Do you have pets?

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Do you have a house with a big backyard?
I have a medium sized kelpie / border collie cross, very popular as a working dog on Australian farms.
Only he doesn’t live the farm dog life.
I adopted him from the shelter because of the highly intelligent, questioning eyes.

A couple of guinea pigs before this. Not the most attached of pets, but one of them would occasionally lick your finger. Maybe it was for the salt. I thought it was endearing and dog like.

Dogs mostly need companionship, I live in a three story town house (no yard) but the entire bottom floor is the dog room.   My Chihuahua (Wolfgang amadogus Mozart) is the oldest and needs a potty pad.  I had the poodle (Frederique Bearlioz)as a puppy from a breeder because I'm a groomer and he was cheap.  I used to being them both to work with me all the time at a boarding facility with a big yard, but at the start of the coronavirus shutdown I adopted the mastiff (Mohoney - I wanted to change it to Mooseorgsky, but they said to keep the name she already had).  Her story is crazy, a manager at another store took her in from a customer who couldn't take care of her, but our stores are only allowed to foster dogs up to 35 pounds for insurance purposes.  She kept it a secret and worked out a deal with the local rescue center where they would spay her and vaccinate her and advertise her out and we just house and feed her.  She was being fostered for months before I found out and I flipped my lid and posted her in a mastiff group on Facebook.  Suddenly my phone, the rescue centers phone, the stores phone were all blowing up every day from people around the country asking how she was doing and if she found a home.  The rescue center manager was so mad at me.  They chipped her and could only adopt her out within the county, the first family who took her returned her because she attacked their mastiff, then she wasn't allowed to be around other dogs, the next family returned her because she pottied inside, so now she was labeled as not house broken.  I didn't have either of those problems with her so she's mine now.  It's too many dogs to take to work every day but she and the poodle play together at home.

Our townhouses are scheduled for an appraisal because the city is going to buy us out and demolish them in order to expand the creek we live by to prevent future flooding in other neighborhoods, were hoping it'll be enough to get a good house with a yard but we won't know until it's time and this has been the cities plan since we moved in 4 years ago.  I don't think the dogs care where they are, as long as they know where I am.

I love border collies, they're eyes are super intelligent.  The ones I know almost never stop running.

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Two cats, Levon and Rosie, inherited from my son.  A mutt, Buster, I found as a puppy alongside a highway in north of Lampasas (north central Texas), now 5 years old.  I also had a cockatiel, Ambrose, found in my backyard in Austin after a rainstorm.  I had her for about 7 years (she was of indertminate age when I found her.)   She passed last year.  She was probably the most interesting pet I ever had.

The cockatiel seems like a spirit animal, like magic pet that shows up because it's already yours.  Mutts usually make the best dogs, 'adopt don't shop' I could go on about designer dogs and the problems with irresponsible breeding...