Pets

[Jaimey]

Jaimey, she is precious what breed is she?

heheh, he is a toy poodle.  Adorable, ridiculously clever, and not yappy, which is good.  He's just a little excited wagging furball and you can't say no to that little puppy face. 

[fwagodess]

I have pets ranging from 21 (the oldest) to 6 (the youngest) with three different women.

With Amanda (1986-1997)

• Katie (F): Jack Russell Terrier Dog (b. 2/9/1988.) Gave her up for adoption when she was five months. This past November, she was found and have since been reunited.
• Deanna (F): Pekingese Dog (b. 7/13/1990).
• Coco (F): Siamese Cat (b. 5/10/1992)
• Samantha (F): Pekingese Dog (b. 8/15/1993) The night she was born I waas watching South Bend TV and went to bed 25 minutes before 4:00 AM the following morning.
• Thomas Taz (M): Tiger cat (b. 9/29/1997 d. 11/29/2006) Died following a hit-and-run that also injured another pet severely. I happened to pass by the accident site as it happened.

With Elisa (1997-2000)

• Timothy Rags (M): (b. 11/11/1999) as a Chihuahua/Pekingese breed. After two deaths in my family in 2002--I lost custody of Rags that September, but eventually regained custody on 3/18/2003. He returned by gaining 10 pounds and apparently a Chihuahua/Jack Russel Terrier mixed breed.
• Shushu (F): Tiger Cat (b. 11/11/1999). Rags' fraternal twin.

A funny story about Rags and Shushu. That same day, I became a pet grandparent at the age of 16. While most kids were getting their first driver's license--I became a pet grandparent when Samantha gave birth to Alexis.

With Angela (2001-present)

• Maxwell Taz  (M): Tabby cat (b. 4/29/2001 d. 7/18/2002) born premature
• Margaret Kimberly (F): Siamese cat (b. 11/2/2002 d. 3/13/2003) born premature
• Tabitha (Tabby) (F): Tabby cat (b. 3/27/2003)
• Veronica (F): Siamese cat (b. circa 1981) Angela gave her up for adoption when she was three months and last summer reunited with Angela at age 27! 
• Ashli (F): Tabby cat (b. circa 1998) Angela's cat from her previous relationship

I may not have pictures at this time--but I do have classic photos of them growing up. I may have more pets than my late brother (I have five "pet nieces and nephews") But hopefully when I get my first house, I'll most likely get Tabby and Shushu.

[Nicky]

I like the name Shushu. Sounds like a Polish word meaning to pee. I had a cat called sprinkles. Turned out to be a prophetic name  

I love my cats but they are more like co-habitants than chilldren. My poor jelly puss just had an operation on Thursday. She got a good cat bite on the back of her back leg (just did not run fast enough). Got badly infected while remaining largely undetected and now she has a frankensteinish line of stiches from tail to ankle where they cleaned it all out. Poor thing. Seems to be perking up though. Still in 'one room rest' for another week. She is itching to get back outside to roam and massacure the local bird population, will take her a little bit to get back into lean mean killing machine form again.

My other cat is a retired ratter. He used to be good at disections. Sometimes it would look like he took a giant rat, froze it in the freezer, then sawed away a cross section that would include the top of it's head so you could see all the organs inside like looking at an MRI. I still have no idea how he achieved it.

[Janet_Girl]

I have two tabbies, brother and sister.  Mikey, my male, is white with black spots.  Harley Davidson, is black with a white chest and paws. They are mommy's baby and they act like it. 

Janet

[V M]

When I was a kid we had a Siamese cat named Clyde AKA Scarhead. The most awnriest cat I've ever seen. He was the neighborhood bully. Would even attack dogs. Of coarse he paid a good price for his behavior. My mom was always patching his wounds. He was very protective of our family and rather nice to us. Hell on wheels for everyone else though. Rather than a normal meow like most cats, he made more of a deep, half growling "yeah" sound. I miss Clyde, never seen a cat quite like that one 

[cindianna_jones]

My dogs definitely recognize men from women.  I think that they smell a difference... there's the fear thing as well that may be a part of it.

Cindi

[gravitysrainbow]

I have a golden retriever named Taylor. His full name is Sir Odin Taylor of Hillside. We got him from a breeder when I was 8, and since his dad's name was Sir Winston Tobias and his mom was Sandy of Christmas Eve, we decided to name him similarly. He's going to be 10 next month, but he still acts like a puppy. He's super-smart, and can make a noise that sounds a little like Chewbacca from Star Wars. When we say, "Wookiee," he does it. Only if there's compensation offered, though. If you try to get him to do tricks with no treat in sight, he looks at you like you're crazy.

Anyway, I love him to death. He's the one I was worried about missing most when I went off to school.

Can't you see the family resemblance?


And here are some homemade loldogs!







ETA: As far as I can tell, he doesn't differentiate much between men and women. As long as my parents and I seem to want a person around, he does too. He'll bark like a Doberman at strangers, though. And cats. And birds. And plastic bags being blown around by the wind.

[Genevieve Swann]

You're a beautiful puppy.

[Sophie90]

Oh I want a pet...

Not allowed though.

Could get a plant, name it Clive.

[ZaidaZadkiel]

I present to you...
The fish unicorn.

Androgyne's best pet.

(I don't know if it does anything rainbow-y yet.)

[Nicky]

Something to look forward to as androgynes go to pasture:



My pet unicorn mantis!:

[ZaidaZadkiel]

Real life unicorns aren't very cute

[Nicky]

Don't know about you, but I'm totally hot! 

I don't know, the mantis has a certain charm. That dude with the horn is just freaky. It looks rotten...

[sarahkinnetz1984]

My new best friend... also have a Westie and King Charles Cavalier Spaniel

[Jaimey]

I don't know, the mantis has a certain charm.

I was thinking the same thing...

Personally, as far as weird fish go, I like my avatar.  The green things inside it's head are its eyes.  What looks like its eyes are actually nostrils, or so I read.    Barrel Eye Fish is very exciting.

[Genevieve Swann]

Weird fish. Breaths through its eyes? I wish I could breath through my ears.

[Laurry]

I wish I could breath through my ears.

Restraint...need restraint...don't make that comment...restraint...


Oh, by the way, I like pets.  Petting is fun!

I have a dog named Chewy.  Not only is that what he does, but he also sounds like Chewbacca.  The Humane Society that I adopted him from said he was Wiemaraner, but he has something else mixed in as well.

..L 

[Nicky]

A Ware-Mariner? Like a half dog half sailor that changes on the full moon? That is some cool dog Laurry!

Never was there such a dog of the sea. I always wondered why after a full moon the fridge was full of fresh fish and my dog was wearing a sailors cap.. seagulls would bow as he passed and he had a cunning nack of coiling his lead...people would always call him captain for no reason and when chewy growled it always came out sounding like  'swab the deck'.

later that year a harpoon cannon appeared one morning on our lawn. A car straining with sqweeling tires at the end of a rope piereced by that fierce cannon...

..I'm in rapture over this laurry....

the day he lost his eye in a freak fly fishing accident was the day he stood proudest. When that eye patch went on his little tail never stopped wagging.

'Call me Ishmael', said that tag on his collar

"when that wicked king was slain, the dogs, did they not lick his blood?" (moby dick)

[Jaimey]

wow, Nicky.  Just wow. 

...I can't stop looking at that mantis. 

[Nicky]

...I can't stop looking at that mantis. 

That mantis has it going on.

are you looking at my......'mantis'