Have you ever had a pet or companion animal that surprised you with babies one day?.
How did you feel about it?. Was it a pleasant surprise or were the surprise babies totally unwanted?. Surprise babies can be both negative, postivite or both depending on if you wanted babies or not.
Now in some instances, it's not really a surprise if it's completely predicted.... For instance, letting your unspayed cat run loose outdoors in a neighborhood of other cats is not a really a surprise pregnancy, it's totally expected.

Recently on Sat, I found baby plecos in my community tank. I was catching my other fish to put them into a bucket so I could catch the pleco youngins unharmed and put the other fish behind a divider. My confirned male pleco died a while back and I thought all four of my plecos were females. In fact, I was looking for a male so I could breed them later.

I did want some baby fish, except not in my community tank, I wanted them planned in my breeding tank.
So while these babies were indeed wanted, it was a hassle to catch my other fish to save them. Not to mention carefully catching babies since I didn't have another tank to put the other fish in so they had to go on one side of the tank with a divider.
Of course this side of the tank had to be cleared of hiding baby plecos if I didn't want them to get eaten when I put the other fish back in.

omg those must be the sweetest hehheeh when I used to have fish being little they never had babies!!! ;__;
I have my cat castrated so she wont have babies, I would love her to but....I cannot afford to have more than one kitty ;__;

Well I was a surprise to my parents but I don't consider myself a pet or animal. My dad might but he's a meanie.

Well in a way letting your cat run around a neighbourhood of eager sex mad cats and she gets pregnant, but you haven't noticed and then one morning you wake up to find some kittens then you will be suprised.

Years ago, my rats had babies, it was expected, so a week / 2 weeks went by and we took ALL the babys to a pet shop for the man to sell, When we got back home she had another 15 babys within the space of an hour D:

That was a shock and a half.
After that little situation my parents went and took the male to get his goolies chopped off XD

It's not that we didn't expect them to have babies the first time but the second time was abit to much.

There was this one time, my dad bought Mom another lovebird to keep her first one company and I was showing my cousin, when I saw her first baby bird hatched. I ran to tell Mom. I was about 10-11 years old when that happened.

My pet hamster gave birth to around ten or so babies.
They weren't that much of a surprise to me, because the mommy hamster
had been bloating up quite a bit.

At first, I just thought that it was getting fat, but that I woke up one day and
when I went to go feed and water the hamsters, I saw a bunch of pink, fleshy-
looking things. I was really careful not to touch them, and I took the male
hamster out of the cage to prevent any more kids.

It was all okay for a week, but after that, the mum decided to have her kids as
an afternoon snack.
-_-; I've never been more disturbed in my life.

My fishes and the dog I use to have were actually very good. They never did have babies. It would be interesting to have little pet babies. X3

Not so much for my parents but hey fun for me.

@miss.nox: I know in the Animal Kingdom it's actually normal for a mother to eat the children or at least the other way around as nutrients. But yeah still gross. o.O

My fiance's cat just had six kittens the other day. I don't know how much of a surprise that was to him, but he didn't see to mind since he loves kittens x3

Oh, and I remember back in third grade when we had mice for class pets. A student got to take them home every weekend to look after them. The guy at the pet shop had told my teacher they were both girls. Well, one weekend one of the students came back with the mice and a whole bunch of their babies! The guy at the pet shop was obviously wrong. It was pretty cool though. Once the babies were old enough, a lot of us got to keep them as pets. I got two of them and named them Cinnamon and Cocoa. They were my first pets x3

Well, I was very surprised one evening when a stray cat who had been wandering around our house for a while showed up with a trio of kittens. The second time she did it was a pleasant surprise. After the third litter we realized we needed to do something. We couldn't keep collecting kittens and hoping they would get adopted.

She actually had a fourth litter, which wouldn't have been surprising except for the way that I found out. Apparently her last baby had been sleeping in the lawn mower in the shed. My sister had mowed the lawn and left the grass bags out by the curb. Later, when I was taking the trash out, I heard tiny little mews. I dug through the bag and found a little kitten, and she still had her ambilical cord. After that one we caught the stray cat and got her fixed.

