POST YOUR PETS!

[Jon!]

we had these stickied on other forums, so i thought this place deserves one too

Post pics of your pets ^_^ I'll start with my little zoo, starting with the oldest

Dimitri, he'll be 4 this year. He's an amber corn snake, roughly 5ft+ long now ^_^


Terra, she'll be 3 this year. She's a bearded dragon


Kefka, i dont know his age, as he was a rescue, so i'll stick him here. He's also a bearded dragon


Mercury. He'll be 2 this year. He's a mack snow leopard gecko


Griffin will also be 2 this year. He's a staffy x lab


And last but not least, this is Shizzle. He will be 1 this year and he's a rust/flame created gecko


Now lets see your pets ^_^

[barberchk]

my pets arent here anymore.
i dumped them.
they were all dogs.
i can name them though, jorge, carlos, ernesto,etc.

[sweetxiuxiu]

woah you have cool pets jon..i like that last one you post it looks badass





we gave her a haircut

[CelestialApparition]

Jon, I simply adore your reptiles ^w^!

I have two lovely kitties >^.^<.

His name is Düpşiăs; it spontaneously came to mind as soon as I first saw him [he was a kitten from a previous cat of ours]. I dotingly salute him sometimes because whenever he sits down he puffs his chest out and stands erect like a trained military man .

This is Fatima sweet-talking to me . She's very loving, yet rather sassy at times, but she's a darling little queen now that she's looking after a litter of 3 precious ones. ~snivel, sniff~ Fati's all grown up :').
The one lying in the drawer is a friend's cat named Capone, and for good reason =0! One moment he's like , and before you know it he's like practicing his role of playing a venomous snake!

[hopfularmywife]

Jon i love the beardies! I want one eventually.
I can't get pics up, so i'll just tell you about my babies.

Kilik (may he RIP) Was my wolf dog. He was 80% North American Timber Wolf and 20% German Shepherd. He was 75lbs at 1yr when he was hit by the car, he was supposed to be about 110lbs full grown. He was beautiful, so smart. I'll miss him

Penny: Lab/Sheltie Mix. All black with white on her chest. She's about 60lbs. So smart, I've had her 10 years and raised her from a pup.

Jezza: Chihuahua (a real chihuahua before they were bred to be tiny) 13lbs. She's blond, we got her from the pound. They shut down a puppy mill and she was one of the moms. She had/has bad teeth so she's lost most of them now. Bad asthma, no knee caps on her back legs (birth defect that the puppy mill people bred into each litter of hers that she put out). The pound told us when we got her (she was six) that she probably wouldn't live past the age of 8, she's 10 now.

[CelestialApparition]

?_?

I know you said he wasn't a full-blooded wolf, but, I thought wolves were wild [they can't be domesticated]? Was it difficult training him?

[Jon!]

Celestial - there are tons of people (mostly americans... what a guess) that are interbreeding wolves with dogs to try and get the closest thing to a domesticated wolf. They will try and who knows, maybe one day us humans will have our very 1st breed of pure domesticated wolf. Humans will do waht humans do because they're never satisfied with what they already have.

[hopfularmywife]

It wasn't hard to train him, BUT I knew what I was doing. The only reason he was running to get hit by a car was because he got spooked and broke his collar.
I got him as a pup from a breeder that was going to put him down because he didn't have the wolfy look they were breeding for. So I took him, and it turned out he ended up looking more wolfy than his sisters did.
I have more to say but its hard to say without sounding like I'm promoting it. Too many stupid people will think they know what they're doing.
Wolf dogs are not dogs. Period. They are not PETS, period. They are companions, that require a strong alpha and someone who knows the ins and outs of wolves.

Now Jon, your blanket statement isn't altogether true. They started breeding wolves with huskies and malamutes to create better sled dogs. There were also a lot of accidental litters in the begining because people live out in the woods and have a dog that goes into heat and coyotes and wolves don't really turn down an easy female. Most breeders (the good ones) breed wolf dogs for the same reason people breed pointers, collies, pit bulls ect. Because they love the kind of companion that wolf dogs can be with the right handler. Yes some people get them because they think it'll be cool to have a wolf, and those are the people i end up rescuing from. But the enthusists of us also do it to keep the wolves alive in some way shape or form. Our republican government has been trying to kill off the wild wolves for so long and their numbers are so small we want to preserve them in some way before they're gone.

