Pets!!

Love-N-Peace

They come the size of ants or as big as ponies; they come in fur, fluff, scales and feathers; and now they come in NewBuddhist !

Feel free to rattle on about your pets for as long as you want (send pictures if you have any ) They deserve to be known:)
As soon as I get some pictures of my pets up I'll start boring you with my stories! But you first:D!

Goldfish, Hamsters, Cats, Dogs, Chickens, Ponies, Pigs, Budgies! Everyone and everything is welcome to be discussed! The stories how you got them and there personality and everything:D

Joe:)

Valtiel

I'll show you mine if you show me yours. :0

Love-N-Peace

LOL

Valtiel

I'll start by introducing my dwarf hamsters, to lure Tokyo in:

Bobbi-Jo, Tomato, and their babies:

Love-N-Peace

LOL

Ok, where shall I start...

My favourite pet is Molly, she's a pure-blood Parson's Long-Legged Jack-Russell Terrier and I got her when I was two. (I thought she was going to eat my toes LOL!)
I didn't like her until I was four though but now I know she's the bestest animal that ever did be! She sleeps alot of the time but she's really friendly to me. In the morning she always greats me with leap in her step and a wag in her tail
I'll continue in the morning! Good Night All!
(And to all those who don't live in the UK it's 9.43 PM)
Joe

Tokyo_Rose

o0Mundus-Vult-Decipi0o wrote: »

I'll start by introducing my dwarf hamsters, to lure Tokyo in:

OMG *is immediately lured in*

They are all gorgeous. Those babies are such a lovely colour

GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GORGEOUS :eek:

Tokyo_Rose

If you don't know The famous Holly by now, you should be ashamed
She is a naughty and messy little thing, with a very cheeky, mischievous personality!
She had a bad start in life (i rescued her, she only has one eye) but shes living a wonderful life now
Here she is, having a tiny taste of cream, on a spoon

Tokyo_Rose

This is my little Katie, who im sure most of you know, died two weeks ago :sadc:
She was a very sweet and gentle, loving hamster, with a lovely personality. I miss her very very much.
This is her about a year ago

RichardH

Dapple Dog

Tokyo_Rose

Richard Herman wrote: »

Dapple Dog

Scream! He's a sausage dog!

Thats what we call them in England! He's lovely

A dapply sausage

Can i keep him?

RichardH

Tokyo_Rose wrote: »

Scream! He's a sausage dog!

Thats what we call them in England! He's lovely

A dapply sausage

Can i keep him?

It's a she. And she's a lady.

TheFound

I have a CAT.
Who is the coolest guy in the world.
always acting appropriate, never being awkward
always looking calm and in control...

I don't mind going through any hardship for this cat.
He really makes me proud to be responsible for him.

Love-N-Peace

WOW!

All of you have great pets, Bobby-Jo, Tomato, Holly, the Babies, katie, dappley sausage, cat, everyone!:)
*Breakfast*
I'll talk about my pets tonight... it's Nibbles!!!:D
Joe

Tokyo_Rose

Richard Herman wrote: »

It's a she. And she's a lady.

*Keeps her anyway*

Love-N-Peace

*tut- tut-tut- Susie! I'm shocked!*

pictures of Molly tonight!!!

Valtiel

Tokyo,

I am in love with Holly. I read her story elsewhere and it's always hard to imagine how animals like her could ever be called "unwanted." They always turn out to be the really special ones, that fully embody unconditional love.

Richard,

Your dog's beautiful. I've only ever seen that breed in brown. :eek:


These are my rats:

Love-N-Peace

Cute

letsgodowntherabbith

CassieDoodle and I have a bunch of critters, one of which i can't find a good picture of. He's a big fat orange guinea pig named Donnie Most.

This is a picture of our doggie, Winston my wife took last week.





This is Twitty, a chinchilla. He loves having his chin scratched.



And this is our bunny, Bunson the first day we got him.

Love-N-Peace

Your chinchillas a cutie:) (watch out for Susie or she'll steal him). Winston cute aswell, what type of dog is he? A maltese?
I've got a rabbit like Bunson:D She's called Minty.:)
Joe

Valtiel

letsgodowntherabbithole,

Very cute. Chinchillas are real-life Pikachus; I thought they were the coolest when I first saw one during the Pokemon craze.

Love-N-Peace

I used to want a chinchilla, but I think I'll wait until I'm older

blueface

My dogs a character - name's Blue, old black lab with grey highlights. A few facts:

1. All bananas have a small peice at the end with his name on. Denying him this is a CRIME.

2. He has an energy overdraft facility which he uses on particularly exciting walks. When he returns he goes into the corpse position for the rest of the week.

