What was the name of your favorite pet? Why was it your favorite?
When it comes to pets and people, it is really hard to pick favorites. I had lots of pets growing up, and all of them were special to me for different reasons.
When I was really small, we had a dog named Bear (girl dog, and she was black, but I don't remember much about her), and we each had a kitten--Amber had Smoosh, Jarrod had Tom, and I had Scratch. They were sibling kittens that came from Mom's big mama cat Seal. Scratch was wonderful, but came to an untimely end.
Sassi Rose was the next pet I can remember--my parents got her for my 11th birthday, and she was a pretty little Siamese kitten. Sassi got pregnant A LOT, and I named a lot of her kittens too--Skye, Eeyore, Pooh, Snickers, Houston, Skittles, Tigger....
I kept a kitten from Sassi's last litter named Mr. Peanuts. He was a sandy colored tabby cat that was wonderful, but he ran away after 5 or so years of living with me. After Mr. Peanuts, I got my final cats at my parent's house--Serendipity (who was sandy colored like Mr Peanuts) and Tigger Jones (TJ, who was a dark tabby). They still live at my parent's house, and they are wonderful because they don't use a litter box, but go to the door and go outside to poo.
Other pets that were not cats, lol:
I only personally had one dog, named Pope Dickens but familiarly called Butters. He was a blonde cocker spaniel and he is sweet peaches. He lives with Mom and Dad too.
Amber and I shared Star, the Dalmatian. My brothers had Checkers, and Dad had Stripes, which were Star's brothers. Unfortunately, they were born with a disease from their mother, and both boys died. Star survived but was kind of a dumb dog. She had 6 puppies, and we found them all homes, except Chance, who we kept :)
But the other family dogs that we had were Tess--a wondrously big and awesome German Shepherd/Huskie mix-- and Heiney, a little black dog with curly black hair that got hit by a train :( Savannah was mom's sheltie, but she was loved by the whole family, just like Hercules was though he was Royce's. Dad and the boys both got Blue Heelers at one point--Rodeo and Bandit--who were awesome dogs. The family had a cocker spaniel named Dusty, but someone ran him over.
Poppyseed was a Shetland pony that me and my 3 siblings shared. She was nasty tempered but a sweet horse. We also had Nicodemus the quarter horse and April the appaloosa.
We had three goats--Bridget, Gretchen, and Heidi.
I used to show chickens for 4H--I had 25, but only 2 survived the winter :( Savannah killed over half of them. Argyle and Lego went to live on a farm when I was worried they were going to get killed by the dogs.
I also showed bunnies--Stamp, BamBam, and Harvey were my favorites, all boys. At one show, I also picked up a cavie named Mousekiwitz. When Pawpaw didn't want to breed rabbits any more, I inherited 19 bunnies (all of them with names, but that's too many to list), but I went out of town and Tess got in there and killed every one of them except Amie Christina.
When we had Harvey the bunny, we got a gosling named Lucy the Goosey. Harvey smothered her to death with his big bunny chest accidentally. At the feed store, they had goslings, chicks, and ducklings for pretty cheap, so my parents bought us four ducks and dug a duck pond out front. I can't remember my duck's name, but he fell off the roof :(
Amber had a sheep named September that I loved.
One Easter, Jarrod and I bought a rat named Dr. Aaron Hunter. I adored that rat, so when I went to college, we gave him to a middle school science classroom. He lives happily there, getting fed stuff from the kids lunches. He never bit, he was so wonderful.
I THINK that is most of my pets. I will probably remember more later.
If you want my real favorite, I would probably say Jabba the Guinea Pig--I got him when I was 19, and he helped me through 2 pregnancies, and early motherhood. He was an amazing pet.
~Andie!~
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