Gotta get ’em while they’re babies
This is the first time in my life, since I was a toddler, that I have no pets. God knows I miss the one’s I’ve had. Including my iguana, whom I had for 17 years.
Anyhow, this lizard thought he was a mammal, ’cause that’s how he was raised. He did everything but purr. All right, he didn’t fetch, either. But where we were, that’s where he wanted to be; and he was awfully good companionship.
Yes, I know a lot of people have had grouchy mean iguanas who’d bite you as soon as look at you. But it’s all in the way they’re raised.
Sort of like people.
That’s a sweet story. And I know what you mean about not having a pet for the first time in your life. That’s the way I’ve been since Iggy died last summer. Until then I’d always had a cat in the house since I’d been a teenager — except when I was stationed overseas in the Air Force during the war and I had to leave my cat with my mother. The house feels so empty without a pet, doesn’t it?
Oh, be sure it does! We’ve had cats for forty-plus years. Before that, it was Patty’s dog, my iguana (they were best friends), and our turtle. And I miss them all!
Pets are a part of the family and bring such joy, like a new-born baby in the room. Then how sad when they pass on to the Rainbow Bridge.
I need cat-cuddles.
Speaking of animals: my younger son has been feeding a swarm of cats and kittens that just showed up here, and one of the kittens just caught a shake out back somewhere, killed it and
ate it up, fighting off some of the other cats and kittens in order to keep from sharing it. I thought this was a really strange one.
I wonder what kind of snake it was.
It was just the one called garter snake.
They have it rough.
That is a pretty amazing tale. It just goes to show how easy it is to underestimate animals. Even reptiles, which are thought of as very simple, still possess very complete personalities and a desire to express their will.