Two goldfish I had in NYC were named Lumpy and Fishy!

Nut and Peanut (birds). Peyoyte, Lucy, Maggie, Boo-Boo-, Max, Morris, Petunia, Sam,Doofus, Bryce, Midnight (cats). Gilgimish, Nubia, Cuddles, Precious, Nikki (dogs).
Binky (mouse). Sheba (tarantula).

Cornell Medical School - fell in love with one of the lab mice - brought him home - we had great fun with him/her. Unfortunately Binky impaled on a huge cacti we had and died.

and currently, a GSD named Noelle

He wasn't fat, he was just big and fluffy. He was mostly Persian and a sweet, gentle kitty.

I swear she looked like a 500 lb woman walking on stilletto heels. Sooo funny!

My favorite kitty! She was 17 when she died. She came to me meowing one day for me to pick her up and hold her. I was on the computer, holding her like a baby and noticed her purring had stopped and her paws were getting cold. I held her for the longest time, then we wrapped her up in a cotton blanket and buried her along with her sister's ashes.

We've got a little bit of literary thing going on (Shakespeare/ Cervantes).

I loved them all,but Skipper number one and Snoopy I will miss forever.

So many years ago,but that memory is right here,when I get reminded of him.

Mousey (Cat) 1963-1982
Tarzan (Cat) 1991-2010
Neither named by me, Mousey had a Notched right ear due to a teething incident when i was around 9 months old, but she never held it against me.

We always had dogs and cats, growing up. But what I really wanted was a horse!

I counted about 15 dogs and innumerable cats. Some of the dogs - Lady, Taffy, Max, Major, Brandy, Sparky.

Some of the cats: Smokey, Spooky (2), Black Kitty, Charley the Cat, etc. There were LOTS of cats over the years.

wonderful dog (German Shepherd, long gone), rather nasty tabby cat (long gone), super sweet dog (Black Lab mix, rescue, long gone), rather nasty tabby cat (rescue, long gone), super nice dog (chocolate lab, rescue - 8 yrs old), amazing tabby cat (found us in our yard, no longer with us), somewhat aloof but really cool dog (chocolate lab. give away found in classified ad, 7 yrs old), superb mysterious cat (Maine Coon, rescue, 2 yrs old), cuddly, wonderful cat (tabby, rescue, less than a year old)

...but after Sparky, all the rest were cats, in this order:

Lionel, Meatball, Martha, PITA (PainInTheAss), Loose Lucy, Alarm Clock (but he was usually called Sox), and Chibi (who is the current King of the House, going into his 13th year).

All of these guys were strays, or kittens born to feral cats, which we took home.

followed by cats:

Kitty, Tulip, Charles, Leonard, Spot, Teddy, Alice, Woody, Milo, Jeoffry and Pixie.

As a kid:
Mulligan (cat - age 7 till age 21)
Goldie, Bkackie, & Patchy (goldfish -age 10 till ?)
Guppies (no names, many as a child)
Goethe & Kafka (white mouse & black mouse - age 16ish)

As an adult:
Esau (golden retriever, lived to age 10)
Kato (cat, lived to age 18)
Sunshine (golden retriever, lived to age 15)

Currently:
Lucky and Fuzzball (cats, now almost 2 years old)

We're also planning to get a puppy in a couple months - a golden retriever, of course.

Minerva.

I don't really remember Midnight, my parents had him when I was really young. He was all black.

Tiger was a tabby we had when I was a kid.

Felix, TT (short for Tiny Tiger) and Tut (short for Tutankhamun), were actually strays who came into our house - we never "owned" them, but they were friendly animals. Felix was orange and white, TT was a tabby with some orange, and a very small cat, Tut was all black and looked very much like the cats in Egyptian paintings, hence the name.

Smokey was the cat I got when I was 12 and had for 15 years. He looked like a blue-point Balinese. Beautiful cat, but he was probably ill-treated as a kitten and had serious behavioral issues. He was still a great pet.

Minerva (or Minnie, for short) is our current cat, a 7-pounder who looks like a Russian blue with yellow-green eyes. She's a very sweet, affectionate cat, and I'm absolutely her cat servant for life

Currently pets, kitty #2, Schubert (border collie and the only dog) and Marilyn (she has a Marilyn Monroe) beauty mark.

Boots, Mom Cat, Cercie, Jet, Sneakers, Buddy, Addie, Emma, Mose, Jackie, Poly, and the nine kittens from two litters
I still have Jackie and Mose(brother and sister).

