h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Rabbits are lagomorphs

Sounds like a lot of pets, though!

Let's see.... My mother's parrot died about a week before I was born, so can't count him. But we've had cats and dogs, my father had water fleas and budgies, rats, mice, gerbils, sheep, a horse, donkeys, chickens, ducks, geese, a snake, and a woodpecker we raised from a chick who'd come back every year to visit...

But then, my parents are biologists, so it figures

Yeah, but it would have been awesome to have all those pets. Our place wasn't zoned for livestock- that's the reason my dad gave me why I couldn't have a pet elephant when I was six.

Smart argument!

I want to have ponies, goats, and chickens at some point, as well as the requisite cats and perhaps a dog.

Parents seem to be the same all over the Globe

At six (or so) I wanted a lion, and thought it could live at the balcony. After all I understood that it wouldn't fit inside our tiny one bedroom apartment. My parents didn't agree however so I never go any lion

I got a when I was seven, but was only permitted to keep it until next summer. My grandfather shot it with his shotgun, and I buried it by a meadow next to my other grandparents house. Later I had a guinea pig who died of a tumour at the ripe age of four. Old age for a guinea pig what I remember.

I had dogs for a couple of years as newly wed. Then it turned out that both baby and father was allergic, so the dogs had to move to other homes.

Finally, when allergic baby had grown up and left for Uni (and father was history) was adopted. She was then followed by and .

I wouldn't mind a big red , but three cats in the Lair is really enough.

My mother says that she always asked for an elephant for Christmas in the hopes that she'd at least get a pony, which is what she really wanted...