Animals are a persons best friend.

I once had a cat named Moses. He was all white and liked to stay in cars' engines, so he always had a black stripe of oil down his spine. We had to put hime away at age three because of incurable parasites.

One summer, we had a pet sheep named Dolly. This was long before the eponymous clone. LOL. She had lost her mother and need someone to feed her with milk from a bottle. Later, she was returned to the farm, where she lived for many years and had several litters of lambs.

My father grew up on a farm with a goat, whose milk he drank, because my grandmother was convinced that he would become stronger than if he had drunk cow's milk.

geriatrix , your gram was prob right!
I grew up in the farm world and have a great love of animals as a result. So I grew up with cows, pigs, horses, cats. dogs around.
I've had three cats before the one I have now. First a sister and brother I named Sasha (grey tom with white markings), And Freedom (female black with white markings). I got them when my oldest sister's cat had kittens.
Then I had a tom named Sapphyre (almost all black with a tuft of white on his chest and gorgeous blue eyes, hence the name). His mom abandoned him when he was 5 weeks old, on the street. A coworker brought him into where I worked at the time and said she was going to take him to the SPCA. So I took him. Poor thing had a bad infection and needed vet care but he came out all right.
My cat now is a tabby girl. Her first owner called her Catmandu. I changed the spelling a bit to Khatmandu. She had two owners before me and the last one had asthma and couldn't keep her. She is very shy and scared. And my baby. She has IBS due to allergies, so she is a mess to deal with. But we may have finally stumbled on the best care for her. It took all of 9 years though
Pets, gotta love them P

We've had or have birds, fish, cats, dogs, hamster, mice and a turtle.

My family in Brazil had dwarf turtles. They only became like 4-5 inches long as adults. We kept them in a tank that was half filled with water and had a sandy beach. They ate some strange powder that we bought in boxes at a zoo.

My father-in-law brought a bunch of stuffed animals from Brazil to Italy in the 1960s. In our appartment there, we had a crocodile, a tapir, a couple of piranhas, a rattlesnake and I don't know what else mounted on a livingroom shelf. They were given to distant relatives when we sold the appartment.

Turtles aren't allowed in Norway anymore unless you have a medical certificate that you are allergic to fur!