NO HEAVY PETTING


Message from Batttttty - No pets were harmed or humiliated during the making of this page.
Their owners, however, were queueing right round the block to be harmed and humiliated.
That's SITN for ya!


SITN's TOP DOG is SYDNEY

Sydney is a lot like her master....
not in looks, although there is a certain likeness,
but it's more about ATTITUDE.

Sydney admits it...

Yes, it was Phil's HAT I CHEWED...
and his shoes... and his socks... and his book of UFO lyrics. Ooops!
So if you ever go to a UFO gig and my dad's singing different lyrics, it's all my fault.
I'm the one to blame.
Yes, I'm the one who should be sitting on the naughty-stair.
I'm the one who should be banished to sit under the bedside table.
Yes it's me. Here I am. I am here.

Please send messages of sympathy and comfort to
please-give-me-a-new-home@strangers-in-the-night.com

Top Dog
Flying V - $1,250.00
Baseball cap - $14.95
Dog collar - $35.00
Teaching a dog how to play Rock Bottom in 5 easy lessons - Priceless


Ben says...
"I'm built for comfort, aint built for speed
But I got everything all you good girls need"

The Biggest Spotttttty Dog You Ever Did See.
(and that is his real tongue, too)
Beggin for it? I should say so!

JESS

Here we see Dave Ling of Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, and Dave Ling Online with young Bob - or "Beelzebob Wolf At Selhurst" to give him his full Kennel Club name.
You'd have to be quite a writer to keep spelling that out every time, but luckily, Dave's good at writing - even though he doesn't keep on and on and on about it

In this photo, Dave smiles mischievously, as Bob (also smiling mischievously) prepares to start rippin' the wall to bits

Start rippin', Bob ma boyyyyyyy

Click on the photo on the left to see those mischievous smiles in Large



This is Ozzy. He eats bats.
Hmmm....we'll see about that


Dairve takes his fluffy furry floppy thing out for a nibble
R.I.P March 2004

Whose babies are these?

Here's a clue... they're never short of sticks to run after.

Yes, the answer is....
           drumroll please...
                      our very own Mistah Paaaaahhhker!


From the out-takes of the Force It photo sessions
we have Martyn's moggy - Jess - whose hobby is tap-dancing.
Here she is, sitting pretty after a night on the tiles.

Click on her photo for the full-size picture

Jess

Here's Herbie, concentrating hard on his homework from Lesson 1 of the Dog Obedience Class - which was all about learning how to climb through the dog-flap which Steve from Wulverammmpton has chain-sawed with intricate precision into the solid oak kitchen door.

"Show me just once more" pleads Herbie, and his master (who has completed the full course of obedience classes) squeezes through it for the seventeenth time. It might only be one small step for an 8-week-old puppy, but it's a tight fit for a grown man - and Steve emerges with the sleeves ripped off yet another t-shirt.

But luckily he knows a place where he can buy more t-shirts to replace each and every one of them...

My beautiful friend Bumblefoot
rescued this furry purry baby from a sewer
after she got stuck there during a flood.

Read the heart-warming story of Bumbletoe's tumble
and how the humble Mr. Bumble heard a rumble
and stumbled upon her, looking like a bag of jumble, and then minced up her up and cooked her in a crumble.
(I lied about that last bit of course. Look at his face... Would he????)

 

Bumbletoe

 


Thumbs up to Rob De Luca
who is pictured here with his pet scorpion.
No heavy pet, this one - it's made entirely of ink.
The lengths some people will go to, just to get on this page....

 

 

 


Tim's High Flyer is so generous. Not only does she
give him a kiss on the hand, but she also gives
him a deposit on a pair of shoes

Tilly works out a cunning plan
for beating Cruella in the Limbo competition


Smudge and Marmite

These two babies have a very clever daddy. 
Yes, Smudge and Marmite's daddy can keep seven online games of Quake 3 in play all at the same time.
(But he doesn't know the answer to simple maths questions, as you can see HERE)



This dog apparently takes after his master in a big way.
You have pointy ears, Mark?


