Pets! Who would be without one? I guess the answer to that is someone who doesn’t like animals, or someone who is highly allergic to pet dander. To be without a pet, particularly a dog, is to miss out on some special times. Pets can make you laugh, make you cry, make you mad, converse with you, and often entertain, even though at times you feel you could do without the mess. I had an email sent to me the other day which asked the question, dog or child? Attached were two photos - one of a dog sitting on a successfully dismantled couch, with stuffing and fabric in shreds, right down to the wooden frame; the other with two children who had refurbished the kitchen (and themselves) with paint from an upturned paint tin that had been put there to repaint the walls, and was now doing a pretty good job of being dispensed everywhere. I think I’d go for the dog any day! Imagine cleaning up the paint - over walls, units, countertops, the floor, utensils, in the children’s hair, clothes - every where! I remember when I lost my wonderful Golden Retriever at just six years old. I cried for three years, even though I had replaced her with another. Who was it who said, “Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved?” The unfortunate thing is that dogs don not live very long and in our life time, we can have loved and lost several by the time the kids leave home. Our pets are subject to the same pollutants in the environment as we are, therefore they will suffer from similar ailments and diseases, like cancer, so we may have to say goodbye to them sooner than expected. Is it still worth loving them? Yes, it is!
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