Crazy animal lady thread - sperg about your pets here

[msd]

I have two dogs

One is a fat fucking retard
One is a skinny retard

I fucking love both of them and theyre both rescue dogs

 

[Lola Pop]

On the topic for DIY stuff, I like to make things for my guinea pig when I can. When I got a new fridge a year ago, I cut the box up and put some hay and stuff down so she could run around it and hide under the little cardboard 'houses' I folded together. The good thing about it was that after a few days when it was time to get rid of it, the cardboard was actually biodegradeable so it got to get put in the compost. Yay recycling! I also have a few fleece inserts for her cage instead of spending $30+ every month on bedding, it's nice and makes changing the cage out only take a few minutes.

 

[CaseyTatumm]

My cat was adopted from a shelter half way across the country. For some reason, this location had a lot of "fancy" stray cats. I assume it's because a lot of tourists and foreign exchange and rich Asians have second homes there because my cats breed is particularly popular in Asian countries.

His breed is notorious for the flat face. He's not flat, but he has a pretty short snout that makes it almost impossible for him to get a death grip on anything. In fact, his wet food needs to be remixed every few minutes because his wide flat face just smooshes it into the plate or bowl. I have this thing that the creamy treat people sold that's a tiny plate that rests on an incline and that is the best feeding plate/bowl I've found for him so far. His face is very recognizable and unique.

Hes also huge. He's about 17lbs and very svelte. It's mostly muscle and bone. He needs to be fed three times a day sometimes as well as access to dry food all the time. He has never put on weight but is also healthy according to the vet. He's just a Big Boy.

He does beg and steal food as well as eats cigarettes. When I first got him, he was stained in motor oil so I think he mightve lived in a garage and formed his own addiction as I've never had any animal touch cigarettes before.

Sadly, he does not cuddle or like to be held or picked up in any capacity. He will curl up next to you and lick your armpit occasionally but otherwise he's a pretty Free Man.

Overall it sounds like if my cat was a real boy he would be a disgusting ugly pug faced man with a nicotine and food addiction. Thankfully he is a cat so I still love him.

(I've had enough comments IRL that I could probably be doxxed via cat because hes so unusual looking.)

I also have rabbits and THOSE are my "single lonely lady turns her pets into babies" because my cat could easily survive without me but the bunnies need me and my love, damnit. I lost a rabbit earlier this year and the process of it dieing was extremely hard. They're so fragile and go so fast once they're sick/injured.

There was a movie about a queen a few years ago (I think Kathy Bates played her) and in the movie they had her obsessed with rabbits and had like 25-30 rabbits free roaming her castle bedroom as pets and I think thats my true dream life. With the servants to care for them.

Fun fact: small amounts of tobacco works as a dewormer

 

[anliteralidiot]

That's why I am never going to get a cat bed. My cat would rather sleep on the bed at night than a bed of his own.

My fuckhead forced his way between my husband and I, between our pillows. And kicked me in the face in the process. Usually our cats all pile on my husband, because he radiates heat and doesn't toss and turn, but my grey boy tries to split his attention.

 

[Rewire Tea]

My fuckhead

Yup, that's an accurate description of cats.

Mine will somehow take up more than half of my double bed. He's a big cat, but not like Maine Coon sized, I don't know how he does that. And if I'm too restless, he'll bite my feet. Fuckhead.

 

[Totallyunknown]

Fun fact: small amounts of tobacco works as a dewormer

Honestly, he doesn't do it very often and it usually is like an old cigarette butt so it's a fairly small amount maybe 3-4 times a year when he can get his paws on one so this is a fun fact and I'd like to think he's just keeping himself healthy and parasite free now.

(Just on the record, I'd never feed a cat tobacco or cigarettes and I try pretty hard to keep him from finding any but he is a cat and lives his own life.)

 

[Rewire Tea]

(Just on the record, I'd never feed a cat tobacco or cigarettes and I try pretty hard to keep him from finding any but he is a cat and lives his own life.)

