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What pets have you had? Post pics of your pets, previous or now. Why do I love my pet so much?

Ken1951 said:
Looks like a happy bodyguard!
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He is a remarkably good natured and friendly dog. Only hates Chihuahuas, which is understandable.
 
EJ3 said:
In my home, animals find that the stereo is "Verboten". (or being on any furniture or counter tops).
They get their own furniture.
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Our kitties rule us. Miette was the only one drawn to audio gear. My cat (Java) likes to sleep with me.
 
Greyhounds being happy girls at the beach:
Multicore said:
/me loves your exs.
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Best dogs ever.
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I love to read all these stories of love for pets. I love all animals. I grew up around horses, dogs, cats and what not.

And damn people some of your stories brought tears to my eyes, I kid you not. But those pets were so loved, they were so lucky - they must be happy tears, even though I know the heartbreak that comes with losing a pet. My GF and I have been together for 8 years. When I met her, her two dogs (Perky and Potpot, smallish Beagle-Terrierish mutts) went with us on so many adventures. Perky was smart and sweet as hell. We had to put her to sleep at age 14 in April, and I can still shed a tear about her, but then again have to warmly smile reminiscing all those moments. Now my GF has Potpot and Kiko, nearly the same looks but one is stubborn as a cow and the other dumb as a brick. :) We love them, of course.

Perky was basically my cat's Mom when I got Boli 4 years ago. For quite a while after Perky crossed the rainbow (and good heavens were we ever hugging her while the vet put her to sleep), whenever Potpot and Kiko walked into my place, Boli would keep looking around wondering when Perky would join. But they all get along awesomely.

When I was 6 and my Dad bought a house with a big garden, I got a Giant Schnauzer as a present. We were utterly inseparable, and we coud have been a circus act with all the tricks we could perform as a team. We entertained people every other weekend. It sounds horrible, but thinking back I can still shed tears thinking about that amazing childhood companion, ranks up in sadness close my Dad (who I was very close to). He (the Schnauzer) passed at 11 (damn big dogs, they don't live too long). And when I think about my very own inevitable moment of energy transformation, I imagine heaven as a place where that positive energy of love mixes: family does include pets, and yes, hello Dad, hello Perky, hello all of you - I am home.

With me now being 60 and Boli being 4, it may be a close race to the finish line. Boli is in my will, and dammit, he'll continue to be spoiled if something happens to me, I have made sure of that. And I can't bear the thought of something happening to him.
 
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Robin L said:
Our kitties rule us. Miette was the only one drawn to audio gear. My cat (Java) likes to sleep with me.
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My dogs (usually only one dog at a time) slept on their own bed, next to mine (or on their bed in the living room).
There was a time when I had Blackfoot Girlfriend named Brenda and we had 23 cats, 2 birds (a dove & a blue jay [they just came into the house, we fed them & they stayed, so we got each one a larger bird cage, just in case one of the other animals decided that they were food]), 3 dogs (a full blooded Dalmatian, a mash up of a Chow, Collie, German Shepard (looked like the old Rock-N-Roll big hair bands on a bad hair day) and a Franken Beagle/Lab), 3 snakes (a 3 ft. corn snake, a 7 & 1/2 foot Ball Python & a 9 foot Albino Boa Constrictor [yes, we raised rabbits to feed them {I knew someone would want to know that}]), 3 iguanas, three ferrets, 11 tortoises and the occasional something else that Brenda brought home (Ghost crabs, Hermit crabs and who knows what else). She was very fast and could run & swipe up a Ghost crab before it got to it's sand hole or catch a snake in such a manner that it could not bite her, using just her hands.
After about a year, she decided to move back to her family home in Ohio and we packed this menagerie onto my trailer and into a Chevy step-van and drove from Goose , South Carolina to some 1 stoplight town in Ohio (an 11-12 hour drive with no animals, about 16 hours with the animals).
Kids that had the fortune to be at rest stops when we pulled in really annoyed their parents to let them see what we were feeding, walking (were we part of an exhibition, circus or what), with all these animals.
I left her, her mother and all their animals up there and drove back to James Island, SC. Just a few months later I was living on Islands & archipelago's in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific, where I stayed from Jan 4, 2002-April 27 2018.
I do not currently own any animals.
 
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We have had 3 German Shepherds throughout our 27 years of marriage. This past year has been the first without one. We now have two little dogs, a Japanese Chin and a Poochon, both from a local breeder rescue.
 

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levimax said:
I have a Chihuahua and a Doberman and the Chihuahua dominates the Dobie. If the Chihuahua weighed as much as the Dobie it would be against the law.
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A pack of about 20 outdoor Chihuahua's are great guard dogs.
The Chinese used packs of Shih Tzus as guard dogs. They may not take down someone but A. You'll know that someone is coming B. and that they will be delayed.
 
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