Tag: Life With Animals
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The thing about cats
They’re tearing around the basement, scaling the cat tree with sharp claws and batting the noisy ball around. A wrestling match ensues and the smaller one squeals as she tries to regain the upper hand. Then canned food is put out and both dive into the bowls face first. Humans domesticated cats about 10,000 years…
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At The End.
You come home from work and your dog is excited to see you as if you left a year ago. You get home from vacation and your cat acts as if they thought you left them for good. Pets are part of our life, but to them we are their whole life. Humans have families.…
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Adopt don’t Shop
Everyone has likely heard this phrase before. Everyone seems to have an opinion about this topic. A call has me checking on a property where the complainant claims the people are breeding dogs and believe it to be a puppy mill. Once making contact with the owner I find that he does in fact have…
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Immigrant
It is ironic that I am writing this next post while home on Thanksgiving break. Growing up in Namibia I had never heard of Thanksgiving. I remember one morning my sister had some kind of large lizard in bed with her. Wearing her head to toe pajamas, lying on her back she had this reptile…
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This Bites
A temperamental cat does not enjoy being touched, the woman reaches out anyway and is subsequently bitten on the arm. A fearful dog is backed into a corner, his growls ignored, the only way he knows how to react now is to land a bite on the outstretched hand coming towards him. A puppy is…