<![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts! - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts! - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Worst porn name ever? Duke Old Highway 40? Bang that!

MeaniePants

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> I should know by now not to read this stuff at work - Diet Coke, meet keyboard and monitor. I'm really glad my parents never went for the hamster my sister begged for. Especially because she would have wanted two.

This makes me miss my Sadie the Super Corgi. Must find picture. And late to the game on porn star names - Sadie St. Cloud at your service.

yuppie_magnolia

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @leMaldeTete: You're right, that is the best/worst ever.

Mine's Goldie Primrose, which sounds a little twee. But that could be my thing, I guess.

thespider

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @AthertonMerriweather:

Oooh, don't be so sure. How about Jimmy Buffett t-shirt worn as a dress - cinched in the middle with a Chicos-style woven belt - hot pink eyeshadow, frizzy ponytail, cradling my cat like a baby? WIN.

Amry

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Okay...I have to get my Mom to scan some pics of my Boston and myself when we were wee littleuns!

I hope she knows how to use the scanner...

Tea Em Gee Eff

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> My first pets were hamsters, but I don't remember anything about them. The first pet I remember having was a kitten. I don't have pictures just a sad story. Her name was Chatita. We kept her outside because we didn't have room to keep her inside. She had only been with us for a few weeks, when she tragically died. I had let her into the house and she had quickly ran under the bed. When my mom was making the bed, with the green comforter on the floor, she accidentally stepped on the kitty's head thinking that it was a ball. When she had finished making the bed, we both discovered the dead kitty. I was scarred for a while afterwards. Since then I've tried not to get too attached to my pets.

arita

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @dirtdevilabortion: That makes me sad and reminds me of the photo I had with my rabbit, cleverly named 'Little One', the day my father took her?him? to the farm. I still think my father actually took him/her to a farm...but I refuse to ask just in case. We (both?) look so sad in the pic. :(

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @zivah: Word. I had two sets of hamsters when I was little- Lucy and Ricky and then Fred and Ethel. Lucy and Ricky were tolerable and I loved them. Then my younger brother accidentally strangled Lucy. Fred and Ethel had a passel of babies when I brought them out to play, and then ate them. Then they had more, and were doing quite well, and I went to take my bath and came back, and all the babies were gone. Mama Ethel ate them all, needless to say.

I wish I had a picture of one of my first pets, a rabbit named Spot. I loved him madly. One day it was really hot, and I had a terrible feeling he was dead. When we got home, I ran out to his hutch, and he was indeed dead. I was inconsolable for quite some time. I really wish I had a picture of him, but alas, I don't think I do =(

dirtdevilabortion

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @zivah: I thought he was kidding with the first one (RIP Gabriel) - I walked into my dormroom as Ed was swallowing Gabriel, but it didn't seem real. I couldn't believe anyone would actually eat a fish...much less my pet!

I did, however, see him reach into the tank and grab Peter as a chaser. Unfortunately, I wasn't strong enough to beat Ed into throwing Peter up.

PhD is definitely atonement.

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @zivah: Clearly Mouse would not have survived anyway!

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @wildflowerpower: No! Did you watch him do it?

The PhD = atonement

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Hamsters are terrible pets. My last one was in college. His name was "mouse," and a friend of mine was supposed to watch him over the winter break. The friend didn't pick up the phone, my cab was on its way, I panicked. I took Mouse down the Riverside Park and set him free. I figured it was better than starving in the dorm room. Of course when I got back to my dorm, my slacker friend had left a message being all, "hey, you can bring that rat over whenever."

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @EdnasEdibles: That made me snort, and also reminded me that I had two goldfish (won from the fair) named Peter and Gabriel. I probably shouldn't tell you that this was in college.

Both Peter and Gabriel met an untimely death when my friend Ed ate them as a fraternity prank. Perhaps why I don't like fraternities? Or why goldfish-eating Ed since earned PhD in marine biology? Not sure what the link is.

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Elisheva: Oh, and the hamsters frequently fought, so the one he stepped on only had one eye. He hit the second one with a hammer too because it was "so lonely."

I laughed. A lot.

Elisheva

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Friends of ours had very very tiny hamsters and kept them in a carton in the basement until they had the time to purchase a cage. It was always very dark, and their 16-year-old son frequently traipsed down there for videogaming. He also never turned on the light.

So, one day, he wanders downstairs and suddenly something goes "SQUEAK!" He stepped on one of them! It had escaped, the bastard! . . .

He put it out of its misery with a hammer.

(Expect the Golden Retriever glory!)

Elisheva

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> I used to have a pet Cobra that I named "Ayn Rand."

BicSharpie

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @brookidy: @LaComtesse: I am now incredibly relieved to have just one hamster.

I once had a terrible dream where I put her in the garbage disposal for "safe keeping."

LipstickLibrarian

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @EdnasEdibles: lol, "fish-carer"

susna

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Jessi Ramsey ditched Mallory:Your Turtle ran away? That's hilarious. Made me laugh out loud.

burgervixen

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @wildflowerpower: According to dictionary.com, that meaning dates back to 1929.

