Post Your Pets

+1 It will be be more likely to be protective of the baby. It's the chace that the dog wants, babies don't run.

Yeah, that's what I think too, as long as he is left in no doubt that the baby is above him in the pecking order then all should be cool, but I've discovered that womens' protective instincts go nuts when they're pregnant and I've got a lot of convincing to do.

Yeah I bet it's tough in that respect but then I'm sure it's not a picnic being pregnant. Good luck with it all.

Headless 3-paw kitty?

Here's a head you can borrow. Now, just need to get another paw.

TaDa! Head and paws are now present:

I bet he/she gets away with an awful lot!!

You'd be surprised, Fenella just dropped her into a watering can.

^Better hope that wasn't caught on video or the both of you will be moving house again very soon.

My fish

6 years old

Responds to the name "Catford"

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My goldfish is nearly 9. (No word of a lie) Comes to the edge of its murky green soup when anyone does the washing up.

My girlfriend and I picked up our first pet yesterday.

Her name's Pebbles, and this is pretty much the only time she stuck her head out from the sofa long enough for a photo last night.

We picked her up from the Mayhew Animal Home. who were awesome too.

My mischievous but normally charming jack russell can not help himself when he sees a cat to chase. Pretty normal behaviour for this breed and usually, well always until now, the cat outwits him with ease.

Tonight he caught a cat in the garden and really got a hold of it. I heard the comotion and pulled the dog off the cat. The cat was in a bad way, no blood but in shock big time and not moving. Called the RSPCA then got a call from the local vet and took the cat to the surgery.

The cat's back legs were paralysed and one of them was broken. It had no microchip so I had to sign the consent form for it to be euthanised. Dark times.

My wife is pregnant with our first child and now feels she could not trust him with a baby in the house so wants to try to rehome him. I think he'll be cool, he knows the difference between a human infant and a prey animal but it's a hell of a call to make if it's the wrong one. :(

In my expreience there's no correlation between a dog's aggression to other animals and how it will be with children. My dog, in the avatar, hated bigger dogs with a passion and needed careful handling around them. He would go for squirrels and foxes like a demented thing (ironically he was cool with cats, but he grew up with them). We had three babies, the first when the dog was 8, and he was fantastic with all of them, with not one moment of aggression.

But you need to do all the usual stuff. Introduce the dog carefully to the baby when you're ready to do that, never leave them alone together, be extra careful around food, etc...but you probably know all of this. If you do it right, it's great for kids to grow up with a dog.

My two chaps, allegedly brothers.
And as puppies, seeing as that's always popular :)

Mimi

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Mogget (black and white boy - very cheeky) & Jelly (Tabby girl - very shy)

Very very sweet!

Mr Sniffy. The world's laziest hamster, waking only (and hilariously) only when my wife wants to watch something on the tv. Whereupon he'll make lots of noise...

Very very sweet!

thanks, only able to take photos when they're asleep atm, they're currently chasing each other round the sofa.

http://www.vimeo.com/15902694

Photo of my old man's new cat. It's either a Serengeti or a Savannah, I can't remember which. She's actually driving him crazy though (talking constantly) and his other 2 cats are living in self-imposed exile. Bloody cute though.

She's gorgeous!

I do love cats that have a wild looking nature about them, with the proportions of 'big cats'. I have two 'African' cats - a Somali and an Abyssinian. Both are nuts in very different ways.

i used to have a bengal and he talked all the time in a very diff cat howl that could get on your nerves at 5am. the cat was hilarious and really fun to observe, but he really needed to be kept busy otherwise he would destroy stuff.