Most unusual way you got a pet?

going to the pound and having to PAY for a pet.. these poor pets are stuck in shelters and need good homes and they make you pay for them.. here is my cute shelter puppy i picked up!!

Well we live in a mobile home for the moment til we rebuild our house after a housefire and one night we hear meowing...could not locate it at first, then we discovered it came from one of the vents that the furnace uses for cold air returns. We worked at it and had to dismantle a section by one of the vents and lo and behold this little kitty came out. She was so hungry and loving. She still comes and goes but she is sure a good addition to our family...

Hi! I guess for me it was just that I knew I was going to have a cat by the end of that week. I bought the litter and litter box, food and water dishes, toys, a bed, everything you need to have a cat. I just knew I was going to have a cat. The surprise came when the cat turned out to be an abandoned kitten, eyes barely open. He had no teeth, so I had to bottle feed him four times a day for 2 months until he could eat on his own. I still have him, he's 16 years old now and has lived the past 2 with cancer. I love him - he's like my child. I'm so glad he's the cat I got! :-)

well .. my last cat i got was a boyfriends.. he got sorta kicked out and had no place for the cat so me and my roomate took him in.. his name was boo at frist but we both changed it a couple times the poor thing had to get moved again after i moved out and my old roomate moved we gave it to my brother in laws mother.. .. here a picture of booda the cat at my dog

It's not so unusual..but I tell how I have my dog...by the way he is 16 years old and is a cocker spaniel.....Let's start the story when i was a litlle smaller, mopre smaller came a man telling me and my parents that he has a small baby dog and he asked if we want to be ours12 to take care of him...ands my parents agree and that's how i've get my dog that i love him..

well whe ni was a child i haved all kinde of animals! :) my mom was desperate but she let me hav them all! dogs cats from the stret s :)) yes i love her for that because she loves animals to,i even colected all the sik bird fom outide and bring them home!and my mome wold ak cear of it until she was beter! i even had chiken in my house! yes real chiken :) i was one crazy child and my mom and my dad...well they get ysed to it! i even had birthdays for my pets...my frinds where all invited and they had to bring gifts to! :)) lol o my god i had such a great child hood time! i eas happy all the time and crezy to :)

all the pets came to use and we took them in. we had some many pets in my life they all so cute

Sometimes a pet will choose you instead of the other way around. You wonder if someone upstairs is looking out for you or is it just karma.

My son his senior year of high school found a small puppy along the road. When he pass by it with his truck the puppy was so weak from not eating anything but grass and whatever he could find, the wind from my sons truck blew the puppy into the ditch. He picked him up and brought him home and whenever anyone would ask us what kind of dog he was, we would say a thorough bred ditch puppy! That was even on his records at the vets office. My son just lost him a few weeks ago at the age of 15. He was a very loving and happy companion for my son and his wife and 2 little boys.

This was truly the strangest way we ever aquired ownership of a new pet. I was sitting here on the internet one night. It was like 2:00 in the morning. We have a kitty door for our other cats to go in and out as they please. Our trailer sets back in the woods with a stream and rail road tracks run right behind us. But, anyway, I was sitting here when out of no where I hear this loud unfamiliar "MEOW!" I look to my right and see this scrawny tiny little black kitten just looking around after anouncing his arrival. We have no idea where he came from. But he was in real bad shape.You could see his ribs. He had fleas so bad that his skin and fur felt terrible. He was real scared the 1st few days. I think he thought we wouldn't want him. He stayed under our bed out of our reach. I kept putting food under there for him. Then one late night when everyone was sleeping, he was out in the living room playing like a happy kitten. He gets along great with my other cats. One, has cared for him. We have had him for over two months and now he is more than twice the size. His fur is so soft now. He had a real bad cold at the beginning that he is getting over. He goes outside to go to the bathroom. I have no reason to get rid of a lil' sweetie like him. What's so cute is he is all black and has a lil' tuft of white on the neck, under the arm pits and between the legs. We have named him Marcus. He is a great addition to our family.

One day when I was about 8 my mom was driving me to school. Something scurried across the road infront of us, and I told my mom to stop. She didn't want to because she thought it was a rat (lol), but I knew that it was a kitten. I finally convinced her to stop and I went and picked it up. She couldn't have been more than 5 weeks old, she was so tiny. We took her home and gave her a bath. We originally thought she was completely black, but after washing her we found that she had white on her too! We decided to keep her of course. She's 13 now, but still super tiny. I call her my little midget kitty.

When I was younger my Dad suprised me a few days before Christmas one year. He took me with him to bid on a job, when we got to the clients house I saw a beautiful black lab come out. We went in the house and my Dad asked me if I liked the dog and I said of course I do. Then he asked if I wanted to take her home, I thought he meant to dogsit. So I asked for how long and he said permanently. I was so excited, I had wanted a black lab for years. Evidently he had made up the bid story so I would be suprised, it worked.

thats interesting! me, i got my 2 pet cats by chance. The 2 cats got inside my open bedroom window! They were like 5 months old at that time. I dont exactly know what happend maybe somebody dropped the cats in my window purposely. I tried to reach Lost & Found section in our communty paper but nothing worked so I decided to care for them! they are now 5 years old and still playing actively with my shoes! :-)

I traded my watch for a puppy in a street market in Ecuador!

I wish I could have got one like that. My pet habit came from my wish to be with nature. I am surrounded by highrise. I can seldom see a tree. So I have planted tree in front of my hous and at that time I started keeping birds. I have quite a few of them now.

well lets see..2 of my cats were strays someone left when they moved out..but that wasnt odd..what was odd..was one night i was here at mylot and its 1am.and i keep hearing this weird noise in my heater vent..first i thought it could be a mouse..then i hear a fainted cry..i unscrew the vent and heer a little orange and white kitten was stuck in there!! i had to rip a bit of it to open it more so i could get him threw..when i held him..my heart just melted..he purred non stop..and kissed me man many times..I asked around to make sure he wasnt anyones..and no one said it was theres soo we kept him!! Sky my son thats 4 said he looked like a TWINKIE THAT WAS SQUISHED AND ALL THE WHITE YUMMY STUFF WAS WHERE HIS BELLY WAS LOL LOL LOL..SOOOO TWINKIE IT WAS!! or Twink..and i love this cat with all my heart

this is so silly- one day i actually heard a wierd sound on my porch and went out and it was a baby chicken- not a chick a little chicken lol i didnt keep it, i gave it to my neighbor but i always wondered where it came from

Well it was my birthday and i got a shoe box with a hole it was moving then i saw whts in it firstly i was scared then i saw ki my dad got a puppy for me 1 month puppy so cute loving

I can honestly say the most unsual way I have gotten any pet was just adopting two cats off the street corner. I have never had anything show up at my house and stay long enough to be adopted. But to be honest I'm not sure that I would just take in an animal like that :( I like them but I just don't seem myself doing BUT if an exotic bird just showed up and was chilling I might try to do something.

I was getting ready for work one morning and my husband was looking out the window watching all the crows in the trees that surround our house. He says to me as i'm leaving wouldn't it be cool to have a crow for a pet, about 2 hrs later he calls me at work and says you'll never guess what happened, "he heard the birds outside in a big commotion one baby crow had fallen from the tree, he went to help and it could not fly, so needless to say we became the birds parents for a few months until it got to big to keep any longer.