# The Straight Dope Menagerie **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2023, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297 "2023-05-19T20:13:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/41 "2023-05-21T01:48:03Z")
Caw caw Ahem. I meant to say _Nevermore_ ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/42 "2023-05-21T02:17:44Z")
Skeptical albatross is skeptical. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/43 "2023-05-21T02:20:17Z")
I love this thread.šŸ•šŸˆšŸ¦ØšŸ¦šŸ‡ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/44 "2023-05-21T02:27:45Z")
There is a capybara on here. Cute little booger. Thereā€™s a YouTube vid of one playing with border collies and heā€™s having a hell of a good time. ETA: **@Larry_Borgia** is a capybara (donā€™t tell his wife) and **@FloatyGimpy** is a budgie. ---
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/45 "2023-05-21T02:37:04Z")
Iā€™m again wearing my fav pic of The Best Cat in the World. It will probably get changed back to the Gormless one because Iā€™m still grieving over Steve. He loved me so much, he lived to breath the same air as me. ---
**Author:** ![Bashorian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bashorian/32/3546_2.png) [@Bashorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bashorian)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/46 "2023-05-21T02:41:12Z")
Hide your sheep. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/47 "2023-05-21T03:01:56Z")
**@Gatopescado** is a(n invisible) catfish. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/48 "2023-05-21T03:18:41Z")
First Frog. Well, not exactly, but close enough. It has the shape of a frog at least, but shapeshifters, well, you know. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/49 "2023-05-21T03:27:09Z")
Fish. @Gatopescado is another, and it seems like we have more but none are coming to mind. > [@Aspenglow](#): > > First crab. Maybe we can form team aquatic. > [@Latimera](#): > > First fly. Probably the only fly. Not a fly, but @Northern_Piper is a mosquito. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/50 "2023-05-21T03:50:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Gatopescado is a(n invisible) catfish. I talk about My Crew of Dachushunds enough to count them. You all know them and some of you love them. Burpo is a Good Dog! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/51 "2023-05-21T06:23:16Z")
@Gatopescado , You named your dog ā€˜Burpoā€™? Did you get a new puppy? Show us a picture. Oh I hope, I hope itā€™s a new puppy. Mr. Fish donā€™t hold out. You canā€™t hide your new puppy behind a blank avatar. šŸ¤­ Letā€™s see, what is the names of the crew? Hixie, Dickie and Buddy. Nope no ā€˜Burpoā€™ Yay! New puppy!! ā˜ŗ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/52 "2023-05-21T06:35:45Z")
@ekedolphinā€™s avatar has something to do with a fox. ---
**Author:** ![Celtic\_Kitsune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celtic_kitsune/32/12086_2.png) [@Celtic\_Kitsune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celtic_Kitsune)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/53 "2023-05-21T10:39:20Z")
_ **messed up the quote system again** _ ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/54 "2023-05-21T10:43:28Z")
ā† Meave ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/55 "2023-05-21T10:58:54Z")
_Best_ cat checking in. ---
**Author:** ![Celtic\_Kitsune](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celtic_kitsune/32/12086_2.png) [@Celtic\_Kitsune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celtic_Kitsune)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/56 "2023-05-21T11:02:36Z")
> [@JaneDoe42](#): > > First cat reporting in. We to find dogs to be very suspicious. Theyā€™re definitely up to something, nobody can be that friendly! > [@LSLGuy](#): > > We recently had a thread on a closely- related topic which caused about a dozen long-time posters to change their various avatars to pictures of their cats. And only cats. > > So whatever you find the score is now, know that the cats recently ran up their score by roughly a dozen. Ah OK thanks, sneaky cats! > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > If youā€™d like to know more, **Czarcasm** is hosting a poetry contest thread and I submitted the lyrics to a childrenā€™s song I wrote about my best bud ā€“ 11 years gone and the reason I joined the SDMB. [Click here!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it-2-electric-boogaloo/983141/30) Nice tribute, what was the reason you joined the SDMB? > [@gkster](#): > > @Celtic_Kitsune thatā€™s a gorgeous arctic fox! > > When the cat avatar thread came around, I changed my avatar from a beautiful but generic landscape to my handsome ginger tabby. I keep thinking that I need to change to a picture where he shows more cattitude but havenā€™t gotten to it. Thanks, I thought it was a rather striking picture! And youā€™re right that is a handsome cat, used to have a cat called Ginger though really he was more sandy-brown. > [@wolfpup](#): > > I havenā€™t noticed any such thing. Youā€™re right, itā€™s obviously crazy talk šŸ˜‰ > [@GaryM](#): > > Mini Aussie, or Miniature American Shepard, checking in. Huh I thought he was a border-collie, thatā€™s a great pic! > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I love this thread.šŸ•šŸˆšŸ¦ØšŸ¦šŸ‡ šŸ¦Š > [@needscoffee](#): > > @ekedolphinā€™s avatar has something to do with a fox. A dolphin with a fox-themed avatar, how confusing. Thanks for the answers everyone! There are definitely other foxes here but I donā€™t think any have introduced themselves in this thread. Anyway at my count, I lost track so this may not be entirely accurate - Cat x 13 Dog x 6 Bird x 5 Fish x 2 And 1 each of 13 other species. Itā€™s practically a zoo. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/57 "2023-05-21T12:34:39Z")
My avatar is the only _academic_ dog. And he wears a tie. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/58 "2023-05-21T12:45:35Z")
Certainly has the hair cut down pat. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/59 "2023-05-21T13:26:21Z")
@Northern_Piperā€™s avatar is often accused of being an animal. Itā€™s actually bagpipes. Or so he says; certain Canadians are less trustworthy than others. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297/60 "2023-05-21T13:28:51Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > My avatar is the only _academic_ dog. And he wears a tie. You really have one of the very best username / avatar combos of the current Dope. Both are memorable and instantly recognizable even in the tiny thumbnail. And they both go together. Bravo good dog person! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-menagerie/984297.md?page=4)