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what kind of pets did you have as a child?????

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:44 pm
by BUD
When I was a child I had a cat. When my wife was a child she had a dog and two cats.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 5:55 pm
by Janice
When I was young, we had a black cocker spaniel.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:33 pm
by JonathanBelles
I had a snake and two cats.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:50 pm
by Stephanie
2 cats, numerous gerbils, water turtles (red eared) and many captured box turtles that we built pens for in the back yard. :D

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 6:53 pm
by JenBayles
The fambly cat, Mickel (go figure that name); the duck, Peeper (name courtesy of my father); gerbils; fish; birds; rabbits; lizards; turtles. Quite the little menagerie!

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:08 pm
by O Town
4 cats 3 which were named Smokey, and 3 dogs, I remeber having a fish tank in our room when I was about 4. I always wanted the hamster but mom and dad wouldn't give on that one.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:28 pm
by azsnowman
turtle, a CROW (or as some people call a Raven), 2 dogs, FROGS, bugs of ALL sorts, ant farms.

Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:25 pm
by CajunMama
The typical mutt, cat, flying squirrels, hamsters, turtles and the popular pet rock!

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:06 am
by AussieMark
I kept Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, cats, dogs, fish, birds

I always loved animals when I was younger

but I stopped keeping em as I got to attached to em and when they died I was always very distraught so I just gave up on it :oops:

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 5:21 am
by KWT
Just the goldfish for myself but they were good enough, esp the one that lived for 10 years.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:58 am
by Janice
I remember when I was little, I would go to the Shrine Circus every year and buy a small lizard for 50 cents. I would take it home and feed it and put it in a shoe box. They never lived long. The Circus seller of the lizard would pin the lizard on your clothes. There was a little harness of sorts that they put the pin in.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:02 am
by tropicana
ok, i was a strange one. I kept a pet caterpillar once (with coccoon and all), used to feed him my mom's rose leaves, until one day he fled his coccoon, turned into a butterfly and flew away without saying goodbye :cry:

I also kept a pet grasshopper, to keep him from getting away, i plucked off his 2 hoppers and kept him in a box with lots of food. Sadly, one day like 2 months later, he passed away.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:26 am
by vbhoutex
Besides the two siamese and a silver tabby cat we had, I also had two different squirrels and a fish tank(not all at the same time). Both the squirrels were rescued after severe weather in our area and both returned to the wild on their own after we raised them. We named one beechnut and I can't remember the others name. Our siamese cats had chineses names-one was so young(I have no idea how it was spelled but how I typed it is not what it was). That was the baby. The mother was soo-soo.

Edit: The other squirrels name was peanut.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 9:56 am
by alicia-w
okay, here we go:

horses, mandarin ducks, chickens, tumbling pigeons, peacocks, goats, dogs(mastiff, german shepherd, boxer, various mutts), cats (barn cats), rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, snakes, chuckwallas, tortoises, parakeets, love birds, cockatiels, tropical fish, tarantulas, cockatoos, rats

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:57 am
by Pburgh
I had all kind of pets. I love animals. (never had a spider!!!!) I remember one favorite beagle named Dixie. She'd let me dress her up and stroll around the yard. She was a sweetie and followed me everywhere. When I'd be playing with my friends, Dixie was always at my side.

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:15 pm
by JonathanBelles
alicia-w wrote:okay, here we go:

horses, mandarin ducks, chickens, tumbling pigeons, peacocks, goats, dogs(mastiff, german shepherd, boxer, various mutts), cats (barn cats), rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, snakes, chuckwallas, tortoises, parakeets, love birds, cockatiels, tropical fish, tarantulas, cockatoos, rats


....zoo!

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:10 pm
by pojo
alicia-w wrote:okay, here we go:

horses, mandarin ducks, chickens, tumbling pigeons, peacocks, goats, dogs(mastiff, german shepherd, boxer, various mutts), cats (barn cats), rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, snakes, chuckwallas, tortoises, parakeets, love birds, cockatiels, tropical fish, tarantulas, cockatoos, rats


You sure you didn't live at the zoo?

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:11 pm
by pojo
I had a dog(mutt), hamster, english springer spaniel, 2 cats

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 6:51 pm
by alicia-w
azsnowman wrote:turtle, a CROW (or as some people call a Raven), 2 dogs, FROGS, bugs of ALL sorts, ant farms.


actually crows and ravens are two different species of birds

Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 7:04 pm
by DaylilyDawn
We had a dog named Smokey, a cat named Gray Girl because she was a solid smoke gray color. I tamed her, she was the kitten of a feral cat. It took 2 weeks before she would let me pick her up and another week after that she was following me around the yard.