Tell me all about your animals

I have two puggles (Wednesday and Eric) and two cats (Sorcha and Domino). That I have Wednesday is a true miracle. A few years ago in January I let her out into the back yard. She got out of the yard through a gap in the fence and got lost. Every day I would look for her, put posters up and leave posts on craigslist. Weeks turned into months, but I couldn't stop looking for her. I had crazy people contact me and tell me they used her to train their fighting pit bulls, or that she was hit by a plow and her body was in a snowbank. I had one person call me in the middle of the night and tell me they had her, and if I come NOW with the reward money I could have her. I went to the address and it was an empty house, my bf wouldn't let me get out of the car.

As spring came and the snow melted people started telling me to forget Wednesday, but I couldn't. One day in March I got a call from my neighbor, her daughter saw Wednesday running through the woods across the river from my house with a squirrel in her mouth! Through luck and kindness of co-workers I was able to leave work and I took to the woods and I found her! I could count every bone in her body and half her face was paralyzed, but I had my baby back in my arms.

It's been two years since I found Wednesday again and she is happy and healthy and loves to go on hikes with me and her little brother Eric.

I have a 9 year old Chihuahua named Nicky, who I love with my whole heart We also have 2 tabby cats Max (9) and Jake (3) and a hamster named Hammie (my step-daughter named him)

I have one cat. She is a three colour , almost 4 yrs old, adopted 3 months old from a home, she is not a pure breed. She is very curious but causious, has a small heart and gets easily scared. She even gets scared if I put on a different sweater. She is very loving and loves to sleep in bed with my daughters and when the go visit their dad every other weekend she cries because they are not around to taka a nap with. It is nice to have someone here at home when I´m alone

We have a 5 yr old Chocolate lab named Mocha ( we adopted her at 1 , we didn`t name her , lol ) ...... We also have a 7 yr old beagle named Angel ( Our kids named her ) ...... We have 2 cats, Carmine, a short haired black and white selkirk rex , and a feral short hair black female that we named Lilly. We have gotten her spayed after she had kittens. She comes in the house now , but not very friendly. She will let you pat her occasionally but she will shred you with claws if you try and pick her up.... She is an awesome mouse catcher !! : )

I have a cat named Izzy. She's all glossy black except for a white triangle on her neck and an uneven sploth of white on her belly, sorta between her back legs. She liked to lie on her back and show off her white patch. She is 5 now. She makes me laugh all the time. She's the oddest cat I've ever owned. We play " hide and seek" and "chase me around the house". She loves to play rough with a leather glove on my hand. Attacks it as if it were an animal. Not a lap cat at all but she wants to be near me. She doesn't like to be touched except occassionally she will want her chin scratched. My new vet said she is an excessive groomer and when she's all clean she doesn't want any other odors on her fur. Her mom was a ferral cat who came to a house trailer in the country when she was about to give birth. Luckily the woman took her in and advertised on Free cycle to find homes for the kittens.

I've had 2 parakeets, 4 dogs, and many cats.... all at different times in my life. Each one is unique. I've enjoyed all the pet stories here and am impressed with the number of people who have rescue or shelter animal.

We rescured a lab and...? from the local shelter 2 years ago as a scared shakey younger dog and now she has turned into the best friend a family could ask for. so good with the kids, positively protective and love to play and go on walkies. She really has brought a sense of peace to me. We call her a 'story hound' because she like to hop up on the kids bed, when its story time at night, listens to the story and then leaves.

We have 2 dogs, 1 house kitty, 2 barn kitties, and 3 horses....

DOGS...
Dexter is our boy brindle Pit Bull mix we rescued from an animal shelter. He's happy go lucky and laid back. Midnight is our girl black Doberman/Black Lab mix. She a but of a busy body and love to have things to do, like obedience training. We adopted her from Furry Friends Network.. They are both about 10 years old now...

