What a pretty cat. I have two black cats,but could only find a picture of one of them. I lost a bunch of my picture I had when my computer crashed back in June,and this picture is not a very good one.This one is the older one that came to my house about 8 years ago,skinny and starving,and I fed her and she stayed.She left for a couple months then came back with 5 kittens and I fed them and next day they were all gone.Later she came back again with 3 kittens and they all stayed,and later I took them to the vet and had them"fixed" so n o more kittens.One kitten got hit by a car and died,and one disappeared,and I still have one of them,plus this moma cat.I named her Blackie
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Jean

Here's one of my dog Poppy, sitting amongst my daylilies.

Here are my "helpers". Mojo (left) and Chessa (right).
They do a great job keeping the squirrels and bunnies out of my gardens. And Mojo has his territory "marked" well, so the deer don't bother us either! LOL

Linda

This is a neat thread...I couldn't find a photo of Angel (Cocker Spaniel) and Lilly (rescued from shelter) in the garden, but here they are last winter, snuggled in their favorite chair.

Roxy - you want me to get out of where???

Qira looking over HER yard

Here's my two helpers, Allie and Maggie, see how they're chasing critters out of my gardens, lol! They're sisters, 9 yrs old.

Here is my precious baby Gizmo sunning on a stepping stone. I really like this thread.

Dot

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OMG - I can't choose the cutest! They are all so cute! I wish I wasn't allergic to pets now because I grew up with cats and a dog and I loved having them around.

I have too many helpers:
Pandora/Pandy I found in a parking lot when she was a kitten, almost dead
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Holly & Abbot

Miss Spitty- named because she hisses so much. Don't DARE call her a cat, she loathes the beasties. She allows me to live there because I feed her, she'd get rid of the other critters but they just won't go away.

Roady/Roadkill - named so because he almost was. I stopped my car in the middle of a busy 4 lane road during early morning traffic, barely grabbed him by the tail before he could run off.
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This is such fun...love seeing everyone's garden pals and the stories behind them are great too.
Thanks Rita for starting this thread. It's something fun to do on a stormy, rainy day. :)
Jan

This IS a fun thread! Here is Bumble Bee's long lost relative Velverina, working in the daylilies on the opposite side of the country...

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Velvie came to me with her eyes still shut & needing a bottle at maybe 3 weeks of age 14 years ago, having been found under a blackberry bush by uninformed but well meaning people who turned out to be allergic to cats.
Marea

I don't have any pics of our dogs in the gardens. If I did you would likely be witnessing the end of the gardens. I did catch our gray kitten lounging in the lap of our garden fairy statue. She does this quite frequently.

Linda

These are my "helper"/ The black one is Cosmo and the
calico is Foxy. They like to play among the daylilies and
don't mess up the plants.

They are 13 year old siblings---Cosmo was the runt of the
litter but considers himself the boss around the house. Foxy is a sweet little cat and full of mischief.

I wish I could pet everybody's cat or dog.

Kay-phal

I love this thread with all the pets.Some very pretty kitties and pups here.,ok,ain't some other folks got some to post, too?I was going to try and get a good picture of my 2 babies today,but got busy and forgot all about it.And right now,I have a super duper headache and dont want to mess with it right now.

Jean

My best garden buddy was Spitz. He had the same personality as Miss Spitty. I will always miss him. But now I have The Sams.

Sam the Cat. No, he's not dead.

Sam the Dog helping out in the garden last May. There's nothing wrong with the name Sam, you know.

Sam, Sam, Sam and Sam (just kidding) Nugget, Quasimodo, Audrey Hepburn and the chicken formerly known as Blanche helping by STAYING OUT OF THE VEGETABLE GARDEN!!!

More photos please!

Renee

hahaha Love Sam the cat,He looks so sweet sleeping so hard there,so relaxed,not a care in the world.I love that flower garden too,Its beautiful.

Jean,, Like those chickens, too.

Renee your kitty Sam favors my kitty Lilly. :) I love the chickens too....and your flower garden is gorgeous.
Everyones "garden helpers" are so sweet. Pets do so much for us, don't they?
Jan

LOVE all the pets as much as the flowers maybe more because they are with us all year. Love the chickens also, I had chickens a long time ago, I love fresh eggs. Sam the cat sleeps like my Gizmo, lately he has taken to sleeping right in front of the fan, not that I blame him either, its still very hot here.

Dot

Gracie is quite the gardener. She eats any srtay hummingbirds.

Hello all. I love this thread. Not only do you people have beautiful gardens but ever such cute and wonderful looking garden helpers. These are mine.
Zippy....Miniature Poodle

Renee - your pets are gorgeous! Love that blooming iris with Sam the dog. What beautiful chickens. Are they chickens? They look too beautiful to be chickens. My dad said he had a chicken for a pet in Brooklyn when he was little. (a chicken in the city?)

edward - Gracie looks very regal! (but almost too fat to be able to be catching birds - LOL)

Gracie is anything but fat. That is all hair. She lurks in the Monarda and when a hummingbird comes along she leaps up in the air.

