What pets did you have as a kid?

I had cats and dogs when I was a kid. I could still remember that we always had dogs to guard the house and cats to chase away the mice. I helped fed them and I had fun taking care of them.

When I was real little I had a puppy, hhis name was pluto, and we had to give him back to my grandpa for a while, because we moved to a place that didnt allow dogs. When we went to visit him, he had run away. This was my second heartbreak (the first was sending him back to my grandpa)
Then We had another dog when I was in elementary school. She was a husky/wolf mix. Pretty much, the same thing happened to her, we couldnt keep her at the new apartments we moved to, and the people that took her, lost her.
Then, I had a pet iguana, gardner snake, and geko. They were pretty cool. The snake got out of the cage somehow, and I accidently drowned the other two while I had them outside. another horrible story, I know, I'm sorry.
Now I have a dog named Max. I have had him since he was 4 month old, and he is 10years old now. I love him to death! We have had some close calls with him, but he is a pretty happy old man now!

I have never had a cat as a pet. When I was a kid we would always have a dog as a pet. Whenever we would move from one state to another we would always get another dog if we couldn't take the one we had. That is all I remember having as pets.

I had 2 pig-nosed turtles, various fish, boar type hamsters (very rowdy bunch), a white rabbit, a temporary dog of 1 week ( a friend's), a stray black labrador which I didn't keep as pet but it often come to my house (or it doesn't count), and chickens (for a while.. i was hoping for chicks). I never had a real dog or cat as pets. I might want a guinea pig in future.

I had regular pets as a kid-dogs and cats,but your story about the tadpoles reminded me of something. I used to be fascinated with snails and caterpillars as a child and I'd hold them and look at them for hours but one day I decided to take it a step further. I went and collected a bunch of snaild on the grass,brought them home and put them in a big jar where they were for a couple of days. Somehow the snails kept wanting to get out of the jar(wich was filled with water) so I had to push them back down fuming at their stupidity. The next day my dad caught me doing this and he was like "What are you doing? These are LAND snails!" lol
I went and let them go but now I feel both amused and sorry for the little creatures since it must've been excruciating to reach the top of the jar with their speed only to be pushed down again with a giant finger!

I had lots of pets when I was a kid but all of them die or some were lost. I had a cat which never came back and a dog that die eventually. I also had a bunny as a gift but died becasue of flood, the cage was broken. Lobster too but dodnt last long and some goldfish. I dunno maybe I'm not really fond of taking care of pets. People just keep giving me some hehehe

well my mother says we used to have turtles when we were kids but i don't really remember that. i was young enough. i had a cat when i was a little older and then we had to give it away cause my mother was allergic to it. and then i had a onole (little lizard) i had him for about 1 year and then we had an ice storm and didn't have power for a week. well he needed a light to keep warm so he froze to death.

When I was a kid we had an aquarium with lots of fishes in it. I remember how I used to weep when a fish died. One day I broke the aquarium accidentally and we let all those fishes free in a pond nearby.

I was lucky and grew up in the country on a nice plot of land. We had numerous cats and dogs, horses, a few sheep and goats, turtles, tropical fish and a parrot for pets. We also had chickens (for the eggs) a couple of dairy cows for the milk and to make our own cheese and butter, and we raised beef cattle for money. Though most of the cattle raised their own calves, each year each of us kids got our own calf to hand raise. My favorite was a little Brahma bull.

If those pets were enough we were good at finding more. Snakes, lizzards, salamanders, crawfish, mice etc. Mom always made us let them go though which was alright. Half the fun was just in catching them.

then, why not try to have a cat for a change. i have 3 kittens for adoption. if you are a kind hearted and love pets email me at carrillo_zeny@yahoo.com.ph its a half breed siamese. thanks a bunch! just incase you are from the philippines.