Dogs and Cats and Parakeets and Marmots and any other fucking pet you may have in thi

[Pharaoh]

So I just got a dog the other day. It's a white german shepherd which was promptly named Phantom. The problem is, this is my first time caring for a dog, or a pet for that matter. My brother in-law knows quite a bit about dogs but I want to be more knowledgeable because in the end I'm responsible for him. I would like advice on how to feed, groom, and everything else. I even want to know the very basics. He's still 60 days old so he's a puppy with all the energy that comes with being one. He's living in our garden, in which we have built a dog house for him.(large enough for another dog as we're hoping to get a female as well)

If there's anything you need to know to help, you're more than welcome to ask.

 

[Schwa]

be sure to force your dog to wear tie-dye shirts. all dogs are miserable unless they are in tie-dye shirts.

 

[Bluecaptain]

Cats

I saw the dog thread and felt there needed to be a place to express our love for cats as well.

I have two cats one is a very old, very large orange male tabby. We have not identified the other so thoroughly yet but he is a year old grey and black tabby. I will post pics later.

 

[Eiganjo]

Well, if you want to train him, now is the time to start already. I never toght my dogs to sit or w/e because I dont think it's that necessary, but if you want to you should start with it now.

and what do feed it, dog food. I live in another ocntinent so I dont know what brands you have but im sure pedigree pal is like universal. Havent had my dog complain about that yet :P

besides, just teach it what you allow and dont allow and youll be fine :)

 

[Myzozoa]

I have 3 cats, two are orange sister-cats: Neko and Ameretto (some people call Ameretto Orange Floyd due to name disagreements, scumbag brother and father). The last cat is one who my sister rescued from filthy vegans who tried to raise it out of their car on black beans. My sister whipped some sense into them and took it off their hands. She took care of it for a while to make sure it was healthy before pawning it off on me (she already had 2 cats). She is a beautiful black cat named Mia (because thats the sound she makes), also her pornstar name is Mia Midnight. I'm also allergic to cats, but who cares. I have lived with up to 6 cats in my house at a time.


Pics of cats to come when I get my camera back from a friend (so probably not for a while).

 

[Vein]

http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3461350

You can go here. Lots of cute cat pics here!

 

[Taylor]

Roughly two months ago, this young, pure-black, female cat was lurking around my garden. I had no idea where she came from because I was familiar with most of my neighbours' pets, but stumbling upon this teen cat I had no idea who she belonged to.

She was dead-friendly and cunning, but seemed a little out of her territory. Everytime I'd nip outside for a cigarette, there she was; when I'd be on my way back into the house, she'd sit on the porch as if to say, "hey, wa bout me?".

Days passed, and she would always be there, prowling around the front/back garden and underneath our cars in the driveway. I decided to offer her some food, to which she gladly accepted and would then expect me to help her burn those calories off. So I grabbed a stick near by, attached some string to it, and watched her endlessly chase it wherever I went.

Being young, she is awake mostly throughout the day as oppose to sleeping on the couch. When it was time for me to sleep, she'd follow me upstairs and either lay by my side or above my head; four pillows worth of comfort!

My dad and I agreed that because we'd never had a pet so much as two hamsters and a budgie, we would keep her. A cat won't live somewhere where it doesn't like, will it? This, and because our 9-year-old fish we won from a fairground had passed, meant that "Chika" would now be apart of the family.

Originally I wanted to call her "BeeBee", or "BB" for short. My dad on the other hand, had "Septimus" in mind. I thought it rolled off the tongue but I wasn't sold on it completely; maybe "SeptiMush" would've been better lol...

Anyway, I adopted a cat who continues to sit on my keyboard (which is already fucked) and manages to start programmes I never knew I had, and type the most random shit in the address/google bar; sometimes on IRC too! My bad :(

She's lovely, and each day I get her to walk further away from home, just to help rebuild her confidence so she can wander off at night to go do...whatever cats get up to.

This is not her but is as close as I could get because my phone's camera is not functioning all too well

She has grown a little over the last couple of months, and I'd say this is a spitting image of her right now.

