How Do YOU feel about our pets?

Question

I have always loved animals of all types. I have a cat and love him dearly for his unconditional love yet his penchant for humans having to
EARN that love! lol

I find as I get older that my furry roomies are even more important to me than when I was younger! How about you?

My Tony is having a bad day....I awakened this a.m. to him hunched as he walked and his rear was encrusted with the results of loose bowels. I cleaned him with water spray [which to my surprise he didn't resist]. This evening he has a good appetite and is drinking water and is talking to me and is not ' hiding' as animals do when they get ill...but I am worried. If he doesn't improve by tomorrow I will take him in to the doc....This little guy [20 lbs Maine Coon] is my HEART and I can't imagine a day without him!

Share your pet stories with me, please :-)

Gosh I love you all so much - it is SO nice to be able to share stuff like this...thank you thank you

I get all my pets from the Washington Animal Rescue League....and have had wonderful roomies from there...I love that organization as they do not euthunize unless health calls for it.

I got Tony when he was 3 and the Director of WARL urged me to readopt after my beloved Romeo, a sealpoint Himmy suddently died with end state renal disease. All my children have pets from WARL too. I have loved them all, but Tony has been special as his personality is SO like mine...fiercely independent but a mush pot at heart!

Answer 1

I sure hope Tony is okay,sage...you're right,my furry friends are even more important to me now that I am older.I lost my best buddy,Mr Bean, in 2004. He was the best dog I ever knew...and the biggest,English mastiff-235 lbs-and still thought he was sposed to be a lap dog. I still have my darling Miss Lucy,a 12 year old grey calico. She has see lots of humans come and go; consequently she has become aware of her own importance, and tells me about it every day. I don't know how I will get along if she goes before me.My sister Pete will take her if I go first;Pete's been trying to get Lucy to go live with her for years!

edit: Lucy was adopted from the humane society where I had worked - I went to get A cat, but she was there in a cage with her littermate, a male...can you guess what his name became?

Ricky!
He was a love, but alas, a great deal more adventurous than his sister. He got out and was hit by a car years ago. I couldn't keep him inside, he would push screens out to escape!

Answer 2

Your pets look to have particularly some wellbeing issues... (via how, 11 and 15 is fairly sturdy for Goldens, so experience fortunate). a approach or the different i unquestionably do not think of he's going to be too loopy approximately having his nostril bumped off... yet nevertheless, might he particularly be lifeless? positioned your self in his footwear. which might you particularly in case you have been in his place? according to hazard as quickly because it warms up, your woman would be in much less soreness. It actual is sensible to not provide up and to make certain if there are different innovations for her: she's not in this way of serious situation. Euthanization isn't something to commence leaping to. it is going for use because of the fact the veeeeeery final motel. in case you rather can not arise with the money for the therapy, see in case you may get a private loan someplace. Or negotiate words with the vet. finally, get a 2nd opinion. even in the adventure that your vet would not seem to be an fool, a 2nd opinion would not harm. yet another vet could understand of a extra value effective therapy. i've got had vets not understand approximately or furnish a particular therapy that contained in the tip replaced into the only needed. sturdy luck!

Answer 3

I don't what I'd do without my sweet and funny cats, Lord Nelson and Lady Grace. I lost my sweet little Olive during that pet food fiasco and I'm convinced that her rapid development and demise due to polycystic kidney disease was a result of her food. These two "new" little kitties came into our life about 6 months after we had to put Olive down and we are both convinence that Olive had a paw in getting us back into the local animal shelter and introducing us to Nelson and Gracie. I don't know how people live without pet companionship. Hope your Tony is well on the mend by now and that it was nothing more than a hairball...BTW, I love Maine Coon cats...Lord Nelson is part Maine Coon. (Gracie is a Mau.)

Answer 4

I went to the animal shelter 8 1/2 years ago to get a dog, and while standing there two sets of tiny paws reached out of a cage and started swatting me. I looked and two tiny kittens were there and the people working there said they were going to be put to sleep the next day, so i had to take them home. Best decision i've ever made. I have a silver tabby and a petite grey and white cat, both females. I would be lost without them. The grey one can open every cabinet and drawer in the house. She actually stands on her back legs and uses her front paws to wrap around the knobs and will walk backwards to open everything. The silver one has the biggest eyes i have ever seen on any animal, and are both like velcro. They follow me everywhere and fight over who lays on my lap, and when i go to bed ,so do they right along with me.

