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it is amazing how predator and prey can get along!
right now i only have the 3 cats. i live in a tiny basement apartment so i don't have room for much else!
at one point, i had a rabbit that got along GREAT with the cats. i think he really thought he was a cat. he even used their litter box and scratching post! the cats loved to chase him, he was much more nimble than they were so they almost never caught him. he could stop, turn around, and leap off in some other direction and the cats would put on their brakes and slide into the wall :lol: once they wore each other out, they'd snuggle up for a nap together. twas precious!
i had a gerbil once too, but he didn't exactly get along with the cats so well...my big 24 pound cat managed to knock his cage over one day. i heard a big noise in the gerbil's room and ran to see what happened and i walked in just in time to see the gerbil run across the floor with cat in tow. the cat caught him before i did...he bit the gerbil's tail and skinned it! oh it was awful...poor little guy had no fur or skin left on half of his tail. the gerbil freaked, naturally, and bit the crap out of me about a dozen times before i could put his cage back up. let me tell you how fun it is to pick up a glass tank and attempt to arrange it while having an insane gerbil in your other hand trying to gnaw your fingers off while having a 24 pound cat trying to climb up your leg to get the said gerbil! he recovered well though, he's lucky the cat only caught his tail. he eventually gnawed the unskinned part of his tail off ::shiver:: but seemed ok after that.
i've had many other pets that i simply didn't allow access to the cats. in no particular order:
1 savannah monitor lizard (once he grew up, he could have easily EATEN a cat!)
3 anole chameleons
1 garter snake
1 cockatiel
1 red eared slider turtle
3 box turtles
1 praying mantis
2 mice (the pet store told me they were both females...but they were wrong, i ended up with about a dozen mice!)
1 gerbil
2 iguanas
1 dove (rescued)
if i could pick my next pet...strange but true...i would pick some sort of bat! with the proper vaccinations and care, i think a bat would make one heck of a neat pet. i think there are a few breeds you're allowed to keep as pets, not sure though. i used to go spelunking every now and then, and would run into brown bats quite often in the caves. they looked like little ferrets with big ears and leathery wings, and were actually very friendly! i got brave one time and put my finger out to one, and it hooked onto me with its little wing fingers and proceeded to hang upside down from my finger and sleep! i wouldn't recommend anyone else try that though, i might have just gotten lucky.
it is amazing how predator and prey can get along!
right now i only have the 3 cats. i live in a tiny basement apartment so i don't have room for much else!
at one point, i had a rabbit that got along GREAT with the cats. i think he really thought he was a cat. he even used their litter box and scratching post! the cats loved to chase him, he was much more nimble than they were so they almost never caught him. he could stop, turn around, and leap off in some other direction and the cats would put on their brakes and slide into the wall :lol: once they wore each other out, they'd snuggle up for a nap together. twas precious!
i had a gerbil once too, but he didn't exactly get along with the cats so well...my big 24 pound cat managed to knock his cage over one day. i heard a big noise in the gerbil's room and ran to see what happened and i walked in just in time to see the gerbil run across the floor with cat in tow. the cat caught him before i did...he bit the gerbil's tail and skinned it! oh it was awful...poor little guy had no fur or skin left on half of his tail. the gerbil freaked, naturally, and bit the crap out of me about a dozen times before i could put his cage back up. let me tell you how fun it is to pick up a glass tank and attempt to arrange it while having an insane gerbil in your other hand trying to gnaw your fingers off while having a 24 pound cat trying to climb up your leg to get the said gerbil! he recovered well though, he's lucky the cat only caught his tail. he eventually gnawed the unskinned part of his tail off ::shiver:: but seemed ok after that.
i've had many other pets that i simply didn't allow access to the cats. in no particular order:
1 savannah monitor lizard (once he grew up, he could have easily EATEN a cat!)
3 anole chameleons
1 garter snake
1 cockatiel
1 red eared slider turtle
3 box turtles
1 praying mantis
2 mice (the pet store told me they were both females...but they were wrong, i ended up with about a dozen mice!)
1 gerbil
2 iguanas
1 dove (rescued)
if i could pick my next pet...strange but true...i would pick some sort of bat! with the proper vaccinations and care, i think a bat would make one heck of a neat pet. i think there are a few breeds you're allowed to keep as pets, not sure though. i used to go spelunking every now and then, and would run into brown bats quite often in the caves. they looked like little ferrets with big ears and leathery wings, and were actually very friendly! i got brave one time and put my finger out to one, and it hooked onto me with its little wing fingers and proceeded to hang upside down from my finger and sleep! i wouldn't recommend anyone else try that though, i might have just gotten lucky.
