Let me add a clause to that: four animals I would not mind living with provided I had a big house with a yard. I’ve tried having a cat and a dog (at separate times) in an apartment with me and it just didn’t work out because I like quiet. However, if they could hang around outdoors when I was trying to sleep, or in some distant part of the house, that’d be fine. Without further adieu…
Rabbit
The best thing a bunny would offer would be fuzz therapy. Softer than any puppy or kitten, and their ears are at least ten times more adorable, especially if you get a lop. I grew up with a bunny named Benjamin, a little gray and white mini lop who soon grew to a big gray and white mini lop. After he died, we got Lily, also a gray and white mini lop. What can I say, I’m a sucker for the long, floppy ears.Thumbnail photo by Steve Makin.
Chinchilla
If you thought rabbits were cute, you should cuddle one of these guys. According to their Wikipedia page, they have the highest fur density of any land animal with greater than 20,000 hairs per square centimeter. That means they’re freakin’ soft. And if you happen to be attracted to fat, squirrelly looking things… well! But if you needed another reason to love them, here’s one in a hula skirt. Thumbnail photo by Arkangel.
Dachshund
They’re like fuzzy sausages! It’s their excess skin and floppy ears that really warms my heart, though. It sure isn’t their yelping bark or stubbornness, grumble grumble, but they’re adorable dogs. Todd has already said that if we got one, he would have to buy a little tiny Superman cape and tie it on the dog. I have to admit, that does sound cute, especially if the little guy were to take off running. Imagine! Long ears flying in the wind alongside the cape, hehe. Thumbnail photo by Bubu.
Cat
I’d love to have some crazy cat (you’ve all seen the YouTube videos) hanging around the house and keeping me entertained. A big, hairy, ugly brute with a terrible temper, or a big fuzzball that would enjoy lying around and being petted. Either way is good. Thumbnail photo by Loisy.
I had a chinchilla. For a while she was just “chin” until I was like, hey, fast food restaurant leann chin. So her name became leanne. But anyways. They are really REALLY messy. Unless you keep them in like, an aquarium type cage, its just gross. :P But the soft part is right!!!
Gross, huh? I’ve had guinea pigs, rabbits, a gerbil, and hamsters; are we talking that kind of gross, or like ferret gross?
Dachshunde (or Dackel as we call them) can be quite beastly, I hear. But I would never want a “pure-blood” dog anyway, I’m all for mixed breeds which are much more robust. My parents had a pure blood Welsh Corgi, but by the time she turned 8 she got really really big health problems and eventually had to be put down when she was 9. Compared to that, my parent’s mixed breed is still having a very long healthy life with her now 15 years!!! She’s actually half ‘pure Foxterrier’, but the other half is a total mix of literally everything once through the village (though the size of a dackel).
I was about to say, “I think we have the same taste in animals,” but then that made it sound as though I would eat your pets. Which I wouldn’t. But I do want a rabbit and a Dachshund, and when I was younger, I really wanted a chinchilla. Not sure about a cat, but I always had one growing up so I’d be likely to have another at some point in my life.
Like Ferret gross, maybe worse? The animal itself didn’t smell like a ferret or anything. I’vce had guinea pigs, I used to breed them. And I didn’t think 35 living in a 6 x 6 sauna was gross and DID think 1 chinchilla was, so…