Oh my, Edward, I hope you are only kidding that your cat
kills hummingbirds???? That would be terrible.

Sweet looking pets everyone! I am partial to those German Shepherds, what beautiful dogs!

It's fun to see everyone's helpers andespecially those pix taken in all of your beautiful gardens.

Linda

Hi Linda, she has gotten a couple but usually they get away. We have gotten used to the idea that cats eat birds and mice and ocassional squirrels. Earl, who I do not have a picture of, is our big game hunter. He has gotten a squirrel. Arnold is to fat to catch anything but he can usually catch Earl after he has.

Hee hee hee. I like Arnold. What a great name.

Natanya, I'm glad you like the irises. Can't wait to see yours.

Thanks for the compliments, everyone. The garden will be much prettier with daylilies in it next year!

I LOVE the chickens. Aren't they gorgeous? Chicken breeders remind me of daylily hybridizers: making the world more beautiful with their art and science.
I got the chickens this year on March 26 and we just got our first eggs.

The story of the Sams:
Sam the Cat is 13, adopted from the pound as an adult, already named. He has 28 toes. DH says "he sleeps the peaceful sleep of the true psychopath."
Sam the Dog inherited last March at 3 years old. She's a genius. She has NEVER STEPPED FOOT INTO ONE OF THE GARDEN BEDS!!!
Renee

Marea- Wow, our cats sure do look like long lost twins. I was surprised at the uncanny resemblence. Of course I think Velverina is just a stunning cat.

Like all the other kities too, especially the other tortie, Foxy.

Love the chickens, they sure are handsome.

Love all the dog pictures too. Was quite taken with the two sisters Allie and Maggie. Everyone else was really handsome too.

I love this thread! Noitce how you see more people's personalities thru their pets? And the photos all look like they should be framed! AND we see more of people's yards. More! More! More!

Pat

More like plant killer than a helper! I can only imagine what my yard would like like without him...yet, I can't imagine my life with out him! He's my partner in crime! This is Jasper. I adopted him from the Humane Society at the age of 1.5 & he will be 5 in Dec. He is a mix of White German Shepherd & Pointer. I've gotten really good at throwing the frisbee so he doesn't end up in my garden. The neighborhood kids is another story. He is really good at keeping ALL varmints out & 90% of the time misses every plant on his way to them. My most ironic story is before I got him I never had an issue with rabbits. One fall he caught 1 & killed it. Horrifying listening to that squeal & bones crunching. I couldn't get it away from him & like an idiot called him in the house. He comes in WITH the dead rabbit & plops up on my bed! EEEWWWW! I got him locked up & had to deal with the warm & very flippy floppy rabbit. Ever since, the rabbits have taken revenge on my yard! He WAS trained to stay out of everything that was mulched & that got kaboshed when I realized he needed some shade in the heat of summer. I redesigned a corner of my yard to lead a path under the Japanese Maple to give him some shade. Just recently he has acquired a secret admirer that lives on the other side of that fence...a female Yorkie name Nala that tries to escape to be by him.

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PS: What size should these pics be so they don't appear so big?

This is not my pet but I simply can't resist it.

Meet Cluckles - my daughter's pet. He stays with her in the large daylily garden and gobbles up the baddies she finds, including slugs. He is a friendly fellow.

Kay-phal

Oh what cuties you all have!!! Jasper looks like he wants to PLAY!!

Kay, what a BEAUTIFUL rooster! Raised two hens on a town lot (neighbors were cool with it) - and they were hand raised, so you could pick them up and they loved to be pet. Soft little ladies!! I am sure he is really popular with the ladies!!

I really enjoyed meeting everyone's pets - they're all adorable! Here are mine:

Chester (3 years old - I found him when he was about 4 months old a few blocks from my house. He has extra toes and he loves to fetch.)

Ginny (2 years old - adopted her from the SPCA - she was a feral kitten. She really likes us, but hides from strangers.)

Juliet

It's been fun to see your garden "helpers"! Mine don't go outside, but they supervise from the windows and prune the houseplants:

We've also got a menagerie of other critters. My DH is afraid we'll become a petting zoo/aquarium.

Laurel

This is a fun thread. Everyone has cute sweet babies.

This is my friends frog he's a bit confused as to what he is LOL Birdfrog?

Bo the biggest baby in town, he maybe big but he's a softy.

Lacy the ham she loves her picture taken. She loves being outside chasing squirrels.

What a wonderful thread! All of your helpers are so adorable! I would love to snuggle them all as well!

The area around my gardens is wooded, so mine are not only my helpers but protectors as well. If they bark and chase off after something, it was probably a deer. If they stand at my feet and growl and bark, it's probably time to go inside......

Sometimes they are hard on the garden, but I would never be without any of them!

Julie

Here the Hemerocallia helpers

This is Yardie. He helps keep rabbits and voles away!

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