One time my older sister was keeping her pet rats at our parents' house and the female (Rizzo) got free and shagged her male companion (Jerry) and we ended up with 14 or some rat pups. They were so cute and funny that they even won over my little sister and my dad. She was afraid of rats and my dad was an icy heart.

Baby plecos are the cutest things ever. <3 I have a bit of a pleco obsession. But anyway, I had my dog have babies about a week after we got her home. Her old owners didn't take very good care of her so she was skinny and it was hard to tell she was even pregnant.

My cat has had batches of kittens at least 10 times now.

Though, most the time I knew of her pregnancy.
But, there was one time where I was unaware, and I woke up to her having them in
my moms closet XD (On her good clothes)
Mom wasn't happy.

My guppies had babies and I was thrilled to bits! But fish having babies is one of the easiest things to deal with. Unless you go to the fuss of a nursery tank and so on. The way I see it, if the babies have survived for long enough to get big enough for you to see them, then they should be able to make it to adulthood without getting eaten, and if they don't...free food.

We've never had female pets, so that's never happened to us.
One of our dogs, Joker, was not neutered, and he fathered a litter or two of puppies, but that was planned. He was a purebred and our neighbors had an unspayed female dog of the same breed, and they wanted puppies, so we let the dogs get it on.
It was so cute because Joker learned what the other dog's name was (Noel), and he'd get excited anytime he heard her name. xD Sometimes Noel would escape from her yard and come up to ours and they'd sniff each other through the fence.
It may have just been because of the sex, but Joker seemed to really like her.

All of my cats were spayed/neutered, and all of my fish lived by themselves, so no babies for me. :c

My friend, on the other hand, has cats that aren't fixed and a few weeks ago she had a cat pregnancy scare that went something like this:

Friend: Dude, my cat got knocked up!
Me: Aww, kittens! ^^ Yay!
Friend: No, not yay, I can't take care of them.

It turns out she wasn't after all.

That happened with our gerbils when my brother and I were kids.
We adopted a pair of gerbils, and were told they were both girls, but my mum said we should separate them anyway, just in case. So I had one in my bedroom, and my brother had the other in his room.

Turns out, my brother's gerbil was already pregnant when we got them, and she gave birth not long after. It was a complete surprise.
He just ran into my bedroom one morning, shouting; "Gizmo's had babies! Gizmo's had babies!"
My parents came up to investigate, my Dad was like; "Ugh... it has." while my mum wretched in the hallway (she thinks baby rodents are revolting, because they're hairless).
Thing is, a few days ago my brother and I had been arguing about them. I told him Gizmo was getting fat, and that he was feeding her too many treats; he said that she wasn't, she just looked fat compared to my gerbil, because mine was too skinny.
I was right, damnit! :illgetu:
Our parents weren't fond of them, but my brothers and I loved looking after the babies and watching them grow up.

Since then, it's happened to me quite a few times. Until recently, I used to foster small animals (especially guinea pigs) on behalf of a local rescue shelter.
All too often I'd get a female who must have been kept living with males at some point, and soon realise she was getting rather too plump.
Sometimes it worked out, and the mother and babies were all okay... but sometimes the mother was too young, underweight, too unhealthy, or just plain unlucky, and it'd all end very horribly.

My best friend had two chinchillas that she thought were both female. She had them for over a year... and then suddenly there were 5 chinchillas total. lol
It was a complete surprise to her. She still to this day doesn't know which one is female and which one is male. ^^;;;
She keeps trying to pawn one off to me. :)

my cat had kittens but we knew about it so it was not really a suprise...they were sooooooo cute though you would not believe, I wanted to keep all her kittens but we had to give them away :'(

I had a similar experience to this, only instead of a pet it was my sister-in-law -.-;
Seriously though, she had no clue she was pregnant because she was on the pill and got her period every single month. She only gained a tiny bit of weight and by the end f the pregnancy she looked like she might have been 2 or three month pregnant, but we all just assumed it was a "beer belly" because she binge drinks just about every weekend.
She went to the hospital in serious pain, thought her appendix was bursting or something and when they examined her, she was already 10 cm dilated and shortly after delivered a baby she had no clue she was carrying.
craziness...