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He's a pretty vocal little guy - he rushed towards us and started meowing the minute we walked in. 

Well, he was probably saying "Don't you THINK of leaving me here again!"
 
Cute (and very lucky) little guy.

It's things like this that have gotten me banned from every pet store in town. When my kids were younger, we'd stop there without mom. Hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, fish, you name it, I bought it. The final straw came when I bought a lizard that was about 8 inches long. It ate crickets, which we had to buy by the dozen. I asked the wife to stop and pick some up one time, and she got to talking to the owner of the shop. Unbeknownst to me, this lizard would eventually grow to 3 or 4 feet in length, and would need to change the diet to mice and rats. At that point she told the owner in no uncertain terms that if he sold me another creature of any kind, she would be back for him. I walked in a week or so later to get crickets, and the guy says "dont look at those fish, or your wife will kill us both".

Update - not that it really matters...

Went outside and London followed me on the balcony and started rolling around in the sun when I noticed that his belly was shaved. I thought he was quite delicate for a 2 y.o. male.

A quick look at his papers quickly confirmed that London is a she - the odd thing being that the NSPCA web site gives the description "neutered boy" and all the employees referred to her as he.


Love her all the same. And I guess it'll spare us the possible issues of having two male cats (even neutered) in the same house.

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It's things like this that have gotten me banned from every pet store in town. When my kids were younger, we'd stop there without mom. Hamsters, gerbils, rabbits, fish, you name it, I bought it. The final straw came when I bought a lizard that was about 8 inches long. It ate crickets, which we had to buy by the dozen. I asked the wife to stop and pick some up one time, and she got to talking to the owner of the shop. Unbeknownst to me, this lizard would eventually grow to 3 or 4 feet in length, and would need to change the diet to mice and rats. At that point she told the owner in no uncertain terms that if he sold me another creature of any kind, she would be back for him. I walked in a week or so later to get crickets, and the guy says "dont look at those fish, or your wife will kill us both".

Cool story. :)


We'll certainly adopt a few more once we get the house. And I also want dogs, at least one or two. I've always wanted Rottweilers or Dobermans. They'll keep me in shape. But we just love animals, most of them anyway. 

A bunny? Never again - unless we end up buying a farm or something My worst experience as an animal owner. 

Well lets not go blithely about gender labeling, shall we?  Not at such a tender age.  Lets let he or she develop at his or her pace.  

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A bunny? Never again - unless we end up buying a farm or something My worst experience as an animal owner. 

Ok, now I'm curious!  What was so bad about the bunny?

The loud stomping in the cage in the middle of the night, the relentlessly pushing the water dispenser against the cage so that it's knocking against the metal all the time, the throwing hay and woodchips everywhere outside the cage, the trying to eat everything in sight when you let them out the cage (cables beware) and the obvious pooping everywhere. 

Not to mention, they're very cute but totally dumb (at least ours was). Which in itself isn't that bad, but w/ all of the above considered, bunnies don't have much going for them as far as I'm concerned. 

In a house w/ carpeting, never again.

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The loud stomping in the cage in the middle of the night, the relentlessly pushing the water dispenser against the cage so that it's knocking against the metal all the time, the throwing hay and woodchips everywhere outside the cage, the trying to eat everything in sight when you let them out the cage (cables beware) and the obvious pooping everywhere. 

Not to mention, they're very cute but totally dumb (at least ours was). Which in itself isn't that bad, but w/ all of the above considered, bunnies don't have much going for them as far as I'm concerned. 

In a house w/ carpeting, never again.

Now look what you've done!  You've made bunny sad...
 

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Wow!! That looks like a real meme


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