Just for fun, I thought I'd see how many people here like, and manage to have, real pets.

I have a cat that I found with a broken foot, almost dead from starvation at a Toys R Us store. She lives indoors exclusively now.

In the past I have raised exotic goldfish (large rare ones), and birds, all of whom were adopted as unwanted and given to kind homes when I left Santa Fe to marry my husband. As a kid, after my parents moved out to the country, we had dogs, cats, goldfish, ducks plus a variety of wild visitors including bears, deer, turkeys, and snakes.

I have tropical fish(2 tanks worth) and two dogs. The dogs and one tank worth are family pets, while the other tank is mine alone. It's only 10 gallons, but I plan to upgrade eventually.

I've had fish but they all died. I had a dog but my parents gave him away (so they say) while I was at school one day.

I have a cat which I found sick and abandoned out in my front yard. It had a respiratory infection (aka, 'a cold') and an eye infection. Both curable. I don't know who left it out to die, but they need to be shot in the hands and feet and left outside for a week. Let's see them treat a little kitten like that again.

Anyway, she's a little grey kitten (well, a cat now. We've had her for a while.) She's very adorable and very weird. She attacks plastic bags and then crawls into them and curls up to pounce on us as we walk by. She follows us around the house attacking our feet when she gets a chance and then dashing away to hide again. We named her Shadow Chaser because of this odd behavior... we didn't know about her facsination with bags until after we had named her though ... =)

Trousle

Currently the menagerie at my home consists of:
Two Dogs- Bear (male Akita/Lab) Belle (female white
German Sheperd)
Two Cats- Moki and Licorice (originally Mocha, Licorice is
proving hard to change to something decent)

All the birds/squirrels my mom has come to her feeder.
We almost ended up with a pet bird when he got trapped in
our stovepipe last week. Had to rescue the poor fella. Don't
ask what he was, he was covered in soot when we got him
out and he was too busy flying about to get him cleaned
off.

Right now my family and myself have a dog. A tea-cup poodle rescue, Casper. He's like 4 lbs! We have a cat, Thomas. He's Satan's cat, but is getting softer in his old age. My little sister has a guinea pig, Melvin. By little bro has a mouse, Squeakers and a tarantula, Harry. Finally, I have an albino hedgehog named Lexi. I've always wished for Tecmo to make a hedgehog monster. Oh well.

Two dogs. Kasumi, a Golden Lab/Chow mix, which means she is about as bright as a brick and nearly as stubborn as I am (and an escape artist par excellence) and Honey, a Border Collie/something mix without the long hair, who is indeed a honey and just lives for the times I come out the door to pet her. Both kind and friendly as the day is long, so long as I am home. From reports I get from family, you do not want to enter my yard when I am not home...

I've got a white rat named Emma who is very cuddly and extremely intelligent (we leave the top of her cage open most of the time, and she knows not to go wandering or make a mess). For a lot longer, though, I've had a black-and-grey cat named Holly and a black-and-white cat named Sam. Holly is pretty normal as far as cats go, while Sam has the brain of a dog-- he's affectionate, clumsy, plays fetch, drinks out of the toilet on occassion, listens to commands, and is all in all much like a dog except (generally) self-cleaning and able to purr.

I had "2 guy" hamster after a while I had 7 more (I think they were not both guys),

Wow! I always wanted a hedgehog, but my family wants 'normal pets' -_- Anyhoo, I have a guinea pig named Ray (Raymond, actually, but I call him Ray.), and an old blind guinea pig named Avery. Ray is from a no-kill shelter, and Avery is from my mom's friend, who is amazed he still lives. I have a bunny, but... she actually leans outside of her cage like a baby bird to urinate! O_o Very hard to clean up after. My favourite pet of all time, is Sunny. I got her from a pound in Toronto. She looked very unattractive to everybody but me, because she was poop-rolled-in and was trying to pull everybody into the cage with her. Mom and Dad don't like her at all, but I love her! She's big and black and friendly and it's fun to romp around in the snow with her. But apparently they don't like her because she's 'stupid' :| Why do they care? I'm the one who cleans up the kitchen when Dad didn't let her out while I was upstairs... Heh, I didn't mean to go on that long, but you got me started on Sunny! ^.^

I have a dog, Mia, and a cat, Skittles. Skittles was given to us after my aunt's cat had kittens - twice. She's quite mad, also attacks and jumps into plastic bags, lets you rub her for about 15 seconds and then attacks your fingers, and doesn't like Mia at all.

