsty

Beetle - PPP Blue Scarab

Belle - PPP Sassy Snapper

Onion - PPP Skip and Hop!

Daisy - PPP Sweet Sage Tea

And the honourable mentions, for some late chickens:

Maisie - PPP Red Heather

Pipkin - PPP Pumpkin Soup

(I would include Poppy but her full name was already too perfect- Poppyseed Muffin)

I am trying so hard to refrain from infodumping on why I chose these names

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Just kidding I am infodumping

Fluffybutt - Kind of self explanatory. He is my big brahma rooster who is not very friendly (though not unfriendly) but very gentle regardless and very good with the girls :) I was tempted by 'Fancy Pants' since his full name is Sir Fluffybutt Fancypants III, but ultimately this one felt more correct.

Star - She is very skittish and quick so I thought 'shooting' would be a good adjective to add to star! Her real full name is Stardust Moonflower Ghost Owl but no part of that really felt right for her horse name.

Ash - Okay so. Ash kind of has two names. I was really stuck between names so I gave her both. Her main name is Ashen Vulture, her alt name is Phoenix Feather. I found her lying still on the road and thought she was dead, but when I went to pick her up she opened her eyes at me! I wanted to use Phoenix for this because just using her name felt like a copout, and she is also very sassy so Fiery Phoenix felt appropriate.

Nettle - Although Nettle's name is just 'Nettle', I did consider naming her Princess Nettle when I got her, and she is very pretty. Alternatively I did consider calling her Lady Featherington for this exercise, which is the name my mama wanted to give her, but it was too long, and Pretty Princess was more descriptive and thus felt more appropriate anyway.

Hooter - 'Firsty' comes from the fact that Hooter was the first chicken I bred, hatched, and raised as an adult! 'Thirsty' just comes from the fact that I made two posts about her drinking water lol. I did want to choose something with 'Peeper', because I used to call her and her sister 'The Peepers', but I couldn't think of anything to go with it that would also acknowledge that she was my first baby. It's fine though, I think it's funny.

Beetle - When I first got Beetle, she had been suffering pretty bad from featherpicking, so I dyed her blue while the feathers grew back out. 'Scarab' is just a reference to 'Beetle'!

Belle - Belle is mean lol. She is fairly high on the pecking order and, as such, likes to snap at the others, especially chicks. She is sassy and she snaps!

Onion - Onion has mostly recovered from her teenagehood limp, but you can still see her hopping a little bit when she runs.

Daisy - I wanted to use 'sweetened' instead of 'sweet', but again, too long. He is not quite friendly enough for me to call him sweet in regular conversation, but he is probably the friendliest of my flock, so it counts. And his placeholder name was Sage as a chick.

Maisie - Not only was Maisie red, but she was also a bully. This name is in reference to Heather Chandler. I was tempted to just call her PPP Heather Chandler, but I have also likened her to Heather Duke in the past, so I liked the vagueness of how 'Red Heather' could technically refer to either of them. It is also a plant. Her full name was Miss Maisie Daisy Abigail Cluckington so I could've used Maisie-Daisie or Miss Cluckington, but yeah, I just preferred the symbolism. I ALSO considered 'Little Red' for one of my favourite childhood stories 'The Little Red Hen' but again, no symbolism.

Pipkin - This one is simple. Pipkin's full name was A Pipkin of Pepper for the Pumpkin Soup, based on another storybook I liked as a kid. I used to call her Pumpkin, sometimes. So Pumpkin Soup seemed cute.

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WH

@ashen-vulture

YOU HAVE THE SAME NAME AS MY CHCIKEN 😭

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THIS IS AMAZING AND IF YOU SEND ME A PHOTO OF ASHEN VULTURE THE HEN I WILL DRAW HER FOR YOU

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I don't have any pictures because I just got a new phone and I'm not home right now to take some 😭 but you can search her tag on my blog!

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YOINK!

NO MORE TEEFS PART 3!!! (the finale)

Crazy how quickly teeth deteriorate with stomatitis. It was only 2 years ago they seemed this tooth safe to leave intact. Today it was so wobbly that they pulled it out without even needing to do the surgery!

Technically yes she still has her incisors, but shhhhh no more teefs

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I have some good and bad news about Bourbon.

The bad news is, he had a severe ocular abscess (which I will not show as the photos are quite graphic). I was told he would need to have his eye removed, which I could not pay for.

The good news is, I have been able to surrender him to a guinea pig rescue who was willing to do the surgery! Luckily his eye is a lot better now, and they think they won't actually need to remove it after all, though his vision may still be lost.

