Checking out the poll thingy!!

If you can't choose one favorite, mark more than one!

I have 2 toy poodles. Pierre and Possum Jack.

My joy, my bane.

Hi, 2 horses ( my favorite), 3 dogs, a ferret, a fish (beta) and a bird ( sun conure) here. TOOOOOO many to care for. My DH says the horses are 1200 pound termites.

Hey this is the first time I noticed this thread! I am a dog lover. I used to breed labs - we had 3 of them. The old male died last year, he was hubbys buddy. Then we had 2 females, mother and daughter. The mom was mine and the daughter my sons - when he got married last summer and bought a new house he took both of them since they had never been apart. But then I also have 2 ShiTzu's - Gigi, the mama, and Sandee the baby - I bred Gigi 2x and kept Sandee from the last litter. I won't breed Gigi again but may breed Sandee in a year or two. The pic is of Sandee but Gigi looks just like her only a little fatter (hey she's had 9 babies). We say we are going to buy 2 horses when the last child gone - she's 16 so it may be a few years yet. My husband has always loved horses and as a teen he worked at a riding stable. We live in the country so we have plenty of room. Oh I almost forgot about Ginger - she is a Chesapeake Bay Retreiver. My husbands pride and joy. After Ben, his lab, died last year he said he wanted a chessie, so I started looking on the internet - I ended up finding one locally - which was unbelievable! And for half the price too. Ginger is 7 months and bigger then any of the labs - and goofier too! But we love her. Gigi used to dance (stand on hind legs and twirl 2-3 times) but now that she's older and fatter when I say dancy dancy she walks in a circle. LOL

Love dogs...Have 3 minpins and 1 chihuahua...They are just like my children

Hi,

I just found this thread. I love the pix of the pets. I am a cat person. This is my Poody cat.

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These are our precious fur babies. Two English Pointers, one black lab and one Yellow tabby cat!

Right now I have a rabbit, a mini lop, (who is currently driving me crazy because the last couple weeks he has been doing this kicking all the littler out of his litter box thing! Ugh!) and he is a sweetie and I would let him have the run of the house except for his unfortunate cord fetish. Its a bunny thing- they do love to chew and mine loves to chew on all electrical cords and cables. So until we get the house bunny proofed (we are doing that as we replace our carpet with hard flooring) his out of cage time has to be strictly monitored. But his in cage time isn't rough-- he has one large dog kennel all to himself, all the hay he can munch, etc. He is about three now. And he loves to get his ears rubbed.

His best friend is my dog. Kia is a sixty five pound mix of... dog We think she is pinscher and border collie and beagle and probablly something else in there. At first I was nervous when I moved in with hubby-- big dog meets little bunny. They hit it off. The dog likes to like the rabbit's ears and they play hide and seek. The dog will sit by the bunny's cage and eat any hay that she can get...

The dog is a stray that was picked up as a 20 pound puppy by the husband's former roomate. She has turned out to be a great dog.

Growing up I had lots of pets and was around alot of animals. Sometimes I miss the peacocks, but not the chickens. And I do like cats, I just happen to like dogs better. I'm thinking about getting another puppy maybe after the band goes in. My father was a cattleman and he also bred australian shephers. Those working dogs are my first love in terms of breeds. You can train them to do so much stuff around the house and yard and all that. My father also died when I was pretty small and I didn't get to grow up with him, but I did get to grow up with his dogs. So I would like to get an Aussie puppy before too long- one of good working stock.

And then I think that would be a good number of pets at the moment. DH's former roomate had six cat's and it was just too many kitties for her-- that many together and they would have some behavior issues and so forth, so I worry a bit about having too many pets. I like having it at a number we can handle easily.

but for the house my favorite is cats. I have furkids and water kids. Two beautiful brown tabby girls Buffy and Zena and a 110 gallon tank full of Tetras and one big beautiful Angel. Used to have a hamster.. love him but their little life spans are to short and I said never again.

I'm a dog person, I have a 3 yr old female Cavalier spaniel who is my child substitute

Hey great thread!! Fantastic photos! Wish I had the equipment to post photos of my two hounds of the baskerville - nah, really they're Min. Schnauzers - Sophie and Maggie. Maggie is 6 and Sophie is 5.

My husband is allergic to cats and most dogs and we lived in the humid south where fleas were a major problem so our kids didn't have pets until they brought out Sentinel and we found dogs that didn't shed. Now my husband is sillier about these dogs than any pet owner could be. He gives them their baths and walks them every day.

Maggie is one of those dogs who has that sixth sense of knowing when you feel down or are sick. She won't leave your side and has the most empathetic eyes in the world! When my dad was ailing and using a walker, Maggie would "escort" dad from room to room and when dad sat down, Maggie would curl up right next to him.

I am sure that DH and I are both healthier people because of the love we share with our fantastic four-footed babies!

I have a mentally retarded Shih Tzu (brain damage before birth, qualifies her as MR), a neurotic 3# poodle that was so seriously abused before I got him that he is OCD and yes, dogs can be OCD and I didn't know that either. I have Pickles the Bunny and Rick the Beta.

What use is life without pets?

What use is life without pets?

my new favorite quote is "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras. before my furbaby, i didn't know how much joy i could experience having slobbery toys dropped on my lap. LOL. :dog:

my new favorite quote is "Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras. before my furbaby, i didn't know how much joy i could experience having slobbery toys dropped on my lap. LOL. :dog:

Ohhh, I don't know. I can compare that with the 3#'er playing tug of war with my hair. :girl_hug:

LOL! if you would have told me before quincy that i wouldn't get mad at being woken up in the morning by having a dog sneeze in my face, i would never have believed you. the things we put up with out of love... in fact, it makes me giggle. pug snot! yuck! but he's just loving on me. LOL.

I adore my four legged fur-kids. I can't imagine life without them.

My Shih Tzu is on a diet right now. She's on R/D, a mega fiber, low cal dog food. This is a little girl that won't EAT dog food. It is my job to figure out what she wants for the day and get it. That might be chicken and brown rice, a burger, Chinese food, what have you.

Amazingly, she is eating R/D. Only problem is that my baby has become similar to a tube of toothpaste. In the morning she has to go BAD! She can hardly make it to the door without R/D coming out her back side.

She doesn't jump up or down from anything so I have to lift her up to whatever she wants to sit on. When I pick her up and put her on the floor in the morning it's like squeezing a tube of over-filled toothpaste. R/D starts shooting out her butt.

Non critter lovers would be grossed out, I just laugh as I scrub. LOL