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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Mar 20 - 03:50 PM If I still had my cat I would be a lot less bored. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 17 Mar 20 - 03:16 PM So you say you're bored being at home. But how are your pet animal friends' attitudes towards having you at home? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: kendall Date: 23 Jan 17 - 09:47 PM We only have one cat that lives in the house. Another feral cat that won't be touched comes by every day. we also have a Possum, two skunks, a pair of red Foxes 5 Deer and two dozen wild turkeys. AND, OF COURSE COUNTLESS CHIDADEES, CARDINALS, TUFTED TITMICE...DAMN CAPSLOCK. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Senoufou Date: 23 Jan 17 - 03:56 PM punkfolkrocker and Stu - GAAAAAAAH!!!!!!! Huge spiders!!! TEN inches across??? And pfr, feeding bathroom spiders with your wife's tweezers??? OMG! OMG! Bless us and save us!!! I shan't sleep tonight now. I need brain bleach. :( |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 23 Jan 17 - 03:46 PM Bee dubya ell, congrats on your resurrected fishpond. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 22 Jan 17 - 03:54 PM On the BS thread about pet dogs, I posted about the family dog from my childhood years. Since leaving home and family, I have never had a pet anything. But I vicariously enjoy the pets of others. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Stu Date: 22 Jan 17 - 10:21 AM I kept tarantulas for many years. I used to buy them as spiderlings (or 'slings' as they're known in the hobby) at which stage I'd keep them in a 35mm film pot and feed them micro crickets. I used to raise them up to full adult and then give them up for breeding; males are especially sought after as they don't live long after their adult moult and only lived a couple of years max. At one point I had about 18, one of which was Theraphosa blonde the Goliath Bird Eater, the larges spider in the world. She was a real beauty, 10 inches across with a bit of an attitude and I when I brought her as a spidering she'd fit on my small fingernail. I'm thinking of getting a chameleon, but need to check the husbandry requirements; I take looking after my pets very seriously. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: punkfolkrocker Date: 22 Jan 17 - 09:10 AM From the age of about 8 to 14, my ambition was to be a marine biologist.. I read every relevant book in the local library and became an obsessive self taught precocious expert on tropical fish; commandeering one of my dad's sheds to house my fish tanks. I also had a serious interest in amphibians and kept and bred newts and toads, that I'd netted in local ditches.... As I neared 15 I became far more interested in girls and guitars, and neglected the daily chores of keeping the tanks clean and healthy.. The amphibians were released back into their natural environment, and the fish dispersed to anyone my dad could give them away to. So that was the end of that... This is the first time in many years I've even remembered that phase of my life.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Felipa Date: 22 Jan 17 - 07:38 AM all dogs - Misneach - border collie (name means Courage, pronounced Mishnach- a terrified dog when I got him as an adult, a bit braver now though he doesnt live up to his name) Dileas - smooth collie (name means Loyal, Faithful} Tintra - whippet (Tintreach means lightning and he was a good racer when younger) Dóchas - whippet (name means Hope) Maisrie - whippet [ going by their characters, I could redistribute some names: Misneach renamed Dileas, Dileas changed to Dóchas and Dóchas changed to Misneach! As a vegetarian I should trade them in for pygmy goats and/or pigs.] I'm reminded of a discussion on Gaidhlig-L ( Scottish Gaelic discussion list); I was surprised to find a few of the participants had pet tortoises. does anyone here have Axolotyls? KEBEROXU - what about you - do you have any pets? did you eat any pet? do you have any equines? You ask these questions yet give no information. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 21 Jan 17 - 03:11 PM Have any of you eaten your pets ... what brought THAT on |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 20 Jan 17 - 12:46 PM refresh |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 19 Jan 17 - 12:20 PM A rather timely question somewhat related to this thread might be "What kinds of pets does Donald Trump have?" Well, the answer is "None," which leads to an alternate question, "What kinds of pets should Donald Trump have?" Here are a couple of candidates: Trumpapillar: A "hairy" stinging caterpillar Golden Pheasant Or, if he must have a dog, this one would be appropriate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 18 Jan 17 - 07:25 PM No equestrians out there? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Llanfair Date: 17 Jan 17 - 12:43 PM Dogs, 3, Cats, 3, chickens, 2, the spider who lives in the bath....I keep a sieve by there to fish him out at bathtime, and the spider who lives in the van, named Geoffrey. I've recently had a resident rat. I put poison down and left the 3/4 full container where he was getting in. 2 days later I checked, and it had chewed through the plastic container and scoffed the lot. I think he's gone now......... Incidentally, my standard poodle, Rupert, is looking for a short-term relationship with a view to making doodle puppies. WLTM a wolfhound, deerhound (DeeDoodle), great dane, or girl dogs of that ilk. He's a VERY big poodle!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: banjoman Date: 17 Jan 17 - 06:21 AM Two rabbits who regard themselves as part of the family and regularly take over the settee in the living room. A large tank of tropical fish (40+) and four large goldfish in an outside pond |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 16 Jan 17 - 07:20 PM I didn't think I had fish, but I do. I have a pond, around a half-acre in size. My wife stocked it with ornamentals like koi and comets. She likes them, I'd rather have fish that can be eaten. Anyway, the pond had a leak, so I ignored it for about six months. It had dried up to nothing but a couple of shallow puddles, and I was sure the herons had eaten all the fish. I finally got around to sealing the leak and refilled the pond a few months back. So yesterday, my wife walks in the door and says, "Guess what we still have? Fish!" So, I walked up there today and saw a dozen or so myself. How they could have survived in that tiny bit of water with no food while subject to predation by birds, snakes, and raccoons is pretty incredible. