What kind of pets have you owned in your lifetime?

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Lliam · Accepted Answer

When I was young, maybe 5 or 6, the first pet of my own was a baby cayman. I was really into dinosaurs and my uncle gave it to me because I thought it was like a dinosaur.
At some point, it developed an eye infection, so we donated it to the Alligator Farm in Buena Park, CA. in the hope that they would know how to cure it and put "Snappy" in with the rest of the baby caymans they had.

My uncle later gave me a 5' long California king snake. Also a keeled green snake.
Someone gave my dad a horned toad to bring home to me.
I also used to catch blue tailed skinks in the mountains and brought a few home.
So I was reptile boy for quite a few years, up to maybe 12 years old.

In my teens, I bought a 70 gallon aquarium and stocked it with a variety of fresh water fish - discus, arowana, fire eel, bichir, gar, clown loach, plecostomus and other things.

After I moved out of my parent's house, I had no pets until I got married. Even then, I didn't want a pet because we lived in an apartment and both worked full time. My wife wanted a pet badly, though.

But one day I was driving for work and, long story short, rescued a tiny kitty from the white line of a busy highway just as a tsunami of cars was approaching. I took it home, showed my wife, and she cuddled it to her breast saying "Oh! Can we keep it? Can we keep it?"

Of course we could keep it. She asked what we should name it. I rescued it on Rosecrans Blvd, so I suggested Rosecrans. From then on, we called her Rose or Rosie.
We bathed her and made her comfortable.

Later, we officially adopted it through PetCo or someplace for $50, which included spaying and shots. The vet said Rosie was 5 weeks old.

Rosie was very frightened at first, but after a few days, she decided to adopt us as her mommy and daddy.

We kept her indoors and she was the best kitty. She was our girl. We loved her so much. She lived to be almost exactly 22 years old.

Once we moved into our current home in the country with Rosie, we adopted other cats, older females, two at a time. First Kiri and Sofi. When they passed, we got Tinker and Cassie. We let them outside during the day to catch mice and voles in the garden, and brought them in at night. They were all good kitties, but Kiri was a wonder cat.

We currently have two cats, a beautiful 18 year old Burmese that we got 12 years ago from some people who were moving. She is coffee brown with a cream-colored undercoat. So she looks latte-colored in the sun. We named her Coco. She weighs 5 lbs and is built like a sleek panther. She's very sweet.

We used to let her out during the day. But about a year ago, we discovered she had gone completely blind, so we now keep her indoors. She still gets around quite well and is healthy.

Our other cat is a big, super fluffy, marmalade-orange, part Maine coon named POTUS (Poatie). We adopted him as a kitten 3.5 years ago. He now weights 16 lbs.

He's a very good kid.

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

I had my Luna dog with me for most of my childhood and teen years... she was a grey white husky with the iciest grey blue eyes ever seen, and she was one of my best friends in this life and also the absolute best dog anyone could ever have... and then I went years and years without any other pet, till, well...

one day little Luna cat came around wandering... with the iciest grey blue eyes seen again (=

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Mostly cats, a few dogs, freshwater fish, a rabbit, and two possums.

Apple1996 · Answer

Cats, dogs, fish, hamsters

WhiteSteve · Answer

Mostly cats. Had a few over the course of my childhood. My parents got a dog when I was in high school, so I have a little dog experience too. I had a Guinea pig when I was little, and some goldfish. Oh, and we had a parakeet at one point, but it was more my mom’s pet.

This was my little buddy I had from when I was 20 til I was 39. He had a long run. This was Friday, aka Fri-Guy, aka Fuzzy Dunlop, aka Young Mustache (wish I had better pics of him on this phone)…

What kind of pets have you owned in your lifetime?

He’s the last one I had. I don’t know if I’ll have another pet though. I get too attached, I can’t go through that many tragedies in a lifetime, haha

msmissydc · Answer

We had a cat when I was born. We had a second cat when the first one died from a car.
We had a third one that we had for a long time, it got ill though, also old age.
That part with my parrents.
Me and my husband got a cat when we moved in together. For a short time we took care of another cat, from a neighbor that died, but tue grandchildren took that cat in later.
So four cats one for a few months in care.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

dogs

cats

rats, mice

frogs, I brought tadpoles and fed them and observed the transformation into frogs

countless reptiles, including turtles, lizards and snakes.

fishes, mostly from warm waters, high maintenance stuff

HelpfulWoman · Answer

gerbil, hamster, rabbit, guinea pigs, chickens, dogs, cats, horses, goldfish, other array of fish XD, corn snake, ball python snake, crested gecko.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

I never OWNED them - they are/were just buddies. - lizard - mouse - budgies - dogs - bunny - guinea pig - parakeets - cat/s

Lisia · Answer

Fish, bunnies, dogs and currently my own birdie 💜

loveslongnails · Answer

Mostly cats because I travel a lot and it's easier. Once I had a Siberian Husky - those dogs are whacked!

Staximus · Answer

Dags, cats, fish of various types, chinchilla. My brother also had a corn snake, and a California toad that lived like 17 years

aceleon · Answer

my father had birds canarias, sakas, parakeets and fishes. i have a male german shepherd for 7-8 year.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

10 dogs, at least 2 goldfish and a cat. One of my neighbors had bunnies but my sister constantly borrowed them. My grandmother had at least 3 parakeets.

Dargil · Answer

Elegant Slider turtles Anole Lizards Non-poisonous snakes. Baby Caiman (like an alligator) Cane Toads Dogs Cats

Demonatrix · Answer

I have had dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, chickens and fish.

Smashingdoozy · Answer

Cats, guinea pigs, bunnies, tortoise, guppies, horses, dogs

Amur8711 · Answer

I have only had dogs and fish, do you consider my grandparents barn cats as pets too? I had favorites over the years.

exitseven · Answer

cats, a dog, a mouse, tropical fish, a couple of parakeets and I kept a pet sand shark in the back cove for a few weeks.

laly520 · Answer

cats, dogs, birds, bunnies, chickens, lizard

Anonymous · Answer

Dogs, cats, parakeets, parrots, lizzards, boas and other snakes.

Pudsmucker · Answer

In my youth we had a pig, a calf, turkeys, chickens, cats dogs, and rabbits. I am now not fond of having rabbits, any kind of bird that has to be caged.

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