I like chicken mmmm

(Moth|serval)s !

It’s a bit complicated

With no further qualification, dogs. I’ve had dogs for most of my life and home just doesn’t feel homey without a dog to me.

But my wife and I have a bit of a thing for frogs, they’re sort of our unofficial mascot.

I also thought narwhals were cool long before reddit had them baconing at midnight. I think they were kind of when I realized that kids can be smarter than/know things that grownups don’t. I don’t remember what exactly the context was, but I remember once bringing them up, my mom didn’t believe they were real, so I marched my way upstairs to grab the book I read about them in to show her.

I also always liked Coatimundis (Coatis) because they were probably the weirdest animal the fairly small zoo I grew up near had.

And if I had to pick sort of a “spirit animal” for myself, it’s probably a raccoon.

Foxes are cool. Like cat software on dog hardware.

I don’t know if they’re my favorite animal but I want a pet skunk. They’re so cute! As for my favorite animal ever, maybe a wooly mammoth.

Birds

Favorite bird? The Corvids, specifically crows and ravens.

Freakishly intelligent and once you befriend them the Murder will stay friendly for generations. My grandparents owned a farm and my grandfather made it a point to be friendly toward the local Murder. By the time I was old enough to ask him why the crows all flocked around him some 30 years had passed. He barely had to do anything. He would put out straw during the mating season and food at other times. The Murder would be your friend too, if they saw you with him.

I don’t have a favorite animal, but my closed ones started to think I have a thing for deep-sea anglerfish, and they may be right.

Him. I never could have imagined these animals have much personality at all but he did.

Maybe a capybara. Here’s me dying when I met some.

I inherited a fish over a year ago and now I’m obsessed with aquatic animals. Aquatic snails are super cool and I’ve started breeding them to resell. Y’know, until next year when I find something cooler. Love that ADHD life

Lynx - those big cuddly paws

Damn I actually didn’t think about this a lot…

When I was a kid, my favorite color was green and my favorite animal… I remember it being turtles

Cuz they can just hide from all dangers… they always have a “home”… where they are safe…

Being an immigrant and growing up in an emotionally unstable household… I never felt like I had a “home”

Like… neither in context of country… or in the context of my “home” vs school vs someplace to go to… like the library or a friend’s house…

Like… when it’s time for school… I’m like ah fuck, this again (cuz of bullies and authoritarian teachers and classwork shit…)

Then when it’s time to go home… I’m like: oh no, yesterday we have a whole argument at home and stuff were thrown around and a few bowls and plates were broken, I kinda feel scared

And I don’t have any close frienda where I could just go to their place and chill out…

And the outside world felt scary to me to I didn’t have like a runaway “base” in the woods or something…

So I kinda liked turtles lol…

Just retreat to inside the shell when there is conflict…

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For some time I also liked monkeys because Curious George… (also mandela effect time: but pretty sure it had a tail didn’t it?)

At one point, it was sheeps/goats… because 喜洋洋与灰太郎 (it’s a Chinese Cartoon I remember watching as a kid)

Some other animals I liked at some point:

I liked Owls because it was the first nocturnal animal I learned of…

Pandas because I’m from China…

Frogs/Toads… idk why… maybe cuz its amphibious

And now I have a cat… probably the most useful animal… gets rid of mice

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