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| Rialys | May 1 2012, 12:31 PM Post #1 |
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<attemptatstartingnewtopic> So, Phimi and I were chatting about the animals that have been in and out of our lives last night, and I figured we could all share our pet-related stories! If, of course, you happen to have pets or have had pets in the past. My brother has asthma and my parents are both sorta allergic to fur, so our pets have always been rather...uninteresting, to say the least. Well, unless you consider goldfish the most fascinating of creatures. We've had a few fish over the years. At first we had three, but two died; the third lasted twelve years and grew to be about half the size of the tank because at one point we accidentally fed it pond fish food. After the big fish died, back in 2007, we bought three new fish. Two of those died from fin rot after only a couple of months, but we managed to save the last one and bought it two new companions. We've had them ever since. ...they don't really do very much. They just swim and eat. ... </attemptatstartingnewtopic> |
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| Phoenix | May 1 2012, 01:36 PM Post #2 |
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hmm, I've had, over the years, 4 fish, a gerbil, 2 guineapigs, and a cat. The two I have alive currently are my guineapig Flora and my cat Coconut. I'm ashamed to admit that I killed two of my fish by dumping bubble soap into their tank when I was a child.
Edited by Phoenix, May 1 2012, 03:07 PM.
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| Larads | May 1 2012, 02:52 PM Post #3 |
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I've had several fish...one of which suffered a brain tumour and turned white but still lasted seven years *shrugs* and two guinea pigs... one of which got put down after suffering a stroke. Now I have no pets. :( But I do have my friend's cat to babysit and all the horses at the stables. xD |
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| Phimi | May 1 2012, 04:06 PM Post #4 |
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Ok, so in rough chronological order, we've had 7 hamsters, a rabbit, 4 goldfish and a dog. The first two hamsters had full hamster lives, died of age at three years old, fairly standard. There was a lull for a couple of years, then we got another hamster, but because of what we now realise to be a floor level draft right where the cage was situated, it died in a matter of weeks. This happened again and again, before we realised it was down to, at worst, two things. First, the aforementioned draft. Second, quite a coincidence, but the 4 previous hamsters died the day after we finally decided on a name for them. So we moved the cage and didn't name the next one. It lived 4 years, all the time, no name. The rabbit we got some time before the second hamster died. Well, we didn't so much get it as saved, my sister saw a cat going mental in the long grass behind our garden, so she hopped the fence to see why. Turns out, it was mauling a little baby rabbit, so she scared the cat off, and brought the rabbit inside where it eventually got better. We kept it for another week, before we decided it wasn't really a pet, and should be back in the wild, so we took it up the forest, where there are lots of rabbits and no cats, and let it go. No idea what happened to it, but I hope it did well. The fish started somewhere in the lull after the first two hamsters. I got one from a fair, then because my sister got upset, she got one too, and they shared a tank. Hers, however, was twice as big as mine, and mine died after about a month. I still think my sister's bullied it to death. Anyway, I got another one, but, again, it was much smaller and died in a matter of weeks. So that time, I realised to get a bigger one, about the same size as Jenny's, and they both lived quite happily for about 7 years. The dog, Ellie, a black labrador, we got 3 years ago, as tiny little pup. We'd picked her from her litter the day after she was born, then we got to take her home 8 weeks later, still tiny and ever so adorable. Now she's quite big, but still ever so adorable Yeeeaaaaahhh, we have a very bad track record with pets. Apologies too for the text wall. |
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| labouka | May 1 2012, 07:44 PM Post #5 |
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My pet stories are significally smaller than yours, guys. Back when I was 5 years old, we bought some goldfishes and we were taking care of them. Due to the young of my age, I don't quite remember how long we had them, although I do remember how they died: when we left home for a weekend and left my grandma to take care of them. Sunday morning she overslept and didn't feed them and, well, they died. Since then we didn't had any pets until the Summer of 2008. It was a nice hot July day. Me, my mother and my grandma (my other grandma), were just relaxing, doing stuff. My mother was ironing clothes in the kitchen, my grandma was on the living room watching TV and I was in my room, doing stuff on my comp. Because it was quite hot that day, we had all the windows open to have a little breeze fill the house. All of a sudden, I hear a small flapping behind me. I turn around calmly and I see that, on top of my mom's duck doll, a small yellow canary has landed. As quietly as I could, I go outside to my balcony and I close the window. I then close my room's door and I proceed to close all the windows of our house to not let it get away. I call for my mom to help me catch it. Needless to say, the chase moved to the kitchen where the bird finally rested on the wooden branch of our curtain. we intantly closed the kitchen's door and my mom quickly left to buy a bird cage while I stayed behind to make sure it won't leave. As soon as she got back, I tried to get it down with a little stick, but instad of sitting on the stick, it lost it's balance and fell back on the curtain and sorta got trapped in it. My mom quickly makes for the curtain and catches it and gently puts it inside the cage. With that incident, our little Chippy is still with us to this day. :D The final interraction with this whole "pet" thing was when my dad's lawyer went to pay some taxes and she found a wounded doggy in the streets. She was an animal lover anyway, so she took it to the vet and they menaged to save it. Turned out that a son of a b@#$h b@#$%^d had kicked the poor thing hard. She already had a dog and she also knew that we wanted to have a pet doggy in our house. So she gave it to us. However, due to my parent's tough schedule, and the fact that later that year I would leave for uni, we decided to keep it for a week, to give it a "test run" on how we will be able to take care of the poor thing. At the end of the week, we sadly resolved that we couldn't keep Lucky (the doggy's name) since my parent's schedules would be too tight for them alone to take care of her, with me having left for uni. So, we gave her back to my dad's lawyer, and now she lives happily with her and her other dog. Those were my pet stories. Sorry for the second wall. XD Edited by labouka, May 4 2012, 10:02 AM.
