Thinking Of Finally Getting A Pet ( Archived) (22)

YA I remember when i got my first rock...I miss him






stupid pet rock

No....it was really tragic. He jumped out of the bowl. I went to feed him and he was GONE!

My cat said...hey...

My dog said...You know I don't like fish!

So I looked all over for him...I was sooo... about him.

His name was Jet. He was my best

I him.

I looked everywhere for him!

It wasn't until much later that day that I found him....in my tennis shoe!

That was horrifying. And squishy. Jet's tragic end made me

And that was the day I said to my best friend Jet.

If I were going to have pets in an apartment I'd get birds.

At least two to keep each other company.

I'd also probably take a stab at seeing if I could breed them. Breeding animals is a really great feeling.

I used to keep fish, all egg layers. I had 25 aquariums set up in my fish room and I was breeding fish quite prolifically.

Ok, so the fish were breeding and I was watching. I'm a PeepingTomBoy.

Breeding fish was quite exciting too. I didn't do it for the money though.

Anyway if you keep birds you need to be sure that your apartment is very temperature stable. They will get sick if the temperature swings up and down a lot. So don't get birds if you live in a drafty apt, or one where you turn the heat up and down a lot.

Birds can be a lot of fun even if you don't bred them. If you get them young enough you can train them to sit on your shoulder a lot. Best to wear a towel over your shoulder if you do that.

Birds can also be trained to fetch things for you. Small things like a pencil that they can pick up and fly with. You might be surprised how smart birds can be if you can see them as intelligent creatures. You have to make the 'connection' with any animal before you can seriously communicate with it. And you can't really teach it much of anything if you aren't communicating with it.

I love birds.

You could try breeding them, but I wouldn't recommend it. They'll explode.

It al depends on you. If you like your independence than a dog is no good. Kind of half way...a cat or fish id good. Long term I guess a snake.


What is your lifestyle like?

ive had iguanas. theyre cool but high maintenance. dogs are awesome if you have the time. fish are easy to care for. a friend of mine has a hedge hog fairly low maintenace and very quiet. iguanas get very big and love to whip tails and bite so be careful if you get one. its cool to see people stare at you with the wtf look when youre walking an iguana around the block lol

Iguanas are definitely high maintenance. They can make good pets, but you really have to spend a lot of time with them. That parietal third eye is really freaky.

I got a cat for Christmas her name is Supercat she is codependant and wakes me up at 4 AM in morning wanting to be petted. I had to explan to her that I was getting nothing out of the 4 AM lovin thing so it needed to stop. I don't think she listened I let you ya know........



But I will say she has made life a little nicer.........

Oh please, in FL if you want an iguana, you just get one off the side of the road. You pet the iguana, feed the iguana and parade it around to show people "look at my iguana," when they think you're cool, you put it back beside the road.

Lemme guess.... Jumped out? What did you have it in? Mine dont' do that, but I did have that problem with a few bettas. They had bad living conditions, because I wasn't experienced at the time.