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Pets.
BrilliantEraser:
I have had:
Countless fish
Three rabbits
Three dogs
One horse that I actually owned
Four horses I trained/showed that other people owned
One of my rabbits was bottle-fed (I will try to find pictures of him) and he ended up being one of the best pets ever. He slept on my bed, cuddled, was litterbox-trained, knew different tricks, and had the most adorable face. He was a black and white miniature lop-eared, named Wicket (because he was a fuzzy little trouble-maker!).
My first horse, Shannon (registered name "Siridian Star of Shannon"), was a registered Morgan Horse and my favorite pet, ever. I have been riding horses for more than thirteen years, since I was seven, and I finally bought a horse in high school. Her owners sold her to me at a really discounted price because one, they were moving, and two, she was "dangerous." By this, they mean that they never rode her, and even my trainer had trouble with her. But we connected and during one of the last years I owned her we went to a multiple-day show and took home a TON of ribbons, including second place in a championship class. At the moment, she is retired, and she is fat and happy living on a beautiful farm in Virginia.
This is us after our championship class.
My current dog, Bailey, is a ten-year-old Golden Retriever who I love more than most people I know.
She drinks the dregs of my tea when I am done with it in the morning.
I also train horses at my college -- my current "project" is a three-year-old Morgan Horse named UC Celebration ("Ellie" for short), and she is perfect in every single way. Went to our first show this semester and placed first in a class of five (she was the youngest horse by more than two years).
@twistedremedy: horses are a LOT of work, and they cost a LOT of money. I have spent almost every spare hour since the start of high school at my barn, and I have to work my ass off to pay for it all (because I am not one of those lucky kids with rich parents). However, training horses is one of the most rewarding things ever, and I would not trade that for anything. :wink:
Liz:
In my life I have had three dogs.
Freddie the first. I am not entirely sure of his breed, as he was a mutt, but he was little and had black curly hair. I don't actually remember him, as he died when I was two, but he was a good dog.
Then we got Max when he was a few months old. Max was a yellow lab/golden retriever mix. He was the sweetest, most wonderful dog you could ever want. We got him when I was two and he was with us until I turned fourteen, but he had arthritis so bad that he could barely walk so we had to have him put down.
And our current dog is Jinx. She is the most ridiculous dog ever. She's part black lab and part border collie, so she's adorable but quite high strung. We got her a few months after Max was gone, so I guess she has been around for quite a while now.
I have also had more cats than some people had people in their graduating class. I grew up on a dairy farm, so cats just sort of naturally flock to the place. We fed them milk and my dad would always give them old minnows and the bits of fish he caught that we were not going to eat, so they just kinda stuck around. At any given time I would say there were 20-30 roaming the farm, and they would all come to the barn in the morning and at night when we milked the cows. I consider them pets because they all had names and they would cuddle with you and all that jazz. Unfortunately when we sold the cows they all just sort of dispersed. There is one that still hangs around the farm and comes to see us on occasion, but he is getting old for a nearly wild cat and will probably kick the bucket soon.
Currently I have no pets in my apartment, but I do have a plant that I named Augustus. That is good enough for me.
Lines:
I have not had many pets, but here they are:
A rather large goldfish who lived longer than I expected it would, as I won it at a carnival.
Several other replacement goldfish who all got flushed within the first few days, because they just did not like life.
Waffles, the large yellow tabby I got in 4th grade. He's still alive and fatter than ever, but he is an excellent space heater.
Parker, a stray white and yellow tabby who was abandoned on our street. He has the longest legs I've ever seen and is a goofball.
michaelicious:
--- Quote from: squawk on 20 Nov 2008, 23:40 ---My friend had a couple of hamsters and they bred and then she ended up with seventeen of them; this led to her once prefacing a story with "when I had seventeen hamsters", which is now one of my favorite phrases ever.
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Can you ask your friend if I can call my collection of short stories "When I had seventeen hamsters" if I ever become a published writer?
--- Quote from: Eris on 21 Nov 2008, 00:21 ---I also have a big dog
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Can we see more pictures of this guy? He looks like he might be fat, and fat dogs are the best dogs.
CardinalFang:
--- Quote from: 0bsessions on 21 Nov 2008, 07:42 ---In my life, I have lived with (In chronological order):
A chocolate lab named Mandy, died by the time I was like three or four.
A cat named figarro. Ran away around the same time Mandy kicked off.
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Doesn't this strike you as suspicious? I bet Figarro offed Mandy.
Call in the murder police!
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