please tell me your pet is more spoiled than mine

We hold a full glass of water for the bird to get a drink.

Ok - is this tap water or bottled ? 😬

My dog has a chiropractor. I like to say it's because he's a sport/performance dog, but he's really more of a couch potato. He's also never been injured nor does he have hip dysplasia. He just enjoys a good doggie massage and adjustment

My cat takes the same medicine in the morning and evening. While he gobbles it down in the morning (specially compounded liver treats), in the evening, apparently it is not to his tastes. Sometimes he will take it if he is allowed to lay on the counter and it is torn into 4 small pieces, and put right in front of his mouth. Sometimes it has to be mixed into wet food. Sometimes I can mash it against a dry treat and he'll eat it. Every night we get to do this song and dance.

Only filtered fridge water now, of course. 13+ years - tap water was fine. Now his palette is more refined, clearly.

I write this all from my desk, with the cat laying in my arms like a baby between me and the keyboard. I work from home. More than once a week, I change which project I'm working on when he comes and lays in my arms so I don't have to move the mouse/keyboard as far and disturb him. He also has a drawer in my desk that is nicely outfitted with a cozy blanket - I pull the drawer out for him to lay in any time he comes in here. He used to love that, but for the last few months - drawer non grata.

My Dad and his wife order special hamburgers when they grab food out for their dogs. So, if they stop by McDs for a Big Mac, they bring the pups home a cheeseburger with ketchup only.

Spoiling our furry kids is part of being their human. My cats live well.

*cough cough* what's so wrong with this? Asking for a friend....

Last night I admitted to my husband that the dog won. She does not like to come inside from the snow. I have to bribe her with a tiny milk bone. She knows I can't catch her and lives for the chase. I had a good run. Four out of five of my dogs have been dream dogs. Number five (female-11 months) has done me in. She is smarter/more stubborn than I am.

My kids bought a pet cube. It's a video/audio monitor for the dog. You can also throw her treats from the app that goes with it. It's gone off twice since I started writing this. Now she hears the bell and runs over and sits and looks cutely at the camera waiting for her treats.

When the kids were visiting in October, they would throw her treats while they were upstairs in their beds.

Yea, I thought everyone did this. 😊

I had to pause part way through reading this thread to get up and put ice in my cats bowl.  He only drinks bottled water and ice water.  DH thought it was funny now its all he drinks.  

This is adorable!!!

This thread is why you are all my people.

I get up 30 minutes before I have to every morning to give my cats their wet food. We have 5 cats. They all have their preferences regarding consistency and container. I have to cater to each whim. One cat has to have different food then the others, and while he is eating I have to be his bodyguard. I have to make sure none of the other cats are looking at him or standing too close when he is eating. He also needs his plate rotated periodically and just has to give me a look to get me to rotate his dish. He also will eat for a few minutes in the kitchen, then he needs to move to the living room, then we migrate to the hallway, then finally we move to the bedroom to finish the breakfast. It is a process, to say the least.

We also keep a cardboard box on the couch for the cats to sit in, Super klassy, I know, but if it is on the floor one of the cats thinks it is a litter box. They take turns sitting in it.

It has also taken me an obscene amount of time to type this because I was alternately holding one cat or typing around them.