Your pets: do they have a "past"?

[Darth_Kitten]

Just wondering if there was anything your pets did in the past that they wouldn't want their grandkids to know about. :evilgrin: :D

Sorry. :hide:

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. They once rolled in a compost bin.

Imagine two fluffy balls of dust, zooming across your house. Trailing banana peels and potato skins.

Then again, they looked very proud of themselves.

[Darth_Kitten]

2. hehehe......

:evilgrin:

[philosophie_en_rose]

3. I don't think that pets feel shame.

I think they fear their people's reactions. So the mini-dogs were sort of sorry, because I was upset. (I almost cried, they were so stinky and dirty.) However, they otherwise enjoyed the experience and will do it again if given the chance.

Lucky for me, they're less than 18 inches tall combined.

[bridgit]

4. Tim was abandoned in a wood pile by the airport...

and so, is blameless in my eyes

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. Cute!

:hi: He's a survivor. :)

[peacefreak]

6. Male, huh?

Moved in & took control of the remote. (He's beautiful)

[bridgit]

7. bwahaha, yup & yup...

he's asking all the questions now :rofl:

[TimeChaser]

8. Well

Once Alice kitty got outside (she's an indoor princess :) ). It stormed that night, so we didn't know she was missing and not just hiding. I searched all over the neighborhood, put up signs, freaked out... everything. Turns out kitty was just 30 feet from the house, under the shed, the whole time.

[brentspeak]

9. You mean like a past life?

[Darth_Kitten]

12. Sure....

why not. :)

[two gun sid]

10. My cat Puppy-cat lived in a state prison...

until I took him home. The inmates were taking care of him in the maintenance shop. They were told to get rid of him so I adopted him. My cat the jailbird.

[Tikki]

11. Yes, Tikki 'the dawg' was born in the.....

...infamous Simi Valley...



Tikki

[Arugula Latte]

13. My male impregnated his sister when they were kittens...

I thought they had to be six months to be spayed/neutered. This happened at about four months. Oops.

[Darth_Kitten]

14. now this is a wild past....

:crazy:

[Arugula Latte]

28. Yes. The family secret. Shhhhhhh ...

nt

[ET Awful]

15. Quinn once got his head stuck in between two steps in the cellar

staircase. He also ended up hanging by his little toe from the gap in a dining room table where it separates to insert the leaf to make it wider.

[philosophie_en_rose]

26. My dog landed in a garbage can.

He's really quiet, too. Didn't bark or anything. If I hadn't seen the can wiggling, I'd probably have looked outside for him.

My dogs are like little flying squirrels, which is bad (because they are so tiny). But also really amusing.

[ET Awful]

30. When we were kids, one of our dogs tried to jump over a chainlink

fence and when he pushed off the top of the fence to get the rest of the way over, he shoved his foot through the little /\ shape that the wire makes at the top of the fence.

I've never heard a dog yowl that loud :). The funny part is he wasn't hurt because his front paws were on the ground, he was just terrified :).

[Tallison]

35. Quinn!!!

Why is that cat so diggable?

:bounce:

[ET Awful]

38. I don't know, but he and Althea make me smile madly every day :) n/t

[Tallison]

40. What's his personality like? n/t

[ET Awful]

41. He's kind of aloof and stand-offish much of the time, but he's

becoming much more friendly and social now that he's in the new apartment.

He'll come up and lay on my desk right in front of me. . . he never used to do that :)

Most of the time, he'll just kick back on his own somewhere, but when he's in the mood to be social, he's pretty pushy :)

[sasquatch]

16. My cat Harlon used to run catnip for a local kitty crime family

:D

[samplegirl]

17. mine was a giggalo

[undeterred]

18. People who get their pets at shelters often get a history

but not me. Mine came from the lost dog room on the South Side of Chicago. No story, no signs of abuse, never acted afraid of anyone. He was about 6 months when I got him. He never talked about his past and I didn't ask... I think he just got lost and I got lucky.

No grandkids, he was neutered the day I adopted him.

[friesianrider]

19. My latest was an hour away from execution when I got her :(

It was an extremely high kill shelter in New Jersey where I got her - we walked in just a bit after 4, and she was to be put to sleep when the shelter closed at 5. I think the shelter holds animals after they're surrendered for 5 days, then it's the cold needle.

