Other pets?

Just wondering what other pets you guys had, besides the beautiful kitties, that is! Pictures are good too . As for me, I have a dog, a cockatiel, 2 guinea pigs, and 4 chinchillas. Picking up 4 more chinchillas at the end of this month (2 are rescues, the other 2 are a really nice breeding pair of excellent quality!). The three gorgeous putty tats still rule the household!

Here are the piggies...

And Ellie, my beautiful black velvet chinchilla

And my babygirl Marley's puppy dog. Gypsy (dog) and Marley (cat) are a few months apart in age and pretty much grew up together. Now Gypsy is 3, and Marley 2 1/2.

Your babies are all so cute! I them!

I have a male Golden Retriever named Buddy! He's such a good boy!

Oh, what a cute little family you have! Chinchillas are so cute! Even your piggies are cute. It took me forever to find Marley in that picture of her and Gypsy. What a good looking family!

Oh, and I just have Spike. :tounge2:

I'm also in the process of building some new chinchilla cages (I have a very small apartment!). The chinchillas love them! The 4 cages will stack together and house all 8 chinchillas. The first 2 are finished, and the next 2 MUST be done by the 22nd of this month because that's when I get my new chins. Even though they will be housed in pairs, they need to be quarantined separately and I only have 2 extra cages. It has been SO fun building them! All are baby proof, even though only 2 pairs will be breeding. There is a slight possible chance that the others *could* have babies, so we're not taking chances! They are 5-10 years old, from a breeding farm and were labeled as "slow/non breeders". Ellie is one of them, and she's just loving being just a spoiled pet. 2 of my next ones are from the same place, and the boy is super sweet, I've heard. Chins are so fun to spoil! Here are the first two (mostly finished, but I'm still gonna add some more toys, hiding places, clay flower pots, and a hammock to each cage)

Besides Opie and Rowdy, we have Ike, a 3-year-old Dalmatian and Pearl, a 6-month-old brown dog.

Besides my two cats, I have two Australian Terriers and now four geckos as well. Here's the boys...

Okay, can't resist, here's another pic... This is what the boys do when I get up

How come your breeding chinchillas? I only ask because my local pet stores always have some and they never seem to sell. Is there much of a demand where you are?

They look so soft!

I only have the two cats. Hubby will be getting some fish of some sort at the end of the month, either pirrhanas or Oscars.

These pictures that you showed are soo cute.. I only have 2 cats. I am allegric with dogs.. That's so ironic! yet, I still love dogs, though.

Here's my bunch:




Skipper is almost 10 years old and he's a border collie. He could sit for hours on end and watch Squawk. Squawk is a blue budgie. He's fearless. He squawks back to the dog and the cat and gets right up close to them on his cage bars and perch. Socks is a 9 year old former barn cat, spoiled and demanding.

awwww i love guina pigs!!

I have two gold fish and two doggies.

here is misty

and Nanook (he is part chowchow...the blue tounge scares some people :LOL: )

Tamme, are piranhas legal, in Canada? Private citizens aren't allowed to have them, here. A few have turned up, in lakes and rivers. Fortunately, they don't survive for long.

I'm going to be picking up this little angel at the weekend

Tamme

Chins are in demand, cute babies and nice breeding quality chinchillas are never hard to sell. They also don't breed like rabbits, so you don't have 10 babies every month. 2 - 4 babies a year from each pair is all I am going to let my chinchillas have (they CAN have more - up to 12 a year, pretty rare though - but I'm not going to let them, bad for the mom) Gestation is 4 months, with 2 months to wean them, and an average litter is 1-3 kits. I think pet stores tend to charge way too much ($100+), usually only carry standard grey chinchillas, and sell mostly adults, of low quality. I'm not saying these chins deserve to be loved any less, but you can generally get VERY high quality, even show quality standard gray babies, who have been socialized since birth, for $50 to $75 from a good breeder. I've already got 2 babies sold, and my first pair isn't even breeding yet.

Dawn

apart from our 2 cats, we have a dog (5yr old female beagle-collie mix) named Dixie, and a teeny-tiny little snail (the last survivor from one of those Aqua Babies tanks) that I haven't seen in days... We used to have a red-eared slider (turtle) named Dinky, but she died, along with our 18 yr. old cat (my first cat and best friend... corny as that may sound.)

Here's Dixie:

Dawn, I think your approaching petting zoo status.

1 Siamese Fighting Fish named Kamikaze (his name had to scare off the cats).

Welcome to our Zoo...

3 cats (2 himmies, 1 domestic)
1 golden retriever
3 fish
2 hamsters
1 cockatiel

recently passed on...
1 rabbit
2 hamsters
1 turtle
1 ginnea pig
1 fish
1 cameleon
5 newts
2 frogs
2 snails

Did I mention zoo????

and 5 years ago, passed away

Jade- female golden/sheppard mix
(We still miss her terribly, she was only 3)