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Cats and dogs I can understand for the companionship. Tropical fish I can understand because they are beautiful. But what's the deal with other pets? They're just stupid, aren't they? Until they genetically engineer a perpetual tiger cub I'm keeping out of the whole thing.

― Nick, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My housemates are pets enough.

― Will, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My aunt has a chinchilla in a cage. It's a scary little thing kind of rat or possum like with sharp teeth.

― Samantha, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But why?

― Nick, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Minks are the nastiest vilest creatures on earth and they can go UNDER DOORWAYS. (story unforthcoming)

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My housemate Doug is like a wild beast in the mornings - unless he is tamed, he sings showtunes while I'm still bleary, and he is fearsome to behold when he mooches around in his pants.
We try and keep him to his room as much as possible, and when his girlfriend comes round animal noises emanate from his room. Not even sex noises, just... animal noises. And a strange cackling sound.

― Will, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick, I do not now. She claims it's sweet but she must put on gloves and use a coffee can to catch. Apparently it's in a cage now b/c it chewed a hole in the wall.

― Samantha, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a ferret dig its teeth into my leg once. My immediate reflex was to get my leg out of the way, hence a wild rollercoaster ride for said ferret (it smelled of salami - something to do with not having been spayed, I think), still happily lodge in my ankle.

I'm with Nick on this. I'm allergic to cats, exhausted by the mere thought of having dogs, and, unless you get a tortoise, a parrot or an elephant, the certain knowledge that as soon as you become fond of them, they're going to die on you.

― Mark C, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hamsters are sweet and furry, though they die too soon, alas. But I liked mine when I was younger. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

axolotyls (is that spelt right? ) mexican walking fish always puzzled me, ugly little bastards

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 9 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Awww, Ned's just a big softie isn't he? Professing his hampster wuvving.

― Kim, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we had an xlotyl called travis as a pet in our class at primary school

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I collected and killed gold fish for a while. They're supposed to bring you money in a fung schway way. Obivously I am to remain poor.

I love cats, except for the one that I actually live with at the moment. He is more like a leech, and it is usually a two person operation to remove him for your personage once attached. Come to think of it he's not to dissimilar to the aliens spawn things.

― smythe,mr smythe, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a multitude of pets. ! Too numerous to mention. Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We named the salamander Kali because of its habits towards rodents and crickets.

― anthony, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a rabbit (black one) called Muggs that would ride on sleds in the winter and in my bike basket in all other seasons. It lived outside most of the time but was allowed in the house occasionally since it had good manners, as did the poodles who left it alone. My cousin had some dodgy lops they let live indoors and "use a litter tray" meaning: shit all over the areas *surrounding* the litter tray.

― suzy, Saturday, 10 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At the moment I have one cat and three little fish. It is not unknown for me to have hundreds of animals though.

For a couple of years I had cats, rats, mice, fish, lizards, pythons, a rabbit and chooks.

I miss the mice most of all. I love mice. I used to breed mice and rats to feed to pythons and to sell to pet shops and to other reptile owners. I had the most beautiful mice - they were so pretty! I'd love to have mice again - unfortunately my flat is really small and mice whiff a bit and I don't want to overcommit myself. I miss my mice.

I grew up on a farm where we had lots of cats and a dog and rabbits and runty piglets and lambs in the house so lots of animals seems normal to me.

― toraneko, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See some of my mice at http://www.geocities.com/tiger_mice/. I haven't taken down my page even though I don't have them anymore.

― toraneko, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i want and need a cat SOOOO BAD but can't have one as live in rented top floor flat. arses. toraneko didn't you get all sad when you had to deliver your cute mice unto certain death at the fangs of the pythons?

― katie, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nah, only the ugly male ones and became food.

― toraneko, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

toraneko = *brrrrr* :)

― katie, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just was chatting with this lady walking a chow-chow today and I just want one! She (the chow-chow, well, the lady too) was absolutely lovely, petite, but hairy,...oh.

On fish: They are more of an ornamental choice than an actual pet, that's how I feel about them. I awfully traditional in this one,sorry,dogs are great, cats are all rightish, turtles are the only reptiles I could do with, birds are sad. On the sci-fi side, the tiger cub is a fun idea, but I would love an ottey to swim with it in my bathtub

― Laetitia, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my cat three years ago

― kevin enas, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hope none of those mice on Toraneko's page ended up in a python!

― DG, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my cat three years ago

let's try that again...:(

― kevin enas, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i give up.

― kevin enas, Sunday, 11 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.disturbingauctions.com/view.php?item=21

― ron (ron), Sunday, 13 April 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.disturbingauctions.com/view.php?item=64

the face on the bunny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― ron (ron), Sunday, 13 April 2003 03:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.disturbingauctions.com/view.php?item=87

my stomach is starting to hurt

― ron (ron), Sunday, 13 April 2003 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Cuddleable Or Edible?

http://www.caudata.org/axolotl/images/animals/assortment_27_may_2000.jpg

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Sunday, 13 April 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.caudata.org/axolotl/images/animals/d_leucistic1.jpg

*Aww*

I love John Clare, whoever he is.

