Pets
 

I am going to restart the thread about pets. What kind of pets do you have?

There are two rescued greyhounds who have taken over my house and trained me to provide them with food and water.

we bought a horse just before xmas.

arabian gelding,13yrs old,his name is Legacy.

great with the kids too.the prick don't like me much,but the previous guy used to whip him lots.so i'll go slow and easy on him.:D

One cat. A very spoiled orange tiger named Skye.

none, unfortunately. hedgehog died a couple months back, as did our strangely long-lived fish. a cat would be great to have. which brings something else up:

what is everyone's ideal pet and why?

Three cockatiels. My daughter was into bird breeding for a while. So we got the first hatchling (a male), followed about a year later by 2 white females.

Over the years, we have had dogs, cats, fish, and a variety of birds.

One really old cat, one big fat cat, and one small younger cat. Used to have a dog, but he's in doggy heaven now.

I'd love to have a monkey.. A friend who's visiting the States from Portugal told me that in the less populated areas, people just let monkeys come stay at their house and take them in as pets.

Either that or an African Grey Parrot,, one of the smartest animals. Except It'd be a lot of responsibility. And the chances of it outsmarting you and killing you while you sleep are better. Good thing is the damned birds live so long. It'd probably outlive me.

Lets see... I have two cats, one black named Eclipse, one calico named Patches. My ideal pet... my friend's dead chocolate lab (obviously not dead, ideally). She accuses me of only liking her dog because she (the dog, not my friend) would run up to me and roll over so I could scratch her belly as soon as I walked into the house, and was just a great dog in general. Maybe I'll get a chocolate lab when I get my own place, who knows.

We took in my grandparents dog when they died. It's a German Shepard/Rottweiler mix.

We also have 2 cats, both of which were strays we took in. One is 7-10 years, the other is younger 1-3 years.

All very friendly, but the older cat has moods. :)

I have a German Shorthair Pointer that we got through Rescue and two cats, but not by my choice. My Dog is great, very smart!

Two cats and a dog.

Cat 1: 5 years old, prima donna bitch par excellence. Will draw blood as soon as look at you, unless she wants something from you.

Cat 2: 2 year old fat female. Generally agreeable, though greedy

Dog: 1 year old lab/chow/collie mix, mostly black. Sweetest, mellowest girl you ever saw. Currently having issues with submissive urination (which is fun when guests come over), but apart from that, very little trouble.

I've got one little critter, a silver shaded persian. Normally these cats have those flat ugly faces, they look like E.T.. This one didn't though, so we named him Elliot. He's 16 years old, and dying of liver failure :(.
Bad pic of him here:
http://www.msnusers.com/determann/sh...oto&PhotoID=21

TFP PETS
 

...No, NOT Penthouse pets! (I read your dirty mind already).


What pets do you have or have had? Anything really different?


My last pets were two greyhounds off the track, but the ex has them.

Before that, I had two cats we adopted. They came out of a "cat lady's" house and later developed FIV (feline AIDS) and one, Feline leukemia. Remarkably, we had those cats for 10 and 12 years (Nikki will tell you how amazing this is).

Aside from some other beloved cats and dogs, my most unusual pet was a rat I got in college. One of my roomies had a sister in highschool and she kidnapped this lab rat they were going to kill. They suspected her, so she hid the rat in our dorm apartment. This guy didn't want it, so I got it. His name was Vern and he turned out to be a great pet. He would run about and poke his nose in everything and he never bit.

My mom freaked out when I brought him home for the summer, but she got used to him. After a while she could even pet him. I finally had to have him put down when he got a brain tumor. He was a great pet for 2 1/2 years. I just threw his cage away during my last move :(

Dogs...always. I have never had anything but dogs. Oh wait, I did have a hamster when I was 8 that bit my finger and upon yanking my hand away while it still clinging to my finger I "threw" it across the room...it was an accident! It died the next day...My Papa used to tease me that it died from biting me! No wonder I stuck with dogs!

