Did you have pets as a child?

[MillieB]

I was brought up with dogs.We had a spaniel when I was young and then my parents bought me a spaniel puppy when my sister got married. (She was a lot older than me).I also rode as a teenager.
I went away to teacher training and they didn't have another.
We had been married about a year when my OH came home with a black and white spaniel he said we were to look after for a few weeks for a family who he had just had to tell that there had been a fatal on the motorway. We had him for seven years! Then he brought home an Irish setter that had been taken to the station as a stray. We called him Copper and we had him ten years. Our daughters were then teenagers so we had a Labrador puppy. After we lost him we had a failed gun, a Labrador girl who was scared of water. I took her to residential homes as a pets as therapy dog. We had another rescue lab who we lost to cancer when she was six. We now have another choccie girl who had been bred from and then they put her up for sale.
Both our DDs have dogs .They both started with rescue dogs. The latest is a 14 week old German short haired pointer. Our GDs have been brought up with dogs.

[ZIZI]

When I was a child my dad was in the army and therefore we moved a lot so we were not allowed pets so I had an imaginary little dog called Gyp. My grandparents in Twickenham gave me a white rabbit calledChristmas which they used to post pictures to me of And I was heartbroken after a while to hear that my grandad had killed him for the pot and I have never been able to eat rabbit since. When we came back to this country we got a Golden Labrador called (imaginatively) Sandy. I was prettified of him although I did grow to love him but I have never really liked dogs although I would not see anyone hurt them. None of my family were into cats but somehow I adored them. I bred Persians for a while but found that the breeding and the selling was not to my taste so I kept the two lovely girls I had and had them "done". I thought it cruel for them to be pregnant so much for me to sell their babies. At one point I had six cats but had to re home them when I moved back to London. Broke my heart but I knew where they all went.

Once I was settled back in London I got another cat, just a mob called Sam, and when I moved in with husband I took my boys (cat and son) with me and he had three, two boys and a ballerina cat called Soots (bet you cannot guess what colour she was). we went on to have seven cats at one time. All but one dying in very old age. My Georgie being the last one a couple of years ago at 23. after him we decided not to get any more. When my son was young and we were on our own we also had goldfish every now and then, one we had for four years but when they popped off I would just replace them so he didn't know. Thought goldfish were exceptionally boring but he liked them although I did have to rescue them from Ready Brek several times during their short lives.......