That'll be me off me box then.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Sunday, 13 April 2003 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

John Clare, IIRR, is a dead poet. I'm not clear why he is selling axolotls, or whatever they are.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 April 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Axolotls are freakin cool. They look fantastic, I handfeed mine, and it's the only pet I've ever had that's ever tried to eat me. Ugly pets rule.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 13 April 2003 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

courtesy of Jen:

http://www.nstop.com/jen/images/dog-vs-ferret.jpg

and just in case you can't scroll all the way to the end of the pic,

http://home.earthlink.net/~rjameshudson/ferret.jpg

― ron (ron), Sunday, 13 April 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Those are the bets pictures ever. I especially llike the one that has the ferret looking directly at the camera with its mouth wide open.

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 13 April 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

is that a person asleep in the background? or just a cap on the bed? Coz if it is a person and they're experiencing REM sleep with the ferret v. dog F!I!T!E! thang going ahn, I shudder to think what kind of dreams they're having....

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

this is the best pic ever ever EVER

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 06:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I really want to see the denouement to the dog/ferret encounter.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 06:35 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Someone I know has never had a pet, and is in her 50s now. I find that a little odd, and a little sad. I love animals. I don't really understand people who don't like animals in the same way as I don't understand people who don't like music or good food.

At the moment we have two cats called Cosmo and Bob. In the past I had a cat called Cindy, a dog called Pete, another cat called Purdy, dogs called Sally and Bonnie, and, for a weekend, two cats called Mork & Mindy.

What pets have you had?

― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 April 2009 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

Oh man, hers is a life I cannot imagine! I don't know whether she likes pets, but people who don't like pets I kind of don't trust.

― fillibustar superstar! (Abbott), Monday, 27 April 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

I has a turkey. Sometimes his head and neck turn azure blue, sometimes scarlet, sometimes white; the thing on his nose grows and shrinks 6" in a second. He is awesome. Picked his baby ass up from the road a couple of years ago when walking my dog.We found out later that the Wildlife Center had released 6 rescued turkey poults in my hood, but they didn't have tha skillz 2 survive. This turkey will back any mofo right up. He is a scary 4' tall when he stands up straight. He's badass in a way that even my pit bull cannot obtain. He likes to flirt w/ me when I am trying to read outdoors and he steals my bookmarks etc. Thug love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm7pq8RW_fo

― soviet, Saturday, 13 March 2010 22:09 (sixteen years ago)

What an epic bird! Where does he live? What do you feed him? How long a life can he live?

― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Saturday, 13 March 2010 22:37 (sixteen years ago)

Man, that thing is amazing.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 March 2010 22:40 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

It wants to mate. That disturbs me - ..

ANYWAY - dont we all have pets? But they live in our colons and they are microscopic. We all have pets. We are all spaceships for bacteria.

― Latham Green, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:04 (fourteen years ago)

Not to forget the many mites that live at the bases of our follicles.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

yes - we are wonderfull littel planets of beautiful sentient beings! we are worlds within worlds! rejoice! we are Gaia! we are like Bender when he was floating in space and got colonized

― Latham Green, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 18:35 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

warning: sad

http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/06/photos-of-displaced-animals-whove-been-illegally-imported-into-the-united-states/

― 乒乓, Monday, 17 June 2013 15:17 (twelve years ago)

I'm gonna read that in a second but I'm still kinda in awe of the fact that soviet has a house turkey that he just found on the road. Normal.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:25 (twelve years ago)

I mean I'm scared of birds and still think that thing is AMAZING.

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 17 June 2013 15:27 (twelve years ago)

four weeks pass...

a. and i just put in an application to adopt this beastie.

http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/24687625

― pass-ag caglia (get bent), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 04:51 (twelve years ago)

― Treeship, Tuesday, 16 July 2013 05:22 (twelve years ago)

that adoption didn't work out. the foster family decided they wanted to keep her. but we're going with the same rescue organization again because they were very apologetic and sincerely interested in matching us with another cat. this calico girl actually lives at the cattery and we're going back tomorrow to drop off our adoption fee, and we'll bring her home over the weekend.

http://photos.petfinder.com/photos/US/CA/CA137/25817864/CA137.25817864-2-x.jpg

― hannah arendt you glad you didn't say banana (get bent), Friday, 26 July 2013 00:35 (twelve years ago)

i sent my dad a picture and he says her eyes look like something out of the shining.

― hannah arendt you glad you didn't say banana (get bent), Friday, 26 July 2013 02:21 (twelve years ago)

your dad isn't being very helpful!

― mookieproof, Friday, 26 July 2013 04:15 (twelve years ago)

beautiful cat

― Treeship, Friday, 26 July 2013 04:19 (twelve years ago)

in related news, i have been singing "cattery" to the tune of the opening track on metallica's master of puppets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ7Aif5aXlQ

― hannah arendt you glad you didn't say banana (get bent), Friday, 26 July 2013 04:36 (twelve years ago)

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