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In Reply to: RE: You have my thoughts and prayers posted by JoshT on April 26, 2015 at 10:53:52
Yeah, this thread has been a real tear-jerker for me, too.
Glad to read how much love you had with your extended 'family' as a kid. And family they surely are.
I don't think I'll ever have another animal. Once our Maggie passed (December 27th, 2012), I have just not wanted another cat or dog. It is like with a child. You can never replace them. But when I read about others, such as yourself, who adopt new furry family members, and the renewed love and joy they bring, I pause. But sadly, I am allergic to cats. Maggie was a Norwegian Forest Cat, utterly enormous, and filled with love. Best of all, I was not allergic to her very much. But my doctor indicated that with my advanced years, maybe it was time to stop stressing my system. And my wife is allergic to dogs. But at least we have one another.
I am very happy to read you and your wife have found new furry friends to share your life with. Don't worry about the inevitable, just live in and for the moment. Hell, I almost lost my life to a very bad malignant melanoma in 2011, and the doctors still cannot believe how lucky I was. I get checked for it frequently, every year, and it hasn't recurred anywhere else, thankfully. But worrying about when your animals may be called away by fate is not something you should put any energy into, as you never know, they may out-live you! (God forbid, of course!)
So enjoy them while they are here and 'take therefore no thought to the morrow'. For none of us know how long our life's thread is, and the Three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos) are always very, very busy.......
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Maggie sounds like a great cat and wonderful companion with a strong personality!
If you decide you'd like a pet someday, you might consider a small Poodle or Poodle mix. They do not shed and are hypoallergenic. My wife is allergic to cats, which is why we went down this path. The boy is a Toy Poodle with a very unusual coat - it's gray/silver, but he has a white stripe going from his chin all the way across his chest, and the hair is wavy rather than curly. The girl is a Toy Poodle Maltese mix, and jet black, which is unusual. She loves to run across the dog park and then leap into my lap from about 10 feet away, which often draws applause for the other dog owners. They are small and adorable, but they are real dogs with strong personalities.
I was never particularly fond of very small dogs, or Poodles for that matter, but it took me all of 10 minutes to fall in love with both of ours. We were at a foster home to pick one and ended up leaving with both because they had clearly bonded as a couple among the other dogs that they both ignored and we couldn't take one and not the other.
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The one problem for us is that we are Americans living in New Zealand. We might decide to split time 60-40 between the NZ and US, but dogs/cats MUST undergo a VERY difficult full quarantine (visits only twice a week, for VERY limited time frames) for 30 days each and every time they come back to NZ. The cost is astronomical, both in dollars and in wear and tear on the animal.
So, no, no more pets for us, at least for the foreseeable future.
Thank you for the kind advice, though.
Cheers!
WS
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