Pets!

Anyone want to talk about pets because wow I have a lot.
I have two cats, Jasper (black) and Pixie (brown tabby), a rescue iguana named Fickett (blue), and two parakeets, Petruccio (light green yellow-back graywing) and Jewell (sky-blue opaline).

Fickett likes Jasper, but not Pixie.
I'm trying to hand-train Fickett and Jewell.
Rucci refuses to be within a foot of me.
I want more parakeets.
And a crested gecko.
When Fickett gets too big for his tank...

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Pets are definitely awesome, and I love them!
Though my family doesn't have the best track record....

DOGS;
Our first was a young Australian Shepherd mix that was run over by a car when she was about 2, then we had a Blue Heeler mix that attacked my brother[nearly bit off his nose!] and we had to put it down, and the third, was an amazing mutt, a little on the elderly side, that just showed up last November. We think he was abandoned, because he was fixed, very clearly trained, and just perfect in nearly every way. Sadly, during the winter, he vanished. We don't know for sure what happened, but we think he was chasing after a deer he had injured the previous day while it was trying to snack on some hay [we have cows, so we keep hay on hand] and we think he either got kicked by the deer and knocked unconscious and then froze to death, or killed by either Coyotes or an Eagle.

CATS;
We have a barn, and that pretty much means we have barn cats. Oh...around 30 or so [we finally caught them all and got them fixed so we won't have a flood, we're down to five or six now] and I of course take it upon myself to try and tame the little cuties.

My first try was a kitten litter I found, and I managed to fully tame one female, and semi-tame the two males. That female ended up adoring our flower patches and sleeping in them XD but anyways she was awesome! All black and fluffy, with the weirdest brown underbelly. She was found dead about two years ago D:
Then, since it's my job to feed them some cat food every night, I started just randomly petting the cats [it was the only time they would let me] and this little tabby grew very attached to me. Most cats would claw you if you pet them, well he would claw at me if I WASN'T petting him. Sadly, about three weeks ago, he vanished, and I believe he is dead.

RABBITS;
Okay, so my family tried getting a bunch of Rabbits. We knew before hand that we would be butchering and eating them [we live on a farm, animals have a use, or they are a pet, rabbits for us, are food] but we grew on them anyways. We ended up having one litter of 2, one litter of 3, and most recently a litter of 6. The litter of two survived, and they gave birth to the litter of six. The litter of three pretty much all died before reaching adult hood, and lately, one-by-one, our litter of 6 has been dying. Our oldest rabbit also died about a week ago, and we are down to one, elderly male, and one unknown gender [We can't hold onto it long enough to tell]



So ya, we just have bad luck. But when I go to college[I'm planning on going with a friend of mine who's a year younger than me once she's ready] she's planning on getting a Corgi pup, and I'm hoping to get basically the cat equivalent of a mutt but it's gonna be adorable. We're planning on raising them together, so that they don't try to kill each other, and it's gonna be awesome!

I'm also currently trying to tame a silver tabby barn cat, I picked her up last night....she tried clawing my face off XD

We also have cows, but they are for food [we name them anyways, two bull calves were born this last week :D]
We have sheep too, but again, they are for food. We named them Snowflake and Icicle, and a third one is getting picked up soon, I think we'll name it Elsa if its a girl, and Frost if it's a boy.

Ooh, I never pass up an opportunity to talk about my baby!

My family has a Shepherd mix(Primarily German Shepherd and Kelpie) named Gemma, she's around four years old(Shelter dog, was likely born some time in September or October), and she appears to be the runt of her litter. She's very, uh...lively. I've never seen a dog with so many facial expressions, or one with such an insane jumping ability(That's the Kelpie in her). Fences wouldn't be much good against her, since she can clear the normal fence height. She's a little skittish and flighty- we assume this is the result of being a shelter dog, and we've seen various signs that she may have suffered mild abuse as a puppy in her first home-, but has definitely warmed up in the three years we've had her. Luckily, we don't have any children in our house, as she tends to be a bit overwhelmed by the constant obsession with animals by kids who've never lived with them. Even when we first got her the youngest in our house was eleven, and it was quite entertaining to watch her react to him as he hit a growth spurt and stopped looking so much like a kid.
But here I am rambling again, so I think I'll just cut short there xD

No IRL pets, but I have a few RP pets ;3 I've got dragons, birds, a fox, and at least one skunk :P

Apologies if TMI.

I am TOTALLY  a cat person
I have two gorgeous babies, both females with contrasting personalities.