She apparently was taken to a shelter because her owners didn't want to pay the extra $10 it would cost to have a cat at their apartment, and they said they didn't "have any time for her." :eyes: Why people get pets then dump them on a shelter/someone else boggles my mind.

[undeterred]

25. Mine was close to his "execution date" too

He was moping when I chose him, like he knew. Then I got him out of the cage and he was all happy and I knew we were a match.

Some people dump pets the way they put furniture out to the curb.

[friesianrider]

20. Hopefully, no one's pets will have grandkids! :)

Because I know all our DUers with pets are responsible and have their fur babies spayed or neutered as soon as they are 4 months old! :)

[Darth_Kitten]

33. just an expression....

yes, we are all responsible pet owners.

;)

[dannofoot]

21. Our Zelda...

...was a racing greyhound.

Having been neutered shortly after her life began, she won't have any grandkids,but she has plenty of siblings, cousins, etc., still running the tracks...and being crated, girls above the boys, for the majority of their lives.
I heartily advocate the adoption of these wonderful animals...ex-racers are routinely destroyed, but they are terrific, loving dogs. They need a bit more TLC, as most have never seen stairs, lived indoors, etc.
They are, however, extremely loving,are fabulous with kids,and very intelligent (fast learners). You'll never make a faster (they hit 30 MPH in 5 seconds) family member!

[LisaL]

22. Mine was peeing everywhere, including my bed.

Does that count?

[flvegan]

23. Well, one of my rescued boys

was a bait dog. He was used to train fighting dogs how to hurt another. He was found, trembling, under a bush in the woods, dumped. He was completely torn up, jaw broken, bleeding, various wounds on the legs and face.

I can assure you, that this boy is a lover and not a fighter. I get super-special pitbull kisses from him all the time. He might not want his descendents (him being neutered, hopefully there will be none) to know that he didn't live up to the bullshit society expects/expected of him.

[yewberry]

24. Moby was found running wild in North Carolina

and we found him in a shelter in rural central MA. Nobody wanted him because he was listed as a rottie mix and he was only 25 pounds--way too small for the folks looking for a rottie. He's a good kid, if kind of a nutjob.


Our dearly departed Grace was stolen (by my dh.) She (also rottie, but the big variety) was staked out in a field, starved, and beaten. Took years before she reached a semblance of normalcy--in fact, she's the reason the husband became a dog trainer in the first place. She was phenomenally well-adjusted, given where she'd come from. She lived to be 11. *snif*

[Lady President]

27. She has a thing for Latin men

I adopted my cat when she was about 6 months old and she already had a soft spot for Spanish speaking men. She is very skittish and always hides under my bed when guests visit, except for a Peruvian man I dated with a heavy accent-- she was all over him. She will stop in her tracks if a man speaks Spanish on the television. Today, she was mesmerized by the movie La Bamba. I don't know what happened in her first few months, but girlfriend definitely has a past... ;)

[chknltl]

29. Not my pet but....

....once found a hedgehog trapped headfirst in a mayonnaise jar....
rescued the poor thing of course. It was long ago, hope it had many grandchildren.

[Wcross]

31. Dumb-ass Buddy peed upwind into a box fan-got wet.

It was about 3 weeks after I took him and his two pregnant girlfirends in. He had always been an outside dog. After the first girl had her pups I thought it would be nice to let buddy see them. I guess he had to mark his territory and had no concept of wind or box-fans.

[liberalitch]

32. Montana used to be a hard core puddle water addict....

but now I keep him in..... don't tell the tabloids!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

34. Our oldest male dog, er, did something to his mother, when she was in

season, er, not sure exactly how to say this...

Well let's just say he's a mofo.

[ET Awful]

37. Did you rename him Oedipus Rex?

:evilgrin:

[Magrittes Pipe]

36. dolo amber's pug was very friendly with our former neighbors' pug.

He was the "bottom."

[crispini]

39. My tabby cat came from the parking lot.

I opened the door and coaxed her in. She was filthy and terrifed. She's much better now.