Have you ever tried to explain Pet Talk?

[Randi]

LOL! It's so funny reading your replies. When I mention PT, I do it only to people I like, and I explain about the good advice, funny pictures and stories they could be part of - I even send a few good links. At the moment, I'm working on getting more from the cat-sitting exchange group to join. Two have already joined!

[Daisy and Delilah]

It's time for another comment from me. Three years later......nothing has changed. Everybody I know still thinks I'm crazy. If I repeat something I've heard here, I see those sideways glances and people trying to humor me by acting like they're listening.

My daughter has talked to Karen after one of my surgeries so she knows it's real. However, she still seems to "drift away" during a PT story.

I went to the doctor yesterday and I mentioned something health related I read here. He said, "You didn't get that from the internet did you?" He was smiling like he thought I needed help. He told me not to believe anything I hear from strangers. Aye yi yi!!

It's so funny to watch the reactions but annoying that no one thinks it's a real thing with real people.

[pomtzu]

No - not really. PT is my "other family" that's here if I need to get away from the one I have here, so I don't really say too much about it. My son knows it's a forum I belong to, and being the big protective guy that he is of his little Mom, he's always telling me "be careful of what you say to people you don't know". Yikes - he should take a look at The Dog House!!!

[gini]

When I held the second PT BBQ, I invited some non-Pet Talk friends. I was foolishly thinking that they knew me well enough to understand. After all, my three cats had been shedding their fur all over them for several years.

A couple I invited had to leave early to meet another couple to attend a concert.

The following week I saw the husband of the "other couple" and he said to me........."so I understand that you had a BBQ at your home for a bunch of people that you have never met and they even stayed at your home."

Inside I was dying of laughter - but I said with a straight face........"yes, I did." He didn't say one more word.

I still chuckle over that one.

And Slick, you think it was easy for me to deal with your wonderful Mom
and keep the story straight huh? Well, I tried to hold up my end of the story - but it wasn't that easy.

[lizbud]

It's time for another comment from me. Three years later......nothing has changed. Everybody I know still thinks I'm crazy. If I repeat something I've heard here, I see those sideways glances and people trying to humor me by acting like they're listening.

Same here. No matter how many times I mention PT to any
friends or family, they soon get the strangest look on their faces. I'm sure
they think I'm a little bit crazy, but they want to humor me.