[hopfularmywife]

Celestial - there are tons of people (mostly americans... what a guess) that are interbreeding wolves with dogs to try and get the closest thing to a domesticated wolf. They will try and who knows, maybe one day us humans will have our very 1st breed of pure domesticated wolf. Humans will do waht humans do because they're never satisfied with what they already have.

I also wanted to say Jon, that there are countries all over the world that are interbreeding domestic dogs with the native wild canines of the country to serve other purposes. So it's not just American's. We're just the ones using wolves. (cause lets be honest, coyotes just don't have the qualities)

[Jon!]

did i shun it? No, just pointed it out as fact.

And yeah, Hoppy (sorry, i gotta shorten it somehow >_>) you make a good point about straying dogs getting laid with the wild ones. Tarts And i highlighted the americans cos whenever something happens, or someone tries anything new, then it's just gotta be the americans to be the first! Just gotta! Cos they never do anything in the minority

I wouldn't mind a pure wolf breed as a pet one day. But an actual wolf, perhaps a pup where it's got no mother and no pack and it's survival rate is zero without help. I actually wish they'd fetch wolves back into the UK as a wild animal. Why in hell did they get rid of them any? Bloody humans!

[RibZ]

^Underfoot. She's about 6 years old. Totally LURVS attention and watching other animals on TV.

[hopfularmywife]

did i shun it? No, just pointed it out as fact.

And yeah, Hoppy (sorry, i gotta shorten it somehow >_>) you make a good point about straying dogs getting laid with the wild ones. Tarts And i highlighted the americans cos whenever something happens, or someone tries anything new, then it's just gotta be the americans to be the first! Just gotta! Cos they never do anything in the minority

I wouldn't mind a pure wolf breed as a pet one day. But an actual wolf, perhaps a pup where it's got no mother and no pack and it's survival rate is zero without help. I actually wish they'd fetch wolves back into the UK as a wild animal. Why in hell did they get rid of them any? Bloody humans!

Humans think they are tough if kill preditor animals. Also, humans don't like competition, even if its only in their heads. A lot of the humans here think that the wolves are wasting the deer. Believe me, we have no shortage of deer or elk, only a shortage of wolves. It's really depressing.

(not pointed at Jon, but anyone who thinks they wanna go out and get a wolf dog or pure wolf) I know owning a pure wolf sounds neat, but theres soooooooooooo much that they need and you have to do. Just keep that in mind, there is nothing simple about a wolves or wolf dogs. Wolves can/will/have chew through walls. We're talking dry wall and all, in no time. They can clear a 12ft fence from a sitting position, they can/will/have chew through chainlink fencing. They dig like nothing. Wolf dogs can jump 6-8 feet from a sit position, 12 if they are running. Kilik jumped 4ft, cleared it at 4 months old. There are most deffinatly different contents of wolf dogs (how much wolf they have in them) and that plays a BIG part in how you interact with them. Don't have any touchy, or easily angered neighbors, or any neighbors at all. Wolf dogs howls can be heard up to two miles away, wolf howls can be heard up to 6 miles away.
If anyone wants any more info (there is TONS) feel free to PM me I'm happy to answer all I can.

[MandaPantz13]

Nawwww i dont have a pic (cos try as i may i cant get them on here) but i had a horse when i was young called Beau, he was fat and lazy but he loved us (sometimes) haha more of a companion than a pet to ride tho. and my little dog Peter who is a miniature short haired fox terrier. he is now 15 and still runs around (when he feels like it) and i gave him to my mum for Christmas cos he adored her and she adores him (its funny cos her husbands name is peter too )

Jade, wolf dogs sound like lots of work, but theyre are sure gorgeous. Sounds like ppl over here who breed dogs (mostly kelpies) with dingoes, mostly cos they make good cattle dogs. and cos ppl think they make cool pets. i dont know much about them personally but i know a little bit cos i grew up in a very remote area which was surrounded by wild animals. It was sad cos one day my mum had to shoot one cos he was stalking our new born foal.

