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It's Wednesday. Do you know where the local real estate agent is? Not spending time with all my blogging friends. She might have forgotten today was her 26th wedding anniversary and scheduled herself to be gone for most of the day and well into the evening. To be fair, I used to be young with a better memory.
This week's prompt for the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge is: Animals I Wish I Could Have as Pets.
Does it make me a bad person if I say none? I love animals, but I have been taking care of animals and people since I was 18. That is 40 years of taking care of everyone and everything else while trying to carve out some time for little ole me. I have already threatened my daughters with being disinherited if they buy me another furry, non-furry, shelled, gilled, or feathered thing after the three pets we have cross over the rainbow bridge. Give me a year of nothing to feed, walk, or clean up after, and I will likely be ready to welcome another pet into the house. When that time comes, maybe it will be another cat or possibly a chinchilla.
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Happy anniversary, Cheryl! And no, it doesn't make you a bad person. It makes you a human. Caring in any capacity can be very exhausting over time. I'm intrigued by the idea of a chinchilla as a pet. I don't know anyone who's had one.
I dog and catside on the side -- they are needy critters!
Happy anniversary! And, yeah, I understand the need to have a break. Caretaking can be hard work whether you’re looking after animal or people.
Happy anniversary! And I hear ya. Emptying yourself for others, furry or not, needs to be balanced with filling yourself up. You can't pour from an empty cup they say ...
Happy Anniversary to you! I get that feeling and we did almost 3 years with no animals in the house (in our case a dog) and I begged my husband for the whole of 2020 to let me get one, and finally he gave in. We now have two dogs, both German Shepherd mixes, so it is like having two additional humans in the house but I love it.
It doesn't make you a bad person to want a break from doing all the caretaking. It may make your family one of those families that seem to do well with the kind of mixed messages and mixed feelings therapists deplore; that's your business. Anyway, many cats love people who leave them alone to do their own thing. If you live in a place where the cat can live mostly outdoors...
Thanks, George. My son's father had a chinchilla. They are really fast, but so soft.
They really are, Stephen.
Thanks, Lydia. Hard to believe how long we have been together.
Thanks. Rudiano. True, not empty cup pouring.
Thanks, Kel. Sounds like you are very happy with your furry beasts. So glad for you.
Cats are so much easier than dogs, Priscilla. I'm not sure we will own another dog. A cat, maybe.
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