I don't know if this has been talked about before...but I'm fairly new here, and I was curious what other kinds of pets all of you own?   I personally own two mice, lots of fish, and a clawed frog

Okay, here goes:

Currently 5 ratty-boys: Bailey, Vinnie, Guido, Bugsy, and Cookie
1 gorgeous border collie mix named Lucky, who is the sweetest dog I've ever known
3 cats: Widget, Gizmo, and Sprocket
...and 1 cute little hedgehog named Scuzzy!  

I have 5 ratties, 2 cats, 1 rabbit (we're trying to find a home, hubby is allergic), and 4 spiders (3 tarantulas and 1 jumping spider).  

I've got 11 rats now. (Do I hold the record on the forum?)
I got 3 babies saturday, named one Domino, and one Indiana. I haven't named the boy because he hasn't manifested a personality yet. They're 4 1/2 weeks old

I also have a 7 month old fawn dumbo male named Simon, and a 6 month old american blue girl named Blueberry Muffin.

Then there's the original rat, Skittles. She's about 16 months old, and is the mother to the remaining 5 rats.
The boys from that litter are Rizo, Gabriel, and Sirus Ratblock. The girls are Percephony and Widget. They're all 10 months old.
(Don't worry, they're seperated by sex, I just think of them in this way, by age and aqusition)

The other pet is a bit stranger. I have a giant african Millipede named Heimlic. He's about 3 years old, and could live to be 15.

Thats about all the love I have to share with pets right now. They keep my ratty cup full.

Currently I only have the 4 rats in my apartment. I am moving into my mobile home this week and in three weeks my parents are driving out with my five rabbits (I am a rabbit breeder and have cages for up to 25 so they won't be "five" rabbits for long!)

Back at home (my parents house, in AZ and I am in NC, but they are still my pets-) I have 3 dogs (all mixes), 2 parakeets and then my brothers breed rabbits too, so there are about 20 more rabbits.

After I get my house all set up I am adopting a dog of my own, setting up my 20 gallon fish tank and getting a beta fish for my bathroom.

Before I moved here I also had a tank full of various tree frogs and toads, a hermit crab container, and a big crayfish.

And in the future Jeremy wants a pair of ferrets and I want a pair of either cockatiels or a conure. And of course a second dog... and...and...and...

I collect animals!

nope anna, not the record

my own personal pets that will stay with me permanently? 7 rats
Gobo - silvered black berk female 29 months old
Anchovy - black hooded female, 29 months old and on her way to the rainbow bridge
OSED Mazzy - blue berk dumbo female, 7 months old
OSED Uno - one eyed black bareback dumbo female, 7 months old
Nixon - agouti berk female, 8 months old
ANR Nova - blazed russian blue variegated rex dumbo female, 6 months old.
Noodle - himilayan female, 6 months old
6 mice:
provolone, mouse mouse mouse, saffron, ducky, possum, fuzzle

one dog - Bowie, male doberman pinscher, 110 lbs of pure love.

one rabbit - soon to be coming, 8 year old rex classroom rabbit that cant stay with the teacher when she moves, named peter cottontail (cotton for short).

now the rescues?
2 cream hooded females, 3 himilayan females, 7 himilayan boys, two adult male albino lab rats, 2 adult male brown norway lab rats, 6 male mice, 16 female mice.

so that makes: 23 rats and 28 mice!!

Hi Rachel,


We took her in about 4 months ago. A lady my hubby works with knew we were animal nuts, and she told him about her son and DIL's family (or maybe daughter and SIL's... don't remember for sure), who had gotten a hedgehog but they and the kids had since lost interest in it. They were considering taking her to the Humane Society... if they would even accept her there, that is!  Scott came home and asked me, and of course, I immediately agreed we'd take her (what a silly question!!).

She's an adorable salt and pepper, now about 1 to 1-1/4 years old. They had her in a filthy terrarium, filled with about 4 inches of nasty old cedar shavings!!!   I think the only thing she'd ever been fed was one brand of catfood!   She also came with a huge ferret cage, however, which had the same floor space but was twice the height of the cage we had for our ratties, so we switched the critters. Scuzzy now lives in the shorter old rat cage, since hedgies aren't really that adept at climbing ladders/levels, and the ratties are appreciating their new palace.  

We also got Scuz cleaned up, changed to a ferret corner litterbox with Yesterday's News pellets and Eco-Bedding (she uses her litterbox very well, bless her heart!), and tried advancing her diet to include other recommended foods. Unfortunately, she just doesn't understand about fruits and vegetables... but since hedgies are insectivores, we've had great success getting her to eat mealworms and the occasional cricket. We tried a commercial hedgehog food, but she wouldn't touch it, either. We've also changed her much-loved catfood to include 3 different top-quality brands, since there is some concern over Iams alone possibly causing liver damage in hedgies.

