OK, who has pets?

[studio42]

Just trying to add threads to keep things moving around here.

I've got to get a laptop ready for Sunday(from nothing) and test out my entire sound system after a total re-wiring. After this event, I'm going to re-do the wiring again, just not happy with some things, mainly cable girth to the consoles. Not enough time right now to yank it and re-do it unless I take loads of stuff into the house from the garage.

Anyhow, what to people have as pets? I don't want to get into a "dogs vs cats" debate, just more of a general idea.

I like dogs. I have nothing against cats, I'm just a dog person. I have two pugs. Total bundles of energy. They play like mad all day long, take a nap and start again. It looks like pug-dog wrestling too. One is rather high-strung, the other is super mellow. They both hate being alone though and definately want their people around as much as possible.

So, what do other people have? Dogs? Cats? Fish? Birds? Rodents(rabbits, gerbils, hamsters, mice, rats...), Reptiles(snakes, lizards, turtles, whatever) or exotics?

Closest I have to anything exotic is this big fat black spider that has 3 white dots on the top side of its abdomen, and a few garter snakes in the neighborhood that I've seen once or twice. I scooped 3 drowned mice out of my pool last year, so those don't count. My in-laws have koi fish that have been attacked by a great blue heron a couple of times.

Whatever you do, don't share "rooster ownership" stories. I have a person somewhere in my neighborhood with one of those and that bird is crowing at all hours day and night. Chicken must DIE!!!! Animal control can't find it and I can't pinpoint it.

OK, time to go back to work. I am picking up my monitoring system today as well as all my other chores.

[Rob Wilds]

It really no debate, a dog can eat a cat. The food chain at work. Dog's win hands down.

[studio42]

That reminds me. The local Wa-Mart has the fish next to the cat food.... hmmm....

You ever watched that show "Animal Face-Off" on Discovery channel? Too techie sometimes, but fairly cool Two of my younger brothers in law were always trying to figure out what would win in a two-animal fight.

My pugs saw a cat once on the fence. Barked at it for two hours until they got bored and then went inside and wrestled for an hour before finally taking a nap.

One of my older dogs(now dead, old age) HATED cats and birds in his yard. Of course, not being the physics wiz or maybe a fan of too many Road Runner cartoons, he decided the quickest route between the cat in his yard and himself was a straight line. However, there was this thing called a "swimming pool" in the way. I swear, it was like watching the cartoon. He took off running, then then got about halfway across with his legs still going and this look of despair hit him. It looked like he hung in mid-air before splashing down. That was one unhappy cocker spaniel!

My pugs have fallen into the pool a few times while playing. The younger one fell in shortly after being brought home. Kerplunk. I had to reach down and snag him. Thank goodness I put a collar in him. He didn't know how to swim yet and he wasn't exactly displacing water in a favorable way. I'm selling my house to get a bigger house: no pool. I got a 4-month old girl and she can't fall into something that isn't there.

My wife and I are also going to get a salt-water tank. We like the vibrant colors of the salt water fish and our baby seems to like looking at fish too.