Rules for Non-Pet Owners

[starfire]

A friend passes this to me I thought it was funny any pet owner would understand this one!

Rules for Non-Pet Owners Who Visit and Like to Complain About Our Pets:

1. They live here. You don't.

2. If you don't want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. (That's why they call it "fur"niture.)

3. I like my pets a lot better than most people.

4. To you, it's an animal. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all fours and doesn't speak clearly.

5. Dogs and cats are better than kids .they eat less, don't ask for money all the time, are easier to train, usually come when called.

6. They never drive your car, don't hang out with drug-using friends, don't smoke or drink, don't worry about having to buy the latest fashions, don't wear your clothes, and don't need a gazillion dollars for college.

7. And if they get pregnant, you can sell the children.

[dlangland]

That is so true, Starfire. I especially like #4 & 6. When my college daughter is here, I refer to her outloud as my now almost 7 1/2 mo. old little Kitty Cat's sister. I catch myself saying things to the cat like, Go sit with your sister. Or when I say, Where is your sister, the cat goes running upstairs to hunt her down. Not like I don't show my own children ample affection, but my daughter likes to it in. She always says, well, I wish someone would rub my neck, pet my hair all day, and say things to me, like...She's such a sweet girl everytime I walk. I just say, hey, it keeps her honest. Yet, it's so funny, because every single time she is here, I catch my daughter doing the same thing, though, especially the night before leaving to go back to college. When the two are cuddling and watching TV at night, I overhear some real gushy talk going on with the cat. Stuff like, I am going to miss my sister...I hope you remember your sister next time I come home. People would think we were insane, I am sure, but before this, the same daughter was considered a sister to a St. Bernard, so this should come as nothing new to her. Go figure. Deb

[starfire]

My big thing is #2! My dog sheds like crazy. Why people where dark clothes over here I will never understand

Her being a white dog that hair show up real good.

And #4 is my biggie also!

[auntieemu]

We have six cats in the house (and thank goodness it is a big house so they all have their "space"). So of course the couch is a mess most of the time. We were expecting company so I got DH to help me vacuum and do the lint brush thing on the furniture. The cats always disappear when the vacuum monster is out of the closet. Then after we were finished I put sheets over the furniture, thinking that we would pull it off as they drove up. So DH sees them drive up, I am in the kitchen and don't know until I hear them coming in the house. I get to the living room and find them sitting on the sheet covered furniture. I could have killed him. Instead of pulling the sheets off or at least calling me, he went outside to greet them at their car and walk them into the house. Very friendly but geez! I give up.