Emotional attachment to outdoor animals.

[Rye]

Do you get easily emotionally attached to an animal, even if it's just an outdoor one? Like, make up names for it and stuff? I do. I dunno why, I just love to.

Two years ago, there was a spider outside my window. He was a big spider. I was listening to System of a Down - Spiders, and while I did so, he appeared to mosh on his web. I called him Moshy. He's my spider. He comes back every summer. <3

Unfortunatly, not many people believe in this story.

When I go fishing with my Dad, I can never stand to see my Dad eating the fish afterwards for dinner. And it's not just because I hate sea food. When he has the fish caught and put in a place with water to keep it, I like to look at it and I think up a name for it. I grow instantly emotionally attached. It breaks my heart to think about it being killed, because I saw it alive.

Also, if you see an animal outdoors that is hurt, do you take it in? I did when there was a hurt bird outside my house when I lived in Queens. We helped it out for a while, when he seemed better, we brought him to a cemetary where all the other little birdies go. It made me feel happy helping it out.

[Social Moon Firesky]

I got attached to a cow that was in a field next to our caravan in France once. I called it Tulip and fed her bread.

[vegasoad]

not emtionally and why do the forum responds stop after a while. 1 min its everbody talking and the next its all stoped and nothing happens

[Drift]

i just feed next door neighbour's cat and then it had to be put down poor barney ;_; they got another cat that looks exactly the same

[Maxico]

When I was little I had a pidgeon that came to our window and we fed it. I called it catch the pidgeon (because it was my favourite show at the time). It brought a friend with it and my aunt named it shoot the pidgeon (she didn't like the pidgeons). Then a third one came and we stopped feeding them.

[vegasoad]

SOAD rulessssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Apollo]

When I went to the zoo a couple of months ago there was this duck that followed me and my friends everywhere. We named him Donald! I miss Donald... Maybe I'll see him next time I go to the zoo. xD Then again, he's probably hard to pick out from the other ducks, oh well, I'll always have that picture of him.

[themagicroundabout]

there was a hedgehog that lived in our back garden and i called it Magrat but after a while it left and i never saw him again

[Rye]

SOAD rulessssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They do.

[Little Miss Awesome]

I once found this bird in my garden, I looked after it and called it Skeetz, it was a fine specimen, it flew away and never retuned.


It is better to have loved and lost to have never loved at all.

[omnitarian]

I enjoy outdoor animals, but I've never given them names. :O_O:

We always take in hurt birds, but most birds get stolen by a hawk before we can get to them.

[Rusty]

I have a spider living in my letterbox. She's lived there for 2 years. I haven't named her though, I just say 'hi' to her everytime I check the mail. She even had her babies in my letterbox too

Also we have a family of Magpies living around out street. They're always hanging out on the front lawn. More often in summer though.

[Madame Adequate]

I have a spider living in my letterbox. She's lived there for 2 years. I haven't named her though, I just say 'hi' to her everytime I check the mail. She even had her babies in my letterbox too

That would be endearing if I weren't repulsed. It's like letting Satan himself breed on your own land. I don't like spiders, though I make an exception for Moshy (Who earned my respect through surviving repeated squishing attempts.).

I tend not to grow attached. I don't like being attached to creatures which will, in the very best scenario, die within two decades. (Mainly as I don't know any which have lived for two decades, most of them last around half that. Too much hurt.)

In addition, I don't find myself feeling I like the companionship of animals much. My mother's cats are usually friendly and fun, but they're also annoying quite often.

[44 caliber]

I hate spiders.

I get attached to stupid things if they had meaning. If someone special gave you it. Like your dying grandmother gave you a pencil or something.

Oh man, if my grandma gave me a pencil..

[fire_of_avalon]

If I come in contact with it, I'm attached.