ways_back_room | Daily Entertainment, Pets Edition

Nicholas will eventually bring home a sphinx kitten, which he calls Spot. This is not a Star Trek reference. He's just a bit rubbish at names.

Gus really strikes me as a dog person, though I can't rightly say why. He seems to like Dogmeat, and I seem to recall him being friendly toward other dogs he's come across in the bar, but I've no plans on ever giving him one of his own.

Tim's still leery around strange dogs, but Colin has actually helped him start getting over that particular fear. He also has a very large soft spot toward cats, and Meteor Street may or may not have about four of them skulking around the shadows, after Tim rescued them the same night they rescued Colin from the illegal lab.

Travis keeps mice still. He'd got them as a joke originally, but became attached to the little blighters. The current ones are called Bill and Ted.

John has a flatmate. What the hell does he need a pet for?

Gary's the only one I'm unsure about. Maybe once he's past canon, he'll get his head on straight enough to actually consider such things, because right now, he's just sort of shrugging at me.

Enzo is very fond of animals in general. He used to have Frisket, a feral dog who has been known to catch cars and must sometimes be instructed not to eat people. (Tradition as per Hanna-Barbera: "The kid in your cartoon must have a dog!" Mainframe Entertainment: "You want a dog? Here.") Frisket is still around, but grew up with the first version of Enzo and has since attached himself to the latter's daughter (Enzo's younger niece, Ana).

Enzo has not had a pet of his own in some time, as they are not permitted at the Academy. However, since he will be graduating at the end of this month, he will be getting a new one quite soon, in the form of a T-Minus unit, which will digitize as a wee flying molluscid named Minus.

Kirk had a dog, as established in ST: Generations. He likes dogs and loves horses. Unlike Archer and Data, though, he wasn't one for having a pet in space. (And since we know what happens to Archer's dog in the new continuity, this is not a bad decision.)

Gibbs, being a pirate, has a fondness for parrots, excepting Mr. Cotton's Parrot. And he hates all monkeys by now. Otherwise, animals are for eating or working. And horses are for landlubbers.

Knox grew up in a tiny apartment, so pets were never something he cared about. And dogs scare him, which I chalk up to Jewish race memory about the use of dogs in pogroms. (I have seen a lot of my kinsmen who are really freaked by dogs.) Animals are otherwise something that live in zoos or on farms. He will, however, bet on the horses every so often, and he is a big fan of Secretariat.

Howard had two or three dogs around him as a kid, but he associates them with his dear old dad. He can ride, but he prefers not to. Again, animals just are.

Cy has Beast Boy in his life. Beast Boy makes every animal look good by comparison. And Starfire's pest alien thing is loved by everyone. Again, a city slicker who doesn't think much about animals.

And Charlie...he fits the pattern, but I think he loves animals since he's been influenced by Buddhism. All creatures have a right to live, and all can show humans something. Frankly, I think he wants a pet. If I manage to get him to Alyx and Gordon's settlement, I need to have him meet some of the local livestock. He also gave riding a shot. I think Sallie is still laughing.

This dude loves animals. LOVES THEM. Especially dogs and especially horses. He's not terrifically clever at naming them (one hound named Lady, one favorite horse that is called "the roan"), but never mind that.

'The Roan' - HEE. I love that. And him. :D

"That roan shall be my throne!"

OH HARRY. /o\

Heeeeeeee might be making an appearance in-Bar sooner rather than later. Just saying. *shifty*

*cackle* He is the best. :D

And, hurrah! I shall see if I can find someone suitable to chuck at him. \o/

Gordon, Santo, Varric, Mordin, and Stacker do not have pets. Gordon is fine with the idea, he just doesn't have one. I'm not sure about the others.

Medic has a pet guinea pig named Katyusha. She was a gift from Herr Heavy, hence the Russian name. He is very fond of her and will generally use her as an excuse to turn people who are loud or disruptive in the sleeping quarters' general vicinity inside out. He does not use her in medical experiments, she's a pet. And for those of you who've seen Meet the Medic, please note that that vid was about RED Medic, not BLU. Archimedes is RED's medic's pet.

