Here's my Puffy:

Wow, thats pretty much life size too. She only 5.2 pounds at 3 years old in June. (She probably sheds 10% of that a day) Her hobbies include attacking feather dusters, sleeping, hiding from me, and acting like a princess. My girlfriend thinks Puffy belongs to her, because we got Puffy for her birthday, but I swear if we ever break up I'm taking Puffy and going on the run. The funny thing about it all is that I dislike all cats except her. Oh yeah you can't see her big bushy tail.

Pets? You bet. Just look at my Avatar. This picture really does her an injustice. I was a very bad fur day, and I snapped the picture in the middle of a good scratch. Her name is Jewels, AKA Julie, AKA JuJu AKA JuJu Bean, and most commonly responds to The Bean.

She is a Human Society Adoption with a varied past. We believe she's a cross between a border collie and a local coyote. She has to have the most personality and intelligence of any dog I have had the pleasure of getting to know. In fact her personality is so independent and flippant we often refer to her as the COG or Cat Dog.

I hate to admit that a dog can successfully pull pre-planned pranks on an adult human, but she does.

When we walk the mesa, she runs down bluetail lizards and brings back the headless present expecting praise.

On a backpack trip into the Pecos Wilderness, she bolted off the lead in pursuit of something we never saw. I spent two days combing the woods for her and, after spraining an ankle in the rough, was forced to abandon her. Seven days later she walked out of the woods into a alpine picnic ground twenty eight miles from our backcountry camp. She begged for a couple of days, recognized and befriended a neighbor who brought her home. The neighbor called the vet from her tags, who gave the neighbor our number and we got her back.

Quite a Dog. Irritating sometimes, but never dull.


- SmileyDog

We have a cat and two goldfish...

Wait...hold on a minute....stupid cat...

Check that....we have a cat and one goldfish....

Glad to see pet lovers here. I have 3 cats (Merlin, Bogart and Punkin), a Chow Chow dog (Apollo) and a blue betta fish (Louie). They all "found" me. Well, except for the fish.

Merlin's a big fat black cat who loves everyone, Bogey is his sidekick and close buddy, though he's half the big guy's size. When Bogey came into my life, he was a little, scraggly, sick 4-week old boy. Merlin adopted him....to the point of letting the kitten "nurse" - I kid you not!

Punkin is the princess and the one the boys pick on. I found her on Halloween cowering under a car and shivering. She's a pretty girl, longish-haired, with Himalayan type lilac point markings (sort of like the Rev's Puffy).

Apollo is a smallish red Chow with the sweetest personality on the planet. He hardly ever barks, and when he does it scares the bejesus out of me! He's getting kind of old now, but he is still energetic and playful.

I love 'em all and they make me happy every day.

OK. Prior to marriage I adopted a cat named Colonel. He is a great pet and has put up with an awful lot. Then, I was "forced" to adopt Oscar, another cat. Lastly I adopted Crakor (pronounced crack-whore) a neurotic cat of a friend who could no longer keep her.

Then my wife and I got together she brought Hector the Rabbit with here.

We we moved to St. Louis we realized Crakor could not make the move, she would be scared to death. So we found a friend to take her.

When we moved we eventual found a nice rental. The landlord hired my wife to take care of their 5 kids during the week. In the year we were there we found a shiatsu <sp?> mix and 4 days later found the owner and returned him. My wife was hard broken as she wanted a dog and really enjoyed the little guy. Our landlord told us that since one of their dogs, a chocolate lab named Cody seemed to think he was my dog then we should take him home. I agreed. Shortly after that we were contacted by the Shiatzu's <sp?> owner who wanted us to take him because she felt bad about having to keep him in a cage 12 hours a day. So we gained Pogo.

2 Cats, 2 Dogs and a Rabbit plus us in a 400 square foot rental

Then we found a house and bought it. Before we moved our landlord asked my wife to take their cat George with her since he seemed to think he was hers.

Then our 2nd Christmas here, I bought a Ferret we named Stella for my wife.

Our fourth Christmas I bought another Ferret we named Stanley for my wife and Stella.

Recently we lost Oscar the cat to a stroke.

So it is:

Me, my wife Barb and out Daughter
Our Male chocolate Lab - Cody
Our Male black / white shiatzu <sp?> - Pogo
Our Male fat grey cat - Colonel
Our Male Orange cat - George
Our Male black / white Rabbit - Hector
Our Female small grey Ferret - Stella
Our Male large, grey Ferret - Stanley

All in a one story 1000 square foot home :-)

Gotta love the Zoo.

Well, I am up to 2 great danes, one mongrol lab mix, very old grumpy man dog, he is 14, cataract in one eye, completely deaf, but acts as though he is a puppy, very happy grumpy old man LOL

1 irritating cat that may go away soon

3 fish tanks now, and getting a 150 gallon tank that I want to try salt water on.

CR

It sounds like you have your hands full.
I never had a pet until 5 years ago.

My youngest daughter starting working at PETCO and starting bringing pets home that people couldn't take care of.

At one time we had 1 cockatiel, 3 conjures, 1 african grey(parrot), 1 cockatoo, 1 shetland collie, 6 canaries, 2 baby orphan squirrels, and a couple more animals that I can't remember.

My daughter got married and has move out but I still have about 5 animals left.

And no hair.

"go away"? on his own volition? LOL. I once heard a joke about how cats are like women, but i can't remember all of it. One of those list jokes.

Good luck with your mini-zoo! Sounds like fun.

OverlandSailor: wow, and I thought I had "too many" pets! California, for all its "laid back" attitudes, it is darn near impossible to find a rental that takes pets. More so now that the market has gone completely insane.

You sound like you have a fun bunch of critters. Even though ferrets aren't legal here, a friend of mine had a pair, along with 3 or 4 cats, and they were a riot to watch when they played together.

That reminds me of the only other pet I had, which was also illegal. It was a caiman alligator named Dewey. I sort of inherited him after my friend died, bequeathed it to my best friend, and he moved and left it to me. He started off small enough to fit in a fish tank at about 15 inches when I got him. Then he got bigger and had to "find" him a bigger tank. The new tank was a chinese restaurant aquarium which was about 4 feet sq and 3 feet high. When I first got him he was eating gold fish then mice and finally squirrels. One day my twin brothers stray cat Peanut started investigating Dewey, and well you know what they say about curious cats.... When I left Houston he was 3.5-4ft long. He was pretty well behaved if you put the smack down on him and let him know who's the boss. By the time I left he learned never to open his mouth at me. Too bad I had to set him free, I really miss him.