do you have a cat or a dog/rabbit/parrot/snake/alligator...

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I love animals. I talk to them more than I do my own husband.
My pets:
Dog (Dakota)- min pin/chihuahua mix
3 cats( Milly, Snickers, and Doodle)- domestic shorthairs
Rat (Luna)- black and white
Hedgehog (Lily)- very poky o.o

heh, FireBird, don't worry so much about eye contact. So long as you are saying what you mean to say and listening when you want to listen, it's fine. I don't make eye contact most of the time. I just look in the other person's direction, past their head, so they can see my face properly. That seems to be fine, for most purposes.

Your dog sounds lovely! I think the reassurance from having a companion animal really lets me have more "brain space" to think. I don't know how else to describe it. It's like, if I don't have a cat around, I can't do as much; but with one, it's like I've freed up some part of my thinking that lets me have more energy to apply to doing useful things. Maybe that's what your dog did for you--you got the dog and that gave you a little more "brain space" like I get from my cats, so you used it to start figuring out talking.

I have two cats and a mini Dachshund.

I love animals, and have always felt more comfortable with them than with humans. Very often, they have been my only friends. I have had birds, mice, hamsters, frogs, fish, bunnies, cats, and dogs. My favorite animal is the horse, and I have worked with many of them but have never had one of my own. One of my major life goals is to own my own horse. I currently have 5 cats -Glorfindel, Spalding, Baby, Noodle, and Mama; and one bunny, Snickers.

3 parakeets - I let two of them fly around in my room. They makes good tweeting sound while I play hard core computer gaming.

I love animals and had a dog, through my teens, who meant everything to me. The only reason I don't have any pets now is because my husband has put his foot down (I'm using the gently gently approach to persuade him). He loves animals too but says they'd tie us down too much. He's right in many respects, but our daughter's so much at ease with all sorts of animals that I feel it would benefit her. For now, we're making do with frequent trips to farm parks. We've just spent a week on a farm in Ireland, where she helped to feed the sheep dog, chickens, goats, pigs and donkeys - memories we'll treasure forever.

jojobean, this is terrible that your father murdered your dog. i don't like your father. your dog snarled at him if he entered the room while you were sleeping. he sounds dangerous, your father.
sorry about your dog and about having him for a father. if my parents did that to me, if they would've killed one of my cats i'd never forgive them.

Like everyone else, I find animals much easier to relate to. I always feel that I know exactly how they are feeling. My family as always had between 2 and 4 cats -we almost never buy any, strays just find us. And we usually have a dog. But I really feel sorry for mice and other wild rodents. We live in the country and they have a really hard life. Our pampered cats and dogs kill them at any opportunity. If I had a choice I would have rodents, not cats (even though I adore cats), but like I said, cats just find us.

I had just 1 dog and 1 cat, then the dog had 3 puppies, and the cat had 4 kittens (possibly from strays). The mothers are the same size, and their babies were born in the same week, so the babies should grow at the same rate. The moms don't like each other, but the babies don't really see any differences in each other, and will sometimes nurse on the "wrong" mom.

Yipe, you're flooded with baby animals, though! Call your vet and get those moms neutered once the young ones are weaned. You don't want them having more litters; it'll be hard enough to find homes for the ones you've got. There are just too many animals and not enough homes nowadays...

Enjoy the cuteness, though! That sounds just the most adorable thing. I bet the kittens and puppies will grow up well-socialized with cats and dogs, too.