How old were you when you got your first pet?

[Sex Smurf]

I think I was 5 and got a fish tank full of feeder guppies. That is where I learned that jabbing girls in the butt with my pectoral fin will make babies.

I kept the guppies until I graduated to Oscars, then the guppy overpopulation problem was solved.

 

[frodrick]

1: i have no idea
2: it probably died from neglect

 

[NTB]

First pet that I remember us getting (my parents had dogs long before I was around, and when I was a little baby) was our black lab. For a long time I didn't like him so much, because he was quite large. He was a great dog though.

Nate

 

[dighn]

1. not sure. between 7-10 i think
2. flew away

 

[Mojoed]

My family had a dog before I was born. When I was four years old, my dad told me to go to my room and stay there. About an hour later he came in to tell me Lady had been hit by a car. Not really knowing the meaning of death, the first thing I asked was, "Is she as flat as a picture?" (Too many cartoons!) He looked at me and didn't say anything and had this WTF look on his face. I guess he expected me to be devastated or something.

This is probably the earliest memory I can remember.

 

[nageov3t]

I dunno... 0?

it wasn't until I was 23 that I lived in a house without at least one pet. my dog died last summer and my parents decided to wait a year to remodel the first floor of their house before getting a new one (they just started dog shopping last week).

we've had 1 dog run away, 1 dog was given to a friend of the family when we moved from Oregon to NJ, my sister took a cat with her when she moved out, and another cat and 2 dogs died from old age.

 

[Ryan]

I got a cat named Sylvester when I was like 6 - had him until about two years ago when he passed away Awesome animal

 

[Lola]

i got my first pet when i was a few years old. it was a wired hair terrier named pookie. it died of old age

 

[jadinolf]

I was three.

 

[Leros]

Parents had a dog before I was born. Once I started walking, the dog got pissed at me cuz i was invading its territory and attacked me. A day later, my parents had it put down.

Me: 1
Dog: 0

 

[BurnItDwn]

When I was 4 years old (1984) My parents let me pick a black lab puppy from a breeder. Stormy was her name. She was put down due to cancer in 1996. It was very ensaddening.

 

[monk3y]

We've always had animals around the house. The first pet I got for myself was a hamster. I believe I was 6.

 

[EKKC]

1) i was 18. got me a human girl.
2) now i live with her. she kicks my ass everyday for leaving the toilet seat up.

 

[shortylickens]

I was 8. Got a kitty. He grew up to be a weird little fvcker.
He lived to the ripe old age of 15.

Then I got 4 hamsters for my apartment.

Here's a tip fellas: Dont put 4 females together overnight.

 

[thedarkwolf]

My family has always had animals and had several the day I was born. We usually had 3 dogs and 3 cats. Rightnow my parents are up to 2 dogs and 5 cats and I have just 2 dogs.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

I think 4.
We ate it

 

[jerryjg]

Penthouse Pet??

 

[OrganizedChaos]

i got desiree on my 6th birthday but i had her picked out the week she was born. she was born mid febuary and after living in a drawer with her mother for 2 months she came to live with me. i'm 19 now and i still have her, shes in the other room sleeping right now.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

I was 4yrs old and got a baby chick for easter, a couple of days latter when mom wasn't looking I took it in the bathtub with me. Mom found us before it drowned, but it died a few days latter of resperatory problems I'm sure. My next pet was a rabbit that grew to like 15lbs and we turned him loose in the woods, he probably lasted about 15min after nightfall

 

[Mo0o]

Pretty young, 5 maybe? I had a baby duck, i think i overfed it

 

[JBT]

I was 4 I think. It was a Dalmation puppy named Bandit. She died at the age of 15 from natural causes.

 

[djheater]

I had a bajillion pets

Turtles
Frogs
Fish
NO RODENTS (damn mom)
Cats
Dogs
Birds

It was a freaking zoo... and yes the kids were responsible for them, and yes we took good care of them (with a little help from the p's)...

Geez... why don't my kids have pets????

/runs off to buy ferrets...

 

[dornick]

Two turtles when I was about 10 years old.

One escaped. The other died of an eye infection. We found him standing frozen solid in the back of our yard with a massive bump over his eye.

 

[Baked]

For eating?

 

[cjgallen]

We've had cats since I was born. Many have died over the years for various reasons, none of those being neglect or abuse.