Do You Own Any Rescue Or Adopted Pets?

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Just curious, but who here owns any rescued or adopted pets? I don't currently own any rescue pets, i own some adopted fish, some of which could be considered rescues, but thats it. My brother recently got some pet chickens and a duck which he rescued from becomming someone else lunch, but thats about it. I don't think i'll be getting anymore pets other than fish for the time being as i don't really have the space or time for anymore animals apart from fish.
So how about you guys/girls ?

 

[Miss Wiggle]

yeah one of our cats was from a rescue.

while i feel great that i gave her a great home, the RSPCA where not fully honest with me about her temprement, training etc and there's things that had I known before hand would maybe have put me off. I understand every circumstance is different but it has somewhat put me off getting rescue animals. Not because of the animals but because I wasn't given the info to make an informed choice.

 

[catxx]

my cat was a rescue, i rescued her when she was approx 6 years old. she was a bit of spontaneous rescue! (i know spontaneous pets are usually a bad idea) but i was 22, and both me and my bro were probably moving out sometime in the future (we now both have). so she lives with my dad in the essex countryside (i live in the city now and my brother lives in gloucestershire). my dad lives alone and travels a lot so she's his companion and he loves her (even when she wakes him up with live mice at 4am). (don't worry, the neighbour looks after her when he's away!). she's a long haired domestic kitty, loves her hairbrush! loves mewing, loves her food, loves shredding the furniture, loves cuddles and loves bringing home the local wildlife. shes a sweetie!

 

[Breeze7050]

My mixed breed dobie/whoknowswhat came from the humane society. Him, his eight brothers and sisters and his mom were all dropped off when the pups were 3 days old. I adopted him at 8 weeks (imagine your first 8 weeks in a kennel/pound!!) and he was the last one left of the litter.

 

[omen666]

I read this thread and could not resist sharing this story again. It is buried amongst the many stories we have on here so I thought I would re-open it

Ginxy

 

[Gill]

I have Had Alot of rescue Animals
My cat who died 1.5 years ago was a rescue and lived to 25 years old
My dog was a Rescue
My canaries were Rescues
My Tortoise was a Rescue
Rabbitts were Rescues.

My Mother and Father Both believe if you are going to own an animal, there is no better way than giving a rescue animal another chance for happiness.

 

[grahamsokel]

A lot of my animals are rescues
Molly the Shetland was turned loose into 30 acres of lush Grass when the owners moved away and had been like that with no water to drink for 3 months in summer

Patsy the Goat was Teathered in the owners garden on a chain,She had lived like that for years with no shelter even through the winter

Mia Cat was dumped as a 3-4 week old Kitten

2 of the Dachshunds came to us when the owner decided they would rather have holidays than dogs

Bobby one of the African Greys came to us 17 yrs ago after living in a 18" square cage for 6 years and never getting out

about a quarter of the reptiles where sold to new owners that had no idea how to look after them and ended up coming to me

Chinchillas all but 2 that i bought are rescues today i have 32 but 24 of these are now healthy enough to go to good homes

2 ferrets came to me when they where discovered on an empty allotment there was a family of 9 in a 2ft hutch all the rest i found good homes for

Tortoise who was left in a council flat when the owner did a disapearing act overnight

then i have 7 mice left from a tank full that came to me as food for a snake i took in so they where split into same sex tanks and kept till i knew no more females where pregnant and ended up with 42 i am slowly finding homes for them as PETS

 

[luque]

all our pets are rescues i have a rabbit called mac who is 12 today!!!

 

[WILDER]

2 kittens off the farm.
Kitty is 10 and tasmin 6, tasmin only has one eye had to have her other one removed when she was a kitten bless her.

 

[PlecMama]

We got Sasha from rescue when she was 7m old, she had been there since she was 3m as, apparently, she wouldn't stop chewing things....well no sht Sherlock, what did you think a labrador puppy was going to do?

Sasha was 7 on Feb 2nd 2007.

Christmas 2006 - Receiving one of her presents -

Opening another present -

Chilling by the coal fire. Look what they made me wear. -

Beautiful, just beautiful. Looking like an older girl now but beautiful all the same.

