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Re: Spring Contest: Roxy & Magical pets | Registration

Postby Hallowinxer » Sun May 04, 2025 12:05 pm

Blomady wrote:
Hallowinxer wrote:── Pet's name
Monni (her breed is partamonni in Finnish so I just took the monni-part as her name. Very creative, I know, my elementary school teacher was mocking me and saying “it’s as creative as calling a horse with the name Horse!” :cloud: But you know I was a kid when I got her!!

── Info about them
Her breed is Ancistrus and she’s female. Unfortunately she passed away 4 years ago but she was already 15 YEARS old which is really much for a fish so I’m grateful to all these years with her <3 /flowerpower/

She was a night owl like me: in those days she was mostly in her castle and showed herself only when I was in my room or gave her food in the morning. In the nights she had her own party and kept swimming around the aquarium really fast and endlessly. She also pushed the thermometer against the aquarium glass and I was woken up by the sound of it in the middle of the night. She was really playful and loved climbing and swinging on the water plants (sometimes it looked like some acrobatics!)

She was a real drama queen. She was really sensitive: even though my aquarium was on the 2nd floor of my childhood house she got scared if someone shut a door on the 1st floor and swam back to her castle. If she was “outside” (I mean outside of her castle) I needed to crawl on the floor or sneak to my room because if you walked with heavy or even normal steps she got scared and swam to her castle to hide. Sometimes when I was already in my room and just waved my head, she got scared. But I taught her to come out: everytime I gave food to my fish I knocked the glass gently and she learned to follow my knocking and came out to eat. And if some other fish tried to eat her food she fake-attacked them to scare them away.

She was an introvert like me. She didn’t show up to anyone else than me. She lived with us 15 years but my mom saw her only a couple of times. Usually she went back to her castle if my friends were visiting me and showed up to me after they’d left. If some other fish went inside her castle she waved with her tail to kick them out.

She was also very curious. Once, she swam so high that her head broke the surface of the water and she actually touched the air. Luckily she didn’t do that anymore because I was a bit worried about her.

── How the pet became part of the family?
She was one of my first pets: I started with virtual pets such as Aquapets, Tamagotchis and Nintendogs ds games and soon wanted to have a real pet. I got her in the middle of elementary school, I think I was in the 3rd grade. My mom and I thought that an aquarium could be a great idea: no one can become allergic to it and it was easy to take care of. I saved money for a long time and bought the aquarium with my own money (I remember it was 50e which was a HUGE amount of money as a kid) and mom bought me the fish and all of the decoration stuff: some sand, the castle, some water plants and the chemical liquids etc. I got 10 other fish with Monni but their lifespan was much shorter, from 2 to 4 years. My aquarium was a smaller one so the seller of the pet shop told us not to buy another Ancistrus so my Monni can be the only ruler of the aquarium.

── Fun fact about the pet
Once when I was singing the theme of the 1st season of Winx she came out of the castle to listen <3

── Magical abilities
She can turn invisible and sense every movement and sound around her; that’s why she can tell if someone breaks into the house.

── Photo of the pet
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Monni, the ruler of the castle rockparty//

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Monni and her friend

:ahhh: Woow, so cool! Thank you for participating, and good luck! /flowerpower/


Yeyy thank you! :mrgreen: /flowerpower/
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Re: Spring Contest: Roxy & Magical pets | Registration

Postby Blomady » Fri May 09, 2025 2:33 pm

The deadlines are extended: REGISTRATION will last till the 18th of May /flowerpower/
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Re: Spring Contest: Roxy & Magical pets | Registration

Postby Yulka » Fri May 16, 2025 1:17 pm

Hi everyone zao_zao During past 3 years me and my boyfriend were occupied with raising a Maine Coon cat. Here's our story //MWOMWO&quot;

:arrow: Pet's name: Marci, we named here after a Dota 2 character
:arrow: Info about them:
Our Ginger Girl turned out to be a Maine Coon, one of the biggest cat breeds. Indeed, on the photos they might look strict or even terrifying. But in turned out that they have extremely kind character. Luckily, they are companion cats who don't object when you pet them or hold on your laps. They also follow you as you do household chores or work remotely. Princess Marci is also quite energetic, and loves playing with toys, tearing wallpapers, swaying a mirror on the wall, and opening the wardrobes in the night to wake you up. However, all this was happening when she was a kitten. Now when she's a grown up cat, she's not that active :D

Unfortunetely, pedegree cats usually have breed diseases, and our cat is not an exclusion. Maine Coons and other big cats are prone to having cardiovascular disesases, and it turned out that our cat has one as well :cry: fortunately, she's still quite a young cat, and her illness can be teated with medicine. Right now we are visiting a vet clinic once in 3-4 months to have ECG done and feed her with pills 2 times a day.

:arrow: How the pet became part of the family?

Before we adopted a cat, I dreamt of having a dog and I wanted to get a corgi. The problem is in the childhood I had an evil male cat who always tied toring me to pieces, that's why I didn't like cats. But in many years I started to live with my boyfriend, who is obsessed with animals, and who is totally a cat-person. He started persuading me that we don't need corgi and dogs require much time and effort to raise. Suddenly one of the boyfriend's collegues had a few Maine Coon kittens and was ready to give one to us. Our Ginger girl was the 5-th kitten in the litter, and a singe girl. Despite I always planned to have a dog, I never regretted having my Marci 🥰, and now I'm a cat-person too.
:arrow: Fun fact about the pet
This fact is more about the breed rather that about my cat. I've heard that Maine Coons were breeded in the United States and usually lived on farms to help farmers save their crops from mice. These cats have furry ears are adapted to rainy weather to prevent water entering them.
:arrow: Magical abilities
Glass splash: While Marci has been living with us, she hasn’t really done anything bad in our flat except for one thing – breaking things made of glass. During the moments of high activity, she once managed to break all the glass cups in our house so we had to renovate the collection of our crockery. Glass cans, plates and fridge magnets are among the glass things that were thrown down on the floor and turned into extensive glass splashes.
Fur cloud: Whenever I pet my Ginger Princess, I turn out to be in a furry cloud and can’t breathe. Yaay, Maine Coons are really fluffy creatures.
Charm spell: I can’t get away without petting my cat whenever I’m near, I guess I usually get bewitched by my cat.
Invisibility: She tried to get as little as possible when trying to do something prohibited. Can you see anyone at this photo?

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