Do you have pets?

[CRNDLSM]

I have a standard poodle, an English mastiff, a Chihuahua, and some kind of tiny calico cat thing.  I really want some fish, but I don't want to take care of them, I have too many animals already.  My friend lives in an abandoned house next to a real house and now has a pet possum, and some birds. Just making conversation

[TranquillityBase]

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.

[busker]

I have a standard poodle, an English mastiff, a Chihuahua, and some kind of tiny calico cat thing.  I really want some fish, but I don't want to take care of them, I have too many animals already.  My friend lives in an abandoned house next to a real house and now has a pet possum, and some birds. Just making conversation

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.

[CRNDLSM]

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...

[TranquillityBase]

The cockatiel seems like a spirit animal, like magic pet that shows up because it's already yours.  

You nailed it there.  She showed up 3 days after a pet rabbit was killed by a neighborhood dog while I was away.  Bunz was a dull pet, but I cried like a baby when I found out what had happened.  Then Ambrose appeared.  Magical indeed.

[Wjames]

No pets now, when I was growing up my family had a golden doodle. It was one of my best friends. I will probably get a dog again later on.

[CRNDLSM]

No pets now, when I was growing up my family had a golden doodle. It was one of my best friends. I will probably get a dog again later on.

Yes, golden doodles are pretty amazing, where I live there are 3 registered doodle breeders in the area and several more who just want to breed.  They take almost 3 times as long to groom as most small dogs, and charge half the price in most places.  The most golden doodles I've groomed in a day is 5, but I had to limit it to 3 a day because the bathers quit.  It takes one to two hours to bathe and dry a 60-100 pound untrained hairy mess and that's without clippers and scissors work.  There is no standard golden doodle, they come in all shapes and colors and hair types.  The first person credited with breeding labradoodles and thereafter golden doodles and every other doodle has spoken out about regretting it.  They're a doomed breed.  I love them, don't get me wrong.  As a designer breed, people who buy them expect the great things, but are never prepared for problems, and they're everywhere now, and people keep buying them and making more.  

If you do get a golden doodle, learn to take care of the hair, learn to groom it, or just be very nice to the groomer.

[alonso ramoran]

My parents have two pitbulls, but we're not sure if the younger one is pure bred. People say she kinda looks like she's mixed with a lab or something. She's really sweet though and larger than the older pit. The older one is a bit more socially awkward and will try to leave if you show him any affection. We say he's more like a chihuahua than a pit bull because of this lol

I kind of always wanted an African grey parrot though. First time I met one was at a pet supermarket and it seemed pretty friendly! It kept asking me to scratch its head haha

[CRNDLSM]

My parents have two pitbulls, but we're not sure if the younger one is pure bred. People say she kinda looks like she's mixed with a lab or something. She's really sweet though and larger than the older pit. The older one is a bit more socially awkward and will try to leave if you show him any affection. We say he's more like a chihuahua than a pit bull because of this lol

Pit mixes out here are called 'lab mix' and 'terrier mix' and pitbulls are called 'american Staffordshire terriers' because there's no other way to get them in a daycare or boarding facility...  We had a 'chow mix' once that was actually half coyote!  It was one of the best temperament dogs but the owners had been told if they said it was coyote it would have been euthanized.

[busker]

My parents have two pitbulls, but we're not sure if the younger one is pure bred. People say she kinda looks like she's mixed with a lab or something. She's really sweet though and larger than the older pit. The older one is a bit more socially awkward and will try to leave if you show him any affection. We say he's more like a chihuahua than a pit bull because of this lol

Pit mixes out here are called 'lab mix' and 'terrier mix' and pitbulls are called 'american Staffordshire terriers' because there's no other way to get them in a daycare or boarding facility...  We had a 'chow mix' once that was actually half coyote!  It was one of the best temperament dogs but the owners had been told if they said it was coyote it would have been euthanized.

I see two types of Staffies here in Oz. There's the big, American pitbull type that I steer my own border collie clear of. And there's another, that looks almost like a cross between a PB and a daschund. They're all called 'Staffies' here, so it doesn't help. The daschund type staffies are beloved of all sorts of people, whilst the gangsta pitbulls grace homes that always look like they have a meth lab in the garage. These homes also have cars parked anywhere but the garage, which makes me think that it's not a lab for the petrographical analysis of Archaean greenstone rock samples that's in there.