Animal love!

I know a lot of people here love animals. If any of you like to talk about your pets as much as I do, I want to hear from you.
Do you have any pets? If so, what kind of pets?
A picture of your pet(s) is always welcome too! :D

My avatar pic is of my little black cat. She is tiny, weighing in at like 3 pounds. She is around 2 years old.
I have another cat, a boy who is grey. I got him when he was a wee kitten, but he has grown into a really big cat!
I also used to have a horse, a ferret, a rat, a racoon, and a dog.

How about you?

Woah, I expected something else when I clicked the thread name! o_O


Anyways, I don't have any pets at the moment. But I used to have a Lizard his name was Spikey he was awesome, but then one day his food (Some kind of worms) ate him. :(

What did you expect when you read the thread name?

O.o



You say, WORMS ate him?? So sad... lizards are so cute and small and cute.

I don't have any petz at the moment, but I can tell you about my first pet!

His name was Bradley, a 2 year old cat from the Humane Society. I was supposed to buy a kitten that day, but for some reason Bradley had this connection with me that stuck. He was very loving and playful! Sadly, we had to give him away for some stupid reason -_-. Every cat (or any other pet) that I ever had, had to be given away to somebody :(

Welp, there ya go!

Right now I just have a dog. But up till 4 days ago, I had a cat :( She crawled behind the couch and died December 26th sometime around 5 EST. She was 9. Probably sick, though we had no idea. Last time I saw her alive, she was staring into the furnace she loved to cuddle up by, as if she knew that the end was nigh...

And my dog didn't even register her as being gone. No red fern growing here, that's for sure :/

But yeah, my dog is around 4. He sleeps in the cage at the foot of my bed, and... yeah he's pretty much mine. ;-;

My family had a dog when I was really young, though they had it for a long time before I was born, so we had to give the guy away, since he got old.

At the moment there are spiders who we keep in our house, jolly fellows! Look, are they not cute?
http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/wp-conte...pider-hell.jpg
(That's from google, it is not nearly as bad here XD)

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My avatar is a picture my cat. One day I saw him on TV so I reached in and grabbed him.

Evanesced-
Thats sad that you had to give up your cat for adoption! That is so hard to do. When I was little we used to live out in the country with lots of land. But when we moved we had to give up 2 of our dogs, 3 of our cats, and all 3 of our horses. :( I know what you mean about that "connection" you talked about, I have had it with pets of mine as well. The only bond I have ever formed with an adult animal however, was with my horse, Cody. He had dark brown hair like mine. Every time I would come in his corral he would follow me around and try to eat my hair. It was the cutest thing. I hope one day you can have a pet that you won't have to give up for adoption. It is really nice to watch a pet grow.

RockSauron-
I am very sorry for your loss. It is so hard to lose an animal. I definitely think cat's know when the "end is nigh", as you say. My grandparents own a farm and they have had lots of cats through the years to keep the barnes mice free. They told me once that they noticed that the cats would always venture away from home in the very end. A few days later, they would be found passed away, out in one of the fields. The cats are outdoor cats, so of course they always come and go, but never for days at a time. So my grandparents pretty much know now, when an old cat hasn't been seen for a while, that they went off to die in alone, in peace. It is so wierd how it's like the cats don't want any drama surrounding their passage. I had an indoor cat that showed the same reclusiveness in the end, so I think its something that cats just do.
And that's the thing about dogs. Their world mostly revolves around only one thing: you. :) What kind of dog go you have?

Moonwire-
That picture reminds me of the stay I had in my relative's house that was full of brown recluse spiders. Yeah I definitely got a lot of sleep when I was there. Oh, the memories.

Rapid-Coot-
hahahahahahahaha... >.<

mistervista and I have 2 cats. Socks is a 14 year old very small and now bony lady and Casey is a 6/7 year old mr bruiser.
Socks is poorly with irritable bowel disease. She is being kept comfortable at the moment with special food, steroids, anti-biotics and liquid that goes on her food to stop her tummy getting upset. She won't get better I'm afraid, so we just have to take one day at a time and see how she goes.
Casey is a scrapper and he quite often comes in bleeding and damaged!

I never get tired of animal threads. :)

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This is my cat Shady when he was a baby.

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Here is Shady hugging a kappa. :)

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this was my anole, Pam, but she passed away.

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this is Lee. He was a desert iguana who lived to be like 11 years old!

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Ghost and Shady together on my bed. :)

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Shady and Nellie (who passed away a few years ago) in the window.

