What is good about having a pet?
Kidding 🤣
Everything.
Yes we’ve had problems. It took us three sets of carpets to realise that one of our cats hates them. Lino equals a happy cat.
It’s agony at the end, but every day in between you will smile. They will become your best memories.
When I say they I don’t just mean cats, I was brought up with dogs that I still miss. I had guinea pigs that I did the usual childhood thing of leaving them to the parents while I got on with playing. Okay I was young, but I feel bad about that, it taught me a big lesson.
I remember my budgie very well “Pretty boy Whitey.” My three year old inspired name for him, which would have been more inspired if he wasn’t white.
I loved them all. I love them all.
I’m glad I follow a way of life where those we have lost are always a real part of me and my life and past loves remains firmly in the present.
Pets are invaluable to teach you values and to remind you what’s important. Love. There is many a human who’s coped with a lonely life thanks to a pet.
You only have to see the efforts of rescue centres and wartime and disaster teams to know our connection to animals.
Some people in Florida abandoned their pets before the hurricane, one couple left a mummy dog locked outside and her puppies to drown un-fed inside. Even if the dog ran off, don’t shut and lock the door. It won’t keep the water out.
The police and rescue services in America, and a few wonderful other humans, risked their lives to save those pets. It happens the world over.
Animals can show us the best of us, or the worst. They reveal who you are. I can’t save my pets I don’t save me, simple.
The Ukrainians evacuating, carrying their pets are an image I will never forget. Obviously some pets will have run off, you have to be realistic, but it’s still a sight that gives you hope for humanity.
What’s really good though is that opportunity to love, even when it feels like every human in the world has let you down.
When my family chose to allow my ex to manipulate them, when my friends put two and two together and made a lie, when I was made redundant and couldn’t get a mortgage, and no one would take me in, I kept going and made it through because of my cats, and Tony.
Possibly the only thing I’m remotely proud of about myself is my capacity to love. Left alone with humans I could have become bitter, depressed, or suicidal.
Thank God and all the Angels for pets, and for the real, beautiful, animal loving friends and family I have now. Including my pet adoring ‘tough’ husband.
Deb x
Oh…and my why!
Deb Hawken - Amorah 