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We have just acquired a Blue Bloodline Beautiful miniature schnauzer! She is gorgeous. Looking to buy another one next year.

Cute dog though I wanted to test her on 5 acres with sheep.

Although 9 weeks old, the instinct to round up was instant the time I put her down. She showed no fear (being 2.9 kgs)! I wanted a little dog for work, hunting vermin and friendship. She has surpassed all expectations.

I am used to blue heelers. She had enough energy and courage to equal them.

I am looking at buying a Jersey cow, Cashmere goats, and the black odd chook. None are to be eaten - I'll eat someone else’s pet!

My question is what pet do you have?
What do they do?
Anyone with a working property pet?
Anyone on the land?
 
We have two gorgeous and hilarious ferrets.

I reckon they'd be great traders. They can get into all sorts of places, and find things no-one and no-thing could.

They have also been known to take a liking to people's leather wallets. :p: Must have been property spruikers in past lives. :p:

Had a goat for a while as well, because we CBF doing the gardening. He was a lot of fun. Ate our plastic bags for us, but would forget where his water was. Walking out in the morning to see him giving himself head was not the best start to a day though I must admit. :rolleyes:

And no, in the suburbs.
 
6 chooks, 1 male coolie, 1 russian blue , son has 2 coolies one preg. 1minature pig. in suburbs, mad house. great fun.
 
i love animals, in my younger days we had.

5 dogs, 3 ducks,4 cats,1 goat, 2 pigs and 2 dozen chooks a huge fish pond but sadly though current living arrangements does not allow me to have any pets at all:(:(. a few tears were shed when my favorite pig was sent to the abattoir as he became too big.
 
I have a red cattle dog/kelpie cross who is about to celebrate his 14th birthday. You would swear he was only 6 except for a developing case of cloth ears!

We scooped him up for free when he and his sister were give aways outside the local vet cum pet store out in west Qld. Apparently, he came from very good working parents (many people chased me down as they wanted to breed off him but we had already given him the chop :().

He lived with us in town and was never put to work however his instinct was natural and when we played with him he would always try and round us up, when he played with other dogs rather than chase the ball he would always take the dog out. He also liked to be chased and sometimes up to 10 of us would try and catch him but he could dart and weave like the wind.

After spending the first 4 years or so in the country he moved with us to the city and then the coast. He is our pride and joy, a great watch dog, and makes us laugh every day. However, he is also a spoilt, greedy, little mama's boy.

I sometimes wonder what his sister is doing. I imagine she was taken on to a property and put to work. I think if she met him today she would be disgusted at his decadent lifestyle. It would be good for him though as he thinks we don't do nearly enough for him. :D
 
We live in an aprtment, so we actually have a pet rat.

They are very smart, much like chops' ferrets im guessing. Each with their own personalities.
 
kennas said:
I'm coming back as a goat.
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So you can eat plastic bags as well, I take it? :D

prawn_86 said:
They are very smart, much like chops' ferrets im guessing. Each with their own personalities.
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I'm not sure about smart exactly...

Probably the most plotting and scheming animals I know...

They have absolutely no fear at times... and then are scared of the most stupid things. :rolleyes:

I mean, they used to think the goat tasted pretty good. But get their feet wet... and nup, they're off. :rolleyes:

Talk about personality though...
 
I've got a rescued native Australian honeyeater.....manorina melanocephala.

We were walking in the park and saw this tiny (about the size of a 20c coin), featherless bird - must've been freshly hatched as it still had scrambled egg juices on it. It's eyes were still closed and it was almost blue. It was a cold day and the poor little bugger was pretty lifeless. When they are tiny they can only be away from their parents for a few hours otherwise they starve and freeze to death. We wrapped it up, took it home and fed it some Honeyeater solution.

For the next few days we fed her every hour, kept her warm and supervised her progress.

Now 6 weeks later she has become the cutest, most affectionate little member of the family.

Of course, being wild, we will eventually allow her to join her friends outside once she has learnt feed herself and fly. For now we just adore her.
 
Tweaksta said:
I've got a rescued native Australian honeyeater.....manorina melanocephala.

