Then again, mebbe not.

[camwyn]

I just got off the phone with my landlady. Apparently the number of dogs present in the apartment building has spoilt it for pretty well everyone; she's about to issue a memo saying no cats, no dogs.

Poop.

I suppose it's time for a fish tank now.

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[ebony14.livejournal.com]

You could get a ferret. :)

[camwyn]

True. I shall wait and see just how specific that memo is, then.

[terrie01.livejournal.com]

Well, that sucks. I hate people who ruin it for the rest of us. Frankly, if people were all good pet owners, rising numbers sould not result in rising nuiscance.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Hmm. How "present" is your landlady? Does she live in the building? Check on it often?

How often does she or a minion actually see the inside of the apartment?

My Lovely Wife and I are permitted two cats, and there are no dogs allowed in the building.

Many of the tenants have dogs.

We have five PermaCats and two foster kittens.

D'ya wanna buy an "O"?

Sorry. Sesame Street Moment there.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

Actually, whether those are allowed or not is spelled out in your lease, or should be. She can't just arbitrarily change that, although I realise your natural inclination would be not to fight it.

-- Lorrie (in CA, not NJ, YMMV, etc)

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

What lwood said!

An addendum to my previous... i should point out that our landlord has never entered the apartment, won't without prior notice, and that when minions have appeared for repairs and the like our cats have been easy to hide (they're good at that, and they do it for us, though we tend to close doors as well.) In spite of this, since we pay up on time, we've had our lease renewed 3 years running with only the most nominal of rent hikes...

[camwyn]

I'm going to wait on this, to be honest. I mean, I asked the woman about cats- I said my sister had two and she'd just had a baby, which is true, and made some noises about maybe having to look after them. It's not safe to press the point just yet. I've been in this building all of two weeks.

Fish for a while. Then we'll see.

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Two weeks, right fergotaboutthat.

Well.

Fish ain't too cuddly, but they don't puke on your best duvet covers when they're irritated with you either.

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

Fish need love, too!

*hugs her fish*

ClassicDrogn has worked in a fish shop

[(Anonymous)]

A: Your icon made me laugh loud, in a location where I *COULD NOT* mention such content.

B: Like I said, I've worked in a fish shop, so my general response to the prospect of finny things is 'Meh' at best (Somehow, three times daily dead fish patrols - when our store was FAR below the standard for what's called 'stock burn-off' and endless rotations of tank scrubbing to get rid of algae spots just turned me off to them) I do have a good story about freindly fish. You see, there was this cichlid (sp? I've forgotten - South American carnivorous fish, mostly bright and stripey in many variations) that was in a floor-level tank due to having been sick some time before I got tot the store and never moved back to the main sales tanks. Due to the position of the tank, when cleaning it I'd rest the scrubbie-less hand on the rim, and my fingers would curl around into the water there... well, this fish, which came to be called either 'Cuddles' or 'Frenchie' depending on the company (you figure it out) would swim up and into my hand, tickling its belly against the tips of my fingers. Unfortunately, you're not likely to find another cuddly fish anytime soon.

For critters that live in tanks, I'd be more inclined to go with a tortoise (dry-land turtle relative) or some other reptile, myself, just to be far, far away from pools of water that grow stinky green gunk - and at least with the more personable sorts of snake you can take them out and play a bit. their biggest concern is generally temperature and humidity, the one being relatively easy unless you've got building-wide AC or something, and the other handled by spritzing them once or twice a day.

- CD

Re: ClassicDrogn has worked in a fish shop

[camwyn]

Well, I've had fish before. Quite a few different varieties. I appreciate the visual aspect of them and I consider them an interesting living thing. I wouldn't be looking for a cuddlypet with them- for that I'd have to get a Jack Dempsey or something else of that nature and hope that it liked me, when all I really ask out of my fish is that they look pretty.

I've had one snake before. Howard was nice. Shy, but nice. Unfortunately no one else in the house seemed to want to be in the same room as him even though he was so small as to only eat feeder minnows.

[camwyn]

It *is* spelled out in the lease. 'No animals of any kind'.

Best I can do is fish 'cos I asked about those before signing the lease.

[eevieivy.livejournal.com]

Aw. *HUGS*

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Turtles are cool, too, and can live in a fishtank. :-> Red-eared sliders or painted turtles eat minnows from the bait shop (with the occasional 'feeder goldfish' from a pet store for vitamins) perfectly happily, and can be petted and put in gerbil balls to explore the apartment if you want a more active companion.

Box turtles are good, too, also live mostly in a fishtank (with newspaper, not water), and eat fresh fruit and veggies with perhaps the occasional earthworm.

Yes, I'm weird. But when I was growing up, one of our pets was a South American frog (http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Zoo/6379/jabba.jpg) that ate *mice*, so wha'dya want? :->

[ymfaery]

Whatever you do, don't get those miniature shrimp in self-contained environments. :P

[maps-or-guitars.livejournal.com]

Hey, now. Don't you go hatin' on the Sea Monkeys, yo.

[ymfaery]

...

I don't think the mini-shrimp I'm thinking of are the same as sea monkeys, but I can't find information on them on-line. Oh well.

[camwyn]

They're not. I know the ones you mean. They're the little red ones in the spheres or pyramiddy things that advertise that these self contained environments were part of some kind of NASA research. Pretty, but expensive. I could get discus fish for that kind of money.

[ymfaery]

They can get more expensive than that: the thing that doesn't get mentioned--and I only found out because I used to work in a store that sold them on concession--is that they're also cannibalistic. If/when they run out of whatever self-generating food is supposed to be in the environment, they each each other. A lot of customers used to come back just to buy extra shrimp.

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

Sea Mokeys ROCk
I had them as a child ;-)

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

I LOVE my fancy goldfish! I have 5: three of my original seven from Parksville survived the move, and I have two more. The three originals are a red and white ryukin, a red shibunken and a calico ryukin. The two new ones are both black moors. My chocolate oranda is sadly missed however.

[camwyn]

I love black moors; they're interesting enough to catch the attention better than common goldfish, but not deformed enough for my 'urrrgh why did you DO that to the poor thing' alarms to get rung. Orandas aren't half bad either, as long as they have enough tank space to let them swim around properly instead of sinking and being all blodgy. Hmm.

[whobunkyboo.livejournal.com]

My calico ryukin is quite beautiful too.

[camwyn]

That's true. They're a lovely variety- I had one a long time ago.

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

GUPPIES!

Ahem. You knew I was gonna say that, right? ;)

[camwyn]

Yes, dear.

Hm. Show quality guppies, the iridescent kind... possibly, possibly. I was thinking more on the anabantid side, like bettas and gouramis, if I went for a tropical tank rather than goldfish.

But still... hm.