 

[WILDER]

Lovely pics SusieQPlecMama

 

[MegTheFish]

Ginger was adopted from the OSPCA, her mother had been abandoned at the side of the road, she was pregnat and had puppies when she was in a foster home. Ginger was the runt of the litter, she is 40 lbs. She is a husky/shepard/sheltie cross, her mother was a sheltie. Here is a pic of her!

Friskey and Cuddles (I know, talk about lame names...) were rescues, they were born at my dads work, and lived outside. Once they were old enough to leave their mom they came home with us. They had two other siblings, one was very skittish and we didn't get to see it, the other was long haired and my parents didn't want all the shedding. Unfortunatly they were both killed, one got ran over by machinery and the other was taken by local wildlife Stupid people didn't want to take responsibilty for them, the mom cat was the boss's cat.

And I have a budgie that was found outside, Lucky.

I've rescued some fish too, mostly ones we were unable to sell at work.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

MegTheFish i love your budgie- she (or he) is very pretty ! I once saw a budgie flying around outside when i was a kid while staying at my grandparents at their cottage. It was a green one- it was relatively tame, but not tame enough to let me catch it, and it ended up flying away before i could catch it. Never found out what happened to it in the end, we checked to see if anyone was missing a budgie in the area but there were no reports.

 

[LisaLQ]

My lurcher Sky is a rescue, and I have had a few rescue rats too in the past (still have some of them)

Sky was abandoned on an allotment in Wakefield, tied up, with an old break to her leg - scars from working too, and she was pregnant. She was estimated by the rescue to be between 2 and 4, but our vet said she was nearer 6. We've had her 6 years now, so she'll be somewhere between 10 and 12 years old, still a big pup at times

Rat wise, I took on a mum and one day old babies back in 2005 - Maia was nowt but a bairn herself, she was one of hundreds of rats taken from a pet shop in a huge rescue attempt by Fancy Rats members (co-ordinated by Rodent Rescue Manchester). When they took her from the shop, she already had one 3 week old litter, so had been left in with a male as soon as she'd given birth and got pregnant again immediately. I gave her and babies a foster home - ended up keeping her, and 4 of her babies Sadly, we've battled myco throughout the whole litter - mum has always been very healthy, but we lost one of her daughters a few months ago - and other people who adopted the rest of the litter have also lost theirs at young ages Sad part of life when it comes to overbred badly cared for pet shop rats.

This is Maia (still going strong):

And her daughters - starting with Alice (still with us - but only just):

Edna (passed away a while ago now)

Angelina (still with us - but a bit wonky now as she suffered a stroke recently)

And the one male I kept - Romeo (big, fat and very healthy like his mum lol)

We also have Millie from Rodent Rescue Manchester

And up until recently we also had Fig Roll aka Figgy (on the left in the piccie below), who was another one of the hundreds rescued at the same time as Maia (in fact, I'm not sure, but she might have been one of Maia's previous litter who were kept by another fosterer). She passed away early too

The rat pics are all reaaaally old. Millie is greyer now (huskies fade as they age), Maia's bigger, and Romeo's one heck of a lot fatter lol.

 

[lljdma06]

My Turkish angora, Lily, was a rescue from the Miami Dade county humane society. She was five months old in December of 2000. I adopted her in January, 2001. She'll turn 7 this July. She had the worst Kennel cough, took $300 of medicine to get her well. She's my pretty princess.

My sister's Pomeranian, Charlie, was sort of a rescue. A coworker's neighbor had him and had cooped him in a travel crate for his first year, complaining that he was pooping and peeing everywhere. Perhaps it was because he wasn't fixed? They also fed him table scraps and called him "Gordo". I wonder why? They didn't want him. Funny, the little boy in the house told my sister that there was no way she was taking the dog, but what was funny was that he didn't even know the dog was already in our house for hours. The parents had given him away without much fuss. Talk about not noticing your pet. Well, Charlie doesn't pee and poop everywhere, since we got him fixed, and he's lost quite a bit of weight. I guess a healthy diet will do that for you. My sister got him in March, 2006. He's a great little guy. He turns 3 in November, we estimate. We tried to get the records, but my sister was so afraid that the owners would try and reclaim him after we paid for the neutering and shots, that she didn't fight it.

llj