Tell me about your childhood pet

[Modem Butterfly]

What kind of animal? What breed? Was it a boy or a girl? What made it special to you?

[Debbi801]

1. A doberman named Angel...

My parents bred Dobes. This one latched on to me early on and became "mine." As far back as I can remember, she was there. She was black with red markings. My mother finally gave up on putting white blankets on my bed, within days, they'd be black from her fur. Other than school, she went everywhere I did. I adored her. I was devastated when she died, even though she lived a very long and happy life.

We had other pets, lots of unusual ones--a raccoon, assorted guinea pigs, cats, birds, etc. But Angel stood out above them all.

[Serial Mom]

2. A Welsh Terrier named Rocky

Male ... I trained him and he was a very special dog, active, smart and fun.

[sasquatch]

3. 6 toed, calico, tailless, minx female named "Suzie"

She had kittens that were so interesting, soft, and persian looking in some cases, that someone took her home when she was living in our barn.

[RandomKoolzip]

4. I had a tankful of catfish, named after Communist thinkers/leaders.

Not kidding. I was an odd child.

[TlalocW]

5. A Heinz 57 named Tippy

Medium-sized dog - more or less. It would follow my brother and me everywhere. The city swimming pool was on the same block, and when my brother or I went there, Tippy would follow us, watch us enter and sign in then he would go around to where the fence was, watch us get into the two-foot part of the pool, watch us for a minute, and when he decided we were okay, he would go home. He only bit two people - one of them for trying to beat one of us up and the other was a friend - the vet's son, in fact - who he thought was being too physical with us (we were playing football in the front yard).

He also had a cute little dance accompanied with grunting noises that he did when we came home from school. He once got mauled by a larger dog and should have been put to sleep, but Mom knew it would break our hearts so we got him fixed up at the vet.

He lived to be 13-years-old when he finally had to be put to sleep.

TlalocW

[Jessica]

6. A Golden Retriever named Benji.

He was bigger than me when we had him - and we played outside together like brother & sister (I was an only child). I grew up on a farm & he was very bad about chasing deer - and a bunch of our redneck neighbors complained & threatened to kill him. We couldn't keep him contained - not a good life for a dog in the country. So to save him, we had to give him back to the breeders, who were friends of our's. About a week later, he was hit by a car. :cry:

He was a good dog.

[radwriter0555]

7. Reggie, dalmation. Tinkerbell, the white cat, daisy the poodle, Flower

the skunk when I was a kid at grandmas; Rascal the baby raccoon. 3 wabbits memorialized here, Killer, Peter and Polka dot, Henny the next white cat who's other name was "boiled egg'. Cooper the deaf australian shepard; Ah, William, the small black dog that I never saw poop or pee and who refused to come in the house, even if it was freezing. Rugby the kitten I pulled out of a car engine with 2 broken legs, her ears burned off and broken ribs.

Wow, the percherons and draft horses that pulled the sleigh in winter on my cousin's farm in Skaneatles; the crazy pony who would bite us if we tried to saddle her, but LOVED to be ridden bareback; Echo's Ginger Brandy, the Tennessee Walking horse that I watched being born; the pintos and paints; the barrel racers I walked; the cows we tipped or skated holding on tails... pigs, chickens, slaughtered, milked and who's eggs we stole; Rhonda and Aretha, my rhode island reds!!!!!

When I worked for Jack Hanna, can we count the madagascar hissing cockroaches; the pink kneed tarantula, the 4 foot long iguana, the king cobra or how about the legless snake I smuggled in my shirt on an airplane from Columbus to LA; the retarded snow leopard; the penguins from SD Zoo and the 9 wide rhinos I sort of lost for 13 days(but later found) in Rwanda during their civil war? I loved and or handled all those animals and more I've lost track of... Molly woddle Doodle Dog, the happiest little doggie in the whole wide world, the first maltese I had.

Bella the tabby cat, her babies, Pablo the conure, the countless finches, Bob, the macaw I fostered; the squirrels who lived in the avocado tree that came to the window feeder every day; the possums who came in to snack on the cat food; the 13 baby possums I pulled off a stinking dead carcass, even reaching into her putrid pouch to pull 2 more live babies out. Wow, how about the hummingbirds who will sit right in the window feeding while I'm only 1 foot away? Oh yeah, the baby hummingbird who fell from his nest below my window, and who I perched in a potted plant and left on my patio for his mom to find? She fed him there for 2 weeks until he could fly and came to stay with him night and day!

Blue my poor cocker aussie mix who finally couldn't control her impulses anymore and bit my wee Winky and broke her leg, (she tripped me too, and helped me dislocate my knee too!); the baby squirrel who fell from the tree and went to the vet; the 13 puppies in a trash bag found in a rain filled gutter one dark night turned over to the sheriffs to be nursed all night by the inmates; how about the chicken that was living on someone's balcony that was turned in who liked to sit on my desk; Joey my chihuahua dachsund mix who was returned to us a half dozen times for breaking out and running the streets, Boomer the giant african tortoise who weighed almost 50 lbs. Lola our new little pomeranian baby girl who rules the world! Oh oh oh my 27 koi in this last pond... Moby the big boy... what a grand pescado that one was!

Yes, I've had charge of a few critters in my day.. what a lucky gal I am!!!! THANKS for making remember what a great life I've lead filled with all these creatures, great and small.

[Mr. McD]

8. We had a female Eskimo Spitz

named Sugar. My grandfather had the male, he gave the female to me and my sister. Like this one.