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Pleo Stuff => Pleo Archives => Archive -- Non-pleo => Topic started by: allosaurus on January 10, 2009, 03:57:54 PM
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Do you have any pets? I sure do. Three dogs and a guinea pig. That pic down there is of Patrick, my corgi. ;)
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What a cute puppy!
I have a cat named Gingivere. He's a brat, and I love him. My boyfriend has taught him to shake hands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHrOgoc9Hs
He love playing pinball!
My boyfriend has a huge half Maine coon named Remy. He's kinda grumpy, but a sweet heart under it all.
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z282/abbynormal_album/IMG_4763.jpg)
The on in the middle was baby, I found her as a kitten wandering around the super market. I wasn't going to keep her, as we already had 2 cats, but my boyfriend fell in love with her. She worshipped him, and would follow him all over the place. Sadly, she passed a few months ago.
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my pets.. I have a dog, a fish pond outside full of fish, a bunny.. but we gave him to a friend, but in a way he's still mine.. I have 1 leopard gecko, 1 crested gecko, 2 african clwed frogs.. and in a few days i'm either getting a bearded dragon or a uromastyx "yes probably not many of you know what a uromastyx is" LOL its a lizard.. ya im a reptile freak ;D
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I have a red ear slider turtle and my sister has six fish. I used to have a great cat named milo, but he got hit by a car! :'(
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So sorry to hear about your cat, Lornex.
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We have two dogs. Destiny is a 4yo female Catahoula Leopard. And our newest addition is a two month old yellow lab/sharpay mix. (I know I misspelled that one lololol) The attached pic is of Destiny and Sophie. P.S. sorry it's so grainy, I took this pic on the laptop webcam.
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lol you know what I just noticed? The way I took this pic, Sophie looks just about the same size as Destiny. (And Destiny is huge!) haha
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My second guinea pig just died. :'(
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So sorry to hear that Allo. :( As cute as Guinea Pigs are they don't seem to have a long life span. Was the first one it's mate? They seem to do worse after one dies.
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We just started on pig #2. the first one lived 2 1/2 years (full life expectancy is 5-6 yrs) and died of a cold back last October. We got this new one about two weeks ago. The kids named him Pepe, after the Looney Tunes skunk character. See if you can figure out why.
We do live in the country, so there are lots of animals around. What you classify as "pets" can get somewhat vague. The best rule, of course, is you don't name the ones you plan to eat. ;) I still argue over Brewster the rooster.
But what we seem to have is an over-abundance of the stuffed ones. I'm a guy, but because I have four girls, the car I drive to work comes stocked with 7 mice and 2 moose on the dashboard; a beaver in the front seat drink caddy, a 3-foot gecko in the back window, and a stuffed bear that's bigger than half the kids. He rides in the car seat (when not in use). And those are just the ones that "live" in the car. That doesn't count the transients that come and go . . . :P
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Pepe really does look like he is part skunk. How adorable!
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So sorry to hear that Allo. :( As cute as Guinea Pigs are they don't seem to have a long life span. Was the first one it's mate? They seem to do worse after one dies.
Well, they were both girls, and after the first one died, the other one got in really terrible condition. :'(
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Mweed - good thing you're not insecure about your masculinity. You don't have a chance with all the girls.
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Now we know why you have a Bob. ;D
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We used to have a dog,three fish,two snakes,two hamsters, and three mice.Not at the same time,though. Unfortunetly we had two put the dog down,give away my fish (others died),one snake died (other we let go),and the mice died. :( Currently we have one mouse.
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We used to have a dog,three fish,two snakes,two hamsters, and three mice.Not at the same time,though. Unfortunetly we had two put the dog down,give away my fish (others died),one snake died (other we let go),and the mice died. :( Currently we have one mouse.
And a Pleo. Don't forget about Clover. :)
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I have a Shar Pei dog called AJ, a ragdoll cross cat called Lucky, two cockatiels called Elvis and Honey (You can often hear them chirping along in the backgrounds of my skit movies) and a spider called Henry the huntsman that moved into my room a couple of weeks ago :P (I'm a softie I don't have the heart to move him outside (as long as he stays up in his corner :P))
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That's so funny. My dad just said to me tonight he has a new pet spider in his bathroom. he calls it Spike.It's been there two weeks. He wouldn't hurt it either. I'm just learning how to catch them so I can put them outside. Still intimidated by them but I'm much larger then they are. ;D
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i have a cat, a hamster and a chinchilla. but total family pets are them + a dog, another cat and another hamster. :D
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That's so funny. My dad just said to me tonight he has a new pet spider in his bathroom. he calls it Spike.It's been there two weeks. He wouldn't hurt it either. I'm just learning how to catch them so I can put them outside. Still intimidated by them but I'm much larger then they are. :)
Put a glass over them and carefully slide a bit of card under the glass and hold firmly in place till you get outside lol ;)
Mighten work on one of these ones though: (They can reach the size of a dinner plate, although fortunately mine is only a little variety :))
(http://www.queenslandimages.com.au/nature/gallery/images/huntsman.jpg)
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OMG!!!! I'd probably faint if I saw a big one of these guys.
I bought a little plastic cup with holes in the top just for catching spiders. The only trouble is that it's never in the correct spot when needed.
I used a kleenex and was very gentle the other night. Before I got him outside. he was gone!! Never have found it. ??? I'm sure he's in here somewhere.
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That's so funny. My dad just said to me tonight he has a new pet spider in his bathroom. he calls it Spike.It's been there two weeks. He wouldn't hurt it either. I'm just learning how to catch them so I can put them outside. Still intimidated by them but I'm much larger then they are. ;D
I'm an arachnaphobe (SP?). ~_~'
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We get wolf spiders that average about the 4-5 inches across. And they are pretty fast! They seem to like the laundry room.