If you're looking for Skid's dog,
I think this lion might know where it is ....

Meet
'DRAFTY THE DAWWWGG'

DRAFTY keeps my pal Max warm
on cold winter nights,
whilst at the same time keeping an eye on him.

Any likeness to one or more of of the
THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE CHARACTERS
(or to Dougal from The Magic Roundabout)
i
s completely incidental and accidental.
Or maybe not.

SITN

And here we have FITZ who likes to join in
when Uncle Max practices his bassplaying.
As we all know, dogs have very acute hearing,
and Fitz seems to be trying to
prevent Max from playing.
SITN c
an't possibly imagine why.



In this photo, Rawwwwwwwwwky shows us all
what he thinks of his SITN mousepad

Neil Carter (yeh!) holds this moggy securely by the throat
in a gentle version of the 'Athens Armlock'


Whoever said spots shouldn't be worn
next to stripes has obviously never met Misha

.
Leopardskin, tigerskin, lizardskin -
you name it, she looks stunning in it

Here she is, in contemplative mood

putting the 'purr' in Hypurrspace

Drake

Drake, whose posh Sunday name is Sanscott White Heath,
is a white long-coated GSD
which stands for "Guitar-Strummin Dawwwggggg"


Lightning strikes as it knocks you down...
it's a magic hound n' a magic sound

Born - 11th June 2008
(Still Miss You Raven !)

Pookie and Soraya (or it could be Soraya and Pookie)
live in Florida with Tania.

They look amazingly contented when you consider that
they get no attention whatsover from Tania,
who admits that she comes home from work
and logs straight into SITN and spends all evening online
catching up with the latest events in UFOland.

Obsession? You decide.

 

Pookie and Soraya

Benji

Here's Benji - 5th August 1993 to 7th December 2008

Benji reached the ripe old age of fifteen-and-a-half, which is about 326 in human years. Here's a photo of him in healthier days in the hills behind Barry's house in Ireland.
Barry says... "he was wild, he was willing, but by the end he was very incontinent. Benji, it was a pleasure knowing you, pup!"
R.I.P.



Oyyyy. What you lookin at?


I wasn't really scared... but ... there WERE seven of them


Mr. Big

And here we have Mr. Big, who is of course named after ex-UFO member Billy Sheehan.

Cat-lover John Dryland (the Mr. Big at Cargo Records) is such a big fan of Billy Sheehan that he regularly tries - but often hilariously fails - to have his own hair cut in the style of the great BS himself, circa 1982. That's a photo we're saving for another day, but let's just say, as a clue... 'Hair by Godalmightybloodyblimey'.

Anyway, click on this photo of Mr. Big to see Mr. Big bigger.



Delores is the Queen of the Deep who keeps Geoff warm on those long lonely nights.

Geoff is a dedicated Heavy Metal Kids fan, and probably hasn't even heard of Sharks - so we've gotta make this caption more tuna'ed in to HMK.....

OK, here's one...
She's No Angelfish
or....

Girl Of My Breams

No, sorry, I just keep coming back to UFO songs.... and the winner is....

Fry Me (Bake Me for a Little While)


 Melia from Iowa
teaches SITNner Steve
all about sitting on
The Naughty Stair

It's a short sharp lesson...
you just have to stay there
until you've learnt
how to behave.

About thirty years should do it...


Q. What has six legs and flies?

OK, here's a clue....

This little beauty is called Pookie - she's no highway lady -
more a 'hideaway lady'.
And her daddy has always been
a big Kid and is now hitting
all the right buttons.
Got it yet?
No? Why not?
It's been on sale since 2nd June 2003!

 


Pookie - R.I.P. June 2005





Muffie was meant to be posing for the caption
'Let sleeping dogs lie'
but she just couldn't get it right.
Oh you (would) look so peaceful, lying there asleep.....