Ellen has Dogmeat. She does not really understand the pet-human relationship because she did not grow up around animals. She found Dogmeat fighting off the gunmen who had killed his last human, took out the gunmen, and patched him up. He's been with her ever since. She is much more inclined to think of him as an inconveniently inarticulate person with impulse control issues than a pet, and would be more likely to use the word 'handler' to describe her relation to him than words like 'owner' or 'master'. She won't call him her pet or her partner, either; she'll say 'this is Dogmeat' or 'this is my dog'. She's... also not clear on how much or how little English he actually understands. Animals other than Dogmeat are usually viewed through the lens of 'is it going to attack me? No? Okay, is it something I need to eat or something that produces stuff I need to eat or wear? No? Okay, is it something that's going to do work for me? No? ... not my business, then.'

Shephard has his houndeyes. He had quite a few pets as a kid, if you count frogs brought home from the pond or river in his pocket as pets, and he tried to get himself a pet snake or two before a series of bites convinced him that he shouldn't put his hand in small dark spaces any more. Now he puts his hand in large dark spaces instead, so that he can catch dinner... anyway, he missed having dogs around after the Xen things and the Combine, so one day when he was out hunting bullsquid and a pack of houndeyes showed up to try and steal parts of his kill (see: jackals and lions, crows and wolves), he wound up taking one of the bolder pups home and taming it. He likes the idea of domesticating the whole species- they act enough like dogs to make good companions and good helpmeets- but they're dangerous if not properly trained, so that's going to take a while to accomplish. Overall he's very fond of animals, and he's also a hunter. Teddy Roosevelt's 'always preserve the wilderness and wildlife so that there will always be something to shoot at' attitude is a thing he has taken to heart; I should note, however, that as much as he enjoys hunting, he does it for food. He grew up in an area where work was often thin on the ground and money was often tough to come by, so his hunting put food on his family's table at times when his father's salary was stretched to the limit. Hunters who're in it for the trophies and who leave the meat to rot are inviting starvation and bad luck to follow them home all the days of their lives.

Nope, not one of them. Banner did have a dog, but it got left behind in Brazil.

Gene/his missus may have a budgie, now I come to think of it. But it wouldn't be his pet, as he's useless, and hardly ever at home. He swears at animals in the street.

Javert and Valjean don't really get the notion of pets. They're something rich people have. I mean, Valjean's rich, but not part of the upper class. Neither of them live in apartments with an overwhelming rodent problem, so there's no need to get one that would take care of that.

If Bruce Wayne had a pet, it would get left for Alfred to take care of anyway, most likely. But he doesn't mind X's pets at all, and does like how much she's attached to them.

And now all I can think is that during the conversation where Ellen mentioned the cows, poor Javert was probably picturing a nice house with green landscape and a fenced paddock and a cow byre and everything. I'd almost want to see the look on his face at seeing the actual setup, except that it'd probably induce an Out Of Cheese error by not fitting into the mental maps he has.

But...but...Javert's 'out of cheese' errors are my favourite! *grin*

Dude, if he finds out those things have two heads, he will Flip. Out.

An encounter can be arranged! Ellen occasionally brings a few of the Brahmin to the bar, so if you ever want.....

Hell to the yes. :D

I am oddly tempted by Joseph Strorm from The Chrysalids, just for purposes of that thread. You know, the one living in post-nuclear-apocalyptic Newfoundland who kills or banishes anything that doesn't look exactly like it's supposed to...

"Oh, so he's Enclave then. Great."

I just had an image of Gene coming back to discover Alex had acquired a kitten, having a fit, and then falling asleep in front of the TV with the little thing purring on his chest.

