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I have two little dogs, male and female, and a hamster. The dogs are my best friends.

i have a dog and shes people crazy...she loves people. when the mailman came she tryed to follow him in the car....when i come downstairs(if i went up for a minute and then i come down) she gets to happy.

i want a cat...a ferret...a rabbit

and a monkey but i wouldnt do that lol

Pippin the bearded dragon.

I have a white cat. She's so cute. I have lived with her for 7 years. She's like a family member to me.

I have no pets of my own, since I am away from home for long periods of time and don't have the time to spend with a pet. I love animals, though, so I enjoy everyone else's pets. - JC

You can have my mutt if you want, he can sustain himself on household trash

I've been having a chinchilla for the last like 7 years I think. She's very active & doesn't like being handled. She's very smart but stupid sometimes. She tosses her hay out her dish & eats it off the wire bottom so most of it falls through & a while latter she starts tossing her pellets out her other dish because she's looking for hay

I have two cats. One is the incessant meowing, knock everything off the table, hide under bed, might suddenly jump and run int he opposite direction or attack my leg type but she is a joy to have. She is a calico Maine Coon and currently her winter coat looks beautiful. I call her my lion. I also call her meowing singing because she does it in the same style all the time. It goes high and short, high and short, high and long, to low and fading. Her name is Lyra and she is one crazy ADHD type of animal but she's also a lot of fun. She likes to curl up really close to me too.

Ari my older cat is a tuxedo cat and is quiet and doesn't get to as much mischief as Lyra. He does come to sit on me more and has his own routines. He gets stuck on sleeping in someone's room and will only want to be fed at 5pm. I feed him at 8am too but if I go outside at 4:30pm he will stay there until 5 and then run inside and ask for his food.
Lyra will ask for her food at 6:30am, 8am after being fed, 1pm, 3pm, 4:30pm where she will become louder and not stop, at 5pm, after 5pm until I turn on the heater which she will drop down in front of and roll onto her back. And stay that way all night.

No litter trays. These two toilet trained themselves.

Right now I have three cats. When I move out I will be getting an Autism Service Dog and I might take my mother's dog with me because she is constantly being mean to him and telling him she doesn't want him.

Until recently I had five fire-bellied toads but they eat live crickets and the noise of the crickets was driving me mad so I took them to a specialised pet store which had found a home for them.

I love turtles but worry about getting the conditions right for them. There are lots of pets I would like, chipmunks, hamster, even ducks and goats but I don't know if it would ever be possible.

Someone I used to be friends with always said I should get a dog, it would get me out of the house she said, and people would be friendly towards me.

Growing up there were a lot of animals in the house. When I moved out for college there was 4 cats, two parrots, two finches, and a dog. At various points we'd also had a different cat, and three different turtles, two lovebirds, and raised caterpillars and released them as butterflies.

One of the cats in particular helped immensely with my autistic traits. I think part of the reason it took so long to apply a label to me is because I didn't have meltdowns until after I didn't have a cat (stress also increased, but I think most of it was actually this cat in particular). While this cat was a standard cat in that it seemed to have aspie traits, it also had me as its favorite person and cared about me differently than the other people. It loved going outside to the point where most of the day if it wasn't outside he'd be trying to get outside (he went outside on a leash). However, if I started getting upset, the cat would notice from across the house, and run up to me and climb onto my bed and rub against me, demand pettings, etc. It meant an immense amount to me. My sister kept trying to claim the cat was hers and that always bothered me because this was /my/ cat. Unfortunately this cat had to be put down a year and a half ago after his body was degrading enough that he could no longer jump onto the couch.

I really really want a cat. We even have a cat-friendly apartment. My boyfriend and I have agreed that as soon as one of us have income and the apartment is cleared out to the point where it is safer for a cat (too much stuff from a larger past apartment), then I can get a cat. This is actually one of my strongest motivations to find employment, because I know how much a cat helps me function. I met a cat at a no-kill shelter last year that was exactly the cat I wanted, functioned well in a small apartment, playful, friendly lap-cat that was a year and a half old and had all its shots. Unfortunately we are trying to be responsible and not get a cat until we don't have to worry about the money required to take care of a cat.

In the long term I want lots of animals, but cats matter most to me because the particular nature of a friendly cat is very calming to me. Birds are one thing we're unlikely to get as they're loud and the noise can cause problems to me and do cause problems for my boyfriend.

I have 2 dogs and like having companionship that is accepting of all my quirks and doesn't have expectations of me I can't live up to.

In regards to the work, it's not actually that much - more important for me though is that it is regular. I tend to get lost in my own interests, and forget about the rest of the world. My dogs will always insist on meals and things though, so I have to stop, and I use the break as a prompt to do other important things (like washing clothes) that I tend to forget about otherwise.

I also don't find pets to be unpredictable, they are fairly straightforward and love a good routine. It is people which I find unpredictable.

Dogs also provide some safe social interaction - most conversations I have with stranger's are when I am walking with my dogs, and the dogs provide ready-made, safe and easy small talk so that I don't have to stress to much about the interaction.


If you don't like/want pets though, I am sure you are not alone - unfortunately there seem to be a lot of people that get pets they don't actually want, and treat them horribly.