Danny and Jed
 

These are my sister's pets. I periodically baby-sit Dannykatz at my place every 4-6 months and the animals at my sister's place each summer.

We have had Siamese cats in our family since I was very young. But Dannykatz is the loudest Siamese cat we have ever had.

Dannykatz was born on 1 November 2007. This photo was taken during my first baby-sit of him.

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Jed was born 15 September 2009 so is Dannykatz younger bro. This photo was taken 20th November 2009 whilst Jed was learning how to garden.

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Jed is now a young man. lol :D This is Jed resting after playing with Dannykatz.

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It's such hard work rounding up the chickens to return to the chook house. Actually they will go up themselves but may come and get you to be their leader to walk them there.

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This is Danny pretending innocence.

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Ah, escaped from those cat eating chickens.

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No rest for the wicked.

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Ouch caught. Things I do for my lil bro. Pretending to be easy to catch.

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Both Jed and Danny are best of friends and play all day long. Appears rough at times, but I can assure you, when Danny wants to, he puts Jed into his place. :D Most times itt looks so funny when Danny takes the advantage over Jed.
They can often be seen sleeping together also. Danny seems to like Jed's kennel for midday snoozes.

Sunset is Danny's curfew which he seems to know and return by himself. But not always. He complains. (Curfew for native life protection.)

Jed's favorite time of day. His walk time.

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You will notice the steep hills. Danny often wants to tag along for the walks (not on this occasion.) Jed is a good natured dog. Except when he plays with Danny.

On a sadder note. During summer this is snake country. We have to be careful Jed does not get too curious. When I was there last time, Jed had to be shoo'd away when he discovered a black snake sunbathing beside the house, it eventually snuck under the house. Jed's predecessor, Max unfortunately was not so lucky (Max looked very similar to Birdy's dog, Monty.)

They both look great :)

I bet Monty would love to chase around with Jed. He'd probably freak out if he saw Danny (not a cat lover). And he'd most likely try to retrieve the chickens (has that gun dog instinct & has already claimed his first pigeon).

Very cool name for a cat BTW! Danny Katz writes an article every week in the magazine of our Saturday's paper... he's pretty funny :D

Jed loves playing with other dogs. I'm sure they'd get along well.

Danny would put Monty into his place one way or another I'm sure lol jk. He also has his hunting instincts which I witnessed whilst trying to hide from me and pretending I was just a bad movie moving closer at a time whilst he was toying with local birdlife. :D

Max was a mix with pointer from memory. So had that sniffer instinct. I'd need to ask my sister to be sure. :D Danny was best friends with both as it happens.

BTW the land where the pine trees are on the top of the hill shown in the last picture belong to the forestry commission. Pine trees are of course fast growing so an easy wood source. But they poison the soil with their acidicity, upset the local ecology, and do not provide the same food and protection as natural trees for the local wildlife. My sis has had several variety of trees planted on her land that were taken from the most local trees to try to keep localised and natural; ie: were seeded from local surviving tree stock. Obviously not pine trees. lol The pics I have here do not show these trees though.

(For those of you who know about pH.: At least in my state most land soil is naturally alkaline, but pine trees make the ground highly acidic thus poison the local soil lifeforms. I've known this since I was at high school about this kind of damage, yet money is more important for the forestry commission with fast crop pine trees. You will not find much natural Australian wildlife (feels like a desert of wildlife, almost totally dead and quiet) in a pine forest compared to a natural Australian forest which almost bursts with local wildlife sounds, be it birds or other lifeforms.)