Animal Week: What was your first pet? What was it's name? How did it die?
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Budgie called Bertie....died of old age & is still in the parents back garden somewhere with Star Wars figures in the shoe box to guard the body.
whats_the_beef_chief Fri 10 Sep 6:36, (Answer / reply)
When I was 6 or 7, I found a fuzzy caterpillar in the garden, and made a home for it out of a matchbox. I took it to school with me, but forgot all about it and only remembered at the end of the day - when I found a squashed matchbox in my pocket, filled with dead caterpillar.
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Yappy poodle called Flossie. It had something wrong with its bum, but I'm not entirely sure what.
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Rabbit. Bugsy. Head was torn off by a fox, which I had to find and clear up, as punishment for leaving it out overnight.
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A cat, called Rocky, run over when I was on my way to Scout Chess Tournament (lived life on the edge I did...).
He was replaced with Rambo.
petsco Fri 10 Sep 10:48, (Answer / reply)
Arthur. Hamster. He got a tumour and blew up like a tennis ball. Apparently they don't operate on hamsters. He was a little cunt anyway, so while I cried at the time I soon got over it. I was 28.
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A cat called Al Capone. Death? Obesity
mount_st_nobody Fri 10 Sep 10:11, (Answer / reply)
White guinea pig called Hazel. She was fat so probably heart disease. She got laid to rest in my back garden, which later became a guinea pig graveyard. I got through quite a few as a child.
gloria_huniford Fri 10 Sep 13:03, (Answer / reply)
White rabbit called Benjamen. Died when I was 6. My mum told me he died of old age, but my 'friend' at school claimed that he sent round his golden eagle to kill it in the night.
king_cnut Fri 10 Sep 12:49, (Answer / reply)
It was a goldfish called Mungo, and he died when mum changed the water in his stinking bowl by running the hot tap into it. I then got another goldfish, imaginatively called Mungo which went the same way. You can't say my bro didn't have warning when he left her in charge of his terrapins, the poor little fuckers.
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Ram, called Masher. He was extremely aggressive towards people but fine with me. Reasonably good at football, favouring his head and liked digestive biscuits. I made a harness for him so he could pull my go-kart around. Sold to market after a few years and fetched a record price. Could still be alive for all I know, although I doubt it.
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White mouse. Snowy. A passenger on my hornby train. Ignored safety procedures and pissed on live rails.
bogarts_lung Fri 10 Sep 14:54, (Answer / reply)
Hamster called Mangey which died of Mange. The replacement one called Flash died inside 2 hours of coming home. I wasn't allowed to name pets after that.
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I had a cat that died of cat AIDS because it was a fucking slapper.
7zark7 Sat 11 Sep 18:30, (Answer / reply)
A pair of kittens named Pippin & Tog (from Pogle's Wood). Pip got cat flu & had to be put down, Tog lasted years before eating poison put down by the neighbours for the squirrels.
uncle_fester Fri 10 Sep 13:47, (Answer / reply)
Dog. Rusty. Got put down after it mauled another dog to death. There was blood everywhere.
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Tabby cat. Dandy. Peacefully.
awaitsinevitableabuse Fri 10 Sep 8:50, (Answer / reply)
Hamster, Hamish, "peacefully in his sleep" although I worked out 10 years later that the cat got him, at which flash of insight my mother broke down and revealed full details of the sordid cover-up.
aristocat Fri 10 Sep 10:15, (Answer / reply)
Jumbo a poodle, went blind & fell in the fishpond. Death by drowning. It's what she would have wanted.
lennie Fri 10 Sep 13:18, (Answer / reply)
Cat. Flur - Younger brother wanted to call it Flower after a cuddly toy duck he was fond of at the time, but that was far too gay for a tomcat so the parents settled on an amalgamation of furry and the French for flower, which now I think about it is just as gay. Headbutted a moving van.
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Mr. Bubbles. Tortoise. The lettuce famine of '62....
beaverwastemanagement Fri 10 Sep 11:07, (Answer / reply)
White Pony, Hermann, died due to ink poisoning his blood from all the swastikas I've been drawing on him.
whitemaninhammersmithpalais Fri 10 Sep 9:49, (Answer / reply)
Black cat, Shadow, stomach cancer.
roger_mycock Fri 10 Sep 7:24, (Answer / reply)
a beautiful Doberman called Trudi. Parents house got burgled and she attacked the 2 robbers but they sprayed aftershave in her eyes to disorientate her and the vet recons the trauma of the ordeal caused the onset of diabetes. put down aged 12
paddy_odoors Fri 10 Sep 15:57, (Answer / reply)
Newt, Wally, choked to death over 2 hours on a blue bottle, mortally dispensed by my still guilt-ridden mother... the Flanders newt murderer.
rick_gassko Fri 10 Sep 7:00, (Answer / reply)
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A cat called Rupert. Of shame, probably...



