I don’t think it is any secret that I am a pet lover. My parents wouldn’t let me have any pets when I was a child, so as soon as I was living on my own in a place that allowed pets I bought myself a dog. Dogs are the best friend anyone could ever ask for. Even when they are naughty they can make you laugh – like this funny video that I found on YouTube that shows a dog acting guilty when his owner confronts him with evidence of mischief. So funny!
Category: Pets
When I lived in New England my next door neighbor was what a lot of folks up there called “a granola.” The first time I met her she was knocking on my door to ask me about my advice as to whether she and her husband should buy the property next door.
They ended up buying the property and building a small house. And by that I mean that they literally built it themselves, a little bit at a time. They put an outhouse behind the house and they had a hand pump in the kitchen to bring water in from their dug well.
She was a stay at home mother, and for a couple of years she babysat one of my sons. My son loved being there; they had a pony that they used to haul logs from the woods behind their house, they built a chicken coop in the back yard and had several chickens. I remember one time going to pick my son up on my way home from work and they were all showing me the eggs that they were incubating and they were just starting to hatch.
That’s the closest I had ever come to learning first hand about chickens and hatcheries and my first experience ever going into a chicken coop.
Lately my hubby has been talking about buying a hatchery or two and raising chickens here at our place, but I have several misgivings about it. There are a lot of foxes in the area, and I have a feeling that the chickens won’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades to survive.
One of the things that I find frustrating is trying to see the address numbers on mailboxes when I’m going somewhere for the first time. For example, when I was trying to go to the veterinarian’s office the other day I was driving slowly down the road looking for the numbers on the buildings. I noticed that a lot of the businesses had some really nice address plaques on their buildings, but I was frustrated because the address that I was given did not match up to the numbers on the buildings on the road. So it seemed to me as if the post office had renumbered the buildings on the street but that no one on the street had bothered to change their lawn plaques to reflect the changes that were made. I finally found the office just by seeing the name of the company on a big sign out by the road.
It wasn’t until I was actually walking up to the door when I saw a couple of house numbers mounted on whitehall mailboxes near the door that had the business name, the doctors names and the street address on it. There was no way that any of that could have been read from the road. That is one of my biggest complaints about businesses – sometimes when you are looking for a particular address you just can’t find the building numbers and that gets incredibly frustrating.
I belong to a Yahoo community group and saw that one of the members posted a request for volunteers to foster parent some Pomeranian dogs for a short period of time. I love Pomeranians, and always wanted to have one. So I sent off a reply that I’d be willing to foster parent one. I haven’t received a reply yet; I hope they reply soon!
Sometimes I perform mystery shopping for a little extra income. One of my recent assignments was to take one of my pets to a local veterinarian. The payment was for $25 plus reimbursement up to $100 for services. Well my cat was overdue for a couple of shots so I took him in. In this tight economy I was thrilled to be able to get his shots for free. Well as part of the routine check-up they wanted to run a whole bunch of tests on him, and they gave me a pre-invoice estimate of the cost of everything they wanted to do, and it was over $700! Yowzer! I quickly, but politely declined all of those tests and said I’d just pay for the wellness check and the shots.
Geezum beezum pets are expensive!