What kind of animals have you had throughout your life?

[katspixiedust]

I've had:

Cats
Dog
Fish
Little turtles
Gerbils
Hamsters
Mouse
Rabbit

Growing up there was always at least 3 animals in the house. In the years I've been on my own though it's just been my little Waffle. Eventually, when Matt and I buy a house in a couple of years, we'd like to have another cat and a couple of dogs (one being a Sheltie since I grew up with one and just loved her).

 

[taurus77]

Originally Posted by Arlyn

and one imaginary vampire bat

I was reading along, thinking, "Hmmm....the usual pets. Wait....what???!!!"

That is sooooo funny. Care to eloborate on this for us??

 

[arlyn]

Originally Posted by Taurus77

I was reading along, thinking, "Hmmm....the usual pets. Wait....what???!!!"

That is sooooo funny. Care to eloborate on this for us??

As a toddler, it was strictly forbidden to tease the cat.
As any little kid will do, I sometimes broke the rules, once my punishment was two nice claw punctures in my neck.

I told my mom that my pet bat did it, since that wasn't forbidden

 

[lookingglass]

Just cats...

Oh, my roommate in college had the world's meanest dwarf hampster.

 

[strange_wings]

Originally Posted by Joe Poppers

Then a mutt ( was a inter bred b/t a stray dog and a fox, cute lil thing)

Fox are a different species and even genera all together from domestic dogs. They cannot interbreed.
Your little dog was likely a cross with one of the small foxy looking dog breeds.

Originally Posted by Epona

2 tortoises (long lived creatures, the reason I don't still have them is 1 died from an infection after a tick bite and the other was stolen

)

I've seen a few mentions of tortoises getting stolen over there. Are they really so hard to get that people can't buy or adopt them?

Though I had a female turtle swiped from my pen, kids were to blame for that.

On a side note - I see people listing turtles a lot, I'm assuming most have had red eared sliders. A turtle that lives around 15 - 25 years or more if well cared for.

 

[arlyn]

I had a pair of petstore sliders.
I've also had cooters, a soft shelled, an Eastern box, a Russian tortoise and an African spur.

 

[luvmy2cats]

Iv'e had hampsters,fish,a snake,lizards, and of course Popsie.

 

[taterbug]

Originally Posted by Arlyn

As a toddler, it was strictly forbidden to tease the cat.
As any little kid will do, I sometimes broke the rules, once my punishment was two nice claw punctures in my neck.

I told my mom that my pet bat did it, since that wasn't forbidden

Aaaaaww!! Now that's just too cute!!

 

[shorty14788]

These are what I have had for "pets"

Dogs
Cats
Fish (saltwater and freshwater)
Birds (quaker parrots, cockatiels, a quail, pigeons, doves, finches)
Mice
Snakes (corn snakes, western and eastern hognose, ball pythons, rat snakes, rainbow boa, kingsnakes, vine snakes, and I'm sure I forgot something...)
Lizards (bearded dragon, horned lizard, conehead, basilisk, chinese water dragon, Iguanas, leopard geckos, tokay geckos)
Turtles (box turtle, common musk, florida cooter, florida softshell)
Hermit crabs

I have also rescued and rehabed some animals. Mostly baby squirrels. I did have a brown bat I cared for. He had a broken wing that couldn't be repaired. He couldn't catch his own food so I had to hand feed him little insects. He was the cutest little thing. And SOOOO soft. You wouldn't think that bats would feel like velvet but they do... He eventually went to live with a wildlife expert I know so he could be used for education.

I think thats all....

 

[tara g]

I've had many many cats
A ton of fish (we currently have two 55 gal tanks and a 10 gal tank as well)
A German Shepherd (never will have another dog as amazing as she was)
parakeets

 

[gothicangel69]

Hamsters
Gerbils
Mice
Rats
Frogs
Snake
Guinea Pig
Dogs
Cats
Canaries
Budgie
Ducks
Rabbits
Guinea Hen
Horses
Fish
Newts

 

[loubelia]

I've had
goldfish
gerbils
guinea pigs
a rabbit
cats
and bettas/tetras in an aquarium
and my little sister had a hamster

 

[stormy]

I've had many, many wonderful pets through out my life, which included (and still include some of...)

Cats (obiviously

)
rats
ferrets
mice
hamsters
gerbils
rabbit
guinea pigs
birds (parakeets, finches, cockatiels)
lizards
turtles
fish
a dog when I was younger but my parents didn't keep him for very long

My nephew had a tarantula, but I wouldn't touch it!

There is probably others that I am forgetting about