What is your favourite animal (real or mythical) and why?

[Epona]

Parrots & parakeets
Penguins
Dolphins
Rabbits

These are the ones that make me squeal with delight when I see them!
There is nothing lovelier or more trusting than having a tame parakeet put its head in your hand because it wants a scratch...

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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Epona of The Laughing Hyenas

[Neb]

Real animals: Wolves, Dolphins, Scorpions, Whales.

Fantastic creatures: Dragons, Beholders, Mind Flayers, Treants/Ents.

[bilqis]

I love animals. My dream was to be a veterinarian. However, I am very poor at math... so realized it would not have been realistic to pursue that particular dream.

My favorites are:

Real - Dogs, Horses, wolves, cats (large & small)

Mythical - Dragons, Griffins, Gargoyles

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Sometimes I think I
understand everything,
then I regain consciousness.

Happy Member of Fast Fourward.

[Mouse]

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Regards



Mouse

[John D Harris]

I am the eagle, I live in high country
In rocky cathedrals that reach to the sky
I am the hawk and there's blood on my feathers
But time is still turning they soon will be dry
And all those who see me and all who believe in me
Share in the freedom I feel when I fly
Words and Music by John Denver and Mike Taylor
Miss Fljotsdale, Again I've brust into song

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"the memories of a man in his old age,
are deeds of a man in his prime"

[Sazerac]

Leopards, definitely leopards. Especially black "leppids."








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[Fljotsdale]

Bagheera, I presume, Sazerac?

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Fljotsdale

[Traute]

Cats, because they're proud and independent!

(Spiders have my utmost respect, because both my mother and my daughter are scared witless by them, a thing I couldn't achieve if I tried, though I won't!)

Traute

[Fljotsdale]

Originally posted by Traute: Cats, because they're proud and independent! (Spiders have my utmost respect, because both my mother and my daughter are scared witless by them, a thing I couldn't achieve if I tried, though I won't!) Traute

I was phobic (genuinely phobic, not just scared) of spiders until my children were toddlers. I did not want them to suffer as I did, so I would take my children into the garden, look for SMALL and prettily marked spiders and point them out to my children with remarks like "Oh! Look! What a pretty spider! Isn't it lovely?". I graduated to picking up MINUTE spiders (I couldn't see how repulsive very tiny ones looked!), and letting them walk on the palm of my hand (with the skin on my palm doing its best to escape to the back of my hand!) and showing them to the children, and encouraging them to let the tiny spider walk on their hands, too. Over several years I got to be able to pick up bigger and bigger spiders (but nothing bigger than the average English house-spider) and I am now the person in our family called in to remove spiders from various family homes if I am around.
Did my tactic with my children succeed? NO! They are all scared of spiders! But not phobic. I saved 'em from that, at least, lol!

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Smile! Life is too short for bitching!

Fljotsdale

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[Traute]

>Did my tactic with my children succeed? NO! They are all scared of spiders! But not phobic. I saved 'em from that, at least, lol!<

...and yourself, too, great effort! I'm really frightened of most dogs, especially pitbulls. Not actually phobic, but I will cross a street to avoid them. My daughter never was, and I tried to controll myself while she was there.

Traute