Benedictine Brandy aka Ben, my first pet as a kid, a big goofy Irish Setter. Truffles, then Snowball, both teddy bear hamsters. Sambo, our black kitty that we found in the basement of our house after moving in...then Elizabeth mama cat to Jack, Buffy, and Max...Elizabeth was preggers when we found her.

Good lord...I can't remember them all....Then I had two Oscars, I don't remember if I even named them...then two more cats...Zero aka Fat Bastard (big orange male) and Tia who was so tiny...6 lbs about. Allie, our Choco. All of these animals are long gone. We now have our 14 year old mix breed, Olivia, who is mostly black lab, and completely crazy, and our 10 year old male Maine Coon cats, brothers...Simon and Henry.

Hi,
Cleo, a beautiful calico cat.
Fergie - Cat named after Ferguson Jenkins
Huey, Louie, and Dewey - Three Albino Corydorus Catfish
Sophie - Current orange tabby.

Peace

Izzie and Bella.

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... Blackcat & Greycat, NoName... and several never-named cats.
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... and a boa constrictor in Germany named Fluffy.
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Miranda, Stud (don't ask), Ling, Goblin, Schon, Flash Bazbo, Phaedra, Molly, Marvin, Bruno, Purrl, Gracie,

Bailey, Joe, Dyna, Tucker, Merrily, Pidge and Bunny.

And assorted temporary rehab birds who ended up being foster birds.

Damn, that's a lot. Well, we kind of do it in threes and I'm getting old.

That's what I did...

immediately after I read your post.

Also those secret questions always offer as an option your first pet's name.

RIP all these sweet fur babies.



Tikki

The Rainbow Bridge

inspired by a Norse legend

By the edge of a woods, at the foot of a hill,

Is a lush, green meadow where time stands still.

Where the friends of man and woman do run,

When their time on earth is over and done.

For here, between this world and the next,

Is a place where each beloved creature finds rest.

On this golden land, they wait and they play,

Till the Rainbow Bridge they cross over one day.

No more do they suffer, in pain or in sadness,

For here they are whole, their lives filled with gladness.

Their limbs are restored, their health renewed,

Their bodies have healed, with strength imbued.

They romp through the grass, without even a care,

Until one day they start, and sniff at the air.

All ears prick forward, eyes dart front and back,

Then all of a sudden, one breaks from the pack.

For just at that instant, their eyes have met;

Together again, both person and pet.

So they run to each other, these friends from long past,

The time of their parting is over at last.

The sadness they felt while they were apart,

Has turned into joy once more in each heart.

They embrace with a love that will last forever,

And then, side-by-side, they cross over… together.

I know it's true....




Tikki

Brandy, Randy, Miz Owl Feathers, GreyRat, Whitey, Archie, Smokey...My beloved Lucy, Ricky....

My beloved feral Phoebe, who lived a twenty full years. Gone for two years now, I love her still.

Riggs, Foster, Archie, Lily the psycho, sweet Emma......

And now my last - My beloved, Loved Chester. Got him out of a cage as a kitten and just might outlive me.

I'm 60, and he ain't even two.



Many were foster kittens who stayed for a while until they got placed into loving homes, or entrusted to women I loved when it was time for me to move on.....

...two dogs, the rest cats, except Suzy, who was a horribly misnamed white male rat who I got in the 3rd grade.

Fred the Cat - adopted from someone who had trouble getting rid of all the kitties

Honcho - shepherd mix who looked big and bad but was a sweetie, came from the woman
who used to cut my ex's hair

Cocoa - my all-time favorite Peke-a-poo, someone's cast-off

Waggles - the sweetest Lhasa-poo ever, but my sister couldn't take her to a new apartment

Sandy - a Malamute mix with Lassie's coloring, who tolerated all the teasing that Cocoa could
give her, another cast-off

Max - a lilac-crowned Amazon who hated everyone but me and could bark just like Cocoa,
came from the same home who gave us Cocoa and Sandy

2 cockatiels whose names I forget - came from a friend who moved

Rico - a Mexican red-head Amazon, from a friend who moved, my French-kissing bird

Lee and Sam - Mr. kcass' had these dogs when we got together, he took them from others
so they wouldn't go to the pound

Bear - Chow mix we adopted from the Humane Society

Various and assorted fish that had no names

Tony - pure-bred Chessie we purchased from a breeder, we had to put him down in January
and my house is too quiet now

Diamond (cat), Max (dog), Rocky (cat) & Peanut (cat).

All dogs.

I have had fish and hamsters before, but I don't remember any names I gave to them.

Cats: Fluffy, Mittens, Muffin, Patches, Piggy, Madeleine.