We came into adopting her not knowing anything about hedgies, but we did lots of quick research and are learning more all the time. Turned out my best friend had had a hedgie for awhile, but they didn't keep her warm enough and she died young. We have a regular heating pad under the bottom floor of Scuzzy's cage, kept on medium during our cold winter, and now on low for the spring/summer months and she loves it! She was quite lethargic when she first joined our family, but she's much healthier, more active, and more social now.

Overall I would not recommend hedgies as pets except to people willing to really do the research ahead of time and recognize that they have special needs and, frankly, don't make the world's best pets. They honestly have no more personality than a grouchy hamster, quite frankly.

And they are VERY nocturnal. We rarely see her up and about on her own (although we wake her up each evening for some exercise around the living room and to get her favorite mealworm treats before we go to bed). They tend to hiss a warning as you approach them... they don't care much to be bothered. But we do pick her up and cuddle and hold her, and she has warmed up to us quite a bit, considering. I've gotten pretty good at handling her and can get her to curl up in a cute hedgie-ball without tensing up her quills. WE honestly think she's absolutely adorable and loveable as can be, but we're a little on the insane side when it comes to critters around this house!  

Here's a site that we've referred to quite a bit... it has great hedgie FAQs and tons of information!
http://hedgehoghollow.com/faq/

I didn't answer last time! I've had just about every pet you can think of (except spiders - I am seriously arachnophobic! :shocked: )

Right now I just have 3 ratties: Ms.Muffet, Ashley Peebody (heehee) and my sweet Daisy.

I have 3 cherry barbs and 5 neon tetras.

And of course, my new aquisition - Chloe the pit bull! :ratsmile:

Hey! Stop dissing on hamsters people! They may not be as interactive as rats, but their still cute and entertaining! Devils spawn indeed...my hammies are offended! If you tamed your hamsters correctly and got them from a reputable source you wouldn't have that problem

Anyway...as for my pets I have:
1 dog-Missie a Yorkie
2 cats-Figaro and Stu (both girls lol)
2 hamsters-(both syrians) Gabby and Dominic. Gabs is a gold tort, but is shown as a golden umbrous. She's my prize winning hammie. Dominic is a normal golden. He wins best pet nonetheless
And I'm soon adding one rat (she'll have a friend, but it'll be my friend's) and another syrian hammie!

And I want like a million other animals...lol More rodents, a chinchilla, a ferret...more more more!

ahh I's always nice to hear of animals finding better homes my store will get hedgies only for people who can prove they know what they're doing and are willing to do it =P I think they're grouchy disposition is kind of endearing

I've done the blacks in the past, but right now I'm working with a pair of perfect opaque white/blue(well, they're your regular opaque whith, with a perfect, even, complete cover of iredescent light blue), HM ST...just perfect and I'm working with a pair of black and white(salt and pepper, whatever you wish to lable them) double crowns...they're pretty much black, with HUGE crossed crowns, with one side of each cross white and the other black.......neither have ANY wash of any sort ahh..I'm so pleased =P I also have my regular steel blue HMs that are my pond spawners...well, "pond" being a baby pool in the back yard with java moss and some floating plants that gets nothing more than topped off every day =P I know..blah blah blah
anyhoo..in my other tanks I have just a planted community, with about half a million cory cats(I adore those guys), clown loaches, kuhlis, a trio of gold rams, and a few others...a nano-reef with only some shrooms and hermits right now, and another basic tank with spawning killies

aww...jodi! she is so aodrable =P I love the second pic..she looks like a little troll or something   in that cute kind of way, of course!

No fair! You have rescues!
:ratsmile:

I have no rats yet but looking but I have
3 male betas
1 female beta
4 gold fish
3 snails and other alge eaters
1 part time Cocker Spaniel ( daughter is alergic so she (the dog) stays at grandmas house 5 days of the week)
2 little monkeys (my daughters)
and 4 squirels that visit us everyday
accasional ants, rolly polly bugs, or spiders (in an insect cage)
:shocked:

They sound GORGEOUS!  Do you have a web site, or any pictures or anything?



ACCCK!  NOT the double crowns!!!!!!!!!  Oh, wow!  I'm swooning!  LOL!  Gotta love those tails!!!!!!!!!!!



THIS is something I've GOT to see!  Do you have pics?  Anywhere?  They sound drop dead gorgeous.  You should be pleased!  That's great!



How can you not?  Especially when they "wink" at you.  They're too cute, especially the pgymy guys!



Sounds excellent!  I'm not brave enough to do anything remotely related to salt water yet.  LOL!  Reef tanks are a good way to keep interested in the hobby, though, because there's always something that needs to be done, or some new gizmo on the market that you've just GOT to have.  LOL!