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What's a Jounouchi? razz

Even without knowing your last name I'm certain there are many things it's better than. Like Dung, Bangkok, Focker...or Crawford. rofl

I hate birds so that wouldn't be a motivator for me. Plus yes Crawford makes me think of crustaceans, but Crowfoot sounds like a disease. And things that sound like diseases are always bad names. Especially diseases that have foot in them, because then you think fungi. It's just quite unattractive. Even if I did think bird, that would make his name Bird Bird in a way, which would be kind of ridiculous. Richardson would be good though. Or Richards, I dunno, that's sounding better to me. Not Rich though, not quite lengthy enough, he does at least need a long name.

I like reptiles and fish...birds (exempting ducks, quails, hummingbirds, peacocks, and owls...think that's mainly it, I ADORE owls) and rodents (although I like rabbits and chinchillas, but I still don't think I want them as pets) can go away!!! Amphibians don't have to go away, but they probably can't come here.

I went to Petco today and looked at kittens and snakes and fishes. It was wondrous...^_^

Mmm...nope, still thinking disease, in fact my feet actually started hurting as I read that. Nope, I'll just stick with Peggy the one name man!!!

I mean there are few animals I'd want to extinguish or anything, usually my rankings have to do with things I'd want to have as pets and/or things that I find adorable/get on my nerves. Birds tend to be loud, this irritates me. I'm hearing is sensitive. Rodents tend to excrete often, they just sit and eat and poop. This in combination with having fur tends to lead to them smelling bad. Mice and hamsters are probably the worst about this though. Mainly I'd like pets that don't eat often (like snakes), live in water (like fish and or turtles - thus I just have to set up a large aquarium system which can be self contained) and are quiet.

Incests are probably my least favorite as well, though I rather like butterflies, dragonflies (most "flies" that aren't flies), ladybugs (most beetles don't bug me), praying mantises and bees (don't really like wasps though, they seem mean). I really don't like flies (loud, live in trash, and fly around your personal space), gnats (when they get in they are just everywhere and again fly) mosquitoes and fleas (pretty much anything that will suck my blood and leave painful bites). I am afraid of spiders but don't dislike. Also, I like ants as long as they are outside, when they are inside they are a menace - as are most things that swarm.

Amphibians I find a little gross and wouldn't want to care for them, but there are some frogs and toads that I just find adorable. And I rather like salamanders.

Fish I like pretty ones...although my favorite fish are Sun Fish, which aren't pretty at all. But they fascinate the hell out of me. After that I'm fond of Jellyfish (those brainless invertebrates are amazing!) especially as well. I just like tanks though, and the ocean and water and it's all just amazing. But I'm a swimmer and enjoy scuba diving, so it's pretty much given I'm in love with all things aqua.

Other than rodents I pretty much like most mammals.

I like most reptiles, but I tend to prefer snakes.

Oh noes, I'm turning this thread into let's obsessive compulsively order our favorite animals. xd

They are retardedly cute, I'll give you that, but the noises annoy me too much. And they make noises at night even and I just don't like things that make noise for no discernible reason over and over again. Rodents are too smelly for me to want to cuddle, again save for like rabbits and chinchillas, which are a lot better at not stinking for some reason. Plus they are softer.

Yea, I'm about the same way with scorpions, which don't feel very bug like to me...also I don't ever encounter scorpions in the Bay Area (I assume you might in AZ), which makes them more "mythical" to me in a way. I've never seen a hissing cockroach, but I hate the regular ones enough (I mean cockroaches invading the dorms - blech!) to have a hard time thinking I'd like those.

Frogs, Toads and salamanders are the only amphibians I've had any experience with. And honestly there are only a few toads I'd like, mostly I like frogs.

That's why I love fish, because they are fascinatingly creepy. But yea, again that's why I want the giant tanks or ponds - which are more self-contained and aired out better (or confining all smell).

rofl

Hahaha, yea I don't find most birds very musical...although like most animals, they bother me less out in the wild than in a confined space.

That's true they do, but they still make me think of giant hamsters. Plus I think the thing I like about rabbits is they can live outside, guinea pigs not so much.