Mia is a Wexford Terrier that we got from a shelter cause her owner couldn't look after her anymore. She's playful, caring and just about everything that anyone could want in a dog. She does, however, have an annoying habit of hogging my bed and then giving you a big guilty look when you try and move her. Shes usually quite wary of Skittles (unless she's outside, whereupon she tears after her quite happily).

By implication I'm guessing Sunny is a dog, but please
remember Nouns are your friends. Also, a black dog named
Sunny what's up with that??? :)

Oops:P Forgot to say that! Yes, she's a dog, and I wanted to name her either Shadow, Bullet, or Tornado... But mom insisted we call her Sunny for her 'sunny disposition'... Personally, I regret agreeing to that! lol

I have 3 cats

I got a Yellow lab named Harley, and a guinea pig. Also had a hamster til yesterday night, when he jumped off this water bottle landed on his head, and died :((He was Scampy the III).

I have a cactus and some rocks. I have not named them.

I have 2 cats.

Right now I have a cat, a Budgie, and 3 spiders (2 camel-back spiders and 1 blackwidow).

My cat's name is Mathias and when I got him, he was so small and such a little runt he could easily fit in just the palm of your hand. Now he's around 16 or 17 pounds, and of course is quite the giant. He was very sick when I got him and I had to nurse him back to health. He needed to be kept warm at night so I let him sleep with me, but even though he would make it to the litter to go to the washroom, the poo would get stuck to his bum and he would drag it back into the bed with me.... :/ Oh well. I used to own lots of mice so I'm used to getting pooed on.

Our other cat Shade(my brother's), was in bad shape when we got her. She had been bitten by a large dog and her side had been badly infected, and the top layer of her skin, including the fur came off around the whole bite area. Now she has a large bald scar on her side, but she is such a sweety, who cares what she looks like.

My Dad says it's very likely we saved both our cats lives.

Oh yeah I almost forgot. I also have a pigeon. She was wild but was hurt somehow and now one of her wings doesn't work anymore, so we take care of her.

Well that's it, as you can see, we love the hard luck cases.

PT can you name one of the Rocks Leroy? I always had a
soft place in my heart for rocks named Leroy...

ooh! Name the cactus Lars. It's a good Cactus name...

We have two cats. One rescued from a no-kill shelter (Cleo), and one rescued from living on the street (Ophelia).

I once bought hamster with my sister secretly, after that it urinated on the floor and was found out by my mother. Then we had to give it away..Had tortoises, mine was then left in a park. Fishes too. Unsure of the breed though.

currently 2 cats - mimi and toby, and one dog - jim.

I have a crimson red Betta Splendis(siamese fighting fish)named Tolstoy here in my dorm room. He turned 2(months) today. I have eventual plans to get a 30-55 gallon planted tropical fish tank, but I haven't figured a way to fit that in my dorm room without murdering my roommate. So probably when I get a place of my own, but for now, Tolstoy is enough.

I don't see myself ever owning more pets than just fish, as I'm fascinated by fish and aquatic life in general. Maybe I just don't like cleaning up the larger messes made by larger animals. Past pets have included 2 turtles and a frog.

My roommate and I built a fish pond in out dorm room one
summer. It had 30+ fish in it. They made us take it down.
Apparently all that water was a fire hazard.

.... Water as a fire hazard. Oookay.

I have a fish pond, a tank of guppies, a tank of saltwater fish, a cockatiel named Lestat, and a dog named Lady. (Well, she's really the family dog, not mine per se.)

Oh, I have pets!
A cat named Aisha, and a frog named Trowa.
They're the best!

I have....