I am a dog lover. Had 2 Husky / Shephard mixes. One lived for 17 years and the other my ex still has, she is 10. Also a little Terrier / Maltese mix who lived until one week past her 17th birthday. Must be something in the number 17?

my room has a 100+pound thing, a monster

one human

Two cats, Spot and Dot, who allow me to live in their house and take care of them. and a cover hogging dashound that thinks she's a mastiff, named Raven.

here's old Sham with Tiger Lilly resting her head.
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We are nuts on basenjis. At any one time, there are up to seven here, counting fosters and the ones we own.

I have a full blown AKC paperd English Bulldog named Tripoli. I love him to death, he is about 4 years old

Baby - 7.5 year old short hair black cat with white patch on her chest
Sonny - 6 year old fluffy orange tabby (actually tan) fixed male
Mikki - 6 year old fluffy grey tabby/calico spayed female

Lucy - 7 year old golden retriever/irish setter/spaniel female

3 big goldfish, 1 angel fish, 2 alge eaters - no names, what would be the point?

One wobbly, chunky cat named Scooter, who is identically colored to my dog who died back in August '01. It's freaky. He can be really annoying sometimes, but he's cool anyway. :)

I had a parrot as a kid. It flew awayhttp://66.227.101.70/cwm/3dlil/eek2.gif

I had a cuuuute Rabbit too. A cat ate ithttp://216.40.249.192/s/contrib/lynx/grncry.gif

I am now afraid to have any pet....:(

Two Iguanas Spike and Vicious.

Cat named Sasha and a fish named...uh...well, I guess I never named it. But it sits there in my room and hangs out. I want to get a huskie at some point though. Love those things.

Two Sugar Gliders, Ezri and Shiva. Mischevious little critters, but cute & snuggly as well.

i officially have two cats named fuzz bucket and spud, respectively, as well as a dog named jack. the cats are regular ol' american tabbies, and the dog is a half black lab half greyhound mix and cuter than a bug's ear. i also unofficially have a small grey cat named marissa who is really my roommate's but spends all her time with me. i also had 16 goldfish, but a heron ate them all so we have to buy new ones. :(

Four cats:)

Mya
Tippy
Zipper
FB

does my trouser snake count?

I have not had a good history with pets. I once had a goldfish that disappeared. My parents thought that I found it dead and flushed it. They figured that I was so distraught that I didn't mention it. About 6 months later my mom found a dried out goldfish behind one of her cookbooks. Apparently,it had committed suicide. A few years later my sister and I both had hamsters. Once morning, we woke up and found them both dead. It looked as though one ate the other one and then died. We had fed them regularly. It didn't make much sense. Now, my wife and I have a airdale terrier/chow/husky mix. He's great.

Cat #1...Larry
Cat#2....Lucy
Fish........Red


Had a great dog, a Newfoundland, Pearl, that recently developed bone cancer and had to be put down. I guess the one thing about having a pet that I hate. They become one of your family, but just don't last long enough.

Three cats, two fish tanks, and one corn snake

up until last summer, we had two keeshonds: Hamlet and Dream. Dream is no longer alive.

So there's Hamlet and four cats: Ivy, Isabell, Java, and Perl.

There are fish in the tank and koi in the pond.

I had a couple of rats for awhile, Trinity and Finoa. They were pretty cool but I got tired of cleaning their cage and they really weren't a very big hit with the ladies.

Now I have a cat named Scratchy McBitey. He likes to scratch me and then bite me. He is a good cat though.

I have a big, fat, lazy cat. But he's really a good kitty :)

I had two goldfish when I was a kid. Avenger and Destroyer. They did not live up to their names and lasted about a month. End of pets for me.

I have two Black Collared lizards, a female named Lilly (if anyone cares to see her goto http://nand.net/adep/z/Picture%20012.jpg)
that is very, very hyper but sweet. she will ride on my shoulder or climb all over me. she rules! the male is really named Clayton (I adopted him) but I call him Mr. Gimp cuz he has a semi bad leg :)

I have a leopard gecko named Raptor (http://nand.net/adep/z/Picture%20014.jpg)
that is a female. i hope to breed her sometime soon.

i have two cats and a huge dog i adopte named Jeb. he is great dane/boxer. he's BIG :)

i had a four foot catfish too i released last month........