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @zivah: upon re-reading my own words, I did indeed gag a bit :)

rocknrollunicorn

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> One time when I was little, we couldn't find our little kitten Sweetums. Later we kept hearing meowing in the kitchen. There was already a tiny hole in the wall and upon further inspection we saw a little kitty nose peeking out. It turns out our kitty had found a way into our walls from under our porch and was stuck. It was adorable.

tiffcat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @rocknrollunicorn: "just standing in a spray of decomposing rat"

Just thought that maybe bore repeating. In case someone missed it.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> I named not one but two cats Humphrey. Humphrey the First made an unwise decision to nap in the road, and my mother had to explain it to my third-grade self, and I could not understand why Humphrey was not THERE when I wanted to PLAY with him.
Humphrey the Second was given away, because we kept his two brothers.

And your hamster experiences are similar to my gerbil experiences -- they had babies, then ate them, and frequently escaped, and we finally got rid of the nasty things.


Nicorette

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @wildflowerpower: It's a bit more of an old school gangster name.

Lymed

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @rocknrollunicorn: We had a hamster who disappeared twice. Once, he reappeared in the cat's litter box (the cat was so surprised that she didn't even try to eat him), but the second time he disappeared...

Let's just say that mom and dad tried to convince us that they'd taken him to the special farm for hamsters (!) - the smell coming from one of the walls later gave it away.

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Tracie, is that a Great Pyrenes? Best dogs ever!

Lymed

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @nellicat: Really? I'm all over that then. What a cool piece of info.

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @TriedandTrue: Nope, I am Canadian Bacon : )
Although, I used to have a major thing for Montana, I think it was dinosaur bone thing...I just remembered that now, I used to look it up in the atlas and pick which city I'd live in, I wanted to be close to "the badlands".Weird.


hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @glamzonhobbitfeet: OH MY GOD. you have my favorite gross stories! God, you think you are getting clean, when really you are just standing in a spray of decomposing rat!

It is so wrong that I am laughing and not barfing.

rocknrollunicorn

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @badmutha: it was all me. My five year old self took the turtle outside to play with me( which was really me placing him in a bucket and going about my hopscotch business). Hours later after coming indoors I realized I had left him outside. He was gone.

Jessi Ramsey

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @glamzonhobbitfeet: Yeah, just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Horrible.

jezebelacious

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: My porn name should actually be Sissy Kasson, but the street I lived on before that one makes a better porn name: Sissy Keystone. Porn star of Pennsylvania.

I am totally hunting down a pic of me and Sissy this weekend. Expect chubbiness and possibly an assymetrical haircut. Helly yeah, 5th grade!

rocknrollunicorn

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @rocknrollunicorn: oh ewwwww! That reminds me of last year in my friend's dorm room. they had low water pressure in the shower for 2 weeks. When the plumber came, they found a dead rotting rat lodged in the shower head! I actually vomited when I heard that!

glamzonhobbitfeet

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: I would be SugarBear Crane...though the first dog I really remember was Kumar, a car-herding, ball-chasing, best snuggler ever, Aussie Shepherd/Blue Heeler mix.

JSouth

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: Hate - are you from Billings, MT?? That's where my parents live now.

TriedandTrue

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @mockingbird: Yeah, if I can find it, I'm sending in the picture of my mother with her dog. Her dog's name is MY name. Of course, i am the last of 8 kids and maybe they were just running out of names by then . . .

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @BrutallyHonestBabes: Mine too. Smartest, greatest German Shepherd ever. I cried for days when she died. I still dream about her from time to time.

Dalinae

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Spaceman Bill Leah: I always say my mom would have rather had a kitten than a baby. She doesn't find it funny.

One of my cousins named her daughter after the family dog. She was an awesome dog.

mockingbird

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @glamzonhobbitfeet: omg that is the best/worst story ever. My aunt had a chinchilla and it disappered. Then their heating was being all weird. And... duh, the heating guy discovered a dead, super bloated from the heat chinchilla in their heating ducts.

rocknrollunicorn

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> My first pets were hamsters named Honey and Goldie, making my porn name either Honey Amsterdam or Goldie Amsterdam. Perhaps I'll use one of the two when I start charging $4000 an evening of my services.

WifeMotherCrip

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @pureblarney
My granny made me a wonderful childhood photo album a few year back...
@hatepaperdoll Ha, ha, ha, love that game, my name would be C.B. Kensington (we named our first dog after Charlie Brown).



niaray

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: Okay I have to share now. My pornstar name following that formula is Budweiser C-Street. It's the worst / best ever.

leMaldeTete

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Does it have to be *your* first pet, or are we counting family pets that loved you? Because I have one of the latter, and as it's under debate whether my first word was "dada" or the name of the cat in the photo with me... Otherwise, all at home. And I really doubt my dad was paying attention when I taught him how to use the scanner.

mockingbird

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @nellicat: They are all boys and are named Burke, O'Hara, McGraw and Kennedy. All Irish last names as first names. And yet oddly enough the only one that bothers me is Kennedy.
I always wonder if they were worried about him getting lost or something.


