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« Reply #50 on: April 27, 2008, 03:12:29 am » |
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« Reply #51 on: April 27, 2008, 04:49:15 am » |
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if its been posted sorry, but how about a hamster, with a cog running wheel and little blast goggles glued to his cute little head
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« Reply #52 on: April 27, 2008, 06:30:42 am » |
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...do armadillos make good pets?
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« Reply #53 on: April 27, 2008, 09:02:26 am » |
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Sphinx cats are awesome!!!
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« Reply #54 on: April 27, 2008, 09:22:36 am » |
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if its been posted sorry, but how about a hamster, with a cog running wheel and little blast goggles glued to his cute little head
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« Reply #55 on: April 27, 2008, 09:44:36 am » |
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!! SEND IT TO HELL, SEND IT TO HELL!!!! Look, do you want a steam pet or not? Imagine the look on your guests' face... Yeah, grimaces of disgust followed by horrified recoils. The perfect addition to any family gathering. |
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« Reply #56 on: April 27, 2008, 09:57:09 am » |
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My neighbours have a sphinx, it's adorable!
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« Reply #57 on: April 27, 2008, 05:12:57 pm » |
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My neighbours have a sphinx, it's adorable!
In the wise words of one Joey Tribbiani, "That, is not a cat!" Hmmm< i could make a little collar with goggles on it, so it looks like he's got 'em around his neck while he's not wearing them.
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« Reply #58 on: April 27, 2008, 05:15:59 pm » |
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*gasps at the genius* First project of the summer: my cat is getting a pair of goggles!
I'd like to suggest constructing a full set of plate armor for yourself before attempting to strap anything to a cat. |
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« Reply #59 on: April 27, 2008, 05:33:20 pm » |
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!! SEND IT TO HELL, SEND IT TO HELL!!!! Look, do you want a steam pet or not? Imagine the look on your guests' face... Yeah, grimaces of disgust followed by horrified recoils. The perfect addition to any family gathering. I was thinking more like: "Why yes, my experiments have proven that you can freeze-dry house pets...why do you ask?" |
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« Reply #60 on: April 28, 2008, 02:36:05 am » |
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Rats are cool. Mine came from the underground rat railroad -- somebody brought the poor thing in to the vet clinic to be euthanized because it was 'infested' with mites that were biting their kid. Which it wasn't, actually -- from the sound of it, their kid was allergic to rats in exactly the same way I am, if the critter touches my skin I get little red bumps if I don't wash immediately. The vets shrugged, took their money, treated the rat for mites in case, and snuck it out the back door. It learned, quite easily, to come when called (not verbally, but by tapping on the floor) and to stash small objects in a little miniature piratey treasure-chest thing I got for a few cents at a thrift store. I fed it on commercial rat-chow and whatever I was having for dinner. I would make a little rat-plate, same as everybody else's, but miniature. It didn't like the meat so I'd leave that part off. It loved pancakes. My rat was not comfortable riding on a shoulder. I don't think many are. The trouble with carrying them about is that they get frightened or tired and then what do you do with them? Also, they can flatten themselves and are shaped in such a fashion that if their head fits through a gap, they can get their whole body through it. This makes it nigh-impossible to fit the rat with a harness, which means that while you are out and about with your rat, you must be paying attention to it, it can't just be let to wander at the end of a tether while you chat. I can imagine a wearable (belt or breast-pocket mounted) rat-carrier with a steampunk look. Just a faux-brass box, with a wire dome on the top. Whole thing sized in such a fashion that your rat can curl up in the bottom of the box for a little hide-and-sleep, or stand up inside it and look out the dome and sniff the air. Also include a little hole on one side, so that you can take a small rat water-bottle from your pocket and mount it on the carrier at times. It'd leak if it was there while you were walking about, but be helpful for the rat if offered briefly during times when you were still or had taken the carrier off and set it on a table. You can get hairless rats. I used to live with a guy that had one. It was malevolant but liked me (probably because I frequently bribed it with tortilla chips) and nobody could figure out just how it managed to persistantly get out of its cage, a near daily occurrence that required me to pick it up, as it would bite anybody else. I am not sure that toy-breed dogs are 'Steampunk' but some of them have been around for a very long time -- Italian Greyhounds and Papillions (Continental Toy Spaniels to Europeans) are among the oldest recognizable dog breeds. Boston Terriers are pretty Victorian, I believe. If you want a go-with-you pet, a tiny dog is probably going to be the most satisfying. They can easily be trained to have big-dog manners and to lack the annoyances (yappy, nervous, unhousebroken) associated with toy dogs. They are in many ways superior to large dogs -- cleaning up after them on the street requires a scrap of paper rather than the haz-mat team, they can be carried about in bags and are welcome in hotels and many other places where large dogs are not, they can wear a harness that will allow you to simply lift the dog off its feet and into your arms should it get into trouble, they have longer life spans and aside from the periodontal disease most small dog breeds don't tend to have as many health problems as large-breed purebreds. And you can get 'doggles' goggles to fit them (and an enormous array of doggie clothes, some of which look steamy, like leather bomber-jackets and tweedy overcoats) as well as the remarkably 'dieselpunk' looking 'Road Hound' ( http://moto-pets.com/) carrier that mounts on a motorcycle. |
