How many animals do you have?

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Permalink Reply by Jyl Freed on June 27, 2008 at 10:57am

Kid's do that to you, Molly - they're about the highest maintenance hobby animal I can think of !!!

Currently we have 4 - black & tan German shepherd, 2 indoor Bengals, and one outdoor fuzzball cat. Used to have 3 dogs, but we're getting out of the dog deal- we love them so, so much, but getting too old & rickety to care for them well. We had an English bulldog that was so awesome- man, everybody loved that dog, he was smart as hell & did the funniest, craziest stuff. He also haunted us for awhile after he died - raised me off of the seat of a chair more than one time - freaked me out!!! And then, we put down our flat-coated retriever near NYE - he'd had cancer in his sinuses - it was ugly, to say the least.

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Permalink Reply by Molly D'Eath on June 27, 2008 at 11:04am

I would love to have a dog and the only breed Dave will consider is an English Bulldog. I'm not a dog person at all and don't know if I can deal with smelly dog farts and infected face folds and whatever other nastiness they get. How bad is it? My ideal dog would be a 20 pound mixed breed mostly terrier, short-haired. Hell, we have to wait until Hank goes to heaven to even consider this and he shows no signs of abating, lupus be damned.

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Permalink Reply by Zac Burke on June 28, 2008 at 9:57am

Two, probably 3 soon( kitten) Ebony will be jealous.

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Permalink Reply by Spencer (Shecky) Sundell on June 29, 2008 at 2:14am

I've just got the one kitty -- Nico, a little-bitty grey longhair. She was rescued by my sorta neighbor in Seattle (and olde Indy expat) Lora Gastineau after some ultra-lame college kid dumped her (the cat) when moving away. (We live near a university, so there's a lotta dumb youth action.) Lora's lease at the time wouldn't let her have furry critters, and I got the call. Nico'd been on the loose for a couple-few months and was very skittish, but I managed to coax her out from under the couch and even get her purring. And that was that. I've had her, oh, coming up on a couple years now I think and she's definitely a lot more chill. She used to freak out and hide whenever someone passed by on the sidewalk outside the apt. window. Now she hangs out there all the time. She's a total sweetheart. Doesn't even give me the cold shoulder after I come back from traveling.

Prior to Nico I'd gone a few years without a cat. In 2002 my familiar and best pal Snoot died. I'd had her for 18 years, through thick and (very very) thin. She was really something else, as several folks on MFT can personally attest. Snoot was also a rescue -- her entire litter was dumped in the alley behind the apt. me and Greyson were sharing in Chicago. We found homes for the rest, but Snoot had the vibe and I kept her. Once she followed me on a walk to a corner store, patiently waited for me outside, then followed me the several blocks back home. I was crushed when she died. I still have her ashes.

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Permalink Reply by Molly D'Eath on June 29, 2008 at 9:38am

Welcome Spencer!

There is a lady in my neighborhood who can regularly be seen walking her cats. The follow her about a half block behind (no leash). They stop to investigate stuff and if they get too far behind, she will stop and call them and let them catch up. Very cute. Very crazy cat lady :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jim Judge on July 9, 2008 at 4:32pm

Molly, this is a great idea for a group. It just seems automatic for most people to want to share pictures of their children and pets. Michael and I have 2 tiger striped tabbys, both female, the older 7 year old is Tsunami, who is very playful and affectionate with us but hisses at everyone else except for Kirk Terry. The beta cat is Trixie, probably 6 years old we think, who is like having a monkey in the house and certainly must have been a circus cat in a previous incarnation. There's a pic of them cuddling in my photos, where they look like a 2 headed cat.

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Permalink Reply by Jessie Keith on July 19, 2008 at 11:37am

Two 14-year old cats, Ester and Violet, and 10-tanks of African cichlids (tons of different species). My husband breeds the fish and the cats admire them. I wish the fish endeavor would go by the wayside--a bit--but I don't see that happening, even with our daughter in the mix. She loves them anyway. The whole basement probably looks like a water, fishy wonderland to her.

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Permalink Reply by Molly D'Eath on July 19, 2008 at 1:53pm

Jessie Keith said:

I wish the fish endeavor would go by the wayside--a bit--but I don't see that happening, even with our daughter in the mix.

I was pretty happy when Dave gave up the fish tanks. Messy, smelly, time-consuming, ick. I'm going to get kicked out of my own group, aren't I?

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Permalink Reply by Jessica on August 15, 2008 at 10:18am

Just the one fat kitty, Kika, right now. I've had as many as four at one time (I am a sucker for strays and rescues), but increasingly bad allergies have forced me to re-think my cat ownership strategy. Kika's actually quite happy about this; he is Mommy's Little Baby, despises other cats, and does not hide his resentment when I dare to share the kitty love that is rightfully his. He doesn't mind dogs after he has bullied them into submission...hoping to get a puppy one of these days when my schedule settles down.

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Permalink Reply by Kooch on August 25, 2008 at 5:15pm

I have 8 cats: 6 indoors/2 outdoors........


I win! I WIN!

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