BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.....???? 🕷

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... 😈

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?

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.

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

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!!

Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Jan 17 - 07:25 PM

No equestrians out there?

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.

Subject: RE: BS: Ok what kind of pets do you have
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Jan 17 - 12:46 PM

refresh

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

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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. :(

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.

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?

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.