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Your ideal pet

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    #62
    Lola123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 582 ✭✭✭Lola123


    Have a shih tzu. She's my ideal pet. I love all dogs, but would never get a big one unless I had the time and space for it.


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    #63
    Jules
    Registered Users Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Jules


    Glowing wrote: »
    http://www.irishanimals.com/greyhounds/index.html
    http://www.ispca.ie/content/grey-pets.html
    http://www.openerg.com/greyhounds.htm

    I'll say no more! Your 'ideal pet' shouldn't necessarily have to be a pedigree puppy! Especially when there are thousands of gorgeous greyhounds rotting in shelters around the country :(

    QTF... but not just greyhounds lots of different doggies/cats/rabbits etc etc.... too much over breeding and cross breeding for monies... kinda makes me wanna vomit. /me takes off vet nurses hat


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    #64
    Catari Jaguar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,649 ✭✭✭Catari Jaguar


    farohar wrote: »
    Come to think of it since Niamho has taken us to the realms of fantasy for one of her pets ...

    In that case, I want a Pikachu!


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    #65
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Lil Kitten wrote: »
    In that case, I want a Pikachu!

    Why not a Jigglypuff or a pichu?;)


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    #66
    ambro25
    Registered Users Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    One of them:
    Otter%20picture2.jpg

    More realistically, one of them again:
    istockphoto_2660401_wirehaired_dachshund.jpg


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    #67
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    Would have to be my little pooch, Duff, a Tibetan terrier who gives our poor old postman a god awful time!

    Here he is posing in a hat:

    duffhatap7.th.jpg


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    #68
    Orlee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Orlee


    My kitty is the sweetest friend I could ever have

    Other thatn that I'd love a Meerkat - I think they are so cool!


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    #69
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Orlee wrote: »
    My kitty is the sweetest friend I could ever have

    Other thatn that I'd love a Meerkat - I think they are so cool!

    You copycat! :D

    Actually I found out at the BGRH beers that a lot of people thought my avatar was a variety of rodents. It's a meerkat!


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    #70
    Orlee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Orlee


    watna wrote: »
    Actually I found out at the BGRH beers that a lot of people thought my avatar was a variety of rodents. It's a meerkat!

    They know nothing!

    I just love them - hopefully I'll come back as one!

    Do you happen to watch Meerkat Manor?


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    #71
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Orlee wrote: »
    They know nothing!

    I just love them - hopefully I'll come back as one!

    Do you happen to watch Meerkat Manor?

    I do but it actually upsets me sometimes. Meerkats can be really mean to other meerkats. The ostracise them from the group and the one who gets pushed out find it harder to survive. It's quite sad!

    My bf bought me a little meerkat teddy online a few months ago. She sits on our bed and is my meerkat alter ego. I think that's the closest I'll get to having one!


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    #72
    Malteaser!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,234 ✭✭✭Malteaser!


    I have a beautiful Golden Retriever. I only have this picture of her on my laptop from when she was a baby but she's huge now.

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    Couldn't ask for a more ideal pet tbh!


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    #73
    Orlee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,274 ✭✭✭Orlee


    watna wrote: »
    I do but it actually upsets me sometimes. Meerkats can be really mean to other meerkats.


    I know - I hate to see them fight and it breaks my heart when the little pups get the raw end of the stick :(

    I love the Meerkat Cafe in Dublin Zoo but I just wish they had a bigger enclosure


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    #74
    Piste
    Registered Users Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    I'd love a basset hound with big floppy ears and droopy eyes!


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    #75
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    ooh! ooh! looky! i was playing with max again!

    meandmax.jpg

    maxandme-1.jpg


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    #76
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Crumble Froo wrote: »
    ooh! ooh! looky! i was playing with max again!

    Thought it's name was Ratty before?:confused:
    Don't tell me you've been going around trying to convince others to change their names too!?:eek:
    :rolleyes:
    You'll give the poor thing an identity crisis! :p


    Is there any particular reason why you don't get a pet rat of your own?


