Thanks, @Arkroyal.  I've always enjoyed her posts.  I'm sure asshole kitty will make my day!

@Redmomma, We have a rat terrier, too!  She'll be 4 in August.  She definitely has a quirky personality, but we love her and she's treated like our baby.  She loves to go places with us and sometimes, if she's outside, will follow the car until we stop and let her in.

I have Jerry my 9yo Basset Hound, Fred my asshole (a rescued Beagle) and a 17yo cat.

We have a 9 year old tuxedo cat named Zipper. (Same age as DD. He was my nesting! lol) He is definitely a member of the family. Our Chihuahua passed away nearly 2 years ago. We miss our Baby so much. DD will still cry for her sometimes She was with us from 8 weeks old and was 13 years old when she passed.  

I have a 5 y.o.  Lab/Husky/Akita mix.  She's medium size and has the fur of a Lab but the coat looks like a Husky.

We have a 8 month old beagle named Ruby and a black cat named Sammy that we think is about 2. They are definitely my 4-legged kids and are treated very well. Surprisingly, they get along extremely well together!

We have a 6 yr old cat that's a little slow in the head & very fat, but she's my baby.  We have another cat, 3yrs, who's name is Jewel, but we call her Crazy Bitch 'cuz she's psychotic.  We have an Australian Shep mix who just turned 1. She's also psychotic & very energetic & if she doesn't quit chewing shit up, I'm going to kill her!  Last, but not least, we have a golden retriever/lab mix who's 4 & sweet as can be.  But he's a little slow in the head too.  Picture Forest Gump & that's his personality. :)

As for who takes care of them:  I do. Even though I'm totally NOT a dog person, I usually get stuck making sure they get fed, get medication & get taken to the vet.  If I knew I was going to get stuck w/ the maintenance of these dogs, I would have put my foot down & stuck to my cats.  BTW: they are inside dogs & their hair is EVERYWHERE!!!! I can't keep up!

We have 2 dogs:

Sasha - 4yo mixed breed rescued from the shelter (about 30 lbs); she was our fur baby before DS2; and

Sophie - 9mo mixed breed also rescued from the shelter (about35 lbs); she was my moment of craziness when I decided we needed another pet.  WTH was I thinking?

DH takes care of them when he's in town (every two weeks), I get them the rest of the time.  DS2 helps me feed them (he pushes the dog food bin back to it's location).

In terms of loving them - Sasha is very well trained (by me thru obedience classes) and I have no problems with her at all.  Sophie, on the other hand, hasn't been trained yet (finding time has been an issue) and therefore, we are still experiencing the puppy issues - eating shoes, DS2's small toys, her dog bed, etc.

@love you have beautiful Akitas!

We have a Golden Retriever we got because two years ago I needed a dog and DH (reluctantly at first) allowed it. We got him at 11 months from a man who never had any time for him but loved him enough to want what was best for him. He's not allowed on furniture but allowed to be in every room with us and very much my shadow. He's never kenneled because he's fully house trained UNLESS he's put in a crate and then I come home to a soaking, howling, chewed plastic mess. He can't be let off his leash on walks or at beaches because he's what we call "viscously friendly." He slams into new people's legs as a greeting, usually knocking them off their feet which is more than embarrassing. He also doesn't chew his stuffed animals, only snuggles and licks them. When one ripped playing tug of war, he constantly brought both pieces of it to me with the sad eyes until we fixed it. He even dug it out of the trash and so I sewed it... I wouldn't say he's my second baby but we did spend $1000 on a dog that was almost free JUST to move him to Hawaii so I'd say we're pretty close.

Oreo is so pretty!  :)    I am not much of a fish person.  My mom gave my son a goldfish and it died and I chickened out and replaced it while he was in school.  This happened twice!  I know, bad, I eventually told him... he thought it was just the one goldfish though. :(

Okay I have 3 cats and two dogs, not sure if I have pics of everyone on the computer but here is Mika, "The Bitch".  She's some sort of Siamese mix and gorgeous but oh so crazy -- and oh damn, I just noticed that textbook in the pic and realized I never turned it in (it is a rental)!!! Crap! 





is Spike, our sexy boy kitty...but he was much younger here, now he's all filled out and muscular:





Then Lillith:

And then the dogs:

Raven is a Lab mix, mostly lab, and she's about 8 years old, this is the only clear pic I could find, now she's looking like an old lady! Here she is with DS14 when he was about 8:




And this is Doyle, he is Raven's son and he is 2.  His father was Boston terrier/shih tzu mix!

Can't forget my beloved Princess.  She died April 2011, she was 13.   Longhaired gray tabby and the best mouser ever.

This is Radcliffe

Treacle and Pauline

^^ that's T.J. She is the kitten, and shes awesome! She lets benji lift her and stroke her backwards, and still doesnt complain, and still goes to him for a cuddle. 

This is my colley shetland Bailey's  he is 4 years old 

@toothemoonandback Your rotties are GAWJUS! :X  Thats my next pooch. love them!

@Tothemoonandback -- I had a Sebastian too!  Only mine was a cat.  Orange tabby. :) Got him when I was 17, and he was six weeks old, dumped on the side of the road, and he lived to age 18.  Great pet name huh?