My favorite animal right now is Freddy, my 5 year old Toy Poodle.  Freddy was a birthday present for my sister and somehow he came to live with me instead.  I have always said that it's really his house and he lets me come in to make sure he has food, water and gets to go for a walk.  Freddy knows when your happy and he always joins in on the fun.  He also knows when your sad or not feeling good because he takes up most of the room on the bed or the couch to comfort you.  I also love going to the zoo to check out the penguins, I can sit and watch them for a very long time, I find it is very relaxing to just sit and watch them swim.  Jean

Since I was about 6 years old I have always had a cat and a dog around me, except for the 21/2 years when I lived in Germany.  Most of the pets have been animals that were on there way to the pound.  One dog was a vizsla with papers but all the reast were mutts.  The cats have ruled the dogs. I don't let my cats go outside, and the dogs spend most of the time being couch patotoes.  My mom always said if you can't spoil the animal don't have them.  My all time favorite animal has to be the river otter.  They always look like they are having so much fun.  It is always my favorite place in the zoo.  My hubby would probably say my favorite animal is a polar bear.  I have a lot of coke bears, I collect them, but I still like otters the best. Library535

My favorite pets have always been small dogs. Right now they are Otis, a 13 year old pomeranian, and Evee who is a 3/4 yorkshire terrier and 1/4 poodle female. I also have a black and white cat, Kitty. I have had bunnies and parakets as pets too. Our pets have always been part of the family.

I love rabbits.  Woody was our pet bunny.  My daughter even hung up his Christmas stocking this year even though he is no longer with us.  -Madame Librarian

OF COURSE my fav site is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosairus

Big, Bold and GREEN!  ~BOB~

Zoe and Ernie, my two bunnies, and Ally and CJ, my two dogs. See them on the Flickr Pets of Nebraska Librarians site. ~kathryn.

I love animals! My favorite destination for family fun is the Omaha Zoo. At home, we have three smaller feline cousins. I have have them all since they were kittens, and they are now 9 and 7. (Thunder, Harley, and Fiesty) I grew up on a farm...and while I felt bummed about it as a kid (my friends lived in town), I cherish the memory of raising new ducklings, chicks, kittens, calves, and horses. My favorite calf was named Goober and he became a pet after all the bottle feeding and hand feeding. However, since he was a bull we had to sell him. I think my entire family didn't eat any beef for months.   Sarah 

I have always had a house cat.  My husband was a no animals in the house.  Well, we have had a cat in the house for most of the 20 years we have been married.  In August, the two cats (Zorro and Panther) became outside cats as Panther decided to quit using the liter box.  Zorro died several months ago and my daughter took it kind of hard.  I miss having a cat in the house, so we may have to think about getting a house cat again.   Dianne

     I have to admit I like dairy cattle!  I cried when we said goodbye to our 60 cows, although I admit to loving the freedom from twice-daily milking.  We kept our younger animals to raise them to "adulthood" before selling them so the transition has been a little easier.  We are now down to 7 head of cattle.  Each of our animals had to have a number but we also gave them a barn name.  It was so fun coming up with names.  The Dairy Herd Association required that our names be limited to 7 letters but that didn't stop us from adding a few "last names" of our own.  Memorable names were Willa Calfer and Reba McEncow.  We tried to name daughters with the same first letter as their mothers and to have names starting with all letters of the alphabet.  We do milk one cow, Mulberry, since giving up fresh farm milk was not an option in our family.  Ah, the joy of farm life! 

     I guess this would be an appropriate place to explain why my login name is always Cranefarm.  From February to April, we share our farm and neighboring fields with thousands of Sandhill cranes.  They are magnificent birds!

If we are lucky, we also hear them passing over in October.  Terri (cranefarm)

( an insertion --  Another bovine reminiscence -- our first  "house milk" cow was JERSEY BOUNCE - she was boss of the herd as dad never got her dehorned & the stock cows were dehorned.    She could put those Herefords & Angus in their place pronto even though she was only 2/3rds their size.  Her replacement was a "pot-head" that would eat all the hemp flowers in season & get stoned.  The milk tasted awful for a couple of weeks, and the stupified antics of a stoned cow would certainly disuade any sane human being from trying the same experiment. Here's a google maps  link to the farm where these adventures really happened some odd decades ago. -- books4York  -- end insertion)

I have a cocker spaniel named Sadie.  The descriptive word we have attached to her is exuberance.  She loves her family, other people and life in general.  She is a great companion---one of those that has heart, a rare best pet that comes along once or maybe twice in a lifetime if you are lucky.  We have been with her. Anne Q.

I have a real wild Jack Russell Terrier named Jordan.  His picture is on my page at Nebraska learns site.  He is a hunter and nothing can come in his yard and make it out alive.  He killed 32 snakes last summer, 2 rabbits, several mice, and a bat.  Jordan was a rescue dog that was trained to kill rats so it took me a long time to tame him down.  Now he is a loyal loving lap dog that I wouldn't trade for the world. Dawn W.

We have always had black labs named Lady.  We inherited our neighbor's black lab named Maggie and so of course, we call her Lady Maggie.  Labs are totally loyal and keep track of their people.  She is a great companion to my husband, but she likes me best!  - Carol E.

My cats, Misty, Oreo & Nenya.  And our ferrets, Twitch & Zen. You can see them on my Flickr. - Christa

My favorite animal (and I've been graced by a couple in my lifetime) is the odd-eyed white cat.  Sorry I have not had one around for many decades so do not have a photo to share.  So this cute monkey will have to substitute. -- Stan Schulz

Growing up I had a Saint Bernard dog named Brandy.  He would climb on the school bus when my sister and I got on. The driver would open the emergency door in back to get him off. (too large to turn him around) He was very friendly and loveable.  - vc

We have no pets.  I have the most fun watching monkeys and apes at the zoo, and also giraffes. - Kathy H

I love cats, bats, snakes, and lizards. But no bugs, unless they're butterflies. -- akroeger