Memory Test time...

I'll try too....16 years of pets.....here we go!

Hercules the Hermet crab. Lucky the Beagle/Doxie. Jack the Doxie/JRT. Sandy the Cocker Spainel. Star and Phebe the Ducks. Sniffers and Bugsy the Bunnies. Diamond the American Saddlebred. Babie and Tucker the Border Collies. Buck the Akita. Cinamin the Chocolate Lab. Raven the Black Lab. Gunner, Ceder, and Hunter the Yellow Labs. Oreo the Dalmation/Lab mix. Taz the Pomeranian/Shih Tzu. Sam the Lab Mix.

I'm leaving out any litters of puppie that did not stay with us for more then 6 months.

Pets passed on:
Popcorn & Butterball- 2 hamsters
Pumpkin & Popcorn- 2 guinea pigs (gee, I liked the name Popcorn as a kid!)
Upity- black mini lop bunny
Sugar- albino bunny
Phonzi- black mini lop bunny
Jinx- tiger cat
Sabrina- tiger cat
Pepper- my first black Lab

Former pets (now my parents):
Barney- black and white parti cocker
Sam- grey tiger cat

Current pets:
Apollo- black lab/mix
Autumn- black cat
Charlotte- calico cat w/out a tail
Neemo- grey tiger cat w/out a tail
Lola- harlequin rex rabbit (aka: devil rabbit)
Skip- grey rex rabbit

Oh crud!  You're really testing me here.  I grew up on a farm of sorts- even the critters that were destined for the freezer were raised as pets.  OK, let's see what I can remember-

Dogs

Taffy- Standard Poodle we adopted from the ASPCA

Rags- Toy Poodle we got from my mom's Aunt & Uncle (they bred the litter)

Helga- our first Norwegian Elkhound

Perky- Helga's daughter

Tashko- Siberian Husky I got from one of the lifeguards I worked with

Grits- little Poodle/Schnauzer/Terrier mix.  Cool dog!

Jethro- black Lab

Heineken- Siberian/GSD my now husband found right after we got engaged (I was 18 and living home at the time)

Cats

Missy

Tiger

Peanutbutter

Jelly

Tiffany

Jellybean 

Gumby

Chainsaw

Sawdust

Jigsaw

Horses & Donkies

Tony ("grade" horse)

Lollypop (pony)

Sonja (donkey)

Smokey ("grade" horse)

The Quarter Horses:

Vandy

Cutie

Tammy

Banner

Babe

Goats

Nanny

Billy

Freckles

June

Lisa

Willie

Pigs (can't remember all of them tho)

Ginger

Snoot

Pumpkin

Sunshine

Rabbits (the ones I can remember the names of)

Barbie

Ken

Dutch

Chickens (the ones that were named)

Henrietta (sweet little Bantum)

Gypsy

Goldie (rooster)

Cockie (Bantum rooster.  Obvisouly were real little when we named him. LOL)

Geese (I can't remember all their names or the ducks either)

Hansel

Gretel

There was a parakeet named Bernie (from the '70s sitcom Bridget Loves Bernie);  some mice, Buttons, Patches and Cinnamon; and a guinea pig, Checkers in the mix, too.

eta- oops, I thought we were just listing pets we had growing up.  In addition to Heineken and Jigs, in the 27 years we've been married, we've had:

Dogs

Mick-yellow Lab/Eng Setter 

Connie- Toy Poodle (we took in after my Grandmother died)

Caleb-yellow Lab

Cats

Pockets

Bum

Fraulein

Midget

Topper (current 18 1/2 year old snot cat.  LOL)

Hamsters

Fletcher 

Alvin

Rats

Tuff

Roach

Rabbits (both Mini Rexes)

Barnum

Shaker (current)

Plus all the fish we've had that I've named (too many to remember).

EDIT; Oh my turn.

Bootsie the cat + many litters of kittens. My parents didnt beleive in spaying or nuetering animals. 0.o

Rainbow the cat, one of Bootsies male kittens that we kept.(I named him when I was 5)

Tigger the cat, a shelter cat we got when Rainbow died. She as our first spayed pet.

Mercy the Basset/Lab mix. Got her from a hunter who thought he was breeding the next big thing in hunting dogs. She was free because he legs we the long ones of a lab. She died of heartworms.

Charlie(see signature), came from shelter/foster home.

Priss the pygora goat. Was killed by a loose dog.

Bell and Sister the pygmy goats.Still living.

Blue the blue eyed paint horse. Had to be sold due to bad temperment.

Lil Bit the minature horse. Was sold.

Roy the fainting goat. Still living with us.

Hammer-Head. (See sig) Found roaming our street and was adopted by us.

Frankie. (sig) Dropped off at our farm and adopted by us.

Sammy the mustang horse. Still with us.

The President, dwarf pet store hamster. given away to friend.

Wow I never realized I had so many pets till I look back. Whew!