A Brown Lab named Smokey (after the Tennessee Vols Mascot).

A Black Lab named Sootie.

A Rabbit named Ellie

A Black and White Cat named Eeyore (after Winnie the Pooh Donkey)

A Calico Cat named Piglet
(after Winnie the Pooh pig)

Our dogs roam the neighborhood and attack bikers.

My cats stay inside.

The rabbit stays in it's lil' bunny prison.
:/

I have two blue point birman girls named Quasar & Sagitta QB.
I also have an inland bearded dragon named Rory.

Have 3 cats. Their names are Peanut, Butter, and Jelly.

Also have a dog who goes by the name of Lady. She appeared on our back porch the day before thanksgiving last year. Her owners when we found them didn't want her back.

I have 3 cats...a tiger named Toonces (after the SNL cat) a black and white named Zeus...and a Bengal Tiger cat named Rajah....
rajah is the youngest but dominates the other 2....
in the past..thanks to my son, we have had fish a black gerbil and a cute cinamon colored hamster who got out of the cage due to my stupidity and we have not seen him since...

Does Toonces have his/her own car? Or does s/he drive yours?

I have a dog named Molly. She's 12 years old now.
We also own three parakeets. My parakeet is named Smokey, and he is my little baby. The other two are Willow and Lee-luu

Well, my wife has a cockatiel named Tiger that is 3 years old. My daughter has two gerbils with Japanese names (can't remember what they are).

However, my cat has me. We adopted Charlotte from a local feline rescue league. She is approxiamately 9 years old and has one tooth. She is called a money cat due to her five colored medium length fur coat.

Yes I have 1 cat, 1 frog and a snake nammed Nagga

i have a hedgehog(mine) and a chincilla(my brothers)

What kind of Hedgehog?

Ooh! I love hedgehogs! I just got a betta named Spunky today, so that's another one to add to the list:p

it's algirena sumtin like that from Africa and it's about 9 years old

Ah. Kewl. I have a female albino. She turned 4 a month ago

mines male and he can get pretty nasty cause when we have to clean his cage he'll make that hissing sound and jump to try and hit u with his spines

Yeah, mine does that whenever you put your hand in her cage. She's pretty sweet, though. She'll crawl up you, sit on your sholder, start snorting in your ear, and fall asleep. It's an odd feeling.

well if u put mine to ur ear u would lose it for sure, he's a tough guy lol

LOL....that's kewl

Wow - I didn't know that ppl keep hedgehogs as pets..if we kept one either it or the cat would die, it would end up as a daily battle between the two. I remember that we found a sick one in our garden once and we tried to make it better (being the experts and all) but then it died. I was pretty upset about that (I was about 7).

That's a sad story. :( I got mine from a breeder in my town. My cats didn't cause any poblems, which I thought was odd becuase they are super hunters. One was scared spitless of it and the other knew better. ;)

Hee hee... I just got an algae-eating shrimp! ^.^ (Poor garden kitty:( )

I had a hedgehog 2 years ago... She wasalmost albino, but she had brown spikes on the tips... I also have 3 cats, previously five, but 2 got trucked. A sheepdog I had, who got a dose of old age, 14 years, to be exact. And I now have a dog who is more of a lump than an animal.

i had a cat from starvation, then a dog that died from fever, another dog that died from diahrrea, and a lab dog that died cause he was weak, had a small turtle that got eaten by a cat that ran away, and later i had a cat but we left after we moved to us and here we have another cat that i hope nothing happens to it.

i had 1 pond of large fish and 2 aquariums of gold fish :) i hope someday i have undine :p hehehe

well besides my hedgehog and chincilla we found a wild cat and she looked starved so we fed HER and well she reproduced and well the was more cats and they reproduced into more and well we had a bunch of wild cats hanging around until my mom got tired of feeding them so the at other ppls house and places

Wow. I didn't know that so many people had hedgehogs. I only know of three actual hedgehogs in my town of 12,000+ and it took me three years to track one down. Go figure.

I've presently got four dogs (I love living on a farm) and one chinchilla. I keep wheedling the SO about getting a rat since my old one died, but we need more space.