There was a meeting to decide who was gonna be Supreme Power and Ruler
of the toybox.

Polo said 'My daddy has a very special guitar,
so I think I automatically get the job.
The others, of course, agreed.


Boo practises his YMCA routine for the SITN Christmas disco


Hey hey mama, said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove
(gratuitous use of a Led Zep lyric there, but I just had to!)

Of all the bars in all the world, blah blah blah....
What does a girl have to do to get a drink around here?

Guinevere waits patiently for Jeremy to fetch her a saucer of milk.

I ain't the soft touch you think I am
Ain't no pussy to think you care
Between a rock and a hard place
I'll make sure you remember my face..

(I was gonna put "When these wheels get rollin', let 'em roll right over you" but it seemed cruel).

Well this little fella looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, doesn't he.
WRONGGGGGGGGG


Not only would butter melt in his mouth but lots of other things too.....
Give this baby a pat on the nose to read all about what happened to him
the night his evil master locked him in the garage.

Mattias Jehosephat Miller
R.I.P September 19th 2002

Chips (aka Pongo), best friend of Karen, T3DD and Sarah

'Bet you never thought that time would go so fast
Bet you never thought a memory would last'

Pongo - RIP March 2004

'I love you now as I loved you then
Till the final scene, my beautiful friend'

RAVEN
13th September 1999 - 16th November 2007
Sleeping With Angels
RIP


Here are two photos of Minou - Peter Mondria's prize-winning cat
Sometimes, this jungle life is boring, pawing...

Boots knows that
Santa won't bring any presents
down the chimbley tonight
unless he keeps his eyes tightly closed.

Boots darlin, c'mon,
you can open them now...
He's been!

Boots...  Wake upppppp!
Donner & Blitzen!
Boots has done it again, dammmit.
Every year he takes a sly swig
of the sherry which Nigel leaves out
for Santa's reindeer.

SITN salutes ya!


This scary moggy says..
"You can cover me in roses, put nickels on my eyes....

Oh, I already have nickels on my eyes.
Either that, or I've been spending too long in front of the computer screen.
But I can't help it... the SITN website is just sooooo damn goooooood!"

 

Tina is a coooool cat - well, a coooool dog actually.
Or do I mean a coooool mouse?
Oh it's all so confusing.
But one thing's for sure - she's as crazy as her owner!
Tina belongs to Gilles from France,
who also goes by the name of 'Pete The Mad'.
Yeh... why am I not surprised...

HOLLY's dawwwwggg Pasha

King of the city - a Prince Kajuku among men

R.I.P. 20th February 2010 aged 12 years

Axeslinger's baby is called Raider, and here he is wearing the pretty pink scarf which Axey normally wears to the Jets games.
Raider refused to model Axey's purple-sequinned boob-tube on the grounds that it would clash with his scarlet pvc stilettos.

This dog has style! Welcome to SITN, Raider ma boyyyyyy.

 

But.... hold onnnnn a minute. What's this?

Here's another photo of Raider looking much more dignified (but not half as well-dressed).

This time he's sharing the stage with Skittles, who is apparently part Jack Russell and part Spaniel. Hmmmm... would that make him a Jack Spaniel's?
Knowing Axe, I wouldn't be at all surprised!

I'll drink to that!

Dicksy's cats always listen to UFO while they're doing the crossword...

Sha la la la, roll you over,
Turn you around and do it again.
T3DD's cat Mr. Chuck acts as lookout
whilst T3DD's other cat, Waffles (below), gets up to no good....

I'd like to know what was in that packet - Waffles is
starting to look like a rockstar.....


 
Oh just look at those beautiful soulful eyes and that cute little nose. Couldn't you just spend all day tickling those pretty ears ...
The dog aint bad-lookin, either.

Anyway, one of these two must NOT be fed after midnight, isn't fond of daylight, and its hair must never come into contact with water.

Princess - R.I.P 11th August 2003