And every summer we get lots of what we call "zipper" spiders that stay outside. They are some type of common orb spider. they get to be quite large (8-10 inches) with a big bright yellow & back abdomen. They make really big webs (4-8 feet across) between the tall grass, trees, barn, fences, etc. The term zipper comes from the fact that they make an obvious, easy to see white zig-zag section that looks like a zipper, right in the middle of the web where they stay waiting for victims. Occasionally a small one will find it's way iside and start a web in a doorway. But they're easy to move. Just take a stick a wrap their web around it and they'll just hang on to the stick until you get outside. . . :)
I did a quick google, and found this video: http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/multimedia/enn/2006/09/1704.aspx
The variety we get is much larger, but pretty similar.
(http://i1.treklens.com/photos/1110/p9050042-web.jpg)
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If all of us spider challenged people would take a class in spiders and bugs we probably would over come our phobias about them. That is until one is hanging right directly over your head. ;D
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Many zoos nowadays run courses to help people overcome their arachnophobia, I did one just so I could get closer to some truly gorgeous spiders :)
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I had a science teacher that had a pet tarantula. He said that it didn't bite. I was comfortable enough to have it walk up my arm. I was sure a lot braver a long time ago. Now, if an itty bitty spider is on me, I freak out. I guess I'll have to think of the next spider on me as a pet. ;D
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Yuck-y! I hate all bugs, they are rather frightening aren't they? Here in Florida, we get all sorts of bugs! The worse part is, even if you keep your house sprayed, it is inevitable to have spiders and -shudders- roaches always in your house.
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My dad came over to our house tonight and was very sad. He told me Spike his pet spider that has been in his bathroom for over two weeks got whacked by the lady cleaning his apartment. The other lady knew about it but forgot to tell her partner. RIP Spike :(
Guess I'll try to find him a new spider tomorrow. Rain is coming. Should be easy.
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I would pick up and play with tarantulas all the time back home. It was hard to describe the feeling of the eight soft little feet and that they weighed almost nothing at all. I remember one time on I had a tarantula on my bare arm and something startled and it ran to the underside of my arm without falling off! Amazing! I was always laissez-faire with the critters that found their way into my house. I especially let the Alligator Lizard he was OK to slink about, but it was his responsibility to keep from under my feet. Now that I live in San Francisco, all I have to deal with are mice and cockroaches. :P But I won't talk about icky things like politics in this forum. ;)
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A tarantula costume for a pleo would be cute for Halloween. Pleo would be soft, but I don't think too cuddly. ;D
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Poor Spike :(
Henry got eaten :o I found his shell of a body yesterday. Apparently his date with Henrietta didn't go too well, so now I have a female huntsman on my wall but she's going to have to go, don't want a whole bunch of baby spiders in the house :o
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My brother would throw bugs into the webs of Black Widow spiders that were on the side of the house. Once he put one in a jar and it spun a little orbed nursery and when the time came lots of teeny-weeny light brown spiders came out. BTW, have any of you walked into a Black Widow's web? They are loose single strands for the most part, and I remember walking into one and bouncing off. :o
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Spiders webs have a tensile strength greater than any other substance known including (if it were the same size of course) steel.
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Poor Spike :(
Henry got eaten :o I found his shell of a body yesterday. Apparently his date with Henrietta didn't go too well, so now I have a female huntsman on my wall but she's going to have to go, don't want a whole bunch of baby spiders in the house :o
Poor henry! :o
Yah, females often eat males. Happens with humans, too. ;)
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Poor Spike :(
Henry got eaten :o I found his shell of a body yesterday. Apparently his date with Henrietta didn't go too well
No. If he got eaten, the date went well. The female eats the male as part of or after mating. In some species, it is the female biting the head off of the male that causes him to release the sperm.
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I'm sure Henry would be quite consoled by that thought ::)
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They say laughter is the best medicine. I've just had mine tonight. Too funny!!!
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That mating practice is what gave the Black Widow the name of "Widow." The Preying Mantis is famous for its post mating snacks also. ::)
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Mother Nature, there had to be a better way!! ???
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Lolz yes praying mantises have a dark side that not many people know about lol.
I did a little research today, Huntsman are not one of those that NEED to kill their partners nevertheless it is very common. Male Huntsman also spin a little chastity belt for their females while they are mating so no other male can mate with her :o
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I did a little research today, Huntsman are not one of those that NEED to kill their partners nevertheless it is very common. Male Huntsman also spin a little chastity belt for their females while they are mating so no other male can mate with her :o
So I guess they must have evolved in the European middle ages and then migrated with the European explorers just like the English Sparrow did.;)
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Male Huntsman also spin a little chastity belt for their females while they are mating so no other male can mate with her :o
Haha, for some wierd reason that's hilarious! XD
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I know praying mantis babies when they hatch will eat each other if they do not get dispersed quickly enough.
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The animal kingdom is full of strange things :o
Look at sharks for example, they are the only known animals that practice inter-uterine cannibalism. Baby sharks of some species will actually eat each other BEFORE they are born :o
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Baby sharks of some species will actually eat each other BEFORE they are born :o
Awesome! You just gave me a great idea for a Musah, a creature in a story I'm writing....... :D
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LOL! Yesterday when I came downstairs to prepare for the recital, I asked my mom how I looked, and the posed for her. And then Patrick made a sound that sounded like, "Ooooh!"
It was so funny! ;)
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I have three cats Smeagul, Suki and Kenzo :D :D
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SMEAGUL!?! ??? I hope your careful about what rings you wear!
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Got one dog :) Names's Viggo! :D
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Heh yeah i had been wondering why there was a load of hooded characters hanging around outside asking about some Baggins fellow alot.