Two dogs. A german shepard / timber wolf cross, and a huge, 118 pound, something or the other that looks slightly like a german shepard. Two cats of mixed heritage, the occasional armidillo, couple of roadrunners that live somewhere on my place, and several wild birds that live out of our bird feeders.

Oh, and the occasional Bullsnake that lives in the shed that my wife doesn't know about.

Just this sad sack:

http://members.cox.net/wd40/saddoggy.JPG

my constant companion BB kitty! Queen of the midget lioness

I have a red ear slider turtle.

i got 3 cats.

Tropical Fish :/

2 new puppies!!
first puppy, Bailey, is actually 10mths - black lab/rottweiler - suprisingly strong!

second puppy, Abby, is only 9 weeks old - a springer spaniel, so cute

they are both adorable

we also have a cat, Zoey, who was born in the "wild" and left by mom, so we've adopted. Very strange animal...

4 dogs

3 Wirehaired fox terriers
1 Dog of unkown origin, looks like it might be a Dashund/Pomerainian mix.

My babies
http://www.boomspeed.com/homerhop/x.jpg

one cat, named Ginger :) she's the sweetest kitten ever, I miss her at school. :( I can't wait till I have my own place and then I can actually have pets again, silly school.

I used to have a gerbil, but it died a few months ago. Now I don't have any pets. I want a dog, but can't have one. :(

Right now at home I have a green spotted puffer, about 10 zebra danios, some cories, some plecos, and about 500 kirbs(just had babies last week). For anyone that knows tropical fish, don't worry, they're not all in the same tank. Behind the house I have a koi pond that I dug a couple of summers ago. In it I have some koi and goldfish that spend their winters in my basement where I don't need to worry about how deep the pond freezes.

I have a black and grey tabby cat named Elder because his coloring makes him look like an old man. He's 14 this month and still acts like a kitten. He developed epilepsy late last winter and now walks around the house stoned on barbituates to control the seizures.

Unfortunately my great big newfoundland died 2 weeks ago. She was 4 years past her life expectancy and her health had been rapidly declining over the last month. She's now under a nice big tree a little past my backyard.


One of my friend's works at the vet school here. A guy brought in a cat he found on the street. They explained they weren't the pound and couldn't accept the cat but he just turned around and left. My friend smuggled it into the dorm and nursed the poor thing back to health. She was really really sick but recovered and no one found out she was there.

I also wish I could get a cat here at school, unfortunately my girlfriend is allergic. :(

i have a dark grey cat who lives with my parents in indiana. when i go visit them, i use him as an excuse to be perverted when talking to my friends.

One cat. A little 8 months old black/orange and white female. Her name is Zobo.

http://files.helgon.net/Gallery/{B06...54A7C3B78}.jpg

Well - three cats. Moe & Quimby (Simpsons references) and the big fat "I'm not dead yet" Misty. I had pics posted on the old tilted photo board - I'll have to repost them sometime.

I bought my daughter a guinea-pig for her birthday. we let it run out around our first floor for about an hour a day. then spend an hour running around cleaning up all the poop and mopping up urine.

my wife hates me.

One cat. Jet black, female, 18 mos, serious issues, still no name.

One dog - Misty. A Chinese Shar-Pei. Not for the weak at heart.

Cats. Always have some cats. right now I have two. Great roommates!

Dog - Merlin
Cat - Lucky

Dogs are smart, cats are dumb.

I have a Great Pyrenese, a Great Pyrenese mix, a Great Dane, and 2 cats.

An Australian Cattle Dog named NUGGET

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and a Sugar Glider named POGO

http://a9.cpimg.com/image/D5/9B/1471...-014000F0-.jpg

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He's my special boy
Edit: Removed one of Warren's pics.

mmmmk ive got a leopard gecko named Spassvogel
http://www.cs.ttu.edu/~schrodt/Gecko/index.htm

a betta fish named twitch
and a little african frog that lives with the beta... but he doesnt have a name....

im planning on getting a female leopard gecko before too long... it would be a blizzard... all white with black eyes!

We have a Beta and a bunch of guppies... 3 goldfish.. :)

And we have a Bearded Dragon. Those guys are the best!

