Do you have pets?

He/she sleeps in the tissue box? I'm trying to imagine that now... ...it seems quite cosy actually.

I have a dog at home named Maggie. She's around 9 years old-ish and is a gordon setter.

Here at school, I have a hamster named Ashley (but shh... don't tell, we're not supposed to have pets in the dorms, hehe!). He's pretty much the cutest thing ever.



And next week I am actually adopting a chinchilla! I'm really excited to get her [/img]

I currently have a hummingbird. This afternoon I noticed one of my cats trying to reach through the fence after a small object. She was trying to get a hummingbird which was laying in the wet grass barely moving. I picked it up and warmed it in my hands, and when it looked like it might live, I put it on one of our feeders, and it went right to work sucking up nectar like nobody's business. Right away another bigger hummingbird attacked it, inches from me, and knocked it off the feeder into the grass. I put it back on the feeder where it resumed feeding like it hadn't just been handled by a giant, and said giant had to stand with my hand shielding it from the attacker, who tried to get past me to kick the poor little guy's ass again.
I took the hummingbird and the feeder into my cabin and put them in a little bird cage which I hung out of reach of the cats. The hummer drank more nectar, then found a cozy corner in the towel by the feeder. He is dry now. I'm hoping by morning he will have completely recovered and can be released.

I'm a soft touch for little critters. This spring when I cleaned our swimming pool for the season, it was full of tadpoles from our tree frogs, delightful little green and brown singers. So I scooped up all the tadpoles and put them in a couple of big tubs so they can finish becoming frogs.
A couple of links for those interested in the critters:

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/s ... gilla.html
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/search/HummerNotes3.html

i have a BUNNY!


shes crazy like me


hehe

Bunnies are so cute! Too bad they smell so much though I had a bunny when I was a kid and his cage was always so smelly even when we cleaned it twice a week...

lessthansign3 wrote:Bunnies are so cute! Too bad they smell so much though I had a bunny when I was a kid and his cage was always so smelly even when we cleaned it twice a week...

bunnies arent supposed to smell at all?

and you gotta clean the cage every DAY, lol, not twice a week


their pee contains ammonia and thats whats so strong smelling



but yeah, they adorable :p

One fall a little jackrabbit got caught in a trap I had set to catch and relocate skunks. He was so little, and the weather was getting so cold, I brought him into the house to winter over (after removing his parasitic load, of course). He grew up in the laundry room, and when the cats tried to mess with him he would jump up and kick them with his hind legs. He wasn't really cuddly, but he had personality, and would eat out of my hand. We called him Flash, for Jumpin Jack Flash. His little pellets were no big deal to clean up on a tiled floor. As he matured he got horny, which caused some consternation with the cats, so as soon as the weather warmed up in the spring I let Flash go.

1 dog, a staf, and 3 cats.

What is a staf?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire_Bull_Terrier

Like it says they often get a bad rap but they're family dogs.