So what pets do any of you curlies have ..... we were a no pet family till 2 days ago, and now we have a lovely new little doggy!
We rehomed her from a lady that had got a new job with long hours and overnight trips. She was initially adopted from a rescue centre at 10 weeks old where she had been abandoned as a new born pup with her 5 brothers and sisters.   She is now 61/2 months old and is a gorgeous little thing. She is a crossbreed - not to sure what she is a cross of though! She is fairly small at the moment, dont know how much bigger shell get.and she has a wonderful temprament and is really well trained. (much better treined than my 17 month old toddler actually LOL) I am so in love with her LOL
(unfortunately she doesnt have a curly coat ...maybe I should have got a poodle or something LOL!)

So do any of you curlies have any pets?

I am really into small animals.  At one point I had 10 pets, but that was a bit too many really (fine until they all got ill at the same time!), but now with inevitable deaths etc, I have: 3 guinea pigs, 2 spiny mice (an exotic breed of mouse that you may not have heard of) and a hamster.  I really miss rabbits, although I found them incredibly fragile!

Yep we have a rescue dog, he was found as a stray, not sure exactly what he is, we’ve asked him but he won’t tell us Seriously though he look’s like a big whippet, alot of people think he has some saluki in him.. who knows! We’ve had him for about 4 years, we think he was probably about 1 when we got him, he was terribly thin with a strange long coat on top and alot of cuts and scars   The rescue centre thinks he was probably a Gypsy’s dog and was tied up and made to sleep outside But hurrah he got away and now he’s one of our family

I’ve got a dog and a cat- both rescues. The dog was.. well. At the time we had decided that we weren’t able to take on a long-term responsibility for a pet so we decided to foster dogs instead. There’s a local animal care organisation who give foster homes to rescue dogs instead of keeping them at a shelter, so we joined them. Well, the first fostering went fine, and the second- we cared for each of them for a couple of weeks before sending them off to their new adopters. It was lovely! But then… well then the third dog showed up at our doorstep in an awful state. He was a stray, and he was in a terrible condition- half-starved, half his hair after falling out from mange, barely able to walk. We were supposed to have him for six weeks…
...Of course, we fell in love with the little fluffball and after the six weeks were up we just had to adopt him. We think he’s some sort of Shih Tsu or Low Shen. Either way, he’s the cutest thing you ever saw.

I’ve got two cats called Oz and Willow. They are rescues. A colleague of mine rescued them and their siblings from the top of a restaurant roof when they were about six months old. They were basically feral and although they are a lot better now, they are still really nervous cats (we’ve had them nearly three years now). I’m just glad they are healthy and have a happy home - though I wish they would get over their nerves and learn to like cuddles!

Neither of them have curly hair though

Have a rescued terrier (his owners had him and his litter brother, and couldn’t cope once they’d hit the teenage years lol). He’s a border terrier cross parson jack russell. Basically he looks like a giant border terrier - he weighs 3 times their average weight and you can tell its pure muscle.
Had him for two years now, and he’s a completly different dog. The day we got him we had to leave him in the garden for nearly an hour, running around like mental, before he calmed down. We couldn’t let him off the lead, leave the front door open, trust him not to chew etc…....ok he still chews when he wants to, but he runs for miles off lead at the weekend, and goes and sits out in the front garden if we are out there.

As he is a terrier, he gets his coat clipped. But last year we had to leave it to get really long (infected cut, so couldn’t go to groomers) and it went curly!!! He looked really sweet, but it was quite frizzy, and got really messy.

Also have an old (13 ish) sable rough collie at the moment (he’s actually my nans). So lots of hair, but definitely not curly!

I had 2 fish called Alvin and Dora - RIP!
My mum is now dead set on getting a poodle. LOL.
I really want a snake but other people in this house have a ‘phobia’ so I will have to wait til I move into my flat. I just looove snakes!

CloClo - 08 September 2009 04:53 PM

Have a rescued terrier (his owners had him and his litter brother, and couldn’t cope once they’d hit the teenage years lol). He’s a border terrier cross parson jack russell. Basically he looks like a giant border terrier - he weighs 3 times their average weight and you can tell its pure muscle.
Had him for two years now, and he’s a completly different dog. The day we got him we had to leave him in the garden for nearly an hour, running around like mental, before he calmed down. We couldn’t let him off the lead, leave the front door open, trust him not to chew etc…....ok he still chews when he wants to, but he runs for miles off lead at the weekend, and goes and sits out in the front garden if we are out there.

As he is a terrier, he gets his coat clipped. But last year we had to leave it to get really long (infected cut, so couldn’t go to groomers) and it went curly!!! He looked really sweet, but it was quite frizzy, and got really messy.

Also have an old (13 ish) sable rough collie at the moment (he’s actually my nans). So lots of hair, but definitely not curly!

Sounds like he might have done well with some Kinky Curly products to control the frizz and tangles lol

EllaGeorgina - 08 September 2009 05:02 PM

I had 2 fish called Alvin and Dora - RIP!
My mum is now dead set on getting a poodle. LOL.
I really want a snake but other people in this house have a ‘phobia’ so I will have to wait til I move into my flat. I just looove snakes!

oh a snake would be an unusual pet!

aww lots of lovely pets out there… and so lovely that so many rescue cats and dogs have lovely new homes.

poppins - 08 September 2009 06:42 PM

Sounds like he might have done well with some Kinky Curly products to control the frizz and tangles lol

I know - was quite tempted lol.

poppins - 08 September 2009 06:45 PM

aww lots of lovely pets out there… and so lovely that so many rescue cats and dogs have lovely new homes.

What a sweet thread poppins it was sooo lovely to hear of all the great pets our Curlies have I am without any pets at the moment but growing up had lot’s of dogs in my family. I miss having a dog but won’t until I can be around enough to keep him or her company

I think it’s awesome that so many people have rescue pets as well!

Couldn’t resist posting pics of my two.. and y’know, I think our dog Steinbeck might possibly be a 2A curlie? And here’s the cat hiding under my duvet when it was chilly last winter. She’s such a cutiepie

Lovely piccies!

Most of my pets have been rescues too - even the spiny mice.  A lot of people don’t realise that there are thousands of small animals in rescues at any one time (especially rabbits), and they buy them for kids who lose interest. :( *gets off soapbox*!

MICE! I would freak out, I’m so scared of them! On TV and nature programs etc I think awww they are sooooo cute, and I love them, and think ‘why would I be scared??’ but when I see them in person I get really frightened lol. How stupid!

That’s what I’m like about snakes though!