Let's see, before about an hour ago, I had a dog, two cats, and three ferrets. Have to take out the dog though, my mom just put her down.

I am sorry to hear that, Fallon. Loosing a pet is tough.

2 siberian husky's

sky and rowdy

love my doggies.....pull me around the neighborhood on a skateboard it's awesome!

A female Rottweiler. Goes by the name Stoney.

2 cats. used to have 3 but one ran away :( but the other two more than make up for wanting to be center of attention

I keep frogs. I have a tomato frog and i had a red-eye tree frog, she died this morning. :(

my tomato, hermitage:

http://flamingpeach.digitalend.net/frog/P6050039.JPG

and my baby girl looking lively, lucille:

http://flamingpeach.digitalend.net/f...f/P1010021.JPG

i miss her.

:(

4 German Shepherd Dogs
1 American Cocker Spaniel
1 mutt (Corgi mix)
2 cats (mixes of some type)
6 rottweillers staying as guests.
38 chickens
25 ducks
12 rabbits
um, I think that's all of them. :)

That sure is some curious hair on old Sham

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dog.

Have two dogs,
1) Great Dane x Ridgeback (big dog)
2) Silky x dashund (looks like large rat)
Two cats, one old, one kitten


Oh, and one child

i have a doberman terrier... my sister named her "Ayla" for some reason

:) 1 puppy (mutt) 2 cats, and a tarantula that I found in my back yard and put in a tank.

Two old fart dogs
Brutus Lab / Rotie Mix 12 yrs old
Kuma Lab/Shepard Mix

and then there is this psycho squirrel that lives in a tree next to my house. He comes over and gets all jacked up eating the hummingbird food, then runs around the house and eats any ant traps we have setting out, after that he goes nuts and chews on the siding of the house. If it wasn't soo funny I'd shoot the little shitter plus the fact that I'm a buddist and we don't do the kill things bit

One dog named Tasha. Half Airedale terrier/pot bellied pig. At least it looks like it.

One kitty named Beau Jo.

Both are from the pound.

I've got 2 dogs, one golden retriever and one uhh...mut or something ( walmart special )


also have a cat, a hampster, and a cockatiel.

At one point I also had 2 ducks, 2 Iguanas, and 3 parakeets.

I have a black lab/chow mix named B.J. I got alot of shit in middle school for his name. Some in high school too... come to think of it. I have a grey cat named Smokey, A red car named Rusty, another red cat named Wuss, and a Dachshund named Bogyo. I think thats it... My house is a zoo

8 gerbils, 1 fish

Two pampered cats, and a third that shows up every day at the door looking for food. The third one pays more attention to me than the other two :).

Two dogs today, and only one tomorrow. Fresh water tropical fish that have been named and have some recognition that I feed them. (Jumping through hoops of fire will come later) :)

We pamper the wild critters, and some are virtually tame. Flyman will declare a jihad against me when he learns that they are sqwrls. Heh.

I have a Lhasa Apso that's a house dog that never really grew named Molly and two outside dogs. Tuffy, who is ~16 years old and has arthritis really bad, and Patches, who is hyper and likes to play with plastic bottles and sticks.

Always had dogs and cats growing up. My favorites, besides Molly, would have to be the Doberman Pinscher named Zip who grew up with me and PC who was, as my cousin said, the devil cat. She loved to terrorize my brother especially, but anyone in general when she was in the mood.

I have 4 Fantail Goldfish, used to have 5 but one died.

I'm just not an animal person. :(

oye vey...

I live with a Border Collie mix named Penny. Great dog... afraid of t-stoms, but very sweet and timid.

Then there is this obnoxious creature named Sir Nigel the Brat that comes in and eats every night. 16 pound orange tabby. Major, major doo-doo head. Although he is a hunter extrodinare. Likes to leave us "gifts" at the bottom of our stoop in the mornings. This week it was a BAT! Can you imaine... a freaking bat. I was quite suprised by that one.

We also keep a beta fish in one little tank and two gold-fish in another tank.

Nice little family we got going. Thinking about getting some birds. Finches. I think they would be cool although Nigel might eat them.