Dogs: Tanner, Audrey

Mice: Sugar and Spice

Dogs - 1 - Sandy 21 yrs

Cats - Boots 14yrs
Tigger - 14 yrs
Meeko - 1 yr
Cocoa - 1 yr

Birds - Barney - Blue Front Amazon

Aunt Helen and Ruby - named for my beloved Aunt Helen and her partner Ruby. This was in the mid 60s and I was maybe 4 or 5. Of course I didn't understand or even care about "adult relationships". All I knew is that I loved Aunt Helen and Ruby and thought it was perfectly fine, an honor even, to name my fish after them.

Then at some point not long after that we got Hildegard. Hildy for short - a red, short-haired, miniature dachshund who lived with us until after I graduated high school and left home. Dachsunds are still my favorite dog.

We also had a series of cats but the only one whose name I remember was Dallas as she was born in a box on the floor of the car as we crossed the city limits on our move to Dallas. Dallas was the only one of the litter we kept. I was maybe in 3rd grade by then.

Long about Jr High, Sam came to hang out with us. He was another dachshund and I'm not sure why he became ours - he was just there one day. But I wasn't complaining. Hildy loved the company and two dachshunds are better than one.

After graduation and leaving home to strike out on my own, my roommate and I had a cat named Whoopie Cat. Named so because of a misheard song lyric from Led Zeppelin's Misty Mountain Hop. Also Whoopie cat liked to get high. We didn't hold her down or anything abusive like that. We would often exhale our smoke out the window though and, since WC was an outdoor cat mostly, she would hop op on the window sill and stick her face in the outgoing stream. We never tried to find out if that had anything to do with her litters of 6 toed kittens.

Fast forward through years of having no pets to our now 16 year old cat Kiki (named by my daughter for a cat in a cartoon she liked) and our papillon Seras, also named by my daughter after an anime character.

She also has a 3 year old bearded dragon named Spitfyre who is about a foot and half long now.


I'm trying to talk my wife into letting me get a pair of Siamese kittens so they will sing that song. Unsuccessfully, so far...maybe after Kiki leaves us...

Rosemary
Rainbow
Sean Timothy Michael Murray (Rosemary's son)
Kwan Yin (Seanie's niece), originally Mandy
Elsa, originally "Ferret Face"
Mena (actually Mom's live-in boyfriend's)
Tootsie (briefly; she ended up with a friend of Mom's)
Satin and her kitties, who didn't live long enough for me to name them, except for Tabitha the gray tabby
MooMoo
Buddi
all meow people, of course.

Oh heaven, I forgot the birds: Tricky and Snowbird. Hope they're not angry.

Jack, Kitty, Morgan, Tiger, Raymond, Ginger, Cusco and Copper.

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Jasper (siamese), Fritz (GSD), Major (GSD), Katrina (GSD), Sammy (black cat), Sischa (siamese), Bob Cat (orange tabby), Maurice (orange tabby), Spike (terrier/schnauzer), Chiquita (grey tabby), Cuerva (tortie), Jose (tabby), Ambrose (wht/grey cat), Ouzo (yellow lab), Ceile (GSD/BC), Booty (tabby), Grace (solid "blue&quot and Apple (maine coon beasty).

ETA the ferals:
Priddy, Schitzy, Sascha, Big Boy, Bob, Norma, Spooky, Spooky Cat, Henry, Baby

Asta 1995-present (16 1/2 and going strong)
Petey 1995-2010
Porkchop 1996-2007
Jessie 2000-2005 (has been with my parents ever since- she's 14 now)
Crystal 2002-present
Tillie 2005-present (traded Jessie with my parents due to aggression issues)
Tater 2008-present
Stryker 2010- present

If we win the powerball we'll start a farm animal rescue along the lines of Farm Sanctuary or the Gentle Barn. IF we win the powerball...

I forgot to mention that they're all rescues except for Petey. He's the only dog we bought. From a pet store no less. But we've learned since then that pet stores keeps puppy mills in business, so from here on in it's all rescues, all the time.

um ...

Corky
Tony, Toni & Tone (they were 3 goldfish named after the R&B band)
Blue (a beta)

Hank (2000- present)
Ray (RIP, August 2011)

(the following are all foster-furr kids)
Peanut
Ike
Macy
Louise
Colt
Gordy
Samuel
Fred
Millie
Gypsy
Reno
Cha-Cha

and then my final 2 foster furr-kids, who never left:
Max
Bear

Bart and Maggie (birds), Elvis (dog), Lily, Max, Layla, and Renfield (cats), and Seven (dog).

Flint*
Floyd*
Angus, son of Flint*
(Poor Old) Dexter*

The Contessa (Tess)

and Tiki.



(* Gone, but not forgotten.)