3. He uses the groan with enormous subtlety. It can mean, 'i'm bored', 'get off' or 'the telly's too loud'.

4. He is not afraid of strangers or fireworks but he is petrified of Wimbledon and TV shows with Dancing in.

5. He somehow has the ability to change the length of his nose (???)

:vimp:

Love-N-Peace

Your dog does seem a quite a character

Brigid

I love this thread! I'm smiling like a fool reading all your posts.

Your pets are all beautiful!

I'm particularly fascinated with Mundus' rats and Rabbit's chinchilla. I've been around rats many times and used to live with a particularly brilliant white one who was saved from the lab by my roommate. But I don't think I've ever seen a chinchilla in real life before. I'd love to meet one and see if it liked having its chin scratched.

My cat Pinky goes crazy for chin scratching and drools while being scratched. It's adorable. He's lying on my bed as I write this. He's right in front of my crossed legs so I can't stretch them out. I'm trapped. He's a blond cat and looks pink in the sun.

My big orange tabby, Tom, is also on my bed. He's the alpha cat and he's sitting to my right watching me closely as I type this. His face is about 3 inches from mine and he's telepathically telling me he wants cuddles. So excuse me for a moment...

See, the cat always comes first. Whenever one of them comes to me I stop whatever I'm doing and cuddle them. It's one of the best ways they drag me back into the present moment. That's where they live so being with them means being fully present right now.

We have two more cats, Torcal and Daisy, and at some point I'll post their pics.

Brigid

blueface wrote: »

My dogs a character - name's Blue, old black lab with grey highlights. A few facts:

1. All bananas have a small peice at the end with his name on. Denying him this is a CRIME.

2. He has an energy overdraft facility which he uses on particularly exciting walks. When he returns he goes into the corpse position for the rest of the week.

3. He uses the groan with enormous subtlety. It can mean, 'i'm bored', 'get off' or 'the telly's too loud'.

4. He is not afraid of strangers or fireworks but he is petrified of Wimbledon and TV shows with Dancing in.

5. He somehow has the ability to change the length of his nose (???)

:vimp:

That's hilarious! Your dog sounds like a fascinating character.

Love-N-Peace

Your cats sound lovely Brigid:D
*sneezes*

Brigid

Thanks, Joe!

I'm allergic too.

Love-N-Peace

Your allergic to cats but you have four of them! LOL

How do you survive? (I'm partly curious and partly looking for tips;))

Brigid

I know.

My allergist thought I was crazy to come and live here. But I came to help my mum nurse my dad back to health when he was suffering from heart failure and they had five cats at the time. There was no way I was going to ask them to get rid of the 5 beings that we're keeping them healthy and happy. I was also in love with the cats so I couldn't let them go either.

I have to take 3 different meds to control the allergy related asthma I get from cats (and horses and other animals). I take a corticosteroid inhaler, an over the counter anti-histamine, and I keep a rescue inhaler of salbutomal on hand for emergencies.

Even though my allergist thought I was crazy (he says the allergy is potentially life threatening) I've been here for 7 years and I've never suffered a major attack. In fact, the only hospital visit I ever had to make was before I was put on the corticosteroid inhaler.

I've always loved cats (and dogs and horses and all animals) but living with them and watching their behaviour closely has been one of the most worthwhile things I've ever done and now I never want to be away from them. They're important to me for so many reasons.

Love-N-Peace

Wow! You must really care for them. When I'm older I'll have to do that if I want loads of different pets... Although hope my allergies will improve by then. My Great Aunt has four cats and once I spent a lot of time around them and I began to improve!:D

fivebells

Brigid, I suggest trying the injections. My girlfriend has cats, so I started the injections in February, in anticipation of us moving in together. They've worked like gangbusters, and I didn't have any hayfever symptoms this Spring, too (for the first time in my life.)

blueface

Brigid wrote: »

Even though my allergist thought I was crazy (he says the allergy is potentially life threatening) I've been here for 7 years and I've never suffered a major attack. In fact, the only hospital visit I ever had to make was before I was put on the corticosteroid inhaler.

I've always loved cats (and dogs and horses and all animals) but living with them and watching their behaviour closely has been one of the most worthwhile things I've ever done and now I never want to be away from them. They're important to me for so many reasons.

