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Post by trangie on Aug 1, 2012 20:27:35 GMT -5
I have a 16 year old fox terrier and a 6 month old German Shepherd - Trumps and Inka
A bay thoroughbred horse - Audrey
One chook
and an aviary of assorted birds
Also 2 resident possums and until recently 2 orphaned joeys
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Post by lauren81492 on Aug 1, 2012 21:11:01 GMT -5
I had to look up chook--I think I know more Aussie slang than the average American, but that was a new one for me.
I have a hamster named Charlie. I can hear him running like mad in his little wheel as I type this. There's also a betta named Bob--he kind of belongs to my brother.
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Post by trangie on Aug 1, 2012 22:09:25 GMT -5
Sorry about the chook reference - it's a chicken for those who don't know. What's a betta?
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Post by em on Aug 2, 2012 3:35:49 GMT -5
Chook makes perfect sense to me! Various pets own me!!!! Two superior cats called Jam and Squeak own me- they love to bring me little gifts of birds and mice...so kind! I am also owned by two daft collie/lab cross dogs, mother and son - Coco and Hawkeye and two old grumpy Shetland ponies, Peedie and Star. My daughter has two terrapins, Terry and Talullah (sp?) bobbing about in a tank in her room and there are various tanks of fish in sons' bedrooms. Too many animals own me is the answer. In my next life I think I shall have 'a room of my own'....
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Post by lauren81492 on Aug 2, 2012 8:19:38 GMT -5
Sorry about the chook reference - it's a chicken for those who don't know. What's a betta? Oh, sorry--we seem to be confusing each other quite a bit! It's a kind of fish. Like this. |
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Post by heavenation on Aug 2, 2012 11:51:35 GMT -5
At present, only two animals own me: a diva of a Sheltie (shetland sheepdog) named Shelby and a standard grey chinchilla named Jitterbug. But in the past, I've been owned by other chinchillas, Shelby's predecessor Madison, 40 gerbils, a few mice, four sugar gliders, 2 hedgehogs, a bunch of hamsters, a handful of mice, hermit crabs, a tank full of fish, geckos, lizards a skink, and about 30 foster kittens. Not all at the same time, though! Thankfully! I would have lost my mind.  |
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Post by coressel on Aug 4, 2012 19:11:20 GMT -5
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Post by trangie on Aug 5, 2012 18:05:13 GMT -5
Nice photos!
And lucky you heavenation - sugar gliders!! It's illegal for Aussies to own them.
I gained 4 emu chicks over the weekend.....
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Post by moonbeam on Aug 5, 2012 21:05:32 GMT -5
What is a "sugar glider"? I can look it up, but would like to hear it from you guys first.
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Post by trangie on Aug 5, 2012 22:11:47 GMT -5
Sugar Gliders are beautiful tiny possums native to Australia. They have a membrane between their front and back legs which allows them to fly (glide) from tree to tree hence avoiding predation. As they are wild animals we cannot keep them as pets. However they ended up in the USA via illegal smuggling through asia and have since been bred as pets over there. I have read they are smelly but heavenation can clear this one up!
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Post by pinkpagoda on Aug 6, 2012 10:19:13 GMT -5
1 cat, Sunny, who found me almost 6 years ago: I know Sunny well, from facebook!!!!! |
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Post by yeapb on Aug 6, 2012 17:28:59 GMT -5
If I had my way I'd have a house full of pets but my husband doesn't like animals in the house sooo....... I've had two gerbils, a couple of budgies, lots of fish, a terrapin and a cat who we shared. One day I want an aviary........
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Post by amzy on Aug 7, 2012 6:51:52 GMT -5
We had a dog, Clyde. He was a cross - half labrador/half beagle. Sadly he died nearly a year ago.
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Post by Big Daddy O'Reilly on Aug 17, 2012 17:04:44 GMT -5
I've had a lot of bunnies before.
My first pair of bunnies were Cindy and Shirley from the fall of 2001 to the spring of 2002: both were Netherland Dwarves, Cindy had black and white markings, while Lucy was white with the pink eyes. Cindy was relatively a friendly bunny, but Shirley was aloof and standoffish. A neighborhood dog killed both of them, but not at once: Cindy was killed first, a neighbor found her lying in his backyard, then the same dog ate Shirley much later, leaving only her head and front paws.
My second pair during the summer and fall of 2002 were Lucy and Desi (yes, that was their names): Lucy was also white with pink eyes but was a much larger bunny, while Desi was a gray colored Netherland Dwarf. Lucy didn't like being touched or held or anything, meanwhile Desi was the friendliest little bunny you ever met, he'd run up to the mesh of the cage whenever he saw you just wanting to be scooped up and cuddled. When we were on vacation, as it turns out, Desi died because... well, he was neutered, but Lucy hadn't been spayed, and... yeah... it's probably the way he would've wanted to go. Later in the fall, someone bunnynapped Lucy while I was in school, and never saw her again.
Then, there was my baby... Tommie. I adopted Tommie in October of 2003 after he previous owner was selling her (she belonged to a little girl who had a ton of pets, Tommie's cage was kept in the basement, but the little girl claimed to have seen a snake down there, and would never go down in the basement, so her mom would go down and feed her once a day, so they finally sold her, so I took her in). Tommie was a mix between a Netherland Dwarf and a Mini Rex. There was something special about Tommie... she was REALLY cat-like, she hated everybody and everything, yet you couldn't help but be drawn to her. Later in 2009, she had cancer, so she had to be put to sleep... one of the saddest memories of my life.
Interestingly, this past fall and winter at my old apartment complex, we had a stray cat hanging around much like the stray dog Klinger and Margaret found in "Images" (6x10)... she just disappeared, don't know what happened to her, but I took care of her whenever she was around... she was weird, I've never known a cat to actually WANT physical contact, I once had to spend twenty minutes scratching her tummy, and she still didn't want me to stop.
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Post by heavenation on Aug 17, 2012 19:30:27 GMT -5
Sugar Gliders are beautiful tiny possums native to Australia. They have a membrane between their front and back legs which allows them to fly (glide) from tree to tree hence avoiding predation. As they are wild animals we cannot keep them as pets. However they ended up in the USA via illegal smuggling through asia and have since been bred as pets over there. I have read they are smelly but heavenation can clear this one up! Right you are on all accounts, trangie!! I had one that I absolutely loved, and she was the sweetest little thing. She used to love to ride around inside my bra and it was hysterical to watch the reactions of people who didn't know she was in there! The other three I had weren't as friendly, although I did a LOT of work with them and they were getting so much better when all of a sudden one of them got sick and then they all died. Being prey animals, they don't let on that they're sick until it's too late. So, one minute they were happily playing in their cage and the next...gone! As for being smelly, you're right. They aren't stinky like skunks are, but more of a musky smell, like ferrets. The boys have more of a musk smell to them than the girls do. As cute as they are, I really don't recommend them as pets. They've really only become pets (at least, in the US, from what I've read) within the last 15 years or so, and people are still having a really hard time trying to duplicate their diets. And that in itself is incredibly complicated!! I really did become the 'crazy sugar glider lady' when it came to those guys! |
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