Considering Adopting a Dog

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What is a great pet?

  1. Dogs, duh, loyal animals

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  2. Cats, clean and unneedy animals

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  1. stinkyB

    stinkyB 2009 Best Avatar Award Winner

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    Almost retracted probs after the box of rocks comment, then I came across this gem
     
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    That's a big tank. Saltwater I assume?
    I've have a predrilled 75 gal in my garage that was given to me years ago when my buddy's wife upgraded to a 90. They knew I always loved their fish tank (super dope reef tank... and I always had a smaller freshwater tanks).. "Dude are you sure?! These are expensive, I can't take this!" "Please... if you don't, I'll end up paying up keep for two freakin fish tanks"... 10-4

    I'd like to set up a fish / liverock tank with a few little nemos, damsels and shit. But it's hard to find the space in my small house to set it up, where it's either
    a) not in the way
    b) not blasted by sunlight (I dont feel like cleaning algae all the time)
    c) in a room where it'll actually be appreciated
     
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    FJF I guess I should have called and paid you to come clean my itty bitty 36 gallon tank , it would have been a walk in the park after that monstrosity you have LOL
     
  5. jetophile

    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    How is this a negative comment? It's not a negative comment at all. It's 100% sensible and true and it was good for you to realize that keeping a social animal in relative isolation is a bad idea. No dog is an island. They're not wired that way.
     
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    Don't be foolish, my brothers kids always carry.
     
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    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    I never had an outdoor cat because, well, cars, so I guess you got lucky. I had a friend in rural PA who had two cats that were basically subsistence mousers. They weren't just in it for the thrill kill and leaving you gifts. They very rarely ate cat food. My friend would dose them with Droncit every couple of months for tapeworm because rodents were their main diet (mice, chipmunks, hares). They were massive. I'm talking massive. Pure muscle, like mini Pumas. They were truly impressive physical specimens. I never saw anything like it. They were from the same litter. Probably just freaks of nature.
     
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    jetophile Bruce Coslet's Daughter

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    True outdoor cats without a home base - I'm talking feral - lead really shitty sad hardscrabble lives. People who shouldn't breed dump cats at alarming rates, cats breed at alarming rates, and become an absolute nuisance. Moral of the story: people who ignore birth control in tbeir own lives dump unaltered cats. Some people shouldn't breed.
     
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    I did African cichlids in it. Along with a few other semi aggressive tropicals. It was my first tank. From there I set up a 10gal saltwater with a clown and a damsel and a lot of live rock. When I moved back to New York I took the 150 down. Gave away all the fish. Which was a lot of fish. Cichlids multiply like rabbits. Hooked the 10 gal to a battery operated aerator, stuffed it in the trunk of my wife’s car and put a bunch of hand warmers around it and drove it up from Florida to New York in March. . Everything lived. Than I acquired a 55 long tanks. Transferred that 10gal in to that added some more damsels and shrimp and had it until the October blizzard of 2010 knocked my power out for 3 days and the tank crashed.
    Gave all the tanks away after that. But I am starting to wr the itch for another one and there’s a 20 gal tank in the garage right now so I think soon another salt water tank may be in my future.
     
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    I had a piranha in college, lived for years. One of my housemates worked at a local pet store, and this was back when it was legal to sell them (I guess?). Red-bellied from the Amazon.

    His name was Spanish Johnny and his backdrop was a Penthouse Pet centerfold.

    The looks on parents faces when they realized what they were looking out was pretty funny.

    I'd drop a dozen goldfish in at a time, he'd eat 10 of them overnight, he'd eat another one a day or 2 later and befriend the other one for about 2-3 weeks.

    And then that one would disappear.

    Savage.
     
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    There's a 55 gal tank laying on the side of my house since Hurricane Matthew if you want it
     
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    My brother went to Syracuse in the late 70's and knew a guy that had a tank with a piranha with what he said was a Playboy centerfold on the back of the tank. Where'd you go to school?
     
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    Thanks. Won’t be down that way for a while though.
     
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    Cheers, Jeto. :)
     
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    He won’t answer because if he does he will reveal his identity. Lol.
     
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    bulldogs rock......i just wish they were less maintenance and had a longer life span.
     
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