Pets I had growing up:

Dogs: Benji,Charlie,Buster,Sparky,Shep,Laddie,Bobby Jo,Baby,Cheyanne,Willow,Hotspot

Cats: Jerry,Tomx4,Tiger,Crybaby,Sugar,Abby,Blue Bell,Tippy

Goats:Spanky,Lily,Molly

Chickens: Easter,Speckles,Fudge,Shadow,Friskie,Nugget,Crispy

Ducks: Ziggy,Ruby 

Geese: Boss,Cactus

Pig: Pork Chop 

Hamsters:Susie Q,Fiesty,Pinky,Coconut,Panda,Polar

Guinea Pigs: Nibbles,Mo

Bird: Pretty Boy, Tweety

Lizard: Walter, Liz

Pets after moving out:

Dogs: Cheyanne, Morgan, Zoey, Splash, Lillie, Kujo, Jayde, Ginger, Joker

Cats: Orion, Booger, Popcorn, Sassy, Felix, Silk, Tonka

Horses: CoCo(nightmare,monster), Holly, Danger

Birds: Orlando,Venus

Rabbits: MoMo,Charlie, Tico 

I have always had fish but right now dont. I will though by next year. And chickens too.
 

My list isn't terribly long.

Cats

Winston

Moby

Woo

Gizmo

Tuity

Bach- Our current cat

Dogs

Sandee- My first dog as an "adult." Australian Shepherd

Chyna- our rotten boxer

Bevo- my silly dobe

Brinxx- our sweet mutt

Shooter- our evil doxie

Schatzi- our sweet doxie

Horses

Thunder- My first horse. He was a gift for my third b-day. He was euthanized on my twenty-eighth b-day.

Azalea- Thoroughbred

HiJinxx- Thoroughbred

Fish

Stalk- Nurse Shark

Thrash- Black Tip Shark

Squirrel

Turbo

 Dogs Growing Up

Cindy - She was a black poodle

Chucky - He  was half pitbull and not sure the other half

Tiffany - She was pomeranian and shitzu

Princess Half rottweiler and I don't know lol (Been Almost 10 Months Since My Baby Passed )

Cats

MamaCat - Don't know her breed she was a stray  

My grandparents owned a few dogs and cats over the years.

Cassie - Black Poodle.

Several cats over the years and I can't remember the names.

Danny - ch. Apricot Poodle, reitred from a breeder.

As a kid I had a dog for a short while.

Little Bit - runt mix of Schnauzer and Poodle. Actually, he died of heartworms.

Lady - Black Lab, I found wandering the streets in the mid 1980's. She was a sweetheart but afraid of stairs. When I moved to another place that wasn't going to allow me to keep her I had to re-home her.

Misty - cat, North American Shorthair Tabby (black and brown tiger stripe), found on the streets. First pet I was able to keep start to finish. I found her as a 5 month old stray and kept her until she was about 17, when her kidneys failed drastically and it was time to ease on over to the Bridge.

Shadow- dog, rehomed from a friend who could no longer keep him as her family was ready to surrender him to a shelter.

Jade - cat, white Turkish Angora, found on the streets, plucked out of a friend's tree.

I had goldfish as a kid but I don't remember names.

As a young child, I was a military brat. 1st stepfather was in the Navy and you go where they send you.

Basically, once on my own and completely self-sufficient, I could take care of a pet. And seeing as how I don't have children and probably never will, I might as well have pets.

Dogs as a kid: Spot, Kelly, Major, Bridgette, Max, Hobo, Benji.  Special dogs who weren't mine but I babysat them:  Leroy & Muffin.

Birds as a kid: Lucky the canary, a pair of Strawberry Finches named John & Marsha, several Zebra Finches

Dogs as an adult: Lenny, Sparky, Sadie, Heidi, Shari, Bear

Cats as an adult: Gordon, Peggy, Arthur, Charlie, Missy, Moose

Birds as an adult: Frank the parakeet, Rodney & Jean the parakeets

All are at the Bridge now except Bear, Missy, & Moose.  Someday I hope to see them all again and hope they forgive me for not being an informed pet owner and/or not being able to protect some of them because I was a kid.

ron2

As a young child, I was a military brat. 1st stepfather was in the Navy and you go where they send you.

How well I remember !!  Navy Brat here.  6 kids and a dalmation named Suzie that Mom snuck onto base after base. Dad was a Chief Petty Officer so we were in Enlisted housing. Mom had mad skills at hiding Suzie and bribing the MPs with meals, treats and a shoulder when they were homesick.  She got rave reviews from the Officers for best behaved kids ( how she manged 6 of us on dad's pay grade is beyond me.) some bases allowed us to have the dog , others Mom simply "worked around".... Suze would stay inside during the day and Mom would walk her at night . She never messed or barked  We were moved across country 5 times. Suzie was born in South Carolina about 4 months after I had been born in California  She was with us till she passed at 11 years old. She really was a sibling not a pet... funny how your memory can flash on a moment in time I remember Mom driving the 6 of us and Suzie in a big old American Sedan, front seat and back seat packed... Suzie always got the front seat and my younger brother napping in the rear WINDOW .... this was long before seat belts and car seats... anyone else remember driving in the desert with a burlap water bag hanging in front of your radiator?? Jeeez I am getting Old!!

Bonita of Bwana

Wow, this is a challenging test!  Some of these go back to when I was born!

Let's see....

