Adding to the family.
My kids want a pet.
We have had our fare share of pets, all of which had the novelty wear off after a day or so and I ended up being slave to them too.
The kamikaze fish, Bit and Bot, that were replaced numerous times and there predecessors hidden in the freezer. Until one day some stupid woman was stalking a fly on the window sill with a can of flyspray….. Well lets say there were no survivors and the kids were not impressed.
The Sea Monkeys that were lovingly tended (by me) for weeks in their deluxe mansion until one day some bright spark (of the male persuasion) decided to take them outside in the sun to warm ‘em up a bit and give them a change of scenery.
On a 40c day. With a lid sporting a MAGNIFYING GLASS still on. ZAP! Goodbye little brine shrimp.
That was the first time I saw Too roll her eyes at her father. She was 3.
The dog that came with the house we bought. Basically we either took the dog or she was to be put down. She was a lovely little thing. Ugly as hell - Jack Russell/Chihuahua cross. Real little lady but thought she was a boy. Cocking her leg to pee.
We ended up having to give her away when we moved because we couldn’t find somewhere to rent that would let us keep the dog and DS. Apparently it is easier to give away a dog……
Yollie the mouse. Stinky horrible disgusting thing that it was. Ewww. My loving mother (you know the one, Mother of the freaking YEAR) bought it for Too. Biatch.
She lasted 3 months until Too decided to take her out to the garage one hot summer day, cause the smell was even getting to HER, without water and in an enclosed plastic cage. I can still hear the screams when she found her pet dead from the heat. She was given a proper send off and Too wore black for a week. It was the start of her Emo stage….
The two guinea pigs that we inherited from a ‘friend’. Her neighbour was going to set them free in the forest so we saved them. Ugly freaking things. They scared the shit out of me, with their creepy red eyes and little tiny feet. *shudder*
But guess who had to look after them? Moi. Unfortunately they have both since died. The first I am unsure what happened, the second looks like it was terrorised by the neighbourhood feral cat and it tried to hide in its food bin, where I believe it suffocated.
So now we are pet-less.
I tried to talk up the value of a pet rock. No mess, no fuss, can dress it up and put makeup on it.
‘But that is why we have a brother’
OK, fair call.
I thought a Green Tree Frog would be good. Small, no shedding, something a bit different.
Until I found out you had to feed it live grasshoppers and get a freaking PERMIT for it.
Any moron can go and have a baby, but I need permission to keep a frog for chris-sakes!
Hermit crabs creep me out.
Snakes and spiders. Well no.
Mice and rats. Been there, done that, never again.
The girls want a cat. I am not fond of cats. I already have 4 people treating me like staff without a furry one too.
Fish. Well just look at my track record with them….
I want a dog. A cute little dog. One of those spadoodle jobbies. No shedding and cute as a button. DS is terrified of dogs. And no one will take him so I can fulfill my wish.
So what to do? I need to find something that doesn’t add to the shit factor around here and doesn’t shed. Three females with long hair have my vacuum working over time as it is. Something to fill the gaping hole in my heart that desperately yearns for another whinging mini me.
Hmmm, you can put a nappy on a monkey….
And it would look eerily like my husband.
So what pet would you suggest?
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7 Responses to “Adding to the family.”
October 21st, 2007 at 8:57 pm
What about a bird? that could work for you. I got one and DS thinks its great. he is always having it on his shoulder, talking and handling it.
October 21st, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Dunno, birds creep me out. I might revisit the cat if I were you. They ARE pretty self-sufficient. And you could get a short-haired breed.
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:46 am
I was scared of dogs when I was little. I was bitten by one when I was two. Mum and Dad got a puppy when I was seven. I was petrified of it for a day, and then my mighty intellect worked out that it was harmless, and I’ve been a dog lover ever since. I even went through a stage of showing and breeding them until I started breeding my own species.
Cats are far easier than dogs. At the moment we have just one dog and two cats. Hands down the cats are less trouble.
Keep in mind that getting a puppy is like getting another baby. For that reason, I never sold puppies to families with kids under 4. I figured the mother had enough to contend with without a second little one in the house. Good luck with it!
