Dianne's Home Page - our other pets

All sorts of pets..........

....it has been suggested that this page would look better with pictures.
As I quite agree, I've decided to showcase some of Catherine's drawings of animals and birds.
To see bigger versions of these pictures and others, click here.

If it had fur or feathers, at one time or another we've kept it! We've never had reptiles, not because of any dislike or fear but simply because I don't think they're the best pets for children. We have, however, had :

dog

Rabbits - lots of them : Snowball (jet black) and Spot (pure unsullied white) were two rabbits we found dumped in the woods near our home. They resulted in a total of 18 babies (whoever wrote that book that said female rabbits won't mate until each litter is weaned LIED!!!) before we had Snowball "done!" We also had Bobby Brown Bunny and Tootsie, Peter Rabbit, Jamie and our very first rabbit, a huge New Zealand White - another stray - which we called Flopsy.

Bear cub

Hamsters - Steve McQueen (The Great Escape?), Gizmo and Stripe (Russians), Polo (because the car in front wasn't a Toyota - think about it!) and Nermal, after Garfield's little friend

Gerbils - Acapulco and some other beach, I forget which! They were not the most successful of pets. Because of the dogs and cats, we have always kept small caged pets in the children's rooms, and gerbils tend to be VERY noisily active at night, when everyone else is trying to sleep!

Guinea Pigs - again, lots of them. We started of with just one, George, then a friend passed on an unwanted female guinea pig who we called Gertie. We bred several litters over the years, and they made delightful pets. We no longer keep "outside" caged pets but still have quite a menagerie in the house!

eagle
And then there were our feathered friends, the budgies Phredd and Muffin, the lovebirds Kiss and Cuddle, and a canary named Robert, plus sundry temporary residents, orphans of the storm - exhausted pigeons, injured seagulls - who stayed until they recovered and then went on their way.

The present pet tally is two dogs (Beamer and Scully, our old Suki having died in February 2000 at the age of 13), one cat (Bounce), one horse (Ben), plus innumerable tropical fish of which the only one with a name is a Plecostomus catfish called Garfield. The current rats are Roxy and Dewey, who even have their own website called Roxy's Run.

True to form, however, the tally has not stopped there : we have now acquired a rabbit (christened Brian) who was found raiding the allotments. He is very tame and totally unafraid of the dogs, and we think that with his previous owners he might well have been a "house rabbit." Despite advertising that we'd found him, no-one has come forward to claim him, so it looks like Brian is here to stay!
Left, with Beamer the Large Munsterlander.

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All sorts of pets.......... ....it has been suggested that this page would look better with pictures. As I quite agree, I've decided to showcase some of Catherine's drawings of animals and birds. To see bigger versions of these pictures and others, click here.
If it had fur or feathers, at one time or another we've kept it! We've never had reptiles, not because of any dislike or fear but simply because I don't think they're the best pets for children. We have, however, had :
Rabbits - lots of them : Snowball (jet black) and Spot (pure unsullied white) were two rabbits we found dumped in the woods near our home. They resulted in a total of 18 babies (whoever wrote that book that said female rabbits won't mate until each litter is weaned LIED!!!) before we had Snowball "done!" We also had Bobby Brown Bunny and Tootsie, Peter Rabbit, Jamie and our very first rabbit, a huge New Zealand White - another stray - which we called Flopsy.
	Hamsters - Steve McQueen (The Great Escape?), Gizmo and Stripe (Russians), Polo (because the car in front wasn't a Toyota - think about it!) and Nermal, after Garfield's little friend Gerbils - Acapulco and some other beach, I forget which! They were not the most successful of pets. Because of the dogs and cats, we have always kept small caged pets in the children's rooms, and gerbils tend to be VERY noisily active at night, when everyone else is trying to sleep!
Guinea Pigs - again, lots of them. We started of with just one, George, then a friend passed on an unwanted female guinea pig who we called Gertie. We bred several litters over the years, and they made delightful pets. We no longer keep "outside" caged pets but still have quite a menagerie in the house!
	And then there were our feathered friends, the budgies Phredd and Muffin, the lovebirds Kiss and Cuddle, and a canary named Robert, plus sundry temporary residents, orphans of the storm - exhausted pigeons, injured seagulls - who stayed until they recovered and then went on their way.
The present pet tally is two dogs (Beamer and Scully, our old Suki having died in February 2000 at the age of 13), one cat (Bounce), one horse (Ben), plus innumerable tropical fish of which the only one with a name is a Plecostomus catfish called Garfield. The current rats are Roxy and Dewey, who even have their own website called Roxy's Run.