Cross Breeds - how many cats and dogs have you lived with in your life?

how many cats and dogs have you lived with in your life?

for me it would be almost 40 cats and two dogs. Not at the same time of course.

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3 cats and 3 dogs
a dog, but not anymore
7 cats 1 dog Not all at the same time
none
the other side, the other side, the other side of me!
12 dogs 2 cats :( I still miss some of them, the ones that have passed on
Five dogs, two cats.
5 dogs throughout my life.
When you sleep with dogs, you get fleas. Old country saying.
In your house or been around?? In my house: 0 Around: about 100 pet stores neighbors friends
2 I had 1 cat, Baby, who died in 2000 at 18 years old. Now I have 1 cat, Dusty and she is 11.
5 dogs and no cats since I'm allergic. RIP Maddie and Tess (two of my past dogs)
3 dogs....they all died 2 cats....died too I didn't want to have a pet ever since
7 cats and 4 dogs none of mine were at the same time
make the cuts between the choice and the dogs
2 cats and 1 dog...:)
zero
4 or 5 depending on HOW you count... 1) Lady. An almost pure bred German Shepherd, but the runt of the litter, and her sibling, competing for the title of runt, Thor. What beautiful dogs... I was in grade school when a neighbor who raised dogs gave these two dogs to us. Lady was just that, lady like, no question. Thor was named something different, but then, during a thunder storm during his first winter with us, common in the midwest, he ended up cowering in complete and total fear under my mom's bed, got his name changed. Thor seemed appropriate. Both highly protective of the kids, 7 of us. I was small enough I could ride Thor like a horse... and wonder of wonders, he took it all in stride. Lady was hit by a taxi cab in Chicago and had a steel pin in her hind leg which gave her a rather unique form of gallop, but Thor was a hunter, catching crows on the fly from leaping over fences in the corn country where we lived. Us kids were paid a quarter for every crow we took out from the cornfields. In 1955, a quarter was serious money... 2. Cocoa. This was the BEST dog I have ever had the pleasure of getting to know. She was MINE, and my mother's. My mom was her alpha pack leader and I was 2nd in command, NO question. Cocoa was a half breed Weimariner, looking exactly like a real pure breed, but half the size. She had the purest blue eyes which had SOUL. I joined the Navy in 1968, and when I would come home on leave, she would glue herself to my leg and follow me anywhere and everywhere for the entire time I was home. My mom had all 7 of us kids wear a pair of socks for 72 hours, no shower, no washing, nothing. 3 days. Then she tied the socks into a ball which she placed in Cocoa's bedding. Dogs work by the smells around them, and HERE were all of her packmates, in one place. It was a comfort as Cocoa got older, that even though her pack was not here in person, they were there through her nose... In her final days, when my mother held her as she died, that ball of smelly socks was something Cocoa relished as HERS. For 14 years. Cocoa was a friend and packmate for me, and I have not found any other animal to replace what SHE had as a family member, though Thor and Lady come really close as protectors. I am NOT sure HOW we came to have Cocoa. I think a family friend, but the history is a bit cloudy on this point. 3. 1966. My younger sister rescues a kitten being thrown about by the local high school football players like a football and brings the kitten home. We name her Patches. a cat with heart. Calico is what I think she would be called because of her mottled coloring. Trainable. friendly to almost everyone but a stranger that WE did not know as "family". My mom's first adopted pet (that I am aware of) from an animal shelter of sorts. we have NO idea how the high school football players got the cat in the first place, but my sister rescued the poor little kitty. We took it to the Humane Society to get spayed, shots and such and well, adopted it out of hand since she was there... 4. Mister Sooty. He got the name from his sooty color, all over his body. Sooty actually belonged to a neighbor, but adopted my mom as HIS. Sooty would catch mice and birds and leave them on the doorstep for my mom. It was my MOM who made his day when she praised him for his conquests in the surrounding cornfields. Sooty was BIG, almost dog sized as Cocoa and they got along together SO well, Sooty almost became part of Cocoa's pack. They slept together from time to time. They were running mates when it came to hunting in the field, though Cocoa never caught anything... 5) Finally, Da Vinci. Another kitten rescued from strangers. My now ex-wife brought this kitten home, finding it in a small vacant field next to a convenience store where she worked. For some reason, this kitten bonded with me and was SO smart, Da Vinci seemed appropriate as a name. Only one minor problem, I am allergic to furry animals, with "fine" hair, and Da Vinci had some Persian in him because his fur was SO fine and silky. After a year, we finally had to put him up for adoption simply because of my allergy to him. He DID go to a very good home with a neighbor up the street. Though he was no longer ours, he DID hunt in the urban wilderness of our back yard and would present us with gifts from time to time of his hunting. I no longer have any animals. I travel frequently and can't keep pets. Sigh... Of all the animals in my past, it is Cocoa who stands out, followed closely by all of the others in a tie for 2nd place...
5 dogs 4 Parrots 3 cats 3 Turtles 1 Rabbit and a partridge in a pear tree ! ( didn't live with me all at once either! ) Yes , I know you said Dogs and Cats ! But I couldn't leave out my other babies !