Pet Pleasures

The other day, Infinity Goods tagged me for a pet meme.  Okay, I’ll bite.   The rule is, I have to write seven random facts about my pets, and then tag seven people myself.  Let’s see now….

1.   I used to have a goldfish called Fishface when I was about twelve. I won him at a hoopla stall at the Hampstead Fair and bore him home with pride in a plastic bag full of water. He has long since died been called to the giant fishbowl in the sky (via the regular sized toilet bowl in the bathroom).

2.   My mother used to breed Great Danes, so I grew up with these lovely gentle giants.

3.   My young nephew found a crab on the beach at Shanklin, Isle of Wight, some years ago and it took my sister and me quite a while to persuade him that his plan to put it in a box and take it home as a pet was not a good idea, and wouldn’t have been very kind to the crab.

4.   We have three cats now.  One of them likes to sleep on his back which shows how domesticated he is. No cat in the wild would ever do that.  I took a picture of him and used it a header for a Thursday Thirteen.

5.   I don’t believe that cats can talk, or even write blogs, though one of ours does seem to have been writing limericks when I wasn’t looking.

6.   One of our cats has outsize front paws.

7.   We have a hamster too.  I didn’t want one, but after ceaseless bullying from my wife, and my daughter who was visiting, I caved in and they chose a Chinese dwarf hamster.  My wife was delighted.  It turns out that the hamster can’t stand my wife, who loves her, and any attempt at contact is met with full frontal attack and vicious use of her front teeth. On the other hand I, who never wanted her at all, am adored and trusted. She will take food from my fingers and lets me stroke her. My wife, meanwhile, has to suffer the trauma of rodent rejection.

I won't actually tag anyone, but anyone who wants to have a go, please feel free!

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Comments

[PJ]

I've never had a pet, though I wanted one when I was a child, and will probably have one when I get my own place. Before I was born my brother had a budgie called Queenie. Also, my grandma has had an aquarium since I was a child. She had a 20 year old goldfish that died a few months ago and I would always visit him when I went to see her. Now the aquarium's empty, and she needs some more fishy friends.

[melissa]

I think that my old cat I had to have put to sleep at 18 would have had a great blog. He had some serious attitude. My new cats are more MySpace kind of creatures...

How does one get over rodent rejection? I mean, that's pretty low...:)

[Titania Starlight]

Hello Nicholas,
I truly enjoyed this meme. I am an animal lover. Those cat limmericks had me rolling! Those were good. Fishface! Ha ha ha ha ha! You are killing me. Thank you for the laughs. I do not know if that was your intentions but it sure gave me a good chuckle.

Take care.

[Wylie]

Hath hell frozen over?
Nicholas is blogging about cats???
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[EuroPosh]

hamsters are cool, but they die too soon. I have 4 buried in my backyard...

[dangerkitty]

Hi Nicholas!

Thanks for dropping by my TT last week!

I love this pet meme. While none of my cats blog either, I think Aimee will one day take over the internet with her plans for world domination.

[Janet]

#7 ... LMAO! Isn't that always the way?