My headcanon is still that after Banner runs off, Martina goes and finds his dog and looks after him. Because poor puppy :(

(yes, shh, I have headcanon about the dog. I'm a dog-person <.< )

So no Ace the Bathound? Or Batcow?

Tommy doesn't have any pets at the moment, but he used to have dogs-- and only dogs, not cats, because he adores dogs and hates cats even though he still has to save them from fires. In the first season he was saddled with a scruffy poodle that his kids found. It wasn't housebroken, it crapped all over the place, and chewed everything up, so Tommy called it Asshole. However he did eventually grow fond of the thing and cared for it, right up until his uncle let it loose and it ran into traffic.

Pre-canon, I'm very sure he and his family had dogs, according to glimpses into photo albums. Later in the series Tommy is seen wearing a t-shirt of an Irish wolfhound named Clancy (Leary's dog in real life at the time). And soon after that he finds a stray wolfhound (how do wolfhounds become strays in NYC?) and keeps him, naming him Charlie. Charlie is very good at sleeping, not chasing balls, and refusing to go find whiskey.

Aang has Momo. Appa is not a pet, he's a companion for life, thankyouverymuch.

Bumi I'd imagine Bumi probably took in a lemur or two in his time, but none he'd really ever consider a pet. I like to think he was offered a Sky Bison, but declined for various reasons, not the least of which being that he knew he was going to enlist and a metal ship is no place for a bison.

Mike had Klunk, who he believes to have been exploded when Shredder went and blew up April's junk shop. These days he has Stampy. ALL LOVE THE MINIPHANT, AND DESPAIR.

Raph had a teddy bear....once. That's pretty much it until he met Cloud the pony. Cloud is not a pet, he's a travel companion, and Raph will bust your face if you try to imply otherwise.

Splinter would joke and say he has his children and that's enough. He's not opposed to pets, it's just that sometimes his prey instinct gets the better of him.

Ida keeps Middlemen.

The Loompas consider most of the Bar's Patrons to be their pets.

None of mine have pets. :( But that isn't to say they don't like animals.

Yrael is perfectly happy to be covered in cats, and will likely tell them stories to inspire them, and will teach them the best ways of coaxing people to give them food and scritches. Dogs are a different matter. >_> He is likely to threaten any dog he comes across (except his sister, and even then it's iffy) or at least firmly inform the dog who's boss. He is also fond of fish, but as food, not pets.

Sunshine is totally fine with animals and pets, just doesn't have one of her own. She has nothing against cats, but she loves dogs more. She is, however, mildly intimidated by horses, in the way of a person who likes them but is not familiar with what is best when interacting with them.

Zelgadiss has no pets of his own, and is generally ambivalent towards animals in general. Horses are useful, and dogs and cats in their own ways, but they have little impact on his life.

Mark likes animals, but never owned a pet. Given Nolan's (initial) opinions about humans, the idea of "pets" owning pets probably seemed ludicrous to him. That, and my inner canon says that most animals on Viltrum are dangerous enough that domestication required serious physical conflict, rather than the symbiotic relationship that humans have with canines and felines. (Viltrum: where the term "cow-punching" is a literal truth.) Thusly, no pets in the Grayson house. Not that Mark wouldn't get one, given that his father is gone, but he's so busy right now that he doesn't have time.

Amascut is the type that would usually punt an animal, especially a cat that has backed her into a corner, except if said animal is part of her cover. Being a goddess, even humans, dwarves, trolls, goblins, demons, etc. count as dumb animals. Occassionally she'll treat minions as pets; currently Leeuni, Ayuni, and Eruni are her kinda sorta pets, but they roam free for the most part.

Fairy Fixit has no pets, but she might acquire a toothbeast in the future. She's good with interspecies relations, so no punting here.

Evil Chicken ... I really doubt Chicken does pets. Chicken does food and non-food.

