All the Creatures

No doubt you have seen that TV show “Extreme Couponing” where a family goes shopping and pays only a few dollars for their $900+ grocery bill. What I have yet to see is any dog food, cat food or livestock feed go into that grocery cart. What us pet owners need is an Extreme Couponing show to save money on our expenses.

I do know a few tricks that help me save money on pet food. I visit the pet food manufactures websites and they often have coupons or “clubs” you can join to get coupons or samples sent to your home. Many of them have programs where you save the “proof of purchase” and send it in to them for a coupon worth a free bag of what ever you were buying.

Being that I have been a large pet (read this as horse) owner for quite some time now, I still wonder why I get emails forwarded to me by my friends that have links in them for nail saloons (the last time I had my nails done, I broke them all trying to separate 2 dogs from killing each other) and victoria’s secret coupons. Let’s face it, when there is a sick animal in the barn at night I need PJ’s to scramble out of bed in and not some flimsy lacy thing.

So if you are forwarding coupons to your pet owning friends, please send something they can really use.

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Summer is almost here so it is time to share some funny animal photos. This time it is pets and cheap sunglasses. I found dogs, a cat and even one well dressed horse. Enjoy the photos below.

First a biker cat…………………….

Then a Harley dog.

Lastly we have the fancy horse about town.

I hope you enjoyed the photos and come back to see more of them as the summer gets longer and hotter. Let’s see what I can find next time. Maybe zoo animals having summer fun.

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Here is a lesson in words. I was recently asked by a child, what do you call a male cat? The answer was “tom” like in “a tom cat.” The child then asked me what do you call a female cat? My mind came up blank. Just like in chickens, the male is a rooster and the female a hen, cats also have that male and female name………so what DO you call a female cat?

My mind went racing. For almost every animal there is a female and male title as well as young and mature. For example a young, newborn horse is a foal. When they are just a few days old they take on the gender names of either a filly (female) or colt (male). Those titles stay until their sexual maturity changes. The colt might become a gelding (a neutered male) or a stallion. The filly will take on the name of mare at 3 years old unless she becomes a mother earlier at which time she becomes a mare when pregnant.

The gender titles really get mixed up when you get into the bovine family. Almost everyone wants to call them “cows” when in reality a cow is the female. A young cow is a heifer (female), a young bull (male) can be a steer (castrated male) or remain a bull. If you have a different breed of cattle used as draft animals, they are known as Ox then a steer is an Ox less than four years old. Ox, or Oxen are cattle that a trained to pull wagons. Almost all of them are castrated but bulls and cows are sometimes used.

So back to cats, what is a female cat called? The answer is a “molly” unless she has become a mother and then she has become a “queen.”

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