Ok they are arachnids - although, while they aren't insects, they are bugs. A bug can be an insect...or similar organism. A "true" bug is an insect...but as long as I make sure to never stick true before it, a scorpion is a bug...as are ailments caused by microorganisms, i.e. germs...as are certain obsessions/devotees...as are some defects...as are programming errors...as are secreted listening devices...see bug has MANY definitions, and I only listed the definitions for the noun. Now if you wanna get into the verb... rofl

And yes, they are really missing out, I totally always wanted one of those. Right after I acquire my dream souvenir of a melted piece of plastic, because that stuff is just nifty. xd

Anyhow I've seen 0 scorpions off the tele, so, you beat me.

Maybe...but I'm still biased against anything baring the name cockroach. Maybe they should look into an alias. Maybe just hissing c**k...I mean that'd drop the icky roach, and be funny, I like things that are funny.

They aren't, but there are some really nifty ones. Like most things nifty, they are usually weird African breeds. Apparently hissing cockroaches are from Madagascar? Or else they are just called...Madagascar hissing loraine (also known as hissing roach or hisser). Ok, see Loraine sounds much nicer, I could totally talk about my like for a Loraine. Likewise, hisser also sounds adorable. So from now on they shall be hissing loraines or hissers. Much better. Although looking at the pictures, I still can't say I find them that attractive, but they are the most popular breed of roach to keep as a pet. Ya know, if you wanted a roach pet.

Well no, you aren't supposed to touch fish...or butterflies. I found the latter out the sad way. crying

Well there are coyotes and stuff in California...your problem isn't that you are Arizona, it's that you aren't as urbanized. When you have tons and tons of houses and people and paved roads smashed together you don't get too many wild animals wandering your way. That's why we especially think of them as "wild" animals, we have to go travel to see them...^_~

Although a house cat did get one of my rabbits, which we kept in a pen but he kept getting out. I'm fine with pens, I'd probably have pens for anything I kept outside (save for pond animals, they're on their own), quails, rabbits, etc. I like quails, I don't think they made my bird list, but I do. They are the only birds I'd ever want to own...save for owls, but owls probably don't make good pets. Despite what HP would have us believe.

Yea, generally that's what's meant by bugs, the existence of the term bug, to classify a large group of semi-separate things. So yea, you can't ever say a spider or a scorpion isn't a bug because generally the foremost definition of bug is not insect (hence the clarification of "true" - which is ridiculous because in that case one should just say insect, it's no longer), but it isn't an insect. Anyhow it's just easier to classify things bugs, rather than separate them out into insects, arachnids, etc. Generally, unless you are talking to an entomologist, an argument you'd want to make doesn't require the specification break.

Yea, I found out after. When my butterfly baked in the sun and died, and sad I wondered why it didn't just fly away. Although, the truth was a bit of a buzz kill to my belief that the butterfly loved me too much to leave me, even if it meant dying. What a ridiculously romantic child I was. razz

Yea...we have farm land, you'd just have to drive about an hour out of the bay in any direction to get to it. I mean most of CA is farm land or cities - but except for people on the outskirts of cities you don't get a lot of blending therein. Especially around the bay and LA area. I mean there are coyotes in like certain regional parks and stuff, but they don't really stray out of the area. I mean populous areas are loud, full of lights, hundreds of thousands - millions of vehicles, it would just pretty much scare most animals into their hills. Thus, unless you live up in the parks - and my family so can't afford that - the only predator you have to worry about is a cat.

My mom has a friend who had quails, my college only had squirrels, rabbits, turtles and snakes...and tons of ducks/geese. Well not counting all the farm animals, but those didn't roam wild (well the evil rooster did).

Huh, that's weird...I mean not even as an area thing but just general reference in lit, media, even textbooks/classrooms generally don't use bugs to term insects (it's almost a slang term anyhow so anytime it would be used it wouldn't be for serious validation). So it'd be weird that your state, or maybe just area, specifically does.

Har har har. And aww, how sweet. I could never hold still that long.

Yea our urban/suburban areas are just too populous, and most wildlife tends to operate on the principal of self preservation. Going into loud, bright, noisy areas does not play into that in the slightest. razz

Maybe you guys were trying to start something...only it never caught on and your area forgot to stop. rofl

Still, I'd be pacing in circles, I do not hold still ever. ^_^