KITTIES...
Daisy is our house kitty. She's a grey tiger cat and the queen of the house... Our two barn kitties are Loverboy (LB for short), he's all black and a complete lovebug... and Ruby, she's a grey tiger kitty too, she's a bit shy. but sooo cute.

HORSES...
Teddy is our bay Standardbred Gelding. He 26 now... He was trained to do harness racing when he was young but never actually raced... he came into our lives later.

Fritzy is our 12 year old Foundation Quarter Horse gelding... He's a horse of a different color... We've had him since he was 2 and he started out as a tawny buckskin/dun with a black dorsal strip, mane, tail and legs. He has become more white over the years and his tail is all white now, but his mane is still black... The color on his papers say that his is grey... His Mama was grey and the breeders knew that he would turn grey with age... Fritzy is a complete lovebug too... he is very affectionate and LOVES people and also talks to us alot too...

Otis (Otie) is our 14 year old black Percheron/Quarter Horse cross. We've had him since the end of 2009. Very quickly he established himself as leader of our little herd... He can be kind of bossy with the other two but they all get along now... He will be bossy with humans too if they don't make it clear that they are the one in charge and not Otie and the human is the one that will be making the decisions as far as what to do... It's funny though, because if you establish that with him, he is very submissive and so completely obedient...

Thanks for letting me share... Our furkids mean the world to me... I love to talk about them

Cats:
Luigi is 3. He's been blind since there was an accident at the vet when he was a kitten. He spent about a week in the ICU in an oxygen chamber, and then came home to me for some serious rehab (spoon feeding, drinking with a syringe..etc). But he's a very happy chubby kitty now.
Deedee is 4,she's technically my boyfriends cat..but we're getting married so she's mine too! She's like the little queen of the house-sweet and aloof. She always sits in the window looking adorable when we come home.
Roxanne and Elizabeth are kittens we adopted recently. They are the cuddliest cats we've ever had. Elizabeth follows Luigi around all day, and Roxanne lays on my chest at least 3-4 hours a day. Some days I can't get her to leave me alone...she's actually on me now. haha

Dog: Sophie is 7. We adopted her this year from a family that was moving across the country. She's half rottweiler. She is THE best behaved dog I have ever met. Very protective, very lovey, VERY adorable.

Hedgies: We have 2 hedgehogs who love to cuddle with each other (Isis and Aphia). If you know anything about hedgehogs you know how unusual it is for them to cuddle. Isis doesn't even hiss very much when you poke at her..and she likes to sleep in my hair.


We want to get a turtle, some fish, and another dog...but that'll be when we move out of an apartment into a house..soon
Obviously we love animals

Oh man I would LOVE a hedgehog! One of the cutest animals ever, imo.

I love this thread. I especially love the stories of pets with special needs--that just really warms my heart. I am a huge animal lover and raise money for our local Humane Society each spring. If I could, I would have many more animals, but my apartment only allows one cat.

I have one cat, a 7 year old tabby named Mrs. Kensington. She has about a billion nicknames including Mrs. K, Kenzi, Kenzicat, Lil Mama, Meepers, Lil Butt, Stinkypoops, and Puss. She is the love of my life. Growing up we'd always had dogs as a family, and I had never been around many cats, and kind of assumed they didn't have personalities--how wrong I was! My now ex-boyfriend and I adopted Mrs. Kensington together from the Humane Society when she was a six-month-old very sickly kitty. She was my Christmas present, and definitely the best gift I've ever received. Her fur is this beautiful grey with charcoal grey strips, an off-white spotted belly, and gorgeous markings on her face including white eyeliner. She has the biggest jade green eyes I've ever seen. There are some pics of her on my profile. Mrs. Kensington is a tuna-holic!!! She flips out whenever I'm opening a can of anything with a can opener, because she thinks it's tuna. She loves to chase a laser pointer, sunbathe, lay on my chest nose-to-nose with me. She is extremely bonded to me, as I am to her, and we cuddle a lot.

