I have had many people try to tell me horror stories about pets. I immediately, and repeatedly, and very sternly tell them, " I don't want to hear it"...and if they continue, I say, " I am very serious, I don't want to hear it"...and if they are stupid enough to try it again, I tell them, "Listen you are offending me, get off the subject, or get out of here". Sometimes, they say, "well, its true"...or "its a fact of life"...or something, and I just tell them it isn't a fact of 'my life' to hear it.


I agree, there are some people that get a perverse thrill about it. I have no qualms about slowly exiting these people from my life.