Class Pets

[Chronos314_XD]

I only had 1 teacher that had a class pet and it was probably like my first grade or kindergarten teacher, it was just a couple fish. One day during class they all died and we watched the teacher throw the bodies away in the trash lmao.

 

[Beanz]

in kindergarten my class got a pet fish, the teachers wanted everyone to make up/choose a name for it. i specifically remember wanting to name the fish “grape” and everyone looked at me funny lmao

also another time we raised caterpillars to learn about their lifecycle. after they turned into butterflies we released them at our school’s backyard.

 

[Suguri]

I remember this one elementary school class I was in had a small fish tank with a betta in it. I don't remember its name, but what I do remember was that it was probably named after a Spongebob character.

I never had any classes with pets until my sophomore year. My history teacher at the time kept a snake, and she let me hold it when I needed a little sensory stimulation. The snake doesn't mind, and it hasn't bitten me before.

More recently, in my science class, there was a bigger fish tank in the back and it held three fish.

I would also like to mention that I know of this one teacher who brought his pet rabbit to school. I saw him walking and holding the rabbit's cage when I was waiting to be picked up by my parents.

 

[Halloqueen]

I don't think there were any class pets throughout all my years of schooling. I don't recall any, at least. Kind of a shame, as it's kind of a cute idea.

 

[Tude]

We had a gecko one year and a bird a different year.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

My fourth grade classroom had a hamster and we got a pet hedgehog in the middle of the year from one of my classmates whose family liked having exotic pets and teaching kids about these animals. When I say exotic, I mean turtles, hedgehogs, and a flying squirrel. Basically animals that you don’t often see as pets and require a specialized doctor but nothing extremely dangerous like a tiger or endangered. Well the teacher was keeping our new class pet in her house when it actually escaped from the cage she had it in and so for a week she was searching her entire house for an escaped hedgehog. She did find it and we had a new pet in the classroom. I forgot what we named her but I remember that we were to write down suggestions for names and we voted for the name we liked best. The kid we got the hedgehog was very interesting to talk to because of all the animals his family had and they had three adult hedgehogs that were named Hocus, Poke-kiss, and Magic.

In the first grade, I remember one of the classrooms for the grade had this aquarium full of water with no fish in it and I asked the teacher where the fish were and she replied, “They kicked the bucket.” I had never heard of that phrase before and didn’t know it meant that they had died and thought that the fish were literally kicking a bucket so I asked her, “How can they kick the bucket if they have no feet?” The teacher laughed because of how I said it and explained that the fish had died which I then understood.

 

[Doo]

Never had a class pet but a few high school teachers had fish in their classrooms

 

[AccfSally]

One of my elementary school teachers' had a hamster. I forgot what the little ham-ham's name was. But she used to put the little hammy in a hamster ball and it roll around on the floor while we were in the middle of doing work sometimes.

 

[KittenNoir]

I think that would of been cool to have a class pet but no none of the schools I went to never had a class pet I think its mostly the county I am in doesn't to that.

 

[-Raven-]

question: how many people who had these lived outside of america? i feel like this is a nonexistent thing in aus. granted for one year our teacher kept their pet galah in class, but i wouldn't really say that was a class pet. it was just her pet and she decided to keep it there while teaching.

 

[Kamex]

In second grade, my teacher made us keep crickets as class pets. Then when I was a third grader, we raised caterpillars until they became butterflies and then we released them. Also, we raised baby chicks in incubators and even got to hold them in our hands.

 

[q9q]

A science teacher I had in high school had both a snake left by a previous science teacher as well as a rabbit. I always felt kind of bad for the rabbit, I don't think a small cage in a noisy classroom was good for him :( I don't think the snake's enclosure was quite big enough either.

Also I think in first grade we had a hamster or guinea pig or something? I remember the teacher asking us to suggest gender-neutral names since we didn't know which it was.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

My fifth grade homeroom had two fish as part of the classroom. The teacher had gotten them from another teacher that had just retired and they were the koi type goldfish. The one was really pretty and had the classic orange and black pattern. The other was also very nice looking and was white and black. They had no names and were just part of the scenery.

In preschool, there was a hamster, a couple of fish, and a guinea pig that were class pets at various times but they all died. I think the guinea pig went first and I remember the fish being one of the last pets I saw before I graduated from kindergarten at that preschool and went to elementary school. The hamster was in between the age of four and five and all I know is that it was there one day and suddenly gone the next.

 

[toxapex]

My school did the "hatch and raise chicks" thing in Kindergarten too. When (and maybe before?) they hatched, I think each kid (or maybe just certain kids who volunteered?) got to take them home to watch them. Really cool as a kid, though probably a terrible headache for the parents LOL.