Dogs, Cats or fish, your favorite pet.

[Mo]

Which is it and how many?
What about names?
The Momster

[TBean]

We have fish - Harry a HUGE goldfish, Speedo a much smaller goldfish and Betty Sue the snail. Not the most interactive of pets but restful to watch. I have to admit hating having to clean the tank every week.

We are thinking about cats but need to speak to my son's allergist first.

[Go? Fencing?]

Kitties! None currently but when my boyfriend and I move in together in the fall, we're getting a kitten or two and a puppy.

[Got_Fenced_In]

I've always had animals around... we love them. But currently:

Colonel Maurice Magoo (aka, Magoo or Goober) the cat

Sticky Buns (yeah, uh, one of my brother's named her - he's six. We all call her Bunny) the cat

Suzie the lovable old collie (?) mutt

Maximillian Ludwig von Schnitzel III (aka, Max) the humongous standard dachshund... seriously, he weighs forty-three pounds

Midgie the Chihuahaua

And, last but certainly not least, I have Queen Sophia the box turtle.

I've also kept frogs, toads, hamsters, guinea pigs, other dogs, other cats... In my family, animals are family. We never get rid of them and spoil them until they die. My mom had a cat live to twenty-two years old, and my dogs now are 1, 9, and 10. (For anyone wondering, my kitties are 1.5 and 2; we got them after our other cat died last year at 19. And Sophie is 12.) They're my babies, haha!

[Fencergrl]

Kitties! None currently but when my boyfriend and I move in together in the fall, we're getting a kitten or two and a puppy.

Two kittens and a puppy is a good combo. When my lab Eddy turn 18 months we got him a couple of kittens for company. I figured at that age he would interact with them without hurting them (labs tend to get a bit enthusiastic about play times). I got two because I figured two cats was a fair match if Eddy got out of line.

As it turned out Charlie (our male cat) loves play fighting with Eddy, and Sophie (the female cat) wants nothing to do with wrestling. She's more of a "catch by surprise, attack and dash off" kind of girl. She is incredibly fast and uses her "turbo paws" to her advantage against the two larger, heavier animals.

Oddly enough... I didn't name any of our current animals. We just kept the names they had. The most focused dog I ever had was my previous dog (my first dog) Raleigh. He was a pitbull-lab cross. When you asked him to do something, he didn't stop until he did what he was done. If we lost a toy or a ball in tall grass or water.... he would keep searching until he found it. If I asked him to clean up his toys he kept doing it until all his toys were put in his box. He was a damn good dog.... However, he was a one person dog and this didn't sit well with my husband. Eddy loves everyone... strangers, us, the neighbours, the cats. Raleigh was friendly, but only listened to me. Hierarchy had to be earned and there could only be one leader in his world.

The best cat was "Spunkers". I got her because the oldest cat in the family was very large and ill-tempered. She picked on our other cat, Keetka. I thought a spunky, fearless kitten would correct the situation. And it did. Keetka quickly saw the advantage of two against one and became fast friends with Spunkers. Cleo finally learned to be more respectful of the other cats and not throw her weight around so much.

For hunting, they seemed to all have their own preferences. Cleo was a mouser, Keetka was a birder, and Spunkers caught everything that moved... spiders, mice, snakes, wild bunnies, birds... everything looked edible and tasty to her. I liked her attitude and how she transformed our household.

[Go? Fencing?]

We're thinking either a lab or a German Shepherd. We want a dog that'll be good for us now, and good when we have kids a few years down the road. We were going to get the kitties first and wait a little while to get the puppy, but my boy now says that he doesn't really want to wait (I knew it all along, but humored him when he said we'd wait).

[Tomas N]

I'm allergic to dogs and cats, and fish are ... well ... for eating. I really like cats though. I'm trying to convince my wife to buy me this cat, but, for some reason, she seems to think it is too expensive.

Tomas

[whiteandbluefencer]

Well, you could trade in your car and use the money to put a down payment on the cat (the hypoallergenic type for sure). Course, this would put a damper on that whole traveling thing... more time to spend with the pretty kitty I guess.

[Elendae]

I have two cats, Nadia and Bridgette. Nadia is the ruler of the entire universe and Bridgette just wants everyone to pet her.

[Zilverzmurfen]

I've three fluffy budgies.

Denim is cobalt blue and the rooster of the cage. He is also very vain and will give you a very indignant look if you try to get near his tail feathers!

Assar is (despite the male name) actually a female. She is Denims daughter and is a beautiful turqouise with black/white wings. She's very curious, gentle and cuddly. <3

The third one doesn't really have a proper name. Most of the time she is referred to as "The Pudgy Budgie" due to her pot belly. She's light blue with a white tail and she's a real b!tch! Her favourite hobby is to eat, chase the other budgies away from the food container, bite the other budgies' tails and wings and box on her tinkle bell.

