by O.Supreme » Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:13 pm
Yeah my wife came with a cat (Brooklyn) we had until I had to put her down at 15 because of kidney failure (I had to take her to the vet because my wife couldn't). We wanted to be pet free for a while, a couple years would have been nice, but in early 2013 (after only being without a pet for about 5 months), some REALLY REALLY stupid family member made a joke about my daughter, who was 8 at the time, which started a chain of events which cold have been a really bad disorder. Fortunately we acted immediately to correct the situation ,and part of that was to give my daughter some additional responsibility through pet ownership, and also act as a distraction. Its funny to think that was almost 5 years ago now. My daughter doesn't even understand why she was so upset, but thankfully its all in the past. We have a good loyal pet, and he should live a good long life as long as the kids continue to care for him.
Also, I know this could cause this thread to tumble out of control, but what your opinions on *comfort* animals? Not to be confused with service animals. I mean if an animal is performing an actual service, that is amazing and wonderful, more power to you. It's just that I see so many people walking around in stores with comfort animals, and I don't really understand the reason for it. I mean unless you are at PetSmart or another store that has a posted policy for allowing pets, they should not be permitted IMHO. I mean when I see dogs in purses at Target or Wal Mart its a little upsetting. But I've seen pets in restaurants recently, and I'll turn right around and walk out. I've done it probably 3 times in the past 6 months. I read a ton of articles about stupid things like
"Woman kicked off flight because her comfort Pig was now allowed on".....and I just wonder, what peoples thought process is on this. If anyone here has a comfort animal, I mean no offense, its just I was always taught, you cant always have everything the way you want it. I've missed films at times, because I could not get a babysitter when our kids were little, I'm not going to take my screaming baby to the movies and ruin it for everyone else. same with the flights. If I knew I could not fly without my Dog, Cat, Goldfish, Hamster...whatever...then guess what? I would not be flying on an airplane. Id want to get myself well enough so I would not need such things.
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