If you are used to a dog GET A DOG or puppy. There are so many that need love and never find a home ...ie check the shelters there are often remarkable adoptables in the local humane shelters just beggin for some one to love and care for them. AND this time of year there will be tons of folks committing acts of stupid !! BUYING someone a kitten or puppy for Christmas without ever checking with the adult their neice or nephew lives with..ie the new christmas pets all end up many of them IN the pound.. in Jan.
When we loose a pet we always feel that loss and often the best cure for us is a newbie..one that is NOT of the same breed or even heinz57 lookalike cuz if it is too similar to the one we lost..then we *compare* and that isn't cool. Nope it should be a whole new lil entity critter just wanting someone to care for it responsibily many a puppy or dog is left behind waiting. GO ADOPT ONE of those..basically ya only have to pay for the shots and spaying or neutering the shelter provided for it while it was in their care..and some one NEEDS you to adopt him or her..so get yourself one..even some lil muttsky just so long as it is one that wags it's tail just to see you come take it home.
As for specialty pets if you do go that route make sure the local vets DO have services for these critters. There are some cities towns where they tend to cats dogs only no rabbits no ferrets no even guinnea pigs or the vet looks at ya and your maybe sick lil critter like doh...........not sure what to DO for it kinda look.
We have had cats dogs gerbils rabbits *rabbits dont last so long with us 3 yrs they expire* our gerbils though life span we were told was 3 yrs..they lasted 10 fricken yrs.
They were fun though. We also had a pet dove lasted 14 yrs..but they not FURRY like cats dogs etc. She was a beauty though we loved her. Had aquariums full of fishes, had parrakeets etc. we still love dogs and cats the best.
We have 2 yappie shelties now ..got them after our beloved choc. lab died of bone cancer at the tender age of 2...doubt we can ever own a choc. lab again cuz it will always remind us........of the one pet that we had that got gyped from growing old with us like all our other pets had happen..all of em grew old died of old ages..but the one.. 27 mos. old she died of bone cancer she barely got a chance TO live yet she was abandoned like crap...we adopted her too from the...........unwanted bin of cast of pets at the pound.
We have gotten many of our pets as..........strays they reward us with years of loving US for taking them IN>>even the one that never got to live but 2 yrs gyped from living due to bone cancer..had we NOT taken her in she never would have known some one loved her at all. So we lost her but she in her fatal pain in the end dying so young knew finally in her young life of ..one abandoned orphan taken in.. she had LOVE from US !
