Other pets (pics and discussions)

[EasternGirl]

My chihuahua ate a brussel sprout.

[aquamentus_11]

I've always said Tank (Chelydra serpentina-Common Snapping Turtle) had dog-like qualities and tonight I saw a sure sign of it.
While in his water I saw a piece of dead skin hanging off his front leg joint area.
I keep a toothbrush handy for times like this and for everyday skin cleaning.
I grabbed the brush and started brushing the area. In classic dog form he started kicking his back leg.
Every time I brushed the area he kicked his leg.
Reminds me of my old dog Alex(R.I.P.) when I scratched a sweet spot on her.
Very funny to see a snapping turtle do this.

that is awesome. had a baby snapper (Jaws) as a kid. he never ate for me and died very quickly.... good to see that someone knows how to do it properly. i did keep a firebelly newt (Flame) alive for 13 years though. He was incredible. I mean this was a newt that I would take out into the ditches during rainstorms and play with with my dinosaurs in the COLD water. He escaped many many times and was always found (sometimes days later) walking across the middle of rooms covered in dust and lint. Keep in mind we had 2 cats: he was a commando. I stopped cleaning his cage at about year 6 and just made sure to keep his water clean. He lived in a skull overgrown with algae, ate like crazy and attacked his pellets ferociously. He died when I went away to college. as an adult, I asked my mom if she pulled the classic mom move and just replaced him every 2 years, but she said amazingly no. He was a paragon of newtdom. I've thought about getting another, but I have very high expectations.

[EasternGirl]

I think my chihuahua is in love with the guinea pig. It's very disturbing.

[guidofatherof5]

Please, no photos. The thought of it is bad enough.

[EasternGirl]

Lol...I don't actually let them near each other. Oh I don't even want to think about that! My dog just whines all the time and wants me to hold him up so that he can stare into the guinea pig's cage and cry at him...and sniff at him...and occasionally the guinea pig looks up and sniffs at him and my dog goes nuts like it's the best thing that's ever happened to him. Goofy little dog.

[tress29]

A friend of mine sit on the bed with her pig and her poodle mix. They'd share bites of carrot. The pig would groom the dog, and the dog would whine if she got too close to the edge!

[PINJOHN]

A friend of mine sit on the bed with her pig and her poodle mix. They'd share bites of carrot. The pig would groom the dog, and the dog would whine if she got too close to the edge!

​my psychiatrist tells me after discussing it with his colleagues that there's enough material here for an entire conference....

[EasternGirl]

I'm going to end up with another darn guinea pig. That little pig is breaking my heart because she is so young and she keeps cuddling up under my arm in my sweater and making these little noises and she doesn't want me to put her down...I think she's lonely. I put a sweater in her cage tonight and she is finally sleeping all nestled up inside of it. So now I'm probably going to go get another dang guinea pig so she won't be lonely. That's twice the poo to clean. And I think that offically qualifies me as a zoo.

[guidofatherof5]

If the sweater is working why buy another one (guinea pig)?

[EasternGirl]

Well, I don't think she's necessarily satisfied with the sweater. I think it's more like a pacifier in place of a bottle. She was acting like she found her long lost mama pig with me tonight when she was snuggled up with me. People have told me and I have been reading that guinea pigs tend to do better with cagemates...and I'm thinking that she is too young to be alone. Knowing how most pet stores are...she was probably weened from her mother too young, but she was with all of her siblings before we bought her.