Living Without Pets Really is Not Living at All
Pets are therapeutic.
There is nothing like a pet to improve your mood, it does not matter if it is a dog, cat, horse, donkey, pig or elephant.
The fact is that animals give out love and warmth, and one always knows that the affection given out by a pet is not motivated by greed or for that matter lust, it is pure love and affection with no holds barred.
We lost our beautiful Border Collie Tarbra in 2007, and we will never really stop missing and loving her.
In March 2009 we lost our old cat Brando and the house turned into feeling like an empty shell, and yet somehow in a strange way, both Tarbra and Brando are still with us and probably always will be.
I went out into our garden this morning to hang out our washing on the line, and within minutes our neighbours cat Sooty was there brushing up against my leg for a fuss, she does this every time I hang the washing out or go and sit in the garden for any reason, Sooty loves it when it is sunny and I sit out on my garden lounger, she jumps up and climbs all over me, and just loves having her back scratched gently, then she goes to sleep on top of me still purring away like mad.
I love watching Sooty when she plays in the long grass, springing around chasing insects which for some reason she never seems to catch, rolling all over the place ending up on her back brushing herself against my feet and legs waiting for me to rub her tummy giving out little mews of joy, and I do not think anyone could resist patting her, least of all me.
I have had all sorts of pets living in my home over the years, from my pony Ben who I Treated for Arthritis while living in my home, pet lambs, pigs, as well as Donkeys, rabbits, mice, birds, dogs and cats, we even had foul such as a very noisy cockerel called red that my hubby came home with out of the blue one day to prevent him from ending up in a cooking pot.
The funny thing is that although I have no animals of my own right now, I cannot even walk down the street without some-ones pet making a B-line for me, I do not even have to look at a dog for it to start dragging its poor owner towards me, like I was a long lost friend.
One woman who had a rescued dog near and enough accused me of being the horrible owner who had initially dumped the dog, of course I was not but she took some convincing as apparently this dog would not go near anyone normally, but was all over me, as I pointed out to her I obviously had not ill treated her dog or for that matter any animal.
It was because animals can instinctively feel my love for them that many of them automatically came to me for a fuss.
Donkeys are the funniest I can sit in a car by a field of Donkeys and without opening my mouth, in a matter of virtually no time at all the Donkeys make a straight line towards me making a heck of a racket, it is as if they think I am another Donkey in their mist.
Do I love Donkeys, you bet yea, if I had the property and the funds to do so I would have a Donkey sanctuary in a flash! Pets really are therapeutic, we now have a Border Collie Puppy called Foxie, because I cannot survive this life without having animals around me to love and be loved by.
There is nothing like a pet to improve your mood, it does not matter if it is a dog, cat, horse, donkey, pig or elephant.
The fact is that animals give out love and warmth, and one always knows that the affection given out by a pet is not motivated by greed or for that matter lust, it is pure love and affection with no holds barred.
We lost our beautiful Border Collie Tarbra in 2007, and we will never really stop missing and loving her.
In March 2009 we lost our old cat Brando and the house turned into feeling like an empty shell, and yet somehow in a strange way, both Tarbra and Brando are still with us and probably always will be.
I went out into our garden this morning to hang out our washing on the line, and within minutes our neighbours cat Sooty was there brushing up against my leg for a fuss, she does this every time I hang the washing out or go and sit in the garden for any reason, Sooty loves it when it is sunny and I sit out on my garden lounger, she jumps up and climbs all over me, and just loves having her back scratched gently, then she goes to sleep on top of me still purring away like mad.
I love watching Sooty when she plays in the long grass, springing around chasing insects which for some reason she never seems to catch, rolling all over the place ending up on her back brushing herself against my feet and legs waiting for me to rub her tummy giving out little mews of joy, and I do not think anyone could resist patting her, least of all me.
I have had all sorts of pets living in my home over the years, from my pony Ben who I Treated for Arthritis while living in my home, pet lambs, pigs, as well as Donkeys, rabbits, mice, birds, dogs and cats, we even had foul such as a very noisy cockerel called red that my hubby came home with out of the blue one day to prevent him from ending up in a cooking pot.
The funny thing is that although I have no animals of my own right now, I cannot even walk down the street without some-ones pet making a B-line for me, I do not even have to look at a dog for it to start dragging its poor owner towards me, like I was a long lost friend.
One woman who had a rescued dog near and enough accused me of being the horrible owner who had initially dumped the dog, of course I was not but she took some convincing as apparently this dog would not go near anyone normally, but was all over me, as I pointed out to her I obviously had not ill treated her dog or for that matter any animal.
It was because animals can instinctively feel my love for them that many of them automatically came to me for a fuss.
Donkeys are the funniest I can sit in a car by a field of Donkeys and without opening my mouth, in a matter of virtually no time at all the Donkeys make a straight line towards me making a heck of a racket, it is as if they think I am another Donkey in their mist.
Do I love Donkeys, you bet yea, if I had the property and the funds to do so I would have a Donkey sanctuary in a flash! Pets really are therapeutic, we now have a Border Collie Puppy called Foxie, because I cannot survive this life without having animals around me to love and be loved by.