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 16 Jan 17 - 01:12 PM Refresh. Who has pets that are different than dogs or cats? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: punkfolkrocker Date: 14 Jan 17 - 11:12 PM ... the wife doesn't know I feed them with her make up tweezers... 😈 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: punkfolkrocker Date: 14 Jan 17 - 11:05 PM Bathroom spiders... My dog died aged about 12, within a year of me moving away from home to live up North with my first serious girlfriend - I'd have been about 20 when I received the sad news from my parents... I've never wanted the responsibility of looking after any pet since. .. and probably never will again. But since moving into this big old crumbling Victorian house in my early 40s I began to take an interest in the bathroom spiders that occupy their own territories on the ceiling in the corners... It's relaxing sitting or standing to perform my natural functions, and observe them growing day by day, moving about in search of food and mates... In summer, when I'm bored, I amuse my self by catching mosquitoes and flies and feeding my favourite spiders with tweezers. They all eventually disappear, and as much as I put that down to the mysteries of mother nature.. I also suspect my wife has a hand in flushing them down plug holes to certain cruel death.....???? 🕷 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 14 Jan 17 - 01:53 PM Any Mudcat households with horses or ponies? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 13 Jan 17 - 12:04 PM So now I will have to look up the New Zealand peripatus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Jack Campin Date: 13 Jan 17 - 08:16 AM Three cats: - Chloe (very old and almost toothless lilac tortie longhair who purrs almost all the time, but wheezes like she's worn out the clutch in her purr transmission) - Marblecake (13 year old shorthair tabby who likes nothing better than to sit on the bed and be stroked while purring and drooling huge puddles onto the duvet) - Ollie (her son, 11, born on our bed, ginger shorthair; goes out a lot to do Bloke Things around the block, the only one of our cats who still bothers to go outside) Ollie and his mother have been arguing continuously since he was weaned and regularly get into scraps - they both cuddle up with Chloe but never together. They got some catnip for Christmas. The one it most affected was Marblecake, who rolled around the floor in ecstasy while Ollie looked on as if thinking "oh god, Mother's on the gin again". We had a succession of rats while Marion's kids were at home. My brother had a neat choice of pet when he was a student in NZ - two peripatuses in a terrarium. But they didn't last long, it looked like one of them ate the other and then died itself. They're lovely little things with utterly disgusting feeding habits. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Jan 17 - 11:15 PM (chronologically) dachshunds, basset hounds, housecats. I've bird-sat (which the cats did not like) and had turtles come through. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: keberoxu Date: 12 Jan 17 - 05:52 PM the advantage to THIS thread is that it is not exclusive to canines and felines. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Sorcha Date: 31 Jan 09 - 05:15 PM Kat, Kipling needs a guitar player!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: John MacKenzie Date: 31 Jan 09 - 04:36 PM I have a pet rock |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Catherine Jayne Date: 31 Jan 09 - 04:33 PM we've got a black and white cat called Merlyn the Mogificent. She's 8 years old and a real lap cat who tries to sleep under the duvet! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Rapparee Date: 31 Jan 09 - 04:05 PM My brother's daughter has a ferret. Does that count? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: katlaughing Date: 31 Jan 09 - 04:04 PM Thought you all might enjoy a peek at my Silly Kipling trying to stand on his head on youtube.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Riginslinger Date: 15 May 08 - 06:29 PM A one year old Weimaraner named Walter |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: GUEST,Hamstersrule12 Date: 15 May 08 - 05:37 PM #1 1 year old kitten #2 another 1 year old kitten #3 a 11 year old cat #4 1 fish #5 another fish #6 one more fish We are going to move to Tennessee very soon. Are these pets allowed? Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Sorcha Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:16 PM Uh, we're not any of us Hoarders are we? Grin...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:11 PM Oh, John, I don't remember that. Sorry...I know it is tough. I have added a few more, including one of our Charlee, one of the Beige Brothers, who passed on this last Fall. Thanks, biLL.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: John Hardly Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:00 PM I still feel a little jolt when I see pictures of Trys and Kipling. They are tin-types of my Hobie and Frankie (now gone). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: GUEST,number 6 Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:28 PM What a contented looking *crop*. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:23 PM Pix of our current *crop.* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Becca72 Date: 21 Feb 07 - 04:18 PM Damn, Tami...couldn't Jason fall in love with a closer dog?? :-) I don't mind a road trip, but Tennessee? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Feb 07 - 04:06 PM We have one live wire, and three couch potatoes. And several shrews in the laundry room. That's OK though, my son is coming to visit, and may bring his two snakes. :~) ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 07 - 04:03 PM LOVE the pictures, folks!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: ranger1 Date: 21 Feb 07 - 02:47 PM Woohoo! We've just gotten news that our application to adopt a dog that Jason fell in love with has been approved. Only problem is that he's in Tennessee and we're in Maine. Anyone up for a puppy express? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Midchuck Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:48 PM Four cats at this time. Waylon came to us in Spring '01 with his littermate, Willie. Willie was my special buddy, but he only made it to age 4 1/2 before he succumbed to some kind of heart embolism thing. Mona came to us through our neighbor, who got her away from a druggie niece who was abusing her, but couldn't keep her herself because her own then 20-year-old cat wouldn't stand for another cat in the house. No pictures up of the new ones, Emmylou Hairyears ("Looloo") and Rudyard Kitt-ling ("Rudi"). They were rescued feral kittens who were fostered by a lady who did an incredible job of socializing them. Both gray and white, about 10 months old now. Rudi is a shorthair, getting very big and acts more like a Golden Retriever than any cat I've ever met - both in wanting you to throw things for him to chase, and in being terribly affectionate and generally goofy. Loo is smaller, long fluffy hair, and pretty much a slut, to the extent a neutered cat can be. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Scoville Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:17 PM Aargh--sorry. I've got a piece-of-crap keyboard and mouse that don't function in sync with the buttons I push. Sigh.
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Scoville Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:16 PM American Eskimo dog. Rescued on her last day at the shelter in 1999 and currently thirteen-ish going on two-ish; I never saw a dog before that got more feisty and playful as she got older. She runs everyone's lives, and she's an incorrigible garbage thief and squirrel-killer but she's a great My brother has the creepy genius cat. Opens doors, thinks of new ways to test all the rules, that sort of thing. He was a creepy EVIL genius cat for the first year and a half of his life but is finally settling down and becoming somewhat personable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: GUEST,ib48 Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:57 AM i have a 24 yard baltic spangle fish |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: katlaughing Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:31 PM Maryanne, sounds like my Kipling! Nick, I was just going through a storage bin the other day and trying to decide whether to keep an OLD Kliban tee-shirt or throw it out as it is completely worn out with holes and all. Still have the bedsheets with THAT cat.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Peace Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:29 PM I have a fish. He has been floating on his back for about three weeks. Eats nothing at all. Very easy to keep. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: catspaw49 Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:26 PM Hey John Hardly! Weims ARE GSP's in Sharkskin suits! I love both of these breeds and although they look so very much alike, they really developed in two very different ways from pretty much different hounds. The Germans really valued the all-purpose gun dog and companion and you see that in these two breeds especially. And that companionship thing? Hard to beat either of these breeds although most lines nowadays are almost too damn companionable and suffer from the WORST cases of separation anxiety in dogdom. The best way to cure it is to always have more than one! Of course this makes walking in your home difficult as wherever you are.....they are. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: GUEST,Nick Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:13 PM I just need to throw out to you guys my description of our #3 cat,(See first post of thread) the one we took in in a case of mistaken identity (thought she was the # 2 cat who went missing, but #2 was male, coulda checked that) She resemble nothing else in this world more than a meatloaf. (Nod to the cartoonist Kliban) Nick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: GUEST,maire-aine Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:44 PM Now I have 2 cats. Molly is a long-haired tortoise shell. She's a little shy at first, but warms up to strangers quickly. Little One is a short-haired gray and white cat, who runs away and hides at the first sound of a stranger. It was years before she would even come near me. Now both of them cuddle up with me. They were litter-mates and are approaching their 18th birthday at the beginning of May. I had their mother and brother, but they've both passed on. I've always been frustrated because, they'll cuddle up beside me, but won't sleep on my lap. Finally, last night, Molly stepped down from the back of the sofa, and curled up on my chest. Yes! They were born under my next-door neighbor's porch in our old neighborhood. We brought them inside, and they haven't been outside since (well Molly goes out to the driveway to chew grass, but only with a harness and leash on). Who knew it would end up being such a long commitment? I haven't been travelling lately, because I don't want to leave them, but once they pass, I probably will take some trips before I adopt any more. Maryanne |
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Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have From: Gizmo Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:37 PM Maybe because I'm cynical - and I HATE people who abuse animals, including humans, I think the point is Truebrit, some people want what they don't have, then when the realisation of responsibilty hits, they then want 'freedom' again. But I'm just cynical, perhaps there is kindness in everyone deep down. |
