Heads and hearts are going to explode over this one.

I'm now wishing my dad had taken a photo of me when my first cat pooped on my head.

Oh, I got this one. Fat cat being held up by one paw, me with butterfly bangs, braces, an extra 20 pounds, stone washed jorts and a hypercolor t-shirt.

OH MY GOD!!! NOW YOU CAN ALL MEET MY (oft referenced) DEAD CAT SASSAFRAS: GOD'S MOST PERFECT CREATION!!!

A pic of my first pet accompanies my every comment.

yuck! My firsts pets were these 2 guinea pigs my parents got me when I was 8. I thought they were disgusting. So, I put them in the attic so I couldn't hear their gross noises and forgot about them. A week later, I found one dead with it's face eaten off and the other soon after died because it couldn't digest meat. I feel weak/guilty just thinking about it. I think I'll be a great parent some day.

god i hope i can find the picture of my dog that we dressed in my easter clothes.

I hate the fact that, as the youngest of four, my parents were "over" taking pictures of the kids by the time I came along. I'm 22 and I just recently made it on the "wall of fame" in my parents' house of all of our kid photos. It may be the only one they have . . .

That being said . . . I love living vicariously through everyone else's photos!

I'm making sad faces that all my pictures of me as a bebe with my favorite awesome kitteh are 3,000 miles away. How do y'all have so many old pictures on hand?

@Archetype: Yes. You ladies have no idea what you have done. I promise I will only send one picture!

I wish I could submit the painting my mom had commissioned of my first pet. She's crazy, but I was crazy about that dog. Since I'm not in the painting, you'll have to settle for us sharing a bed. Yes, adorbs.

Oh man, do I have some awesome photos of my dog, Gus. I'm gonna have to revive my half-dead laptop in hopes that some photos are still saved there...
Yay for pet pictures!!!!

I had hamsters. Two - a male and a female. They ended up having babies. The father killed about 5 of them. Then the rest of the babies ate the mother while she was "nursing" them.

Imagine me at 5 and my mother standing over the cage yelling "STOP! STOP! STOP!"

Hello me sitting in a wheelbarrow holding our cat, Yogurt, in all his tabby kitten glory.

Tracie, your first pup looks just like my first pup! She was such a sweetie, I'll have to track down a picture of her snuggling with our cat. They were such cute animal friends. Stimpy (the cat) never got over losing that dog. Sniff.

My first pet,a turtle, ran away when I was five. Pictures of him,I have none.

Tracie, are you wearing jellies? Your lady friend (mom?)is certainly rocking some serious mom jeans.

Aw. I wish I had digitized photos of my dear ole stinkin'. He was dah cuttest wittle pupper ever. He was a wheaten and he had such a cute wittle black nose.

And OMG we used to put sunglasses on him. Wayfarers. Hi-larious.

@glamzonhobbitfeet: ... ... oh wow. My husband's first pet was a hamster which he named after his mother. He sites her death as one of the most heartbreaking moments of his life to this day.

@pureblarney: I don't. I've given my parents an excuse to flip through old photos of me (which they love) and they send me a few scans to choose from.

@hatepaperdoll: So CUTE.

Man I have to sit this one out. My first pet was a cat named tiger that was pretty much wild, but like to come inside now and then. I wish I had a picture of the time I tried to dress him up and he scratched me across my forehead and my mom came home to find my dad with the cat in one hand a shotgun in the other and me crying with a bloody cloth to my head begging my dad not to kill it.

Also when I was in the fifth grade it lost a fight with (probably) a badger my mom bright it to school in the car and told me it was my decision whether to put the cat down or, as my mom said, "a lot of surgery and live in terrible pain." He was pretty bad ass though, beat up my neighbors dog many a time. RIP Tiger.

This is another one of those days where I wish that all of my childhood photos were far away in another state packed in a box in my parent's basement.

I also wish I had a photo of Johnason--my goldfish that I named after John Denver. He lived longer than my sister's goldfish and although I was only 5, I distinctly remember feeling that this was a sign that God liked me better and that I was a better fish-carer.

@glamzonhobbitfeet: my kids wil never ever have guinea pigs beacause mine always died mysteriously. As in, rapid weight loss and emergency IV fluids at the vet. My parents should have bit the bullet and bought me dog LONG before we actually got one.