I am sad to see him go, my poor boy, my little Christmas baby. But I have full trust in this rescue and I know they will do right by him. He is going to be adopted into a nice new home❤️

[homeofhousechickens]

I think we should all give our chickens horse-like names for fun

Beepers horse name would be something like "HHC Are you Beeping?"

HHC standing for home of house chickens usually whoever owns or bred the horse has the farm initials up front. The name itself has to be under 20 characters and that includes spaces and punctuation but of course this isn't serious haha.

So let's me start my list

Beeper- HHC Are you Beeping?

Greenie- HHC Green with Envy

Ibis- HHC Bin Chicken

Princess Cream- HHC Bossy Beauty

Sassy- HHC Rootbeer Diva

Sugar- HHC Sweet Cookie

Muffin- HHC Mellow Pastry

Joy- HHC Almond Delight

Oreo- HHC OH OH Oreo!

Twist- HHC Twist and Shout

Feel free to do your own chickens (i want to see!) Or suggest ones for my birds 😆

[petpostpitstop]

I'm not overly familiar with this tradition so I may get some things wrong but I will try my hand 💪

If I'm taking this seriously I might use FVH for Foggy Valley Homestead, which is the name I would probably use if I considered myself a farm. But.. PPP for Pet Post Pitstop is funnier, so...

Fluffybutt - PPP Gentle Giant

Star - PPP Shooting Star

Ash - PPP Fiery Phoenix

Nettle - PPP Pretty Princess

Hooter - PPP Thirsty Firsty

Beetle - PPP Blue Scarab

Belle - PPP Sassy Snapper

Onion - PPP Skip and Hop!

Daisy - PPP Sweet Sage Tea

And the honourable mentions, for some late chickens:

Maisie - PPP Red Heather

Pipkin - PPP Pumpkin Soup

(I would include Poppy but her full name was already too perfect- Poppyseed Muffin)

I am trying so hard to refrain from infodumping on why I chose these names

[petpostpitstop]

Just kidding I am infodumping

Fluffybutt - Kind of self explanatory. He is my big brahma rooster who is not very friendly (though not unfriendly) but very gentle regardless and very good with the girls :) I was tempted by 'Fancy Pants' since his full name is Sir Fluffybutt Fancypants III, but ultimately this one felt more correct.

Star - She is very skittish and quick so I thought 'shooting' would be a good adjective to add to star! Her real full name is Stardust Moonflower Ghost Owl but no part of that really felt right for her horse name.

Ash - Okay so. Ash kind of has two names. I was really stuck between names so I gave her both. Her main name is Ashen Vulture, her alt name is Phoenix Feather. I found her lying still on the road and thought she was dead, but when I went to pick her up she opened her eyes at me! I wanted to use Phoenix for this because just using her name felt like a copout, and she is also very sassy so Fiery Phoenix felt appropriate.

Nettle - Although Nettle's name is just 'Nettle', I did consider naming her Princess Nettle when I got her, and she is very pretty. Alternatively I did consider calling her Lady Featherington for this exercise, which is the name my mama wanted to give her, but it was too long, and Pretty Princess was more descriptive and thus felt more appropriate anyway.

Hooter - 'Firsty' comes from the fact that Hooter was the first chicken I bred, hatched, and raised as an adult! 'Thirsty' just comes from the fact that I made two posts about her drinking water lol. I did want to choose something with 'Peeper', because I used to call her and her sister 'The Peepers', but I couldn't think of anything to go with it that would also acknowledge that she was my first baby. It's fine though, I think it's funny.

Beetle - When I first got Beetle, she had been suffering pretty bad from featherpicking, so I dyed her blue while the feathers grew back out. 'Scarab' is just a reference to 'Beetle'!

Belle - Belle is mean lol. She is fairly high on the pecking order and, as such, likes to snap at the others, especially chicks. She is sassy and she snaps!

Onion - Onion has mostly recovered from her teenagehood limp, but you can still see her hopping a little bit when she runs.

Daisy - I wanted to use 'sweetened' instead of 'sweet', but again, too long. He is not quite friendly enough for me to call him sweet in regular conversation, but he is probably the friendliest of my flock, so it counts. And his placeholder name was Sage as a chick.

Maisie - Not only was Maisie red, but she was also a bully. This name is in reference to Heather Chandler. I was tempted to just call her PPP Heather Chandler, but I have also likened her to Heather Duke in the past, so I liked the vagueness of how 'Red Heather' could technically refer to either of them. It is also a plant. Her full name was Miss Maisie Daisy Abigail Cluckington so I could've used Maisie-Daisie or Miss Cluckington, but yeah, I just preferred the symbolism. I ALSO considered 'Little Red' for one of my favourite childhood stories 'The Little Red Hen' but again, no symbolism.

