I can't pick one. I have several cats and a very big dog and have had many pets over the years...but when I'm out on the trails, I come across so many animals and birds and fowl and I adore them all. It's too hard to pinpoint any one...plus so many I've not seen in person. Same as I can't single out one certain flower or tree as my favorite.

Ducks and cats. I've raised a duckling when I was a kid, he was so cute. A little yellow blob that followed me everywhere and quacked when I walked trough the garden, to make sure I wouldn't leave the poor thing like any human child does as well at certain age.
He was always so happy when he could swim in his little bath tub we made for him and his brother (my parents and me raised two but one was a bit clingy to me). I loved the little guy so much, even made a little house for him and his brother out of lego outside haha.
Sadly my parents traded them with people...nothing I could do about it but they must've felt betrayed. Cried my eyes out.

But I will never forget my little beastie.
Cats I like because i've been raised with them and many other animals, all playing together in harmony, even dogs. They never attacked the ducklings or guinea pigs either. Mutual respect!

That's it :)

Oh I Love ducks! I always look forward to when the migratory ducks fly to Texas and set up their Winter home/nests at the lake (I live on lakefront property)...They are so cute and fun to watch when they waddle on dry land...Heehee...I love hearing them talk (quack)... *quack quack!* :tongue:

I also love cats! :D

The more I think about it the more it's dog....:D

Cats, wolves and birds are my favorites overall.

I love the goofy, nocturnal, dumpster-diving creatures like possums, raccoons and rats. (I feel a special affinity with them, no idea why) Possums are so smart and sweet! And raccoons are fascinating socially.

Also ALL birds. EVERY BIRD. Especially vultures and corvids. And African grey parrots! And Indian ringnecks and cockatoos.. (Though I want to weep every time I think of the enormous number of birds who are mistreated and neglected due to the general public ignorance about their needs.. They're extremely social, needy and emotional animals.)

And beavers and ducks and burrowing owls! And giraffes. ALSO, COWS. I ADORE COWS. They, too are very sweet, and gentle and curious. Oh and donkeys! Donkeys have such lively personalities.

I love seahorses.. Used to have a seahorse cameo necklace. (there was a real, dead seahorse inside! It was very pretty) I would love to have a pet pufferfish, somehow.

@Somnia
Lakefront house..sweet! Do you live in the woods or something? I envy that, my Elysium.

@Unseelie
Seahorses, good! I'm a capricorn so I like to heart hat

@ Naga - I live in a lakefront community, so not exactly deep woods but there are a lot of trees around...I enjoy living in the rural countryside...city living feels stiffing/suffocating to me because of the close proximity of other houses/buildings/etc...I do have neighbors but they are a few acres away from my home (plus heaps of trees in between the houses) so it's good breathing room...

Also interesting sync in you say it's your Elysium and I'm listening to a song by Kamelot called "Veil of Elysium" (song here!)

Yet you've strayed so far from home....

it's hard to point people in the right direction when all that's left is right.

Oh? Interesting...Where do you perceive my home to be I wonder? Curious...Curious...

@Somnia
It was more of a fun riddle I impulsively concocted. We have all strayed far from home, in this time I feel every wrong direction has been taken so all that's left is the road home (the right road).

(Great(!) band by the way, i've listened to them a lot!)