[sabreur]

Dogs.

Border Collies to be precise.

I have two: Turbo and Merlin.

Turbo is the hardest working dog in Germany.

Merlin is a couch potato (albeit, a pretty one).

[davtsung]

Which is it and how many?
What about names?
The Momster

Easy. A dog-eating catfish. Or a cat-eating Dogfish, should evolution been so inclined to produce such a monstrosity

Actually I would have to vote for dogs in general and second the opinion of Border Collie's in particular. You never know whats on a cats mind, whereas a dog, you may not know either, but you have a 50/50 shot of either food or play.

[Sir Alexander]

We have: 2 fish tanks, 1 cat and 4 dogs. We used to have rats but they passed away.

BTW Rats are the best pets EVER!:P

[lindajdunn]

I grew up with dogs and we raised dachshunds for a while but poverty, long work hours, children, and dogs do not co-exist well together so I gave up the dogs. About a year later, a neighbor moved and couldn't take her cat with her so my children eagerly adopted the cat.

I was not happy about this but I later married someone who had three cats and then, while I was in bed with the flu, the children came home with a "free kitten".

Sigh!

We had five cats and I developed allergy problems. Over the years, the number has gone down and we have three.

Details about them are listed at http://www.lindajdunn.com/cats/cats.html

Our best cat ever, no questions asked, was Boris. He sat up and begged, came when he was called, rolled over to have his belly rubbed, etc. In other words, since I could no longer have a dog, I turned him into a dog. He also averaged three rabbits a week. he was a very, very good hunter.

Boris was very much an alpha cat who kept the other cats in line, reminded the humans what he wanted and when he wanted it (I swear this cat did better than the televison verion of Lassie for communicating with humans). He was very clear about when he wanted out and back in and never ventured outside the neighborhood until one day, when he slipped out the door and never returned. I offered a $500 reward for that cat and placed a photo ad in the paper. Lots of calls. No Boris.

He was about 13 years old when he disappeared so we've abandoned hope.

I added a Siamese that we picked up the day after Boris disappeared and then we added another one after deciding he was never returning. This puts us at three cats.

Over the years we've had:
Rocky, Natasha, Boris, Sable, Isis, Cody, and Nermal. The remaining cats are
Ferrari, Ming the Merciless, and Simon Illyan.

[Nolano]

I have two cats right now. One is an older tabby named Abby, and the other is my younger tabby named Yoda. Yoda is more my cat, while Abby is more of a family cat. I like having a cat because they're lower maintenance than a dog, and right now I'm in college and fairly busy a lot of the time.

[Mergs]

Harry, Lilith and Tigger. Tigger is the old lady (11+) tuxedo, was an indoor/outdoor cat, but now is confined (much to her displeasure) to inside. Harry and Lilith are both pure white, foundlings, from the same litter. Both have never, well, almost never, gone outside (only go out on the deck to get brushed).

All are a joy.

[jjefferies]

Which is it and how many?
What about names?
The Momster

Well we actually have three female cats divided between the Bay and the Mountains.
Vatch, the eldest, lives with me and prefers to be an only cat. She was named for the inter-dimensional slit eyed denizens described in "The Witches of Karres".
Banshee, the middle one, is soft, furry and a single person (my wife's) cat. She came to us feral after her mother abandoned her under a neighbor's house. Her name describes her state when we collected her in a trap. The wife was willing to undergo hours of consoling the kitten to make friends with her.
Hilfy, the youngest, is named after a character in the "Chanur" series of novels by C.J. Cherryh. She may be youngest but considers herself Alpha except when having an attack of needing to be held. Her personality is such that my wife coined the word "beautimous", as in to be famously beautiful - at least in one's own mind, to describe her.

It's a strange commentary on humans that someone would take a barely weaned kitten to a national park to abandon them. But that was Hilfy's start in life. Vatch likewise was an abandonee who wandered into some friends house in the Sierra foothills just before the hawks and coyotes made her into a snack.

[latenight]

I have and English Pointer/Foxhound mix.


Black Sunshine has a fat, lazy Bassett Hound. She( the dog, not the wife LOL) steals food all the time. I call her the "Basshole"

Both dogs know which of us is their owner. and don't do much with the other

[Hyena]

I have a cat named Prince Leon Charles Enrique Fitzwilliam Montoya. And he's the cutest, cuddliest ball of fluff ever.

See?

[Zilverzmurfen]

I have a cat named Prince Leon Charles Enrique Fitzwilliam Montoya. And he's the cutest, cuddliest ball of fluff ever.

See?

I thought you were going to say your favourite pet were hyenas. ^^