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Ghost with his favorite video game. ^__^

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Ghost with his favorite video game. ^__^

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He really loves Katamari Damacy, doesn't he? How cute ^-^

@xKappax

Wow Kappa! You have had a lot of pets!

Being a bit more real than my least post; I have 2 cats, one of which I rescued myself. ^_^

I also have two dogs. One is a 15 year old Retriever cross Lab! (Very old for her breed!) And a 5 year old Border Collie, he's a real character! He acts like the police when my cats start fighting! XD

i got two cats, they are brothers from the same litter and they are complete mongrels but mainly Norwegian Forest Cat

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If anyone can guess where their names are from then... erm .. kudos to you! :p

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This is my cat Barry.

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This is Barry as a kitten and Isabella.

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Barry as a kitten.

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Isabella and her glowing eyes.

BAILEY
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Barry as a kitten.

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LOL
that cat is great, what an un-cat-like position!

also nice one todd, what kind of dog is he?

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also nice one todd, what kind of dog is he?

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Rat Terrier.

My dog

BAILEY
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I love animals! I wanna be a Vet! But anyway, I have a 9 year old Black Lab mix, Madison! She is the best dog ever, except that she hates the pools, so she won't swim, and she has a begging problem >.< I also have two cats, both 13. Ones names is Casper, we named him after Casper the Friendly Ghost because he is white and so affectionate! The other is Sophie, she is black and is a bit shy. She isn't quite as friendly as Casper, but when she does approach you, she is just as affectionate, if not more. Last but not least, there is Frankie, a 3 year-old Quaker Parrot, who is quite confrontational, but if he knows you well enough, he is the sweetest bird ever! He seems to hate my dad and best friend, for no reason what so ever! Maybe later I'll update this post with pictures of look-a likes I can find on google :p [EDIT] Although I haven't gotten picture quite yet, I can't forget the ones who have gone! We used to have two other Quaker Parrots, Enzo and Rio. Unfortunatly, i was the cause of both demises... Enzo was in our family for about one year, but then one day, about 5 or 6 years ago, I was only about 8 or 9, I was hanging off our sofa and she was on the ground, and I slipped and fell :'( Then, with Rio, this incident was a little more than a year after the previous. Generally, as a bit of background knowledge for you, whenever Quaker Parrots hear their families, naturally, they chirp (Rather loudly, mind you). When I was younger, I was occasionally the first one awake and down stairs. Both of my parents worked that day, so it was only me, and my two older sisters. When Rio squawked, in fear of her waking anyone up, I put her out side (Not the cage, just the bird, since we have a screened in pool area. She went on a chair, since she had her wings clipped, and couldnt fly.) Now, me being stupid, I put her outside, believing I wouldn't forget to bring her back in. Later that day, my sisters and I went to one of my friends' houses. When my mom got home, she was the only one who noticed that Rio wasn't in her cage. We searched around the house, and when I remembered, I ran upstairs to one of my sisters' rooms and cried. While I was crying, they had found her sunk to the bottom of the pool, having drowned :'( Apparently, she had gotten thirsty and attempted to drink from our pool. She then fell in, and only being a parrot, couldn't swim. All of our Quaker parrots were green, and approximently the same size. Rio and Enzo were female, and Frankie is a male. Neither Rio nor Enzo made it past one year old, but Frankie is already 3 and doing great, most likely we have all learned from our mistakes and Frankie will live as long as possible (The average lifespan of a Quaker Parrot is about 55 years!) We also had a rabbit, Tuggles. He is/was white with brown and black spots, and occasionally aggressive. He was mine, until we decided that, because of school, I no longer had the time to properly care for him, so we gave him to a family with a big yard and other bunnies that lived near our church. Seeing as Tuggles no longer lived with us, and the family moved else where (They still live close by, we just lost contact with them) we assume Tuggles is alive and well, living else where (Although he technically belonged to that family, all of the rabbits are independent, therefore free to come and go as they pleased.) I'll get those pics up soon! EDIT AGAIN! Look-alikes! Quaker Parrot (Frankie, Rio, and Enzo)- [hide]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ker_Parrot.jpg[/hide]
Sophie- [hide]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...cat_laying.JPG[/hide]
Casper- [hide]http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/...iful-white.jpg[/hide]
Maddy- [hide]http://www.thriftyfun.com/images/art...ab)300x281.jpg[/hide]
Crap! I can't get those hide tags working! Halp!