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what was your first pet?

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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/21 16:37 i just wanted to start a topic on what everyone's first pet was whether it be a reptile or amphibian or something else. so what was your first pet that was your's not a family pet but mainly your's. mine was a red rose hair tarantula that i rescued in third grade from these guys that wanted to get rid of her and they couldn't find a home for her so they were just gonna kill her and so i took her in.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/21 20:53 Hard one to answer since I was pretty lucky and always seems we had a pet around...usually mine.

Since my Mom worked, during the summer we lived at my Grandparents on a farm they rented. I could have been a kitten there or maybe a chicken...usually a banty. I think my hound dog came much later.

In the city I had fish(guppies I think were first or a goldfish), I had my dog King which we had to bottle raise, and there was my rabbit Stinky.

Sometime in there, we had the hatchling red eared slider during that craze. It would have been the first reptile I had.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/21 22:06 thats kool. i wish i had a hatching red ear slider.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/21 22:25 They are cute and colorful, but they are a lot of work and not very hardy



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/21 23:48 yeah that doesnt surprise me one bit.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/22 08:38 Nice topic, Reptileguy3

My first own animal was a small turtle. Unfortunately I don't know the species, but he was so cute and -and here I'm very much ashamed- we never done any research on how to keep him. The shop owner told us what to do (us = my parents) and I did. In those days I'm afraid there was not much awareness for consiencely keeping animals other than dogs and cats and other larger animals...

Luckily enough this is a very long time ago and things did change.

Furthermore I've had cats and dogs and 'walking trenches' as they were called in the Netherlands (I'll have to look up what their real name is)

Oh, and birds, of course. And fish (goldfish) - of which I can tell an amazing story: we had a goldfish whose bowl broke while cleaning it one time. My mom put it in a ceramic pot (rather small) and up on the cupboard. It was and lived there for years. Because of its hardfastness my mom decided to buy a nice glass bowl again after several years. Unfortunately it seemed to have liked the ceramic pot better because after one week (or even shorter, I can't remember) in the new glass bowl it died



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/22 16:18 thanx Eve. thats an interesting story about your goldfish. maybe it felt more secure in the ceramic pot. yeah, definitely look up the name of those "walking trenches" cause i'm curious as to what they are. i mean i could look it up but you kinda offered to already...lol. yeah things have changed as far as what people now know about so many more types of animals as pets.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/23 09:25 Okayyyy I got it (rather difficult it was as well, because it seems only in dutch they're called 'walking trenches' ) They're called 'Phasmida' and you can see them here (please click)


interesting little creatures hey?



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/23 16:49 wow those are kool. they look like a species of walking stick bugs. do you know if they are or not?



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/23 20:50 Gold fish, then a kitten, then the kitten ate the gold fish claiming its title on top pretty basic nothing exciting



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/23 20:53 kittens can be funny.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/24 04:42 O.K.,I grew up with goats, rabbits, pigs, dogs,and cats, and we always picked up any kind of reptile crossing the road. Most summers, me and my younger sister Bonnie, would collect box turtles, painted,spotted,cooters, and snappers. We would keep them awhile, and release them back where they came from before fall. My mom did not like snakes, but she was always willing to pull the car over when we saw one in the road.( even if it was a 5ft black rat!)I never really kept any snakes for more than a summer, exept a northern water snake for 3 years. I let her go at a nearby pond. I guess my first pet i could call my own was a green iguana named Hanna.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/24 08:01 ReptileGuy3, look here it does say they're an insect The Phasmatodea are an order of insects, whose members are variously known as stick insects (in Europe), walking sticks (in the United States of America), ghost insects[citation needed] and leaf insects.



Sarah,
My mom did not like snakes, but she was always willing to pull the car over when we saw one in the road.( even if it was a 5ft black rat!)
keeping all carwindows closed I assume?



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/24 08:03 BanditDOT, kittens are FUN! I photograph them all the time in the streets (we have loads of streetcats in Israel, at least - in the area I live)



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/24 20:45 Sarah, thats nice of you to have helped any critters on the road. an iguana, nice. Eve, i thought so. i used to be all into insects and such so i still remember a few things. Eve, your from israel? i didnt know. (that kinda explains how you knew that iguanas were a popular pet in israel).



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/29 18:48 my first pet was either an iguana or my guinea pig named egg lady...i dont remember her name before that but her name was changed to egg lady after she gave birth to 6 babies. we sold 4 of them and kept two. I got one and my brother got the other. the one i got was named bart and i dont remember my brothers. Bart was all black and really cute. My brother put him up in a windoeseal one day and then had to pee and when he came back bart had fallen off the window seal and died.

I miss my iguana the most though



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/29 18:54 That's sad Reptilegirl. I can understand how a child wouldn't think doing that could be dangerous.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/29 18:56 yeah i know you do. i'm sorry(bout both the ig and the guinea pig).



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/29 18:57 her brother is a few years older jacqturtle.



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what was your first pet? - 2007/07/29 19:03 yeah. my brother is 7 years older than i am and i was 5ish when it happened

he's made up for in the past years. He's my best friend now and that bart thing doesnt bother me anymore



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