As the title suggests, this topic is all about our fluffy (or feathery, or anything else) friends! So basically, tell us what your pet or pets are like. The more the merrier!

I used to have tons of pets, I'll be honest, though they have been decreasing over the years (poor fellas) and now I'm down to two lovely furry doggies and two turtles.

My first ever pets were a female parakeet (called Laurinha) and a female puppy soon named Lady (From Lady and the Tramp). I got angry at the parakeet when my mother told me she ate my pacifier and never again did I have parakeets, only canaries. But yes, I am aware that was a scheme so I'd lay off the rubber. XD Parakeets still annoy the hell out of me, though. Lady had to be given way for safety reasons. I was very young and she was of a medium size and very jumpy, so in addition to jumping up and down frantically whenever we had visitors, she'd scare the little kids (she was my size when I was five, imagine), so she had to be given away. I felt a bit sad and still do for that, but I do recall one time being so afraid of her, as she was running towards me, and I kicked her away. Poor doggy.

After that I had tons (literally tons) of canaries, usually paired up, one female and a male. We actually got to breed them for years and years, and were even so lucky as to watch one of our canaries give birth to a beautiful white canary with bright red eyes. It was such a bliss, since we had only yellow and brown canaries. With the breeding, though, came a lesson that the different canaries were from birth pushed away, so my family had to take care of Gizmo (the only black canary from five yellow ones, and yes, Gizmo from the Gremlins movie) from birth or he would have died.

Actually, all my canaries died eventually. Sad story. I forgot to feed them.

(murderer)

I also used to have like thirty fishies and breed them too, but they all died from several outbursts of that darned disease that is common with aquarium fishes. But before you think I'm some kind of sadist, as these stories aren't making me look too good. XD I have had two turtles for a few years now, one of them the size of the palm of my hand, and another one a bit smaller, who loves to climb up to the bigger one's back when they're not almost killing each other at dinner time.

And, my two wonderful puppies of course, whom I love to bits!



Excuse the horrible quality. Not the greatest photographer, I am. They're in reverse, as in, the bigger dog is the youngest and the smallest is the oldest of the two. They're both mixed breeds, though the smallest is half poodle. I am most certainly not kidding. They are both females. The oldest is twelve years old and the youngest is ten years younger. They were both the last puppies of the litter to be given away and we took them both because we were their only hope; no one wanted them so the mother's owners wanted to send them away.

The oldest just likes to sleep in that flower we bought for her and be left alone, though she does love my lap. The youngest, however, is a laugh, she is. She likes to run through our backyard and hop to the wall sideways. If anyone has a dog, do any of yours do that? I'm really curious.

Anyway, I'd better wrap this up, it's getting long.

tl;dr, if you have any pets: What are they like? What do you love about them? I'd love to hear about it, as I'm such an animal lover. (:

P.S.: Didn't see a thread like this yet, which is odd. If there is one and I missed it, let me know!