How Many Animals Do You Keep That Are Considered Pets To You?

[eggsandhens]

I have fish/shrimp, four chickens, two quail, a pigeon, a dog, and several cats. They’re all pets. I used to have a rooster-only flock, and whenever people would ask why I had them, I simply answered that all my chickens are pets, and that includes the roosters.

Wait a sec.... what did you say? You have shrimp? That’s so cool, where do you keep them?

 

[igorsMistress]

Nice!



I’m planning on getting a lot more chickens, and hopefully not all of them get named (I will be very upset when they die)

It was difficult even without naming them. Soup is a necessary byproduct of breeding, no one wants roosters.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Total animal count fluctuates between about 15 and 50. But only three, the dogs, are pets. The chickens and rabbits are food and breeding stock.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Wait a sec.... what did you say? You have shrimp? That’s so cool, where do you keep them?

I keep them in a 10 gallon aquarium. They’re a type of dwarf freshwater shrimp called red cherry shrimp. The biggest they get is an inch and they live about a year. They breed very quickly.

 

[MysteryChicken]

We have 2 dogs, & 3 cats.

86 birds, count includes turkeys and guineas.

I keep chickens as both pets, & food. 13 are gonna be butchered including the turkeys soon.

 

[Chickenslol]

11 pets, (ten chickens one dog) all are my pets, though pretty sure the rest of my family thinks of my chickens as dinner lol

 

[Hei 20]

100% pets. cat & rooster

 

[eggsandhens]

Total animal count fluctuates between about 15 and 50. But only three, the dogs, are pets. The chickens and rabbits are food and breeding stock.

Woah!

I keep them in a 10 gallon aquarium. They’re a type of dwarf freshwater shrimp called red cherry shrimp. The biggest they get is an inch and they live about a year. They breed very quickly.

That’s so cool!

We have 2 dogs, & 3 cats.

86 birds, count includes turkeys and guineas.

I keep chickens as both pets, & food. 13 are gonna be butchered including the turkeys soon.

86! Wow, nice job!

 

[MysteryChicken]

Woah!



That’s so cool!



86! Wow, nice job!

Thanks, & I need more coops, but my grandpa is stubborn .

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

2 horses - both unwanted rescues, 1 is a gelding that follows me like a puppy dog, the other is a spoiled rotten mare that is a daddy's girl. Rofl

1 dog - shepherd / aussie mix, getting up there in his years.

1 cat - part Maine coon, part tabby and always my bedtime snuggler.

9 cockerels of various ages (trying to find homes for a bunch of them, hubby said we can only keep 3) and 11 pullets of various ages.

1 pet rock - it sits on my kitchen window sill, my daughter made it in kindergarten as a mother's day present and it's been with me ever since.

They are all my babies and I love each one dearly.