Pets: Friends & Masters

[Scaramouche]

Ok. They are all my pets. Including the polar bear.

[Scaramouche]

Ok, these are actually my family's pets.

[Nathan Dorian]

Apologies, but... My name is Nathan, why the female pronoun? Oo



Anyway, my hoard:

Honey the Gay Cat:





Rose, Daffy and Kali:









Phoenix:

[WARNING: Big Hairy Tarantula Ahead]




















(Old photo, he's now a mature male. :'D )

[midgetshrimp]

Thanks, I will look it up one day, but for now, I think our neighbours keep them fat enough

Glad to find someone who shares a love for animals like me

When I was growing up we had 3 rabbits, 9 guinea-pigs, 2 dogs (german Shepherd x something and border collie x kelpie), 2 cats (named Fred and Ginger), 2 mice and about 15 canaries. We were a pet-friendly household.

Hah. That's nothing. My friend Abe (photos of him n the pictured thread. Funny rawr and other lion pictures) lived in a veritable zoo. Cats, rats, dogs, flying squirrels, rabbits by the hundreds (no joke), guinea pigs, hampsters, snakes, assorted lizards and amphibians, turtles, a pony, llamas, emus, goats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and he nursed an owl back to health. He wanted to keep it, but it left when it got better. He found an otter too... but it was dead. He wanted to get it taxodermied, but never got around to it. Oh, and he had a bunch of different types of fish. And probbably birds, but I don't remember any.

I've had rabbits, dogs, and now we have cats. Hoping to get a camera for my birthday.

[Nathan Dorian]

Nathan: Your pets are lovely, but if you're going to post pictures of spiders, especially big, hairy ones, please put a warning at the beginning of the post. Some of us are arachnofobic! You almost give me a heart attack!

Some people are scared of dogs, some of cats.

Your point? ;3

[midgetshrimp]

Spiders are cool. My older sister is arachnophobic. And I did mean things with that. Ah, toy spiders first thing in the morning. She should have gotten up when we asked. :twisted:

Yea, never did that again. Once was enough, but oh... was it FUNNY.

[Scaramouche]

My cousin has a bunch of snakes. Pythons, I think. They actually feel really groovy to hold.

[Nathan Dorian]

Nathan: Your pets are lovely, but if you're going to post pictures of spiders, especially big, hairy ones, please put a warning at the beginning of the post. Some of us are arachnofobic! You almost give me a heart attack!

Some people are scared of dogs, some of cats.

Your point? ;3

But many people are afraid (or terrified) of spiders. And if someone here is afraid of cats or dogs, he/she is certainly not going to look on a thread about pets. My point is only that you should put a warning.
Sorry if I sounded rude. It was not my intention. But spiders scare me to death, and it was an awful shock to see that picture.

I will indeed put a warning.

However!

Tarantulas are not technically 'spiders' - and also, they are pets just as much as cats and dogs are. As are birds, rabbits, snakes, guinea pigs, gerbils, jirds, rats, mice, lizards, chinchillas, sugar gliders, ferrets, etc, etc, etc.

As such, they should be seen as commonplace as any other pet, so you should enter a thread like this with caution, regardless of your phobia. Why should someone with a fear of dogs, for example, avoid a thread that potentially has lots of other animals? ;3

[Scaramouche]

Spider.
Kingdom: Animalia.
Phylum: Arthropoda.
Class: Arachnida.
Order: Araneae.

Tarantula.
Kingdom: Animalia.
Phylum: Arthropoda.
Class: Arachnida.
Order: Araneae.
Suborder: Mygalomorphae.
Superfamily: Theraphosoidea.
Family: Theraphosidae.

Anything within Animalia, Arthopoda, Arachnida, Araneae is a spider.

[Nathan Dorian]

Spider.
Kingdom: Animalia.
Phylum: Arthropoda.
Class: Arachnida.
Order: Araneae.

Tarantula.
Kingdom: Animalia.
Phylum: Arthropoda.
Class: Arachnida.
Order: Araneae.
Suborder: Mygalomorphae.
Superfamily: Theraphosoidea.
Family: Theraphosidae.

Anything within Animalia, Arthopoda, Arachnida, Araneae is a spider.

Well, regarding the tarantula-keeping hobby, then. C:

There are New World Tarantulas, Old World Tarantulas and "True Spiders."

Of course, True Spiders vary a lot, and some are incredibly similar to Tarantulas but still not technically Tarantulas.

Tarantulas are specifically Theraphosidae. I was mistaken in my poor attempt to explain the seperation.

[Peppercat]

I was gonna say
Tarantulas are really really cool, but I don't think I'd keep one as a pet. Same with snakes, but for a different reason: they're too expensive to keep. Properly, of course. I wouldn't have one if I couldn't give it good living conditions.
We have a boa at uni And I've helped feed a 5m-long anaconda!! I held the tail, lol, while 7 other people held the rest of the body and the vet in charge fed it. It was ill and had to be forced to eat

[Scaramouche]

Same with snakes, but for a different reason: they're too expensive to keep. Properly, of course. I wouldn't have one if I couldn't give it good living conditions.

Same here. I'd love to have a reticulated python, but not until I have the world's best snake house for it.

[Don Alexander]

Oh my god that cat ate your nieghbours baby sister!

whalloped*

Naa. Only Nathan Dorian's Tarantula!! :twisted:

Actually, the kitty is neither very fat nor very big. It's just a bad picture. It's not Garfield, more like Nermal. It still seems like an oversized kitten, though it's supposed to be grown-up. :roll:

[Nathan Dorian]

Pssh, my baby's not big enough to fill that fuzzy tummy.

[Don Alexander]

Pssh, my baby's not big enough to fill that fuzzy tummy.

Possibly Cthulhu Fries were the culprit! :lol:

Take heed, peppercat! ;)