Originally posted by Everyone
pictures of adorable/neat critters
Awww~ :3
I have a lot of pets. Well, only one of them's actually mine but eh. Two dogs and four cats here, and one dog and a horse at my parents' place.
We have Spook, who's literally a "fraidy cat." She'll come to you and let you pet her a bit if you're sitting down, but as soon as you even look like you're going to move, she's gone. She has the loudest purr, though. ^^ Sam, who has the softest fur ever. o.O His tail is adorable.. it kinda has raccoon stripes. He's kind of adopting Spook's .. spooky mannerisms, but as soon as you say something to him he stops running away. He'll pet himself on your hand (or foot, or elbow, or whatever) if you hold it out. And 'Fluffa' (Priscilla). She's a Maine Coon cat, and the sweetest little thing. She's really sick right now, which makes me sad. =/ She's rather old though, so I guess it's to be expected.
Then the dogs. I don't have any recent pictures of them on the computer, so you'll just have to make do with puppy pictures (such a hardship, I know).  Al (short for Alfonse), and Fred (short for Frederick). When their owner calls them, she sometimes ends up saying 'Alfred,' which just amuses me. She keeps them in their cage most of the time, so they're kinda ...hyper. I feel sorry for them, but there's only so much I can do. I take them out when I'm outside, but I can't leave them if I'm not watching them, because they get bored, get loose and take off. And whenever they get loose (no matter who puts them out), I'm the one who has to chase them down.  Their owner broke her foot, and she was staying at her mom's, so for the last month or so I've been working on training them. Before, they'd sit if they felt like it and that was about it. heh. Now they'll sit, lie down, stay (usually. :p), and heel (most of the time.) heh. They're cute, anyway. =/
At my parents', there's Ginger. She's about 13 now, and she's still a good guard dog. That picture's from about a year ago, when a beaver got into my parents' garage somehow. Ginge was not pleased. She let our cats pet themselves on her chin. Example. Pardon the quality.. 'twas taken through a window (screen) and such. As soon as she knows we can see her, she doesn't let them do it. XD She's a goofball. (The cat in the picture's Phantom, my mom's old cat. =/)
I don't have any pictures of Suzy (the horse), but she's ...odd. 'Tis my mom's horse (an AQH). She herds things (people, cows, the dog, whatever's in her pasture), and doesn't like being closed in. She'd rather stand out in the snow/rain/hail/great-balls-of-fire than be in her enclosure. She'll go in long enough to grab mouthfuls of hay or water (only in the winter.. the rest of the time they leave it out) but she bolts back out right away. She's amusing to watch. She gets hyper and does these leaping frolics through her pasture. She'll let you ride her with or without a saddle, but doesn't like bits (at all). We think she was abused before my mom got her, because (among other things) she really didn't like my stepdad at first. Any time he got on to ride, she'd roll him. She's usually okay now, but every once in a while she freaks out a bit again. =/ She's a beautiful horse. ^^
As for my own personal critter... her name's Rainey.
She's the most bizarre cat I've ever had, and I love her to pieces. n.n She keeps me company pretty much whenever she can get to me, but she doesn't really like being cuddled or anything. (Thanks to someone who picks her up and then refuses to let her go even if she's squirming and flailing. ><) She'll let me pick her up and set her on my shoulder, but she'll only stay there for a while if I walk around so she can look at stuff. heheh. I take more pictures of her than anything else on earth, so I'll link a couple more. Stretching, I think. I get weird eye things from the flash a lot. I've tried taking some without it, but my hands shake too much, and my camera isn't the best. When I take some with an iPhone they come out okay (see above, on the back of the chair), but I can't zoom with that, so it's tricky too.
She loves being outside, but we don't let her wander without supervision because we live on a state highway thing. I wasn't used to having an indoor cat before I moved here. My old cat Monty used to follow me everywhere whenever I was outside, and sit on me whenever I sat, but I just figured it was because I was usually gone. He'd wait for me at the end of the lane when I was supposed to be getting home from school. My mom said he'd wait for about half an hour if I had a practice or something (didn't come home on the bus), and then wander back to the house looking dejected.  I couldn't bring him with me when I moved here. They'd closed my parents' road down for construction on a bridge a couple of years ago, so no cars were going through for about 2-3 months, and when they opened it again, he got hit. ._. But yeah, I just figured he was so attached to me when I was out because I wasn't out much, but Rainey does the same kinds of things all day long. She'll be napping next to me, I'll get up and go somewhere else, and she'll wake up, follow me to wherever and curl back up to nap again. If I close a door behind me, she'll stick her paws under the door, paw up at the door handle, and meow to be let in/out (depending on where I am. :p)
... Anyway, I could literally go on for hours, but I think this post is plenty long enough already, and you're probably quite bored! >>;; Sorry for the  ! XD I'm a "bit" pet obsessed. ... I wonder what it'll be like if/when I have kids. Good lord.
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I'll see if I can find any pictures of mine later, but I don't really think we took too many 
It was around 13 cats before I moved out and then dad took in some more before he moved and he still feeds and takes care of any cats/kittens that come his way.
. I used to have another older cat that we first named Kitty (really...). After I moved I started calling him stuff like Ginormous or something silly like that. I haven't seen him in a few years, which is kind of sad 
