*(And assorted others.)
Nonhuman creatures we love, live with, fancy, and/or favor.
Continued from the 2007 edition.
Patience, Please
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Our Friends of Fur, Feather, and Fin* (2010 edition)
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Ah, I love all my pets. They’re so lovely, especially the chickens. And we might get some chicks from a hatchery online…
FIRST POST!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Chickens! Somebody else owns them? I love ours, even though they are idiotic! I wanted to name one Colonel Sanders, but my mom was against it for some odd reason. We ended up naming them Baboon, Michaella the Headless, and Rosa Sharn. (Babs, Molly and Rosie for short.)
Aren’t they wonderful? Our flock is dwindling, one of ours actually just died yesterday…
We just have one left now, Priscilla. She’s a little skittish, but she has a nice personality. Now, off to go bother my mom about those little chickies…
First post! Meow.
My cat is an escape artist.
Foiled!
These aren’t pets, but I have to note that the fireflies are going crazy up here in Northern Virginia tonight. I’ve never seen so many of them, all flashing away like little pinpoint light-emitting diodes.
Are they speaking in morse code? Like: ” Don’t put us in a jar! Please!”
They could send that message better by staying dark.
3- They were doing that in NC, too!
I have a dog. Her name’s Junebug, and she is the cutest thing in the entire world. In my opinion, anyway.
Ah… Thats why my cat tried to jump out the window.
2- My mouse used to be an escape artist. (This is Chai. I’ve posted about her before. I keep meaning to send in pictures.) Then I started feeding her way more than I was, and she got fat enough that she can’t escape any more.
My family’s previous pets include my ferret, Bandit, my sister’s parakeet, Luna, and a rat (we only had him for a while
), Milo.
We’ve also had a lot of fish. My first pet was a goldfish, Amy, and she lived for 4 years, which was surprising. It was kind of funny because I would come home and she’d be floating belly-up at the top of the bowl, so I’d reach in and tickle her and she’d flip over and start swimming again. A fish who could play dead XD
We have a lot of outdoor friends too–we used to have a pair of nesting mute swans on the lake, and they recognized us and would eat bread from our hands. I even (VERY CAREFULLY) stroked the male’s back once (I DO NOT ACTUALLY RECOMMEND DOING THIS THEY ARE VERY BIG AND STRONG). We also have a lot of fish in the lake who are not bets, but we catch-and-release them all the time. I know maybe a pair of orioles in the yard by sight, and in general a lot of the birds around here.
I love animals. I wish I wasn’t allergic to everything with fur or feathers D:
I am thinking about getting a snake or lizard for a pet, though. I’m leaning towards snake, because although I’d love to own an iguana (what I’d prefer if I were to have a lizard) but those can be really hard to take care of and keep their habitat right. But I do love snakes, although it’d have to be a smallish one as keeping large pythons is both irresponsible and can be potentially dangerous.
Was going to say, I don’t plan on getting said reptile till after college when I can properly take care of it.
Once upon a time, I had a hermit crab named Sebastian….
he died within a year, but hermit crabs don’t necessarily have a long life span so…yup.
Nym had one too. Its name was “Hermoo,” I seem to recall. Sebastian is a great name too.
Spelled “Hermu”. ((My friend gave en that name))
I never actually saw him. He was nocturnal.
My old friend had one named Hermione.
HA. That’s a win name.
Under the sea…
-A
I used to have a hermit crab as well…Two, actually. They died within two weeks I believe.
My only memory of them is the funeral my friend and I held. My friend had an issue with mixing up her b’s and p’s (this was in like first grade) so on the obituary she wrote, “Shermie [yep, best name ever! 
] was a good hermit crap…May he go to crap heaven.” XD
I adore all animals, especially wildcats like cougars and panthers.
Well that’s kind of obvious.
Me? I love domestic cats. I have two at home, although one is *coughnotthatsmartcough*. They’re also much easier to take care of than dogs. Just sayin’.
Gapas: Can we send pics of our pets?
Of course. Have you looked at the previous thread?
Awww! So cute…I would like to see more duck pictures.
GAPAs, I’ve sent in a photo of my cat from when he was investigating my HG2G book…
I’ve got two kittehs whom I love dearly. One is named Sophie O’Shea and she is a brat but incredibly sweet sometimes. The other one is Shadow; I never see her though because of an overdose/underdose of anesthesia that we suspect she had while being spayed.
She’s very nervous now. A guinea pig named Einstein (for a tuft of white hair on his head) makes up the three pets I have, although my mom is really the one who looks after him.
I’ll see if I can send in any pictures!
I have two dogs and a cat. The oldest dog is a 6 year old yellow lab/Chinook mix who is very…..food oriented. I also have a 2 year old Carin terrier/toy poodle who is a bit of a total brat but is very smart. And cute. My cat is named Sir Ginger the Fearless. He was a foster kitten, but no body wanted him (how is that even possible?!)so we ended up adopting him. He is a real sweetie.
I used to have hermit crabs, does anyone have/had hermit crabs?
Yeah I had 4 hermit crabs…I got them from this school thing, but they died. So sad! *sniff*
I had many hermit crabs but they all died eventually at different times, the last one died about a month ago.
Aww! My duckies are playing in the sprinkler. :3 They’re drinking from it and taking a shower.
I read an article about a study conducted about whether ducks liked showers or baths better; the preferred showers.
Ducky, maybe you should leave a sprinkler out for yours.
We went to Baxter State Park and caught a ton of frogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! …I’m sorry, I have a bit of a obsession with frogs…. We let them go about 5 minutes after we caught them, of course, but I still think of them as my pets… Here is a list of all the frogs we caught.(Along with a leech and a newt.)
Prince-leopard spotted. Rocket-green with a small tail. Humpty Dumpty-green. Newphie-Brown newt with red spots on back and yellow underbelly.ADORABLE!!!! Cricket-Green. Chameleon-green. Stanley-green. Mr. Sitsy-green. DAY TWO Squirm-Worm-Green speckled with lighter green. Lily-Green speckled with a small tail. Gilroy-Dark Green Bullfrog. Amazon-mini green and silver leopard spotted frog. We call this type of frog”Katahdin frog”. Killer-Small Green Bullfrog. Sweetheart-Small Katahdin frog. Edwort Pickles-light green. Lazybones- Extremely Fat bullfrog. Teeny- Small green frog with a few large speckles. Looked light some bizarre Katahdin-Regular frog hybrid. Hicupp-green. Georgie-small, semi-bullbrog. Then we caught 20 frogs, one after another, at a different frogging spot. We didn’t bother to name them, because they all looked alike (Except for one, who had a tail.) So… Yeah, we caught a lot of frogs. I view each and every one as my pet. 20 frogpoints to anyone who actually read all of the frogs’ names.
SFTDP-oops, I forgot the leech. Splotch-light icky green leech with a yellow splotch on the back.
Oh, I love catching frogs! It’s earned me many strange looks from a wide variety of people, but it’s a lot of fun. They’re cool.