Pets

SimonAH

We've scaled down on moving house last year - rehomed the chickens (aah, I miss those eggs) and the cat (aah, really don't miss those eggs).

Now down to two elderly dogs, Chilli (Sheepdog Staff cross and mother of) Chopper (Sheepdog bit watered down with more Staffie) and ChaCha the bearded dragon.

Hmm, just read that last sentence. Chilli is not the mother of ChaCha as that would involve some very strange gengineering.

C'mon, wax lyrical about your cute / cuddly / ferocious / oddball / talented / frankly weird animal dependants. You may even care to post a picture - unless your name is Joel Monaghan in which case please don't.

prj45

Three bikes, all have different personalities, a pedigree road bike, a slightly mongrelish flat barred road bike and a a crusty old shopper type bike that leaves crap everywhere it goes and just won't die.

rjsterry

Do the three slow worms in the compost heap count?

Jay dubbleU

I like pets - see below

deffler

I have a West Highland Terrier called Lyla, she is the twinkle in my eye

Agent57

I used to have a border collie, named Sirius. (pic) Unfortunately, about 5 years ago I was forced to re-home him due to a change in circumstances that meant I couldn't give him the attention he was used to.

So now we've got two cats, Jack and Ellzy (look, kittens!). They're 4 years old now. Both good-natured and nice to have around, but dogs > cats.

We've 4 Russian hamsters as well (2 in each of the kids' bedrooms). Son's are Homer & Jeebus. Daughter's are Xander and... I forget the 4th one's name. Something like Orlando. Not as noisy as hamsters.

jonny_trousers

SimonAH wrote:

We've scaled down on moving house last year - rehomed the chickens (aah, I miss those eggs) and the cat (aah, really don't miss those eggs).

You got rid of your cat!!! I would never get rid of my Piglet (who is a cat). Would love a dog, but circumstance ain't right.

mudcow007

me and my mrs we recently moved into our first house, mrs started tot alk about babies so we got a kitten instead, when we went to pick her up (from the RSPCA) we were told she was in with her sister...so we ended up getting the two cats. on the way home i found out i have a pretty bad allergy to cats bad times!

spot the cat.......


weird pets, the only really slightly weird pets i had was barney and fred here is a picture of barney



African albino clawed frogs, they kept escaping from the tank, my mum found one in the living room that had escaped my room travelled down the stairs across the hall and into the living room. she said it was sat there "croaking" at her

we also had a border collie called Meg, sadly she died 2 years ago

lost_in_thought

I have a chinchilla - The Great Fernando. Fernando for short.

I bought him when I was 19 to have as a little friend in the cottage in my mum's garden... who knew they can live for 20 years? Not me! He's my little buddy, comes from Essex to London and back with me.

In Essex we also have 4 dogs (great dane, doberman, blonde german shepherd, border collie) and a rather unpredictable cat.

_Brun_

Nellie is really my parents dog, but I occasionally head up North to look after her when they're away. She's a proper ace old bitch...

_Brun_

Stupid language filter not allowing use of proper term for a female dog. ****s

gtvlusso

The infamous Wilma;







She is a cosmopolitan dog; her name transcends languages:

Wilmaroo or just "roo" - Australia
Wilbaloo - Nara
Wilmaligno - Portugal
Wimaretti - Italian
Vilmer - German

mudcow007

man alive i want another collie, best dogs in the world

im not a big lover of cats especially with my allergy, but because both my girlfriend and i work all day it woudlnt be fair for the dog to be in the house an my boss has said im not allowed to bring a dog to work, no matter how cool it would be

edhornby

smokey the cat - now also known as wonkey, cos he had toxoplasmosis recently and it affected his balance really badly... the antibiotics have improved him a lot but he still has a slightly wonky head

He's a local celebrity, all the neighbours think he's great :-)

gtvlusso

mudcow007 wrote:

man alive i want another collie, best dogs in the world

im not a big lover of cats especially with my allergy, but because both my girlfriend and i work all day it woudlnt be fair for the dog to be in the house an my boss has said im not allowed to bring a dog to work, no matter how cool it would be

Wilma now understands about 30 commands, from memory:

come by - her left
Go Away - her right
backup
closer
find (object - ball, stick, ropey, persons name etc etc)
stop
down
drop

etc etc etc etc

She is still learning new commands daily, as I think of them.....I don't even bother using a lead now when I am out around town with her - she is so controllable.

Try and get a cat to do that lot.....

lost_in_thought

Can she also recite pi to 50 digits and play the piano?

