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.
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.
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
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