I have an orange tabby cat named Simba. He reminds me of a cross between Garfield (lazy and will eat anything) and Morris the Cat (just big and orange). I have posted pics of him in the TFP pets thread in Tilted Photography. He is a people cat. He loves to be where everyone is. Sometimes he will even sit on top of the game the kids are playing. He reminds me when it is bed time by hopping onto the couch next to me and practically sits on my laptop, licking my hands as I type. Then he lets me know when it is morning time, by either licking me or chewing on the cord from the lamp near my bed. He is great with the kids and they love him to pieces (unless he eats their toys, which he has done many times). He is a good cat. Even my dad loves him!

Ahhh...He watches over his people. :)

I like that, Elphaba. It made me smile, and describes Simba perfectly.

Surprisingly, widow, this sounds exactly like my best friend's cat--also named Simba. Simba's favorite activity is to jump up on my friend's Dad's lap while he's in his recliner, survey everyone, and fall asleep, while secretly keeping one eye on everyone else.

My border collie, Albert.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i3...gh/Albert2.jpg

The smartest, most wonderful pet ... IMO

Two guinea pigs - Minnie and Lola (Anybody want them? They were a gift, they make a mess, and they cost me the most time and money.)
Two parakeets - Sky (blue) and Sunny (green and yellow)
Two Betas - Pat and Gary
Four Goldfish - Baby, Lucy, George, and Susie
Two cats - Catrina (3 yrs old) Itty Bitty (6 weeks old). Catrina does not appreciate the newest addition but she's SLOWLY getting used to it.

I love having our own mini, indoor, petting zoo. :p The kids love it too.

Beautiful looking dog longbough. That picture looks like maybe it was taken at a show, was it? If so did he place?

Thanks. This was a pic taken by the previous owner who was into the whole dog show thing. Albert is retired now from "showbusiness" at 5 years old and gets to just be a real dog with me. I love him to pieces.

I have several fishies!

Jerush - ("Ugly Bob" according to Turbotom) a battered but loved long-finned black tetra. He had been terribly chased and bothered by his tankmates when I purchaseed him, even had fin-rot. He recovered well with a little MelaFix, and has been healthy and happy for the past year.

Patricia - an interactive, HUGE bottom-feeder whom I inherited from an elementary school that was retiring their fish tank. She and Jerush play tag every now and again. It's hliarious to watch.

Firey & Mighty - "twin" guppies that have super bright, red, flaming designs. They have an incest problem, always flirting with their daughters.

Femme Jr. & Andro - female "twin" guppies that are a generic black and gray. Constantly pestered by the males.

Sunshine, Twilight, and Camomile - male "triplet" guppies, also of the younger generation. They like to pester the females every now and again, but mainly they like to school and occasionally tease Silver Tip.

Silver Tip - the "sherriff" of the tank. He's a tiny silver-tip tetra who dive-bombs any guppies that get in his or Jerush's way.

Gee, genuinegirly.

There's a lot happening in that fishtank of yours.

The most drama I get is when my dog decides to tip over the garbage can to look for leftovers.

i have two red toy poodles and a severe mcaw. got the mcaw after i had to put down a dog over ten years ago...just couldn't bear to do that again and birds live to be 50-60 years old.

then, we were visiting a friend who had a silver toy poodle. it was love at "first lap." then i learned that they don't shed and are the second smartest dog behind border collies. all that sealed the deal. these dogs are so smart i taught them to roll over inone afternoon each. wonderful pets!!

I've had a lot of pets. Everything from goats to ostriches. Now though I have one annoying bird (maroon bellied conure) that I'm trying to get rid of, a very smart greyhound/boxer mixed dog, and 2 cats.

One cat, gray, female, five years old, named Selina. She is so gentle and submissive that upon being approached by a stranger she'll lay down and flop over on her back.

About 30 fishies, but they're Grace's thing, so I don't know species or names. Watching Selina watching the fish can be an afternoon's entertainment alone.

Gilda

I like that in a cat.

My brother's cat does that. He's also a very chatty cat. Mac would sit in my path and meow at me politely as if to converse and I'd meow back. We'd go back and forth like this for a while ... I sometimes wonder if this fella is trying to tell me something.

now that would be entertaining to watch.