[Jon!]

It was sad cos one day my mum had to shoot one cos he was stalking our new born foal.

AH NO!!! I would have turned around and shot her while she was at it!!! Sorry, but thats just me. Wouldn't a high low voltage electric fence be enough? Instead of having to kill it?

[puppyjill]

i got to pet two wolfs in my life it was so cool. one was tame an the other was semi wild rehabbed. that was a rush.

[MandaPantz13]

It was sad cos one day my mum had to shoot one cos he was stalking our new born foal.

AH NO!!! I would have turned around and shot her while she was at it!!! Sorry, but thats just me. Wouldn't a high low voltage electric fence be enough? Instead of having to kill it?

we lived on a remote station it stalked the foal in the morning, and we chased it away but it came back. we knew it would keep coming back til he killed him. over here dingoes are feral and bad, like pigs (as sad as it is) and electric fences dont stop dingoes. if there was another way mum would have done it

[Pyrocensored]

My dog sugar is the one on the left going "fuck you guys", and my other dog buddy is the one on the right going "What the Fuck is this?"

They were pretty pissed off.

[RibZ]

[Blaze]

This was my dog Bonez. but my mum shot him last year

[lonelysea]

Cute. I want to post a pic of my tarantula. Now where did that thing go...

[RibZ]

This was my dog Bonez. but my mum shot him last year

Why did she shoot him?

[Blaze]

This was my dog Bonez. but my mum shot him last year

Why did she shoot him?

Said he ate to much

[Cerane]

This is my dog Kipper he will be a year old on Thanksgiving day.
I also have 4 cats

[MandaPantz13]

OMG cerane he is soooooooo gorgeous!!!!!!!! i want one!

[ReneeDawn]

Here are my "babies"


This is Chris. He came to us one Christmas morning and has stayed with us ever since.


This is my darling Loulee! She is a 4 year old shih tzu. She goes everywhere with me


And my female betta fish. She was a birthday gift from my fiance one year.

[Horserider92]

omg they're all so cute!

okay so here's mines:
this pony isn't mine any more but i did half lease him and fell in love with him. he was actually andrew wyeth's son's horse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39821419@N06/3779042854/
and his son actually did a painting off of my horse as a baby: http://www.tfaoi.com/mn/mib/mib56.jpg

they look alike and they have the same name yes he knew that pony

and so now i have a pony here's lots of pictures of her:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39821419@N06/page2/
you can look through the other two pages if you like and her name is PeppyDell Snickers. We call her snickers and i absolutly love her to death! she's as sweet as a snickers bar! even the flies love her (which is a bad thing cuz she's allergic to flies and everything else at the barn). she's 15 and she's a quarter horse at 14.1 hh

here's my dogs now (i had too many URLS so you can look at all the pics on my flickr):
the dogs are:
libbie hope (boxer age 7)

runner rox (boxer age 3)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39821419@N06/

[RoMeO]

i have a cat twitch 2 because my scorpion Twitch died last year so sad but i dont have a pic of him because hes rarely home hes a manwhore plus he hates photos since he got smashed by a dog last month hahah hes all scarred up looks mean

[Cay Lin]

i can't post pics because i don't know how, but i will describe my pets to you.

i have 5 cats.

Samuel is a grey cat with long hair and white stripes.

Keela was the only girl in the entire litter, and she is black on top and white on the bottom, with a "v" shape on her head.

DeWALT is a black cat with yellow eyes, and he looks exactly like my cat who is now at the big scratching post in the sky.

Sleepy is black and white and he has a huge black patch on his nose, so his nose looks really big. (He is still up for adoption)

and of course, the only cat that is truly "mine" is Batman. he was a stray who was so skittish at first, that if i opened the door he would run away. now, after 3 years of hard work, Batman adores me and will roll over on his back for me and everything. he is the kittens daddy. he is also black and white.

