You got an pet, or did you take a pic of an animal you love? Well tell us all about him/her and post a picture.

Make sure to use a device that will cooperate with you on this, I can't share my beautiful pussy cats relight now, but I will.

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You can't tell from the pic, but Dolly, the black cat on the left is tiny.  She weighs 5.5 lbs and is fully grown.  MeeMee on the right is my little love.

I have a 4 year old yellow lab, named Stella.

 

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We have a fluffy bunny (Two Face) and a 1 year old cat (Flo).

 

Here are some pictures:

 

 

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My boy, helping me at work

 

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This is Valentina, she is a Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola rosea).  She's quite friendly and generally has no problem with being held by people.  Her main past-times are digging holes (and sometimes filling them in) and climbing on her log or the walls of her terrarium.  She does not like water, and makes a point to avoid stepping in her water bowl while drinking (as opposed to my previous tarantula, who was happy to walk right in).  Her food consists of 2-4 live crickets every 1.5-2 weeks.

 

Makes for an interesting, easy, cheap, and hardy pet.  Crickets are 10-15 cents each, so food is easy on the wallet.  The long periods between feeding mean that being called upon to travel on short notice is not a problem as there is no need to arrange a sitter or put her in a kennel.

 

Apologies to the arachnophobes ...

 

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This is Valentina, she is a Chilean rose tarantula (Grammostola rosea). She's quite friendly and generally has no problem with being held by people. Her main past-times are digging holes (and sometimes filling them in) and climbing on her log or the walls of her terrarium. She does not like water, and makes a point to avoid stepping in her water bowl while drinking (as opposed to my previous tarantula, who was happy to walk right in). Her food consists of 2-4 live crickets every 1.5-2 weeks.

 

Makes for an interesting, easy, cheap, and hardy pet. Crickets are 10-15 cents each, so food is easy on the wallet. The long periods between feeding mean that being called upon to travel on short notice is not a problem as there is no need to arrange a sitter or put her in a kennel.

 

Apologies to the arachnophobes ...

 

http://i427.photobucket.com/albums/pp358/nzussbla/006.jpg

Omg! She's so cute! I NEED a tarantula!

We have a fluffy bunny (Two Face) and a 1 year old cat (Flo).

 

Here are some pictures:

 

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/2sam0zm.jpg

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/2yxf5si.jpg

 

http://i64.tinypic.com/2d0dru8.jpg

 

http://i63.tinypic.com/292wgp3.jpg

 

 

Beautiful animals, glad they get along. MeeMee was a talented hunter when he was an outdoor cat, and he took out a bunny that was almost his size. MeeMee was a stray and he adopted me, but it was a gradual process, so he was hunting for all his food for weeks in order to survive.

A SPIDER!!!!



EEK!!!

RUN AWAY!!!  SKOOSH IT!!!  KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

 

 

 

(No, I don't like spiders!)

A SPIDER!!!!

EEK!!!

RUN AWAY!!!  SKOOSH IT!!!  KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!

 

 

 

(No, I don't like spiders!)

But that one is so cute!

I'm not sure that cute should ever be an adjective for a spider.

LMAO

I'm not sure that cute should ever be an adjective for a spider.

I would be more in favor of a verb, smash would be a good one... or maybe a noun, spider meets my ball-peen hammer.

 

I'm not sure that cute should ever be an adjective for a spider.

I would be more in favor of a verb, smash would be a good one... or maybe a noun, spider meets my ball-peen hammer.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFuUaCe8eY

 

This is for you, Lys.  Pay attention to the lyrics, especially at the end. That book would end up in my outdoor trash so fast your head would spin.

Thank you for that SM... I'm very familiar with that song, just haven't heard it in a very long time.

Quite unorthodox Niels, but I'm fine with it as long as you don't set it free

 

How long do they live?

My pets are all dead... and the landlord isn't keen on me getting one to say the least xD

Stop Punting your Kittens and maybe they wouldn't die.

Have been abusing pussy

cats? NOT COOL!

I always read the body language when stroking and playing with pussy

cats. The punt kittens was a code word for rolling TOP.

I always read the body language when stroking and playing with pussycats. The punt kittens was a code word for rolling TOP.

OK then, I'm relieved! I respect you and after talking with you it is hard to imagine you abusing a pussy

cat.

I could never abuse something I enjoy the company of as much as a nice warm, soft pussy

cat.

Punt Kittens.

Quite unorthodox Niels, but I'm fine with it as long as you don't set it free

 

How long do they live?

 

Of this particular species, the males live 2-3 years and the females live 10-15.  Other tarantula species* have different ranges, but females greatly outliving males is the norm.

 

I won't be setting Valentina free, but as someone who is targeted by mosquitoes every summer, I am glad that in the wild spiders eat about 80 lbs/acre/year of insects.  As much as spiders might cause people fear, their existence out in nature seems preferable to tons of flies, mosquitoes, and other insect pests.  Like bats, another classically feared type of animal, spiders have an important ecological role.

 

* Some examples of fun other tarantula types (linked for the sake of arachnophobes) include:

• Poecilotheria metallica (really bright blue coloration, native of India, critically endangered)
• Brachypelma smithi ("Mexican red-knee tarantula")

Very much agreed on the ecological role.

 

Wow, had no idea they lived that long. Quite fascinating!