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![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://rightpet.com/Thumbnail/BreedReviewsPhotos/362013_1255243291FishSpc_oscar.jpg&media=https://rightpet.com/Thumbnail/BreedReviewsPhotos/362013_1255243291FishSpc_oscar.jpg&description=I LOVED my Oscar. I was given a 10 gallon tank after my neighbors had a snake pass away, and my Mother finally put her foot down, say NO way was there going to be a snake in her house on purpose! So we settled on fish and went to check out the local pet store selection.<br>There was a wonderful and knowledgable sales girl working and after asking a bunch of questions about where we were going to keep the tank and how often we wanted to clean it, she told me that an Oscar would be perfect. They are very active, and slightly aggressive fish. They can get pretty big and need space so you can only get one or 2 in a tank together depending on the size. But they are pretty good looking and "trainable". That is the word she used. Sure enough she took us to the tank and held out a cricket above the water, KERSPLASH, I was hooked. The Oscar had jumped right out of the water to grab the cricket! <br>I was 11 so this was one of the coolest things I had ever seen!<br><br>I never did any research but the store was a great location for information. Grouch came home that day with us and 3 weeks later we got an albino Oscar to go in the tank with her named Ghost. So with 2 in the tank we fed fish flakes every day, scraped the tank maybe once a week, and gave crickets and grasshoppers when ever we found them in the yard! They were pretty awesome fish, and got so big in 4 years (probably from all the baby grasshoppers) that we ended up finding them a new home in the tank at our local library! Yes, I donated my fish! But they got a huge new home and got to do the cricket trick once a day for the children's reading group! :) They lived there for 3 more years until some other fish gave them a fungal infection and they passed away..<br>Oscars are fun, healthy fish that are easy to maintain and would be a great starter pet for just about any age. They do require a large tank with lots of room and a good filtration system, but worth the space and money to keep such a cool fish in the house to share with company!){kind=link}
 and drove us all to school. When we got home, Rouge (French for Red) was all cleaned and brushed and smelled like strawberry shampoo. She was easily the prettiest dog I had ever seen.<br><br>Our family vet, who also never batted an eyelash when we brought in strays, was pretty impressed with this latest addition. <br>Full blood Irish setter. Expensive breed to buy, but very smart and easy dogs to own. Long limbed, they belong in the water or woods chasing small game and swimming like fish! We could not keep Rouge out of our swimming pool, and even though she enjoyed chasing the many cats we had outside, she was never mean or overly aggressive. She just loved the chase. Silky long hair was a pain to shampoo but looked so great afterwards that I really didn't mind the every other day baths. And she got along fantastic with our Great dane. Both pretty big dogs in the house at one time caused a little ruckus at dinner time, but Rouge had such a great demeanor that after a couple of months we didn't remember NOT having her in the family! <br>She was great on a leash and we were able to take her in public all the time, since she was fabulous with kids and adults under pretty much an circumstance.<br><br>It took 9 months for us to find her owner, and when we did it was almost 100 miles away from our house which was pretty amazing! Her owners had been frantic and had missed her so much that they already had a new puppy (same breed) at home, having given up hope of ever finding their dog again. Her real name was Daisy, but she was so fun and feisty that I will always remember her as Rouge.<br><br>Summery, the Irish setter is a smart, healthy, well behaved social dog. With minimal health concerns and a petty active attitude they are a great family dog. They do require some maintenance as far as coat and nails, but in the long run they are a fantastic outdoor/indoor dog that the whole family can enjoy!){kind=link}
![](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://rightpet.com/Thumbnail/BreedReviewsPhotos/2052013_2125401401AmphibianBreed_toad2.jpg&media=https://rightpet.com/Thumbnail/BreedReviewsPhotos/2052013_2125401401AmphibianBreed_toad2.jpg&description=My 7 year old son does not want to clean up poop... so a puppy is out. The dilemma... he wants a "cool" pet. I have a strict rule about rodents of any kind, there will be NONE in my house. And birds are out too, I end up cleaning and just think its yucky! <br>SO, perfect solution for a kids bedroom... a fire bellied toad. You can find them at almost any major pet store chain. They are super low maintenance and cost virtually nothing to feed. They have proven in my home to be very hardy little buggers and we have since added 2 more toads to the family.<br>In place of buying a large or heavy aquarium, we just picked out a vented top carrier. Half the price and works great. You can get VERY fancy with a reptile habitat, let me tell you! But I let him pick out some rocks, we got a stone watering dish to use as the "pool" and a skeleton dino head ... VOILA! A fire bellied toad paradise! Of course, then my 5 year old girl needed her own toad. <br>I ended up buying a small vented, plastic carrier and now buy crickets once a week for our 3 toads. Fancy Nancy and Akari are now sharing a habitat, due to a cleaning accident that put them in the cage together for a couple weeks. When we split them up Fancy stopped eating (depressed?) so we got them a little bigger case and a new pink princess castle and they are both getting fatter every day! And we have added our 3rd toad, a brown top fire bellied toad named Camo, who now resides in Akari's old tank. <br>The cricket food cost about 5 dollars a jar (you can use apples and potatoes too, but they tend to drown in the water dishes so the gell food has worked best for us) but lasts for a couple months. <br>All in all, I could not be happier with our choice of starter pets. Fire bellied toads are not pets that you handle, but are very fun to look at. They are busy at night and really go after those crickets which is both cool and gross for kids watching! They are also very easy to maintain and clean up after, although you do have to watch the water levels in there tanks. It has been great to have the kids be responsible for cleaning out the dishes and feeding the toads. I would recommend this as a wonderful starter pet for any family that is tired of the goldfish dish but not quite ready to scoop poop!){kind=link}