Pets

Any folk here share your dwelling with animals? Small dog for me. She grew on me (8 years) and now we're best buds. Yep, I even talk and sing to her, but I don't know why. She loves chasing squirrels in the back yard. 

Edited by Grumpyprogfan - March 10 2020 at 15:42

I've had many pets, now only some cats. They are in and around our summer house in Kusadasi/Turkey. In winters we pay and they are fed by someone else. Kusadasi has a nice climate, so they're doing OK. Also they are used to outdoors, which makes it easy for us.

I had dogs, other cats, fish and some other water creatures, a guinea pig, a zebra finch, parakeets, pigeons; as well as some unusual pets like a hedgehog, lizards, snakes, a wild tortoise and a wild turtle, even we took care of a wounded bat once.

2 years ago we took care of a jaybird, who was a baby found by my brother. When s/he grew up, s/he went. Such cute animals.

I love animals. 

My Mom had her own personal little zoo, so I grew up with dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, parakeets, finches, two garter snakes we caught (one the cat found -- instead of putting it outside, we kept it and fed it crickets), and a toad that I caught (also liked crickets). 

Snicolette wrote: progaardvark wrote: My Mom had her own personal little zoo, so I grew up with dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, parakeets, finches, two garter snakes we caught (one the cat found -- instead of putting it outside, we kept it and fed it crickets), and a toad that I caught (also liked crickets).  We even had a pair of field mice get into the house. Instead of setting traps, we caught them with cheese inside a tall trash can with a long ramp. Once they went in for the cheese, the can was too tall for them to jump out. We put them in an unused hamster cage (yes, wild mice do know how to use a hamster wheel) and freed them in the woods in the spring.  My wife likes Bernese Mountain dogs and shows them at AKC (and other) shows. Our previous dog, Nick, did agility, rally, obedience, took sheep-herding classes, and did a bunch of other stuff of which I can't quite recall what the activities were called. He sadly had to battle degenerative myelopathy for his last three years and needed those special wheels they make dogs when their back legs fail (had to build some ramps for him too). Our current dog, Riker, has his grand championship, did some rally, and loves fast CAT (a coursing ability test; like a 100 yard dash chasing a plastic bag tied to a pulley; absolutely loves this). Here's Riker being chased around the yard by me about three years ago. I gave him the nickname Poojer when he was a puppy (my Dad calls all dogs poojers, a sort of local variant on "pooches"). That Riker looks like one happy poojer to me!  Bernese Mountain Dogs are just a quintessential dog, aren't they?  Handsome and able.  Sorry to hear of your Nick.  We also did have some house-mice in Nashville that we caught in humane traps and would release in the woods behind our house, they were adults, though. They seemed to return every winter and then disappear the rest of the year.

on the day before we met Friede received two little kittens, a male and a female. she called them "Penis" and "Vagina". oh, and Vagina was the male. that was inspired by a book; let's see if anyone here read that book too. we had them for almost 15 years. when Vagina died Penis followed just a few days afterwards