I have two puggles (Wednesday and Eric) and two cats (Sorcha and Domino). That I have Wednesday is a true miracle. A few years ago in January I let her out into the back yard. She got out of the yard through a gap in the fence and got lost. Every day I would look for her, put posters up and leave posts on craigslist. Weeks turned into months, but I couldn't stop looking for her. I had crazy people contact me and tell me they used her to train their fighting pit bulls, or that she was hit by a plow and her body was in a snowbank. I had one person call me in the middle of the night and tell me they had her, and if I come NOW with the reward money I could have her. I went to the address and it was an empty house, my bf wouldn't let me get out of the car.

As spring came and the snow melted people started telling me to forget Wednesday, but I couldn't. One day in March I got a call from my neighbor, her daughter saw Wednesday running through the woods across the river from my house with a squirrel in her mouth! Through luck and kindness of co-workers I was able to leave work and I took to the woods and I found her! I could count every bone in her body and half her face was paralyzed, but I had my baby back in my arms.

It's been two years since I found Wednesday again and she is happy and healthy and loves to go on hikes with me and her little brother Eric.

That story made me cry a lil. I'm so glad you found her. :flowerforyou:

I have 6 Betta's, they're a beautiful range of colors/tail types. I had 8 but I lost two of them a couple weeks ago. My son and I adopted a mouse.. our first fuzzy animal in 5yrs. My apartment rules are restrictive on pets.

My gorgeous baby (yes she is like a child to me) is a dog called Gracie, she's a collie crossed with a whippet x springer. She's a rescue dog, we got her at 12 weeks old. My husband bought her for me for my 21 birthday present as a surprise and she's the best present I've ever had she has made so much progress since we got her! When I first got home and found my little bundle of fluff it took her over an hour to approach me she was incredibly nervous and scared. When she did approach me she rolled onto her back and got a belly rub and we've been best friends ever since. She is soo hyper, an absolute lunatic, very intelligent and very loving. We've had our ups and downs she has been so naughty at times, she's eaten all the cushions off my sofa, 2 pairs of shoes, my brand new trainers, her bed, blankets all the flowers out of our flower bed. Etc etc luckily she's grown out of this behavior. She's very clever I've taught her lots of tricks on top of the basic commands, she crawls, she twirls round on her hind legs, she can get each of the toys I ask her to get, she helps take my husbands dirty laundry to the basket, she rolls over, she will balance a treat on her nose till she's told to eat it, she gives high fives rather than paw and she will fall to the floor and play dead if you pretend to shoot her. I love her to bits! my hubby's in the army and is away a lot so she keeps me sane and also sleeps next to me in bed. I don't know what I'd do without her! Sorry I did go on a bit there, I hope I don't bore anyone lol

I have 6 Betta's, they're a beautiful range of colors/tail types. I had 8 but I lost two of them a couple weeks ago. My son and I adopted a mouse.. our first fuzzy animal in 5yrs. My apartment rules are restrictive on pets.

Do you have a separate bowl for all of your betta's? We have some african ciclids and I've had a betta before but I was told they fight if you put more than one in a tank at a time.

Being blind and deaf would be so difficult. It's awesome that you decided to take care of that one.

Blue was born deaf, but has no issues with sight. I get a lot of people asking if she is blind in one eye, though, due to her single bright blue eye and one dark brown eye. She is super friendly to everyone as long as they are not a squirrel. She likes going on walks, chasing laser pointers, and eating turkey with yogurt on top.

I have two fur covered little ones. The oldest is 16 pound orange domestic medium hair. He's got a checkup next week and will probably hear the same thing I have all my life, you need to lose more weight! He's lost two pounds this year so hopefully it won't be too bad.

My other little guy is 180 pound St. Bernard. Pictures on my profile. He's a really big baby and always has been. Loves to go for rides and shed and drool pretty much every place!