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    #77
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    ratty died between visits, and my mate rescued max from some not-particularly good owners. i do keep calling max ratty though, so there's a good chance i messed that one up. and no money to be spending on discretionary stuff just yet. kinda half hoping for my birthday next month, but really really really not geting my hopes up.


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    #78
    The Sweeper
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    Cats all the way. Love them. Alternatively I'd steal my cousin's 52kg rottweiler, but I don't think they'd part with him.

    We have three cats. They're currently wrestling up and down the length of the living room as I type this.


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    #79
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Crumble Froo wrote: »
    ratty died between visits, and my mate rescued max from some not-particularly good owners. i do keep calling max ratty though, so there's a good chance i messed that one up. and no money to be spending on discretionary stuff just yet. kinda half hoping for my birthday next month, but really really really not geting my hopes up.
    :eek:
    Sorry, hope you and your friend's family aren't too upset over it.:(

    Are rats that expensive to get and keep? All I really know about them is that inspite of the common misconception they are rather clean creatures and that they are quite intelligent and love to explore.



    And dear lord that Rottweiler weighs as much as I do Minesajackdaniels! :eek:


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    #80
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    well, im still trying to cut down my food bills, get more work hours, save money up, and we're looking at moving out of here too, which will more than likely be at somewhere more expensive than here. so extra expense is not a good thing at all right now.

    rats are absolutely adorable, so intelligent, quite affectionate in their own little ways, not too high maintenance as they tend to sleep a lot of the day, and relatively cheap, but still, any extra expense right now isnt' the most sensible thing.

    oh, and my mate was quite bummed,, he surprised himself actually, he'd grown very fond of ratty (particularly the way he showed the 7 resident cats and dog that no one could mess with him after he bit a couple of them :P ), and was glad of the chance to look after max.


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    #81
    Hagar
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    Not cheap to keep but I let them sleep on the end of my bed.

    jointdahm.jpg


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    #82
    watna
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    They look kind of evil.


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    #83
    Hagar
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    They are naughty, real naughty...


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    #84
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Hagar wrote: »
    They are naughty, real naughty...

    The one on the right is staring at me.

    The one on the left looks naughtiest!


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    #85
    Weidii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Weidii


    Crumble Froo wrote: »
    ooh! ooh! looky! i was playing with max again!

    meandmax.jpg

    maxandme-1.jpg

    Ah I'd really love to own a pair of rats, unfortunately they're hard to come by! (Well, besides the ones that live out in the field beside me)


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    #86
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Weidii wrote: »
    Ah I'd really love to own a pair of rats, unfortunately they're hard to come by! (Well, besides the ones that live out in the field beside me)

    Hopefully some helpful info:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055057036

    Took a look on Buy&sell.ie, no rats, few ferrets, chipmunks and Chinchillas!! *aww* cute little things....


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    #87
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    zomg! was talking to the husband of a friend of a friend today, and one of his workmates or something is going overseas and wants to get rid of her rat for free...!

    i told him i was really really really interested... to tell his workmate that tomorrow, and to get back to me...


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    #88
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Yay! Hopefully it'll work out in your favour and you'll have yourself a new friend to play with.:)


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    #89
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    also, we are (temporarily, we hope) adopting this friend's two cats within the next couple of weeks. they are gettin kicke douf of their gaf, and living iwth relatives and putting the three cats nad two dogs into various mates' houses, and we're getting two of the cats. i mentioned that that would put a damper on my rat pet dream. he said , oh you like rats, i showed him about 20 pics i took last time i saw max, he mentioned his mate giving one away...

    we'll see how it works out...


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    #90
    Reku
    Registered Users Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Reku


    Hmmm... 2 cats and a rat.... I'm not sure I like where this could end up either. Hopefully the rat proves well able to defend itself so you can take care of them simultaneously and not have to worry about it.


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    #91
    Crumble Froo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    well, ratty and max live in a house with 3 children and 7 cats and a dog... ratty bit any cats that dared come to his cage. he accepted that while out in the open he was fair game, but in his cage, he owned them.


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