Community Chat

[NoelSeven]

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@hennypenny wrote:

For those of you who are debating loving another pet. Just think of the love you will be giving to an animal now confined to a cage and waitng hopefully for a forever home. 

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You are so right, henny.

[NoelSeven]

BTW, there's a larger photo of the painting on the SF link, if anyone would like to see more detail.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/World-s-greatest-cat-painting-sold-6610264.php#photo-8903298

[ladyroxanne]

this is a beautiful painting, but it probably costs her $826.000 in food, kitty litter, vet bills, etc. and the servants help just to take care of 300 kitties,  i give her a lot of credit!  

[Kachina624]

I bet Kate Birdsall Johnson didn't wear a lot of black.

I wonder at what point in history vets started spaying and neutering pets?

[LyndaGee]

Love it!  I'd like to have a framed print, or even a poster.

[Drythe]

Weighing in with 5 cats, three are Katrina Survivors.

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Three huge dogs, one a huge BLACK (ahem) hound, and two rowdy Labbies.

My home is a circus and I wouldn't have it any other way !

For everyone who has loved and lost an animal, the love and the pain of loss are both exquisite, those of us who have known that love have been blessed.

[GingerPeach]

I've never quite understood why people talk about how they can't emotionally cope with losing another pet.   I've only adopted older dogs so have lived with a lot of loss and cried a lot of tears.  The bond with older pets is the same as if you had them since they were young.

I would rather be the one who cries after I've given them a good home than to cry if I know they didn't have any home at all.

[ritasNo1Fan]

I saw this tonight on  KPIX news.  Beautiful painting.

[Suziepeach]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

I've never quite understood why people talk about how they can't emotionally cope with losing another pet.   I've only adopted older dogs so have lived with a lot of loss and cried a lot of tears.  The bond with older pets is the same as if you had them since they were young.

I would rather be the one who cries after I've given them a good home than to cry if I know they didn't have any home at all.

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@GingerPeach, I am pretty sure that reference includes me about not coping with losing another pet..  Yes I am on the fence about adopting another animal because it does hurt and that's just how I am... It's been almost two years since we lost Charley Bear and it hurts just as bad to this day.  I am very sure I am not alone in my feelings, some people are much stronger, and I used to be, but at my age, well I can't help how I feel..

[Laura14]

I'll just speak to the fact that when you have other things in your life like a spouse or kids, it's probably easier to move on after losing a pet because you have other things to love.  

I'll only speak for myself but my dog was the only thing I came home to at night.  It made losing her hurt that much more and I had to call someone else to help me make the call to put her down when she absolutely needed to be.  I couldn't do it which was totally unfair to her and me and I honestly feel like I don't even deserve another animal when I couldn't do the right thing by her all by myself in the end.        

I would love to rescue an animal again and give it a loving home.  But I'm brave enough and honest enough with myself to know that I just can't trust myself to do the right thing when the end comes again for another animal.

I envy those of you that can do it and eventually move on.  I wish I could but like others have said I just didn't get the guts in that area.  Thank goodness most of the rest of you do and I am grateful every day that animals have people like you in the world.