the pets of my family

we have had many pets come in and out of my house. the first one was appy, a dog whos still around after 17 years. we had another dog named lady, he was a collie. she died several years ago. she was the nicest dog you could ever meet, and the reason i think collies are the greatest breed of dog. the lassie movies also make me think that. we have had three cats. the first one was the devil. it had orange stripes and it was ugly and i hated it. it handled me and my brothers abuse by being mean back, we would throw it and mess with it all the time. it was fun. our second cat was named maggie, she had grey and black stripes and wasnt awful like tiger so i liked it. we are now on our third cat, her name is ellie but only my mother calls her by that name. everyone else calls it cow because it looks like a cow...shes the best cat yet because she doesnt care about anyting, we can pick her up by the paws and shell just hang there or we can bury her with random things we take from the table and again she just lays there. my sister had a fish named tyrone. he had big eyes and one fell off. hes dead now and then there were the hermit crabs we had that we left at the house when we were on vacation and when we got back they were gone. never to be found again. the last ones that i can remember were the hamsters that i fed peppermint to and it killed them