If one or more polls dealing with Favorite Pets already exist, please point me there.
Otherwise, I’d like to construct a poll dealing with pets you own or have owned.
Help add to a list of reasonable critters (and the like) that ought to be there.
Dog
Cat
Bird
Fish
Rabbit
Monkey
Snake
Spider
Goat
Horse
Sheep
Cow
Kangaroo
Wombat
Armadillo
Leopard
Lynx
Gorilla
Chimp
I’ll leave some room for others that make any sense at all.
Obviously, such a poll would be multiple choice!
Hamster
Guinea pig
Pot-bellied pig
Llama
Ostrich
Emu
hedgehog
ferret
turtle
lizard
mouse/rat
I’ve owned:
Frogs
Gerbils
Dogs
Cats
Beetles
I’m not above including such things as these:
Sea Monkeys
Rocks
Turds
Sticks
so if you want to go there, I’m game.
How big can a poll be? I think the biggest I saw so far was one Sampiro did on birth years, months, decades and such.
Yeah, a hell of a lot more people have these as pets than anything after Cow on the OP’s list. From Kangaroo down I doubt anyone on the boards has/had any of those as pets.
chinchilla
sugar glider
skunk
fennec fox
raccoon
opossum
hamster
lizards: iguana, gecko, chameleon, skink
birds: parrot, cockatoo, cockatiel, finch, lovebird, budgie, canary
I don’t know if you’re inclined to break down “parrot” any further…there is a dazzlingly complex rainbow of larger parrots too (Amazon, Macaw, Grey, Cockatoo, Conure, Quaker, Ringneck, Pionus, Eclectus, Senegal, Lorie/Lorikeet, Parrotlet, and Caique, among others, and that’s just categories; there are several species in most of those categories too.
Possibly Large parrot/small parrot/softbilled birds (canaries, finches, and so on) might be enough distinction.
Don’t forget insects like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, which are apparently relatively popular among people who like that sort of thing.
donkeys and mules
Ducks and chickens!
Okay, let’s try to narrow this down to a reasonable number of poll entries.
From the list already provided (all posts prior to this one) what are the ten most favorite pets that you or someone you know have owned.
If you want to count different breeds or varieties of the same species as different types, I can deal with that.
But it might make for more chances for other people to share your choices if instead of “toy poodle” you just say “dog.”
Different types of spiders and snakes and lizards are likely to be too specific.
I’m leaning in the direction of a list like this:
Dog
Cat
Rodent
Farm animal
Reptile
Bird
Fish
Marsupial
“Exotic”
and maybe a few other major categories.
How would you have your Top Ten Pet Categories?
Geese, too! We had a small flock of geese as a kid, though I don’t know if they were pets so much as eventual food.
ETA: On preview I think your categories are fine, but I might add Amphibians.
You definitely need to cover small rodents… hamsters, gerbils, etc.
Also, you need something like “arachnids,” and perhaps “aquatic - other” for pets like hermit crabs, turtles, frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
If you do it by broader category, you simply must include “rabbits” (or “lagomorphs”). Bunnies are not rodents and surely they belong on the list somewheres! If they are not there your “poll” and your “list” will be dead to me.
ETA: Serenata67, I like that; or you could do like Cute Overload does and use “Pocket Pets”
Thanks for that educational link to Lagomorphs. I would blithely have let “Rodents” do it in a poll list.
Help me put these critters (and others of their ilk) into as few groups as makes sense:
Rabbits
Gerbils
Hamsters
Mice
Guinea Pigs
Hares
Bunnies
Rats
What do ya’ll think of a series of polls that break down the larger groups like “dogs” and “cats” and “birds” and such to a top x-number, and then have a Master Poll of the winners of each group?
Too busy?
Comprehensive?
What?
Um, I’d suggest that “bunnies” and “rabbits” could be combined… and “hares” don’t actually make good pets, so they’re right out.
Perhaps a bit much.