We were walking in the park and saw this tiny (about the size of a 20c coin), featherless bird - must've been freshly hatched as it still had scrambled egg juices on it. It's eyes were still closed and it was almost blue. It was a cold day and the poor little bugger was pretty lifeless. When they are tiny they can only be away from their parents for a few hours otherwise they starve and freeze to death. We wrapped it up, took it home and fed it some Honeyeater solution.

For the next few days we fed her every hour, kept her warm and supervised her progress.

Now 6 weeks later she has become the cutest, most affectionate little member of the family.

Of course, being wild, we will eventually allow her to join her friends outside once she has learnt feed herself and fly. For now we just adore her.
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Hazaar!! :xyxthumbs Nice work Tweaksta.

Nothing interesting here on the pet front. We have a King Charles Cavalier named Daisy. She loves her bed, her food and her walks and is best friend to my 2 year old son.

She was the runt of her litter and so is extra small and extra cute. When in the park people always say what a cute puppy she is but we always correct them and tell them she is 5. The look of disappointment on their faces is priceless.

We also live across the road in the burbs from a fairly large nature reserve so we get a lot of native birds in our yard who also like to torment Daisy because they know she will not ever catch them, quite funny to see, especially when a few different species team up and bombard her, haha.

Actually, I take that back, very interesting on the pet front here. (I guess you take it for granted until prompted to think about it)


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Cute dog.

We have three guinea pigs.
Very cute, sociable, don't smell and easy to look after.
Our kids love them.
 
I got mine from the local pound and is one of the best dogs i've owned.

His name is Buddy and he is a staffy x kelpie (Well supposedly)

He is about 5 years old and is just so easy to train and knows exactly what he can and can't do, but of course he pushes his luck every now and again.

Loves chasing anything and cats are his specialty

He's my mate.
 

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We've got a concrete cat......pretty realistic, even local moggies look twice, anyway its very easy to look after.......just the occasional dusting down required
 
HI GUYZ

I own a cute 10 year old long haired domesic Cat, best thing about him is I will always remember his birthday so I can buy him a nice fish to eat. He was born on the 9th of September 1999 or 9/09/99.

He was nuded soon after he was born, but I have a small toy lion which he enjoys playing with in a sexual manner, naughty kitty.

Anyway i was just wonder if it is possible to buy a Chincilla in Australia as a Pet does anyone know where I would be able to get one, or if it is even possible? I want to buy one for my wife for Christmas.

Cheers

Spartn

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Green08 said:
We have just acquired a Blue Bloodline Beautiful miniature schnauzer! She is gorgeous. Looking to buy another one next year.

Cute dog though I wanted to test her on 5 acres with sheep.

Although 9 weeks old, the instinct to round up was instant the time I put her down. She showed no fear (being 2.9 kgs)! I wanted a little dog for work, hunting vermin and friendship. She has surpassed all expectations.

I am used to blue heelers. She had enough energy and courage to equal them.

I am looking at buying a Jersey cow, Cashmere goats, and the black odd chook. None are to be eaten - I'll eat someone else’s pet!
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They say;
  • people often resemble their pet, and
  • you can tell a lot about a person by their pet


My question is what pet do you have?
What do they do?
Anyone with a working property pet?
Anyone on the land?
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I'm not gonna answer (yet) for fear of incriminating myself.

Chops with ferrets... sorta reflects somethin ;) ... but I got a 'ferret' of sorts too.

xyzedarteerf: ...in my younger days we had... 5 dogs, 3 ducks,4 cats,1 goat, 2 pigs and 2 dozen chooks a huge fish pond. So that's why I can't make head nor tail of yer name. :eek: :)

PS: ... these too... :eek: :cautious:

Real1ty said:
I got mine from the local pound...
Loves chasing anything and cats are his specialty

He's my mate.
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arco said:
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We've got a concrete cat......pretty realistic, even local moggies look twice, anyway its very easy to look after.......just the occasional dusting down required
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Whiskers said:
They say;
[*]people often resemble their pet, and
[*]you can tell a lot about a person by their pet
I'm not gonna answer (yet) for fear of incriminating myself.
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So your deduction of me is? The pup has been acquired. The rest will come in time.

Some on Whiskers what type of Pet do you Have? UM cat perhaps? :rolleyes:
 
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