Teja has his cats; they have developed from a throwaway remark about the ruined park he lived in in Rome (canonically!) and its feral cats, to the four Forge Cats being a feature of their own, with names and stories and icons on Teja's account and everything -- including Teja's tattoo that Pyrrha designed, of four cats fighting a dragon, done in Migration Age Animal Style. The one I use in thread most often is Count, whom he got from Debi's Death of the Discworld as a drowned kitten from Ankh-Morpork. He's the one with the most backstory and the most Millicanon -- he fought little monsters during the Allpocalypse, for example.

Urquhart has a dog who is, interestingly enough, from the Discworld as well -- Moist brought him in when they were sort-of together. The dog's name is Franz, he's half-pitbull, half-St. Bernard, big and clever and well trained; by now, he's also something like an unofficially trained PTSD service dog. Urquhart wouldn't have got his act together the way he did, without that dog.

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Hannibal has Will Graham. >_>

soft Will, warm Will....

And he even feeds Will Grahams dogs people...

Finally I get around to my own question. Erk.

Joshua has a ferret, which doesn't technically have a name, but his sister calls snuggleferret. He didn't really grow up around pets, but doesn't mind them per se, he just doesn't see the need.

Helena isn't necissarily anti-pet, but she doesn't have or need any of them.

Valentine has a pet. His name is Peter and he's technically her brother.

Fantine doesn't have anything, but if she ends up more comfortable in her life, she might get a Milli-kitten or something.

Henry more or less likes animals--certainly he likes Pongo--and would probably love to have a dog. He's never had a pet, though.

Tavi's family had sheep once, and possibly working dogs, but those weren't exactly pets. Neither is Acteon, the horse the Marat gave into his care (and his to the horse while riding when called for). But pets? No. Maybe one day one of his kids will have one.

Lois claims not to have a pet, and has allergies. She totally shares Clark's dog Shelby, though.

Eriond loves animals. He sees them more as friends, though. His particular companion is a horse. His name is Horse. Garion introduced them and gave him to Eriond to care for.

At the end of Ben's second solo series he agreed to take care of Lockjaw. I don't consider Lockjaw to be a pet but that's the closest Ben can answer. He loves animals but his lifestyle doesn't really allow for consistent care and companionship. He seems like a dog person if he were to have on though.

Hank, Val and Jess don't have pets for various reasons. Val is the only one I can see wanting a pet though both Hank and Jess have no problems with animals. Jess does like dinosaurs though she accepts having them as pets is problematic.

I recently had Thalia adopting a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix of some sort, whom she's named Buck despite her being female. It makes sense with her canon, trust me.

Anton doesn't have pets and wouldn't consider it but I am sure at some point his future daughter will want something.

Andrea sort of adopts a standard poodle, aka the poodle from hell, for a few weeks in a couple of books so I think she likes animals well enough. She has no pets though.

And Brimstone has Kishmish, who is both a companion and messenger for him. in keeping with canon, Kishmish is a sort of bat-bird.

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Cata and Sam don't have the time or inclination for keeping pets. (And Sam's girlfriend, being a Druid, would side-eye the idea anyway, likely. Animals wandering by and choosing to stay for a bit, sure, but keeping one as a pet?)

Claudia can take or leave pets, and doesn't plan on getting one, though her brother's snuggleferret has also quasi-adopted her.

Apollo is a god; your argument is invalid.

Imp is making faces at the idea. He doesn't have enough money to spare, not if he's trying to be responsible with his music with rocks in glop.

Regulus has an owl (named Phineas; he's a bit of a derp), but sees that as more a post box than a pet.

Red doesn't have pets; she lives on a farm, when she's actually at home. If the animal doesn't serve a purpose it doesn't get to stay. Also, werewolf. (Ruby has never had a pet, but she's the type to leave something out behind the diner for any stray cats or dogs Storybrooke may have.)

If Woolly had the time, I can see him liking having a dog about.

Oh come on, Apollo, don't be that way. What about Hyacinth?

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This headvoice can be a downright bad influence sometimes.

