Well my oldest daughter brought a dog home from the animal rescue without asking. When she left I inherited him. He was a Terrier Mix. "Scruffy"
When my step-father passed I inherited his two dogs. Here is one of them. Part Shih Tzu. "Dusty" passed away in my arms in 2008 having a seizure. I don't have a picture of the other one on this computer but she was Doxi & Yorki mix. She "Missy" died before "Dusty" underneath my computer desk while I was on the computer. It was so unexpected as we had the two of them at the groomers that day and she had the cutest pink bow in her hair.
Then when my father passed away I inherited his dog. Sweet "Misty." Not to be confused with "Missy" "Misty" passed in 2014 after suffering a heart attack at the vets as they were handing her back to me. They grabbed her out of my arms and revived her but after a couple of days I had to make the decision to have her put to sleep as she couldn't live without oxygen. That is when I made the decision I didn't want anymore pets. It is just to difficult to go through this. Although if I got one now it would probably outlive me. But then someone else would have to take care of it. 
The last cats I had was in 2006. We were in the process of having my current house built and our other house was sold so we had to live at my youngest daughter's house for about 5 months. My older daughter took my two cats. One was "Rico" and when she put him out potty he ran away. I think I saw him dead on the freeway trying to get back to our/his old house. He was an older cat and I inherited him from my side neighbors as he didn't like it there anymore. No picture of him. This cat pictured, was named "Blue" for his beautiful blue eyes. We just let my daughter keep him because I didn't want to up-root him again. I inherited him as a kitten from the back door neighbors as he liked my house better. 
