Judgedogmama
01-24-2005, 11:19 PM
:laugh: Hello to all:
My name is Kimberley Bennett, and I thought it'd be polite to formaly introduce myself to the forum. I'm honnestly here to use the site as a decission-making tool as to whether or not a chinchilla or hedgehog, if not both, would make a good addition to my husband and I's seemingly ever-growing pet family. I work for a major pet store chain, and my grandmother was a veterinarian prior to her passing in 2001, so my life has been filled with what others see as "odd" pets. Grandma kept and bred several reptile species, Moloucan cockatoos, Newfoundlands, sugar gliders(kept only-they were the first rescues she took in), a pygmy marmoset, several pot-bellied pigs, rats(both as pets and 'employees'), paint horses....you get the idea. I spent the bulk of my lifetime spending as much of it as I could with her because of it, and have now found myself following in her footsteps.
My poor husband, on the other hand, has only been around dogs and cats in his own house(and a roomates' water dragon in college), but has been a very good sport about anything that either just shows up or came with me into our marriage. He's the reason I'm looking more seriously at chinchillas, as I managed to hear him acknowldege he would like to have one...almost everything in the house(except for his rabbits, one of the cats, and a Mali Uromastix) is deemed to be mine, and for him to want to add to it...I can't pass up the oppourtunity!!
Our "family" currently consists of:
one 11-month-old American Staffodshire Terrier, 'Judge'
two cats: Simon(black DLH) and Isabelle (flame point polydactyl) both
two Eastern collared lizards(Butter and Frito)
one Mali Uromastix(Dante)
one Suriname red-tail boa
one rescued Sumatran Blood Python
two Jersey Wooley rabbits, Max and Pekaboo (my little sister's failed 4-h project from two years ago...Peke refuses to take Max as a mate for reasons unkown to anyone but her)
My beloved rex rats: Don Curleon and his two wives Misty and Pandora
A nano-reef tank that is home to more fish than it should be able to support
Three nameless bettas
The two of us
That's us(me) in a nutshell. I'm not really looking to breed anything other than my rats right now, but Michael did squeal when he saw pictures of baby chins, so you never know.
I'm happy to recieve any info, advice, comments, questions, etc... at all. Just drop me a line.
Kim
My name is Kimberley Bennett, and I thought it'd be polite to formaly introduce myself to the forum. I'm honnestly here to use the site as a decission-making tool as to whether or not a chinchilla or hedgehog, if not both, would make a good addition to my husband and I's seemingly ever-growing pet family. I work for a major pet store chain, and my grandmother was a veterinarian prior to her passing in 2001, so my life has been filled with what others see as "odd" pets. Grandma kept and bred several reptile species, Moloucan cockatoos, Newfoundlands, sugar gliders(kept only-they were the first rescues she took in), a pygmy marmoset, several pot-bellied pigs, rats(both as pets and 'employees'), paint horses....you get the idea. I spent the bulk of my lifetime spending as much of it as I could with her because of it, and have now found myself following in her footsteps.
My poor husband, on the other hand, has only been around dogs and cats in his own house(and a roomates' water dragon in college), but has been a very good sport about anything that either just shows up or came with me into our marriage. He's the reason I'm looking more seriously at chinchillas, as I managed to hear him acknowldege he would like to have one...almost everything in the house(except for his rabbits, one of the cats, and a Mali Uromastix) is deemed to be mine, and for him to want to add to it...I can't pass up the oppourtunity!!
Our "family" currently consists of:
one 11-month-old American Staffodshire Terrier, 'Judge'
two cats: Simon(black DLH) and Isabelle (flame point polydactyl) both
two Eastern collared lizards(Butter and Frito)
one Mali Uromastix(Dante)
one Suriname red-tail boa
one rescued Sumatran Blood Python
two Jersey Wooley rabbits, Max and Pekaboo (my little sister's failed 4-h project from two years ago...Peke refuses to take Max as a mate for reasons unkown to anyone but her)
My beloved rex rats: Don Curleon and his two wives Misty and Pandora
A nano-reef tank that is home to more fish than it should be able to support
Three nameless bettas
The two of us
That's us(me) in a nutshell. I'm not really looking to breed anything other than my rats right now, but Michael did squeal when he saw pictures of baby chins, so you never know.
I'm happy to recieve any info, advice, comments, questions, etc... at all. Just drop me a line.
Kim