Those of you who have Signifigant others...

[CatMama78]

My Boyfriend and I live together and it was his idea to get the cats first...BUT I am the one who dotes on them the most. While he truly loves them and shows it all the time, I think there might be a little bit of jealousy on his part cause I am SO protective and loving to them......

[Cincy'sMom]

Ralph is just as into our dog as I am. We both wanted a dog, but knew it wasn't a good idea until we got married because he was travelling with work a lot at that time and I was in an apartment that didn't allow pets. We got Sadie less then 1 month after the wedding He wasn't sure about adding the third, but with a day or two it was obviuos Spo twas hi sboy and he still is a daddy's boy.

He worries about them constantly (sometimemore then I do)and is always ready to rush them to the vet for any reason, any time, day or night. He enjoys taking them on therapy visits, and this winter when we were doing Paws to Read at the librbary, he took Spot every week, even though he started out as a sub.

[Fox-Gal]

I'll put it this way, before he moved in, I had 4 dogs, 2 cats and a couple of turkeys and peacocks. Now we have 7 dogs, 10 cats, Rabbits, Chinchilla, Iguans, ducks, chickens, goose, goats, turtle and 5 fish tanks. Total is a little over 100 pets now. So I'd say he gets along fine with animals.

But if you ask him, he'll say he's not a cat person. He says he puts up with them only because of me.

Yeah right!!! He puts up with them so well.

[Cookiebaker]

Fox-gal, that is the SWEETEST picture!! Looks like you gotta KEEPER!

[cocker_luva]

my baby girl loves my boyfriend!!! she even knows when we are getting close to his house. they are sooo cute together!!!

[Lady's Human]

When my wife and I got married, we had three cats. The deal we had was that I could get a dog when we bought our house. Six months after we bought the house, I went to our local dog shelter and was picked out by Lady. I didn't pick her, I swear she picked me. It took 3 days instead of the usual week for the shelter to agree wth lady that I was her human. She was a holy terror her first 2 weeks in the house, and my wife wasn't sure if she wanted to keep her. Now that we've al adjusted to each other, and I'm away at FT Drum, my wife doesn't know what she'd do without the fool pup. HOWEVER.......she still gets a little irritated that Lady makes me play with her as soon as I walk in the door when I get a pass, (I'm usually gone for a month or more between visits) and every time we sit together on the couch we have either a case of jealousy or a wedge, as Lady tries to remind Jen who really owns me.

[trayi52]

My husbands says if it was up to him, we would have no dogs or cats. He love Charlie, my bird and he loves Baby the ferret. He kind of likes Stubby, but he says that is because Stubby will go outside. He can't stand for a cat to get on the countertops or the table in the kitchen. So I have to watch about the cats getting up there, Stubby don't get on the table or countertops, but Grover love taking walks up there, LOL, so when I hear him coming into the kitchen I grab her so he don't see her there. He hates it when she licks me on my face and sometimes she will lick my nose and my lips. He sits over theres and make faces like its just the nastiest thing he ever seen. He don't get mad, but well he don't share my love for my cats and dogs.

I think he does get jealous because Buffy and Grover sleeps with me. He knows though that my dogs and cats are my life, my god, my life would be nothing without having them in my life. If they go, I go, even if I had to live in a shack! So that is that!

I am 51 years old, if I am ever widowed, there will be no more men in my life. But there will be more cats and dogs!! LOL, I will be married for 34 years next month on June 27th, so I have to keep the hubby, I have to many years invested in this man! Besides I know how to yell to!! Well that is when I don't have laryngitis. LOL, my husband knows how much I love my dogs and cats.

Okay, I am now done rambling!

Willie

[Logan]

Originally posted by Karen
Paul helped me pick out Miss Hoppy! He's not jealous of her one bit, and agrees with her opinion of broccoli - it doesn't even belong on the plate!

I agree with Paul and Miss Hoppy about that broccoli too!!!! YUCK!!!!!!