My former semi-feral old lady cat was *obsessed* with the following things:

Tobacco, at least when we lived with family who rolled their own cigarettes

Salsa: she'd come up and lick it right off a chip if you weren't paying attention.

Crackers/chips/toast: she would steal a sleeve of saltines out of the box and chew through the plastic to get them.

Bleach: No idea why, but she was obsessed with the smell of bleach and would be all over you if you'd cleaned with it.

I didn't intentionally let her have those things, but she was determined to do what she wanted.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

My dachshund is retarded.

 

[anliteralidiot]

My husband checked on some of our hens, and found they accidentally hatched a chick with birth defects. It's not in pain, it's very much alive, and since we're both soy libs... we're going to just take care of it.

He needs to be hand-fed, but I'm happy to do that. He won't be allowed to fuck if he makes it to adulthood either, but that's fine.

He looks retarded. It's cute.

 

[Beet Root Soup]

I have two extremely old man cats who are hanging on through pure spite and a 50% chance that hell wont take them back- the eldest (Snow) is pushing 22 or so- rescued the little shit when he decided to home invade my late great grandmothers house and my mom swears we can make a line of fur coats out of the amount of fur he sheads- absolute asshole but I would die for him- the second (Max) is just under 20 and possibly the most neurotic cat I've ever met- we rescued him from a pretty bad hoarder situation a few days before my dads 62th birthday so theyre both bonded old men with anxiety- he WILL scream at us if we're one second over feeding him his wet foot
All in all- old ass men who deserve the world

 

[kittyfucker]

I really want to get a cat but I'm worried about what would happen if I became so unbelievably mentally ill /+/ got in an accident and I'd neglect the poor thing

He looks retarded. It's cute.

I'm really interested in seeing the chick!

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

My family's 14 month old pitbull just got spayed. My dad didn't want her to be spayed bc he thinks it stunts them but I pressured him into it for her wellbeing. Now she has to wear an ecollar for 12-14 days.
My sister and dad brought her home with absolutely no warning bc they know me and mum are suckers and will do a lot of care for the dog. She is very beautiful, mostly white fur and a little faded black spots. She has a pink tummy and nose with a lot of black, cow-like patches. When she was a baby, she had purely black eyes like little shiny marbles but now they are a very dark brown. She is not deformed like "mini pits" in the animal horrors thread but she is fairly petite for a pit bull, a bit under 50 pounds.
We also have an 8 yr old rescue pitbull from Texas that my sister adopted and said she would care for but doesn't and moved into her girlfriend's place so she's basically our dog now. She is brindle and white with some black. Very nice to humans and will learn to tolerate animals in the house after a while, but wants to murder any other dog she sees on walks. She is 100 pounds, pulls extremely hard and is obese bc my dad feeds her multiple hand fulls of plain dry dog pibble as "treats" a day. She loves food and will eat until she pukes and then eat the puke if allowed.
She really loves walks but we think she has a nasal fungal infection so I'm scared to walk her and waiting for her vet appointment. She was a street dog in Southern Texas, has scars and had to have teeth removed. She had a brother she protected but he was too scared to go in a crate to Canada so they euthanized him. She didn't know what stairs were when she came home the first time but reluctantly came up for food. She is scared and freaked out by dog toys, especially ones that squeak and make noises. The baby loves toys and squeakers.
I have to sneak walks for the baby bc my dad is paranoid (ex drug addict and current brain aneurysm) and thinks bad things will happen to her. Her even thinks a poisonous salamander or cougar will get her if I walk her. There is neither in my province, nor has there ever been a single confirmed documented case of cougars. He's doing a good job giving her meds and looking after her after surgery though.
My 14 yr old springer spaniel/beagle mix had to be put down last Fall. I cried so hard and didn't expect my dad to get another dog before she passed away, but I guess I'm glad she got to meet the baby. She was really sassy and active, I think she had dementia in her older yrs and her hips were so bad I had to carry her to the bathroom and hold her up while she used it. Me and mum took her to a lake she loved since she was little and she really wanted to run, swim and play but she kept falling down and pooping herself (was also incontinent) and it was extremely heartbreaking. That's when we knew it was time. I loved her like a sister.
I love all our dogs, any dog I've ever had. I've never had another kind of pet except a hamster my sister killed with her stupidity. He was really sweet and pretty and named Peaches. I like cats but my dad irrationally hates them and thinks they naturally have ear mites and give it to dogs and my sister is allergic. I love to visit people with cats so I can pet and see their cats. I bought my mom's friend a bunch of toys for her cat because they didn't have any. I used to go to a pound just to pet the cats. I love their paws and think they look so delicate and elegant.
We had another rescue pitbull before the two we have now, but she died of cancer when she was 6. We had her since she was a baby. She was abandoned in a ditch and had mange so maybe that's why she ended up dying from cancer shooting out out of her skin? It kept getting diagnosed as hotspots til my sister took her to a vet college in a different province. She was so gentle that they didn't even need to sedate her to examine her and the vet students were fawning over her.
She loved eating and walks so much, she never stopped eating even the final day of her life and my sister walked her down the street a few days before just bc she enjoyed it, even though she was wobbly. I bought her tons of stuffed toys over the yrs which were her favourite. She liked to cuddle them and hide them and didn't destroy them. The new baby is very aggressive with toys and it's hard to find good brands for aggressive chewers other than the black Kongs. Most of the brands are in the US and cost a lot to be shipped to Canada. Or if you can find a Canadian seller, its 3 or 4 times the US price.
Hoping they finally diagnose the big girl's nose problems so they can get treated. She reverse sneezes, wheezes and gets nose bleeds. I've already got some tests but they weren't enough to diagnose a fungal infection. She was also jealous I think when the baby got home from the surgery a few days ago and ate a bunch of vacuum cleaner dust in a bag on the deck. She gets jealous when we play with the baby and howls or barks even though she doesn't believe in playing herself. You can't just give one attention at a time, that's haram.

