Re: Animals/pets do you own any?
^ lol
you've obviously never owned one! the reality is vastly different. before i wanted to have kids, that's very much how i thought about them hahaha :p
but having spent lots of time with my bff's little ones, i now know differently, of course. my point is, you should try spending time with someone who has pets- you'd be surprised.
Lol! You know you can actually train pets so they don’t make a mess here & there.
Also the fish tank part. Proper filtration would only require water changes every 2-3 weeks. I have turtles & they are the messiest things ever. I only need to change their water every 5-7 days.
Re: Animals/pets do you own any?
A pet is no messier than an infant and many times, they are actually more self-sufficient. They have animals come in to pediatric wards because they raise the spirits of the children and its proven that they heal better and faster. They use horses to overcome autism and other social-deficit troubles (just google "hippotherapy").
Sure, most pets will have the accident or two. So you steam clean it just as you would clean up after an infants puke or dirty-diaper-throwing tantrum.
I know and realize that this is a concept foreign tomany desis but an animal can really be "man's best friend" and a real member of the family. My pets are. I never orget that they are, in fact, animals. So we watch and are aware. But the rewards of having a pet ar, far outweigh any inconvenience that they have ever caused.
Re: Animals/pets do you own any?
This is our Coco with his Lion Cut:
This is how Coco sleeps with Noor:
If he could he would sleep right on top of her. Unfortunately for him she just won’t tolerate him in bed. The minute she gets too warm she will push him off poor guy…
you declawed him??? i'm sad :*( muzna, why didn't you guys just trim his nails or get him a scratching post? you know declawing him means removing the last joint of his toes, right? its basically mutilation... its probably also why he's so gentle now - it messes with cats' heads too since not having claws and not scratching is the opposite of their instinctive behaviour and they kind of go loopy once that is removed entirely.
sorry, i'm not picking a fight- i'm just really anti-declawing in cats and i'm wondering why you would choose something so extreme....?
awww...so sweet.....you are very similar to me sgc......I really didn't like the idea but after getting him four different kinds of scratching posts, covering most of our upholstery with double-sided tape, trying to trim myself and having him groomed numerous times in the short few months after we brought him home, a consult with the vet determined that this was the best process not only for us as the adoptive family but also for Coco.
Putting him through the forced trimming repeatedly was making him more and more aggressive because he was fighting it. His fur was constantly matted as he wouldn't let us get close enough and being the long-haired breed this was also unacceptable.
He is gentle by nature.....he was when we got him......so that has not changed.....he just loves us more cuz we don't constantly reprimand him for scratching us and the furniture and draperies. And we are less scared to handle him and have him around any babies that visit.
I've had many, many cats during my years and trust me, I would never do anything that I thought was painful or unfair to them. The reason we had him declawed at the same time that he was neutered was that I didn't want to put him through the anesthesia twice. I actually think that it is unfair to yell/hit the animal (as some folks do) for doing what is only instinct to them (i.e. scratching).