Are your co-workers animal people?

[Pam]

I am fortunate that I work in an office where everyone (except one person) has a dog/dogs. There are two cockers, one labby, one sheltie, one mutt and my two poodles represented there. These folks do not think I am crazy at all because their dogs are truly their children as mine are. It is not at all uncommon to have a conversation during lunch about our dogs. Some of us have even brought them into the office on days when the boss is out so that everyone can meet them in person! Thank goodness there are no surveillance cameras because the boss is not an animal fan.

How about you? Do you work with *animal friendly* people?

[Samantha Puppy]

One or two of them are animal-friendly, though not to the extent I am. My boss had two cats until one disappeared. She was sad about it and misses him but never bothered to go looking for him or put up flyers around her neighborhood. Another guy has a dog but he's really REALLY quiet so we don't ever talk about them.

Mostly, my coworkers think I'm nuts for making myself as available for my animals as I do. They don't get that they can't spring late hours on me because I need to make sure Samantha has arrangements to go outside and she and the kitties all need to be fed (schedules are important!).

So it's not like they hate animals but they definitely don't "get" me - and animals aren't the only way they don't "get" me. I can't wait to leave this place.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Unfortunately my lot haven't got a clue

They laugh at me for "naming" the baby seagulls on the roof opposite and have no idea why seeing the fox yesterday was so exciting. Thank God I found you guys

[JenBKR]

Oh yes, almost everyone at my work loves animals. There is only one person that has no pets, one of the bosses. My other boss owns a farm and has lots of horses, cats, and dogs. That's why I like it so much here!

[dukedogsmom]

Jen, you're lucky. I only have a small few like that at my work. One girl couldn't believe I had gotten things for a dog party. Most of mine are just kid people.

[cloverfdx]

Well my boss bred Elvis so...... yep . They have 2 working Border Collies and about 6 or so Minaiture Fox Terriers, plus the 1000 + sheep .

[Kfamr]

Yep! Everyone there loves animals.

We're constantly talking about our dogs and pets. Whenever I chop carrots I save the end pieces for my one co-worker's bunnies.

Everyone gets to excited when I bring in pictures of my three. Sometimes they call me by one of the dog's names :P Simba being the most frequent. My boss pretends to have a relationship with Simba, the other day I left cookies on his desk and cut a piece of paper into a heart and wrote that it was from Simba. He came out and asked if there were anymore Simba snackies left. :P

I guess you may have to be a part of our crew to fully understand our silliness but they are so much fun. There's not one day that we're talking about our animals. We bring in milkbones to give out to the drive-thru customers and whenever there's a pup whoever's working the drive-thru calls us up there.

One day we let a lady bring her bloodhound inside the entrance area because he was so hot and the lady had walked up there with him. We gave them both water and my one co-worker drove them back home.

We have rabbits, kitties, dogs, fish, everything.

Here's Trent, one of my boss' dogs.


And my co-worker's Brandy

[catnapper]

Yes! I love it! My boss is a huge cat person, though she only has one cat (Murcie would not appreciate a brother at this point - he's 17 years old and set him his Siamese ways)

My boss also works out of her home office and I often can hear Murcie screaming at the top of his lungs at her for attention. I giggle when she says "oops Kim, I gotta go. Murcie wants me to scoop his box now" LOL (she knows if she doesn't scoop when he says so she'll have a "message" left somewhere)

I had one client that I didn't like for some reason. She wanted to come ot my office (my home) and I said to her, "Well you are more than welcome to come to the office, but I must tell you that I have several cats. If you are allergic or afraid of cats, my offie is not some place you want to be." She politely changed where we were having the meeting

[JenBKR]

Originally posted by dukedogsmom
Jen, you're lucky. I only have a small few like that at my work. One girl couldn't believe I had gotten things for a dog party. Most of mine are just kid people.

I am quite lucky. One girl here has a passion for boston terriers..she dresses them up for Halloween & Christmas...it's pretty funny! I'll try to post some of those pictures

[wolfsoul]

Well I work in a grooming parlor, so all of my coworkers are animal people lol. My boss grew up with her mom breeding shelties and collies. She has 3 shelties -- one in agility, one in conformation (will start agility soon) and one as a companion. Her female in conformation is going to be bred soon. As well as owning her own shop, she teaches agility. One of my other coworkers grew up breeding dobermans and golden retrievers, and now she breeds and rescues belgian groenendaels. She's involved in conformation and agility, and she used to do schutzhund and obedience. She teaches agility as well. Another coworker has three dogs and has one in agility -- another one will start agility in a couple of years. They are pretty much the only coworkers that are "involved" like that, but all of them love and have pets of their own.

[Ginger's Mom]

I work in a very large office. I would say that most of the people are not really animal people, but that still leaves quite a few who are. One of the big bosses is very much a dog person, so whenever I have any kind of dog problem, he is the one I speak with. He is great that way!

[Barbara]

Yes they are.
One dog comes in the office regularly, one other person has 3 cats and in my assistant's room there hang the pics of Filou and Tigris as COTD

My boss doesn't have pets but he rescued a bat that had flewn inside the house and he stopped a meeting because we had to look at a falcon outside

[Mad Mags Moo]

I work for myself but all my clients are mad about their cats.....after all I am a professional cat sitter!!!!! Getting paid to look after and fuss other peoples cats...BLISS!!!!!

[DJFyrewolf36]

All of my co-workers are animal people to some degree. Most of us have cats and a couple of people have dogs. One of my coworkers reciently lost a cat to a Coyote attack and it really upset her. She was upset mostly because her little boy wasn't really a door dasher, but for some reason when her son came home he just ran outside and the coyotes attacked him . Everyone in the office was upset about it. She just rescued a girl kitten about a week ago though, because she said that having only one kitty in the house was getting lonely and her other boy was very sad.

Every one of my coworkers commented on the Remus picture I have on my wall. They all think he is the cutest thing, even though he has a major cattitude problem.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Yep, they all are! But they kind of have to be because I work at a pet boarding facility.

My boss does a lot of rescue and has around 20 cats and 5 dogs (a boarder collie, chow mix, whippet, yorkie, and a min pin) of her own. Her house is huge, almost 4000 square feet, and her dogs have their own bedroom and her cats have their own along with a big screened porch.

There are 3 main girls I work with:
-One has a pit bull, 2 cats, a flying squirrel, and a dove.
-another coworker has a yorkie, a cat, and a cockatiel
-another has 3 are lab mixes and horses (I don't know how many).