you sound like me.
i've had sooo many pets in my lifetime.
living in a rural area, we oftentimes just FIND farm animals wandering through the woods and just keep them. here's a little baseline of animals we've had:
-20 goats, give or take a few. they bred like there was no tomorrow. (nubians and boer)
-3 turkeys. tom and gobbler, males. and camellia, the female.
-5 hens. no names.
-2 cockatiels, clementine and valentino, male and female. when valentino was killed by our dog, clementine died shortly after from depression.
-idk like 8 or so hamsters and gerbils. usually ended with a cat eating them, or them going cannibalistic for some reason. nasty shit.
-6 firebelly newts. loved them. my favorite was a 3-legged newt, who i cleverly named sir isaac newton. had him for 3 years before he just died.
-1 albino cornsnake whose name was "no feet". yes. after little bear (f u haters). gave him away when he reached 16 inches. too big for me sry.
-3 horses. a blue-eyed paint named misty who we gave away after she took my mom for a run down the busy interstate. i was 11, so i really had no attachment/care for her other then "ooo pretty." now have 2 mares, one sorrel QH named jess and a palomino/cremello QH/tennessee walking horse cross named Brandie.
- had 3 beagles (jack, bluetick and idr the female's name at the moment...) and an american eskimo dog (snowy) when i was really young. also have had 2 black labs, mickey and xander. we still have xander and he's a retard. he also has a bionic hip from breaking it, and has had a stick completely impale his neck from jumping over a fallen tree while chasing a coon.
- holyfucksomanycats. we have 6 currently. booboo, pumpkin, pookie, snipps, digit, and brandy. have had several others: kitty, peaches, skinny, fritz, jasmine, super, cali, chopper, and god knows how many others.
- 15 or more shorthaired rabbits. my mom bred them and sold them for a while as something to do. i only remember our 12-pound new zealand white rabbit named big buck. he seemed to've lived forever until finally dying of old age when i was about 15.
- guinea hens. they were never named, i want to say we had about 4-5 at one point in time. and they committed suicide frequently by running into the street head-on at cars. our vet said they thought they could 'scare' the cars from our property. too bad it was a back-road highway.
- our neighbor had pot belly pigs, and lord, were they hideous. the piglets used to slip through the fence and come to our house. we fed them and chased them until they were big enough that they couldn't escape our neighbor's pen anymore. so they were kind-of our pets.
- don't even ask me how many fish i've owned. i used to breed mollies for petsmart at home when i was 15. spent about 8 dollars for two females and a male, black velvet mollies. sold the fry for 25 cents each back. i actually made quite a bit of money. also owned numerous bettas, fantail guppies, butterfly koi, corydoras, neon tetras, tiger barbs, zebra danios, kouli loaches, algae feeders, swordtails, YOU NAME IT. just tropical, never had a saltwater. yet.
- 2 rescued paint turtles. hampton and charles.
- african dwarf frogs. i had 3 in my tropical tank. never named them though.
- peacocks. we had 3. only for about a month. do you know how fucking annoying they are? we GAVE them away. asap. and to think, we were amazed when someone said we could 'just have' the beautiful creatures. ffff.
yeah. it's kind of absurd how many animals i've had.
and i swear to god i'm not lying or exaggerating.
living in the middle of nowhere, my parents spoiled my sister and i with pets, as you can see.
there's zombie and flash flaring at eachother.
they're separated. you just remove the veil between them every now and then to let them size eachother up. too much flaring can stress them to death, blah blah. i'm not dumb, i know. and yeah. that's my hand reflecting...
two of my new bettas. i bought three, though.
goby is the other, he's purple and dull. not very pretty at all (sorry goby). i only rescued him because i felt bad. LOL.
there's pookie, my furry child, making her herpderp face.
i'll add a pic of my horses later. i don't have any decent ones at the moment. only cell-phone pics which are really shitty quality.
