CP Pets Thread!

[redforever]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Yeah, tell me about it.

Right now, his name is "Buster." That, of course, is subject to change.

Good choice, when I was still a child, that was my first dog's name.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Hunger is your best friend. It might sound cruel but animals learn to trust the hand that feeds them. Don't leave food in the cage. Whenever it's feeding time, insist they eat from you or they don't get to eat at all. Over time, they will get used to you being their source of food.

Makes sense. Is that something you did daily? How many times/week? After you have them trained like that, do they come and land on your shoulder? It is funny you mentioned the hunger angle as the only times my birds came to me willingly, they were clearly after some food. I will give that a rip next time. Just have to get myself a new birdcage and a ton of toys to put in it.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

Makes sense. Is that something you did daily? How many times/week? After you have them trained like that, do they come and land on your shoulder? It is funny you mentioned the hunger angle as the only times my birds came to me willingly, they were clearly after some food. I will give that a rip next time. Just have to get myself a new birdcage and a ton of toys to put in it.

The problem with having more than 1 bird is that basically they bond with other birds and not you (similar to why they are attracted to mirrors), therefore they will never willingly bond enough so that they would really care to land on your shoulder or have anything to do with you. If you can hand-feed them, it means they trust you, but they still don't really care about human beings since there are other birds around. If you have a single bird, it's much easier to have it bond with you instead (keep it away from mirrors) and then you can have the budgies that climb up your pants, sit on your shoulder, nibble at food crumbs at the side of your mouth, etc. drink from your glass of water that I have had the pleasure of meeting before.

In fact, if you have a single male budgie, it's possible to teach them to speak because they treat human language as songs to learn when they are chicks, there was a budgie that had an intelligent vocabulary of 1000 words and he even knew about specific days and events (he would say Merry Christmas every Christmas). Keep a budgie with other budgies and they will only speak in bird talk.

I didn't really train my guys to any specific regime. Just fed them whenever I felt like I had the time to waste by leaving my hand in a cage for 5 minutes. Animals like human beings all have different personalities and there was just one guy who didn't care and was fearless since I bought him and would eat anything you put in front of him while the others were scared of human contact. I just put my hand in there with seeds and he would eventually come over and start eating and then out of instinctual feeding behavior, the other budgies would watch his example, see there was nothing to worry about and slowly come down and eat as well.

[dissentowner]

I am to post the exotics but I will post my kitties!

This is my Chocolate Oriental Shorthair Drizzt


This is my Chocolate Seal Point Siamese Fu Man Chu

And this is my newest additon just a few days ago. I adopted her and I didn't get a chance to clean her eyes before the pic was taken. This is my new Sphynx Jinx.

[dissentowner]

Come on, I want to see more pets!

[Frank MetaMusil]

This is Capone. He's a 3 1/2 year old Rotty-coonhound mix.

[Traditional_Ale]

I want to see an updates pic of Reggie's golden.

[Lee of Red]

Great thread!

I have a velveteen/netherland dwarf lop called Basil.

[Yanda]

Simon (H. "Griffindor" the 2nd)


Shadow



Prob the only time they have ever gotten along.

[pylon]

My wiener dog Molly. Such an awesome dog.

[Cowperson]

With the passing of Abby and Keeper late last year . . . . . . newcomers Pete and Ruby, both owner surrenders, 2.5 years and 1.5 years old respectively, Ruby the first to arrive about six months ago and Pete about 1.5 months ago.



. . . . . and enjoying the rising grasslands of their prairie home a few nights ago . . .



. . . . . . and getting to know each other . . . .



Cowperson

[LGA]

This is Loki, my three year old Shiba. I found that if I throw my hoodie over him he will just sit there and look pathetic.

[Mass_nerder]

RIP Fudge April 2010-July 11 2011

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

I am to post the exotics but I will post my kitties!

This is my Chocolate Oriental Shorthair Drizzt


This is my Chocolate Seal Point Siamese Fu Man Chu

And this is my newest additon just a few days ago. I adopted her and I didn't get a chance to clean her eyes before the pic was taken. This is my new Sphynx Jinx.

More pics of Jinx, please! Where did you get him? What's he like? Does he need any special care because of the no-hair thing?

[Suzles]

Originally Posted by Mass_nerder

RIP Fudge April 2010-July 11 2011

Oh my gosh. How sad. So very young. Sorry for your loss.

[Prairiefire]

Here's Maggi on her first day here

[Mass_nerder]

Originally Posted by Suzles

Oh my gosh. How sad. So very young. Sorry for your loss.

Lillies are incredibly poisonous to cats...just learned the really hard way

[Hockeyguy15]

Sorry for your loss...

[Prairiefire]

And here are some of my fish I have around 50 tanks running now.

[Regulator75]

50 tanks?!?! Wow.

Those cichlids are looking great.