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Post by Lappi on Dec 24, 2002 16:43:29 GMT -5
It says that Neopets is just a game. It repeats iteself, except it says stuff like "GAAAAAAAMMMMMMEEE".
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 24, 2002 16:47:36 GMT -5
Yes, I've had fish on and off as well. The last pair that died I actually convinced my folks to let me bury instead of flushing them down the toilet.
If you ask me, the best pets are the small, furry kind. What is it about the fur that your mom doesn't like? Guinea pigs' fur is actually more like human hair, and so is rat fur. I LOVE my guinea pigs! *cuddles* LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! It's just INCREDIBLE how cute those little ones can be, I'm not sure what it is about them but they just make me SO happy just looking at them! And I have a bunny too, though he is more of a family pet. Our bunny is one of the sweetest, smartest pets I've ever had. He'll just sit for hours letting you pet him. He's INCREDIBLY friendly and everyone who sees him falls in love with him. Once one of my friends wouldn't put him down to leave even when her mom told her to a thousand times. Nibbles, one of my guinea pigs, thinks he's a little macho man. And he looks the part too. He likes to push basketballs around, and keep in mind that they are twice his size. Hope, my other guinea pig, is really really shy but very sweet. She likes to hide in my hair, but I can't let her because she also likes to eat it.
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 24, 2002 16:52:30 GMT -5
Nibbles likes to go in Bunny's cage and eat his food. If it were our last rabbit, Maizie, he would be one dead guinea pig, But once we found Darby (our bunny) sitting in his cage just watching Nibbles eat his food. He's such an easy going little guy it's incredible. And we taught him to show us what he wants (well, actually he mostly taught himself) in the way of being let out. We used to open the outside door and put him right in front of it and then if he didn't go out and we couldn't let him run around inside anymore we put him in his cage. Then one day we put him in front of the door, he stuck his head out, then went away and went and sat in his cage. HE KNEW! ;D
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Post by iluvpuppies986 on Dec 24, 2002 20:24:26 GMT -5
I got a fish from school in the end of 4th grade, and I think I still have it. I'm in 6th grade now. Unless of course it commited suicide. That's how all my fish die. Every once in a while we'll find on on the floor under the kitchen table. Lol.
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Post by Lappi on Dec 25, 2002 7:50:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I pointed out that it was probably a little dark and the fish may have bumped against the glass too hard at night...
Anyways, it's soo cool that you have pets! My mom doesn't like any mouse-looking animals (so, another words, rodents.. even wabbits!! >_<), and she says dogs are too loud (and she complains when they poopie in our yard). I dunno about cats, but she told me she used to have one and it died, so she never had pets again. Aww...
Birds are okay. Just A BIT of racket and noise, but nobody notices. (notice the sarcasm?)
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Post by Patjade on Dec 25, 2002 7:58:30 GMT -5
I have 4 cats. Linus and Lucy came to me a little over 4 years ago. I was asked to babysit them for a young soldier, and he never came back for them. This summer, we adopted Achilles, who is 3. The family who owned him were unable to keep him anymore, as the father had a transplant operation, and the doctor told them no pets. Ash is the latest addition. My Better Half was feeding some strays at the nearby military post, and on Thanksgiving, we went to see them. This little gray and white striped kitten climbed up into my lap, and inside my coat. I just couldn't leave him...
I also have a big fish tank, but I only have two fish in there. They had gotten rid of the others, and I won't buy any more. But I won't get rid of these last two, either.
I am a sucker for small animals. Cats are my favorite, though. I always have had cats around when I could.
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Post by Tundrawolf on Dec 25, 2002 13:53:18 GMT -5
I went to see that bad friends neogreeting and if I was 10 years older (Im 14 currently) I would have had a heart attack!
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Post by Leb on Dec 25, 2002 19:17:32 GMT -5
I know, that Bad Friends one was [glow=red,2,300]HORRIBLE![/glow]
It's always been a passion of mine against abortion. I'm against harsh testing of animals, too, but in my area there's a serious problem with abortion.
I also hate a lot of things. Namely defenseless things being tortured.
