What pets do you have?

We have a spoiled cat back home, like seriously spoiled, my in laws are taking care of him.

I wanted to adopt a dog (I'm a dog person), but upon reading the rules in adoption (visitation in the house, interview), I was a bit hesistant. Is it really that hard to adopt a pet here in the US? I know it's a responsibility like rearing a child but...

Back home if you want a pet and you have a friend whose dog is pregnant, you can ask him for one puppy you know. I'm talking to my husband about this. I just want some insignts.
 
We have 2 cats now who are both 13 years old (they're brothers). After our white German shepherd died we decided to go without a dog for a while but Cheyanne really wanted a kitten so we took them both since we didn't want to separate them. They are the best cats we've ever had, very mellow and quite loving.

I don't mind dogs but I am allergic to short-haired dogs (the dander comes up more in short hair and it's the dander that causes my allergy, not the hair) and we always traveled a lot on a weekly basis around the state for sports so being home to let a dog out would have been problematic.
 
I wanted to adopt a dog (I'm a dog person), but upon reading the rules in adoption (visitation in the house, interview), I was a bit hesistant. Is it really that hard to adopt a pet here in the US? I know it's a responsibility like rearing a child but...
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I think it depends on where you go. Some breeders and rescues are very careful about where they place their dogs. Others don't check out the new "parents" at all, really. I don't think there are any regulations about it or anything, so it's just up to the particular dog owner.
 
We have 1 dog... a super cute and lovey beagle named Snoopy, and a Sassy lil Black cat named Mr. Seeley.

There are a few months of the year (a couple times a year) that we also have 2 other dogs.... a Rotti and a Boxer. They are great dogs, but I am always so relieved when we go back to normal with just our 2 Fur babies.
 
We have a long hair, toy Chihuahua. We love him and he's one of the best things we've ever gotten as a family!

Regretted---hubby got a set of hamsters when we were first married. I was so angry with them for biting me when I cleaned their cage (he never cleaned his pet's cage) that I put them out in the yard (fenced in) to run around while I cleaned. When I came back, I picked up the one hamster, went to grab the other and a bird swooped down and took it away!! :blink: I was horrified that I dropped the other hamster and another bird swooped down and took that one too. My husband was SO angry with me. He still brings it up when he says I'm horrible with animals! :D
 
I finally caved and we brought home a MinPin/mix puppy last night! My girls are going crazy with him and love him so much. I'm praying I don't regret this choice ha!
 
carrie1977 said:
He is so cute, Britanee! What did you name him?
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Roy! There's a story behind it lol...

Brian's family has named all of their dogs after superheros/comic heroes. There's the Green Arrow that's Oliver and his sidekick is Speedy who's name is Roy...so Oliver & Roy...sidekicks for life :D :D
 
Growing up I had a guinea pig and a schoodle; they were sidekicks, funny to watch! The mess with the guinea was a chore, but I did it.

I have also owned shar-peis and a golden retriever. My shar-pei and golden stayed with the ex and found out 2 years ago my shar-pei passed away. He let him rot next to the tree back in the yard. I was so upset. He would not allow me to bury him.

With my hubz now, we had 2 dogs (one was a red-heeler and the other was a border collie). The border collie passed away due to distemper (he had all his current shots, so it was rather odd/shocking) 3 years ago and our heeler just disappeared so we think someone stole him. We now have 1 tabby in the house named Fia and 1 orange outside, Tigger. He is kind of a regret because he almost ate everything in our house when he USED to be inside with Fia. Don't ever get "orange" kitties...found out this is NORMAL that they can eat and eat and eat and eat...like no hole in the stomach. You remember Garfield? Yes, he has eaten leftover lasagna LOL

Naw, but like everyone else, fish are the most regretful. My son, when he was like 8 years old wanted beta fish...I ended up cleaning and taking care of them. BOO, never again!

I've owned a horse too, LOVED her too pieces. Hard work, but never regretted it!

ETA: I don't know why that red weird looking mad emoji is there...lol
 
So here I am bumping old posts... but I'm killing time, and I love to talk about pets!

We currently have 3 dogs, 3 cats, a rabbit, 23 chickens and 2 ducklings. Next on the list for us are goats. :)

Our cats and dogs are indoor/outdoor and our rabbit is a house bunny who has freedom to roam the house. She's our 3-legged wonder and we adore her! 16 of the chickens free range, 7 are too little to do so quite yet, but will be integrated with the older chickens soon. The ducklings are 5 weeks old still in a brooder.
 
I've always had dogs. After losing Sandy, our sweet retriever, we got Taz, a silly, loving, goofy little mini labradoodle. We had a cat with us for months but he's moved (with my daughter). I've had birds before (Petey and Charlie were my cockatoos) and they were adorable but so messy, they pecked at any fabric, so chairs, couches, etc always had threads pulled, and they freaked people out when they wanted to sit on their shoulder and snuggle.
 
we have an English Bull terrier (well it's my sister's but as we live with her...) and I think he is totally crazy!;)

He is really lovely but eat everything really everything at my parent's, he stole everything and he doesn't comport like an adult dog, he is 5. We were often say that at 3 years he will be quieter but he is 5 and no change.... He even have an surgery because he ate Something bad (we never found what it could be).

Lot's of people think he is a bad dog or dangerous but it is totally false, he is not recognise at Dangerous category (if there really Dangerous dog...) he is super sweet with the kids except stolen their stuff and follow them like a baby-sitter. We sometimes thinks that he looks to think himself that he is a child too....:p

Younger I have guinea pigs but was soooooo sad when they died, and a rabbit but to be honest I don't have particulary memories of him...

Now my kids asks me for a black kitten (suppose to be delivered by Amazon, they check every morning when the postman comes, ok I'm going to re re re re explain some things of life:D), they want a hen or 2, my daughter is obsessed with parrots and birds and want to have one...
Actually I say no because I'm not sure they really undesrtands the meaning of taking care of an animal and I don't want have an unhappy animal... My daughter starts to ride ponies so I hope she will learn more this way and I also hope she won't ask for a pony. lol:D
 
I should update my 'pet profile' :D Yesterday one of our hens hatched her first chick. I'm so stinkin' excited! We have 3 more hens sitting on eggs, but they are a few weeks away from hatching anything. I'm so smitten with this new little chick. :wub:
 
Sherri Tierney said:
I should update my 'pet profile' :D Yesterday one of our hens hatched her first chick. I'm so stinkin' excited! We have 3 more hens sitting on eggs, but they are a few weeks away from hatching anything. I'm so smitten with this new little chick. :wub:
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Cool! What will you do if they all turn out to be roosters? My parents raise chickens and figuring out what to do with the boys is always the hard part. ;)
 
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