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P-A-R-T Why?

Cos we gotta.
 
Loz said:
I no longer have gerbils :(

Mr Hibs identifies as a budgie now, bigot.
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We've had hamsters, various birds, a couple of tarantulas, cats, dogs, rabbits, chinchillas, fish, a guinea pig, and a hedgehog through the years. The 2 budgies we had were killed by the cats. We found their feet on the floor when we got home from dinner one evening. The cats were unusually inactive that night.🤨 "Sky" looked a lot like yours in the picture. Very pretty.

Otherwise the other creatures died of old age, some serious illness, or "mishap." We had our Mourning Dove for 19 years. She developed a neurological problem and kept flipping upside down. Paul saved her twice from drowning when she flipped upside down into her waterdish. Eventually she couldn't stand very well so we had to have her euthanized. It was really sad to see her go. Who knows how much longer she would have lived had that not happened! The vet was amazed at her age as it was.
One tarantula lived for 11 years. They are the easiest pets to take care of. I'm thinking of getting another one.
 
Faith said:
We've had hamsters, various birds, a couple of tarantulas, cats, dogs, rabbits, chinchillas, fish, a guinea pig, and a hedgehog through the years. The 2 budgies we had were killed by the cats. We found their feet on the floor when we got home from dinner one evening. The cats were unusually inactive that night.🤨 "Sky" looked a lot like yours in the picture. Very pretty.

Otherwise the other creatures died of old age, some serious illness, or "mishap." We had our Mourning Dove for 19 years. She developed a neurological problem and kept flipping upside down. Paul saved her twice from drowning when she flipped upside down into her waterdish. Eventually she couldn't stand very well so we had to have her euthanized. It was really sad to see her go. Who knows how much longer she would have lived had that not happened! The vet was amazed at her age as it was.
One tarantula lived for 11 years. They are the easiest pets to take care of. I'm thinking of getting another one.
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Tarantula's are very easy pets to care for. Many years ago I had a Chillean rose called Priscilla, she liked to escape and became very aggressive when trying to get her back in her vivarium, had to wear thick gloves as she'd flick hairs at you and she bit me a couple of times. When she was fed and in a good mood, she'd happily run up and down your arm or sit on your shoulder, then sometimes if you turned towards her, she would touch your lips with her forward legs, Mrs Bounder would cringe!
 
We had adopted a second tarantula(Purple) from a coworker whose roomate left it behind when he moved out. It rear upped and flicked hairs at any movement nearby. We only had it a short time before it molted and turned out to be a male so it only lived for one year after that. It was a beautiful spider.
 
I frightened one of the SACs when I was working abroad. The birds were astoundingly noisy in the morning & the evening and one time I yelled up at them SHUT UP YOU NOISY BASTARDS!
Sarah looked at me very differently after that, having made the original error in judging me a quiet, reserved and very professional contractor. Which I was 95% of the time.

Coincidentally, I had worked with her estranged husband the year before - not awkward at all. She broke one of the NCOs eventually, he had to go home on a sicky.

Good times.
 
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