Do you have a pet?
I would like to hear what people own/breed/keep around the forums! I myself own two leopard geckos of my own, very nice SHTCT's named Munch and Dot. My family loves animals so we have tons of pets and we occasionally raise an orphaned squirrel or bird.
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Not at the moment, but in the past past I've had guinea-pigs, rats, and an axolotl. Mum still has... I don't know how many guinea-pigs. Ten or something.
The axolotl was the best. |
I have an adorable staffordshire bull terrier called Pebbles, I've had her since she was a puppy (Nine years now) and she's still a puppy at heart.
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2 dogs. 2 cats. Excellent companions, but unremarkable, even though one of the cats is incredibly clingy to me for some reason - But I'm not complaining.
As a more "exotic" pet, we also own an old goat who we feed our veggie and fruit scraps to, but he doesn't get on with other goats (even though he gets on with the dogs) and he has no other companionship, which is bad if you're a herd animal, so we have to take him out for a walk every day to give him some social contact. He'll follow you without a lead and comes when called, but he'll eat any greenery he can find (including from people's gardens, much to my annoyance) and is generally disobedient. |
I have a ten-year-old Chihuahua named Sam. He likes to collect cups he finds and store them in his bed. He'll attack if you try to take them.
I also have two cats, Clark and Syd(the latter named after Syd Barrett). Clark is ten, Syd is just over a year. |
I have an Australian Shepard/Black Lab mix dog named Molly. Had her since I was in Kindergarten, so she's getting up there in the years. The vet was surprised how well she is given her age though, still, Im going to be a bawwing mess when she dies. =(
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I got a grey and white cat named Bagheera that is four years younger than I am. I want a lot of other animals that I can't have...yet.
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When I was younger I had a variety of pets at different times: a dog, hermit crabs, fish, a rat, algea and mosquito larvae in a jar.
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Being serious, I can see why you found them fascinating - And I did once as a young child too until I started associating them with high-pitched whining doom topped by itchy red lumps...
Mozzies are one of the few animals I kill on sight whenever they come close to me or I find them in my house - I don't even do that to wasps unless they're a persistent hazard (preferring instead to capture and release them outside). Any standing bodies of water I find with mozzie lava swimming in immediately get tipped out if possible. I understand they're a food source for the local wildlife population, but FFS... How can a creature be so damned annoying?! And did I mention that they grow up to 3cm across here, and hurt when they bite you? |
I has husky. He's beautiful.
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I've seen them that big and bigger in Maine. Of course, most of that size is the legs and the wings, but the body alone is larger than most mosquitoes are including their limbs.
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Admittedly freaks that size are rare but yes, they do exist and are becoming increasingly common here in this South-East part of the UK, perhaps due to climate change - They have the same shape, markings and flying posture as their smaller counterparts. And hurt a lot more when they bite me. Maybe I'm immune to their anaesthetic or something.
Bloody things. And some sites say they grow up to 5cm, I'm glad I haven't seen any that large here yet. |
I've never had a pet that was completely mine, only pets that have been my dads' and I just took care of them and played with them once in a while.
Anyways, he had 3 chinchillas, 2 gerbils and now he has a cat. I'm still quite sad that one of the chinchilla's passed away at such a young age (No older than 2 years.) last year. I was crying like hell because he was my favourite of them all and so fluffy and adorable. He had some kind of unknown problem in his stomach and they were even able to cut him and find out the problem but he didn't make the night after the surgery. Ah fuck, now I'm all depressed again. |
Well, if we're not counting me as an animal right off the bat, then I have this orange thing called Charlie. It might be a cat.
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I've got 3 cats. One of which I've had since I was like 6, the others are just over a year old. They drive me insane sometimes.
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I had two dogs.
I now have one dog. I once had a cat, but it pissed everywhere and we got rid of it. |
Bet you want a tiger huh?
I have had in the past rats, cats, dogs and a mouse...oh and triops, those were cool. At the moment I have a cat named Willow whose 2.4 years and I have 120,000 bees if you can class those as pets above livestock. |
I kept pet millipedes when I was 2 or 3. I put them in a plastic container. My parents made me throw it away once the smell of rotting millipede corpses and faeces became too much.
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Two cats, brothers, Simpson and BT. I had to have them fostered by an uncle for a year, which caused them both a huge amount of stress. I'm going to have to permanently either have them rehomed or have them move up with me before the end of the year. I can't imagine how much they're going to stress over that; breaks my heart just thinking about it.
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JAI UN CHAT
JAIME MON CHAT IL SAPPELLE ZIGGY http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/4881/015gv.jpg Old photo. He's bigger and marginally less fluffy now. He resembles a novelty cat-shaped cushion rather than a tea-cosy. |
*spams up the topic* My cat looks a bit like that one - He's also a Maine Coon. They're the friendliest and most docile breed of cat that I know of and are normally hardy and resilient to diseases, although they're prone to sudden unexpected heart failure, like my cat's sister who died suddenly in 2009 despite being apparently healthy. :(
Another trouble with them is that even when you brush them they still have a nasty habit of puking up hairballs everywhere when you least expect it. That alone annoys the hell out of me. Also I'm constantly covered in his hair which is hard to wash off some clothes. Still I'll be choosing another Maine Coon if I ever decide to get another cat after my one has passed. Their amazing temperament outweighs the problems they have. EDIT: Oh I remember, my ex took a photo of him last year which I still have, plus there's one I took back when I still had a camera: http://www.oddworldforums.net/attach...1&d=1307707334 http://www.oddworldforums.net/attach...1&d=1307707334 |
Ziggy isn't a Maine Coon. He's a crossbreed of a longhair B+W male and a shorthair tabby female. All his siblings were shorthair and smaller.
He does pick up a lot of crap in his fur though. We brush him now and then but he just goes outside and gets covered in clumps again so we don't usually bother. |
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BTW, how do you keep millipedes? They sound fun. |
I had a cat once,now i have a tokay gecko,he's cute and does funny stuff but he bites like hell!
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Are Triops those fat, round centipede monstrosities shat out of the seventh circle of hell?!
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Yessir, and don't forget cannibalistic and homicidal.
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Don't care for insects.
All insects care about is one thing: fucking your shit up. Spiders are worse, each of their legs are there for killing you in a variety of ways. |
Charlie
best turtle in the world. he even once fought shoulder to shoulder with the TMNT. But they kicked him out after he mentioned he doesn't like anchovies on his pizza. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4QZjCi448Q...00/charlie.jpg |
My mother had a horse that I interacted with, but he passed away around when I was seven. Then a cat, but she died of old age years later. Speaking of myself, I had a cute little fish named Simon who lasted quite a few years. Dead, though.
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2. Spiders are really good at keeping insects out of your house 3. Spiders couldn't care less about you 4. Spiders are adorable http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LbccUVbSRd...der+eyes+9.jpg |