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:56 am
Apparently we’re getting a bearded dragon :o\
Anyways, for you, the problem is that all the “hole fillers” shed. Though I think it’s Burmese cats that don’t shed but are also really nice - not so staff-like - will ask hubby when he appears in the house (he and DS10 slept in the backyard in the tent last night, rofl)
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Maybe one of those robot dogs? It’d be hard to kill that thing.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Lisa: Never thought of a bird. Hmm, would have to be a freaking good looking bird though.
Slouching Mom: I am not really a cat person. But those rag doll ones are pretty cute, they sorta lay around looking like a stuffed animal. But I would have to get it desexed immediately cause I am allergic to cat amniotic fluid remember!
Frogdancer: I think it is more because dogs are so unpredictable that they freak Boo out. He likes to look at them from afar though.
Angel: Cool!!!! I had an axelotle (sp?) Mexican walking fish when I was a kid. It was fab! But Boo doesn’t like them.. Let me know how the dragon goes OK?
Stimey: I like the way you think! LMAO Maybe a Robo Homer?
October 23rd, 2007 at 3:36 am
Hehe well cats are really good, even with the fur and well desexing is the way to go even if you are not allergic to their amniotic fluid (how prey tell did you find out you were allergic to that, i dont think thats a standard allergy test ingredient lol).
My current cat has senility problems at age 5 but that is more from post traumatic stress and injury after a 50kg bulldog tried eating her and she ended up losing a leg, shoulder and half her lymph system.
She is long haired and currently shedding madly, however my Harry Potter/Magic fanatic children think this is fantastic and I have to keep fighting them for the excess cat hair which they insist they need to make more polyjuice potion as the last lot didnt have enough fur which is why their father doesnt have whiskers apparently.
Lol i refuse to have potions made here, cause they get old coke bottles, fill them with fingernail clippings, snails, cat hair, leaves and whatever other horrid things they can think of and then leave in dark places to ferment. And I have told them point blank I will not be drinking any of their potions as I have enough trouble just being me, I don’t need the stress of adapting to being half cat or half beetle or whatever their latest potion does.
I also have 2 dogs and they are PITA literally! They howl at EVERY SIREN, they howl when ANY of the other 30 dogs in this neighbourhood howls, the youngest one BARKS AT EVERYTHING and CONSTANTLY escapes the yard by digging new exits on every fenceline and attacking my gate, all so she can steal other peoples rubbish and to sleep on the lounge on my front verandag. The older one only barks when people are near my car or come up the driveway or soemthing is wrong, but he has to spend most of his time on his chain as he digs up trees, plants, every single blade of grass and all because our neighbours are playing with their dogs and not him, or they are in their kitchen cooking and not feeding him or they are sleeping and not paying attention to him (he doesnt give a rats arse what i am doing lol).
So if they werent so good at guarding my car and yard and if the older one wasnt DS DOG (I AM SURE THAT DOG IS AUTISTIC/ADHD, HE BEHAVES EXACTLY LIKE DS DOES!) then they both would have been rehomed long ago and replaced with a gaggle of chooks.
Birds hmm well there are enough of the noisy bastards outside. ok lol I admit I like birds and dont mind the noise, and i feed the maggies several times a day during baby season, but i dont want one inside my house permanently.
We were going to get twop axelotls earlier this year, but the fish place that breeds them havent managed to keep any alive this year, they had six come into the shop and rang me to say they were in, the next morning i get there at opening time to find that world war 10 had gone on during the night and the only survivor of the night wasnt expected to last the day. Since then they had have several other failed batches.
The other pet shop doesnt sell them for the same reasons.
The people at the markets often have them, but they only ever have white ones with red eyes and there is just something about albino axelotls i dont like ( and the fact they are $25 minimum each and so easy to kill).
Hehe you could always adopt another child, cheaper and easier than a pet and the government will give you money to care for it and kids get medicare coverage whereas pets vet bills have no coverage.
Oh and just a thought, why not a chook rather than an inside bird. It could be useful in providing eggs, fertilising gardens etc as well as being a loved pet. Just dont let Boo love/cuddle it to death like i did to my Henny & Penny when i was 4 or 5 yrs old.
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