In a Teapot

[howeird]

They are cats. They are not my babies, my children, my child-surrogates. They are small furry critters which I feed and shelter. And clean up after. I like a lot of different kinds of animals. None of them have been my children. My first pet was a parakeet, then a dog, then a series of cats. I've also bred guppies, Siamese fighting fish, Jack Dempsey cichlids and jeweled cichlids.

Dogs need more face time and a regular schedule than I can give. Horses are too expensive and my apartment is too small. Ditto llamas. I'm not fond of rodents.

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[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

Sorry that Pumpkin didn't make it.

Random, off-topic. Your user icon: Is this you? Where is this from?

[howeird]

The user icon is me, in 1996, playing the mean old man in Bells Are Ringing at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA http://www.howeird.com/Video/LAN/bells.wmv

[lironess.livejournal.com]

Well my cats and even my turtle ARE my little furry children but not everyone in the world has to feel like I do..well the turtle is only furry like I am sporting shed hairs...

I personally really like birds but I would never keep one I think they are way to hard to take really good care of.

I think I have at one time or another had just about every kind of pet that you can have except for monkeys or primates...even insects by proxy...unless you consider a crap to be a water insect...had ONE of those little Houdinis...

I get quite attached to my animals...cried when my catfish died at about 2 years when I was expecting at least six and many tank size upgrades...I had raised her from a 1 inch fry to an average sized 9+ inches..and she was AWESOME...

[howeird]

I remember the catfish chronicles.

Primates - I won't have them as pets.

I understand the urge to treat pets as children, but it annoys me. Children are several orders of magnitude more *everything* than pets.

[lironess.livejournal.com]

Just figured out I would have had already 19 years of teenagers and about 4 more to go.

That would drive anyone completely bonkers...

[howeird]

Nah, you know you would have stopped with the first successful pregnancy.

[lironess.livejournal.com]

Well I wanted two...I figured I have two hands so two would have been just right. But yeah CERTAINLY not more than 3.

But in my case it worked out for the best...hurts if I think about it too much so mostly I try to be here now and enjoy the other stuff that I do have including my beloved cats...especially them.