What is wrong with people??

[motherchicken]

Well I'm sure nobody's surprised to hear that I've spent thousands on various illnesses and accidents. I guess it's different when you have no kids and the dogs fill up that space.

The hardest decision I've had to make was when my Big guy was incontinent and failing in his rear end, but he was all there upstairs. I decided it was time for him to go when one day he was drinking out of his bucket and peeing out the other end at the same time. No dignity left for him, so I said goodbye. If it was fixable, I would have fixed it. But it still hurts.

I've seen people spend thousands on animals that should have died of old age years before. I thought they were idiots. Until I got my little girl.

[motherchicken]

I hate those humane society commercials where they show all those sad animals. Makes me sad.

[envy_me]

Well I'm sure nobody's surprised to hear that I've spent thousands on various illnesses and accidents. I guess it's different when you have no kids and the dogs fill up that space.

The hardest decision I've had to make was when my Big guy was incontinent and failing in his rear end, but he was all there upstairs. I decided it was time for him to go when one day he was drinking out of his bucket and peeing out the other end at the same time. No dignity left for him, so I said goodbye. If it was fixable, I would have fixed it. But it still hurts.

I don't have kids either. I don't want kids. Never have, never will. Kids are not for me. But I absolutelly adore my pets :-)
Everybody's different. I know a girl who can't wait to have a baby, she says her uterus is crying for a child. I don't think my uterus has even looked at a kid. I just don't want them.

[Angel]

My pets come first, they are my babies. I can go hungry, but not them...

[ZahZoo]

I guess it's perspective... I get the connection people have with pets and I've enjoyed all the varmits I've owned and felt the loss when they pass.

I grew up in a farm environment in the 60's where we raised our own livestock... you care for them properly but there's a certain amount of detachment you have to have when Ole Shorty becomes a ribeye on the plate.

Add to that I'm a parent to 5 kids... so the 4 legged variety fall pretty low on the priority and budget allocations. Sorry if my previous comments were a bit insensitive to pet lovers.

[Sensible Shoes]

Not insensitive - it's just another perspective. I know people think I'm crazy.

[DONNIEP]

I know a girl who can't wait to have a baby, she says her uterus is crying for a child.

And unless she's married she's gonna be crying for some damn child support...

We have two cats. One is 11 and that's been my daughter's constant companion since she was 1. The other we just got last year because she just had to have another and this one was a kitten. We bring it home and the damn thing turned out to be so sick that it was dying. I had to syringe feed this animal every 4 hours - including in the middle of the night. That damn cat was at the vet twice a week for weeks and I spent a fortune on medicine. The vet actually suggested we put it down but I just couldn't do that to my daughter. Fucking cat chewed up two ethernet cables last week...

[envy_me]

Not insensitive - it's just another perspective. I know people think I'm crazy.

I don't think you're crazy, I am just like you.

[envy_me]

And unless she's married she's gonna be crying for some damn child support...

We have two cats. One is 11 and that's been my daughter's constant companion since she was 1. The other we just got last year because she just had to have another and this one was a kitten. We bring it home and the damn thing turned out to be so sick that it was dying. I had to syringe feed this animal every 4 hours - including in the middle of the night. That damn cat was at the vet twice a week for weeks and I spent a fortune on medicine. The vet actually suggested we put it down but I just couldn't do that to my daughter. Fucking cat chewed up two ethernet cables last week...

She's single. But I just can't understand that urge for children.

[DONNIEP]

She's single. But I just can't understand that urge for children.

There's nothing wrong with a single chick having a baby. But she better be loaded 'cause kids are expensive as hell.

[DLR Bridge]

I've got two daughters and a pit bull. Even my oldest girl calls the dog my first born. Pets, kids, it's all the same.

[Dave's Bitch]

She's single. But I just can't understand that urge for children.

I was never a kid person until I had one.Perhaps if the time is right for you some time you will change your opinion

[katina]

My pets come first, they are my babies. I can go hungry, but not them...

I also had to skip some meals time ago

Four years ago I had to cancel an anniversary trip to Las Vegas ....I rescued and helped a cat from the street, it was worthwhile. The cat survived and lives with me from then onwards.

[Angel]

I also had to skip some meals time ago

Four years ago I had to cancel an anniversary trip to Las Vegas ....I rescued and helped a cat from the street, it was worthwhile. The cat survived and lives with me from then onwards.

That's because you're an awesome person, one of the nicest I've met on these boards.