[Floyd's Jester]

Sorry, these are GIGANTIC!







Akasha. She's about ten months old now, we just got her last month. The lady had named her 'Cookie' (how TF can you name a big dog cookie???). The lady said she was getting rid of her because she could no longer afford to keep her since she had five kids (uh... stop procreating!). She told us lots of things, like she loved her daily exercise, she didn't have any problems with worms, she was 'working on getting her on a weight gaining diet' etc. Yea it was all bullshit. Akasha was so skinny when she first came to us her ribs were prominent and she had little to no muscle build up. After this... woman... left we immediately put down food and water for Akasha. She started eating and drinking like she'd never seen food before in her life. She's been gaining weight wonderfully, and all we did was give her normal puppy food. She still needs to build up her muscles. We are guessing that she was stuck in her crate all day every day. Horrible. She's such a sweetheart, and she's smart as a whip. She also had a HUGE tapeworm, which we promptly exterminated. She's still terrified of the bathtub, but she is getting better. Sudden movements make her flinch like she's about to get seriously hit. She's afraid of strange males, hell she is even still a little shy around Hubbie. I still can't believe this woman. WTF, seriously. It was borderline neglect with her. Maybe not even borderline. Anyway, Akasha is happy and healthy and working on getting healthier. She LOVES to run around and play and jump in her chair so fast it spins her around. I really need to catch some videos of her daily escapades. Hilarious.

[Floyd's Jester]

I used to work on a rescue ranch. There were a few wolf hybrids there, one was half German Shepherd. His name was GoodBoy (?????). He was the sweetest thing, HUGE! My dad had a wolf-malamute hybrid named Zeus. I believe he was quarter content. He was very loving towards humans, but he killed small animals all the time. He would have never hurt a human, but he looked really fierce. He was pure black and white (malamute markings) with glacier blue eyes. Someone figured out that he was a teddy bear and stole him one day.

Hybrids can be wonderful companions, but they do require more work than a 'pet'. If you think about it, the breeds closer to wolves (huskies and malamutes) are notoriously more difficult to train. You do have to be a strong leader and have infinite amounts of patience.

People are stupid. They try to make pets out of animals that belong in the wild, tigers, bears, lions, etc. They think they look cool and it makes a statement. Sort of like a Lexus or Rolex. People are so goddamned concerned with their images that they put animals in bad situations, with them often winding up neglected, abused, even dead. I'll just stop there before I get to worked up.

Cute pets all!

[parousia]

This is pinky,he's a really good person and has a kind heart,just dont look at his lazy eye..it kinda wigz him out.

[Bubbydoll]

My Kitty

[xxParisJacksonFanxx]

here's my puppy....
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/H ... kiMaru.jpg


.......and my kitty. I wish.
http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f10/H ... iSanJu.jpg

[Bubbydoll]

Did you draw the dog? I know it says anime but I don't know a heck of a lot about that.
Pic is cute though.

[xxParisJacksonFanxx]

yes I did. and thanks!

[Bubbydoll]

Really nice artwork, cherryorange. You are a talented artist. You should post a thread in the art section here of some of your drawings too.

[xxParisJacksonFanxx]

yeah, thanks! I was in art class in school but I dropped out cause I got bored in it LOL!

[starreborn]

hannibal, the evil cat, chillin in his favorite spot.


psychotic boston terrorist, pickles


at play

[Bubbydoll]

Cute pets, starreborn. Last pic is priceless, just a good natured old throw down between friends?

[starreborn]

thanks.

they grew up together, and are only about a month apart in age. they don't wrestle as much as they used to, and pickles likes to wrestle with my mom's dog by dragging her around by the tail. unfortunately, though, even she and mom's dog aren't allowed to play together right now, since my mom's dog is sick and undergoing treatment.

i thought i would also share pics of my previous "kids," who are missed.

gumby, a greyhound, catching a treat


gumby (in her early days) with pokey, a whippet


and these guys aren't mine, but i thought i'd share. they are my brother's american bulldogs wrinkles and tugger. tugger has grown quite a bit since this pic was taken, lol.