Answer 5

I have a dawg that I got from a rescue center. She was a misguided teen, and her puppies were also at the center (they were all adopted). After she put on alittle wieght after a litttle surgery and postnatal depression, she got somewhat into the program and we were quite concerned with her shyness. That was 3 yrs ago, today she's like having a kid in the house again. She frolics and cavorts and teases, she "talks" when she's hungry, thirsty or ready for a stroll. Think she even talks at times just to hear herself bark. Foxy snores and chases rabbits in her sleep beside my bed. Dawgs, especially rescued Dawgs are a Godsend (literally)

Answer 6

I hope your little guy is better soon, I know it's very upsetting when they are sick. I really love my pets too and they make my life so much better. They're all rescued and are spayed or neutered. I have 6 cats and 1 dog. There are 2 others that like to 'hang out' at my house also. I have 3 grandcats and 2 granddogs, who love for grruurrma to come visit. lol

Answer 7

Gee I hope Tony will be okay. As I have mentioned on this forum before, my baby girl (14 years) took ill this year and I had to put her to sleep in July. I really miss her and I find myself talking to her as if she were here. I even got misty when I found her toy fish (with catnip) that she loved to play with. I hope to get another kitty, hopefully next year. Maine Coons are beautiful cats! Pet Tony and give him a scratch behind the ear for me.

Answer 8

My dog has become my child! When I had her spayed I made her a special bed and would lay down on the floor with her. My daughter saw me doing this and got a bit upset with me. She remarked that I loved the dog more than her! Well..... maybe! I recently lost one of my little singers. She lived with us for about 15 years. One day she just went into her little nest and went to sleep. I called my husband when I saw her and he took her out of her nest. I found a pretty box to put her in. My husband dug a hole and we put her in the hole, put a flower on top of the box and then covered it up. There is a pretty rock on top of her grave now. I cried. I will admit that my husband and I will be heartbroken when we loose our dog. She is such a big part of our lives, and we spoil her rotten!

I do hope that your Tony will be well.

Answer 9

We love, love, LOVE all our pets! In the days before kids, hubby and I were foster parents for several homeless cats and dogs through a local group. Then, we became foster parents to children, and ended up adopting three of them! Now the kids are older (11, 16 and 18), and we have been again doing foster care for dogs. I guess you could say we've come full circle! Last winter we had 6 at once, including our own 2! Most of our babies have been rescues. Personally, I think rescues make better pets, and never forget what you've done for them. We currently have 3 cats: Sammy, who thinks I'm his mommy - HAS to sleep with me at night, but before he settles down in my arms, he gets on my pillow and knits in my hair. Junior was a cat abandoned by a neighbor. He wants everyone to think he's this big tough guy, but looks for opportunities to be alone with me so he can purr and love me. Toby arrived this past spring, a tiny little ball of fur who was scared of everything. He was one of a big litter born to a barn cat. As I type this, he's lying next to the computer, pretending to be asleep, but keeps looking up at me, purring, with love in his eyes. Guess he's not so scared anymore! Our dogs are both Shih Tzu's, both rescues. Lily was one of several dogs abandoned at a shelter in Vermont by their owner who simply tired of them. She is a love, who has totally and completely attached herself to my husband. If he's around, no one else in the world matters to her, and she'll do anything just to be with him. Andrew was a 9-month old puppy who was abandoned on the side of the road in North Carolina. He's the sweetest boy, who is also very smart! Then there's Reese's and Snickers, our 2 guinea pigs. Their cage is in our dining room, and they get tons of attention from everyone. Toby also loves to go sit by their cage! Every time we open the produce drawer in the fridge they squeak, thinking they're going to get some veggies. We also have 24 laying hens who are very friendly. They're outside during they day when we're home, and will come when I call. It's great having fresh eggs! We sell some, but give away more than we sell.

Answer 10

that's funny you should ask that today as when i went to town i saw a poor little dog who had been run over,and the dog was a spiting image of my little best friend who i lost this February.i had tears in my eyes as i saw the poor little thing.i miss my little dog so much,i still cry a lot.but i do have 1 cat left and she is a doll,but i am afraid of what i see coming up on her chin,it does look like cancer.i pray that it isn't.i use to not think much of a run over animal or if my pets ran away,but age has made me a old softie.take care of your furry friends,i believe one day we will be reunited in a better place.