Welcome to The Lounge! Grab a drink, settle in and tell a tale or two. This week is about pets. We’re not fussy here at the lounge, we accept old or new tales. Just link up at the bottom of this post and be sure to share the comment love!
As I am writing this, our foxy Layla is running from one end of the house to the other rubbing herself on all of the things. You see, I made the mistake of bathing her. She hates it, hates water at all. However she smelt like arse, so it was time for a dunkin’.
My two balls of energy during one of their quieter times
Layla isn’t Mr 5’s first pet. We did have Jag, a cat who was a little too close to his wild cat buddies. He was badass. He took no prisoners and generally hated everyone, unless you were in the process of feeding him. Even then it was touch and go if you didn’t put the food into his bowl quick enough.
Jag liked to think he was a tough wild cat but deep down he was a wuss.
My first pet was a dog called Bella. I don’t actually remember Bella but my parents have a couple of photos of me with her. My parents had to end up giving her away as she thought that I was her young charge. This may seem like a sweet, good relationship for a kid to have with their pet. However my parents said that this meant that while she was around, no one else was allowed near me. The final straw being when she snapped at someone.
Bella and I. I was 2 or 3 here.
We had a few pets during my childhood but cats seemed to be the ones that stuck around the longest. They were all the perfect stereotypes of being a cat too. Although the cat that my parents have had for the last 10 or so years has been one of the strangest. She has a bit of a shoe fetish and regularly brings home a shoe or two for my parents. Thongs (of the shoe variety not the lingerie variety) are also not safe around her. She likes to chew the hell out of them!
Toushka wasn’t impressed that I was reading a book and not patting her
That’s an overview of the pets we’ve had. There were some in between, but I didn’t want to bore you with all of the pictures!
What was your first pet?
Do your kids have pets?
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My first pet was a corgi cross named Tiger. Then we had Mishka (black german shepherd x kelpie) and then Gus (red cattle x kelpie). After many years of waiting we finally have our own dogs, Evie and Mandie. Who are currently carrying like pork chops outside so I better go and sort them out!
Pets are great, aren’t they? They certainly enrich your life!
Lol at your parents’ cat —- I reckon it has a personality problem and thinks it’s a dog! 🙂
My first pet {and currently also my pet}, is my cat Pebbles. She, along with my second cat Buttons, made me a cat-person when I used to be solely a dog lover.
We have Cookie and Henrietta, aka Sylvester and Tweety. It’s hilarious. That photo of you as a girl is so cute, as is Layla. Cookie definitely needs a bath atm, too! So happy to finally link up again! I miss all your awesomeness. xo
My first pet was a dog named Zoe. I don’t remember her though but do have a photo. Rhemus was the next pet I remember, a dog, but he was attacked by dingoes. We lived on a property at the time 🙁 I also remember dusty, my horse. We didn’t have her long when she was injured in a storm. I don’t know the whole story as I was still only young. I had a black cat named Alf when I was 9. We also had a rescued dog. Bella was a boxer and beautiful but died from a paralysis tick when I was. My most memorable pet was my Rat, Ralph. I had him for a few years and he passed away of old age. We have had fish along the way too. Now that we have children we decided to add a pet to our family again, now that we are in a place that we can have one. Izzy is our American Bulldog and although we only got her 18 months ago, she turns 6 (human years) on April 1st.