All the Creatures

I am old enough to remember when you could buy seahorses in the mail. The advertisements were in the magazines, Fish and Game, Hunting and Outdoors Man. My dad was an avid trout fisherman and he got all the fishing magazines. Of course I would look through them and saw the small ads for pet seahorses in the very back of the magazine. The ads would have a small drawing of a seahorse and maybe a fish tank. You could buy a pregnant “papa” seahorse that was guaranteed to give birth to dozens of baby seahorses.

What those ads didn’t tell you was the fact that those seahorses were caught wild off the shore of Florida and that seahorses are a difficult salt water fish to keep. The seahorses were also the dwarf variety and not the larger seahorse that people were more familiar with.

Since then I have seen the larger seahorses in pet store close to me and with their sale price tag of $40 and up, I think I’ll pass on that pet. Occasionally I do see the dwarf variety seahorse in our local pet store and they are more reasonably priced but I would suggest to anyone interested in acquiring one that they read about them first.

One of the hardest aspect of keeping dwarf seahorses is feeding them. They require freshly hatched baby brine shrimp. You not only have to worry about raising the seahorses but raising their food too. That alone is much too much involvement for the average fish owner.

If you are up to the challenge, keeping a dwarf seahorse might be an ideal pet for you.

Is there anyone that owns a pet that has not at one time or another decorated a room or part of their home to reflect that they love their pet? My own dinning room has photos, drawings and little sculptures of horses. The photos are of our own horses, the drawings were done by family members depicting horses and the little sculptures looked so much like our horses that I just had to have them.

I have visited friends homes that had their kitchen devoted to their dog’s breed. Saint Bernards even adorned their kitchen tiles. I think the most common room for animals to be a welcome addition to is the baby’s room.

Where else could you devote a whole wall to the jungle and get away with it?

Another common room to decorate with animals is the bathroom. My daughter is an avid marine life fancier and so her bathroom has ceramic tropical fish on the blue walls and everything either is tropical fish or dolphins.

So do you have a room that is nothing but animals?

If you have not noticed, I would like to direct your attention to the tab at the top of the page. The one that says “the pet store” was just added a few days ago. I have been busy adding items to the store. Right now I have been featuring the large selection of doggy Halloween costumes. I will be adding a whole section on dog grooming supplies with everything from walk in tubs, shampoos to clippers. I have been noticing an increase of searches for reptile and bird items so I will be added them too. I’ll be also adding a section of ferret supplies. If you know of anything that you can’t find online and know the brand name or a description of the item just leave a comment and I’ll try and track it down.