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Re: Pets

Posted by Noa on February 12, 2002, at 19:12:54

In reply to Re: Pet Rats » christophrejmc, posted by IsoM on February 12, 2002, at 14:43:06

I go back and forth about getting a pet. Sometimes I really want one, other times I worry I wouldn't be able to handle the responsibility. I also think I have some allergies, based on experience being with friends' cats or dogs--but this doesn't always happen--just sometimes.
Sometimes I can't bear the idea of cleaning up after them,etc.

So, in the meantime, I know I shouldn't pursue it unless I feel more sure. It would be unfair to the pet if I really weren't ready to handle it.

I once had a cat when I was much younger. I did ok with him (I had no pet or plant allergies back then, btw) but I lived in a studio apartment and that was hard. Couldn't ever get away from him and he used to get in my bed and "knead" which would wake me up and make me irritated at him. He was needy in general for attention and I started to resent that after a while. I had some friends visiting once with their kids and I saw how happy the cat was with the kids and vice versa that I decided the cat would be better off in a home with kids. I put an ad in the local paper including that the cat loves kids. I got lots of calls, and half of them I had to insist that the kid on the other end of the phone get their parent on the phone. Sometimes it turned out that the parent had no idea the kid had answered the ad and a cat was out of the question. Then I got a call from a very serious 10 year old boy who told me his cat had jumped out of the window and had been hit by a car. He had been without a cat for a few months but he and his dad had decided it was time to look for a new one. He and the Dad showed up the next day and the cat went home with them. They promised to call me with an update about how "tooly" was doing, and they did. "Rocky" had cowered fearfully in the corner of one room in their apartment for a couple of days, and then had begun venturing out to check out the rest of the place and now was king of the castle. I knew I had made a good move.


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