Does she have a cape?

jzed

Seen as the missus isn't getting very far with finding a job - I may well be coming home with one of these some time soon

rjsterry

gtvlusso wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

man alive i want another collie, best dogs in the world

im not a big lover of cats especially with my allergy, but because both my girlfriend and i work all day it woudlnt be fair for the dog to be in the house an my boss has said im not allowed to bring a dog to work, no matter how cool it would be

Wilma now understands about 30 commands, from memory:

come by - her left
Go Away - her right
backup
closer
find (object - ball, stick, ropey, persons name etc etc)
stop
down
drop

etc etc etc etc

She is still learning new commands daily, as I think of them.....I don't even bother using a lead now when I am out around town with her - she is so controllable.

Try and get a cat to do that lot.....

cats wrote:

You want the ball/stick/whatever so bad, you get it yourself. I fancy a nap.

No pets of my own, but my parents have always had cats. They (parents not cats) recently had a conservatory added to their house and went to great effort to build in a cat flap (one of those ID chip operated ones built into the wall),but the cats took one look at it then walked over to the door and waited patiently as before.

tgotb

Two blue tits, taking turns to sit on an unknown number of eggs in a box on the garage wall
~20,000 bees (this is an estimate) living in a box on the garage roof
1 frog living in the storm water drain
1 mouse living somewhere in the vicinity of the bird table
Unknown number of lizards, which seem to live somewhere around the strawberry patch

mudcow007

gtvlusso wrote:

Wilma now understands about 30 commands, from memory:
come by - her left
Go Away - her right
backup
closer
find (object - ball, stick, ropey, persons name etc etc)
stop
down
drop

ah fantastico, Meg was pretty good with picking things up, like "where is your ball" dog brings ball, "No not that one" dog goes away coems back with another ball

or "Where is your stick/ snowman/ frisbee" etc

lovely dogs, but if me or my dad said "watch her" the dog would jump at my mum growling.....loads fo fun an not a nasty bone in her body

i would get another one tommorow

UndercoverElephant

We used to have a retired racing greyhound called Blue, he was, without doubt the best dog I've ever had the pleasure to meet:



After he died last year we really wanted another dog about the place, but couldn't really commit ourselves to another one for too many years ahead, so we now puppy-walk for the Guide Dogs for the Blind.



She's a lovely dog and all, and will go on to do wonderful things, but there will never be another Blue.

gtvlusso

lost_in_thought wrote:

Can she also recite pi to 50 digits and play the piano?

Does she have a cape?

Yes, yes she can....

She has worn a "Wurzels" Neckerchief.....Consider it the cape of the South West super'ero....

It is quite incredible watching Wilma learn and having to repeat/be treat trained into a task. Watching my daughter grow up and adapt to tasks and develop so quickly is incredible - you can really see where instinct is left behind and the mind takes over.

chilling

Molly, Shes my hound.

essexian

We have a eight cats and a stray who comes around twice a day for feeding.

We didn't really want 8 cats but a young queen came along last summer and dropped 5 kittens in my wifes undies draw. The wife decided that she didn't want to rehome them after watching a programme on the problems doing so, and decided that it would be best if we kept them......

So, I am now building an extention so I can move my office into it, so the cats can use my current one for their bedroom.

Anonymous

We have one cat, picked him up yesterday from Batersea Cats & Dogs Home.





He made himself at home within minutes. Last night I fel asleep on the sofa and he fell asleep on top. Really sweet little cat.

shouldbeinbed

We've got 2 rescued Galgos - Spanish Greyhounds & suffer obscenely in that country - and a saluki rescued from this country.

Pics when I can be faffed with photobucket

Kieran_Burns

This is Mork - he went with my ex-



I **really** miss that cat, biggest bloody sop of an animal

jonny_trousers

Lovely pics all, but UndercoverElephant wins with that utterly gorgeous picture of Blue. Sorry he's no longer around dude.

Headhuunter

Blue looks lovely but I still love that picture of GTV's dog Wilma.... Cats I'm afraid just con't cut it, I'm not a huge fan...

CdrJake

myself and Nik had the babies conversation sometime back, she decided to get a cat instead. We now have a cat called Nelson who likes to scratch me every chance he gets.

The babies conversation has taken place again. I fear we may end up with another cat

Too old for this

Weve got 1 x 12 year old boxer who thinks its cool in his retirement to snore and fart all day :shock: :shock:

Have also got 2 german shepherds 1 4year old b1tch and 1 3 year old dog who both think it is their misssion in life to stop the old boxer from sleeping all day :roll:

Chaos is the norm