Cats: Josh, Trip, Max, Mandy, Misty, Munchkin, Topaz (all at the bridge)
         Amber, Noel, & Lily (they're my parents' current cats, but I still consider them my girls)

Dogs: Harry (he's my first!)

Horses: Quadros (RIP), Tessie, Aerial

A loooong time ago, my brother had a hermit crab named, of course, Hermie (we were little)

Also, there were various fish, but my folks never named any of them.

Oh my, I didnt have near as many pets as most of you and I am having trouble remembering them all.

Sir Boliver-First dog I remember, was given to us by a soldier going overseas as I recall, he was an adorable Chinese Pug

Thunder - a black/tan Dobe. Dad flew all the way to Iowa to pick up this champion..lol he won everything in Puppy class but was reduced to Pet status when not all of his teeth came in.  Sir Boliver the Pug ruled the roost and Thunder thought he was a small dog too!  Lots of memories with these 2, they both lived to ripe old ages and crossed the bridge after I was grown and out of the house.

I had a duck given to me for Easter gift from my first love, his name was Quacky  and lived in my bedroom until my parents forced me to take him to a residential lake..poor Quacky was never seen again after a tornado came thru town.

My adult life;

Starsky, cutest thing you ever saw, Irish Setter mixed with ???? coal black, full Irish Setter body and legs of a Bassett (Lost him in divorce#1)

Catfish - Mastif/shepherd mix (I lost him in divorce #2)

Zap- Totaly white cat...named for his habbit of jumping out of nowhere and attaching to your leg

Smokey A beautiful Angora Grey cat only had her a few months while cat sitting for a friend. Smokey left a few days before I met my hubby who is not a cat lover. 

Bear #1- Keeshound/boxer mix was a great baby sitter for the kids as he walked them to and from the bus everyday.

Missy - Our adorable Bassett, she was stolen from us the week before Christmas and a week before a planned litter was to be born.  Very sad Christmas for us all.

Buster - Rescued shelter Bassett lost his life to a car.

Barney - Rhodesian Ridgeback lost his life to a hunter

Lacey - Rescued shelter Bassett soon followed by Lady-Terrier Mix (the Queen of the house) and then Bear#2 our first beloved Rottie.

Lacey, the nosey little thing that she was, died from getting into a nest of tics despite all that we and the vet did, she lived only a few weeks longer.

Lady died of old age, which we have no clue how old she was but was deaf/blind and loosing her teeth when she went to sleep one night and didnt wake up.

Bear lived til he was 8, a simple and successful surgery resulted in his crossing the bridge the next morning, autopsy showed an enlarged heart we didnt know about.  Very sad for hubby and I as the kids had left the house several years before and Bear was the last of our "family" pets.

Then there was Shadow....our sweet wonderful Rottie.  We only had Shadow for 4 years and we were truly blessed to have him that long.  Shadow taught us how to be the very best pet parents.  We lost Shadow in Jan this year to cancer.  It was this time last year I found the first lump.  He was for us a very special boy, he was a tremendous loss for us and our vet family.

Now we have;

 Rocky - Newf (lol)/Lab mix rescued by a foster home on the same night we lost Shadow, rescued by us Feb 2 at approx 10 weeks old. He is more Lab than Newf...ha!  He is a very smart and loyal "PUPPY"  We also have Hot Shot our very loving gentle giant.  He came to us Mother's Day weekend - given back to his breeder from an abusive owner, and rescued by us.  He is very sweet and calm and patient with the above brat puppy.  Hot Shot is a Bernese Mountain Dog.  It has taken all this time to get him settled  into the fact that he is safe and at his forever home. 

I dont think I forgot any.....

OMG  I forgot two pups!   That is embarassing    What a crummy Grandma I am, There is also Bwana's Ezkiel Bilko "Zeke"  who I reclaimed from the morons I placed him with, they were so nice and very wealthy, seemed like a good fit but in 18 months I had taken him back to train him 4 times, they basically took him home and turned himover to the household staff, the Nanny, Houskeeper and Au Pair spent more time with him than the people who owned him. I rehomed him to a good friend and Zeke  saved his life !  He kept alerting on his owner,  Denny came by and asked me why the dog was jumping up sniffing his face and getting upset, I called the wife and asked her to drag his butt to a doctor since my dogs are really very skilled at detecting things,  He had a quad bi pass 2 days later.  His heart was so blocked he would have just keeled over and died had the dog not made such a pest of himself.... Needless to say Zeke is a King in that household.

The other pup I forgot was Atlas.  That is a different story and one that still causes problems in our family.  He was a gift to stepdaughter and her husband and when baby #2 came they gave the dogs up to rescue withou letting us know. They told rescue that they did not have their papers anymore and had forgotten the breeder's names!!  2 years later we visited them in California and I had gifts for the dogs, they never notified us or let us know there was any difficulty in keeping the dogs..I was unable to track them down and it was beyond upsetting.. I am still barely on speaking terms with her because of it. I don't know where he and the other RR landed but I pray they are happy and well.  

Bonita of Bwana

Awww, a very happy story about Zeke but a sad story about Atlas.  Hopefully Atlas is living a very happy life with loving pet parents!