What pets have you had?

[RStar]

We talk about animals a lot on LoT. We have heard about so many of our dogs, cats, bunnies, and birds. Even NA's Bison friends.

So, let's have it. What pets have you had in your life time?

I've had:

Mice

Chickens (Had chicks, but the cat got them)

Quail

A Squirl (from a broken nest, tried to raise it, but it died after a few days)

Two Racoons

A Flock of Piegons

Rats

Hamsters

Parakeets

Tropical fish

African dwarf frogs

Gold fish

Koi

Finch

3 Dogs

Lots of cats

A Red Tail Hawk (tried to nurse it back to health, didn't work)

Nine Mallard Ducks (abandoned by thier mother while just chicks, raised them till old enogh to fly, then let them go)

A rabbit

A veriety of lizards

[Not Afraid]

A West Highland White Terrier
An English Springer Spaniel
16 cats in total
a Parakeet
A frog
goldfish
Salt water fish - including Puffer
Mice
Dutch rabbits - 3
A horse
An alligator lizard
beta fish
Rhode Island Red Chickens
Finches

[Gemini Cricket]

2 Basenjis - Lono and Ginger

1 Chihuahua Terrier - Hoku

1 Pembroke Welsh Corgi - Frodo

Many, many freshwater fish

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

A West Highland White Terrier

Really?

[Alex]

Various dogs
Various cats
Chickens
Various birds (my parents converted our house's sun porch to aviary and there was a time when we probably had more than 20 species of small bird out there, not counting the three cockatiels that lived in the house).
A rabbit
Various fish
Hamster
California king snake
Mice (not so much pets, they were eventually fed to the snake)

I feel like I'm forgetting something but that is what comes to mind. We grew up in town too. One day a UPS guy came to deliver something and found the dog, a couple cats, various chickens, and a rabbit sunning themselves in our driveway. It kind of freaked him out.

Another time one of the cockatiels almost got itself shot by a policeman.

[Ghoulish Delight]

A german shepherd mix
A black lab that turned out to be too much of a handful
Some sort of terrier/poodle/other mix
Probably half a dozen carnival goldfish
Munchkin

[Alex]

Forgot the salamanders.

[Prudence]

1 goldfish
2 hamsters
3 cats

and a salamander we found by the wood pile (unusual for Seattle).

[Ghoulish Delight]

2 of my goldfish committed suicide.

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

2 of my goldfish committed suicide.

I thought they looked depressed......

Did they drown themselves?


(I'm sorry if that joke is in bad taste if you were close to the fish.)