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« Reply #61 on: April 28, 2008, 02:38:43 am » |
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get a spider! i had one once......it escaped it's somewhere in my house....  |
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« Reply #62 on: April 28, 2008, 10:24:20 am » |
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Rats love to sit in your sleeve, or hang out the front of your shirt just with their head so they can see, or when wearing them in your hands and things get scary stick their head in your cleavage lol, they like sitting in your neck if you have a scarf or long hair, they like sitting in your shirt under your arm pit, or low and behold I had a rat in my bra before lol! It's just being covered in red scratches that makes it less attractive  You do actually have a special harnas for rats, rats can get as small as their head about to go through a hole, but most fancy male rats are too lazy to do so They all have their own personalities and you soon and easily discover some rats love to be taken outside and aren't afraid to be anywhere, while others just want to hide away outside and do anything to get back in their safe cage dwelling asap. Fancy rat shelters are around internationally and always worth checking out  |
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« Reply #63 on: May 28, 2009, 04:24:49 am » |
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This is very cute pet: Hamsters. I have this in my house. _________________ Rapid Tooling |
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« Reply #64 on: May 28, 2009, 11:50:57 pm » |
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I have a beautiful little long haired black cat with a scary look and meowl if you don't like her, and an adoring look if you do. I think she is very steam punk. So are rats. And ferrets.
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« Reply #65 on: May 29, 2009, 12:14:35 am » |
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This is very cute pet: Hamsters. I have this in my house.
Funny, I would have thought that since you brought this thread back from the dead then a zombie would have been your pet. |
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« Reply #66 on: May 29, 2009, 02:57:11 am » |
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I've had rats as pets in years past, and I'd vouch that they are very nice pets. I currently have a 5-pound toy poodle ("Killer") who I can not say enough about except that he is simply wonderful. He likes to be carried around in a tote bag or in the front of my jacket, and in the car he sits on my husband's shoulder much like a parrot so he can see out the window. He is very polite, clever and learns easily, and he definitely thinks he is a BIG dog. |
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« Reply #67 on: May 29, 2009, 05:17:59 pm » |
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Some years back, a friend of my family, Chester, was constructing a homebuilt plane. It was an early design called a Petenpol, which was a high wing monoplane, powered by a modified "model A" Ford engine. While he was building this thing out in his shop, he had a "friend" show up and take up residence in the shop: an enormous black crow whom we all called "Lenore." She would sit in the rafters, staring down at Chester as he toiled away at building his plane, seemingly supervising. Amazingly, crows are very clean creatures. She would always go outside the building when she needed to poop. (at least, we never found any evidence of her doing so inside.) As a good luck thing, Chester mounted one of her feathers between two sheets of plexi, and mounted the "charm" on the insturment panel.
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« Reply #68 on: May 29, 2009, 05:52:24 pm » |
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I currently have a 5-pound toy poodle ("Killer") who I can not say enough about except that he is simply wonderful. I think the idea of a five pound poodle called 'Killer' is terrific. You presumably call your Rottweiler 'Nancy'. |
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« Reply #69 on: May 29, 2009, 08:11:18 pm » |
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I'd recommend a Beagle. I could go into specifics, but why bother? This pic of my little buddy, Gimli, should clarify things: |
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« Reply #70 on: May 29, 2009, 08:40:47 pm » |
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I'd recommend a pug. They're very funny when it comes to interacting, and they look very adventurous if I may say so myself! They look very manly while still also suitable for the ladies (comes in handy for couples). And they just look friggin' cute.  Or else you could try and find this little fellow: Found him in a museum, fiesty little one. |
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« Reply #71 on: May 29, 2009, 11:03:49 pm » |
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« Reply #72 on: June 01, 2009, 10:34:41 pm » |
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I'd recommend a pug.
Did someone say Pug? The One-eyed Wonderdog himself. (He was a rescued pug, so I don't know how he lost the eye) |
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« Reply #73 on: June 01, 2009, 11:13:05 pm » |
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Awww! Give the Wonderdog a kiss for me. What a cutie!
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« Reply #74 on: June 01, 2009, 11:19:51 pm » |
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wonder dog needs a manacle!
When we met my wife's old family dog was still around. He'd lost an eye to a truck fender as a pup, and the docs left the socket open and pink. Made folks real uncomfortable to look at, and boy did that dog know it. You ain't seen beggin' until you see a critter wink its empty socket at you on purpose.
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