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Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

Well I'm a dad.

Oh yes we have 2 young, lithe sprightly young things.

Ones called Salt the other Peppar , yes Salt'n'Peppar

Salt

Peppar

Pictures are crap but you get the gist.

Ones a goldfish (Salt) the other is a Calico Granda (Peppar).

Last night was their first in their new home. Salt being bigger than Peppar was biting him, Peppar eventually retaliates and bites back. i have threatened them with getting flushed down the loo but they ignored me. if they don't settle down a bit more then one will need to get changed or somehting.

Peppar is intresting as hes nearly see through.

Salt is much bigger and looks like a proper fish, he can accelerate quickly in the bowl to.

Need to get some better pics.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i got a mate into fish...odd hobby if u ask me...costs a shit load for all the equipment, plus the fish (if u into tropical fish etc) and i dont get what u get out of it....yes u can look at them, yes they may be relaxing... but it isnt a hobby for me....u cant excatly play with them or interact with them at all expect for hitting the tank and watching them scarper...but i wouldnt even do that as its mean.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

lol

I used to have tropical fish when I was young. We had all the gear massive tank etc. lot of money for a nice thing to look at.

She just wanted pets and wanted a kitten but I said no so fish it is. Low maintenence, you can look at them and so on.

Cheap and cheerfull, no need to worry about them gettint run over etc etc

Its not a hobby its a living ornament.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

my friend has these weird goldfish type ones...they are quite fat looking and their heads look like a tangerine segment....minging

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

Many moons ago,

i used to have stick insects, there were super cool.

untill thay mated and had about 500 of the buggers.

but still, thay where super cool

pritt stick and glow stick

where the original 2 Smile

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I used to have stick insects, never bred though, just died as well. Got them off a mate in school who has also ended up with about 500 of them.

Level 8 User Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 328

I used to keep some weird creatures as well.

Like crayfish! Fish them out of the local river when i was 10! Then there was the stick insects as above, used to have a 4ft fish tank that had about 50 in it. except....... the roof fell in on the tank whilst i was asleep and they escaped around the house!! Mum was not to pleased!!

Then i had goldfish, tried tropicals but killed them!! They where fine, easy, had a cat fish to called blue cause he was a giant blue crested. he grew to about 18 inches, then killed the fish! I took him down to the local river and released him.

2 years on there was a headline in the local rag about a giant blue catfish terrorising the local river and killing the fish and ducks??!!! MMMMMMMM

Hence i never said a thing.

Level 6 User Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 150

my sister's got two funny Guinea pigs and for the last year or so I have had to joy of taking care of them. oddly enough, the black one is named Picachu and the other is called Bright. not that they would react when their names are being called though.... Laughing

you can teach them quite a lot of tricks, provided you always give them some food in exchange... Smile

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

seeing as this has more or less turned into a pet post,

here is my CAT, sleeping in one werid position.

notice the EXTREAM fluff on her

excuse the mess btw Smile

Site Subscriber Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 2281

Naughty boy Chris, you shouldn't keep Oranda's with Goldfish! That's why your Goldfish is being a bugger to the other one!

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

all animals are great really
never been into fishes ,cats or insects etc myself .always believed a mans best friend is a dog
here is my lovely little girl vinny.

she is 15 years old and smarter than many 15 year old kids sometimes.
she lives with my mum at the moment as could not dare to put her into quarantine for six months in order to be able to live in u.k with me and the family

yes as you can see ,i miss her lots.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

Roger Red Hat wrote:

seeing as this has more or less turned into a pet post,

here is my car, sleeping in one werid position.

notice the EXTREAM fluff on her

excuse the mess btw Smile

funny looking car Wink

Site Subscriber Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 589

Ma mate when i was in the Army used to have black Scorpion's, used to feed them insect's, the female had babies and they all ate them (the Scorpion's, not ma mate's Laughing

) but the funniest thing was when we where all drunk one night and ma mate decide's to take one of them out the glass cage and hold it, he's acting all cool saying he'll be fine then it runs up his arm to his neck and adopt's the "am gonna sting you position" , at this point he stopped acting cool and proceeded to shit himself and was screaming for us to get it off .........us being drunk thought this was halarious and told him to fcuk off Laughing

Another time he did get stung though on the hand and his whole arm swelled up and went a funny colour for a few days Sad

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

shit

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

another few pics

This arsehole is Jerry. My mums cat really, theres 2 of them Tom & Jerry.

Toms out but this is Jerry

hes a right dick, I don;t like him, and hes cost a feckign fortune cause hes a retard and throws himself in front of cars etc.

Tom is good though, we all like Tom.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

i used to have 2 cats...one got to 18 and died the other was only about 5 i think...young anyway, but suddenly turned her toes up and died within months of the other....strange.

ive always wanted a dog tho, circumstances dont allow it yet but one day i look fwd to it.

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

Dont mock my car jonnyboy.

0-60 in 3 seconds ill have you know!

:p

and yes i ment CAT!

we had a cat "basil" who lived to 21 Surprised

wich is very old indeed for a cat.

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

aye at 18 mine was looking worse for wear.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

18 was the oldest cat we had. I used to torment the thing when I was wee, so much so it went to my grans to live for about 6 years then we got him back.

Was few years older than me, named Tweaky cos Buck Rogers was new on the telly at the time! lol

the 2 we have are about 8 or so just now.

Site Subscriber Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 1139

well i have a dog and i love him 2 pieces like schakal said hes a mans best friend, i love him more than my misses as he dosnt take money off of me, theres a picture of him and my dad in the pics of the car in the gallery (wen its up and running) hes called Budweiser although its a pain in the arse shouting that so we call him Bud 4 short. Very Happy