Now that's impressive. Taking an unexpected line of wisdom there and sitting side by side with an allergy 'suffering' and saying 'i hear you but i hear the love of cats louder'. Brilliant.

Brigid

LoveNPeace wrote: »

Wow! You must really care for them. When I'm older I'll have to do that if I want loads of different pets... Although hope my allergies will improve by then. My Great Aunt has four cats and once I spent a lot of time around them and I began to improve!:D

I've heard of that happening, Joe. It works, from what I understand, kind of like a vaccine except you're not building anti-bodies but training your immune system to ignore the allergen through continual exposure to it. I think that's how it's supposed to work anyway. I was kind of hoping something like that would happen to me but it didn't. My immune system's probably like an old dog to whom you can't teach new tricks.

fivebells wrote: »

Brigid, I suggest trying the injections. My girlfriend has cats, so I started the injections in February, in anticipation of us moving in together. They've worked like gangbusters, and I didn't have any hayfever symptoms this Spring, too (for the first time in my life.)

Wow! That's fantastic! I'm going to ask my regular doc about it when I see him at the beginning of December. Thanks, Fivebells!

blueface wrote: »

Now that's impressive. Taking an unexpected line of wisdom there and sitting side by side with an allergy 'suffering' and saying 'i hear you but i hear the love of cats louder'. Brilliant.

Thank you, Blueface. I appreciate that very much especially since I've been made to feel bad about my decision to live with them, as if I was doing something harmful to myself for no reason. If those people could feel the connection and love and how much it fills one's mind with peace and joy maybe they'd understand. I've often thought part of the reason I haven't had a bad asthma attack in all this time is because of all the positivity running through my system because of the cats. They're my instant antidote for petty anger and frustration and they make me work much harder at being more patient, sensitive, and respectful, none of which are strong points.

Love-N-Peace

Hi Brigid,
Well I hope I do become immune that would be great!
Joe

poto

I have a dog.

Dazzle

Nice looking dog, Poto. Unusual eyes !


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poto

Dazzle wrote: »

Nice looking dog, Poto. Unusual eyes !


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Thanks.

Love-N-Peace

Did he get A cold bottom?
Cute

Brigid

Sweet, Poto!

poto

LoveNPeace wrote: »

Did he get A cold bottom?
Cute

Nope, with fur as thick as she has, she doesn't have any problem with the cold. She actually prefers to sit and lay in the snow rather than the bare ground when it's cold. :cool:

Brigid wrote: »

Sweet, Poto!

Thanks.

btw, if anybody is interested, I have some more pics of her, and the story of how I came to be her owner here:
http://poto.me/my-dog/

Love-N-Peace

That stories lovely! And part Timber Wolf- cool:D I love wolves and I love dogs! I thought she was a Husky:o

Love-N-Peace

This is my Snoopy Dog, he's about two or three now and is running around on a farm as far as I know




And this is Molly. She's downstairs smelling the breakfast being made at the minute She's very cute:

Mountains

Sorry, I had to resurrect this thread. I know everyone's pets are cuter than anyone else's, but ya gotta admit, Lulu is pretty darn cute

And because everyone always asks... she's 100% all American, red-blooded dog. A mutt. A pound puppy. Either that, or she's a pure blooded Wimbledon Retriever - she seems to have a genetically coded need to have a tennis ball in her mouth at all times

Artemis

That <i>is</i> a lovely dog...what breed/mix?

Love-N-Peace

She is really cute

Mountains

Thanks. As I said, she's 100% dog. A dee-oh-gee. Just what mother nature made her. And she's got the personality to go with the cuteness (and boy does she work it!)

Love-N-Peace

LOL

Artemis

Whoops, I'm sorry, I missed that, you did indeed.:o Glad to hear she's a good fetching dog, too.

Talisman

I love my pets!

My girlfriend and I have two cats. One is a gray tiger named Zigzag, but we call her Mrs. Ziggers. The other is a Siamese / reverse calico mix name Libra.

We also have a 9 month old puppy, Collie/Lab/Shepard mut, named ... ARTEMIS!! :crazy:

I'll get some pics on later.

Artemis

Here are my two cats playing on top of kitchen cabinets..the big Siamese is Bartok, Destroyer of Worlds (he likes to knock stuff over and off of shelves/tables, especially for attention) and the smaller gingery one is Cosette, Devourer of Souls (she will eat just about anything not nailed down, with the exception of wasabi peas). Of course, I just call them Bartok and Cosette for short.

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*cue old-school <i>Star Trek</i> battle theme music*

Mountains

Very cute