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Today’s Pets of OMP story features Twix, Snickers, Daisy and Dibs, an eclectic group of cats and dogs of various breeds owned by Lynn, a resident of the Old Mission Peninsula.
Even though the cats, Twix and Snickers, have passed away, I was intrigued by her description of them. Lynn acquired her cats from a breeder when she lived in Illinois, and the cats are of the Ragdoll variety. Not having much experience with cats, I asked Lynn about them, and she told me they tend to run a bit bigger than other cats, but not quite as large as a Maine Coon.
Ragdolls are considered very docile, they make good house cats, and they tend to get along well with people and dogs. Since moving to the OMP, both of her cats oddly liked to wander the beach (supervised) and enjoyed hanging out with the dogs by the lake.
The dogs, Daisy, a 10-month-old Newfipoo, and Dibs, a 10-year-old Bernadoodle, both enjoy the outdoors, as well. Daisy has the normal webbed toes of a Newfoundland and enjoys swimming, while Dibs wades along the shore.
Daisy came from a breeder downstate, and Dibs journeyed home as a puppy from a breeder near Las Vegas. Lynn tells me that on the flight out west, flights were delayed and the plane connections became very tight. She ended up landing in Vegas, racing through the airport to snatch the puppy crate from the breeder, and careening back through the airport to the check-in counter in order to make her flight back home — all the while carrying Dibs the puppy in his crate.
Fortunately, the other travelers waiting to check in were kind enough to let Lynn and Dibs go ahead of them. Unfortunately for Dibs, there wasn’t time for a potty break and the poor puppy had to hold it all the way home!
-Paula Kelley, Gazette Pets Columnist
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