 

[Rewire Tea]

She is scared and freaked out by dog toys, especially ones that squeak and make noises.

Aww, my dog (DNA testing indicates he's a German Shepherd and St Bernard mix, with Pit and Malamute in his family tree) hates most dog toys. I'm not entirely sure why, but if you squeak a toy at him a few times, he'll get up and walk away.

All he cares about are sticks and tennis balls.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Aww, my dog (DNA testing indicates he's a German Shepherd and St Bernard mix, with Pit and Malamute in his family tree) hates most dog toys. I'm not entirely sure why, but if you squeak a toy at him a few times, he'll get up and walk away.

All he cares about are sticks and tennis balls.

Our 14 month old has some German Shepard in her, but you couldn't tell from looking at her. I think the older one has some hound.

 

[NoReturn]

My husband checked on some of our hens, and found they accidentally hatched a chick with birth defects. It's not in pain, it's very much alive, and since we're both soy libs... we're going to just take care of it.

He needs to be hand-fed, but I'm happy to do that. He won't be allowed to fuck if he makes it to adulthood either, but that's fine.

He looks retarded. It's cute.

"No fucking for you, Tardito."

 

[Overcast]

My fuckhead forced his way between my husband and I, between our pillows. And kicked me in the face in the process. Usually our cats all pile on my husband, because he radiates heat and doesn't toss and turn, but my grey boy tries to split his attention.

Reminds me of how my mom used to let our chihuahuas sleep with them, only for the little white one to go up to her head and snore in her ear. They would also wake up late into the night and play fight when my folks were both trying to sleep. Since then, they have to sleep in crates with bedding. They still occasionally get to sleep in their bed, and my mom regrets it every time.

Anyway, I remember several years back, I was walking out in the neighborhood with my old man, brother and our two dogs at the time. My old man heard news of gang activity seeping its way into our neighborhood, so he brought a golf club with him just in case.

As we walked down the bike path, we crossed paths with two black men who look like stereotypical gangstas. One had his shirt off and was ripped looking.