The dogs are Kayley (a half American Eskimo dog who was adopted from a friend), Jackie (a Jack Russel Terrier who was a stray rescue), Marla (a part-terrier who was also a stray rescue), and Blackthorne (a black something-or-other-bird-dog who's a temporary here, until we can find someone wanting to adopt). The chinchilla is Chi-chi.

Hey, BR, my sister is jealous of you. She desperately wants a Chinchilla, but she can't afford one. My mom said,"any pets you want to have, you have to pay for half of them yourself." So I saved for three years until I could buy my Hedgehog.

well DM i got the luck of the draw that time cause we got the chincilla 4 free from a lady my mom worked wit.(the lady was allergic to the chincilla)it came wit everything 4 free and the best part was it was healthy. And to help u out on ur problem to get one i heard the rare ones are really expencive so try 4 a common one

I have one cat named Tippy, who is gray with white spots (guess where? on his nose and toes, but not his tail - almost like a reverse siamese)

I also have a 12 year old English Springer Spaniel named Sadie. She's spoiled rotten, like some of my monsters :)

I have 5 cats and 2 dogs. The cats are Lily, Sammy, Shadow, Charlie, and Natasha. My dogs are Mia and Fluffy.

do you guys acctually train and rest your monsters(animals) like what u do in MR? ^^ i did train my turtles "pull" that raise power and life hehehe...

Nah. I don't have to. My dogs train themselves pretty well. And each other; Marla is teaching Blackthorne not to jump on the car. :)

hahaha, it means their intelegence is good enough, try to send them to errantry or tourney :D kidding :)

My dog, Fluffy, teaches Mia how to go to the bathroom in the woods. Its much better now, my room doesnt smell like pee!

I have 2 dogs. An older beagle who is Queen of all she surveys and takes down any dog who crosses her, even pit bulls. I also have a 2 year old black lab who is far far smarter than any dog should be. Once I was tossing a ball in the house and it got stuck in the base of the computer chair just out of reach, so he grabs his bone and uses it to nudge the ball out of the tight spot!!!!

I have no cats, but I pick up all strays and sick ones to feed my dogs. Just about every culture on the planet, living and dead, has a problem with cats in their mythology and with good reason!!!!

One Great Dane
Three Cats
1 Rat
1 Siberian Hamster

I have three cats. All rescues from the animal shelter. One five year old abused cat named Sly, one two year old kitten adoption named Grimalkin, and one three year old kitten adoption named Houdini. Houdini and Sly are tuxedo shorthairs, and Grimalkin is an all black shorthair.

i once had a dog but he passed away when i was 3

I don't have any pets right now. (unless you count a Poinsettia) I used to have a really nice Philodendron, but I had to give it away when I moved. It was big and pretty, and I was really sad to have to give it away. :'( As for Animals, Um I used to have some gerbils that kept making more of themselves. Fortunately they only did that 2 or 3 at a time. My favorite pet was this cat we had named "Quik-Sak" after the gas station were we found her. She had this annoying habit of hopping up on people while they were sleeping, and bringing lizards and such-like things home. Quik-Sak was a pretty big-cat too. It'd wake you up having her land on your chest in the night.

I'm getting fishies!
6 Tiger barbs
1 Flying Fox
and on infernus's advice, 3 Yo Yo Loaches

Loaches are cool.

I've got a cat in the states but a dunno where it went because my uncle said that it ran away. I also had a fish b4 but it died from overeating.=)

Oh yeah. A frog too. But it also died from over eating

I have two dogs, a Lab/Doberman named Nikki (It sounds a lot like my name, but that's a coincidence, because when I got her she was already named) and a Boxer/Pitbull named Mia.

I have a blue, silver-faced Betta fish named Shark, four angelfish: Spot, Black Eye, Meanie, and The Thing. I have one bottomfeeder named Botttomdweller, one of those see-through fish (He has no name) and two fish with pinkish-white bodies and see-through fins, named Fish A and Fish B (I can tell them apart because Fish B is overweight). Fish A and Fish B were given to me by my cousin because his tank was not big enough for them (My aquarium is a 55-gallon! Definitely big enough for its resident fish!)

and the betta doesn't bother the angels? that's odd.