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I'm pretty sure Horus counts as more of an Animal Companion.

Or I might be painting everything in shades of D&D. That's an option too.

This is true really, but it's the closest any of mine come to having a pet.

Max: nah.

Erik: currently living on a government base, before that a professor, and just not bothered.

Bean: too young. Also, street child.

Alfred: No, thank you.

Best Bird in the world.

Felix has no particular feelings about pets, or animals in general, one way or the other. Unless they're trying to kill him, of course, which sometimes happens.

Kain is much the same way, although he defaults a little more negative.

Fluttershy loves animals. Everything except adult dragons and hoofed critters (which are pretty much people in Equestria). Some things she's wary of and wouldn't keep around, like cockatrices and timberwolves, but she loves them all. And yes, she has pets; most of the mundane animals we've seen in the show are represented among them.

Huh! I am a thoroughgoing animal person and have almost always had a couple of pets around, but I don't think any of my characters have a pet in the traditional sense.

Thor likes animals, and he does have a steed or two of some sort. (Probably horselike at the moment. In the past, there have been chariot-pulling goats.) I'm not sure how many animals are generally underfoot around Asgard's palace -- we don't see any in Thor, but we only see limited sectors and situations, so maybe Thor 2 will give more info -- but anyway he's used to them and fond of them but feels no great impetus to acquire one of his own to specifically care for without it having an immediate job to do.

Trowa has lions. He works for a circus, and he's the primary big cat person there. So... I guess that could count as pets! He sees them more as friends who happen to also be coworkers. He doesn't have any separate pets that don't have a job in the circus, although if for some reason he settled elsewhere I have a hard time seeing him not having animals around one way or another.

River loves animals, but also lives on a small spaceship. The closest she has is part care of Kassandra's old war-stallion Boukephalos at Milliways. She's another who tends to see animals as friends more than pets.

Regan doesn't have any at the moment, but I think in the past she's had birds or fish or something. (Maybe they do have a tank of fish? I dunno, any thoughts, Aspen?) She wouldn't mind having cats too, but at the moment their lifestyle is such that the only pets they can really in conscience have are low-maintenance ones.

Clare has... uh. A pet teenage boy who followed her home? That's about as close as it gets, but Raki really kind of qualifies: she feeds him and protects him and enjoys his company in a bewildered way, and sees them as different species. She doesn't have any other animals as pets, and wouldn't see the point in it, and doesn't have a lifestyle that would work for many animals anyway.

Enjolras has a sort of distant mostly-ignoring benevolence towards pets in general. They're on the long list of "sure, if it makes you happy" things other people do that he has no particular interest in. (Although he does know how to ride horseback, of course, and the basics of how to care for animals, in an early 19th century context.) I suspect he's that person that cats love, though, and that they gravitate towards him to curl up purring next to him while the actual cat-lovers in the room try in vain to entice them away for scritches. If I were meaner, I'd make him allergic to animals; if he is it's only very mildly, though.

Ako has no pets, living in a dorm as she does.
She also has issues from being picked up by D0G, while she was a tribble one Cubefall. So.
Artemis lives in a Gotham apartment. So, none right now. She gets a dog after the timeskip.
Janet keeps Hank. Hank keeps ants and other insects. So by proxy, kinda?
Robo doesn't. He has enough trouble outliving his ~~minions~~ employees, most regular pets would just make it worse.
Tyler just worries that if he meets an animal that it's actually someone he knows shapeshifted.

Nobody is an animal punter sort here.

The closest Will has had to a pet was when Inari gave him a fox who turned out to be a person, that didn't work out. When Robin was more of a lord, he had hounds and falcons, those don't make as much sense in Sherwood but they usually have a dog or two around them.

I don't think Charles has ever really had pets, I think he's wanted them but they didn't happen. In my headcanon, his mother rode and there might have been some dogs around the house but they weren't really his.