Pipkin - This one is simple. Pipkin's full name was A Pipkin of Pepper for the Pumpkin Soup, based on another storybook I liked as a kid. I used to call her Pumpkin, sometimes. So Pumpkin Soup seemed cute.

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WH

@ashen-vulture

YOU HAVE THE SAME NAME AS MY CHCIKEN 😭

[homeofhousechickens]

I think we should all give our chickens horse-like names for fun

Beepers horse name would be something like "HHC Are you Beeping?"

HHC standing for home of house chickens usually whoever owns or bred the horse has the farm initials up front. The name itself has to be under 20 characters and that includes spaces and punctuation but of course this isn't serious haha.

So let's me start my list

Beeper- HHC Are you Beeping?

Greenie- HHC Green with Envy

Ibis- HHC Bin Chicken

Princess Cream- HHC Bossy Beauty

Sassy- HHC Rootbeer Diva

Sugar- HHC Sweet Cookie

Muffin- HHC Mellow Pastry

Joy- HHC Almond Delight

Oreo- HHC OH OH Oreo!

Twist- HHC Twist and Shout

Feel free to do your own chickens (i want to see!) Or suggest ones for my birds 😆

[petpostpitstop]

I'm not overly familiar with this tradition so I may get some things wrong but I will try my hand 💪

If I'm taking this seriously I might use FVH for Foggy Valley Homestead, which is the name I would probably use if I considered myself a farm. But.. PPP for Pet Post Pitstop is funnier, so...

Fluffybutt - PPP Gentle Giant

Star - PPP Shooting Star

Ash - PPP Fiery Phoenix

Nettle - PPP Pretty Princess

Hooter - PPP Thirsty Firsty

Beetle - PPP Blue Scarab

Belle - PPP Sassy Snapper

Onion - PPP Skip and Hop!

Daisy - PPP Sweet Sage Tea

And the honourable mentions, for some late chickens:

Maisie - PPP Red Heather

Pipkin - PPP Pumpkin Soup

(I would include Poppy but her full name was already too perfect- Poppyseed Muffin)

I am trying so hard to refrain from infodumping on why I chose these names

[petpostpitstop]

Just kidding I am infodumping

Fluffybutt - Kind of self explanatory. He is my big brahma rooster who is not very friendly (though not unfriendly) but very gentle regardless and very good with the girls :) I was tempted by 'Fancy Pants' since his full name is Sir Fluffybutt Fancypants III, but ultimately this one felt more correct.

Star - She is very skittish and quick so I thought 'shooting' would be a good adjective to add to star! Her real full name is Stardust Moonflower Ghost Owl but no part of that really felt right for her horse name.

Ash - Okay so. Ash kind of has two names. I was really stuck between names so I gave her both. Her main name is Ashen Vulture, her alt name is Phoenix Feather. I found her lying still on the road and thought she was dead, but when I went to pick her up she opened her eyes at me! I wanted to use Phoenix for this because just using her name felt like a copout, and she is also very sassy so Fiery Phoenix felt appropriate.

Nettle - Although Nettle's name is just 'Nettle', I did consider naming her Princess Nettle when I got her, and she is very pretty. Alternatively I did consider calling her Lady Featherington for this exercise, which is the name my mama wanted to give her, but it was too long, and Pretty Princess was more descriptive and thus felt more appropriate anyway.

Hooter - 'Firsty' comes from the fact that Hooter was the first chicken I bred, hatched, and raised as an adult! 'Thirsty' just comes from the fact that I made two posts about her drinking water lol. I did want to choose something with 'Peeper', because I used to call her and her sister 'The Peepers', but I couldn't think of anything to go with it that would also acknowledge that she was my first baby. It's fine though, I think it's funny. Additional fun fact: my very first chicken I ever owned back when I was 4 was named Firsty :)

Beetle - When I first got Beetle, she had been suffering pretty bad from featherpicking, so I dyed her blue while the feathers grew back out. 'Scarab' is just a reference to 'Beetle'!

Belle - Belle is mean lol. She is fairly high on the pecking order and, as such, likes to snap at the others, especially chicks. She is sassy and she snaps!

Onion - Onion has mostly recovered from her teenagehood limp, but you can still see her hopping a little bit when she runs.

Daisy - I wanted to use 'sweetened' instead of 'sweet', but again, too long. He is not quite friendly enough for me to call him sweet in regular conversation, but he is probably the friendliest of my flock, so it counts. And his placeholder name was Sage as a chick.

