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Post by daylilydude on Dec 2, 2017 7:07:35 GMT -5
Do you have any furry family members, and if so, what are they? Here we have 2 house dogs, a long legged fiest (lil bit) and a rat terrier (missy) and both are house/lap dogs who are spoiled beyond what you can imagine... lol!
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Post by spike on Dec 2, 2017 8:30:28 GMT -5
house/lap dogs who are spoiled beyond what you can imagine... lol! LOL yep that made me laugh. We have the same issue with our three. We have my Queen, Miss Missy. We got her from the local pound, she is mostly Pitt Bull and weighs in at 85 pounds. The Princess, Baby Cricket is mostly Great Pyrenees, we got her from the local shelter and she weighs in at 110 pounds. Then there is my "Fluffy" the Prince, Hershey. He was abandoned behind a deserted house, he is mostly a Brittany and weighs in a mere 65 pounds. And YES all three think they are still lap dogs!
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Post by september on Dec 2, 2017 10:25:51 GMT -5
Our top population was two dogs and two cats all at the same time. Now, over time we are down to just one old cat. We snowbird out of the country, so it is just too hard to find someone we trust to care for our animals while we are gone. If/when we stop going, I'm sure we will get more critters. The last dog and two of the cats were strays that came and stayed.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Dec 2, 2017 12:14:37 GMT -5
Nope, no pets. I am anaphylactic allergic to cats, and also allergic (though not quite as severe) to many breeds of dog.
We used to keep fish. I miss them a lot, but I don't really have the space to devote to even a small tank right now.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 4, 2017 15:30:28 GMT -5
Aww, sorry to hear that you are so allergic to the fur babies, ladymarmalade! I have two cats. Lily is a female long-haired calico that I adopted in March of 2016 after some friends found her wandering in a parking lot. They couldn't locate her owner, and they didn't want another cat, so we took her. She is my personal baby - she curls up in my lap every time I sit on the couch. She's kind of dog-like in that she needs people around, and follows me around the house. And in the yard, when I let her. The vet estimated that she was 2-3 years old when we got her, so she is probably 4-5 years old now. Luna is a tuxedo short-haired female that I got from one of those shelter/pet store partnerships a couple of months after we adopted Lily. She was almost three months old when we got her, just a little thing. (She was already spayed - I didn't realize that they spay cats as young as two months now.) She doesn't cope well with new situations and new people send her running to hide. She is even a little skittish around the family sometimes. I'm guessing that she was poorly socialized before the shelter found her, and the spaying and a few weeks in a cage waiting for adoption didn't help her any. But she just adores my husband. She crawls right up in his lap when he is at the computer. If he puts her down, she comes right back, over and over. She is now a fat almost two year old kitty. Lily watches her figure, but Luna cleans up everything Lily leaves in her food bowl. She also almost never meows out loud. She kind of whisper-squeaks so quietly that it's barely audible. We even call her Squeaky sometimes. On the rare occasions that I hear her full voice, it freaks me out a little. I always wonder if there is something badly wrong when she does that. Lily was not happen when we first got Luna, but after a while (weeks!) they became great friends. Cats are so funny when they really get into playing. They act like they are going to kill each other, complete with teeth, claws, and scary sound effects from Lily, who is really vocal. But five minutes later they'll be curled up together napping, so I know it's all in fun. Hopefully both of them will be with us for many years to come.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 4, 2017 15:31:16 GMT -5
Oh, I also keep tropical fish - with a sturdy wood cover over the aquarium so the cats don't go fishing!
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Post by september on Dec 4, 2017 16:28:28 GMT -5
The last fish I had were fancy guppies in a 10 gallon aquarium in my office at work. I kept giving the extra offspring to the biology dept. When I retired and had to bring my fish home, I had to put them in a spare bedroom with the door shut tight. My cat, Culpepper would do everything to try to get inside the cover, including pulling up air hoses and heater cords through the small back openings. He was relentless so I eventually gave up, since having the fish in the living areas where I could see them all the time was part of the fun. Darn cat!
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Post by paquebot on Dec 4, 2017 19:44:51 GMT -5
What have I had? By the numbers at one time: 82 rabbits, 27 aquariums, 3 dogs, and 2 cats. No idea how many total rabbits as I was raising them for a local IGA store. 7 different dogs and 5 cats. No clue on number of fish at the peak but an awful lot. (I was treasurer of am aquarium club.) No manure from any critter ever left unless they were physically elsewhere. All composted. Aquarium cleaning water usually onto the lawn. (Contains nitrites which most plants can't use.) Presently down to one 50-gallon aquarium and one cat.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by bestofour on Dec 5, 2017 0:13:02 GMT -5
We have 2 inside dogs and 2 outside cats. The cats are rescued cats and not friendly. PS Andy is NOT a lap dog ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/3247375/images/AgR8NN4iidU1wy_OcyQm.png) ![](https://s18.postimg.org/xxpvjj7o5/johnnyandtodeta.jpg)
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Post by janr on Dec 5, 2017 8:20:54 GMT -5
I have 2 boxers. I fawn (Allie) and one brindle( Dante). Dante thinks he should be a lap dog.
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