Well, my house has 3 aquariums, one holding about 10-15 fish + crabs/shrimp/snails/etc (can't remember how many it really has, at the moment), the other aquarium has 4 fish, and the last one has 3 fish.
I also have a cat.

Oh, and as for Bettas, we currently have 3 (my little sister has 2 seperated in one small tank, and I have another one).

The Betta isn't in the same tank as the angelfish. I used to have one with them, and he was nice.

i have a 4 year old begal/irish setter mix her name is shadow she is the only pup born to her mother in over ten years and i went to look at a truck and ended up with her also the guy that had her told me i was the first person that she hadnt known she let pick her up and she does great with my nearly two year ol;d daughter

i have a cat that attacks raccons. his name is simba (don't laugh, my sister named him, not me.) he's about a year old. i'm also NOT jokin' about him attacking raccons. he even tries to get squirrels in tree braches in the tree next to the one he's in, but always misses. it's funny to watch, though.

My cat brings dead rats in the house..

i forgot somethin'. my cat once killed and brought a dead mole to the back porch of my house.

My cats bring dead birds, rats, mice, moles, rabbits, and chipmunks to my front door. It's fun picking them up and throwing them into the woods.

I have three cats. One is mine which I got after one of my older ones had asthma and got put to sleep. Another I have had we got from a non-profit organization that had him in a cage for eight human years! My last one is a strange one. She's a calico with six toes in both front feet and five toes in both back feet.

Well, You are lucky, Ice. My cats regularly bring in LIVE creatures, including a possom, several mice, one mole and a fruit bat.

My cat always likes to bring a half dead bird almost everyday to show that he loves me. (I think...)

We once had a cat that had seven (7) toes on the front feet. She also had really curly hair, like the kind that teacup poodles have. She was stolen, though. I also had a cat the killed mice and stuff. She was really wierd. She was the sweetest cat ever, and that's saying alot for a cat, but a ferocious hunter. She could kill just about anything she could catch, and that was just about anything. She once caught a foot and a hlaf long rat, and she wasn't even one yet. Sadly, we had to put her to sleep at the young age of 5 because she caught feline luekemia.

You lose too many good cats that way. I lost my cat PITA that way when I was two.

Most of my cats I lose are by giving them away when we move or have too many, and I move a lot.

we had alot of stray cats around my house that come and go and my bro's chinchilla died in june

I have 3 dogs:
2 miniature weenies, a boy(lil poop) and a girl(precious)

My third one is a really strange mix: Chuwuauah/miniature dalmation. He's a Chalmation, and his name is Stinky. He likes to chase cars, and the other dogs like cheese.

Well... right now they are all dead except one dog. Before that i had another dog, 4 parakeets, 1 cockateel, 1 bearded dragon, 1 iguana, 2 salamanders, 1 rabbit and a bunch of fish

I always had cats. The first one was called Lisa, (from The Simpsons), after its death I kept 2 of its sons.
My actual cat´s name is Charmander and I have 3 turtles, Scarshell, Squirtle and a non-named one... I had another turtle once but it misteriously dissapeared... I still don´t know what happened...

me haves a kitty, 2 dogs, 2 ham-hams, and some sea-monkeys! :)

oops, forgot the names. Kitty's name is Sammi, my doggies are Dookie and Robin, the hamsters are Baby and Meat, and i just named all the sea-monkeys Jeff, cuz there are too many to count!

3 grown cats with unique personalities(names: Ritzy, Furby, Tommy) and two new kittens (names: Stinky, Velcro). All of which were rescues, either from the shelter or found stray at very very young; Had to bottle-feed them all.