 

[DM]

this is now the catch-all pet thread, post about your pets here and here only

 

[RODAN]

well i have 6 cats

who dare challenge me

 

[GARCHOMPZILLA]

I used to have 8 plus 2 dogs. Hell. fun, but hell. That aside, I found that if you have a lazy dog, they don't need to be taken outside as much, but then if you have a cat that wants to go outside, its harder than walking a dog cuase they just run around so much. Its annoying to get a cat not to be afraid of people, but when they spend time with dogs they seem it seems to help.

Anyway I don't have any pets anymore (last new cat died from diabetes and some are with my relatives) but my family was considering getting a new pet. I don't like the idea cause I hate when they die and I never get over it, but a new pet wuld be nice.

 

[Kojax]

Hello for those of you who are thinking about becoming/are pet owners, please remember that most of your animal companions are completely domesticated and are unable to care for themselves like you would expect a wild animal to, especially highly energetic and social animals like dogs. If you are a person who loses interest in things quickly or cannot spend time with your dog (eg you work a full time job and your dog will be cooped up at home for 10+ hours a day) please please please carefully consider whether or not you can provide a good home for an animal that is almost entirely dependent on you for its well being. Yes, a dog can survive sleeping 10 hours a day while you work, and another 7 while you sleep. No, that is not a good life for a domesticated animal. I worked at a small animal hospital for a number of years and it is amazing the kind of people that think they are qualified to care for anything but themselves.

 

[Arcticblast]

I have a guinea pig, two small fish and a snail. The rest of my family (total) has a cat, another guinea pig, and a fat guinea pig. Yes, the fat one is separate.

 

[macle]

hamster and a bitch of a sister

 

[cookie]

be sure to force your dog to wear tie-dye shirts. all dogs are miserable unless they are in tie-dye shirts.

this

 

[The Knights of Wario Land]

Unfortunately, our old faithful black lab Jefferson passed on last November, been with us for 13 years.

A dog is a wonderful companion to have, make sure you appreciate him as much as you can.

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

I suppose we technically still own our dog legally (she live with my grandparents), she'll be 15 (!) in June which is pretty remarkable as she isn't a small dog; she's a walker hound, black lab, golden retriever cross. She had a tumour the size of a grapefruit on her side but it doesnt seem to cause her pain which is definitely good.

 

[Yeah Galo Sengan]

i'm housesitting and looking after my cousins cat while she fucks off to italy snowboarding

this is her, she likes to puke on the bed

bad kitty

 

[Tolan]

I have a dog. We're not sure what she is as she's a rescue from Georgia. We think she's a "Mountain Cur"

It's not her, but it's an exact look alike

 

[November Blue]

just to help rebuild her confidence so she can wander off at night to go do...whatever cats get up to.

Kill smaller animals. Eventually you're going to find yourself picking up decapitated mouse corpses that have been thoughtfully left outside your door. IMO you should keep the cat inside at night, because they go on hunts.

If it were me I'd pitch the thing over the back fence and get a dog instead.

 

[Nietzsche]

Assortment of dog photos, chihuahua/dachshund/mini-schnauzer

Hide

I forgot to resize these two

"Oy! Bipeds! Can YOU sit and stand on stairs at the same time? No? Fuck you! I can!"

 

[BlakBlastoise]

I have lots of pets. Mostly chickens (200+) but I have about 22 cockateils, a grey Indian ring neck parrot (gray), 2 ducks, 4 geese, a red eared slider turtle, a rabbit, 2 dogs, and my cat recently disappeared.

 

[Fatecrashers]

im thinking that your cat annoyed the chickens once too often and the chickens just swarmed him a la zelda

 

[6-Dimension]

My oldest cat passed just the other day, he was 20 damn years old.
My cat was older than I was.
And not just in cat years.
Fuck...

 

[Yeah Galo Sengan]

my cat died a few months ago, had him for 18 years

he came to us as a tiny skittish rescue cat, left us as a fat drooling piece of shit who spent 24 hours a day asleep behind my pc

 

[iDunno]

I have lots of pets. Mostly chickens (200+) but I have about 22 cockateils, a grey Indian ring neck parrot (gray), 2 ducks, 4 geese, a red eared slider turtle, a rabbit, 2 dogs, and my cat recently disappeared.

What's it like to have a chicken as a pet? Do they bond well with humans like parrots and cockateils do? Also how the hell do you have so many animals?