My LEAST favorite comment

[Russian Blue]

Originally posted by gini
And then they came to visit me and I said "let me apologize for my carpeting" I had just lost in a one year time my beautiful Magic to cancer and my calico to kidney failure. They just looked at me and smiled..............carpet is carpet........

But a well loved animal is your heart - which is never soiled!

What a wonderful way to put it!


I don't necessarily get mad or bothered by people's reactions. For most people, it's their conditioning and how they were raised. Many people see pets as just pets. My father was like that and I didn't hate him bacause of it. We just agreed to disagree. But other's see them for their wonderful spirit and the unconditional love in their soul and it's wonderful when that happens.

There are always going to be these two mind sets. It really is about a person's own limits in life. I probably will never have 10 cats at one time but that doesn't mean I don't love animals. And just because Jen has 10 cats doesn't mean she is odd or uncontrolled.

It's all about how you want to live your life, who you will want to include in it, and how you will treat those souls along the way.

[Cataholic]

I say, "thanks for sharing that with me"...and I smile really big! Sometimes it just isn't worth it.

[Ally Cat's Mommy]

I would LOVE to have more cats, but it was a stretch for my Hubby to agree to keep one, so we'll just take THAT victory and be grateful for it.

One thing that really annoys me, when I comment that when I leave the Middle East I will be flying Ally back to South Africa, and they say
"Why spend so much money - she's not even pedigree" - they just dont understand that she's part of the FAMILY, and you dont leave family behind!

[Cheshirekatt]

I used to get the "Crazy Cat Lady" comment all the time. Now that I also have 3 pit bulls people seem to focus on them instead.

[batgirl1980]

Originally posted by rosethecopycat
It's not really a comment, and I've never heard it personally, but it's a mindset:

Baby coming.

Cat going.

ooooh this one touches my life personally, because that's how we got Eliza...and my in-laws (who had her) actually SAID "we have to get rid of the animals, we're having a baby" ... wellllll turns out they DIDN'T have a baby, but the pets went anyway.. and now they have a dog..again..and i keep thinking "how long before he becomes too much work for them"

I don't know, i'm just in a mood today (could it be because my husband is losing his job? yeah.. probably).. so i'm just really p.o.'d at people who can't understand us cat/dog/whatever lovers who bend over backwards for our babies! OCCASIONALLY my husband will revert to this mindset, when the cats just go potty and don't cover it up, or there's too much cat hair around.... and I just look at him and go "Don't know what you want, they're my babies, and they're staying for life... cat hair and all!"

I don't know, but I personally, also, prefer my cats to most people I meet...and when I'm going through a tough time (like now) I don't have to put up with their attitude about it, and they just cuddle and purr and make me feel better just being around them.. I don't know what i'd do without my babies!

[jenluckenbach]

I mentioned to my dad that we were thinking about getting another cat soon, he's like "what do you want that for?? one not enough??"

My dad actually said to me "You've got to let some of your cats die off so you can get down to a decent number". I'll never forget that.
I realize that some people simply do not understand, and I never actually get mad, but (for me) they always pick up on the fact that because I have (what they call ) a lot, THAT is the root of all my problems. When I simply had to take little Kim in for a UTI the comment I got was "That's what happens when you have too many". What does THAT have to do with it?!?! She'd have the UTI even if she were the only one.

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by jenluckenbach
My dad actually said to me "You've got to let some of your cats die off so you can get down to a decent number". I'll never forget that.

Jen,
This actually made me laugh!!! I'm sorry, it just shocked me. Poor thing, its worse when it comes from your parents. Our parents will never understand us...they still think we have four cats.....

[jenluckenbach]

Originally posted by NoahsMommy
Our parents will never understand us...they still think we have four cats.....

My Dad thinks I have 8

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by jenluckenbach
My Dad thinks I have 8

I feel that they don't understand, so they don't deserve to know about the others. I wont open the door any longer for some stupid comment like that...

Glad I'm not the only one!

[jenluckenbach]

My dad actually said to me "You've got to let some of your cats die off so you can get down to a decent number".

Originally posted by NoahsMommy
Jen,
This actually made me laugh!!! I'm sorry, it just shocked me.

You know what........it makes me laugh too

[moosmom]

I am owned by 6 furbabies and one bald dude and PROUD OF IT!! I don't regret it for one minute.

People that make stupid remarks like that haven't a clue.

[jenluckenbach]

Originally posted by NoahsMommy
I feel that they don't understand, so they don't deserve to know about the others. I wont open the door any longer for some stupid comment like that...

Glad I'm not the only one!

I actually have to refrain from using Little Kim and Jim's names in conversation. I doubt that dad would know what any of my cats names are, but I am SURE he'd know that I did NOT have a cat named Kim (after my friend)

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by jenluckenbach
You know what........it makes me laugh too

Its a comment one would make as a sick joke, I guess that's why I found it humorous.

We think you are great and your furkids are happy. That's all that matters.

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by jenluckenbach
I actually have to refrain from using Little Kim and Jim's names in conversation. I doubt that dad would know what any of my cats names are, but I am SURE he'd know that I did NOT have a cat named Kim (after my friend)

Good point! Naming Oliver close to Olivia helped, until David said the "new cat" the other day with my parents. I quickly said, "you mean Olivia??" hee hee

[shais_mom]

My mom is not an animal person and when I was having a little bit of financial 'tightness' she said "Well you might have to give up one of your animals." How could I do that? It would be like choosing one of your kids to give up for adoption.

The day that my Greyhound Shaianne died, I made myself go to work. I had to run the xray machine back in surgery and I will never forget they were talking back there about some man in FL that had jumped in and saved his dog from an alligator but was killed (or seriously wounded???) himself and they said 'Why would you do that you can always get another dog?' I just stood there with tears streaming down my face, I couldn't even talk.