You Know What Stinks?

[Ethos]

Not having enough space.
My parents say whatever living animal I want has to stay in my room(excluding the furture SW reef my mom wants to set-up in the basement), and if It can't I can't have it.
Right now, the major furniture I have now(bed, desk, TV/tv stand, bookshelf, 55G, 10G nano, 5G betta tank + a couple small betta bowls) take up pretty much the whole room.
I've decided I want a little more than just a few fish tanks....maybe a bunny/gerbal/ect that kind of thing. I don't think the normal teenager just grows up with a couple of fish and a dog. I these are like my emotional years or whatever, so I need something I can hug or touch or whatever you do with a rodent/small animal.
My mom says I can put the nano possibley in the living room, where most of our nice show piece is (Flatscreen, the 'nice' furniture, the heirlooms, ect) and that could clear things up for a cage of some sort, if they even let me purchase it, or if I have the money (which as a teenager I'm always short of).
My room just isn't big enough!
My parents won't let me take out my desk or bookshelf, which could both make alot of room.
I think most of you guys own you own houses, but do you ever find yourself in this predicument?

 

[prankster705]

You think thats anoying, I have to share my room with my older brother,. who hates my animls. Good thing I am getting my room in 8-10 months. It's gonna be 5m*3m*3m just for me and my pets

 

[MegTheFish]

If my parents let me get any animal I wanted as long as it stayed in my room...then I think I'd be sleeping on the floor! Your lucky, my parents said no more animals.

 

[Ethos]

I dunno if they'll even let me though!
I'm in the middle of this Nano project, and thats requires alot of patient waiting...and I just got a 55G this augest, and they think thats alot.
Thats why I'm restircted to what I can buy. Thats why it needs to be cheap.
If only the 55G Didn't take up half my bedroom wall! Its not even that it takes up a ton of room itself, but in order for it to look proper, it needs to be centered.

 

[Mr.September15]

Well I think a hamster will suit you well if you clean its cage and stuff every other day... But a rabbit cage would be too big and would smell.

-Arrowhead

 

[CluelessScot]

Why not get rid of the tv stand and put you tv on one of these wall mounts? you would clear yo alot of room like that? I bought a wall mount about 2 months ago and its still not up, the tv is sitting in the corner of the room on a stool... its a 24inch tv too

 

[OohFeeshy]

Know the feeling, when my parents moved up to the loft conversion (leaving their bigger bedroom empty), my much younger sister got put in there. It wasn't even just me that thought that wasn't fair, but they came up with the reason that 'it had always been my room'. Great. Luckilly they say I can have whatever I want as long as I look after it, but that doesn't help much when you can't have anything in the front room 'except a seahorse tank' (quoteth my mother), no rooms apart from the conservatory have moveable furniature and the conservatory is freezing all year and is the home of the cats. And you have a rabbit in the garden that's bigger than a cat and was rehomed seperate at the RSPCA shelter (who always rehome their rabbits in pairs) for being too agressive. I have one of those beds that is a bunkbed without the bottom bunk and a desk underneath, but thats not a great deal of help when it's too short to stand up under and the desk wobbles when you are on the bed. Oh, and my dad thinks the floor can't handle anything over a 3ft tank.

 

[paulthegreat]

Try a hanging cage for a hamster or put up some shelves.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I think its fair enough if your parents don't want their home turning into a zoo or smelling of animals all the time, my mum didn't let me have any animals of my own in the house when i was a kid apart from a goldfish, so count yourself lucky. The other factor is of course who pays for the suplies and upkeep of your pets, if your parents pay for any of it its also not really in your position to complain at all.
Also at some point in the near future you will want to move out of home and get your own place, not many appartments/flats have landlords/ladys that will let you get animals of any sort and you also have to take into consideration that if you do find somewhere that will let you have animals, the moving of all your tanks and pets as well as being able to hold down a job where you can afford food, bills, hygene stuff plus all your pets and extra stuff like entertainment things to keep you sane wether its going out at the weekends or watching a dvd at home or listening to music, will be hard. When you move out your parents are gonna want their house back as well and i cant imagine them being too chuffed having all your pets stay at their place.
So basically what im am saying is don't get annoyed at your parents but to instead be grateful, because they have every right to trun around and say "if you want pets get your own place", plus you got to have forsight and see wether you can still afford pets when you move out of home and have the time for them.
Not meaning to be a boring old bastard, but i made an effort when i lived at my mums place to get a job and a place of my own ASAP and then got pets- i think this is also the most practical and responsable way to do things as well .

 

[CFC]

I wasnt allowed fish as a child either, my parents said they are too much work and that tanks get broken too easily. I wasnt able to start keeping fish properly until about 6 years ago because until then all the places i had lived were on short term contracts which made having any pets impractical as i would move house every 6 months or so.

 

[Bloo]

Ethos, count yourself lucky . If only I was allowed to keep what I wanted (in my room) as a child, life would have been bliss!

 

[Synirr]

I wasnt allowed fish as a child either, my parents said they are too much work and that tanks get broken too easily.

And now look at you! (and I mean that in a good way, since I, like most people here, worship your fish and tanks)

I feel your pain Ethos, I've got sorta the same arrangement, only it's just the fish that have to stay in my room, since my mother likes other animals just as much as I do. I don't think it's particularly unfair, but then again, I have two rooms
One bedroom and one room that became the computer room when my half-bro moved out years ago. Both are small, though. I can't get rid of furniture either, which sucks, because there are a few completely useless bits I could do without, like this random glass table I don't really have anything to put on... I could cram a 55 gallon in where it is if only I could get rid of it!!

 

[emma12321]

Hi,

Stick with a hamster, gerbil or something similar, rabbits when kept in the house need space to run around and if you have tanks and wires dangling thats not a good thing. They can also live to be teenagers so you need to think if you can handle a 14 year commitment. Small furries tend to live less than 5 years and take up a lot less room.

Emma

 

[morgan]

Hamsters are very nice and don't smell (as far as I remember). One advantage of being in a single parent family for me was only one parent to convince! We used to keep our guinea pigs in the bedroom in the winter, they didn't smell either. Hamster cages aren't all that big and you can let them run around your room when you are there. By the way adults don't always get their own way either! I wanted a 6ft tank but my husband said a definite no to that one. I am having a 4ft one instead. It is going by my chair in the living room. Hope you get a nice pet.

 

[ncjharris]

It doesn't get all that much better when you have your own place!
Damn furniture in all the rooms - who's idea was it to have all this stuff!

Anyway, you will find your space limited when you have your own pad - we have a list of all future projects that can only happen when we move to a bigger gaff - and don't get the gf started on the dog!!