[Bubbydoll]

You have and had lots of wonderful looking pets. Are you more of a dog person?
That last pic of the two dogs is a lovely looking picture, it has a really great quality to it also.
Hope your mom's dog gets well.

[starreborn]

i like both, really.

i grew up with cats, and it had been 15+ years since i had one. i couldn't have any when i had gumby and pokey, because neither of them were safe around cats. hannibal arrived a year ago, around the time i lost gumby. a little later, i was wanting to get another dog, and i preferred another greyhound. however, as much as it sucks for me, i am still living under my mom's roof (hopefully not for much longer), and she did not want any more large dogs. so, we compromised and i ended up with pickles.

as for my mom's dog (yahtzee, a shih-tzu), she is doing pretty well. she had belonged to my mom's friend, who recently passed away. unfortunately, she was not dog savvy at all, and i don't think she ever took the dog to a vet. when she died, my mom took yahtzee in. unfortunately, when i took her to the vet that weekend, i found out that she was positive for heartworm disease. she is now about 3 weeks into her treatment, and she's doing great, but isn't not allowed to play or do anything which could put a strain on her heart.

[Bubbydoll]

What fun names for all your pets, I love the name pickles.
You can tell you have a huge heart for animals and adore them a lot. Great news on the dogs treatment going well now.. *fingers crossed* on his continued good health. Yeah, lots of people want pets but not the costly expense of upkeeping their health, vet visits and shots are so important.

[xxParisJacksonFanxx]

Okay, here's my puppy EkkiMaru



and here's my kitty Kari

[sassypants37]

i realize this is a old post but i have a german shepherd whose name is samson and i have a fat cat who weighs in at 16 pounds and who so spoiled i cant leave his sight not even for a second.lmao i ware that cat out cuz im up and down all day my dog he is the same way...i will post pics as soon as i figure out how to lol..

[Bubbydoll]

Love to see a pic of the tubby kitty. Mine weighs about 11 pounds last weigh-in. Sixteen pounds of kitty, least it can't jump on the counter? Or can it.

[sassypants37]

oh yes he can jump on counter but he doesnt cuz he knows better lol...i will def put sum pics up when i learn how to do it...wow your kitty pretty big too..

[shift1085]

the family puppy is a Rhodesian ridgeback named Blaze. i called him that because his fur is all reddish-brownish-yellowish-orange like fire and he looks really cool in the sunlight
he doesn't really have a ridge and is a bit more stocky but he's a good hunting dog (we play Hunt...my sister and i created that game...sorta like doggie tag)
our is a lot older than this but here's what they look like:
http://i10.tinypic.com/2h5jz8j.jpg

and i have a really beautiful Turkish angora kitten, he's white with black splotches and really gorgeous eyes: yellow at the edge and green near the pupil
he's so fluffy and cute and adorable!
dis is a turkish angora:
http://www.cats4u.co.za/images/angora.jpg

i love my pets

[papercuts187]

Rambo the squirrel



Idget butterball and monkeybutt


Smokey and Bones


My camera is dead so i can't post pictures of Dude the stoner ferret....Agent Booth the stray...miss kitty the cyclops (well i could but the only picture i have is before the dead eye was sewn up!)
or Martin the three legged dog.

[shift1085]

you have a lot of cool pets

i used to have a lil hamster named Koko, she was really fuzzy and brown and white, she had these crazy demonic red eyes but she was such a sweetheart...died last month
my family used to be a zoo of pets

oh i forgot me dad's class pet
used to have a tarantula named Rose but my kitty killed her
now it's just Penelope the corn snake

and once at school behind the field was a pond with lil tadpoles and people were killing them so my family rescued them and ended up with seven tree frogs and a tiny little toad
we also used to have parakeets

and my sister had a rat

all that's left now is our three cats, the puppy and the snake.....so lonely now...need....more....pets