As you can tell by the user name I am a dog person!  I used to have a blue Doberman named Marley that was ill and had to be put to sleep in June.  I loved her dearly.  I only went for 6 days without a dog.  I can't handle not having a dog to come home to after work.  I ended up getting two Chinese Crested puppies that are brother and sister.  The breeder sent me the pictures of the two dogs she had available and I couldn't make up my mind so I just ended up getting both of them!  What a handful they are but so much fun!  Their names are Blaze and Bella and what one doesn't think of to get into. . . the other will!  I figured that I might as well just get them at the same time and have double the puppy training instead of just getting another one in a year when I would start thinking that the first dog was lonely for another dog.  I always do this for some reason when I have small dogs!  If you are not familar with this breed they are the ones with no hair except on their heads, feet, and tail.  We have had so much fun taking them out and listening to people ask questions like "Are they sick?  What are those?  Are they dogs?"  Yeah, they are kind of funny looking to most people, but I think they are adorable.  When I sold my house and decided to move to an apartment, my ex-husband was nice enough to keep my Umbrella Cockatoo Parrot (Kai) and my iguana (Toro) at his house.  Kai sometimes talks too much according to my ex, but Toro gets invites to my son's class at school because he is really nice and likes "little people".  Toro escaped in the house one day, but Grandma found him when she crawled into bed!  She just put him back in his cage.  This is my ex's mom, had it been my mom she would have called the exterminator!  Gotta love those pets!