- Gorgeous Manx kitties

Pinky - white rat
Punky- black poodle mix
Toby - apricot poodle
Max - black lab
Katie Scarlett - German Shepherd
Black Sabbath - German Shepherd
Amber - red heeler/dingo mix
Jake - Golden retriever
Sam - cocker spaniel
India - black cat
Boo Kitty- tuxedo cat
Melanie - gray and white long haired cat
Meg - gray and white long haired cat
Rebecca - tuxedo cat
Lamb Chops - german shepherd mix
Amelie - gray feral
Savannah - orange and white striped tabby
Hart - grey striped feral (current)
Oliver (Sir Cost-A-Lot) - black and white feral (current)
Marshmallow - siamese mix feral (current)
Sophie - Pug (current)
Millie - fat gray and white long haired cat (current)
Pumpkin Pie - six-toed orange and white cat (current)
Smokey Joe - black cat (current)
Devon - golden retriever (current)
Murphy - golden retriever (current)

I actually forgot one. His name is Hart and he is a grey striped feral. When we trapped him and took him to the vet it was discovered that he had a heart murmur. The vet told us we could put him down or let him live out his natural life. We decided on the latter. Problem with ferals is that you can not give them medicine. Hart is still with us and thriving. As you probably guessed we have a feral cat problem in our neighborhood. Along with me, two other neighbors (cat lovers) also trap, spay and neuter our little colony. We have managed to keep the colony down to a manageable size but it is an ongoing process. I can tell you we feed them well and put vitamins in their food. I even had a cat patio built on the side of my house so that they have some privacy when they eat and I have some cat houses so they can escape the rain and cold, thankfully, rain and cold are not something we experience too often in Las Vegas. In Las Vegas we are able to register our cat colonies, which means animal control will not pick them up and we can feed them without breaking the law. Used to be that if you fed feral cats they were considered yours and were your responsibility. Thanks to the new law that is no longer the case.

Dewey, rescue mutt, deceased in 2008; Legend, Rottweiler, deceased in 2010. I now have a and a Mini-Pin. These little dogs will be around a long, long time.

Dunno if that's in chronological order, but that's what I remember.

Thanks for bringing back memories of some of my best friends.

All dogs.

There were a few fish & box turtles in there, too. But they're more decor than real pets.

Charlie
Rosie
Tony
Jerry
Chelsea
Larry
Natalie

I know, we kind of go crazy.

Cats: Oliver, Isabella, Tiger, Chichlet, Elvis, Milo, Toe

Strange seeing all those names all together!!

The cat list is very likely to be incomplete.

Dogs:
Spider (chihuahua)
Poopsey (beagle mix)
Dusty (lab mix)

Dusty is 8 and still kicking (thankfully at home after spending the weekend on the lam), the others were when I was a child.


Cats:
Kitty Kitty
Kitty Kitty (2, unrelated - hey, my sis and I were little kids)
Lisa (child of KK2)
Dutch (the first one that was "mine&quot
Tinkerbelle (left with us by a temporary resident)
Bali (my first pet after I moved out on my own, and still missed five years after his passing)

Past:

Ducky & Ted - My two pet ducks
Hammy - Hamster
Cuddles - calico cat
Hercules - white puffball dog
Duke - Giant lab mix
Digger - smaller lab mix
Cooney - Ex-police dog
Murphy - Basset Hound
Hoover - Doxie
Corky - Doxie #2
Maggie - Best dog ever - small terrier mix, so smart..miss her terribly. I cannot bring myself to get another dog...can't go thru that again...
Paris - White Cat

Present:

Bear - My current Orange male Tabby cat - total wuss, scared of his shadow. Likes to sleep and harrass Lucy
Lucy - my lynx/??? cat. Never seen a cat like this one - she looks like a wild lynx. Absolutely fearless. If anyone knows a lot about cats, I would be interested in your assessment of what, exactly, this cat is? She has a mane like a lion...

One day, I will get a dog again...

Col. Hans von Grossland - call name Hans; Dotwall's Lochnivar - call name Loki; Maka-ib-Ra - call name Maka; Shaninshah - call name Shah; Sam; Ptah; Bragi; Hex; and Djet for the dogs. I've had a bunch of rats - Isis, Blanca, Albina, Athena, Minerva, Isis II, Iris, Selene, Bianca, Freya, and Snicklefritz.

Missy
Champ
Lady
Fluffy
Blackie
Lady
Rambo
Pepper
Kira
Teddy
Snowball
Toby

These are all dogs.

There might be a few more, but that's all I can remember. Lady, Rambo (parents), Pepper, Kira, and Teddy (children) are with me now. Lady is laying on my lap now. Sigh... so cute!