LinaLamont

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Oh, and Snibbles Birchwood. Or Moose Birchwood. Two dogs that predated me in the family and I am still convinced that my parents loved more.

Spaceman Bill Leah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LaComtesse: Didn't Pam Grier play Sassy Apollo?

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: Cleo Ferguson . . . sound kind of like a sexy executive methinks . . .

angelheadedhipster

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @wildflowerpower: Well, maybe a vaudeville star - "Tomato" used to mean a woman with va-va-va-voom!

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LinaLamont: @Rhody: @nellicat: @badmutha: Sassafras "Sassy" Apollo, at your service

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @RyanB: Thank you for that imagery. From now on my son is only getting formula.

Spaceman Bill Leah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LinaLamont: Sugar Kennedy is a good one! You mean your neighbor's first name is Kennedy? I think it is odd to give children last names as first names, but I understand it is quite common in some parts of the U.S. It's also quite a trend in other parts of the U.S., esp. giving girls these names (i.e., McKenzie, Parker, Madison, Emerson, Jackson, etc.)

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Can't wait to submit the photo of me and Fritz (the German Shepherd), yay!

niaray

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LinaLamont: Thats a good one!

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Mine is Tomato Salem. It doesn't really work, does it? But then again, who names a cat tomato?

wildflowerpower

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @angelheadedhipster: Youngest of three and same here.

beastybeatsy

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Archetype: @badmutha: @tellmeagain: @nellicat: @Rhody: LOL for real! I dont know what Yogurt Billings would be? Hippie Porn Star? Macrobiotic cookbook guru?

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: Mine is Sugar Kennedy.
*on a side note* I have a neighbor named Kennedy, he was born and raised on my street. Am I the only one who finds it odd to name your child after the street you live on?


LinaLamont

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> I am in love with this feature because I am in love with looking at behbeh pictures of myself. Hehe. And all the Jezebelles/beaus.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> I am headed straight to my mom's after work to find the amazing pictures of me on my first Christmas with my pointer puppy (it was her first Christmas too). This is going to be amazing. Thank you.

Jerseylicious

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @tellmeagain: My is Jake Stewart. I'll see you at the stadium.

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Ha, my "porn name" then is Chipper Marks. Not bad, although if I were really a pornstar (or, better yet, a roller derby queen) my name would be Connie Lingus.

Sadly, Chipper died a horrible death on the 4th of July after being attacked by a german shepherd. My father sobbed when he had to take Chipper to the vet's office and ultimately have him put to "sleep." We were forbidden to have pets after that for more than 11 years.

nellicat

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: Mine is Albert Williams. I could be a sportscaster, not a porn star.

tell Dolly Parton again

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> My first doggie was borned right when I was and we grew up together. *sniff*

BrutallyHonestBabes

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

glamzonhobbitfeet

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @hatepaperdoll: I love that first pet + the street you grew up thing. My porn name is Suzy Q. LaPorte. It rocks!

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

hfree

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LaComtesse: Sickening! Dude what's with that? Hamsters are not for kids.

RyanB

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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?

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

sarabadara

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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).

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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)

LinaLamont

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

badmutha

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LipstickLibrarian: I love the pic! It trumps the picture of my 9 year old self and my hamster posing with my birthday cake.

WifeMotherCrip

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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!

ineffable.me

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

SarahMC

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Slut Machine: i have an aunt debbie, too

pinkyBella

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

RyanB

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @LipstickLibrarian: And I believe I've always had a soft spot for a snuggly ham.

sybann

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Oh man! I conveniently have one already scanned on my computer! Sending now!

OhhYeah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Slut Machine: She reminds me of Shirley Valentine.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

zivah

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @sartastic: haha, that's my aunt debbie.

Slut Machine

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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...

pinkyBella

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

brookidy

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

EdnasEdibles

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

katieb: in charge of the war on the poor.

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

Archetype

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @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.

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

not.a.clever.name

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Tracie, are you wearing jellies? Your lady friend (mom?)is certainly rocking some serious mom jeans.

sartastic

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> My first pet,a turtle, ran away when I was five. Pictures of him,I have none.

Jessi Ramsey

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

Rhody

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> Hello me sitting in a wheelbarrow holding our cat, Yogurt, in all his tabby kitten glory.

hatepaperdoll

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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!"

RyanB

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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!!!!


KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

tell Dolly Parton again

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> @Archetype: Yes. You ladies have no idea what you have done. I promise I will only send one picture!

BeAgrestic

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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?

pureblarney

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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!

angelheadedhipster

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> god i hope i can find the picture of my dog that we dressed in my easter clothes.

FullSpeedLohan

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

glamzonhobbitfeet

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> A pic of my first pet accompanies my every comment.

LipstickLibrarian

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> OH MY GOD!!! NOW YOU CAN ALL MEET MY (oft referenced) DEAD CAT SASSAFRAS: GOD'S MOST PERFECT CREATION!!!

LaComtesse

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

AthertonMerriweather

]]> <![CDATA[Pet Projects: Send Us Photos Of Your First Creature Comforts!]]> 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.

Archetype

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