The Baby Kau thing sort of hit me because a teacher once told my class that baby cows that are to become eaten are put in boxes only slightly larger than they are as soon as possible after they're born, so they can't move at all for their whole lifespan (which isn't very long), because people like veal to be tender. Sick.
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 25, 2002 19:58:10 GMT -5
Are you a vegeterian, Leb? You ought to be if you seriously oppose cruelty to animals, because I could tell you some HORRIBLE stories. . .
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Post by sara on Dec 26, 2002 1:22:53 GMT -5
*raises hand* I'm vegetarian. I'm not vegan, which is what someone really devoted to animal rights should be, but I'm vegetarian. Simply because I don't think meat tatses that good...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2002 10:47:43 GMT -5
I have two vegetarian siblings, athough not really by choice. My Dad's lactose intolerant, and doesn't really digest meat or dairy that well...He's slightly allergic to cow. My oldest brother is completely allergic to cow, and many other things. His stomach goes completely haywire with any form of meat, aside from fish and chicken/turkey. He doesn't throw up or anything; he just gets terrible stomach pains and can't sleep all night. He can't digest wheat, either. (You can imagine how hard it is to try to make a non-dairy non-wheat gingerbread house, which we're trying to do. Using rice flour and stuff) The same thing happens with my six-year-old sister, although she refuses to admit that cheese gives her a tummy-ache. She keeps eating it, but eventually she'll realize that sh'es allergic to cow... They aren't against eating animals, though. All of my family thinks its okay to eat animals. (Hey, sorry if I offend some of you, but this is just the way I think. Don't hate me for what I eat) But you'd be surprised how our diet changed. We used to have red meat almost every day for dinner, and usully have meat in our sandwiches. But, after my brother became allergic, we have chicken and rice almost every night. We usually have red meat once a week or less. It's amazing how an allergy and change things. (Like another one of my brother's asthma, which is sort of like an allergy, and has prevented us fro getting a pet. I had a fish once, but he died after three months.  But he was meant to only live for two weeks so  Today's advent calendar shows a blumaroo on a pogo stick who crushes an ixi's little toy, and then runs away. Okay, not as bad as the Kau animation, but still...Just what is neoepts promoting here, exactly? |
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 26, 2002 11:05:08 GMT -5
Right now I'm an ovo-lacto vegequarian (I eat fish, eggs, and dairy products) but I am working my way towards vegan. If I grow up and get a farm with dairy cows and chickens, though, I wouldn't feel obligated to be a vegan because I could personally insure that the cows and chickens I get milk and eggs from are treated well.
I've ben thinking that if I could just find a small farmer near by who raises free-range hens I could try and convince my parents (their ALMOST as nutty about animals as I am) to make a deal to by their eggs for a greater price than those at the market. That would be really cool.
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Post by calvinseviltwin on Dec 26, 2002 11:11:09 GMT -5
No vegatarian horror stories please. my history tecaher was telling us about them at the end of school before break. She told us about the veal thing (gross0 and how they cram chickens intoa cage and rip their beaks off. Ugh,.,,, atlest they have free range meat too. She'd rather eat those then one ina slaughter house.
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Post by Princess Ember Mononoke on Dec 26, 2002 11:18:40 GMT -5
One girl in my class got convinced that she wanted to be a vegetarien. The problem was she had NO clue what a vegetarien was.
It started out when I casually mentioned the saying "If slaughter houses were made of glass the world would be vegetarien." This INCREDIBLY naive girl asked why, and someone said it was because it was gross, the walls were covered with blood, etc. To this she said "You mean fake blood, right?" Everyone slapped their foreheads.
Eventually, after a lot of discussion, she announced that she was going to become a vegetarien. She then proceeded to show me EVERY itme in her lunch box and ask me, the vegeterian expert, if a vegeterian was allowed to eat it. Every day afterwards for a week she renewed the routine. I was sick and tired of it and actually HAPPY when she announced a while later that she had decided not to be a vegeterian after all.
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Post by calvinseviltwin on Dec 26, 2002 11:19:59 GMT -5
People are stupid.
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But he was meant to only live for two weeks so 