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Family Pet Photos
Yesterday’s Livestream seeing the rescue pigeon Trudy and all the animal videos in the funnies posts made me think of posting pet pictures. Pets often become a very large part of the family, and many times they even get presents at Christmas time from friends.
We have two cats in our house, and have had many feline residents in our 42 years together. We have had a couple dogs, but being studious workers and career types, dogs didn’t fit well with our absentee lifestyle. We did have two cockatiels for a few years which were lots of fun (but a huge amount of work), and even had a pet tarantula for about 15 years. Yes, 15 years! I called her Carla, and she was roughly the size of my hand, a dark brown (hairy of course) with red and white leg bands. So at one time in our marriage, we had 2 birds, a dog, two cats and a spider living under our roof, all in a 14’x66′ mobile home; the dog was a mongrel breed and did spend most of the time outdoors so seldom in the house. Good thing most likely.
So the birds eventually went to an aunt that had 3 young children, the dog we gave away to someone that had children to occupy him with affection all day long, and the spider eventually died and we became cat only folk. Usually in pairs so they had company, total of 9 cats since we got married. We eventually built the house we are in now, and still have two cats. One fluffy adorable Ragdoll (Loki) and a somewhat precocious Maine Coon (Sumo), both neutered males and they are inseparable pals. Of course, there were some “growing pains when they were little, as siblings will often experience. But things are never totally serene and calm in the house, and the ensuing feline rodeos can be anywhere from hilariously entertaining to outright terrorizing. But we love them to bits even if they knock stuff over in their races, and leave tufts of fur all over the floor.
So if you are a pet owner/lover, please share your fur souls photos.
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