When I was Truckin', met a couple team drivers who had a 2 yr.old female Bobcat named "Bobsie" it had the front claws removed. The owners took this Polariod of me petting her, My photo is a little fuzzy, but it's me. BTW, She purred like a Harley!

 

I'll have to check out those "Born Free'' cats.

I like big cats, but not caged up in a dam room, in a house, in a city.

The lion's name was Togare. It eventually ended up going from Anton Lavey's house,
to the S.F. Zoo, then finally to an animal preserve in the Mojave Desert run by actress Tippy Hedren.

 

I had a pet rock once and man you couldn't teach it anything all it did was lay around.I remember trying to teach it to fetch a stick out of the swimming pool and he went right to the bottom I had to jump in and save him before he drowned.If anybody is looking for a neat pet stay away from one of these they are as dumb as a rock no pun intended

But seriously when growing up we had a regular zoo birds,snakes,iguanas,fish, cats and dogs and then horses.

The one thing I really didn't like was a crow my mom had, nasty creature.

 

my oldest boy has a albino hedgehog. Now there is friendly little creature every time I try to touch it,I get stuck. It nows my son well enough,by smell i think that he can pick it up without getting stuck.

 

my friend had a flying squirrel for a while, that lttle thing was awesome. it would just chill with you all in your pocket, then he'd come out and crawl around for a while super fast, and then go back into your pocket. when he wasnt there he loved being in a beer coozey.

other than that then had a bet racoon that acted like a cat.

 

Since finishing college I collected:

2 Siberian Huskies

3 horses (technically 4 cause one passed away almost 1 yr ago): 2 for my wife, and my horse a Shire (like a budweisere clydesdale)

 

Thanks, I'll have to look that species up. maybe get some tips on training and grooming.

 

I've had many pets through the years. The usual cat, dog, rabbits and an assortment of rodents. Then a chicken, goose, cow, pig, horse. The strangest ones I've had are: skunk, chipmunk, and a quatimundi. Also had a big two inch tree bug. Not sure of the name, but it's found in Mexico.
My daughter had a hedgehog.

 

She probably learned by watching the cats.

 

Early last week, I had to put my female 12 year old Wolf Hybrid (85% F3)/Husky to sleep. I had been treating her for arthritis since early this year, but the symptoms were getting worse and she was becoming weaker in the hindquarters. By mid August, it was heartbreaking to see her get up on all four legs to walk without stumbling/falling backwards. But she was Still "alpha" of our dog pack and they still deferred to her. Two weeks ago, though, she could only stand on all fours by leaning against my leg. After a series of storms in early September, she contracted an infection and unable to move around despite my attentions. She is buried in a special spot on the property.

My husband has asked if I wanted to get another wolfdog pup to raise as companion in the Spring. But I am not sure I want to do again for awhile. Originally, he picked her but instead, she picked me to became her "Human".

Other unusual animals? At one time, we had a small flock of pea*****. Helped take care of a Red Squirrel for a friend at one time while she was moving. She found him abandoned when very little and raised him herself. The squirrel did not "take" to many people but seemed to like and trusted me.

My husband raised a couple of raccoons when he was a boy.

 

We have one of these, it is a Tiger Salamander,

 

My wife has goats and four dogs and three horses. I'm not too keen on dogs or horses but the all seem to like me for some reason. I have eight sheep that I keep because they are great lawn mowers and don't climb on things they also come when I call them and are easy to care for. My wife got me a couple of cats because she thought I liked them, I don't mind them they are easy keepers and the keep pests out. I had a pet deer up until about a year ago but she died of kidney failure, turns out some of the Fallow deer suffer from a genetic kidney disorder. I don't advise people to have them as pets but I bottle raised her and worked with her, she answered better than the dogs,and she liked dogs. I do have a couple of the goats as pets, one of the sheep, Howard, thinks he is a goat and one of the sheep is old and blind so she stays in the back yard and has her own pen at night so she can eat. My wife has an Anatolian shepard in the back yard to watch the goats, she goes into an open pen in the daytime and spashes and digs a hole to keep cool, the blind sheep "Socks" finds her and often gradually pushes her out of the best spot.

 

Had 3 or 4 hermit crabs for a while (our son's actually). What a drag those things are! Also had a couple rats..they were pretty cool. The wife and I just have a cat, now. Or rather he has us! I had a friend once who had a boa conconstrictor that he didn't keep in a cage but had the run of his huge apartment..you never knew where it was. You could be sitting on the couch really stoned or tripping your brains out, minding your own business and this thing would crawl out from between the cushions. Good times!

 

When I was little, my mom had a cougar named Mr. Bill. He was so cool!! I used to ride him!! She had a red convertible and he always got to sit in the front seat. I loved the way people would drive off the road rubber necking Mr. Bill hanging his head over the side to catch the breeze!! Then the city told her she had to get rid of him, so she got an ocelot and a margay. They look like miniature leopards and weighed about 40 pounds. Not quite the same, but a decent substitute!!

My strangest pet would have to be pea*****. Had three of them until last summer when the local cougar that lives in the woods behind my house decided to have a feast!!! Oh, well,,, With 14 feet of snow, I guess my pea***** were the easiest dinner going!!!

 

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- A dog specially trained to call 911 when his owner suffers seizures grabbed the phone Wednesday morning and whimpered for help when the dispatcher answered, police said.

Chris Trott, a veteran police operator, said she heard a cry from Buddy, who she later discovered was an 18-month-old German shepherd.

Buddy's owner, Joe Stalnaker, was suffering one of his more severe seizures, said Sgt. Mark Clark of the Scottsdale Police Department.

Ten years ago, Stalnaker said he was in a military accident that severely injured part of his brain
He got Buddy when the dog was 8 weeks old through the help of Paws With a Cause, an assistance animal adoption service.

Stalnaker said trained the animal to recognize when he is having a seizure and respond by grabbing the phone and bringing it to him.

"He doesn't actually sit there and dial 911, but whenever he picks up the phone, one of his teeth inevitably hits the number, and if it's held down for more than three seconds, it dials the police department," Stalnaker said.

When Buddy ears the operator, he puts the phone down and whimpers as if he's in distress. The 911 system matches the call to the address and dispatches emergency help, Clark said.

Trott stayed on the phone with Buddy until she could hear paramedics arrive, less than three minutes after the dog had placed the call, Clark said.

Buddy rode in the ambulance with Stalnaker to the hospital, and both man and dog were back home two days later, feeling much better.
Dog Calls 911 After Owner Collapses - Phoenix News Story - KPHO Phoenix


now thats unusual