I am excited about this and am such a tragic about my pets that my dog and cat have their own pages on facebook.

They have made quite a number of friends that way - though I must say that my dog has a better personality at befriending others than either my cat or I have!!!!

petfriends of the Wall Unite!

Good question benj - evolutionary speaking - damned if I know - can't get my head around most of what our bodies do and haven't sorted out yet - the whole thinkg of reproduction takes a lot of energy from females and given our birth rates I do wonder why we can't sort that out better.  And then there is appendicitis and all the other bits that we seem to be able to with out but we are still born with.  I know it is the people with the cleft chin and the kind of bumpy bit on top of their forehead that are supposedly the most highly evolved but all I can think of are those character out of star trek with the Kiss hairdos and well hard to take that seriously.

Well maybe there is no evolutionary value in the attraction at all - just respect the animals for being true to them selves and for the fact they haven't organised armies against us yet for eating them and sending species into extinction .....  Well not that we are aware of :)

I should point out that the friends that my dog sophie makes are other dogs and and occassionally a cat  and their owners.  It is generally the case - I could be proved wrong however.  I wish they would put up a sheep page.  UM xx

Maybe the sheep haven't learned to use computers, yet. Won't be too long now, I think! :)

-Mebenji

Well no - it was a sheep page - I had for a time a lovely lamb as a pet until he grew into a young ram and when he wanted to sit on my lap would crush me.  I love sheep, and piglets also, but I have never had a goat - not commonly kept where I am from - unless they were angoras and were kept by spinners.

My sister in law has 6 adult snakes at the moment and she milks them for antivenene - I am a bit funny about milking them because a couple of them are very aggressive snakes - red belly black and brown - both killers.  But I am really quite taken with snakes - got to cuddle a boa once and just wanted to bring her home - she had the prettiest eyes

I really should have been someone who worked with animals - I am good with a broom and could have cleaned cages or something - maybe when I retire from what keeps me busy at the moment.  Did anyone else grow up reading Gerard Durell books?

UM, your sister-in-law's snakes qualify as petfriends, too.

My father liked to keep all sorts of animals, at one time or another. We had goats and a sheep, and a cow, and a pig, and an emu, kangaroo, hawk type bird my brother found down by the river one day, it's wings all matted with something (don't know what) so it couldn't fly and hunt - so my father kept him until he could again. We had geece as well, as the usual fish, dogs and cats. & there was a really cute gren tree frog who adopted us for a while. We babysat a horse for someone for a month or so...stepped on my foot! We had chickens that weren't really pets, I guess - there for the eggs.

Makes me wonder where to draw the line between pet and farm animal? I think there might be a cross-over where an animal can be both.

-Mebenji