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| bluek00pa | May 1 2012, 10:36 PM Post #6 |
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My pet stories aren't nearly as interesting as the two before me. I did learn that Lab is a bird-napper, though. Really, the only pets I remember having were a few fish and a dog. The fish were there for a while, and there were actually a few of them, but honestly, our family is probably one of the worst families for taking care of fish. We never fed them, we never cared that eventually a few of them went missing, never cleaned the tank, when we did clean it was a huge argument over who would do it, and eventually one fish got caught in the filtering tube and one of my brothers' and mine activities was watching said fish trying to escape. To be fair, I was like six. I also remember that my brother named every single fish Rainbow, regardless of what they looked like. It was because of this show we used to watch where the main character was a fish with rainbow scales or something. The show was good, I think. I don't remember. Arthur was better. Dark's opinion doesn't matter. We got a dog from our aunt and uncle around when I was seven. His name was Max, and I remember quite a few things about Max. I remember the day he came, I remember playing Frisbee with him (I was amazed when he would actually jump to catch the Frisbee), I remember having to feed him and brush him in the morning before school (which I hated), and I remember that he bit my brother after that brother did something that pissed me off, which was awesome. We gave Max away because my brothers and I weren't actually doing a good job of taking care of it and were giving the work (even playing with him) to our parents, who couldn't do everything with their jobs. I hope that all made sense lol. I'm just writing this as I go along. EDIT: whoops, third wall... Edited by bluek00pa, May 1 2012, 10:36 PM.
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| Rialys | May 2 2012, 03:01 AM Post #7 |
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Nowt wrong with walls of text, guys, given how otherwise empty the forum is. ;) Hehe, you guys all have pretty interesting pet tales. Seems we've all had some sort of trial with the things... Oh, and Labouka now has to adopt the nickname 'bird-napper', methinks. xD |
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| Phoenix | May 2 2012, 05:41 AM Post #8 |
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I think I'll add the story of how I got my first guineapig Cowboy. It was late and I was out with my family and some friends. As we were getting ready to leave, a random lady ran up to us and asked if we wanted a guineapig which, to my astonishment, my parents let me have. So I basically got Cowboy from a parking lot~ |
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| labouka | May 3 2012, 05:17 PM Post #9 |
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A what now? XD |
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| Rialys | May 4 2012, 05:51 AM Post #10 |
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I know, you could be a Bird Keeper from Pokémon! That would explain your bird-snatching skills. :P |
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| suzumebachi | May 4 2012, 08:05 PM Post #11 |
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The Rainbow-Fish thing... wasn't that a book? I better run from Lab... /isabird For me...my family had some fish. Goldfish, bettas, not much else. Most died or we set them free when they got too big. One time my cousin and I overfed them...haha. but that was when I was little. I currently have a pet robot. |
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| Phoenix | May 5 2012, 06:29 AM Post #12 |
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Ummm, you really shouldn't free non-native fish like betas into the natural environment, can cause some problems. |
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| Rialys | May 5 2012, 08:46 AM Post #13 |
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Your comment reminds me of the terrapin thing...I remember watching something on the telly about how people bought terrapins as pets, decided they couldn't keep them, set them free into local ponds and lakes, and the terrapins messed up the ecosystem big time. That must've been several years ago, though, because I rarely watch tv at all. Guess I just have a good memory for things that involve awesome words like terrapin. |
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| bluek00pa | May 5 2012, 12:53 PM Post #14 |
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I think it was both. I remember seeing a show, and then finding the book later. The book most likely was more well-known, though. (edit: wikipedia) WE LEARNED ABOUT INVASIVE SPECIES TWO YEARS AGO IN SCIENCE CLASS, I CAN CONTRIBUTE. Edited by bluek00pa, May 5 2012, 12:54 PM.
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| suzumebachi | May 5 2012, 01:13 PM Post #15 |
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True. The bettas and goldfish mostly just died with us, but I remember getting these little silver fish, but then they grew too big so we put them in this nearby lake... |
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