Beyond the usual cats and dogs - what are your favorite animals to keep?

 

We have dogs and Tilapia - what are the pros and cons of other of your favorite animals?

 

Goats? Pigs? Rabbits? Birds? I would like a parrot but I think they get too attached to their owners/partners and would be too stressful to keep.. 

Spiders, and they get free range in the house, since killing most other bugs.

 

Chickens soon, but they'll have their own house.  Along with, we'll be eating their abortions 

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We have a few rabbits but mostly birds.

Handtame budgies in the house,canaries and cockatiels outside.

Two dogs and a whole bunch of wild birds and squirrels that come around every day for food.

Four pigeon coops with a lot of rare color racing pigeons and around 40 chickens and a bunch of ducks.

Lately these guys have been visiting the garden a lot.

10 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Spiders, and they get free range in the house, since killing most other bugs.

 

Chickens soon, but they'll have their own house.  Along with, we'll be eating their abortions 

If you want to get rid of spiders, get a ginger cat. They will kill anything that size which is moving.

6 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

If you want to get rid of spiders, get a ginger cat. They will kill anything that size which is moving.

He didn´t want to get rid of them.

Very clever. 

Most of you  don't have don't have the space for it 

I like my horse.

1 hour ago, arick said:

Very clever. 

what are they?

.....Chicken in the freezer!!!🤣

19 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Beyond the usual cats and dogs - what are your favorite animals to keep?

 

We have dogs and Tilapia - what are the pros and cons of other of your favorite animals?

 

Goats? Pigs? Rabbits? Birds? I would like a parrot but I think they get too attached to their owners/partners and would be too stressful to keep.. 

Parrots area very bad idea unless you have no neighbors within 500 meters because they are EXTREMELY noisy and they require a special high quality diet and lots of toys which they will destroy immediately. If you don’t occupy their mind or interact with them a lot they might get depressed and start plucking all their feathers and/or get nasty. Usually they’re sweet when they’re young, especially when you raise them from an egg, but they they reach maturity they usually get nasty for a bit and bite a lot. And god forbid they get sick and you have to inject them with medicine. They will hate you for months after that and will try to bite you every time you go near them. Tyler Nolan on YouTube has a couple of Macaws and they’re a pain in the ass. He’s got another one who’s a lot sweeter, but even that one is noisy as hell. 
 

Also, keeping birds who normally fly 15 miles a day in a cage is just cruel. If it absolutely has to be a bird, I’d get something small like a couple of canaries or a budgies that you can at least let fly around the house, if you don’t have the space for an aviary in your yard. 
 

bob smith aka barboy aka several alieses, gottfried, malcomb, and one other idiot, but i cant remember his name.  the peeping tom guy who takes photos of people lounging in hot tubs on their balcony and encourages us to tip extra if a taxi driver refuses to use the meter.  those are my pets.

I do not 'keep' any animals in my place.

They all come and go at will.

Neighbours' dogs know that there are always full water bowls and food in the fridge.

Always a selection of tokays and geckos inside and lizards in the garden.

Squirrels are regular visitors. They have just eaten the last of the pomegranates growing outside of the bedroom window - and I gave up on growing pineapples.

Stray cats sneak in now and again.

Rats, mice and snakes are frequent visitors and there is still the occasional monitor lizard.

(I do put rat traps in the roof space. When they are practising 'Riverdance' it keeps me awake.)

There is also a wide selection of birds but I am trying to deter the mynahs. The poop everywhere.

Oh, and bats in the utility area under the house. They sometimes come in and fly around eating the insects that the geckos miss.

Free-ranging Gecko.

 

Horses, cats and dogs. 

4 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

Parrots area very bad idea unless you have no neighbors within 500 meters because they are EXTREMELY noisy and they require a special high quality diet and lots of toys which they will destroy immediately. If you don’t occupy their mind or interact with them a lot they might get depressed and start plucking all their feathers and/or get nasty. Usually they’re sweet when they’re young, especially when you raise them from an egg, but they they reach maturity they usually get nasty for a bit and bite a lot. And god forbid they get sick and you have to inject them with medicine. They will hate you for months after that and will try to bite you every time you go near them. Tyler Nolan on YouTube has a couple of Macaws and they’re a pain in the ass. He’s got another one who’s a lot sweeter, but even that one is noisy as hell. 
 

Also, keeping birds who normally fly 15 miles a day in a cage is just cruel. If it absolutely has to be a bird, I’d get something small like a couple of canaries or a budgies that you can at least let fly around the house, if you don’t have the space for an aviary in your yard. 
 

Wow - thank you so much.... my ex wife had a very sweet cockateel and he was very smart but also a pain in the butt... 

Himalayan striped squirrels. They are wonderful to have around. 

15 hours ago, 1FinickyOne said:

Wow - thank you so much.... my ex wife had a very sweet cockateel and he was very smart but also a pain in the butt... 

You’re welcome, mate! 🙂

I don't keep pets in the house but one cat wanders in, let's me hold it and scratch it behind the ears. Enough for me 

Fish make the best pets. 

 

Do not wander off and annoy the neighbours. 

 

Not noisy.

 

Can go away on holiday and not need to get someone in to feed them every day.