Kingdom of Knuffel

Four cats
Mouse, my grouchy old broad of a cat, female
Jazz, a stretchy stinky squeaky kitty, female
Big Guy, the fat one, Jazz's brother
Corbin, the dumb one, Jazz's son

They all like catnip

I used to own a rabbit, she was an albino and I named her Joy. My sister also got a rabbit at the same time, a brown lop named Almond. He and Joy got along really well.... really well. Sadly my mom and dad had them both fixed as soon as we found out they had been doing what rabbits do. She was pregnant and I begged my mom to wait until after the babies were born, but she refused.

memoriam wrote:My boyfriend had a cat that basically was raised with him, and she was absolutely used to licking his hair. It became a problem when he let it grow though

Pingbot wrote:I have horror stories about gerbils, though. I think small rodents are really cute, but I never want to own one again. I kind of wish I knew someone who did, so I could visit them and observe their cuteness not in a pet shop, but ....nope. Not for me.

What about gerbils? My bf had a whole herd of them once and he never said a bad thing about them. Maybe the thing that his little sister opened the door to their room and let the cat in, deciding it's Tom&Jerry playtime... You can imagine what was left from the poor herd of gerbils

They were always pretty nice to us, and I don't remember them ever biting, although the first one we had liked to chew on the bars of the first cage we had them in and drove everyone kind of nuts. But then there were the two bad instances. They're kind of gross, so I'll stick them under a spoiler.

Yea... that's kinda something you need to watch out for in rodents. I kinda think the reason they might do it is because they never get meat in their diet? I don't know I would need to look up the reason.

Oh, wow, Pingbot, that is pretty scary But I think that Cecona may be right about the meatless diet. Because rodents actually do eat meat, and they need the protein from it. In nature gerbils or hamster or any other rodent that we keep as pets, they eat worms or other insects. Pure protein. I'm not sure the food we give them has enough of it, and maybe that's the reason.

But when the animals bite the cage it usually means they're bored. At least that's what I heard/read/was told/and also according to my experience.

As to horror stories (I don't think this counts as one, but...), I once had a fish that jumped out of the aquarium and I found it about few days later, dried out on the floor... It was awful, I kind of don't like to have fish now, I'm the worst owner for fish

I would give my hamster protein packed nuts and seeds, she really liked pistachios, and whenever she chewed on her cage door I took that as a signal she wanted out so I would put her in her ball and let her roam the house.


Oh fish! I love fish, especially the really pretty ones. The best way to avoid jumpers is to have a tank with a lid or cover of some sort. I had a tank that was built into something that looks like a cabinet, only the cabinets held the filtration systems and stuff for the tank. It had a lid so I didn't have that problem.

Our 100 gallon salt water tank didn't have a lid though, and we had a few jump out but we usually caught them very quickly and put them back. I think only one died because he was out of the water just a little too long. I think we lost more fish to the fans that circulated the water than the lack of a lid.

It's just so nice and relaxing watching the fish swim and stuff, and if you put your finger in my freshwater tank the goldfish would swim up and nibble on it. -sigh- I miss my fish, but they had to stay in Texas when I moved to South Carolina.

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Hmm, never really thought about that before. It definitely makes sense, I suppose we are just used to applying human morals and thoughts to animals.

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Indeed, I recently learned that domestic cats are pure carnivores much like their bigger cousins. However most of the food you give cats doesn't even have real meat unless you give it canned or homemade food.