The pets of Whitman
May 8, 2020
Owner: Toyona Howard
Name: Bleu
Nickname: Lil’ Beta
Age: Adult
Length of Companionship: October 2019
Favorite Treat: Blood worms
Fun Memory: Any time Toyona gets near the top of the tank, where she feeds Bleu from, he gets really excited.
Hobbies: Hangs out at the top of the tank.
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Owner: Gil Pope
Name: Pepperoni (an iridescent chelicerae spider)
Nicknames: Pep-pep, pep
Age: Got them at 3-4 weeks, about 9 months old.
Length of Companionship: 9-10 months. Gil found them on their gate and put them in a jar.
Favorite Treat: Loves moths, but is not a fan of mealworms.
Fun Memory: Watching them hunt and clean by folding in its legs; if you walk around the room, they’ll turn around to follow you.
Advice: If you’re going to a spider, get a jumping spider because they’re the cutest type.
Owner: Maddie
Name: Tobi
Nicknames: Toberlone, Tobias, Demon, Tober, Trash Baby, October
Age: 1.5 years
Length of Companionship: 1.5 years
Favorite Treat: Freshly cut mangoes, any food really, hates broccoli.
Tricks: Can walk on a leash and fetch hair ties.
Fun Memory: Maddie let him smell an alcohol wipe and he made a silly face. Tobi loves to take selfies and pose for photoshoots. Maddie slept in the car with him. If he’s in a playful mood, he’ll jump up like a jack in the box. Tobi also likes to lick shower walls and sit in laundry hampers and jump out of them. Maddie says that “he will forever be the mascot of the greenhouse and of our lives.” Tobi also got a bow tie for Christmas and has a sweatshirt that he likes to sleep in.
Owner: Casey Doe
Name: Goober (previously Bubba), goofy idiot who can’t be taken seriously
Nicknames: N/A
Age: 3-4 years
Length of Companionship: 1 year
Favorite Treat: Anything. He doesn’t care about catnip.
Fun Memory: He likes to be outside; sometimes Casey would look outside and he would just somehow be outside. Goober has a shiny zebra print collar with a bell on it. He used to be beat up by the other cat.
Hobbies: Goober falls off of furniture a lot and rubs himself on furniture.
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