Sorry Anna that you had to go through this, some people are just plain ignorant.

I've been told all the things that some of the others pointed out, that I need help, that I will never find a husband, than pets are not human beings so they don't understand why they mean so much to me. Usually I reply that I have the help of my pets and that's enough, that I could not even contemplate a husband that would not love pets as much as I do (I know Mike there are people like you around, it's just not easy to find them ) and to the answer to the third point is that animals are often better than human beings.

I have an agreement with one of my sisters, if something happened to one of us the other would take the other's pets in. Since apart from my sisters I don't have kids or nephews and nieces what I have is going to go to animal charities provided they agree to take good care of my pets. If not I will come back and haunt them