Now, my oldest dog at the time, a stubby legged brown long haired chihuahua who normally loved everyone, walked over to everyone with her ears tucked back and tail wagging wanting to get pet by everyone we come across, stood still and took a look at these guys for a few seconds, turned around, ran away, stopped and then started barking her little head off at them.

I didn't think much of it at the time because I was a dumbass who took the whole "don't judge people by their appearances" thing a bit too far. And jokingly said she was being racist as we continued our walk.

Turned out, as we got home we found out through my mom I think that somebody was running from the cops and hopped our fence into and out of our backyard and dropped what I think were drugs.

She was never the brightest dog in the world, but she clearly loved people and could tell right away if you weren't on the level. I miss her.

 

[Coffee Druid]

I have two dozen chickens. I concur with the other person earlier in this thread. They're good pets, not just livestock. Most are kinda skittish and will decline my pets unless there's food. But some will curiously walk up to you and see what's up. A couple of mine will even jump on my lap for snuggles. They also give you breakfast.

I have so many varieties, but tbh I'm not a fan of the silkies. They're cute, but not my thing. I have some Polish chickens (have an afro of feathers on their heads) and they're quite neurotic but funny. If I had to pick favorite breeds as far as my own chickens, I'd say leghorns, amber stars, and silver/gold Wyandottes.

I have one rooster. He wasn't supposed to be, but when you're buying pullets there's always a chance one slipped through. We could tell early on, he was bigger and had a longer tail as a teen. He's a barred rock...named Rocky. All my other gals are named after plants or flowers, but he was a spur of the moment name. He's a nice big boy, not aggressive at all. But pretty shy so I have a hard time getting a hold of him.


I also have four garter snakes and a 5 foot blood python.

 

[Android raptor]

The only reason I kinda want a house someday is so I can have chickens and native venomous snakes (I mainly just want a copperhead and maybe a pygmy rattlesnake). Chickens are the shit, 10/10 dinosaurs, very underrated&high quality burbs.

One of my friends gave me roaches that are extinct in the wild a few weeks back, which has been one of my top wanted species for a minute. I'm cohabbing them w/my horseshoe crab roach colony since they seemed like species that would get along well together, and so far all seems good.

 

[Coffee Druid]

The only reason I kinda want a house someday is so I can have chickens and native venomous snakes (I mainly just want a copperhead and maybe a pygmy rattlesnake). Chickens are the shit, 10/10 dinosaurs, very underrated&high quality burbs.

One of my friends gave me roaches that are extinct in the wild a few weeks back, which has been one of my top wanted species for a minute. I'm cohabbing them w/my horseshoe crab roach colony since they seemed like species that would get along well together, and so far all seems good.

My friend raises dubia roaches as feeders, and I've held hissing roaches before. They're all neat, but not something I'd have myself. I used to have a giant red headed centipede for almost 3 years before she passed. We found her in the wild (well, in someone's sink) as an adult so she could have been old or sick.

I really want some native giant millipedes one day. They're like the cuddly round version of centipedes.

As far as other animals I'd love. A dog, obviously. But I want to find "the one", and learn how to train them well. Top options are a German shepherd mix (grew up with a couple of those as a kid) or a great pyrenees (good chicken dogs). Also, some goats or sheep.

 

[Weed Eater]

Bleach: No idea why, but she was obsessed with the smell of bleach and would be all over you if you'd cleaned with it.

I get this odor-eliminator stuff off of Amazon, because it's the closest thing to a similar product that used to exist but doesn't anymore because the FDA got too freaked out from it. Point is, I like getting stuff for the air/house that does a better job than Lysol.


It has the faintest smell of bleach, despite it being a formula that uses no harsh chemicals whatsoever. My cat Savannah goes nuts when I spray this stuff in the house, it's like sprayable catnip for her, and as long as this stuff is non-toxic I don't get too worried over her wanting to rub around in the area I recently spritzed. I thought I was the only one who had a bleach-lover for a cat lmao.