@RyanB: Hamsters can be so nasty. They have like a 16 day gestation period, so they can have tons of babies. We had about 120 at one time. Lots of carnivorous activity. Never, ever again.

i have the cutest pic of my first dog, lassie, a collie mix. i was 5 and obvs my favorite show was lassie. unfortunately, the pic is at my parents' house. sigh...

@sartastic: haha, that's my aunt debbie.

@glamzonhobbitfeet: That is disgusting.

Definitely more disgusting than the time one of my sister's goldfish fell on the floor and, not knowing what to do, I stepped on it. Then I put it back in the bowl with the other goldfish. To this day, my sister attempts to convince nonbelievers that common goldfish are vicious, cannabalistic creatures.

@Slut Machine: She reminds me of Shirley Valentine.

Oh man! I conveniently have one already scanned on my computer! Sending now!

@LipstickLibrarian: And I believe I've always had a soft spot for a snuggly ham.

@brookidy: I hear ya. At any given time we had 2-3 dead hamster babies in the freezer. We ended up just setting the living ones free is a park in the middle of Philly, knowing full well that they would never survive.

The whole thing was severely traumatizing.

@Slut Machine: i have an aunt debbie, too

It's actually almost masochistic, agreeing to love an animal so much, because essentially, you're agreeing to be heartbroken when they die.

Sigh. Yes.

@zivah: We had frogs and one day, when I was maybe 12 or 13, we had to clean the cage while my mom did...something outside the home for an extended period of time.

Well, one of the frogs got away from us. And I thought it had died, but I was too freaked out to flush it. Our dog nudged it with his nose and everything. That fucker wasn't moving.

So we called my MeeMaw, who came over and as soon as she walks in, the frog starts hopping around. He lived until my brother went to college and my mom forgot about the frogs and all their water evaporated and they died.

For the record, they were from a fourth grade project and were only supposed to live for three more weeks.

dammit. i will try and see if there are pictures of me with my little mocha, but im pretty sure im gonna have to sit this one out as well.

rididuclos!

@LipstickLibrarian: I love the pic! It trumps the picture of my 9 year old self and my hamster posing with my birthday cake.

@Jessi Ramsey ditched Mallory: Oh, crap! Are you kidding? Your turtle RAN AWAY? Methinks your parents made that turtle part of the "terrapin relocation project." Either that or he got in some kinda wierd race with a hare.

My goldfish all died at once. When we moved houses my mother's brilliant idea was to put the tank on the floor of the backseat. She is not what you would call a stellar driver and within a week they were all dead.

I still do not forgive her for this.

RIP Pumpkin Patch (my pet names where very descriptive as a child)

@RyanB: Aww! My husband's second hamster ("Newcomer", which replaced his dearly departed, aforementioned "Maggie", however poorly) ate her babies. Apparently, it was the most horrific thing he's ever HEARD (the sound, he says, was worse than the visual).

I'm waiting for the vet to call so I can go pick up my first dog right now. I've never cried when my son has gotten shots, but when they poke at my dog it brings me to tears. Weird.

@Archetype: Yogurt was awesome, he is a cat of legend. However, whenever I do that "whats your porn name" thing where you take your first pets name and the name of the street you grew up on? Yogurt Billings. Hot, isn't it?

BTW: Does your dad still laugh about the cat pooping on your head?

@LaComtesse: Sickening! Dude what's with that? Hamsters are not for kids.

I know exactly what pic I'm gonna send. My mom and me on her horse. I'm a baby, on her back, in a jacket with a hood that made me look like a teddy bear. You will die from the cuteness.

@hatepaperdoll: Mine would be Tina Whipple.

I gave my cats LAME people names.

He does, although it wasn't all that funny as he thought I was being murdered when I screamed and he tripped and fucked up his leg when he ran into the house. He had to go to the hospital.

I, however, LOVE telling the story.

@hatepaperdoll: I love that first pet + the street you grew up thing. My porn name is Suzy Q. LaPorte. It rocks!

@BeAgrestic: Yeah, don't get them guinea pigs. it's too traumatic. lol, my grandmother was horrified when I got them and called them glorified rats.

My first doggie was borned right when I was and we grew up together. *sniff*

@hatepaperdoll: Mine is Albert Williams. I could be a sportscaster, not a porn star.