# Pet poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508 "2009-09-25T13:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/21 "2009-09-25T14:55:20Z")
At one point or another, I’ve had ever type of pet on the list, save for ferrets. I’ve had a fair number of the ‘other’ pets - including a pallid bat once. Currently host to two cats and two dogs. Max is a large domestic shorthair, and Tuxedo is a medium-sized domestic shorthair. Max is a cranky ol’ man, formerly know as ‘Demon Kitty’ but now too weary and cynical to get up to much mischief - He’s still in charge, though. Tuxedo, despite his advancing age, is still the Magical Levitating Monkey-Cat. Suka is my highly a-typical ‘Border Mutt,’ She couldn’t care less about pushing sheep, goats, cattle, geese, or ducks about. All she wants to do is shed on my feet and smell everything in the whole world at least once. Dakota is my wookie-on-a-leash; She’s a rehomed breed-quality (but never bred) ISSR Shiloh Shepherd. At roughly 95 pounds, and some 28 or so inches at the shoulder, she’s a LOT of dog, but she’s funny, goofy, and loving. Also smart as a whip, and a bit of a smartass, too. _Edit cause o’ really dumb typos._ ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/22 "2009-09-25T15:15:03Z")
We’re a tad cat-heavy here on the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/23 "2009-09-25T15:19:27Z")
My kids have a gerbil. The oldest wants a cat, though. We promised her one for her birthday next month. We’ll rescue one from a shelter. Hopefully, it won’t eat the gerbil. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/24 "2009-09-25T16:25:02Z")
[Two](http://www.flickr.com/photos/9624983@N05/3669241435/) [lovely](http://www.flickr.com/photos/9624983@N05/2437087143/) cats. My brother wants a ferret or a snake or a _something_ of his own, but the aforementioned kitties make the logistics tricky. ---
**Author:** ![Eggerhaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Eggerhaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggerhaus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/25 "2009-09-25T16:54:44Z")
Two Shetland Sheepdogs, four house cats, countless litter boxes and dust bunnies. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/26 "2009-09-25T17:00:02Z")
Pets are just wrong, while people are starving, unless they are farm animals you eat them, and then they are wrong for being a wasteful use of scarce food. People starve now because we eat so much wasteful meat, and worse raise wasteful meat to feed pets. I guess the population bomb will have to explode before people pay attention. IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/27 "2009-09-25T17:06:16Z")
Farm animals you eat are not pets, pets are not farm animals you eat. MY pets eat like birds… because they are. Meat not required (though they do occasionally snatch a bit from a sandwich or dinner plate). If I didn’t buy the food for my birds I seriously doubt that it would instead be sent to starving people in the third world. Not buying food for my pet birds would also impact the employment of people who raise birdseed, in the worst case rendering them destitute and adding to the overall numbers of poor, starving people. What my birds eat is not scare stuff, unless there’s been a sudden failure of the world wide millet and peanut crops this year. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/28 "2009-09-25T17:11:32Z")
> [@the\_first\_supraliminal](#): > > Pets are just wrong, while people are starving, unless they are farm animals you eat them, and then they are wrong for being a wasteful use of scarce food. People starve now because we eat so much wasteful meat, and worse raise wasteful meat to feed pets. I guess the population bomb will have to explode before people pay attention. IMHO That was not the question. If you want to talk about pets-as-users-of-resources, take it to Great Debates or the Pit; this isn’t the right thread. twickster, moderator (as well as OP) ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/29 "2009-09-25T17:11:54Z")
Edit: Sorry, I had a snarky reply and only noticed the mod post after I hit Submit. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/30 "2009-09-25T17:14:22Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > Edit: Sorry, I had a snarky reply and only noticed the mod post after I hit Submit. Good save! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/31 "2009-09-25T17:42:04Z")
Dang. I should have checked “other” as well. Because the third type of critter I share my house with, in addition to the dogs and the cat, would be the fleas. Not that I’m _trying_ to feed, water, and nurture them… ---
**Author:** ![Morgis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Morgis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgis)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/32 "2009-09-25T19:00:32Z")
Two cats, two ferrets, and 10 betta fish at the moment. I’m pretty sure at least one of the cats thinks he’s a big ferret, or possibly the ferrets think they are short little cats. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/33 "2009-09-25T19:18:04Z")
3 cats and a puppy here. I had a horse until last year, but she didn’t live in my home. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/34 "2009-09-25T20:44:28Z")
> [@Boscibo](#): > > 3 cats and a puppy here. I had a horse until last year, but she didn’t live in my home. Equinist! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Eggerhaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Eggerhaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggerhaus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/35 "2009-09-25T23:30:55Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > one crested gecko - just a baby, he’s brand new Name him Jose. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/36 "2009-09-26T01:53:19Z")
One 10.5 yr old bulldawg which is pretty old for a bulldawg. Dumb as a rock, but she was very easily housetrained and she does know how to SIT. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/37 "2009-09-26T02:00:53Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I wanna know what the other “other” voters have! An ill-tempered rabbit. I forgot this poll was on the dope and was shocked for a second not to see it listed under rodents. Pleased, but still shocked. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/38 "2009-09-26T03:15:01Z")
Two cats (a black and a tuxedo domestic shorthair–nothing fancy, but don’t tell them that), two juvenile red-ear slider turtles, a 45gal tank full of tropical fish (three Angelfish, a dinosaur bichir, three corys, six glass cats, three red-eye tetras, and a young featherfin synodontis catfish…_sniff_ our former synodontis just died this past spring at age 12), a corn snake and ball python who live in my classroom 10mos/year, and one Arabian mare. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/39 "2009-09-26T09:29:29Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I wanna know what the other “other” voters have! Pretty boring actually: goats! ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2009, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508/40 "2009-09-26T11:09:05Z")
Golden retriever. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-poll/511508.md?page=3)