If You Don't Want To Lose A Pet Get A Tortoise, Parrot or Koi. No More Pets For Me. [View all]

[TheMastersNemesis]

The aforementioned pets will outlive most people. You can will them to your heirs.

Losing pets is one of the hardest things next to losing a loved one. Well, pets are loved ones. Anyway have decided not to have any more pets. Still have fish in the pond. Will have to find a home for them someday.

Personally we have lost 2 cats to old age and put one down with kidney failure at 12 and a dog at 13 about 18 months ago. Losing Shadow was the worst but the cats were really tough too. So we will have no more pets for two reasons. One we are old enough that our pet might outlast us with no where to go. The other is that it is just too hard to lose a dear pet anymore.

I still miss our dog. She was very intelligent and probably an Australian Kelpi. The most profound thing about losing a pet is the empty space left in the household.

One good thing though, we have so many wild pets here in this Denver suburb. We have nesting hawks, occasional bald eagle, birds of many varieties, prairie dogs, rabbits, squirrels, others cats, others dogs, geese, horned owls (That sometime hoot at night. There were 3 nearby before Christmas), mini hawks (that terrify the birds), coyotes, downy wood pecker, Flicker woodpecker, doves, skunk, raccoon (who eats my grapes,) et al. On my golf course we have egrets, cormorant, White pelican (occasionally), kingfisher, geese, ducks, et al. 40 years living here with all this wildlife and I am in the city.

So I have plenty of animals to enjoy in the area. We have all these creatures in a Denver suburb and my house is just a mile from US 36 that carries thousands of cars a day on the other side of vacant land.