What pets have you had?

None as a child, I don't like animals.  I had two baby chicks.  In the house where we lived it had a gate in the back.  I was out there feeding them or just looking at them or whatever.  When I went out the gate one followed.  I closed the gate on it, it died, and I cried. 
They're okay to see them on tv, most of them.  I don't like zoos, they're too smelly.  There were cats but thet stayed outside, probably to keep the rats away.  After marrying your Dad, when we lived on Pleasant Drive we had a parakeet named Perky.