William has Horus, a cat that he originally got when he was stuck in Gotland during the Allpocalypse. Horus catches mice around the barn and sleeps in William and Mark's bed or sometimes their mother's and is cute and well loved. He's a working cat as everyone works on the ranch but also a pet.

The closest Sameth's come to pets would be the dogs in the castle, Yrael doesn't count, Yrael was a family threat not a pet even though he was cat shaped.

Moist's grandfather raised Lipwigzers, a type of dog that's good for being guard dogs. He happens to love dogs and feels very comfortable around them and Franz, a Saint Bernard who lives with Urquhart is still kind of his dog.

Jane's family has cats, chickens and pigs since they have a little bit of a farm. I don't know the names of the cats but I know Jane likes having them around.

A few cats live in and around Demeter and Persephone's garden but they're not pets, they just wander about.

Tumnus would find the idea of pets odd, they don't make much sense in a land of Talking Animals.

There are a few cats on the Pirate King's ship, because they bring good luck.

I love the descriptor of Yrael as family threat!

It's very accurate!

Autor is canonically allergic to birds and has Milli-canon'd allergies to everything else, so he's hyped up on the best anti-histamines his groaning tab can get him. That said, he loves squiddies, but not as pets, and while the baby demon bunnies were jaw-droppingly cute, they were more experiment subjects than anything. He'll never, ever admit to missing one particular kitten, especially not how it walked all over the backs of his legs, because really? who does that?

So, no pets. No hampering his freedom of movement, no signing up for potential unhappiness when the animal inevitably dies. Besides, he has people to collect, and they don't require any investment at all, right?

ETA: Oh, I forgot. He's terrified of crows, ravens, and horses. The Brahamin are cool in theory, but he'd probably freak out in the presence of one, as with many, many other animals, he's never seen a cow and has no frame of reference as to just how large they are.

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Natasha has no pets currently, in either timeline, although I'm tempted to give her younger-self a street-cat that she's charmed. She's more a dog-person in my head (and in a fic 'verse I have, she has two rescues), but generally her life isn't a great one for pets. She had a dog growing up, who fortunately died of old age before WWII (because I...can be nice to her, sometimes), and I'm pretty sure she's had a couple dogs between USSR and SHIELD.

Medusa has had, currently has, and will have, a large range of cats, dogs, goats, chickens - all mostly working animals, but she gets fond of them.

Delia's grown up with working animals - guard-and-hunting hounds, cats - but her current true love is a mare called Miache.

Daniel, whom I really have to EP, has never had pets. He grew up a servant's son, and then became a servant himself. The horses he tends to professional are always his masters', never his. But he gets along with animals, and tends to sleep around the stables, so he usually gets some feline company.

Kait has never had pets - animals don't tend to like her - but her siblings did have dogs, cats, monkeys, etc. Her true companion for a lot of her life was a wolf, but he was very much a friend, NEVER a pet, and she'd get highly insulted on his behalf if anyone called him that.

Duo likes cats, but doesn't have the space or time to keep one. He is not fond of dogs, having had far too many hostile encounters with both pets and guard dogs.

Coyote has a cat, which does not have a name. Or at least, not one it has decided to share. She also accidentally picked up what was basically an ex-hellhound. It followed her home, okay? She named it 'Stupid'. It's got a collar and a tag and everything.

Donatello doesn't mind pets in the abstract, but realizes he probably doesn't have the right mentality to share his life with one.

Ambriel does not have pets.

Sariel is a definite cat person, but she hasn't got a problem with most other animals. Dogs are the exception; she doesn't *dislike* them, but she's rather wary shading to afraid of them, depending on the circumstances. They bark, they jump, they sometimes chase people and well, they make her uneasy. She needs to meet Dug and melt. :)

I've thought about her Millicanonically having had a family cat growing up, though. Hmm. No pets for her at present, but that may change at some point. I've often wondered who adopted the kittens that appeared in one specific TNG episode... Data-mun, if you're around, care to weigh in?

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