Animal Friends
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Let's talk about animals today!
1. What pets do you have or have you had? Do you have any now or if not, why not?
I was always a kitty cat girl! I had a beautiful white kitten as a young girl, but our neighbor boys killed her! They were older and, of course, not very nice!!!
My first boyfriend, Barry, gave me a white kitten that we together named James Bond because he took me to 3 Bond movies! We loved 007!
When we adopted our daughter I wanted her to enjoy having a cat so we bought her a cute yellow stripe kitten. She named him Cougar.. We called him Coogie! We had him for quite some time.. he got so he was a nuisance in the house and as an outside cat he was trouble. Even though he was neutered he just was never a compliant cat. He was very territorial and one day he disappeared and we were glad we didn't even know what happened to him. Sounds grizzly, but our daughter was about to go to college; we just praised God we had had him, at all.
2. How did you find names for your animal friends? What are their names?Well, the first little kitten I had was named Snowball. I have responded about the others.
3. Any special or funny story concerning pets you would like to share? It could be someone else's as well as your own. Well, I loved Seany whom I affectionally called James Bond. But one day when I was home of college break he disappeared. He was gone for over a month. One day dad called my mom at work and I was working at the store. too, Mom came over to my department and said you need to go home.! I asked why and she just said.“ go home now! “ So I walked the 3 blocks home wondering what in the world.... what I got home dad was on the porch and he motioned for me to quickly come up there with him. He pointed down under our car. and there was Seany. Timidly, when I called him he stepped out from under the car and started up the walk to me. I walked ever closer to him gently calling his name and then he ran up into my arms. Dad said he had been working in the flower bed pulling some weeds and had seem the cat standing in the road looking up at our house. He called his name and he ran under dad's car, and wouldn't come out. so he called for me to come home. By all accounting he must have been stolen and left off somewhere. who knows where. ... and had found his way back home. His paws evidenced that he had walked a long way and he was much thinner. We gently cared for him ....tenderly for the next couple of weeks and got him back into a good state. and he was fine until my parents sold out home and moved up to my grandmother's home to live while their new home was being built next door. Seany was kept in the basement all the time until that one day he ran outside and never came back. I had gotten married and was living in Germany. When I returned from Germany a year later I was upset that he was gone. but I did see him run across the hills there in the countryside... he had become feral and was happy as a lark. We often saw younger white cats dot across the hills. You see, my dad refused to spend money on neutering him .. That just wasn't done in his day and being a country boy himself.. it was a moot point! I just know though that in the country, Seany was one happy fella! I mean he was named after James Bond after all!
4. What benefit do you find having animals in your family? What are the cons of having them?For us I loved having pets.. as long as I was there to care for them.. but both my parents were originally farm folks and animals were meant to help on the farm and once they were no use to the farm they were killed. I mean my grandma would put a sack of kittens in a sack and throw them in the pond.. or grandpa shot dogs that sucked eggs. Ok that was the fa rm culture of the first half of the 19th century!. MY parents were more lenient because we lived in the city, but they refused to neuter our cat and were just took on any new litters that showed up around the house!. It was my generation who took our cat to regular vet visits and took them places for safe harbor while we were on vacation!. It was expensive and my husband thought it quite a nuisance at times. so all I can say is times are so different now. MY friends with dogs take their pets to the Virginia Tech Vet school for eye exams, or dental work, I mean they spend thousands on their pets health issues. It seems a bit odd to me, which make me feel I must really be a bum about pets.. But for these reasons we just don't want the problems or expense of having a pet!
I really enjoyed your answers and could relate to much of what you said especially about the different times today. Today pets are treated like children or even better!
ReplyDeleteInteresting stories...and I understand about how you were raised. My parents were farm folks originally too, and my mother would never allow a pet in the house, dog or cat. So I was never really comfortable with a pet in the house either. We tried with dogs a couple of times, but our lifestyle in the ministry meant we moved a lot and we were busy so much that it just wasn't reasonable to have pets. Now we enjoy our two grandpups and let our son and DIL take care of all the expense, etc. That seems to work well for us and the pups love to come visit Grandma and Grandpa! LOL.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your answers. Pet are a lot of work but give so much.
ReplyDeleteWe have spent money on our pets, but they are like our kids and we do what we can do. We never owned cats because of allergies. Was your daughter a baby when you adopted her? We adopted too.
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