Do you remember your first pet? Was it a dog, cat, bird, turtle, fish?

[Backseat Driver]

96. I think grandma was influenced by J. Fred Muggs,

the chimp mascot on Dave Garroway's Today Show, 1953-1957. They live as long as people, you know, and I think my mom shut it down--see the grandkids or keep the chimp, LOL! Grandma also had a feisty little, very nervous, very spoiled, Pomeranian she always put away when we visited and she raised parakeets for sale. Grandma was a live-in caretaker of a blind, diabetic lady for many years.

More on home pets: Budgie Birds: Honeybun was powder blue; also a green one; stray kitties (oops, we fed them on the porch): Calico got PG (how else to learn about birth in the basement and death?--all 6 given to the pound post-weaning save Auggie, who died of natural causes) and an orange kittie, Fluffy(?). who we brought home from the field behind the house, who subsequently got out, and was run over on the street) Ginger, a stray beagle mix who got a forever home, and a huge stray Irish Wolfhound named GiGi, also got a forever home. Turtle and fish from Woolworth's never lasted long.

DH and I have had two beagles, Woody and Happy, a Cocker Spaniel, Amadeus, a Mountain Feist, Parker, and currently have senior dogs, Havanese Coco and a Shih Tsu, Diva. In the past are also two kitties, Ivy and Tiger. We kept a fresh water tank of fish when newly married; our daughters had a bunny; when our daughter lived with us while going to college, we helped her care for a salt water aquarium. She's had two Russian Blue kitties she adopted together, real Blue(s) Brothers, Jake and Elwood, and now fully degreed and fledged, she has another adopted little rascal, Tobi. So yep, a lot of fun furkids!

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