I'm also researching different breeds of dogs, I think I want a dalmation ^^

I had countless fish which i don't even konw the species names, cockroaches, Gecko, rat, spiders and any others exotic one, just kidding (",)

I have 3 cats and 1 dog....
Toonces, Zues, and Rajah are the cats...
Bella is my dog... 1/2 Min-Pin 1/2 Pomeranian (did I spell that right..?)

had a Hamster but someone...(me) left the cage open and we havnt seen it since...(dont think the cats ate him though..)

I have a Black cat that we got from the pound, his name is Danny Boy, and he is the most affectionate cat I've ever had. He'll grab your finger and try to pull your hand to him, so it can pet him... it's so funny- annoying sometimes, but cute. I can't believe someone let him get away, he's the sweetest thing in the world.

5 cats(all rescues), 1 dog(a rescue), 7 fish(store bought).

For humor- the cat's names: Stinky, Ritzy, Tommy, Furby, and Velcro.

Animals are my life >.> I'm a vegan and an avid animal rights activist. Needless to say all my babies are spoiled rotten :)

I have a dog (Quarter German Shepard, Quarter Boxer, who knows what else) my dad owns a bunch of cats, and my family owns a bunch of sheep.

I have two cats: Snowy and Radiator. Snowy is a male white and gold Siamese cat, he hides a lot but when he is not hiding he has a friendly disposition. Radiator is a male American Longhair and is white and orange. He is always following me around and sometimes he bites and scratches but he is VERY friendly to people he's never seen before. I got Snowy from my cousin who has about 10 different animals and couldn't stand getting another, but she liked Snowy so much she wanted him to be in the family. I got Radiator from an animal shelter and when I went to get him the manager of the animal shelter told me that his name is Radiator because he was found in one.

I currently have a Miniature Pincher called Rex. He is very small and is quite active. Actually, scratch that, He is very lazy. All he does is lay down and chew his raw hide pig ears that we buy. He is a male of 3 yrs. He is a dog thats all bark but no bite. Literally. He gets a little too close to some of my friends. I'm not kidding. I got him when he was 6 weeks old. He was the tiniest of his mother's litter. Thats one of the reasons why we got him.

I have a rabbit, five mice, countless guppies, and a few dozen
goldfish that live in my backyard pond.

We have 3 cats one died a few days ago for no reason it just sit there as if it were sleeping....how sad....what a waste that cat had Blue eyes...Waaahh!!...sniff..sorry

I have very active and veryy cute hamsters which are very active and sometimes drives me crazy cuz it frequently surprises me with babies, a cat, a dog some parakeets, some lice joke!, and some very annoying liazrds and that's about all..

I have a American Shorthair cat named Oliver that is about 4 years old. Two Himalayan (spelling) cats named Rolie(Roland) and Charlie(Charlemange) aged 12 and 9. And we have two cats that come to our house in the morning and evening to eat, we called them Alena and Tom aged around 3 and 5 maybe. Yes I have a dog as well. His name is Pepin(Pepin the Short) he is a Pembroke Welsch Corgi age 2.

I have a lot of pets and we are sufficated in fur. :)

I curently have two cats Kävik and Nekko. Kävik is Inuit for wolverine and he was very aggressive as a kitten and Nekko means cat in japanese(the accual spelling of the word is neko but I spell his name with 2 "k"s)because I have always have a cat named cat in a different language(one of my past cats was named Koshka which is cat in Russian). I got Nekko for free because I had discovered him in the kitten area of petsmart when I was 6 and I made my mom drive me to the store everyday after that so I could visit him. I even named him while he was still in the store, but since my mom was in the middle of switching jobs we could not afford to get him. After a few weeks of visiting him every day the store manager decided to give him to us for free as long as we paid for his shots. This just goes to show you that when it comes to cute little kittens people become alot kinder because cats are just that awesome! But throughout my life I have had 7 cats even though I am only 15, and my earliest memorys are of playing with my 4 cats when I was 3(Koshka being one of them). Sorry for the long post i just love my kittys :)

I have a Lay-Z-Boy named Helicopter. He doesn't do much but he lets me sit on him.

That's about it.

I have a dog named Gabriel (he looks like a baby Nightfang (tiger/zan) his moms name is Angel so his whole liter was named after angels.