Maisie - Not only was Maisie red, but she was also a bully. This name is in reference to Heather Chandler. I was tempted to just call her PPP Heather Chandler, but I have also likened her to Heather Duke in the past, so I liked the vagueness of how 'Red Heather' could technically refer to either of them. It is also a plant. Her full name was Miss Maisie Daisy Abigail Cluckington so I could've used Maisie-Daisie or Miss Cluckington, but yeah, I just preferred the symbolism. I ALSO considered 'Little Red' for one of my favourite childhood stories 'The Little Red Hen' but again, no symbolism.

Pipkin - This one is simple. Pipkin's full name was A Pipkin of Pepper for the Pumpkin Soup, based on another storybook I liked as a kid. I used to call her Pumpkin, sometimes. So Pumpkin Soup seemed cute.

Edit: I just learned the initials are only for chickens the farm bred 😭 so of these only Hooter, Daisy, and Onion would have my prefix. Oops.

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I WHAT

[homeofhousechickens]

I think we should all give our chickens horse-like names for fun

Beepers horse name would be something like "HHC Are you Beeping?"

HHC standing for home of house chickens usually whoever owns or bred the horse has the farm initials up front. The name itself has to be under 20 characters and that includes spaces and punctuation but of course this isn't serious haha.

So let's me start my list

Beeper- HHC Are you Beeping?

Greenie- HHC Green with Envy

Ibis- HHC Bin Chicken

Princess Cream- HHC Bossy Beauty

Sassy- HHC Rootbeer Diva

Sugar- HHC Sweet Cookie

Muffin- HHC Mellow Pastry

Joy- HHC Almond Delight

Oreo- HHC OH OH Oreo!

Twist- HHC Twist and Shout

Feel free to do your own chickens (i want to see!) Or suggest ones for my birds 😆

[petpostpitstop]

I'm not overly familiar with this tradition so I may get some things wrong but I will try my hand 💪

If I'm taking this seriously I might use FVH for Foggy Valley Homestead, which is the name I would probably use if I considered myself a farm. But.. PPP for Pet Post Pitstop is funnier, so...

Fluffybutt - PPP Gentle Giant

Star - PPP Shooting Star

Ash - PPP Fiery Phoenix

Nettle - PPP Pretty Princess

Hooter - PPP Thirsty Firsty

Beetle - PPP Blue Scarab

Belle - PPP Sassy Snapper

Onion - PPP Skip and Hop!

Daisy - PPP Sweet Sage Tea

And the honourable mentions, for some late chickens:

Maisie - PPP Red Heather

Pipkin - PPP Pumpkin Soup

(I would include Poppy but her full name was already too perfect- Poppyseed Muffin)

I am trying so hard to refrain from infodumping on why I chose these names

Edit: I just learned the initials are only for chickens the farm bred 😭 so of these only Hooter, Daisy, and Onion would have my prefix. Oops.

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Leg is too scandalous for tumblr

[homeofhousechickens]

Is it normal for chicken to adopt other young birds? Because one of my hens is mothering a teenage magpie and calling it when she finds snacks. The magpie and it's parents seem to be cool with it and respond to her calls. It's mostly the baby who takes her up on her offer. And no worries, she is a big Orpington lady, the magpies are no danger to her physically. She does seem to scold the magpie teen sometimes and gently pecks his head and the magpie just bows down and lets her. Then the look for bugs together again.

Broody hens will take care of anything if they are maternal enough. I know a silkie who will brood anything that let's her including human children, adult chickens, dogs, rabbits, probably other animals if they were near her lol

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Star stole Nettle's babies when they were already like, 6 weeks old. She went broody, I put her in broody jail for a couple days, let her out, and suddenly she was convinced she was the mother of these children.

She treated them like they were newborns, calling them for food (which Nettle had already stopped doing by that point), slept on them at night, and didn't start laying again until they were grown. The chicks just immediately accepted that they had a second mother now and Nettle seemed fine with it too.

Somewhere I have a picture of them all sleeping together. If I can find it I will share it

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She did this Again with the latest hatch btw. Hooter and Belle raised them, abandoned them when they were old enough, and then Star went broody for a few days, stopped when we stole her eggs, and adopted them. My brahmas aren't even this crazy. The pics suck but here she is parenting the 10 week old chicks who are THE SAME SIZE AS HER

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Wish Cleopatra and Julius luck on their date! (especially Julius)

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They did a really bad job (didn't connect properly) and then Julius DIED like 2 days later

Wish me luck on finding her a replacement boyfriend, I guess??