[Logan]

As for the "question", my husband of almost 1 1/2 years knew that he found a woman who loved animals. At the time, I was fostering one dog, had 2 of my own, 2 cats and 2 birds. No way was anyone going anywhere! Of course, he added Murphy, the Lab, to the mix, and what a blessing! The cats have been the hardest for him to learn to love, but he does love them (even if he won't admit it). I dare not ask for another cat at this point in time as our nest is full. But I figure that since he let me keep Zipper last fall, when we fostered him (I agreed to it when hubby was out of town), then I'm doing pretty well!!!!

[Fox-Gal]

Originally posted by trayi52
He hates it when she licks me on my face and sometimes she will lick my nose and my lips. He sits over theres and make faces like its just the nastiest thing he ever seen. He don't get mad,
Willie

Paul does the same thing, makes a face, but he still loves them. He just a really big clean freak and he things is just unhealthy and dirty to let the pets lick my face, get on the kitchen table/counter or heaven forbid I touch their butts when picking them up. But I know what it's like to get that "LOOK". I hate that look!!!!

My mother always told me you have to take the good with the bad as long as the good out weights the bad. So far he is 95% good, 5% bad. So he can stay. LOL

[Kfamr]

He's not my SO... but I have to say, by looking at my father you'd never think that you'd see him talk baby to a dog like he does Simba. Him and I 'fight' over whos dog Simba is, we also 'fight' with my mom over him as well. In reality, and they'll admit to it, BOTH of our pups are mine.

[Sevens]

Brian was not quite as comfortable as me when we first got Bailey. He hadn't had a cat since college and hadn't had a dog in I don't know how long.

Eventually he warmed up to her, would cuddle with her and talk baby talk to her when he thought I wasn't listening.

When we got Guinness, he totally took it to the next level. He and Guinness have bonded so much. I think it's partly due to the fact that Bailey is so stubborn and intelligent and loud sometimes, whereas Guinness is so quiet and intelligent and well behaved. Brian always has a spot on his lap for Guinness, is VERY protective of Guinness, and is now almost as quick as I am to call the vet for the least little thing.

He still cuddles with them both, although mostly with Guinness. And he still lets Bailey lick the back of his head. She'll start licking, he'll yell out "Hey!", but then he lets her do it cause it makes her happy. If he was really that grossed out, he'd move.

Actually, we are thinking that after we move into the new house on Friday, we might get a 3rd dog.

[sirrahbed]

THIS is my favorite picture from Kim's perfect man site!! I absolutely LOVE it and smile everytime I look at that site and never made the connection to you, Neko!!!!! Pumpkin obviously adores daddy and daddy adores his Pumpkin!!!

My hubby loves the kitties also but isn't quite as quirky as I am. Like Willie said - he gets all grossed out when I let the kitties eat from my cereal bowl and stuff like that. I don't care. He says they lick their butt! And I am like well they lick their fur too!!! What's the dif?

But, Emily is his "Princess" and he adores her. If daddy is around, she treats ME like a piece of furniture! When I was having to give her medicine for an URI, he would quickly "rescue" her and "awwww-what is bad Meowmie doing to my little girl???" and she would GLARE at me over his shoulder!!!

He does not want anymore kitties but note that HE is the one who always wants to "look" at the kitties when we go to PetsMart

[Pam]

Originally posted by trayi52

I am 51 years old, if I am ever widowed, there will be no more men in my life. But there will be more cats and dogs!! LOL, I will be married for 34 years next month on June 27th, so I have to keep the hubby, I have to many years invested in this man! Besides I know how to yell to!! Well that is when I don't have laryngitis. LOL, my husband knows how much I love my dogs and cats.

Willie you and I have a lot in common! For me it will be 38 years on November 11th and I am 57 years old. I feel exactly as you do. No more men in my life should the unthinkable ever happen, but there will always be cats and dogs! LOL!

Fox-Gal, that's about the cutest picture I ever did see!

[Randi]

I've always loved cats, but John was the one who wanted to take Fister up from our yard - John has lived with cats all his life. I didn't really know what it was like to live with a cat indoors and was a little hesitant to begin with, also because it would interfere with our travel plans several times a year - but taking him up was a real good decision!! I only wish we had taken him up about 6 months before we did. We couldn't do with out him now!