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[Rhindle The Red]

No, not a Commodore PET.  The animal kind...

So it looks like I've been adopted by a cat this past weekend, so it got me thinking about pets.  Until this cat, I haven't had one for years, but I always meant to get another one.  What about you?

[HatNJ]

I have 7 cats 1 my oldest is 6 and we had a preg. mother cat adopt us in 2007 she was hanging around outside our front door shivering and cold and my wife said I cant leave her out there  (I couldn't either) She came right in and plopped on an old pillow we were throwing out. The next night I come home from work and she was giving birth to the 3rd of 5 kittens All healthy and happy today they are all fixed including mom and current on their shots and they are indoor only kitties.

They can be a pain sometimes but I wouldnt give up any of them


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Edited by HatNJ, Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:53 PM.

[aftermac]

I have a rabbit named Cadbury, a guinea pig named Reese, a turtle named Turbo, and a bunch of fish.

[Chickybaby]

Yes, my pets have me at their peck and claw.    There is a definite pecking order and somehow I fall towards the bottom. Yup, more often you're the one that's adopted not the other way around.
19 yr old dog, 13, 11 and 3yr old fixed indoor cats, 9yr old african grey parrot, 2 15yr old cockatiels, 21 yr old red hook silver dollar fish, 12 yr old aquatic african clawed frog, couple small catfish - a raphael and a 3 spot that are approx 10 yrs old, Bean's comet gold"fishy" that's survived 2 yrs, 5 yr old hermit crab and small other assorted fish, and small dwarf african clawed frog thats 2.

There are also random wild creatures on my property - bat houses, possums, either a litter of baby skunks or raccoons every year, wild birds nesting every year - house finches, wrens, cardinals and catbirds or mockingbirds as well as bluejays, whatever is feeding at the thistle, mixed regular seeds, suet, and hummingbird feeders etc. While I don't have a partridge in a pear tree, I do have 2 crabapple, 2 apple, and wild cherry trees not to mention the 2 holly trees, juniper, blueberry and blackberry bushes, 5 butterfly bushes etc. No pond *yet*. And of course I have vegetable and herb gardens.
All joking aside, my yard is a National Wildlife Certified Habitat.

Between  my daughter, the animals, wild animals, and garden, I'm kept pretty busy especially in the summer.

[Ian Primus]

Here's Sam, helping out with Unix. While there is a cat command, I don't believe this was the original intent:

cat fuzzy.txt

-Ian

[iwan-iwanowitsch-goratschin]

We have a cat!

[Wickeycolumbus]

Just a cat I found on a bike path last summer.  It was a very hot day (about 100 degrees F), and it seemed very run down, plus it was just a tiny kitten at the time, so I brought it home.  There is also a stray cat that comes by my back porch every day that I feed.

[Recycled]

2 guinea pigs.

[Chickybaby]

Ian, Aww, I love that pic! Priceless! It's Purrfect!  LMAO!

Now that Bean has KO'd and the rest of the animals are behaving it's time for my Cat Nap.

Ian Primus, on Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:15 PM, said:

Here's Sam, helping out with Unix. While there is a cat command, I don't believe this was the original intent:

cat fuzzy.txt

-Ian

[Tweety]

I have a dog (a Jack Russel) and a cat (Atari Jaguar )

[atarian63]

One Dog a Beagle Dachsund mix, 15 year old cat named "Mittens" and a 5 year old cat named Fluffy(my daugher named HIM). My older daughter
has a 4ft iguana named "Kelsa". Great to have pets!

[Lemmi]

Rhindle The Red, on Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:42 PM, said:

So it looks like I've been adopted by a cat this past weekend

our neighbor had a cat that wanted outside all the time, so they just left it outside, and it adpoted us by comming in when it was cold. we hardly ever had to feed it because it just ate the dogs food when it was really hungry. the cat lived 17 years before it was hit by a car 5 years ago

right now i have a 9 yr old cat named Precious. thats what her name was when i rescued it from a family that was going to take it to the pound because it didnt get along with their german shepard. it used to be an older ladys lap cat

and a 2 year old dog named Buddy

[Rhindle The Red]

Here's the little thing that's the cause of this poll:

The Cat Who Came to Dinner

The Visiting Cat Wants In

[Random Terrain]

Had a kitten, had puppies and dogs, had hamsters, had a turtle, had fish and I think that's it. Done with pets now.

[segasaturn]

Actually,I only had one pet before, in the past. I had a Dog, and I named him Dolly( I was 2 years old) . I miss him, but I plan on getting a cat later in the future.

[AussieAtari]

Norwich Terrier, Maltese Shitsu, 5 fish & two Bitsa (bits of everything) cats.

[Shawn Sr.]

I have a Chocolate Doberman named Serra.

[BydoEmpire]

Three cats, and they're awesome.

[Herbarius]

There is no option I could vote.

I don't have a pet. I never had a pet. But I wouldn't rule out the possibility I would ever get one.

[Captain Beard]

Had you asked last year on this date, my answer would have been quite different.
Back then, I had 4 cats (and a wife, too.)  Today, I have but one cat (and no wife, either -- 2008 was a baaaaad year for me.)
I really want to get another, but I'm just not ready yet.  

Stanley, the sole survivor, is a heckuva snuggly little pal, however, and is so needy he's almost two-cats-in-one.
Here he is in a bag (and trust me, he likes it in there):

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[rpgfaker]

I have a paradise whydah, a little finch size bird with two tailfeathers about 3 times his body length. I saved him from a horrible fate of being stuck in a cage with 30 finches who were landing on his tail, he sings alot now.

[littleman jack]

I have cats, two boys and two girls. They surely add to my wife's, and my, quality of life.

[TrekMD]

I have a dog, 2 canaries, a parrotlet, 6 koi fish in a pond, and 3 hermit crabs.

[Ian Primus]

Captain Beard, on Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:04 PM, said:

Stanley, the sole survivor, is a heckuva snuggly little pal, however, and is so needy he's almost two-cats-in-one.
Here he is in a bag (and trust me, he likes it in there):

Hehe! That bag looks exactly like the ones my cat loves to hide in. They're freebies from Sunmark credit union (where a friend works), and I use them to carry things around frequently. I'll put the bag on the floor, and put a few things in it, turn around to get something else, turn back, and there is now a cat in it. He lets you carry him around in the bag too! Very cuddly, and very curious.

Sounds like my Sam would get along well with Stanley!

-Ian

[ThumpNugget]

Sasha (Lab mix) and Porthos (Beagle)








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